1867 Six Hundred Receipts by John Marquart

600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.

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No. 19. A cure for Burns and Scalds. No, 1. Mix in a bottle 3 ounces of olive-oil and 4 ounces of lime-water. Apply the mixture to the part burned five or six times a day, with a feather. Linseed-oil ivS equally as good.

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No. 20.

Another cure for Burns and Scalds, No. 2. Spread clarified honey upon a linen rag, and apply it to the burn immediately, and it will relieve the pain instantly and heal the sore in a very short time.

No. 21. A cure for Tdier,

No. 1. Take as much mustard as will make into a salve mixed with honey ; spread it on a rag, and lay it on the sore for 24 hours. If the sore is not dead, make new salve, and lay it on 3 or 4 hours longer. Then take the inside of elder-bark and stew it in lard ; put in beeswax enough to make a salve ; set It by until it gets cold. This is to heal the sore. Don't let the sore get wet. Then take mullein and boil it in water, and wash with after the wound is healed. This is to harden the tender skin again.

No. 22. Another cure for Tetter. No, 2. Take one ounce of sulphuret of potash.

Obtain

it Put the sulphuret into a large glass bottle, and pour on it a quart of cold water, 8^ from a druggist.