Summer Diseases (Chronic Cases)

½ ounce gunpowder, ½ ounce alum, ½ ounce saltpeter, ½ ounce cream-tartar, ½ ounce flower of sulphur. Pulverize separately. Mix and sift through a fine cloth. Take ¾ teaspoonful for a dose. It may be mixed, if wished, with a little vinegar and water. A tried cure.

Second

For more simple cases, mix a teaspoonful of flour smooth [in a glass, then fill up with cold water. Prepare ¼ teaspoonful of camphor in ½ cupful of water. Drink the flour and water and follow with the camphor to remove sickness. Repeat several times a day, or as often as pain and illness return.

Third

½ ounce rhubarb, 30 drops oil peppermint, ½ ounce soda. Mix and turn over it ½ pint boiling water. Let it settle, pour off carefully from the sediment and add 4 ounces of brandy, or use the "Cholera Mixture".

Medicine Takers

Medicine Takers will do well to put a bit of alum in the mouth for a moment before taking medicine. It can then be taken like water.

Dyspepsia

Quassia chips. Dose - ½ teaspoonful of the chips in a tumbler of water. Take a swallow before meals. Refill the rambler two or three mornings and then take new chips, or take 1 ounce quassia chips, ½ pint gin, ½ pint water. Put in a bottle and do not use until the chips settle. Dose - 1 tablespoonful before eating. Hop tea is also very good.

Acid Stomach And Headache

2 tablespoonfuls of vinegar, 1 tablespoonful water, baking soda the size of a grain of corn. Stir until it foams and drink at once. See also second cure for Erysipelas. This is good for liver.

Small-Pox And Scarlet Fever

See directions for contagious diseases. Sponge the body of the patient in both cases frequently in warm water with a little glycerine added. In scarlet fever the patient is frequently anointed from head to foot with sweet oil or unsalted butter, the great necessity being to keep the skin moist and flexible and aid it to do its work. Give the following mixture: 1 grain sulphate of zinc, 1 grain fox-glove (digitalis), ½ teaspoon-sugar. Mix with 2 tablespoopfuls water, and take a spoonful every hour. This is a reliable recipe. The course of the disease will usually be run in twenty-four hours.

Ring-Worm

Moisten with saliva and rub the ashes of a good cigar thoroughly into the sore spot. Do this three times a day and all will be well in a few days; or an ointment of lard and, gunpowder may be used.

Mortification, external or internal, in man or animal. See first cure for Summer Diseases for Chronic Gases. Dose - 1 tea-spoonful mixed with vinegar, or apply if external. Unrivalled.

Ague Or Chills

Break an egg into enough strong vinegar to float it. Stir slightly and swallow. Repeat the dose three times a day for three days. A certain cure.

Headache

1 ounce of bromide of potassium in 4 ounces of water. Take a teaspoonful every hour or half hour if the pain is severe. If not so severe, three or four times a day. This is almost infallible. Sleep taken at the right moment will prevent nervous headache. Nature calls for it by a weariness or heaviness which preceeds such an attack. Sleeping an hour or two will often prevent it.