The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-17
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Household Recipes,

SORE THROAT, HEADACHE, CoLD FEET,
ETo.-If those who are subject to sore
throats and the like, were to bathe the
neck in cold water in the morning, and
use the flesh brush at night, they would
find benefit which would more than
compensate them for their time aud
trouble. There are many who suffer
from headache and cold feet. If they
would plunge their feet in cold water
every morning, and use the flesh brush
every night it would relieve them both.
GoDFREY's CoRD1An.-1. Infuse nine
ounces of sassalras, one ounce of cara
way, coriander and aniseeds, in six
pints of water; simmer till reduced to
four pints; add six pounds of treacle, or
coarse sugar, and boil for few minutes.
When cold, add three ounces of tincture
of opium or laudanum. 2. Dissolve
half an ounce of opium and one drachm
of oil of sassafras in two ounces of
spirits of wine; mix four pounds of
treacle with one gallon of boiling water,
and, when cold, mix both solutions.
AGooD CAKE FOR CHInDREN.-Mix
quarter of pound of butter, or good,
fresh dripping, into two pounds of
flour; add half pound Of pounded
sugar, one pound of currants, we'll
washed and dried, a quarter of an ounce
of pudding spice or allspice, and mix
all thoroughly. Mako warm pint of
new milk, but do not let it get hot; stir
into it three teaspoonfuls of good yeast,
and with this make up your dough light
ly, and knead it we'll. Line your cake
tins with buttered paper, and put it in
the dough. Let it remain in warm
place to rise for an hour and a quarter or
more, if necessary, and then bake in a
we'll heated oven. This quantity will
make two moderate sized cakes. Thus
divided, they will take from an hour
and half to two hours baking. Let
the paper inside your tins be about six
inches higher than the top of the tin
itself.
Hoa Cholera.
In reply to several inquiries made OF
late for cures and preventives for hog
cholera, q number of recipes have been
obtained by the American farmers club
= from various sections of the country:
A pork dealer of Tennessee recon-
D mended giving the hog, for cholera, a
tablespoonful of soda in meal until re-
iieved.
An Illinois correspondent sent the fol-
, lowing as a sure cure: Four ounces of
ground ginger, two ounces black anti
mony, two ounces flower of sulphur, two
ounces pulverized inter, and four ounces
sulphate of iron; mix WE'LL and give ac-
cording to the size of the house; say give
to a large hog a full teaspoonful three
tines per day, an even teaspoopful same
, number OF times to medium sized ami
I NAL, and so on down. To prevent the
a disease the same mixture can be given
once a day for one week every three
months.
Soft soap was urged as a cure by one
D farmer who has tried it with good effect
He feeds it in their slop, or, when one is
0 very bad, makes some soap thin with
0 water, and pours it down with tin cup
n by holding the hog on its back. He also
y advised that mustard should be sown il
every pasture into which hogs are turn
= ed, as they should be fed in summer OIL
: feed which contains less carbon ON ac
a count of producing less heat, and mus
: tard is one of the best things for this
t reason: In winter they require good
4 deal of carbon, hence their liking fol
G and their need of sulphur. Tue con
g Guiding advice was: Keep the hog;
@ clean, protect them from filthy sleeping
!. places and reeking beds of manure
O When the cholera appears remove the
v sick entirely from the well ones; ant
n freely use some active disinfectant
Y watch closely the we'll ones, using some
!, one of the many preventives that are
: from time to time, recommended.
o Medical Department..
OFFENSIVE BREATH.-A good disin
! fectant for offensive breath when arising
2, from foul stomach is small half tea
q spoonful of soda dissolved in one-thir(
u of tumblerful of water taken in th,
} morning.
o THINGS TO BE REMEMBERED Cloth
+ ing worn during the day should not b.
/ worn at night. Clothing, when takel
/. off, should be thoroughly aired. Other
d wise effete matters remain in it, Sleel
a is the best restorer of the nervous sys
h TEN. Never eat or drink anything be
II tween meals.
PIMPLEs. Take teaspoonful of oa
g meal and cook in three tablespoonfuls 0
g water half an hour, then strain through
= a thin cloth, and apply with sof
II sponge three times day for two o
Is three months. This should be washe,
v off as soon as thoroughly dry. 1t vii
y cure pimples on the face, unless cause'
> by diseased stomach.
,e HEADACHE very common dis
" order proceeds from various causes, an,
= according to these it must be treated
" Most frequently it is not disorder O
ee itself, but symptomatic of indigestion
"a excess of bile, nervousness, etc. Re
\, moving. the cause cures the headache
(, thus, mild aperients are often service
able. If of a nervous character, tonic
1t are useful, such as gentian, bark, hops
camphor, etc. Headache may beside
arise from over oppression OF the bloc
vessels of the head, fullness of blood
etc. The best advice is to keep th
q. head cool and the feet warm, to hav
r recourse to aperient medicines Otter
le and if obstinate or long. continued
le blood letting by the lance in the arm, c
" cupping between the shoulders, assiste
ic oy blister behind the ears, is sure I
lg give relief. Nervous headaches are ofte
a, cured by stimulants, such as snuff
s. smelling salts, aromatic vinegar, etc
m and as often by rest and quiet, by tweI
K ty or thirty drops of laudanum taken j
e. a little water, and by avoiding light.
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