This section is from the book "The Progress Meatless Cook Book", by Carlotta Lake. Also available from Amazon: The Progress Meatless Cook Book.
Plenty of buttermilk drank each day.
At least a tablespoonful of olive oil each day.
Tomatoes eaten daily.
Onions eaten three times a week.
Plenty of good drinking water.
Apples eaten daily.
Put a few drops of carbolic acid in the water to wash cuts, burns and bruises.
Never close a cut with court plaster. When necessary to cover it to keep out dirt, or to prevent hitting it, fasten a soft piece of linen over it.
Hold a lighted lamp to the ear, and the insect will at once come toward it.
To remove a foreign substance from the eye, slice a very thin piece from a raw potato, raise the lid and lay the potato on the eyeball. Leave for a little time, remove and the substance will be found adhering to the potato.
A moistened flax-seed may be used in the same manner as the potato piece.
Rub both sides of eye-glass lenses with soap or vaseline, wipe off with a soft cloth and polish with tissue paper or a silk handkerchief, and glasses will not steam in cold weather.
Swallow a raw oyster or a raw egg.
If heels are blistered from slipping up and down in low shoes, paste four small half circles of velveteen smoothly to the side of the heel and the nap of the velveteen will prevent the foot slipping.
Another way to prevent blistered heels from low shoes rubbing them, is to stick a strip of adhesive tape around the back of the heel at the spot where the shoe rubs.
Hot cloths may be quickly prepared by heating them in a steamer, which is easier than wringing them out of hot water.
Instead of the rubber bag for hot water, a screw top coffee can is a good substitute, as it never leaks, and keeps hot all night. Cover it with a washable case of outing flannel.
Another good hot bag is one made of strong muslin with a washable cover. Heat clean sand in the oven and fill the bag.
A bag filled with hot salt is also good.
When a rusty nail or any other metal causes a wound, bathe it, and hold it for half an hour or more over a burning woolen cloth. A piece of wool may be burned over a shovel of coals, or in any other way, just so the smoke pours on the wound.
2 teaspoonfuls mustard 2 teaspoonfuls flour
2 teaspoonfuls ginger water
Mix the mustard, flour, and ginger with enough water to make a paste, and place between two pieces of soft muslin and apply. If it burns too much at first, lay on an extra piece of muslin and remove it later.
Press with the fingers on the upper lip beneath the nostril.
Apply a magnet immediately.
In case of accidental swallowing of poison, mix three tea-spoonfuls of mustard with a cupful of warm water and swallow as quickly as possible.
Fill a wide-mouthed bottle nearly full of hot water, place the part containing the splinter over the mouth of the bottle and press tightly. The suction will draw the flesh down and the steam will remove the splinter.
8 oz. carbonate of ammonia cut in squares 1 fluid ounce oil of cloves
1/2 oz. oil of lavender 1/2 oz. oil of bergamot 1/2 oz. oil of cassia
Put the ammonia into a smelling bottle, mix the oils thoroughly and pour just enough into the bottle to cover the ammonia, keeping the remainder to replenish the smelling bottle.
Keep a dry pebble or button in the mouth.
 
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