Cologne
1 quart alcohol
1/2 ounce of lavender
1/2 ounce of orange
1 dram of oil cedrat
1 dram oil of rose
1 dram of ambergris
Mix well and keep 3 weeks in a cool place.
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Soap
15 quarts soft water
9 pounds beef fat or other grease
2 cans concentrated lye
1/2 pounds rosin
1/2 pound borax
Mix all ingredients and boil 3/4 of an hour or longer. After it cools a bit, pour into a wooden box. Cut into bars when set. Peppermint oil is added for aroma.
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Recipe for Hard Soap
"3 pounds of quick lime, 6 pounds of washing soda, 6 pounds of grease, 4 gallons of water. Boil the lime, soda and water together for 12 minutes and let it settle. Throw away all white water, put the clear liquid into a pot with the grease and boil together 1/2 an hour until it looks like soft soap, when it can be made into any form and put to dry."
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For Blemishes
Bathe the face in 1 teaspoon carbolic acid to a pint of rose water.
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Mix 2 spoonfuls of the best tar in 6 of pure olive or almond oil by heating the two together in a tin cup set in boiling water. Stir till mixed, putting in more oil if the compound is too thick. Rub this on the face when going to bed.
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Wrinkle Preventive
Bind the face up nightly in slices from beef steak or veal. This will furnish nutriment to depleted tissue preventing and destroying wrinkles.
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Hair Invigorator
Take one pint of bay rum alcohol, 1/2 pint castor oil, 1/2 ounce carbonate of ammonia, 1/4 ounce tincture of cantharidez. Mix and shake when used.
"Eat in measure and defy the doctor."
About Quinine:
"For imparting strength to a constitution naturally feeble, as a safe guard against febrile affections; for recovering from weakness, occasioned by illness of any kind and tending, if neglected, to produce mental affections; for encouraging a healthy appetite and as a cordial stomachic, no medicine more valuable and efficient has hitherto been found than quinine, the bitter principle of the bark of trees of the Cinchona family, or trees that yield Peruvian bark. When extracted from the bark by a chemical process the alkaloid known as Quinine is in the form of delicate white crystals, which are insoluable in water and which may be dissolved by the agency of some acid before they can be mingled with any liquid for the patient or invalid to swallow. Orange wine is considered the most valuable vehicle in which to take it due to the intense bitterness of the Quinine."
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To Treat Burns
The whole of an egg beat up, then beat for a long
time with a tablespoon of lard. Is good for burns.
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To Treat Corns
Half a cranberry or piece of lemon, bound on a corn will soon kill it.
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To Treat Colds
Slice down a few onions and boil in a pint of new milk, stir in a sprinkle of oatmeal and very little salt. boil till onions are quite tender and sip rapidly and go to bed.
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Mustard Plasters
Were made by mixing 1/3 flour and 2/3 mustard and the white of an egg.
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Mr Brook's Recipe for coughs
1/2 pint of honey
1/2 pint of whiskey or wine
1/2 ounce of tar
Heat together and take a little 3 times a day or oftener.
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