Eight pounds of tomatoes four pounds of sugar, a
pint of vinegar, a te'aspoonful of mace and one of
cinnamon, half a teaspoon of cloves✪ Ripe Tomato Pickle; boil till thick.
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tTbe pb^0ical 2)irector
This department may with the greatest truth be
affirmed to be worth double the price of the Book, as
the receipts are not only safe and cheap, but such as
can be easily proctired, and are what cannot possibly
do the least harm to the constitution if they should not
have the desired effect, which I believe will very seldom
or never happen. Still an Ounce of prevention is worth
a Pound of cure, and by observing the following few
and simple Rules, better health may be expected than
from the use of the most powerful medicines:
1. Avoid as much as possible living near a grave-
yard.
2. Keep the feet from wet, and the head well
defended when in bed.
3. Avoid too plentiful Meals.-
4. Go not abroad without breakfast. «
5. Shtm the night air as you would the Plague.
6. Tender people should have those much about
them, sound, sweet and healthy.
7 . Nothing conduces more to health than abstinence
and plain food, with due labor.-
8. The fewer clothes anyone uses by day or night,
the hardier he will be.
To break up a Fresh Cold. Nothing is better than a
glass of hot Flip on going to bed. Put the poker in the
fire to heat. Mix some ginger and molasses in a beer
mug. Pour on some sour cider. Plunge in the red
hot poker and stir it up till it foams well. This is a
very agreeable cure. Warm the bed hot with the
warming-pan and put in some^hot bricks. A fine sweat
will carry off the cold.
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A Quaker Stew is good for an inflamed throat and
itching cough. Take a piece of butter the size of a
shagbark, a pint of molasses, a little vinegar and a
dash of red pepper. Boil until it strings. Take hot
or cold in doses to suit.
A Slice of Salt Pork spread with pepper and boimd
on with a strip of red flannel will cure a sore throat*
Or, in a pinch, a stocking taken warm from the foot and
bound about the throat is efficacious.
For a sudden attack of Quinsy or Croup, or a cold
that is tight on the lungs, bathe the neck with bear's
grease and pour it down the throat. Goose grease or
any kind of oily grease is as good as bear's grease.
Onions stewed in molasses are loosening. Put
draughts of wilted horseradish leaves on the feet. A
drop or two of skunk's oil or hen's oil on a lump of sugar
will loosen up a cold.
For a Cough. Boil a teacup of flaxseed in a quart
of water, to a pint. Add a gill of molasses or honey ^
simmer ten minutes and cool, add a few drops of
lemon juice.
For Chin Cougth or Hooping Cough. Rub the back
at l3dng down with old Rum. It seldom fails. Or
give a spoonful of juice of Penn3rroyal mixed with
brown Sugar candy.
Camomile for Consumption. The attention of a
young lady, apparently in the last stage of consump-
tion, was called to the virtue of camomile by observing
from her window early each morning, a dog with
scarcely any flesh on his bones go and lick the dew off a
camomile bed in the garden, in doing which the animal
was noticed to alter his appearance, to recover his
strength, and finally looked plump and well. The
singularity of the circumstance induced the lady to
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follow the dog's example. She procured dew from the
same bed of camomile, drank a small quantity each
morning and experienced relief. Her appetite became
regular. She found a return of spirits, and in the end
was completely cured.
Other Cures for Consumption. Take no food but
new Buttermilk churned in a Bottle and white bread.
I have known this successful. Or, every morning cut
a little turf of fresh Earth, and lying down, breathe
into the hole for a quarter of an hour.
i For an Ague. Take a dram of powder of Myrrh,
mix it in a spoonful of Sack, then take it and drink a
glass of Sack after it. Do this as near as possible an
hour before the fits come on.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Eight pounds of tomatoes four pounds of sugar, a pint of vinegar, a teaspoonful of mace and one of cinnamon, half a teaspoon of cloves; boil till thick.
tTbe Physical Director
This department may with the greatest truth be affirmed to be worth double the price of the Book, as the receipts are not only safe and cheap, but such as can be easily proctired, and are what cannot possibly do the least harm to the constitution if they should not have the desired effect, which I believe will very seldom or never happen. Still an Ounce of prevention is worth a Pound of cure, and by observing the following few and simple Rules, better health may be expected than from the use of the most powerful medicines:
1. Avoid as much as possible living near a graveyard.
2. Keep the feet from wet, and the head well defended when in bed.
3. Avoid too plentiful Meals.-
4. Go not abroad without breakfast. «
5. Shtm the night air as you would the Plague.
6. Tender people should have those much about them, sound, sweet and healthy.
7 . Nothing conduces more to health than abstinence and plain food, with due labor.-
8. The fewer clothes anyone uses by day or night, the hardier he will be.
To break up a Fresh Cold. Nothing is better than a glass of hot Flip on going to bed. Put the poker in the fire to heat. Mix some ginger and molasses in a beer mug. Pour on some sour cider. Plunge in the red hot poker and stir it up till it foams well. This is a very agreeable cure. Warm the bed hot with the warming-pan and put in some^hot bricks. A fine sweat will carry off the cold.
A Quaker Stew is good for an inflamed throat and itching cough. Take a piece of butter the size of a shagbark, a pint of molasses, a little vinegar and a dash of red pepper. Boil until it strings. Take hot or cold in doses to suit.
A Slice of Salt Pork spread with pepper and bound on with a strip of red flannel will cure a sore throat* Or, in a pinch, a stocking taken warm from the foot and bound about the throat is efficacious.
For a sudden attack of Quinsy or Croup, or a cold that is tight on the lungs, bathe the neck with bear's grease and pour it down the throat. Goose grease or any kind of oily grease is as good as bear's grease. Onions stewed in molasses are loosening. Put draughts of wilted horseradish leaves on the feet. A drop or two of skunk's oil or hen's oil on a lump of sugar will loosen up a cold.
For a Cough. Boil a teacup of flaxseed in a quart of water, to a pint. Add a gill of molasses or honey ^ simmer ten minutes and cool, add a few drops of lemon juice.
For Chin Cough or Hooping Cough. Rub the back at lying down with old Rum. It seldom fails. Or give a spoonful of juice of Pennyroyal mixed with brown Sugar candy.
Camomile for Consumption. The attention of a young lady, apparently in the last stage of consumption, was called to the virtue of camomile by observing from her window early each morning, a dog with scarcely any flesh on his bones go and lick the dew off a camomile bed in the garden, in doing which the animal was noticed to alter his appearance, to recover his strength, and finally looked plump and well. The singularity of the circumstance induced the lady to
follow the dog's example. She procured dew from the same bed of camomile, drank a small quantity each morning and experienced relief. Her appetite became regular. She found a return of spirits, and in the end was completely cured.
Other Cures for Consumption. Take no food but new Buttermilk churned in a Bottle and white bread. I have known this successful. Or, every morning cut a little turf of fresh Earth, and lying down, breathe into the hole for a quarter of an hour.
i For an Ague. Take a dram of powder of Myrrh, mix it in a spoonful of Sack, then take it and drink a glass of Sack after it. Do this as near as possible an hour before the fits come on.
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