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1925 Missouri Farm Womens Cookbook .. Home Remedies

“My hunger’s gone.”—Shakespeare

For Cut or Bruise: Apple iodine of Sloan’s liniment, wrapping the cut with a cloth wet with the liniment; it will heal without being sore.

Vinegar applied to fresh cut instead of turpentine will take out soreness.

Earache: A few drops of warm castor oil in the ear and apply warm cloth. Warm rabbit oil is also recommended.

Felon: Apple small fly blister and felon will come to the surface and can be taken out with a needle.

Mustard Plaster: Made with white of egg will not blister while the results are good.

Equal parts ground mustard and flour mixed to smooth paste with boiling water, apply while hot. This is a noted physician’s way to make mustard plaster.

For Burns: Apply flour and cold water.

White of egg over burn or scald is soothing and cooling. If quickly applied it will prevent inflammation, besides relieving the stinging pain.

Pain from a burn may be lessened by quickly appling a thick coat of Vaseline, covering well with flour, then wrapping with a soft cloth of medication cotton.

Sweet oil applied to burns will ease the pain almost instantly.

Quickly cover the burn with a thick coating of lard, then cover with soda over the lard.

For Coughs and Colds: An excellent remedy for a cough and one which the children find palatable, is made by boiling together one quart of water, ten cents’ worth each of rock candy and hoarhound candy, a teaspoon of vinegar and one lemon, peeled, until it is of the thickness of any syrup.

For a cold or sore lungs, mix thoroughly two level tablespoons sweet oil (or lard), a teaspoon each of turpentine and camphor, a half teaspoon of quinine, one-half teaspoon kerosene. Rub on chest and throat at night, while hot.

Camphorated oil is good for colds and pneumonia. Shave an ounce of camphor gum very thin in four ounces of olive oil. Apply warm.

For Colds and Coughs: Place a lemon in baking dish and leave it in the oven until soft, squeeze the juice and pulp from the lemon and mix thick with granulated sugar. This will give relief and has a merit of being harmless.

Colds: The night of having taken a fresh cold take a hot foot bath for twenty minutes, as hot as can be borne. Rub feet well with a coarse towel, wrap in warmed blanket and go to bed. Drink a good hot lemonade or milk to open pores. Take one or two cold tablets. Best to stay in bed, or at least in the house, next day to insure even temperature.

Poison from hedge of vines may be prevented from spreading by the application of gasoline, if applied quickly.

Proud flesh may be cured with dry flour

Indigestion and constipation may often be prevented by drinking a generous quantity of warm salt water every morning, or, if necessary, fifteen to thirty minutes before each meal.

Small quantity of salt eaten by patient suffering from indigestion will often settle the stomach. In more severe cases, hot applications will usually bring relief.







For chapped hands, use lemon juice and glycerine

For cleaning the teeth, salt is very good. It preserves and whitens the teeth and hardens the gums. Either use salt water or moisten brush in water and dip in salt. This always leaves a pleasant taste in the mouth.

To prevent sneezing in church or any audience, press tip of forefinger close up under the center of nose when it is coming on and it will quickly disappear.

Hiccoughs can sometimes be stopped by pressure with fingers near the heart, at point where the ribs begin to divide.

If a sprig of parsley dipped in vinegar is eaten after an onion, no unpleasant odor from the breath can be detected.

To Prevent Caked Breast: Take one tablespoon of fresh lard and one teaspoon of ground black pepper. Cook this till it smokes over flame. Put it in an empty salve box. If a nursing mother feels any pain of lump in breast put the above cold, but thick, on lump and cover with woolen cloth. Repeat each day. No matter how bad, in three days all soreness will disappear, no lancing necessary. This will not dry up milk. We use this remedy on fresh milk cows with swolen udders. Apply morning and evening until udder softens.



FOR STOCK AND POULTRY

For Wormy Hogs: Give two tablespoons gasoline in pail of water or swill twice a week.

For Hog Cholera: Make a strong tea of cedar tree tops. Feed in a mush or slop of bran to all that will eat; drench those that are too sick to eat. This seldom fails.

For Fistula: Fill the hole with crude petroleum.

For Sore Neck: Melt lard, then with a knife shave as much stove polish (such as Rising Sun) in the lard as can be stirred into it. Apply the same as any salve, but only when horse is working. While it will do no harm, yet it will do no good unless the collar is working on it. This is for sore neck, not a disease.

For Roup: Give a piece of tobacco the size of a pea to chickens affected twice a day until cured. Also put tobacco in all drinking water.

Dissolve an ounce of sulphuric acid and a pound of copperas in a gallon of water. Put this in drinking water, one tablespoon to a gallon of water. Separate affected chickens and give them nothing else to drink. This is poison.

Bowel Trouble: Use extract of jamacia, a teaspoon to a gallon of water, for chicks.

For old hens, Venitian Red in the drinking water.

For Wire Cuts: Equal parts sugar, turpentine, soft soap and lard.