HONEY, AS FOOD AND MEDICINE. 
“ Honey mixed with flour and spread on linen or Jeather is 
a simple remedy for bringing to head, or to maturity, boils, 
&e. Also, honey mixed with flour or fried onions, serves an 
excellent purpose as a covering for any hard swelling or 
callosity or abscess; and for ulcers it is often mixed with 
turpentine, tar, and tincture of myrrh. A plaster made of 
unslacked lime and honey has sometimes relieved most 
obstinate sciatica. ‘ 
“If good honey is applied to inflamed wounds or boils, it 
lessens the drawing, quiets the pain and produces a good 
festering or suppuration. Undoubtedly, for all wounds, 
pustulous inflammations, bruises and bad _ festerings, 
honey is the best and most reliable remedy, and affords 
eis and safer help than all other known plasters; all 
that is needed is to spread it rather thick on a piece of linen, 
place it upon the fresh wound, bind it fast, and renew the 
plaster every four or five hours. Of course, if bones are 
broken, surgical aid must be had. 
‘** Honey-dough—arto mele—a plaster made out of honey 
and rye flour or rye bread, into whlch henbane or other 
narcotic substances is mixed, is an excellent means of 
irritation ; which should be used in festering and bringing the 
sore to a head, and assuage the drawing and pain. Itshould 
be warmed, spread on a piece of linen and placed upon the 
sore part. 
‘** For persons who are weakened through fast living, honey 
is, of all helps, the best nourishment, since it not only 
removes the poisons in the systein, but also through its 
virtues strengthens the system ; hence it has made itself so 
necessary to the inhabitants of the Orient.” 
Ifoney is beneficial in pectoral diseases, acts as an excel- 
lent detergent, and as a gentle laxative. In ancient times 
the free and regular use of it as an article of diet, was 
regarded as a means of securing long life; and it thus 
came to be popularly considered as a specific against disease. 
Honey is a sedative of no ordinary power. A friend, who 
is a practicing physician, mentions one of his patients, whose 
habits of observation were seldom equaled, having by the 
kick of a horse one of his knee-joints badly broken, the pain 
and anguish being very severe, his daughter offered him 
some wine or tea. He declined, but said she might give him 
some honey. Dr. A. remarks: “My own observations justi- 
fies the wisdom of his selection. Try it.” 
An admirable preparation for Coughs, especially during 
feverish or inflammatory attacks, is composed of honey, olive 
