HONEY, AS FOOD AND MEDICINE. 
HonEY AND Watnur CoueH Canpy.—This is made 
entirely of honey, but thickened with walnut kernels. The 
dose is a piece about the size of a pecan. It should not be 
boiled enough to make it brittle. 
REMEDY FOR WHOOPING CouUGH, COLDS, ETC.—The 
following is unsurpassed: Mix of good whisky, 1 pint, pure 
extracted honey, 1 pint, and 2 table-spoonfuls of pine tar. 
Dose for children, from 15 to 20 drops and increase. For 
adults, tea-spoonful—given when the cough is troublesome, 3 
to 10 times a day. 
CONSTIPATION.—Honey, especially the solid parts of the 
granulated, eaten on bread instead of butter, will have the 
desired effect. That part of honey which does not granulate, 
possesses this property in amuch lessdegree. A sauce made 
of prunes, boiled and sweetened with honey, is an excellent 
remedy. Jn dangerous cases apply an injective of milk and 
peneys having the temperature of the blood, about 97° or 98° 
ahr. 
CoNnsUMPTION.—Physical exercise, especially horse-back 
riding before breakfast ; the body to be rubbed thoroughly 
with a woolen cloth, night and morning; bedroom, an upper 
story, with a window partly open day and night; retiring and 
rising early; main diet to consist of farinaceous food and 
vegetables: for drinking, nothing but milk and honey, mixed 
half and half, either warm or cold. 
Croup AND HoARSENESS.—A gargle made of sage tea, 
sweetened with honey, or ‘pills made of mustard, tlour and 
honey. 
WHOOPING CouGH.—A_ decoction of wheat bran mixed 
with milk and honey, drank frequently, gives relief. 
‘Worms.—Before breakfast take a table-spoonful of honey, 
or :. ten nade of peppermint sweetened with 1g to ¥4 its bulk 
of honey. 
To REMOVE FisH-BoNEs and similar hard objects which 
have become lodged in the throat. Make a large pill of wax 
(as large as can possibly be swallowed), dip in honey and let 
the patient swallow it. 
To Curr A BuRN oR ScALD.—Cover the same instantly 
with honey, keeping it so until the pain ceases. 
SUPPRESSED PERSPIRATION.—(Taking cold.)—Barley soup 
sweetened with honey, drank before retiring ; or oat-meal 
soup With honey, drank warm. 
AstHMA.—Grated horse-radish mixed with honey; one 
table-spoonful taken before going to bed. 
Rosr-Honey (rhodomeli), made of the expressed juice of 
roses and honey extracted from the comb, and is held in high 
favor for the sick. 
