The Pocumtuc housewife

A Good quantity of old cheese is the best thing to eat when distressed by eating too much fruit or oppressed with any kind of food. An Ointment made of ground worms rubbed on with the hand is excellent when the sinews are drawn up. "Elder Blow Tea is peculiarly efficacious for babes or for grown people when the digestive powers are out of order." Mrs. Child. •'Motherwort is very quieting to the nerves. Students and wakeful people find it useful. — Mrs. Child. Pennyroyal is good for the cholic. 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." — Mrs. Child. 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 have known a deep Consumption cured thus. The Jaundice. Take as much as will lie on a Shilling, of calcined Egg-Shell, three mornings fasting, and walk till you sweat. — Or half a Pint of Strong Decotion of Nettles. The King's Evil. Take as much cream of Tartar as will lie on a Sixpence, every Morning and Evening. 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. — Doctor Mead. A Cold in the Head. Pare very thin the yellow rhine of an orange; roll it up inside out and thrust a roll into each nostril. For a Bruise Apply a Plaister of chopped Parsley mixed with Butter. 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 Penny-royal mixed with brown Sugar-Candy, twice a Day. IToob for tbe Slcft^ Wine Whey. One pint of cream sweetened to your taste, vrarmed hot. Siir in sweet wine until curdled, grate in cinnamon and nutmeg. — '■'■Amer. Cook," i8oS. A Sick Bed Custard. Scald a quart of milk, sweeten and salt it a little, whip three eggs and stir in. Bake on coals in a pewter vessel. — Amer. Cook. Milk Porridge. Boil new milk. Stir flour thoroughly into cold milk in a bowl, and pour it into the boiling milk. Let it cook six or eight minutes. Season with salt and if the patient likes with sugar and nutmeg. Dr. Ratcliff's Restorative Pork Jelly. Take a leg of well fed pork, beat it and break the bone. Set it over a gentle fire with three gallons of water, half an ounce each of mace and nutmeg and simmer it down to one gallon. Strain, cool and take off the fat. Give a cupful the first and last thing and at noon, putting salt to taste.