The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1869-12-30
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
Food Cure.

THIS journal aims to show how to main |
tain health by natural agencies, and by
the same means to restore it if lost 1t is
not pretended that all diseases are cured |
in this way but it is very certain that |
quite number of ordinary ailments may |
be removed by the judicious employment |
of the contents of well-furnished larder |
and with this great advantage the cures |
are more permanent and less reliable to
return-accomplishing their object with
out any shock to the system, and without
the danger of lulling the patient by mis-
taking the quantity, or quality, or name
of the dose
Ripe fruits and berries, slightly acid,
will remove the ordinary diarrheas of
early summer.
Common rice, parched brown like cof
fee, and then boiled and eaten in the ordi-
nary way, without any other food, is, with
perfect quietude of body, one of the most
effective remedes!for troublesome loose
ness of bowels.
Some of the severest forms of that dis
tressing ailment called dysentery, that is,
when the bowels pass blood, with con-
slant desire, yet vain efforts to stool, are
sometimes entirely cured by the patient
eating a heaping tablespoonful at time
of raw beef, cut up very fine, and repeat
ed at intervals of four hours, until cured,
eating and drinking nothing else in the
meanwhile.
If person swallows any poison what
ever, or has fallen into commissions from
having overloaded the stomach, an in
Simultaneous remedy, more efficient and
applicable in larger number of cases
than any half dozen medicines we can
now think of, is a hcaping teaspoon of
-olt
tard, stirred rapidly in teacup of water,
warm or cold, and swallowed instantly.
1t is scarcely down before it begins to
come up, bringing with it the remaining
contents of the stomach, and lest there
be any remnant of a poison, however
small, let the white of an egg, or teacup
of strong coffee, be swallowed as soon as
the stomach is quiet; because these very
common articles nullify a larger number
of virulent pOisons than any medicines in
the shops.
In case scalding or burning the body,
immersing the part IN cold water gives
entire relief, as instantaneOusly as che
lightning. Meanwhile, get some common
dry -four and apply it an inch or two
thick on the injured part, the moment i
energies from the water, and keep sprink
;; ling on the flour through anything like {;
pepper-bOX cover, so as to put II on even
: ". Do nothing else, drink nothing bu
water, cat nothing, until improvement
commences, except some dry bread soft
ened in very weak tea of some kind
Cures of frightful burnings have beer
performed in this way, as wonderful a
5 they are painless.
: Erysipelas, disease often coming with
out premonition, and ending fatally il
7 three or four days, is sometimes prompt,
l cured by applying apOultice of raw Gran
l berries pounded, and placed on the par
!, over night.
Insect bites, and even that of rattle
:, snake, have passed harmless by stirring
| enough of common salt in the yOlk of
Y good egg to make it sufficiently thin for
) plaster, to be kept on the bitten parts.
C Neuralgia and toothaChe arc sometime
d speedily relieved by applying to the wris
5 a quantity of bruised or grated horse
n radish.
/ Costive bowels have an agreeable rem
l. edy in the free use of tomatoes at meals
c their SC, dis acting in the way of whit
s mustard or figs by stimulating the coats
/ the bowels over which they pass in thei
;. whole state to increased action.
/, A remedy of equal efficiency, in tn
e same direction, is cracked wheat-that i
T common wheat grains, broken into two c
Il three pieces, and then boiled until it is 8
e soft as rice, and eaten mainly at tw
meals of the day, with butter or molasse
Common sweet cider, boiled down I
One-half, makes most excellent syrup f
; coughs and colds for children-is pleasar
y to the taste, and will keep throughout Il
b" year in cool cellar.
. In recovering from an illness, the sy
{, tenn has a craving for some pleasant &C
:, drink. This is found III cider which
=, placed ON the fire as soon as made, and a
- lowed to come to boil, then cooled, p
- i'll casks, and kept in a cool cellar. Treatt
II thus, it remains tor many months as got
~ as the day it was made
- We once saved the life of an infa
h which had been inadvertently druggt
u with laudanum, and was fast sinking In
!; the sleep which has mo awaking by gi
NJ ing it strong coffee, cleared with the viii
;; OF an egg, "a teaspOoniul every ii
,ar minutes until it ceased to- seem drowsy.
10 The knowledge given in items Ii
io the above should do something
IN ward abolishing the ruinous and almo
od universal habit of purchasing pate
NJ medicines, which, in so many instanc
10. are either inapplicable, hurtful, or utter
f. useless, and in this latter case, are
,g directly the cause of DEATH by the loss
20 time in obtaining the services of a co
IN petcnt physician to apply the PROF
~. means with wise observation-disclosures
MI Jou,n@ IF HeatM