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NRO c(cal)22
19th. Century Cures dated 1859
[The following cures are not to be recommmended in the 21st century!]
Hooping Cough :
The following has proved a speedy cure. Take a wine glass of Rum and two pennyworth of spirits of turpentine, shake them well together and rub the child, by the fire, gently down the neck and chine night and morning. In a few days the cough will be cured.
Sores :
In the first place wash the wound or sore well in order to clean it, then prepare a plaister of green ointment ( to be had at the Druggists ), of the size sufficient to cover the sores entirely, upon that lay about the thickness of a sixpence, or shilling the dust that is found in puff balls when they are fully ripe. After rubbing a little into the ointment lay the plaister on the sore, and let it remain thereon for nine days, in order that the seeds of the disease may be entirely destroyed; then take it off and wash the part with alum water, afterwards apply proper healing salves to perfect the cure. This with judicious management, has never been known in one single instance to fail. Puff balls ( or as they are commonly called fuze balls ) grow in Parks and pasture fields; they are generally ripe in the month of September.
Typhus Fever :
One spoonful of mustard in a tumbler of lukewarm water. Drunk 8 hours after 4 grains of Calomel - 2 hours after a saline purgative draft.
For a pain in the side or pleurisy.
A handful of Nettles boiled and applied warm to the side. Or some Stone brimstone Powder mixed with the white of an egg spread on brown paper and applied to the side will give an immediate cure.
Preparation for jaundice :
1 ounce of Turmaric 1 ounce of the inner bark of the Barbery Tree. One shillings worth of saffron. To be mixed in a Bottle of Old Mountain wine and to stand 24 hours before taken. Take one wine glass full three times a day. To be repeated if necessary.
Rupture on the face or head.
To allay the itching the Oil of Almonds applied with a feather. To remove the scab - oil of Almonds and White Wax simmered together, or oil of Almonds and lime water in equal quantities.
Cure for stone & gravel.
A desert spoonful of Raspberry Jam taken in a glass of Gin and water once or twice a day.
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