A Quaker Stew is good for an inflamed throat and itching cough. Take a piece of butter the size of a shag bark, 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 black pepper and bound on with a strip of red flannel will cure a sore throat. Take brandy made thick with sugar, and a drop of camphor. Let this dis- solve on the tongue. "For a sudden attack of quinsy or croup 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." — Mrs. Child. For a cold that is tight on the lungs, give hot ginger and sage tea to sweat. Onions stewed in molasses are loosening. Put draughts of wilted horseradish leaves on the feet. Put hen's oil or skunks oil over the chest and pack in hot flannels. A 40 drop or two of hen's oil on a lump of sugar will loosen up a cold. If there is a pain in the side, put on a mustard paste. 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 Humors in the Blood. Make a paste of sulphur, cream of tartar and molasses. Take a teaspoonful three morn- ings, skip three, take three. Syrup for the Spring of the Year. Boil together, dock root, thoroughwort, yarrow, mullein, sarsaparilla, coltsfoot, spearmint, May weed, dandelion root, and any other herbs you like. Boil down the water and add molasses to make a syrup. Put in brandy to keep. Make a good deal of this, and give all the family a tablespoonful before breakfast as a preventive of Spring fevers. "Elixir Pro, is a useful family medicine for digestive dis- orders. Pulverize one ounce of saffron, one ounce of myrrh, one ounce aloes. Steep the myrrh in a half pint of brandy or N. E. rum for four days. Add the saffron and aloes; let it stand in the sunshine or a warm place for a fortnight, shaking it twice a day. Then fill up the bottle with brandy or N. E. rum. The longer it stands the better." — Mrs. S. M. Child. "For an Ordinary Headache take a shovel full of clean wood ashes; put them into clear cold water. When it has set- tled drink the water. It may cause vomiting; if it does the headache will be relieved the sooner." — Mrs. E. A. Howland. "For Earache. Soak the feet in warm water; roast an onion and put the head of it into the ear as hot as can be borne; take the feet out of the water and bind roasted onions on them." — Mrs. Howland. "For Deafness. Take a strong glass bottle, nearly fill it with clarified honey. Insert the bottle into the center of an 41 unbaked loaf of bread and bake thoroughly. Pour a small quantity of the honey into your ears and protect them from the external air with cotton." — Mrs. Howland. "For Hydrophobia. Wash oyster shells, put them on a bed of live coals and burn them thoroughly. Reduce to powder and sift through a fine sieve. Take three tablespoons of this powder add a sufficiency of egg to make a soft dough, and fry in in a little butter or olive oil. Let the patient eat this cake it the morning, and abstain from food or drink for six hours. This dose repeated for three mornings, is in all cases sufficient." — Mrs. Howland.

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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 shag bark, 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 black pepper and bound on with a strip of red flannel will cure a sore throat. Take brandy made thick with sugar, and a drop of camphor. Let this dissolve on the tongue. "For a sudden attack of quinsy or croup 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." — Mrs. Child. For a cold that is tight on the lungs, give hot ginger and sage tea to sweat. Onions stewed in molasses are loosening. Put draughts of wilted horseradish leaves on the feet. Put hen's oil or skunks oil over the chest and pack in hot flannels. drop or two of hen's oil on a lump of sugar will loosen up a cold. If there is a pain in the side, put on a mustard paste. 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 Humors in the Blood. Make a paste of sulphur, cream of tartar and molasses. Take a teaspoonful three mornings, skip three, take three. Syrup for the Spring of the Year. Boil together, dock root, thoroughwort, yarrow, mullein, sarsaparilla, coltsfoot, spearmint, May weed, dandelion root, and any other herbs you like. Boil down the water and add molasses to make a syrup. Put in brandy to keep. Make a good deal of this, and give all the family a tablespoonful before breakfast as a preventive of Spring fevers. "Elixir Pro, is a useful family medicine for digestive disorders. Pulverize one ounce of saffron, one ounce of myrrh, one ounce aloes. Steep the myrrh in a half pint of brandy or N. E. rum for four days. Add the saffron and aloes; let it stand in the sunshine or a warm place for a fortnight, shaking it twice a day. Then fill up the bottle with brandy or N. E. rum. The longer it stands the better." — Mrs. S. M. Child. "For an Ordinary Headache take a shovel full of clean wood ashes; put them into clear cold water. When it has settled drink the water. It may cause vomiting; if it does the headache will be relieved the sooner." — Mrs. E. A. Howland. "For Earache. Soak the feet in warm water; roast an onion and put the head of it into the ear as hot as can be borne; take the feet out of the water and bind roasted onions on them." — Mrs. Howland. "For Deafness. Take a strong glass bottle, nearly fill it with clarified honey. Insert the bottle into the center of an unbaked loaf of bread and bake thoroughly. Pour a small quantity of the honey into your ears and protect them from the external air with cotton." — Mrs. Howland. "For Hydrophobia. Wash oyster shells, put them on a bed of live coals and burn them thoroughly. Reduce to powder and sift through a fine sieve. Take three tablespoons of this powder add a sufficiency of egg to make a soft dough, and fry in in a little butter or olive oil. Let the patient eat this cake it the morning, and abstain from food or drink for six hours. This dose repeated for three mornings, is in all cases sufficient." — Mrs. Howland.

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