Remedies From 1800's

REMEDIES IN THE 1800'S 

I found so many funny and ridiculous things going through my "old brown cookbook" that I have had a difficult time deciding what to write about.  So I hoped that I chose something that would capture your interest. 

For bad breath:  Bad breath from catarrh, foul stomach, or bad teeth, may be temporarily relieved by diluting a little bromo chloralum with eight or ten parts of water, and using it as a gargle, and swallowing a few drops before going out.  A pint of bromo chloralum costs 50 cents, but a small vial will last a long time. 

Pearl tooth powder:  Prepared chalk, half a pound, Powdered myrrh, two ounces, camphor, two drachms, orris root, powdered, two ounces;  moisten the camphor with alcohol and mix well together. 

Sore throat-aching limbs-hurting chest:  Best oil of Lucca; gum camphor.  Pound some gum camphor and fill  a wide mouth pint bottle one third full; fill up with olive oil, and set away until the camphor is absorbed.  Excellent lotion for sore chest, sore throat, and anything that aches. 

Grandmother's cough syrup---Take a half pound of dry hoarhound herbs, one pod of red pepper, four tablespoons of ginger, boil all in three quarts of water, then strain; and add one teaspoonful of good fresh tar and a pound of sugar.  Boil slowly and stir often, until it is reduced to one quart of syrup.  When cool, bottle for use.  Take one or two teaspoonfuls four or six times a day. 

Tomorrow I will have some old "household hints" out of the "old brown book".

How far we have come is amazing!