Consumption

Take a large handful of hoarhound and make a tea as strong as possible; take an equal sized handful of mullein leaves and make a tea in the same manner. Then take 1 cupful of the hoarhound tea, and 1 cupful of the mullein tea, mix, put in a sauce-pan and add 1 cupful of molasses; boil to a syrup, the quicker the better. Take a large swallow three times a day. A cure will be guaranteed in all cases not too far advanced.

Consumptive Night Sweats

Sponge the body of the patient off at night with strong salt and water, or give the following preparation: ½ ounce essence of tansy, ¼ ounce water, ¼ ounce alcohol, 15 grains quinine, 80 drops muriatic acid. Mix, dose, 1 teaspoonful in ½ cupful of sage tea twice a day and always at night. It is asserted by many that a large flat pan of cold water set under the bed on the side occupied by the patient will effectually cure when everything else fails.

Cough Syrup

1 ounce thoroughwort. 1 ounce slippery elm bark, 1 ounce stick liquorice, 1 ounce flaxseed. Simmer in 1 quart of water until all the strength is out. Strain, and add 1 pint of the best molasses, ½ pound of loaf sugar; simmer well together. When cold, bottle.

Flaxseed Syrup, Or Lemonade For Coughs And Whooping Cough

Boil 1 ounce of flaxseed in 1 quart of boiling water one-half hour. Strain and add to the liquid the juice of 2 lemons and ½ pound of rock candy (loaf sugar may be used but the candy is better). If the cough is accompanied by weakness and loss of appetite, aid ½ ounce of gum arabic. Set this to simmer one-half hour, stirring occasionally. Take a wine-glassful whenever the cough is troublesome. For whooping cough give after every paroxysm.

Cough Mixtures

1 tablespoonful molasses, 1 tablespoonful of castor oil, 1 teaspoonful camphor, 1 teaspoonful of paregoric. Mix together, and take a teaspoonful before bed time, and before each meal.

Second

Hot honey, 1 teaspoonful every one-quarter hour, will break up the worst cold in one day. It will also relieve severe spasms of asthma. The constant use of honey keeps the throat in a healthful state, and it cannot be too highly recommended as an article of diet. Rubbing turpentine on the chest is also a relief.

Colds (To Cuke)

When the first symptoms are felt immediately remove shoes and stockings and put the feet to the fire, not merely warming but keeping them as hot as can be borne for half an hour. If done soon enough this will arrest any cold. If this cannot be done, wrap up the shoulders and throat in a heavy woolen shawl, pinning closely, even partly over the head, and remain go, if possible, until bed time, or at least until all chilly sensations disappear. A hot foot bath, or even a hot hand bath, is often effectual. A drink of hot lemonade on retiring, or almost any hot tea, sage, etc. Such means as these are often the "stitch in time." By waiting until morning the cold is settled, and time and patience will be required for its cure.