Posset

Put a pint of milk into a tin pail, and set it into a kettle of hot water. Pound a soda-cracker very fine, and stir into the milk when it boils. Beat two eggs with two tablespoon-fuls of fine sugar, and to these add a small glass of pale sherry. Take the milk from the kettle, and stir in these ingredients gradually, but very fast. Add nutmeg if allowed.

How To Treat Frozen Limbs

Pub with snow or very cold water until the part frozen becomes red. Then wipe dry, rub briskly with the hand, and cover with flannel.

How To Make A Mustard-Plaster

Take for a plaster the size of your hand a large teaspoon-ful of rye or Graham meal. Make it, with warm water, into a paste stiff enough to be spread smooth upon a piece of cotton cloth. Do not spread it nearer than an inch from the edge. Sprinkle fine mustard enough over it just to cover it; lay a piece of thin muslin over. In some kinds of sickness, the skin is torpid, and such a plaster has little effect. In such a case, the rye-meal should be wet with hot vinegar.

How To Cure The Earache

Put boiling water with a little soda or laudanum in it into a teapot, and hold the spout as near the ear as can be endured. Keep a shawl or other covering around the head and over the teapot, so as to confine the steam. Another remedy is to take the heart from a roasted onion, cool it, and dip in sweet oil and laudanum. Press the onion into the ear, and tie a handkerchief around the head

How To Relieve Chilblains

Baste soft linen inside the heels and toes of the stockings, and rub the linen well with a piece of common chalk.

A Refreshing Draught In A Fever

Wash a few sprigs of sage, burnet. balm, and sorrel, and put them into a jug with half a sliced lemon. Pour in three pints of boiling water, sweeten it, and stop it close.

Crust Coffee

Take a large crust of bread; brown is to be preferred, but Graham bread will answer. Dry it in the toaster, and at last almost burn both sides; lay it in a saucepan and pour boiling water on it; boil it up a minute or two, and then strain off the coffee; return it to the saucepan with a little milk or cream, and boil it up again. It should be made strong enough to look like real coffee, of which it is a very good imitation when well made.

Toast Water

Toast a crust of white bread very brown without burning it, and put it into cold water. After an hour, the water will be a refreshing drink; and it is sometimes grateful to the stomach when no other can be taken.

Herb Drinks

Herb drinks should be made with boiling water in an earthen pitcher or tea-pot, and be drank after standing a few minutes without boiling. Long steeping makes them insipid and disagreeable.

All food and drink for the sick should be prepared with careful attention and perfect neatness, and should be served in as inviting a manner as possible. The appetite of an invalid is excited or checked by things that escape the observation of a person in health.

Food For A Young Infant

Pour four spoonfuls of boiling water upon one of sweet cream, and add a very little loaf sugar. This receipt was given by an experienced physician, and has been proved, to be entirely suited to the stomach of the youngest infant. But care must be taken to secure good cream; and this can be done only by providing new milk every day, from one cow. Mixed milk cannot be safely used for a little infant.