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The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ...

1895

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Presented as published in 1895. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
utes; then rub olf well all the dead skin. Repeat thi^^ until cured, every other night for eight or ten times. After the first bath the same water will do for three times. The burning sensation is produced by the pores of the skin being closed so that the feet do not perspire. Asthma. Take one-half ounce of hydrate potassa, put it into a pint of water, and take a teaspoon two or three times a day. Viola. Piles. $ i , coo Reward ^ For any case. of blind, bleeding or itching piles that DeBing's pile remedy fails to cure. It has cured cases of twenty years standing. Try it, and get rid of the most troublesome disease flesh is heir to. Laboratory 142 Franklin street, Baltimore, Md. Malady of the Stobiach. The wife of Pere Hyacinthe, in her counsel and encouragement to the women workers in the temper- ance work says, " The great American malady is the malady of the stomach. Bear in mind this fact, that the appetite for drink is not necessarily made by drinking, but in nine cases out of ten it is created and cultivated at your tables — in the children by the use of strong tea and coffee, or pepper, pickles, mustard, spices, too much salt pork, hot bread and pastry, raw meat and grease, and above all by the use of tobacco. The cry of a depraved appetite, an inflamed stomach, is always for something stronger. In short reform your tables if you would reform your drunkards and The Queen Cook Hook 289 save your sons.'* When people feel the need of an acid, if they would let vinegar alone and use lemonade or apples they would feel as well satisfied and receive no injury. Earache. Children frequently suffer greatly with earache. I would not advise dropping anything into the ear, as I have known of one person who lost entirely the hear- ing of that ear for life. Tobacco smoke will often afford great relief. Fill the bowl of a pipe half full of fine tobacco, place a piece of thin muslin over the bowl, insert the stem or hold it to the ear and blow in the smoke, or if you are where you can obtain it, place a piece of cotton wool saturated with chloroform in the bowl of a pipe and blow gently, holding the stem in the ear; the evaporating chloroform will relieve the pain immediately. Then apply at once a bag of hops wet or moistened with very hot water to the ear; bind it on and cover them warm in bed. Put the hops in sheer muslin, and you will sleep all night. If there are no hops, roast onions, put in thin bag and bind on hot. How TO Take out a Cancer. A Milwaukee paper states that some eight years ago Mr. T. B. Mason, of that city, ascertained that he had a cancer on his face the size of a pin. It was cut out by Dr. Wolcott, and the wound partially healed. Subsequently it grew again, and while he was in Cin- cinnati on business, it attained the size of a hickory nut. He remained there under treatment and is now perfectly cured. The process is this: A piece of sticking plaster was put over the cancer, with a cir« 290 The Queen Cook Book