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CHASE'S RECIPES -OR- iOiiii 1 mm AN INVALUABLE COLLECTION OF ABOUT • uMIl FOR Merchants, Grocers, Saloon Keepers, Physicians, Druggists, Tanners, Shoemakers, Harnessmakers, Painters, Jewellers, Blacksmiths, Tinners, Gunsmiths, Farriers, Barbers, Bakers, Dy^^rs, Een- oavters. Farmers, and Families Generally ; To -wliioh. Ixas beeii. added Additional Treat- ment OF Pleurisy, Inflamma- tion OF THE Lungs, and other Inflam- matory Diseases; and also, for General Female Debility and Irregularities, all arranged in THiiR Appropriate Departments, Together with an appendix of 30 pages, Never be/ore published in book /orm. .-^'^:'T BY A. "W^. CHASE. M.r>. iSixth Canadian Edition. Revised. Uonbon, ®xdmxo, Canaba: Published by Wm. Bryce, 123 and 168 Dundas Street. 1881, ^MMAiiMlliMiiilliliiiMiilii^^ ) 't ^ 4 P>RJEFACE. ) 't In preparing this edition of the well-kncwn " Chase's Recipes,'' we have endeavored to make the book more valuable than it was before. The many useful recipes for use in the household and on the farm, at the bed-side and in the kitchen, for the student, the mechanic, the merchant, the professional man and everybody else, have been supplemented by additional information on many im- portant matters. Not the least of these is the chapter on emer- gencies, designed to assist every one in providing prompt remedial measures for the more senous accidents and sudden attacks of disease to which all are subject, and in which delay is not only dangerous, but frequently fatal. It is confidently expected that this book in its improved shape will serve a useful purpose, and render incalculable service to all in whose possession it may come. London, August 1st, 1881. index:. •^ ' li]@RCHANTS' AND 6B0GEBS' DEFABTMMT. PAOB. Baking Powders, Without Drags. ♦ 60 Batter ; to Preserye any Length of Time — Butter Mak- ing ; Directions for Dairymen — Butter ; Storing ; the Ulrnois t'rairie Farmer's Method 40-41 Burning Fluid 44 Counterfeit Money ; Seven Rules for Detecting 46-47 Eggs : to Preserve for Winter use — English Patented Method — J. W. Cooper, M. D.'s Method of Keeping and Shipping Game Eggs 42-44 Fniits ; to Keep wittiout Loss of Colour or Flavor 41 Honey ; Domestic— Cuba Honey— Excellent Honey — Premium Honey 49-60 Interest; Computing by one Mul^lication and one Division, at any rate per cent — Method of Computing by a Single Multiplication 46-46 Inks ; Black Copying or Writing Fluid — Conmion Blaok — ^Red — the Very Best — ^Blue — ^Indellible — ^Ink Powder ; Black , 47-48 Jellies, Without Frait 60 Mouth Glue, for Tom Paper, Notes, &o , 60 Vine|;ar in Three Weekfr— in Barrels without trouble — E^om Sugar, Drippings from Sugar Hogsheads, Ac. — From Acetic Acid and Molasses — From Apple Cider — In Three Days, Without Drags — Quick Process by Stan^ng upon Shavings 33-40 ^ SALOON DEPARTMENT. -Apple Cider ; to keep Sweet with but Trifling Expense — To Prepare for Medicine — Artificial Cider, or Cider Without Apples ; to Make in Kegs or to Bottle, or in Barrels, for Long Keeping, with Dinpctions About Shipping 61-64 Action of Sugar or Candy on the Teeth. . r.,,,, 69 Ale ; Home Brewed, How it is .Made 63 \ ( iliiii liiHMiiii INDIZ. • ^ .. PAoa. Beers : Root— Spruce^ or Aromatic Beer~Lemon— Ginger — Philadelphia — Patent Gas — Com ; without Yeaet — Strong Beer: English, improved 61-63 V ines. 74 67 64 66 Coloring for Cream Soda : Using Cow's Cream for Fountains — Cream Soda : with a Fountain • Cream Nectar ; Imperial Ginger Pop Ice Cream — Ice Cream, very cheap 1 66-67 Lawton Blackberry : its Cultivation 72 Lemonade, to carry m the Pocket 60 Molasses Candy and Pop Com Balls. 68-69 Oyster Soup 68 Persian Sherbet , 60 Porter, Ale or Wine ; to Prevent Flatness In parts of Bottles, for the Invalid 64 Stomach Bitters, equal to Hostetter's, for one-fourth its cost, and Schiedam Schnapps Exposed 74 Sham Champagne, a purely Temperance Drink 66 Spanish Gingerette .. 66 Soda Water, without a Machine for Bottling 67 Syrup^s — to make the various Colours — Symps, Artificial ; various flavors, as Raspberry, Strawberry, Pineapple, Sarsaparilla, &6, — Lemon Syrup, common — ^Lemon Symp, to Save the Loss of Lemons — Soda Syrup, with or without Fountaii:« 64 67 Tripe, to prepare and Fickle 68 Wines ; Cfurrant, Cherry, Elderberry and other Berry Wines — Rhubarb, or English Patent Wine — Tomato Wine — Wine from White Currants — Ginger Wine — Blackberry Wine — ^Port Wine — Cider Wine — Grape Wine 67 74 Yeasts ; Hop Yeast — Bakers' Yeast— Jug Yeast, without Yeast to start with — Yeast Cake 66 66 MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. Alcohol in Medicine, preferable to Brandy, Rum or Gin of the present day, connected with Spiritual Facts 76 77 A.gue Medicines ; Dr. Krider's Ague Pills — Ague Bitters — Ague Powder — Ague Mixture, without Quinine — ~ Ague Cured for a Penny — ^Ague Anodyne — Tonic Wine Tincture, a positive cure or Ague, without Qui- nine 77 8U Asthma ; Remedies 13'^ A^lterative Syrup^ or Blood Purifier — ^Alterative, very strong— Alterative Cathartic, powder — ^Alterative for Diseases of the Skin — Alterative, Tonic and Cathartic Bitters 143 143 miKUL PAOI. Artificial Sinn, for Boms, BmiBM, AbrftBiens, fto., Proof againat Water 191 Adhesive Plaster, or Salve, for Deep Woonds, Cats, Ak)., in place of Stitches 168 A Cure for Drunkenness 140 Anodyne Pills i 149 Bread-Tea, used in taking Emetics 106 Bateman's Pectoral Drops 184 Balsams ; Dr. R. W. Hutchin's Indian Healing, formerly Peckham's Oough Balsam ; Dr. Mltohel's Balsam, for Cuts, Bruises, Ac 190 191 Bleedings ; Internal and External Remedies ; Styptic Balsam, for Internal Hemorrhages ; Styptic Tincture, External Am>lication 192 194 Bronchocele (Enlarged Neck), to cure 194 Bums ; Salve for Bums, FrosirBites, Cracked Nipples, &o.f very successful ; Dr. Downer's Salve, for Bums ; Poultice for Bums and Frozen Flesh ; Salve from the Garden and Kitchen, for Bums eight preparations. . . .110 111 Camphor and other Medicated Waters S02 Cancers, to cure: Methods of Dr. Landolfi, Surgeon General to the Neapolitan Army ; Dr. H. G. Juukms' ; L. S. Hodgkins' ; Rev. C. C. '^uvlers' ; Great English Remedy ; American, Red Oak Bark, Salve from the Ashes : Prof. R. S. Newton's ; Prof. Calkin's, Ac, altogether fourteen prescriptions, with Cautions against the use of the Knife, showing when the Treatment should commence, &o 96 100 Costiveness, Common, or t^ij Obstinate Cases 101 102 Chronic Gout, to cure ; Gout Tincture 102 103 Cathartic Syrap * 106 Catarrh Snuff 96 Camphor-Ice, for Chapped Hands and Lips 109 Chilblains, to cure, published by cjrder of the Govem- meut of Wirtemburg 112 Cod Liver Oil, made Palatable and more Digestible. .... 119 Consumptive Syrup, very successful, with directions about Travel ; Remarks on the Use of Fat Meats as Preventative of Consumption, Aic.; Chlorate of Potash in Consumption, new remedy ; Rational Treatment for Consumption, claimed to be the best in the world 119 125 Composition Powder, Thompson's 140 Croup, Simple but Effectual Remedy ; Dutch Remedy ; Croup Ointment ..149 1^0 Cough Lozenges, two preparations ; Pulmonic Wafers for Coughs ; Coughs from Recent Colds ; Remedy. Cough Mixture for Recent Colds : Cough Cundy ; Cough Symp ; \ Cough Tincture ; Cough Pill 170 173 Cholera Tinotttre ; Isthmus Cholera Tincture : Cholera rrf rrt Preventive ; Cholera Ck>rdlal ; German Cholera, tlno- turo ; Egyptian Cure for Cholera ; India Preaoription for Cholera : Nature's Cholera Medicine 178 180 Colio and Cholera Morbus ; Treatment 180 181 Carminatives for Children 182 Dyspepsia ; Treatment from Personal Experience, with Cautions about Eating between Meals, especially against constant nibbling ; also, Father Finkney's Ex- perience of ninety years 87 92 Dyspeptic's Biscuit and Coffee, very \alaable 2f)2 Dyspeptic Tea 140 Delirium Tremens ; to obtain sleep ; Stimulating Anc lyne for Delirium. 107 Disinfectant for Rooms, Meat or Fish : Coffee as a Disin- fectant for Sick Rooms ^ . . . . 108 Deafness, if recent, to Cure ; if not, to Relieve 113 Diuretic Fill ; Drops, Decoction and Tincture 143 144 Dropsy Syrup and Fills ; very effectual 144 145 DiairhcBa Cordial : Injection for Chronic Diarrhoea ; Diarr- boea Tincture, Drops and Syrup : also for Flux and Chronic Diarrhoea in Adults and Children, when accom- panied with Canker 176 178 Dentrifice which removes Tartareous adhesions from the Teeth, arrests decay, and induces a healthy action of the Gums 188 Discutients, to scatter Swellings ; Common Swellings, to Reduce 191 192 Diphtheria ; Dr. Fhinney's Tre»*xaent, of Boston 183 Enlarged Tonsils, to Core. . . 104 Eclectic Emetic ^^ 106 Bye Water, often acknowledged to be worth more than Twenty Dollars ; India Prescription for Sore Eyes ; Dr. Cook's Eye Water ; Preparation for Excessive Inflam- mation of the Eyes ; Sailor's Eye Preparation ; Father Pinkney's Preparation for very bad Sore By^es ; In- dian Eye Water ; Poultices for the Eye ; Mlms, to remove from the Eye : Eye Salve ; Sore Eyes, to Remove the Granulations ; altogether, twenty-two Prescriptions for different conditions of the Disoased Eye. 154 15» Essences ; very strong 189 Febrifuge Wine, to drive away Fever 79 Fevers : General Improved Treatment, for Bilious, Ty- phoid and Scarlet Fevers, Congestive Chills, Ac. ; also valuable in arresting Diarrhoea, Summer Complaint, Cholera Infantum, and all forms of Fever In Children ; Lemonad' nourishing for Fever Patients ; Professor Hufeland'tt Drink for Fever Patients, or for excessive Thirst 80 OT Ap^ ZTl DIDIX. i. for PAOB. 112 Felon, If recent, to cnre m bnc Honra — Ponltioee Felons — Felon Ointment and Salve , Fever-Sore Plaster or Black Salve ; ban Raved two differ- ent Hands that two different physicians, in each case, said must be cutoff— Red Salve for Fever-Sores — Indian Cure for Fever-Sores — Kitridge's Salve for Fever Sores — Fever-Sore Poultices, Ointments and Salve for Fever-Sores, Abcesses, Broken Breasts, Ac, eleven preparations -. 159 lU'i Female Debility and Irregularities, Explanations and Treatment— Female Laxative Pills — Female Laxative and Anodyne PiU.. — Pilla for Painful Menstruation — Injection for Female Complaints — Emmenagop:ue Tincture (aiding menstiniatiou) — Powder for excessive Flooding, also full explanations of the natural Turn with young Females, in such plain and d61icate lan- guage, that every Girl over thirteen years of ago, ought to have the book 208 214 Uterine Hemorrhages, Prof. Piatt's Treatment, twenty Years without a Failure Gravel and Kidney Complaints ; Impf^rial Drop Godfrey's Cordial .1 Hoffman's Anodyne or Golden Tincture Hydrophobia, to prevent — Saxon Remedy — Grecian "Remedy — Quaker Remedy ; fiftj^ years successful 161 Inflammation of the Throat (Laryngitis) — Gargle for Sore Throat — Sore Throat Liniment, with a Synopsis (general view) of Dr. Fitch's Treatment of Throat Diseases 92 Inflammation of the Lungs — Inflammation of the Pleura, (pleurisy), wltii such full explanations of general In- flammation that no difBculty will be experienced in Treating the disease in any of its forms 19f» fnflammatioD of the Liver — Eclectic Liver Pill — lAver Pill, Lnpi'oved— Liver Drops, for obstinate cases — Ointment for Ulcerated Liver, Ague Cake, &c. ; very successful 14f In-Growing Toe Nail, to cure Indian Catiiartio Pills « 7^ 88 109 134 133 163 U6 20d 147 147 185 Itching Feet from Frost Bites, to cure Ill Irritatmg Plaster, extensively UB9d by Eclectics 146 Jaundice ; Dr. Peabody's (5ure, in its worst forms — Drink for common cases of Jaundice ". 13C 131 Liniments; Good Samaritan, Improved — Liniment for Old Sores — Dr. Raymond's Liniment — German Rheu- matic Liquid or Liniment — Cook's Electro-Magnetic Liniment ; Liniment for Spinal Affections ; Great London Liniment ; Gum Liniment : Patent Liniment ; Lobelia and Cayenne Iiinimeut ; Liniment, said to be St John's. &c 114 U8 iMMMil 1. ^ IMDBJ;. xvu PAOB. Landannm bright Sweats, to relieve Ointment for OW Sores ; Mead's Salt Rbeum Ointment, lias proved very Bucceasfu^ ; Judkin'8 : Slason's Green Ointment, exceedingly good ; Dr. Kittridge's cele- brated Ointment for "Pimpled^ Face," " Prairie Itch," &c. ; Dr. Gibson's Ointment for very bad Skin Di*?- eaaes ; Itch Ointment ; Magnetic Ointment, said to be Task's, with Stramonium Ointment and Tincture ; Toad Ointment, &c 126 Oil of Spike ; British Oil ; Balm of Gillead Oil ; Harlem on or welch Medacamentum ; also Black Oils, valuable for Persona or Animals 174 Opodeldoc, liquid Paralysis, if receat, to cure, if not, to relieve ; Paralytio Liniment Piles, very successful remedy ; Pile Cerate j Simple Cure for Piles, internal and external Remedies, eleoen preparations 131 Paregoric Pills, to sugar coat, Nervous Pills 148 Pain-Killer, said to be Perry Davis' v Poisons ; Antidote 133 80 130 175 176 103 133 133 149 194 195 .8 Rheumatic Liniment ; Inflammatory Rheumatism, to cure ; Dr. IGttridge's Remedy' for Rheumatism and Stiffened Joints from Rheun-atism ; French Remedy for Chronic Rheumatism ; bitters for Chronic Rheu- matism, very successful : Green Bay Indians' Remedy for Rheumatism ; New Remedy, &c. ; twelve prepara- tions 136 blck Headache, to cure ; Periodical Headache ; Headache Drops ; Tincture of Blood Root for certain Headaches ; Chaycoal for certain Headaches 104 Sweating Drops ; Sweating with burning Alcohol Stimulant, in Low Fevers and after Uterine Hemorrha- ges Sore Throat,-£rom recent cold, remedy. Snake Bites ; Effectual Remedies, for Persons and Ani- mals. . , .' , 168 Small Pox, to prevent Pitting the Face. Salves ; Green Mountain Salve, exceedingly valuable ; Conklin's Celebrated Salve ; also Balm of Gillead Salve and Peleg White's Old Salve 162 Sedlitz Powder, cathartic '....... Teeth, Extracting with little or no pain: Tooib Pow- der, excellent ; Teeth, to remove blackness : Tootii Cordial, Magnetic ; Homeopathic Tooth Corral ; Neuralgia, internal Remedy ; Bling of Oils for Neu- ralgia and Rheumatism 184 Tinotores, to make 138 107 108 141 171 154 191 163 188 18f >4^% * MA •mm xvm nvDiz. rAMOL Tetter, Ring Wone and Barben(^ Itoh ; to onre tSSi ^phus Fever ; to Prevent Infection 16T "Vermifnge Lozenges ; Worm Tea ; Worm Cake ; English Eemedy ; Tape Worm : Simple but Effectnal Remedies ; Vermiftige Oil ; Prof. Freeman's 164 170 Vegetable Physic , 184 Whooping Cough Syrup ; Daily's Whoopijg Cough Syrup ; Soreness or Hoarseness from Coughs ; Remedy. . 173 174 Warts and Corns, to cure in Ten Minutes ; Dr. Hariman's innocent and sure cure for Warts, Corns and Chilblains, five prescriptions ^ 113 114 Wens, to cure 192 TANNERS' SHOE & HARNESS-MAKERS' DEPARTMENT. m Best Color for Boot, Shoe and Harness Edge, and Ink which cannot freeze ; Cheap Color for Boot, Sboe and Harness Edge. 215 Black Varnish for the Edge 217 Deer Skins ; Tanning and Buffing for Gloves ; three methods 218 French Patent Leather ; French Finish for Leather 221 Grain-Side Blacking, for Ten Cents a Barrel 221 Tanning Sheepskins ; applicable for Mittens, Door Mats, Robes, &c. ; Tanning Fur and other Skine ; Fifty Dollar Recipe ; Tanning Deer and Woodchucls Skins, for Whips, Strings, Ac. : Process of Tanning Calf, Kip, and Harness, in from Six to Thirty Days ; Canadian Process also, with Mr. Rose's modification, of lyiadison, Ohio , 217 221 Sizing for Treeing out Boots and Shoes 215 Varnish for Harness, the best in use 217 Water-Proof Oil Paste Blacking ,. 216 Water-Proof Paste without Rubber; Neats-foot Oil Paste 210 PAINTERS' DEPARTMENT. Drying Oil, equal to the Patent Dryers 222 Ooor Plates, to make 227 229 E2tching upon Glass, for Signs or Side Lights; easy Method 229 230 Frosting Glass 225 Fluoric Acid ; to make for Etching Purpoeee 231 Glass Grinding, for Signs, Shades, 8m 230 Japan Dryers, of the best quality 222 New Tin Roofii, valuable process for painting 226 Fire-Proof Paint for Roofe, &c. ; Water-Proof Oil-Rubber Paint.,.,., 236 ir If I "l-l ..' M i IMBIZ. on ; to prepare for Carriage, Wagon and Floor Paintlngi . 29S Oil Paint, to Bednoe withWater 223 Oriental or Gr^atal Painting, with Directions to make Tarions Shades, or Gomponnd Colours : Fancy Green, &0.226 227 PaintSMns : to save and Reduce to Oil 224 Porcelain Finish ; very Hard and White, for Parlors 231 Painters' Sanding Apparatus 224 Sketching Paper ; to prepare. 227 PAINTERS' ECONOMY IN MAKING COLORS. Chrome Green ; Chrome Yellow ; Green, durable and ' , cheap ; Paris Green, two processes ; Prussian Blue, two processes : Pea Brown ; Rose Pink 282 2SS BLACKSMITHS' DEPARTMENT. Butcher Knives ; spring Temper and beautifiil Edge. . . . 2S8 Cast Iron, to case harden; Cast Iron, the hardest, to Soften for Drilling 240 Files and Rasps, old ; to Re-cut by a chemical process. . 233 Iron ; to Prevent Welding 239 Iron or Wood : to Bronze, Representing Bell-metal ...... 241 Mill Picks, to Temper, three Preparations ; Mill Picks and Saw Gummers, to Temper ; Mill Pick Tempering, as done by Church, of Ann Arbor 231 287 Poor Iron ; to Improve . 236 Rust on Iron or Steel ; to Prevent. 234 Silver Plating, for Carriage Work . 239 Trap Springs ; to Temper 233 Truss Springs; Directions for Blacksmiths to make; superior to the Patent Trusses 241 Varnishes ; Transparent ; for Tools, Ploughs, Ac. ; Var- nish, Transpar<)nt Blue, for Steel Ploughs: Varnish, Seek-No-Further, for Iron or Steel; Yamish, Black, having a polisli, for Iron .234 285 Welding Cast Steel, without Borax 236 ViTelding a small piece of Iron upon a large one, with only a light heat 240 Writing upon Iron or Steel, Silver or Gold ; not to cost the tenm of a cent per letter 286 Wroughtlron; to Case-harden 840 TIlNNERS' DEPARTMENT. ( V i Black Varnish, for Coal Buckets Hi Box Metal, to make, for Machinexy 844 Britannia ; to use Old instead of Block Tin, f6r Solder. . 846 Copper, to Tin ; for Stew Dishes or other purposes 844 Iron, to Tin ; for Solderin|s or other purpoaav. 844 i ■ i^t.*. ^■ii DTOZ* s piei. Iron, Iron Wire or Steel : to Oopper theSiufaoe 244 Japans for Tin— Black, Blue, Green, Orange, Pink, Bed. and Yellow . 242 Lacquer for Tin — Gold color. Transparent, Blue, Green, Purple and Rose Color— also, Lacquer for Brass 242 243 Liquid Glue for Labelling upon Tin .... 245 Liquid to clean Brass, Door Knobs, &o 245 Oil Cans ; Size of Sheet for from One to One Hundred GhtUons 246 Silver Powder for Copper or worn Plated Goods 246 Solder for biazing Iron, Lead, Tin and Britanclt. .... . .244 245 Tinning Flux ; improved 246 Tin ; to Pearl, for Spittoons, Water Coolers, &o. ....,., , 245 GUNSMITHING DEPARTMENT. Broken Saws ; to Mend Permanently 247 Browning Gun Barrels ; two processes — ^Browning for Twist Barrels 246 247 Case Hardening 247 Tinning ; superior to the old process ,, 248 Varnish and Polish for Stocks ; German 248 JEWELERS' DEPARTMENT. Galvanizing without a Battery 248 Galvanizing with a Shilling Battery ; also, -Directions to Make the Battery .249 260 Jewelry ; Cleaning and Polishing 250 FARRIERS' DEPARTMENT. Broken Limbs ; Treatment, instead of inhumanly shoot ing the Horse HO 261 Bog-Spavin and Wind-Gall Ointment ; also good for Curbs, Splints, &c 256 Bone Spavin ; French Paste ; Three Hundred DoUat Recipe ; Bone Spavin ; Norwegian Cure ; Spavin Lini- ment, four preparations. ^ 264 Dots, sure remedy. 261. Colic Cure, for Horses or Persons ; has not failed i« more than Forty Trials 250 Condition Powder, exceedingly valuable, said to be St. John's Cathartic Condition Powder, designed for Wem down Animals «69 260 DeGray or Sloan's Horse Ointment 259 Distemper, to Distinguish and Cure 265 Eye Water, for Horses and Cattle.^ 266 Founder Remedy 266 Grease-Heel and Common Scratches, to Cure .262 263 Heaves, Great Relief for; Six Methods for Diflbrtat Conditions 264 265 VJ (^TPji *¥ ,-•% miiiiiii INDIX. iPf^ i Qoof-Ail in Sheep, sare remedy • Looseness or Scouring ib Horses or Cattle, remedy in nse over seventy years 262 Liniment for Stiff Necks, from Poll Evils ; English Stable Liniment, very strong; Liniment for one shilling a Suart^ valuable in Strains, Old Swell! ''gs, Ac. ; and ferve and Bone Liniment Poll-Evil and Fistula, positive cure ; Poll-Evil and Fis- tula, Norwegian cure ; Eight Methods, all of which have cured many cases : Poll-Evils, to Scatter, &o. ; Potash, to malce, used in Poll-Evils 260 Physic, Ball and Liquid, for Horses and Cattle Ring-bone and Spavin Cure, often acknowledged worth the value of tiie Horse : O. B. Bangs' Method for Re- cent Oases ; Rawson's Ring-Bone and Spavin Cure, has cured Ring-bones as thick as the arm ; Indian Mett.od also very simple 261 Splint and Spavin Liniment PAOB. 266 268 268 268 266 264 266 Sweeny Liniment ..... 266 Scours and Pin Wonne, to core, in Horses or Cattle Saddle and Harness Galls, Bruises, Abrasions, &o., A;o. ; Remedy Sores from Chafing of the Bits, to Cure 263 Shoeing Horses for Winter Travel , » Supporting Apparatus in Lameness of Animals, Ex- plained , Taming Wild and Vicious Horses : also showing who can doit 267 Wound Balsam for Horses or Persons ^ >m 269 263 264 266 261 269 262 CABINET-MAKERS' DEPAETMENT. Finishing Furniture with only One Coat of Yamish, nv. using Grlue, Paste or Shellac ; very valuable 270 Jet PoTitih^ for Wood or Leather : Black Red, and Blue. , 270 Polish jfor New Furniture : Polish for Reviving Old Fur- niture, equal to the " Brother Jonathan ;" and Polish for Removing Stains, Spots and Mildew firom Furni- ture 26^270 •Stains : Mahogany on Walnut, as natural as nature ; Rose- wood Stain, ve^ bright shade, used cold ^ Rosewood Stain, light shade, used hot ; Rose-pink, Stain and Var- nish ; also used to imitate Rosewood ; Black Walnut Stain ; Cherry Stain. , 271 278 Varnish, Transparent, for Wood ; Patent Varnish, for * Wood or Canvass ; Asphaltum Varnish, black 273 274 BARBERS' AND TOILET DEPARTMENT." Balm of a Thousand Flowers < Cologne Imperial ; Cologne for Family Use, cheaper. . 280 .278 279 Ml lii* pipillJ HKIII ^ \ I INDBX. fAOB. Faded and Worn Garments : to renew the Golor, 273 Hair Dye; Reliable 274 Hair uiBstoratiye ; equal to Woods' for a triflin{[ cost ; four preparations ; oheap and reliable ; Hair invigo- rators, tnjoo preparations; will stop Hair from Falli3g,275 276 Hair Oils; New York Barbers' Star Hair Oil; Macassar . or Rose; Fragrant Home-made Pomade or Ox-Morrow, 279 Shampooning Mixture, for Five Cents per Quart, 277 Innovating Mixture; for Grease ^ots, Shampooning and Killing BedBugs; Renovating Clothes; Gentlemen's Wear 277 278 ftaBor Strop Paste; very nice, 280 BA:pSlS' AND COOKING DEPARTMENT. Breads; Yankee Brown Bread; Graham Bread; London Bakers' superior Loaf Bread; new French method of makingBread; Old Bachelors' Bread: Biscuit and Fie- Crust: Baking Powders for Biscuit, without Shortening290 29S £akes; FedenO; Rough and Ready; Sponge Cake, with sour milk: Sponge Cake, with sweet milk; Berwick Sponge Cake, without milk; Surprise Cake; Sugar Cake; Ginger Cake; Tea or Gup Cake; Cake, without ep^ or milk; Pork Cake, without butter, milk or eggs: Cider Cake; Ginger Snaps; Jell Cake and Roll Jell Cake ; Cake Table, showing how to make fifteen different kinds, as Pound, Grenuine Whig, Shi'ewsburry, Training, Nut Cake, Short Cymbals, Burk, and Jumbles, Ginger Bread, Wonders, Cookies, York, Biscuit, Common and Loaf Cakes, Molasses Cake, Marble Cake, Silver Cake, and Gold Cake, finishing with Bride and Fruit Cakes; Frosting for Cakes, &c. ; excellmit Crackers; Sugar Crackers; Naples Biscuit: Buckwheat Shortcake, without shortening, most excellent; and Yeast Cake, 281 289 Pies: Lemon Fie, extra nice; Pie-Crust Glaze; which prevents the juices from soaking into the crust; Apple-Custard Pie, the nicest ever eaten; Paste for Tarts, 293 29* Puddings: Biscuit Pudding, without re-baking; Old £ngl£h Christmas Plum Pudding; Indian Pudding, to bake; Indian Pudding, to boil; Quick Indian Pudding; Flour Pudding, to boil; Potato Pudding; Green Com Pudding: Steamed Pudding; Spreading and Dip Sauces , forPttddings, 296 297 1 1$ \ DOMESTIC DISHES. Apples: to bake steamboat style, better than preserves; Apple Fritters; Apf les to fry, extra nice. . . ...... 298 S9S \ •^m^ f tSDSnL xxiii 78 74 76 79 77 78 80 I 99 89 9. f ^ f 97 9% FAISE. Apple Merange, ftn excellent Bubstitate for Pie & Padding 299 Back-woods Preeerves, 299 Bread: to fry better than Toast, 299 French Honev , 300 Fruit Jams, Jelliea and Preserves, 800 Fruit Extracts, 801 Green Com Omelet, 298 Mock Oysters, 300 MulBnB, 300 Toast: German style 299 •Rose and dinnamon Waters, 302 inSGELLAl^EOnS DEPARTMENT. Advice to Young Men, and others out of employment,. 336 341 Bed-room Carpets, for One Shilling per yard, 333 Currants: to ary with sugat 316 Currant Catchup, 314 Co£fee: mere healthy and l>etter flavored, for one-fourth thoezpenseof common 3S4 Cements: Cement for China, &g., which stands fire and water; Cement, cheap and valuable; Grerman and Russian Cement; Cement, water jproof, for cloth and belting; Cement or Furniture Glue, for house use: White Cement and Cement to prevent leaks about Chimneys, Roofs, &o. ; bcrap-Bpok Paste or Cement, always ready for use, 317 319 Canning Fruits: Peaches, Pears, Berries, Plums, Cherries, Strawberries & :.d Tomatoes ; Cement for Canning Fruits313 314 Eggs: to Increase the laying; Eggs: to fry extra nice,. . . 44 Fence Posts: to prevent rotting, 308 Fire kindlers, 329 Fish art of catching, 322 Gravel Houses: to make, proportions of lime, sand and gravel, 324 Glues: Liquid Glue; Imitations, equal to Spaldmg's Liquid Glue, and Water-Proof Glue, 328 Grammar in Rhyme, for the Little Folbi, 341 Musical Curiosi^; Scotch Grenius in Teaching, 342 Meats : to preserve ; to Pickle for long keeping ; Michigan Farmer's method; Beef, to Pickle for Winter or present use, and for drying, very nice; Mutton Hams to pickle for drying; Curing, Smoking and Keeping Hams; T. E. Hamilton's Maryland Premium Ifethod; Pork, to have fresh from winter killing, for summer frying; Salt Pork for frying, nearly equal to^ fresh; Fresh. Meat: to keep a week or two, in summerf Smoked Meat: to Preserve for years or tor sea voyages: Ratal New Yorker's method, and the New England Farmer <er used to tranefer figures in Embroidery, or ImpreBsions of Leaves for Herbariunuj , . 819 Percussion Mfttcbes, best quality, , 329 331 Preserves, Toniato and Watennelon Preserves, 315 Plums and other Fruits: to prevent Insects from Stinging; 333 Pickling; Apples, Peaches, Plunur and Cucumbers, very nice indeed ; Peaches, to peel, 334 335 Elat DeBtroyers ; Rat Exterminator ; Death for the Old - Sly Hat ; Rats, to diive away alive ; Rat Poison from Sir Humphrey Davy, 320 321 Straw Bonnets ; to Color a Beautiful Slate ; Straw and Chip Hats, to Varnish Black, 322 Stucco Plaster'ng for Brick and Gravel houses, 322 324 Steam Boilers, to Prevent Explosion, with the Reason why they e^lode ; Steam Boilers ; to Prevent Lime Deposits, two Methods, 332 333 Sand Stone, to Prevent Scaling from Frosts, 335 Sealing Wax ; to Make Red. Black and Blue, 336 Starch Polish, 329 Soaps ; Soft Soap, for Half the Expense and One-Fourth the trouble of the Old Way ; German Erasive Soap ; Hard Soap ; Transparent Soap ; One Hundred Pounds of Good Soap for One Dollar and Thirty Cents ; Chemi- cal Soap ; Soap Without Heat ; Windsor or Toilet Soap ; Variegated Toilet Soap, &o 304 306 Tallow Candles for Summer Use ; Tallow to Cleanse and Bleach...... 807 Tomato Catchup, the best I ever used, 314 Tomato ; Cultivation for early and late ; Tomatoes as Food, and Tomatees as Food for cattle, 69 70 Tin-Ware to Mend by the Heat of a Candle, . . ; 315 Tire, to Keep on the Wheel until Worn Out, 316 Washing Fluid, Saving half the Washboard Labor; Liquid Bluing, used in Washing, never Specks the Clothes, 802 303 Water Filter, Home Made, 316 Weeds, to Destroy in Walks, 317 WHITEWASH AND CHEAP PAINTS. Brilliant Stucco Whitewash, will last on Brick or Stone IVenty to thirty years ; Whitewash, very nice for Rooms ; Paint to make without Lead or Oil ; White Paint, a new way of manufacturing ; Black and Green Paint Durable and Cheap for Out-Door Work ; Milk Paint, for Barns, any Color, 326 328 COLORING DEPARTMENT. Col'^rs on Woollen Goods ; Chrome Black, Superior to a-yj in use ; Black on Wool, for Mixtures ; Steel Mix, ^v / 28 INDBZ. ZJ[f L9 U 16 )6 n 22 14 )3 29 )6 u ro L5 16 )3 L6 17 Dark ; Snnff Brown ; Madder Red : Grem on Wool or Silk, with Oak Bark ; Green with Fustic ; Bine, Quick JProcess ; Stocking Yarn or Wool, to Color between a Blua and Purple ; Scarlet with Cochineal, for Yarn or Cloth ; Pink ; Orange ; Lac Red ; Purple ; Silver-Drab, Light Shade: Slate, on Woollen or Cotton ; E:ictract of Indigo or Chemic, need in Coloring, to Make ; Wool, to cleanee ; Dark Coloid, to Extract and Ineert Light 343 346 Ouruble Colors on Cottonj Black ; Sky Blue ; Lime Water and Strong Lime Water, to make for Coloring Purposes : Blue on Cotton or Linen, with Logwood ; GreetL ; Yellow ; Orange ; Red ; Muriate of Tin; Liquor to make 347 349 Colors for Si?k ; Green, very handsome, with Oak Bark ; Green or Yellow, on Silk or Woollen, in five to fifteen minutes only ; Mulberry ; Black j Spots, to Remove and Prevent Spoiling w^nen Colormg Black en Silk or Woollen; Light Chemic Blue; Purple Yellow ; Orange ; Crimson ; Cinnamon or Brown, on Cotton and Silk, by a New Process, very beautiful, * 349 350 INTEREST DEPARTMENT. Interest Tables, Showing the Interest at a Glance : At Six, Seven, Mght, Nine and Ten per Cent, on all Sums from One Dollar to One Thousand Dollars, from One Day to One Yeai, and for any number of Years'; Also, Legal Interest of all the Different States, and the ' Legal Consequences of taking or agreeing upon Usur- ous Rates in the Different States 352 3(iO GLOSSARL^, EXPLANATORY, DEPARTMENT. this Department embraces Tables of Rules for Adminis- tering Medicines, Having reference to Age and Sex : Explanations of J^edical Abbreviations, Apothecaries' Weights and Measures ; also, an Explanation of about Seven hundred Technical Terms found in Medical Works, many of which are constantly occurring in the Common Writing and Literature of the Day, which are not explained in English DictionarieSi 361 34S /■ INDEX TO APPENDIX. COOKERY DEPARTMENT. Bread, Bisctiits, etc. ; Yeast — To 'freshen stale bread — Milk SpoDj^e Bread — Salt^Kising Bread — Baking Powder Bis- cuit — Pusks — French Rolls — English Rolls — Graham Gems — Brown Bread — Boston Brown Bread — Com Bread 396 397 Fish; Baked Fish— Boiled Fish— Pickied Fish '....'....'.. 386 Infants, cooking for 411 Meats; How to Choose— Cooking Meat 387|388 Oysters; Stewed, B'-'-'^ed and Fried 386 Poultry; How to choose — Stuffing of Various Finds 387 Puddings; Directions for Cooking — Sauces of Various Kinds — Apple Dumplings — r Plum Pudding — Bread . Pudding — Cabinet Pudding — Cracker Pudding — Cocoa- nut Pudding — Chocolate Pudding— Suet Pudding — Sago Tapioca and Rice Puddings 392 395 Salads; Mayonnaise — Celery — Chicken---Lohster — Cab- bage—Simple Dressing 389 Sauces for Meats; Cranberry — Drawn B<^ter — Caper — Boiled Egg— Pickle—Tomato 388 Sauces for Pudding . .^ 392 393 Sick, Cooking for; Beef Tea — Broth — Scraped Beef— Eggs — Kilk Porridge — Panada — Oatmeal Gruel — "Wine Jelly — Barley "Water — Rice Milk — Flax-seed Tea — Appleade — Toast — Toast "Water — "Wine "Whey — Arrow-root Custard — Cracked Wheat — Fine Hominy — Blackberry Cordial — Dried Flour for Infants — Oyster Toast — Egg Gruel — Mulled Jelly — Irish Moss — Blanc Mange Chicken Jelly 389 392 Stuffing for Poultry 387 FARRIERS' DEPARTMENT. Cordial for Horses 398 Hoof Bound 398 Hoof Ointment 399 Liniment for Bruises, etc 399 Maggots in Sheep^ : 399 Ointment 397 Purge 398 Sore Back 398 Spavin 398 Splint ' 398 Watering Horses 39§ ■^ (• xxvin INDBZ TO APPIVDXX. TOILET DEPARTMENT. Bandoline . . ." Baldness, Lotions and Pomades. Blotched Face Complexion, Rules for Dentifrice De})ilatory Freckles Hair Lotions Hair Oils 7 Hands, to whiten Pomatum Pimrdes Teetn, to remove Tartar HOW TO ACT IN EMERGENCIES. Burns and Scalds -, Convulsions Cramps Delirium Tremens Drowning Eyes Fainting •^ Falls Frost Bites Hanging Hemorrhage Hydrophobia Infants, management in hot weather. Infants, diet for Insect Bites Poisons Poisonevl Wounds Snake Bites 401 401 40d 399 400 400 401 401 402 401 403 4C1 400 402 403 408 408 403 407 404 408 404 405 405 407 409 411 406 405 406 407 MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. Bug Poison 413 Capacity of Cisterns and Wells 413 Cement ^ 413 Disinfectants 414 Flies, to destroy 414 415 Fumigation 414 Grease, to remove spots 415 Leaf Lice 415 Metrical System of Weights and Measures 412 Moths, to prevent 415 Rats, to destroy 416 Razors, to sharpen 416 Weatfier Signs , 416 401 401 400 399 400 400 401 401 402 401 402 4C1 400 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. MEBCHANTS' AND GBOCESS' DEFABTUElSrr. VINEGAR. — Merchants and Grooers who retail vin^^i should always have it made under their own eye, if po8si*)le, from the fact that so many unprincipled men enter into its manufacture, as it affords such a large profit. And I would further remark, that there is hardly any article of domestic use, upon which the mass of the people have as little correct information, as upon the suhjeot of making vinegar. I eibal be brief in my remarks upon the different points of the subject, yet I shall give all the knowledge necessary, that families, or those wishing to manufacture, may be sAh to have the best article and at moderate figures. Remember this fact — that vinegar must have air as well as warmth, and especially is this necessary if you desire to make it in a short space of time. And if at any time it seems to be " Dying," as is usually called, add molasses, sugar, alcohol, or cider — whichever article you art making from, or prefer —for vin^ar is an industrious fellow ; he will either work or die, and when he begins to die you may know he has worked up all the material in his shop, and wants more. Remember this in all vinegars, and they will never diA, if they have air. First, then, upon a smtdl scale, for family use. To Maxe m TmtEB Weeks. — Molasses 1 qt. ; yeast 1 pt. ; warm rain water 3 gals. Put all into a jug or keg and ne a piece of gauze over the bung to keep out flies and let in air. In not weather set it in the sun, in cold weather set it by the stove or ia the chimney corner, and in three weelcs you will have good (dnegar. When this is gettlbg low pour out some for use, and fill B •^fimmmm^^ ^im 84 ut. ohase's rsoifes. up the jug, in the same proportion as at firnt, and you Vfill never have trouble for want of good vinegar. i. A oorrespondent of the Dollar Newspaper says : " The cheapest mode of making good vinegar is, to mix 5 qts of warm rain water with 2 qts. of Orleans molasses, and 4 qts. of yeast In a few weeks you will have the best vinegar you ever tasted.'^ He might well say, " The best vinegar you ever tasted," for /t would have double the necessary strength, and three or ffjai limes the strength of much that is sold ; yet this strength would cost less to make, than to buy by the quart. 3. In Barrels Without Trouble. — Merohaats and Grocers, who retail vinegar, can alway keep a jpjaod supply on hand by having about two or three ba\Tel» out of which to sell, by filling the first one they sell ouv, before quite empty, T^ith Molasses 1 gal. ; soft water 11 gals. Keeping this proportion to fill the barrel ; the vinegar and mother which is left in the barrel makes it work much quicker than if put into emp^y barrels ; so pass around on the next barrel as it is nearly out, having three barrels, and unless you sell more than a barrel a week you need never be out of vinegar. Some recommend to use alum, cream of tartar, &c., in vinegar, but / say never. It is always advisable to have a hole in the top of the barrel, if standing on end ; if on the side, the bung out and a gauze over it, to keep out flies and let air in. 4. From Sugar, Drippings from Sugar Hogsheads, &o. — Dealers who retail molasses, often have from five to fifty pounds of sugar left in the barrel after soiling out the molasses. Each pound of this, or other sugar, dissolved in two gallons of soft water, makes that amount of good vine- gar by either of the above plans. Rinsings of molasses barrels or drippings of sugar hogsheads brought to this de- gree of sweetness, is as good for vinegar as any other mate- rial. Small beer, lager beer, ale, &c., which have become sour, make good vinegar by reducing with water ; small beer will newd but little water ; lager beer will need as much water as beer, or a little more ; and ale, twice as much water as ale ; they will all need yeast, a quart or two te each barrel, unless put into barrels which have some vine- r MEBOHANTS* AND OBOOEBB* DEPABTMIENT. 85 gar im thein^ snd it will do no harm, but qnioken the pro- oess in all oases if there is vinegar in the barrel. 6. Fbom Aoetio Agio and Molasses. — Acetic acid 4 lbs. ; molasses 1 gal. ; put them into a 40 gallon cask, and fill it up with rain water ; shake it up and let stand from one to three weekSi and the result is good vinegar. If this does not make it zf sharp as you like, add a lif.lJ« more molasses. But some will oDJeot to this beoause an ftoid is used ; let me say to such, that aoetio acid is cioncefn>- trated vinegar. Take 1 lb. or ^ Di. or any other quantity of this acid, and add seven times n. much soft water, and you have just as good vinefi*"^ as <*an be made from ciders and that instantaneottaly. 6. From Apple Oideb.^As there are those who will not have any but cider vinegar, and have plenty of cider out of wl ich to make it, I will give you the best plan of proceeding for manufacturers : ^ - £Iaye a room where it will not freeze ; place on end as man^ baiTels or large casks, without heads, to hold as much as you wish tu muko ; fill these one-third full of soft water, and the other two* thirds with apple cider ; yeasb two qts. to each cask. In A few weeks you will have good vinegar ; without the yeast it would be all the season in becoming good. Then till up into barrels for sale, leaving a little, say one-eighth, iu the open barrels, and Sll them up with water and cider as before, and It will become good much quicker than be- fore. If the water is objected to, use the cider without it, but pure cider makes vinegar too strong for any one to use, and requires much longer time in making. These barrels may have boards over them to keep out flies and dirt. If the retailer can give it his attention, by having a barrel of good cider vinegar to sell out of, he can always Jceep it up. if, when he draws out two or three gallons of the vinegar, he will go to his cider, kept for the purpose, and replace the vinegar with the cider ; or if making with molasses and water or any other article, fill up with the same ; but take notice, if you forget -^^ neglect, and draw your vinegar nearly all out before you fill in, it does not keep to the point of sharpness desired, unless yof^ ^wq two or three barrels, aa mentioned in recipe No. 3. J ,1 I II ^mmmi^im 86 DB. OHASE'S BEOIFEB. Persons who have old sour cider on hand can in this way, or as mentioned in No. 6, have good vinegar from it imme- diately, as it comes around into vinegar much guioke'' than new cider. 7. In Three Days WITHOUT Drugs.— The philosophy 01 making vinegar quickly is this : The means that will expose the largest surface of the vinegar fluid, of a certain temperature, to the air, will convert it into vinegar in the shortest time ; and as there is no way by which so great a surface can be exposed as by the shaving process, and at the same time control the temperature, that plan has been adopted, as explained in the following descriptive note : DESCBirnvB Notb. — ^Those wishing to manufacture, to sell at wholesale, will prepare a tub or square box, the taller and larger the tub, the quicker will the vinegar become good. The air holes are bored ttirough every other, or every third stave, around the whole tub. These holes are to be about one foot or eighteen inches from the bottom ; they must also be bored slanting down as you bore inward, otherwise the vinegar would run out and waste as it drips down the side of the tub. These tubs ought to be from ten to twenty feet high, according to the quantity you desire to rim off daily. Now take beech, maple or bass ■ttwan MEBOHANTS' AND QBOCEBS' DEt>ABTMENT. 37 wood boards, and they are valuable in the order namud, cut them off about eighteen inches in length, and plane thick, heavy shavings from the edges ; and if they do not roll up and stay m nice rolls, you must roll and tie them up with small cord * or clean com cobs will do, but they will only last one season, whilst the shavings will last several years. If coba are used, they must be put in layers, each layer crossing the other, to pre- vent their packing too close. Then wet or soak them thoroughly in water, and fill up the tub or tubs with them, until you are within two or three feet of the top, at which place you will nail a stout hoop around, upon the inside of the tub, which shall support Hie false topy which ha» been made and fitted for that purpose, through which false top you will have bored good sized gimlet holes about every two inches all over its whole suriace, through each of which holes a small cord, about four or five inches in length, is to be drawn, having a knot tied upon its upper end to keep it in its place, and to prevent the vinegar-"^ fluid from working out too fast. The size of these holes, and the size of the cord, must be such as to allow the amount of vinegar being made to run through every twelve hoars, or if time can be given to put it up so often, it may run through every fiixhouij. You will cork all around between the false top and the tub with cotton, which causes the vinegar-fluid, hereafter to be described, to pass through the gimlet holes and drip from the ends of thtil small cords, evenly, all over the shavings, other- wise, if the false top was not exactly level, the vinegar-fluid would all run off at the loweaf; point, down the side of the tub, and be a very long time in becoming good, whilst if it drips slowly and all over and down through the shavings, it soon comes around into good vinegar. The holes bored for that pur- pose, in warm weather, oxidizes or acetifies the vinegar-fluid, by atfording the two essential points of quickly making good vinegar, inat is, air and heat, without the expense of a fire to warm the fluid, or room in which the vinegar is made. Now bore five one-inch holes through the false top, one of them through the centre, and tiie others two-thirds of the distance each way, towards the outside of the tub. into which holes drive as many " pins, having a three-quarter inch hole bored through them lengthwise, which makes them tubes ; cut the tubes off an inch below the top of the tub, so as to be out of the way of the main cover or loose boards which will be thrown over the top of the tub for the purpose of keeping out flies and dirt, and also to keep the heated air in, which comes up through the tubes ; this air beocmes heated by the chemical action of the air upon the vinegar-fluid as it drips along down through the shavings in the tulj, becoming so hot that it would be uncomfortable to hold the hand therein. The space between the false top and the cover is called the vinegar-fluid space, and it must be sufficiently tight in the joints of &e tub, or box, to hold the fluid when put in. Now take a barrel of good vinegar and pour it into the top ol 88 DB. OHABFS BEOIPES. %~ the tvLh, and let it drip through the gimlet holes, from the oordB, oyer the shavings, two or three times, each time putting in one gallon of highwines, or two or three gallons of older, as the case nay be, which sours the shavings and greatly helps the starting process of the vinegar-making. Without we addition to the strength of the vinegar as it runs through, it would part with nearly all of its own strenglh or acidity, to the shavmgs, and thus lose its own life. If you have not, nor cannot obtain, vin- egar, to start with, you must begin with weak vinegar-fluid, and keep adding to it every time through until h becomes very sour ; then you will consider yourself ready to begin to make vinegar in double quick time, by using any of the fluids mentioned in the foregoing vinegar recipes. , But manufaetorers gene-^ "y use highwines thirty to forty per cent above proof, one gallr tvater, eleven gallons ; but persons living a great distance frou. Jtiarket will find a cheaper plan by using ninety-eight per cent alcohol, one gallon ; water, fifteen gallons ; either of which make good vinegar, using yeast, of course, with either article, from one pint to one quart to each barrel being made. Another tub or vat must be set in the ground, under the generator, or in a cellar, as the case may be, to hold as much vinegar as the space be- tween the false and real top will contain, oi; as much as you wish to make at one time ; from which it is to be carried up in buckets, (or a woodeu pump having a leather sucker is quicker and easier to raise it), to the top of the generator, until it be- comes good vinegar, which it will do in the time mentioned at the head of this Recipe, if passed through the generator by the faucet every twelve hours, which it must be ; and if the tubes are fifteen or twenty feet high, it will op^ <^ed passing through once, or twice at most. Some will have no vinegar buo chdA made from apple cider ; then put in one-third water, and it makes vinegar as strong as anybody ought to use ; but if they will have it at fall strength, make it so, only it requires a little longer time to make. . •, ^-v-- -.- •■•<.'• ^::':'^ If those who have cider which has been standing a long lime, and does not become vinegar, will reduce it one-third with water, and pass it through this machine, they will grind out first-rate vinegar in one or two days' time. Sour beer or ale, the artificial cider, also, if it gets sour, make good vinegar when mixed with some other vinegar in mak- ing. Small beer, also drippings from sugar hogsheads in place of molasses, &c. Nothing having sugar or alcohol in it should be thrown away, as all will make good vinegar, which is as good as cash, and ought k: be saved^f for no other purpose than to have the more to give the worthy poor. . MEBOHANTS' AND aBOOEBS' DEPABTMENT. 39 It was at first thought to be absolutely necessary to make the vinegar-fluid of about seventy-five degrees of- heat, and also to keep the room of the same temperature ; but it has been found that by keeping the heat in the tub by the false top and the loose cover, that in warm weather it does very well without heating up the fluid, although it would make a little quicker with it ; and if desired to make in cold weather, you must heat the fluid and keep the room warm also. If fmiilies choose to try this plan, they can make all they will need in a keg not larger than a common churn, whilst wholesalers will use tubs as tall as their rooms will admit. The first merchant to whom I sold this recipe, made all the vinegar he could retail by placing strips of board across the centre of a whisky barrel, which supported the shavings in the upper half only, allowing the vinegar to stand in the lower half, as his room was so low he could only use the one barrel and a wash-tub at the top instead of the false top and space as previously represented ; it took him only a week to make in this way. I used the vinegar over a year. The strength of the fluid he used was good common whisky, one gal.; water four gals. So it will be seen that all kinds of spirit, or articles containing spirit. ''^ be made into vinegar. , . Reuabk. — If you wish to make sugar into vmegaf, do not at- temp to run it through the oensbatob, as it forms mother in that way, and soon fills up the little holes ; but make it by standing in a barrel, as mentioned under that head, No. 4. 8. Quick Pbooess by Standino upon Shavings. — Take four or five hogsheads or casks, and set them side by side, having a faucet near the bottom ; then fill up the casks full of shavings, •prepared as in the foregoing recipe, or clean corn-cobs, putting some turning shavings over the top, after having put on an old coffee sack to keep the fine shavings from falling down among the coarse ones: this is to keep in the warmth; now sour the shavings witn the best vinegar, by throwing it on the shavings and letting it stand half a day or so ; then draw off by the fau- cet at the bottom, and throw it on again, adding 1 qt. of high- wines to each barrel each time you draw it off, as the shavings absorb the acid, and the vinegar would become fiat, but by adding the spirit the shavings become soured or acetified, and the vinegar gets better also. When the shavings are right, take highwines 30 or 40 per cent above proof 1 gal. ; molasses 1 qt.j eoll water 14 gals. ; (river or well water will do, but not as good '■■ ^;.#iv-'.« jlM": '*%: , t'a mmm 40 DB. chase's BECSFES. ioT any vinegar), and pat it upon the shaviugs, and draw off and put on again from one to three times daily, until sufficiently sour to barrel up. Mr. Jackson, a grocer, of Jackson, Michigan, has been making in this way for several years. He uses also, sour ale, rinsings of sugar hogsheads, or the drippings, and throws this fluid on the shavings, and draws off and returns from one to three times each day until sufficiently sour to barrel up, which only requires-a few drawings ; Lo then fills his barrels only two-thirds full, and leaves the bungs out summer and winter, and if he finds a barrel is getting weak in strength, he puts in a quart of highwines, which recruits the strength, or gives it work again, which, as I remarked before, if you give him stock to work on, and air, he labors — without both, he dies. Bear this in mind, and your vin- egar will improve all the time, no matter how or of what it is made. He fills the tubs only one-third or one-half full when making, does not heat, but uses y«ast, and only works them in warm weather, and in winter fills the tubs with good vinegar and lets them stand over until spring, when they are ready for work again. This man, with five casks thus managed, haB oold orer three Hundred barrels of vinegar in one setison. It might not be amiss, in closing this long 8ubj%^c, ^o say that when you have no vinegar to begin with in either of the processes, that if you commence with tho fluid quite weak at first, it begins to sour quicker than if begun with at hill strength, then as it begins to become sour, aid more of the spirit, cider, sugar, or molasses, &c., until y\>u get the desired point of strength. So you might go oi until a swallow of it would strangle a man to death, ana remove every particle of skin from his throat. BUTTER. — To Preserve ant Length op Time. — Firat;, work out all of the buttermilk. Second, use rock aalt. Third, oack io air-tight jars or cans. Fourth, keep in a cool place, and yau will have nice butter for years, if desired to keep so long. A short recipe, but it makes long butter. ^ Merchants who take in more butter than they can sell during the warm mouths, can put it into jars and cover the jar with about half an inch of lard over the top of the b it- ter, and place it in the oellar ; or they can put about, m imwi lOmOHANTS* AND GBOOEBS' DEPARTMENT. 41 « inoh or two of brine in place of the lard, and have it do well, first working out all the buttermilk which may remain, when bought in. It would be well for them to have their regular customers to furnish them butter, to whom they furnish the right kind of salt, as the rgck, or crystal salt, does not contain so much lime as the common, which is evaporated by artificial heat. Let sugar, and saltpetre, and all other petres, alone, if you wish good butter, either for present use or long keeping. 2. Making — DmEonoNS for DairtbIen. — If butter makers or dairymen will use only shallow pans for their ir'lk — and the larger the surface, and the less the depth of the milk the better — then put into each pan, before straining, 1 qt. of cold spring water to every 3 ^ts. of milk, they will find the cream will begin to rise immediately, and skim every 12 hours, the butter will be free from all strong taste arising firom leaves, or coarse pasturage. It is a fact, also, that high or upland makes better butter than when the cow^-are kept on rich bottom pasturage. The object of the cold water is double : it cools the milk, so that the cream rises before the milk sours, (for when milk be- comes sour it furnishes no more cream,) and also improves the flavor. 3. Storing—Thk (Illinois) Prairie Farmer's Mrtood.— First work the buttermi Ic carefully from the butter ; then pack it closely in jars, laying a thin cloth on top of the butter, then a thin layer of salt upon the cloth ; now have a dry cellar, or make it so by draining, and dig a hole in the bottom of it for each jar, packing the dirt closely and tightly around the jar, allowing the tops of the jars to stand only an inch or so above the top of the cellar bottom ; now place a board with a weight upon each jar to prevent removing by accident, and all is safe. Merchants who axe buying in butter, should keep each diflferent lot separate, by using the thin cloth and salt ; then another cloth over the salt before putting in the next lot, for mixed butter will soon spoil, besides not selling as well, and finally cover the top as before described. If kegs or barrels are used, the outside must be as well painted as possible, to prevent outside tastes, and also to preserve the wood. FRUITS TO KEEP.— Without Loss of Color or Flavor.— To each pound of rosin, put in 1 oz. of tallow, and 1 oz. ol beeswax. Melt them slowly over the fire in an iron kettle, and b« carefiil and not let it boil. Take the fruit separately and rub HI V^\.'".Vf« 42 DB. OHASE'S BEOIFES. ft orer with wMHng or fine chalk (to prevent ihe coating from adhering to the fhiit,) then dip it into the eolation once and hold it up a moment to set the coating ; then pack away caref\illv in barrels or boxes in a cool place. When you dip oranges or lem- ons, loop a thread around to hold them ; for pears or apples, in- sert a pointed stick to hold them by, then cut it off ^^'ith a pair of sharp, heavy shears. Oranges or lemons cannot be put in boxes, but must be placed on shelves, as the accumulated weight would mash them down. It is now a well established fact that artioles put up sci- entifically air-tight, may be kept fresh and fair for any length of time, or until wanted for use. This composition makes good sealing for air-tight cans or bottles, pouring it around the top of the can cover, and dipping tli3 neck of the bottle into it. A patent has been secured for a compo- sition for preserving fruit, of different proportions, however, from the foregoing, but the agent, at the Ohio State Fair, in 1859, had such poor success in selling rights at three dol- lars, that he reduced the price to twenty-fivo cents, and still but few would take hold of it, so that I think not much more will be done with the patent. I purchased twenty recipes for one dollar, but finding this composition to stick together, and tear off pieces wherever they touched each other, I went to work to improve it as above. The patented proportions are, rosin 5 lbs., lard or tallow 8 oz., beeswax 4 oz. The patentee is John K. Jenkins, of Wyoming, Pa., and the patent was issued December 8, 1858. It does not work well on peaches or other juicy garden fruitB. EGGS. — To Preserve for Winter Use. — For every three gal- lons of water, put in 1 pint of ftesh slacked lime and common salt i pint ; mix well, and let the barrel be about half full of this fluid, then with a dish let down your fi-esh eggs into it, tip- ping the dish after it fills with water, so they roll out without crack- ing the shell, for if the shell is cracked the egg will spoil. If fresh eggs are put in, fresh eggs will come out, as I have seen men who have kept- them two, and even four, years, at sea. A piece of board may be laid across the top of the e^, and a little lime and ^t kept upon it, which keeps the fluid as strong at the top as at the bottom. This win not fail you. They must always be kept covered with the brine. Families in towns and cities by this plan can have eggs for winter use at summer prices. I have put up forty dozen with entire suooesB. •.,,•#.■ MEBOSANTS* AMD QBO0BB8* DEPABTMEMT. 43 Vbe plao of preservmg eggs has undoubtedly come ftom a fokmt gecured by a gentleman in England in 1791, Jajrnes, of Sheffield, Yorkshire, which reads as follows : 2. Enolibh Patented Method.—" Put Into a tub 1 bu. Win- chester measure, of quick lime, (which is freeh slacked lime,) salt ^ 9Xi. ; eream of tartar 8 oz. Use as much water as will give tjjdt consistency to the composition as wili cause an egg to swim wMh its top just above the liquid. Theu put and keep the eggs therein, which will preserve them peribctly sound at least 2 yeaiB." ^ " - PevBOns who think it more safe can follow this English plan. I desire in all oases to give all the information 1 nave on each subject. Consequently I give you the follow- ing also : 3. J. W. Cooper, M. D.'s, Me'ibod ,w Kebpino anb SBn>" PINO Game Egos.— " Dissolve some gimi shellac in a sufficient quantity of alcohol to make a thin varnish, give each egg a coat, and after they become thoroughly dry, pack ^em in bran or saw dust, with their points downwards, in such a manner that tbey cannot shift about. After you have kept them as long as you desire, wash the varnish careftilly oflT, and they will be in Hie same state as they wi le before packing, ready for eating or hatching." "This would seem to be from good authority, as Dr. deeper has been engaged for the lest thirty years in raising nothing but the host game fowls, and he has frequently im- ported eggs. He invariably directed them to be packed as above, and always had good success '^ith them, notwith- standing the time and distance of the journey. He has ako published a work upon Game Fowls. His address is Medin, Delaware Co., Pa. This last plan wouki be a little more troublesome, but BtiU would not be very much to prepare all that famiKes would wish to use through the winter, or even for the retailer ; as the conrenience of having them in a condition to ship would be one inducement to use the last method, for with the first they must be taken out and packed in oats or eomediing of that sort, to ship ; with the last they are ahvays ready ; and weather permitting, about Christmas or New Year's, fresh and good eggs in cities always oommand Sttffittient price to pay for all trouble and expenfie in the presorya^oB and shipment. "1 1 I ■>»i*i»'e, which appropriately belong to other departments : 4. To Ikobease the Laying. — "For several years past I have spent a few weeks of the latter part of August on the Kennebec river, in Maine. The fadv with whom I Iiave stopped is a highly accomplished and intelligent house- wife. She supports a * hennery/ and from her I derived my information in the matter. She told me that for many years she had been in the habit of administering to her liens, with their common food,— - <* Cayenne pepper, pulverized, at the rate of one teaspoon each alternate day to 1 doz. fowls. '* Last season, when I was with her, each morning she brought in from twelve to fburteen eggs, having but sixteen hens in all. She again and again experimented in the mat- ter by omitting to feed with the Cayenne for two or three days. The consequence invariably was, that the product of eggs fell oflf five or six per day. The same eflfect of using" the Cayenne is produced in winter as in summer." — Boston Transcript, 6. To Fry ; Emu. Nice.— Three eggs ; flour 1 tablespoon ; milk » cup. Beat the eggs and flour together, then stir in the milk, (lave a skillet with a proper amount of butter in it, made hot, for frying this mixture ; then pour it in, and when one iide is done brown, turn it over, cooking rather slowly ; if a larger quantity is needed, it will require a little salt stirred in, but for this amount the salt in the butter in which you fry it, seasons it very nicely. BURNING FLUID— Best in Usb.— Alcohol, of 98 per cent., 9 -^^ pts. ; good oamphene, 1 qt ; or in these proportions. Shake "•• ^\ mMm MSROBANtS' AND GBOOEBS' DEPABTMENT. ii I .a m f^ brlsklf , and it will at once become clear, when without the shaking it would take from 6 to 7 qto. of alcohol to out the cam- phene, while with the least it is the best. These proportions make the best burning fluid which can be combined. Many put in camphor gum, alum, &o., the first to improve its burning qualities, the last to prevent explosion, but they are perfectly useless for either, from tho fact that camphor adds to the smoking properties, and noth- ing can prevent the gas arising from any fluid that will bum, from explosion, if the fire gots to it when it is con- fined. The only safety is in filling lamps in day-time, or far from firo or lights ; and also to have lamps which are perfect in their construction, so that no gas may leak out along the tube, or at the top of the lamp ; then let who will say he can sell you a recipe for non-ezplbsive gas or fluid, vou may set him down at once for a humbug, ignoramus, or knave. You may set fire to this fluid, and if not con- fined it will not explode, but will continue to burn until all is consumed. Families cannot make fluid any cheaper than to buy it, as the profit charged on the alcohol is usually more than charged on fluid ; but they will have a. bet- ter article by this recipe than they can buy, unless it h made from the same, and it is best for any one, oven the retailer, only to make small quantities at a time, and get the freshest camphene possible. When made in large quan- tities, even a barrel, unless sold out very soon, the last part is not as good as the first, owing to the separation of tho camphene from the alcohol, unless frequently shaken, whilst being retailed out. INTEREST.— CoMPDTiNO by one MultjOTJOATTon and 0x1! DinaiON, AT ANT Rath Per Cent.— Multiply the amount by the number of days, (counting 30 days to each mouth.) Divided by 60 gives the interest at 6 per cent do 46 " " 8 do 40 " " 9 do 36 " " 10 do 30 " " V 12 EXAMfLE.— $150 at 3 months and 10 days, or 100 days, is ISOOt) divided by 60, ^ives $2 50, whic*^ ia the interest at 6 p^^nt ; oi divided hy 45, gives $3 33 interest at 8 per ^t., &o.,, -i* I sold a gentleman, a miller, one of my bcttk3 the second time, as some person stole the first before he baMiii familiar with the foregoing rules, which he admired too lUi^ to lose. « «6 DB. OHASB'S BEOIFSB. 2. Mbthod bt a SmoLB MuLTiPLiaATioN.—Ruld to find thfl intareet on any given Bum of money for any number of years, months or days. Reduce the years to months, add in the months, if any, talce one-third of the days and set to the right of the months, in Uie docimal font, mullipiy this result by one-liaif Um prinoipal, an! you have the interest required. Example.— I'he interest required on $1,400 for 2 years, 8 months and 9 days : Interest on $i40f tbr 2 years, 3 months and 9 days. 27.3 700 A' Answer re^^ir«a . .$19 1 . 10 . The above exaoi|4o f^ life six per cent. Rule to obtain tiie interest at any other rMi>^e i For seven per cent, increase the interest at six per ositit. i^y one-sixth ; for eight per cent, by one-third ; for nine pi*.' otbJL by one-half; for ten per cent, by two-thirds ; for elevev '^** cent, by five-sixths ; for twelve per cent, multiply by twot ^T^slTe per cent, is the highest rate of interest allt^*^ bj any State, except Minnesota) which, i believe, allows fifteen per cent. In pointing off, persons will observe to point off as many figures in the product or answer as there are decimal points in the multiplicand. The balance, or remainder, show you the dollars and cents. COUNTERFEIT MONEY— Seven Rules for De- tecting. — First. Examine the form and features jf all human figures on the notes. If the forms are graceful and features distinct, examine the drapery — see if the folds lie natural ; and the hair of the head should be observed, and see if the fine strands can be seen. Second. Examine the lettering, the title of the bank, or" the round handwriting on the face of the note. On all genuine bills, the work is done with great skill and perfect- ness, and there never has been a counterfeit but was defective in the lettering. • '■:"" Third. The imprint or engraver's name. By observing the great perfection of the different company names — in the evenness and shape of the fine letters, counterfeiters never get the imprint perfect. This rule alone, if strictly observed, will detect every counterfeit note in existence. tUkMMMMIta T sV MXBOHAirrB' AMD OfiOOEBB* BEPABTUEMT. 47 IfODBTH. — The shading in the back ground of the vig- nette, or over or around the letters forming the name of the bank, on a good bill is even and perfect, on a oonnterfeit ia irregular and imperfect. Fifth. — Examine well the figures on the other parts of the note, containing the denomination, also the letters. Ex- amine well the die work around the figures which stand for the denomination, to see if it is of the same character as tliat which forms the ornamental work surrounding it. Sixth.— Never take a bill that is deficient in any of the above points, and if your impression is bad when yuu first see it, you had better be careful how you become convinced to change your mind — whether your opinion is not altered as you become confused in looking into the texture of the workmanship of the bill. Seventh. — Examine the name of the State, name of the bank, and name of the town where it is loca.ted. If it haA been altered from a broken bank, the defects can plainly be seen, as the alteration will show that it has been stamped on. INKS— Bla-ci; Goftino, or WiiiriNO FllxD.— Rain water 2 gals. ; gum antbio i lb. ; brown sugar { lb. ; clean copperas ^ lb. : pow- . dercd nutgnlla fib. ; bruise all, and mix, ehaking occasionally for 10 days, aud strain ; if needed sooner, let it steep in an iron Icettle mtil the sixength is obtained. This ink can be depended upon for deeds or records^ which you may wish some one to read hundreds of years to come. Oxalic acid one fourth oz. was formerly put in, but. since the use of steel pens it does not work well on them. If not used as a copying ink, one-fourth the gum or sugar is- sufficient as it flows more free without them. 2. Common Blace. — Logwood chips 1 lb.; boil in IJ gala, of* ^ water until reduced to 2 qts. ; pour off, and repeat the boiling* again as before ; mix the two waters, 1 gal. in all ; then add bi- chromate of potash I oz, ; prui'siato of potash J oz. ; prussiate of iron (Prussian blue) ^ oz. ; boil again about five minutes, anc^ strain and bottle for use. < Ton will find none of the gumminess about this ink that ^ is found in that made from the extract of logwood ; yet it iS' not presumed that this will be as durable as the gall inks, ^ for deeds, records, &c., &o., but for schools and common naOf ^ ill 18 DR. OHABE'S BEOIFES. it is OS good 08 the most costly inks. This copy wafl prd- parod with it, whioh was made two yoars ago. 3. Rbi>— Tbb Vbrt Best.— Take an ounce yial and put Into it a teaspoon of aqua ammonia, gum arabio tlie size of two peas, and 6 grs. No. 40 carmine, and 5 grs. No. 6 or 8 carmine also ; fill up with soft water, and it is soon ready for use. This forms a beautiful ruling ink. I sold the book in the Pike County Bank, III, from the fact that this ink was 80 much bettep-than what they could get of any other make. 8peaking of banks makes mo think of what a gentleman of Michigan City, Ind., told me about a black ink for banking purposes, which would never fade, composed of two articles only : Iron or steel flllhigs and simple rain water, exposing it to the sun for a good lengtli of time ; paie when first written with, but be- coming very biack. I have never thought to try it, but now mention it for fear it might be good, and lost to the world, unless now thrown to the pabHo. ^ 4. Blue. — Take sulphate of indigo and put it into water until you get the desired deptli of color ; that sold in little boxes for bluing clothes is the article desired. This does well for school children, or any writing not of importance to keep ; but for book-keeping it is not good, as the heat of a safe in a burning building fades away the^ color. 6. Indellible. — Nitratd of silver 11 j^s. ; dissolve it in 30 grs. (or about a teaspoon) of water of ammonia ; in 85 grs. (or 2i tea- tipoons) of rain water, dissolve 20 grs. of gum arable. When the gum is dissolved put into the same vial also 22 grs. of carbonate of soda (sal soda). When all is well dissolved, mix both vials, or their contents, and place the vial containing the mixture in e basin of water, and boil for several minutes, or until a black com pound is the result. When cold it is ready for use. Have the linen or other goods starched and ironed, and perfectly dry ; then write with a quill pen. If twice the amount is made at a time it will not cost any more, as the expense is only from the trouble of weighing, so littid is used of the materials. Soft soap and boiling cannot efface it, nor years of wear. Use only glass vessels. 6. Powder.— Black.— Sulphate of copper 1 dr. ; gum arable ^ oz. : copperas 1 oz. ; nutgalls and extract of logwood 4 ozs. each; ail to be pulverised and evenly miLeCL—SdentifiG American. IfEBOHAiqrs' AND OROOEBS' DEPABTMENT. 49 About ono oz. of tho miztnro will be required to each pint of boiling water used. I*, wir. be found a valiable color for boot, shoe and harnoss-edge also. It should stand a couple of weeks before using, or it may be steeped a few hours if needed sooner. HONEYS— Ahtipioial Gobi Honht.— ^ood brown sugar 10 lb& ; water 1 qt. ; old beo bread honey in the comb 2 Iba. ; cream of tartar 1 tea-spoon : gum arable 1 oz. ; oil of peppermiDt 3 drops ; oil of rose 2 drops. Mix and boil two or three minutes, and have ready 1 quart more of water, in vbich an egg is put, woll boat I. ' pour it In, and as it begins to boil, skim well, remove fVom thu Are, and when a little cool, add 2 lbs. of nice beeb' toatj^ and strain. This is really a nice *tiole, looking and tasti/ig like honey. It has been shipped in large quantities under the name of " Cuba Honey." It will keep any length of time as nice and fresh as when first made, if sealed up. Some persons use a table-spoon of slippery elm bark in this amount, but it will ferment in warm weather, and rise to the top, requiring to be skimmed off. K it is to be used only for eating purposes, the cream of tartar and gum arabio may be left out, also the old bee-bread honey, substituting for it another pound of nice honey. 2. Df MESTio Honey. — Coffee sugar 10 lbs. ; water 3 lbs. ; cream of tartar 2 ozs. ; strong vinegar 2 table-spoons ; the white of 1 egg well beaten ; bees' honey i lb. ; Lubin's extract of honey-euckle 10 drops. First put the sugar and water into a suitable kettle and place upon the fire ; and when luke warm stir in the cream of tartar, and vinegar ; then continue to add the egg ; and when the sugar is nearly melted put in the honey and stir until it comes to a boil, take it off, let it stand a few min- utes, then strain, adding the extract of honeysuckle last ; let stand over night, and it is ready for use. This resem- bles candied honey, and is a nice thing. 3. Excellent Honey. — An article suitable for every- day use is made aa follows : Good common sugar 6 lbs. ; water 1 qt. ; gradually bring it to a boil, skimming weUj when cool, add 1 lb. bees's honey, and 4 drops of peppernilra; essence. ,.^«^ If you desire a better article, use white stt^r, dhd obo- half pint less water, and one-half pound more honey. If it 50. PB. OHASE*S BEOIPES. is desirec* ki ^^w it the ropy appearance of bees* honey, pnt into the miUf. one-fourth ounce of alum. 4. PRBXuTit IToKBY.— <]lommon sugar i lbs. ; water 1 pt. ; let them come t<> a boil, and skim ; then add pulverized alum \ oz. ; remove fr^M the fire and stir in cream of tartar ^ oz. j and water or extTBf.l of rose 1 iable-fipoon, and it is fit for use. XtJlfl took iJi9 premiom at an Ohio State Fair, ^e use t^j^. re^pes for oomraon sugar and the one using Lubin's r'Ainai of honeysuckle, and desire nothing better. JELLIES— WiTEOov FRcrr.— Take water 1 pt., and add to it >n1verlzed alum } or.., and boil a minute or two ; then add 4 lbs. )f white crushed or coffee sugar, continue the boiling a little, strain Fhile hot ; and when cold put in half of a two shilling bottle of extract of vanilla, strawberry, or lemon, or any other flavour yon iesire for jelly. This will make a jelly so much resembling that made from the juice of the fruit that any one will be astonished ; and when fruit cannot be got, it will take its place admira- bly. I have had neighbors Bat of it and be perfectly aston- ished at its beauty and palatableness. BAKING POWDERS— WirL'CTjT Dpuos.— Baking soda 6 ozs. ; cream of tartar 8 ozs. ; first dry tbem from all dampness by putting them on a paper and placing them in the oven for a short time, then mix and keep dry, in bottles or boxes. The proper amount of this will be about one tea-spoon to each quart of flour being baked. Mix with cold water, and bake immediately. This contains none of the drugs gen- erally used for baking powders ; it is easy made, and does not cost over half as much as to buy them already made. This niakes biscuit very nice without milk or shortening. Yet if milk is used, of course it would be that much richer. Tiiu main object of baking powders h for those who are "Keeping bach," as it is called, or for those who are far from civilized conveniences, and for thofe who prefer this kind of bre^d or biscuit to that rajsed with yeast or sour milk and saleratus. I stand among the latter class. MOUTH GLUE.— Fob Torn Paper, Notes, &x}.~An^ luantity of glue may bo used, with sugar, only half as UMich ^ of the glue. First dissolve the glue in water, and carefully em 'wrate u much of the wftter as you can witho^^t burning t^« f}ne i "^ — •*-•"- r ru iii H Miii i 11 | _j_ SAiooit bv^iBtusastt. gl then add the sugar ; if desired to have a very nice article, use gelatine in place of the glue, and treat it in the same manner ; when the sugar is dissolved in the glue pour it into moulds 02* a pan and cut it into squares, for convenience, be- fore it gets too hard. This dissolves tctj quickly by placing the e^e of a piece in the mouth, and is not unpleasant te the taste, and is very handy for office or house use. Use to stick together torn bills, paper, &o., by softening the edge of a piece as above, then touching the parts therewith and pressing together for a moment osly. l^OON BEPABTMEHT. BemarkS. — If saloon keepers and grocers who deal in wine, beer, cider, &o., will follow our directions here, and make some of the following articles, they and their custom- ers will be better pleased than by purchasing the spurious articles of the day ; and families will find them equally ap- plicable to their own use. And although we start with an artificial cider, yet it is as healthy, and is more properly a small beer, which it should be called, but from its close re- semblance to cider in taste it has been so named. CIDERS.— Artificial, or Cider without Apples.— To cold water 1 gal. put dark brown sugar 1 lb.; tartaric acid i^oz.; yeast 3 table-spoons, and keep these proportloiis for any amount desired to make ; shake it well together. Make it in the evening and it will be fit for use the next day. I make in a keg a few gal ons at a time, leaving a lew quarts to make into next time — not using yeast again until the kegs need rinsing. If it gets sour make a little more into it. In hot weather draw in a pitcher with ice ; or if your sales aro slow, bottle it and keep in a cool cellar ao* cording to the next recipe. 2. To Bottle. — If it is desirr 1 to bottle this artificial cider by manufacturers of small drinks, you will proceed as follows : Put into a barrel hot water 6 gals. ; brown sugar 30 lbs. ; tar- taric acidf lb.; cold water 25 gals.; hop or brewers' yeast 8 pta. ; work the yeast into a paste with flour I lb. ; shake or stir 62 DB. OJEiASEB BEOIPES. r ail well tagether ; fill the barrel fall, and let it work 24 to 48 hours, or until the yeast is done working out at the bung, by haying put in a little sweetened water oocasioually to keep the barrel Ml. When it has worked clear, bottle it, patting in two or three broken raisins to each bottle, and it will nearly equal champagne. Let the bottles lay in a cool place on the side your own retail traae you recipe, and have it keep until a barrel is retailed. The first recipe will last only three or four days in hot weather, and about two weeks in winter. 3. In Babbels fob Long Keeping ~Cf retailers wish to keep this cider with the least possible loss of time, or families for their own drink or for the harvest field, proceed as follows : Place in a keg or barrel^ cold water 20 gals. ; brown sugar 15 lbs.; and tartaric acid i lb. only, not using any yeast, but if you have them, put in 2 or 3 lbs., dried sour apples, or boil tliem and pour Ln the expressed juice: without the yeast it will keep in a cool cellar, for several weeks, even in summer. The darker the bugar the more natural will be the color of the cider. Dr. 0. B. Reed, of Bell River, Mich., with whom 1 .read medicine, drank of this cider freely, while sick with bilious fever, knowing its composition, and recommended it to his patients as soon as he got out amongst them again, as a drink that would allay thirst, with the least amount of fluid, of anything with which he was acquainted. But some will prefer Prof. Hufeland's drink for Fever Patients, which see. ,i» 4. Apple Cider to B^ep Sweet, with but Tbiflino Expense. — Two things are absolutely necessary to pre- serve cider in a palatable state for any considerable time; that is, to clear it of pomace, and then to keep it in a cool place, and the cooler the place the better. And then if kept air-tight, by bottling, it is also better, but farmers can- not take the time nor expense of bottling. Some persons leach it through charcoal, and others boil, or rather scald and skim, to get clear of the pomace. In the first place, cider, that is designed to keep over winter, should be > ^ ^m»nmm BWUa BALOON DEPABTMEITF. 6d mftde from ripe, soand, sonr apples only, and oonseqnentlj it will be getting cool weather, and less likely to fennent. Then when made : Stand in open casks or barrels, and pnt into each barrel about 1 pi each of hickory (if you have them, if not other hard wood), ashes and fresh slacked lime ; stir the ashes and lime first into 1 qt. of new milk, then stir into the cider. It will cause all the pomace to rise to the surface, from which you can skim it as it rises, or yon can let it remain about 10 hours, then draw ofif by a faucet near the bottom, through a strainer, to avoid the hardened pomace. It is now ready for bottling or barreling, if too mnoh trouble to bottle. If you barrel it, it has been found essen- tial to sulphur the barrel. The sulphuring is done by dip- ping cotton oloth into melted sulphur, and drying it ; then cutting into strips about two by six inches. Put about three gallons of cider into the barrel ; fire one end of the strip of the sulphured cloth, and introduce it into thci bung- hole, and hold it by means of the bung, giving it air suffi- dent to let it bum, keeping the smoke in as it bums, when you will push the bung in tight and shake the barrel untir the sulphur gas is absorbed into the cider ; then fill up the barrel with cider, and if not already in the cellar, place it there, and you have accomplished the two points first spoken of. If the above plan is too much labor, get oil barrels, if possible, to keep your cider in, (as vinegar can scarcely be made in an oil barrel,) the oil coming out a little and form- ing an air-tight coat on the top of the cider in the barrel Or: 6. Make your cider late in the Fall, and when made, put into each barrel, immediately, ground mustard | lb. ; salt 2 oz. ; pul- verized chalk 2 oz. ; stir them up in a little of the cider, then pour into the barrel and shake well. I have drank cider kept in this way, in August, which was made in early Spring ; it was very nice. 6. I have had cider keep very nice, also, b^^eeping in a oool cellar, and putting into each barrel : - ' Mustard seed 2 oz. ; allspice 2 oz. ; sweet oil } pi, and alcohol 1 pi only. Always ship your cider, if you have cider to ship, late in tlie Fall or early in Spring, for if ttJcen cut of a oool oellitr liiMlMMMHMi p hot weather it is sure to start fermentation. If wanted for medicine, ptooeed as in the following repipe : 7. To Prepare for Medicine.— To each barrel of oider just pressed from ripe, sour apples, not watered : Take mustard seed, ungronnd, 1 lb. : isinglass 1 oz. ; alum pnl- verized 1 oz. ; put all into the barrel, leave the bung out, and «hake or stir once a day for four days, then take new milk 1 qt., and half a dozen eggs, beat well togetiier, and put them into the oider and stir or sliake again, as before, for 2 days: then let it settle until you see that it is clear, and draw off by a faucet. And if you wish to use in place of wine, in medicine, put it into bottles ; but if designed for family use you can barrel it, bunging it tight, and keep cool, of course, and yOu will have a very nice article, if the oider was not made too near a well or running stream of water ; but it is found that if made too near these, the oider does not keen- Judge ye why I \ In some parts of England, by umng only Atio, ^ound apples, letting it work clear, racking off about i\?ice, bottling, &c., &o., cider is kept from twenty to thirty years. Wheo cider is drawn off and bottled, it should not b3 corked until the next day after filling the bottles, aa many of them will burst. Then lay on the ride. SYRUPS.— To Makb thb Vabious Colors.— Powder cochmeal 1 oz. ; soft water 1 pt. ; boil the cochineal in the water for a few minutes, using a copper kettle ; while boiling add 30 grs. of pow- dered alum, and 1 dr. of cream of tartar ; when the coloring mattei Is all out of the cochineal remove it from the fire, and when 8 little cool, strain, bottle and set aside for use. This gives a beautiful red, and is used in the strawberry syrups only. Colored rather deep in shade. Pine apple if loft without color. Wintergreen is colored wii& tincture ol camwood, (not deep.) Lemon and ginger with tincture of turmeric. (See Tinctures.) The two last named syrups are not colored high — a light shade only. 2. ABTmciAL, Vabious Flavors.— The gromid work of all syrups ought to be the same, i. «. Simple Syrup ; to mako It, take 2i lbs. of the best coffee sugar, which is found not to crys- talize, and water 1 pt., or what is the same, 60 lbs. sugar, water 3 gals. Pissolve the sugar in the water by boat, removing ainr BAIAON DEPABXUENT. $6 H ^ Auim that forms upon it, and strain while hot. This can be kept in a barrel or keg, and is always ready to flavor, at* desired. 3. BASPBEBRr— Is made as follows: Take orris root, bmiaed, any quantity, say \ lb., and just hand- somely cover it with dilute alcohol, [76 per cent, alcohol, and water, equal quantities], so that it cannot be made any stronger of the root This is called the " Saturated Tincture ; " and use suffi- jBient of this tincture to give the desired or natural taste of the raspberry, from which it cannot be distinguished!. 4. Stbawberbt — Flavor is as follows : The saturated tincture of orris, as above, 2 ozs., acetic-ether, 2 drs. ; mix, and use sufficient to give the desired flavor-~a verj Utile only is required, in either case. 5. Pine Apple flavor is made by using to suit the taste, of butyric ether. If persons have any doubt of theso facts simply, try them. Some think syrups even for fountains, charged with carbonic acid gas, that it is best to use about three-fourths oz. of tartaric acid t^o each gallon, but I prefer none unless the fountain is charged with the super- carbonate of soda, in which case it is necessary to use about thre^fourths oz. of the acid to each pound of sugar. See Soda Syrups. This, above plan, for making simple tt/rup, is the true way of making all syrups ; but some people think they must use more water, that the syrup may be cheaper. Others will object to using artificial flavors. Oh 1 they say : " I buy the genuine article." Then, just allow me to say, don't buy the syrups nor the extracts, for ninety-nine hun- dredths of them are not made from the fruit, but are artifi- cial, llather make your own, as given under the head of Jams and Extracts. For the more watery syrups, see " Soda Syrups." 6. Sabsapabilla — Is very nice as follows : Simple syrup, aa above, and nice golden symp, equal qnantities of ea-'b, and mix well ; then use a few drops of cils of wintergreen and sassafras to each bottle, as used. The amounts for the desired flavors cannot be given ex- •otiy to suit every one^ but all will wish diSerent flavors ; •v DB. OHAJSB'S BBOZBBB. in some towns, nsing very high flavor, and in others snffi- oient to perceive it, merely. All will soon get a plan of their own, and like it better than that of others. This mixture of golden syrup makes the sarsaparilla a beautiful dark color v^out other coloring. 7. Lemon Strup, Common — Was formerly made by ^ dissolving four pounds of crushed sugar in one quart of water by boiling, and adding three ounces of tartaric acid and flavoring witib the oil of temon ; but it is best made as follows : Gofl'ee sugar 3 lbs ; water U pta. ; dissolve by gentle heat, and add citric acid 3 cm., and flavor with oil or extract of lemon. See " Extracts." 8. Or a very nice lemon^iyrap is made as follows : Take cit- ric acid in powder | ok. ; oil of lemon 4 drops ; simple eyrup 1 quart Bub the acid and oil in throe or four spoons of the syrup, then add the mixture to the remainder, and dissolve with gentle heat. Citric acid is not as likely to cause inflamma- tion of the stomach aa the tartaric, hence, its better adapta- tion to syrups calculated for drinks, and especially in disease. 9. LsMON Strop— To Savb the Loss op Lemons. — Where you have lemons that are spoiling or drying np, take the insides which are yet sound, squeeze out the juice, and to each pint put 1} lbs. white sugar, and a little of the peel ; boil a few minutes, strain and cork for use. This will not require any acid, and one-half tea-spoon of coda to three-fourths of a glass of water with two or three table-spoons of syrup, makes a foaming glass. Some per- sons think they ought to put in water, but if water is added the syrup will not keep as well, and takes more of it. 10. Soda Strop, With or Wrraoor Foontains. — The common or more watery syraps are made by using loaf or crushed sugar 8 lbs. ; pure water 1 gal. ; gum arable 2 ozs. ; mix in a brass or copper kettle ; boil until we gum is dissolved, then skim and Btrain through white flannel, after which add tartaric acid 6^ oz. ; dissolve in hot water; to flavor, use extract of lemon, orange, rose, pine apple, peach, sarsapaiUla, strawberry, ix., } oz. to each bottle, or to your taste. Now use two or three table-spoons of the svrup to three- fciirths of a tumbler of water and one-half tea-spoon of BALOON I ISFABTMENT. 57 BUper-oarbonate of soda, made fine ; stir well and he ready to drink) or use the soda in water as mentioned in the " im- perial Cream Neotar ;" the gum arabic, however, holds the oarbonic acid so it will not fly off aa rapidly as commoM soda. The above is to be used without fountains, that is to make it up as used, in glasses, or for the cheaper fountains which have an ounce of super-carbonate of soda to the g»i- Ion of water; but for the fountains which are charged, io the cities, with carbonio acid ga0, no aoids axe used in the syrups. 11. Gbbam Soda, Uanfo Cow's Cream, for FomrrAiira.— N'ce loaf sugar 6 lbs. ; sweet rich cream 1 qi ; water I^ gills ; warm gradually so as not to bum ; extract of vanilla | ot. ; extract o! nutmeg \ os. Just bring to boiling heat, for if you cook it any length of time it will crystalize; use four or five spoons of this syrup instead of three, as in other syrups. Ifused without a fountain, tartaric acid one quarter pound is added. The tendency of this syrup is to sour rather quicker than other syrups, but it is very nice while it lasts ; and if only mado in small quantities and kept cool, it more than pays for the trouble of milking often. 12. Cbbam Soda withoxjt a FonNTAiN.--Coffee sugar 4 lbs. ; water 8 pts. ; nutmegs grated 3 in number ; whites of 10 eggt well beaten : gum arabio 1 oz. ; oil of lemon 20 drops ; or extract equal to that amouni By using oils of other ftnits yon can make as many flavors from this as you desire, or prefer. Mix all and place over a gentle fire, and stir well about thirty minutes ; remove from the fire, strain, and divide into two parts ; into one-half put super-carbonate of soda eight ounces ; and into the other half put six ounces tartaric acid ; shake well, and when cold they ^e ready to use, by pouring three or four spoons, from both parts, into separate glasses which are one-third full of cold water ; stir each and pour together, and you have as nice a glass of cream soda m was ever drank, which can also be drank ^t yoi^ loisore, as the gum and eggs hold the gas. 13. Soda Water WrraouT a Machinb for Bottuno.— In each gallon of water to be used, oareAilIy dissolve ^ lb. of cmshed sugar, and 1 os. of super-carbonate of soda; then fill half- pint bottles with this watery have your corks ready ; now drop 68 DB. OHASS'S BEOIPBS. H Into each bottle ^ dr. of citric acid in crystals, and immediately cork and tie down. These bottles must be handled carefully without shaking, and kept cool until needed ; a little more or less sugar can be used to suit the taste of different persons. OYSTER SOUP.— To each dozen or dish of oysters put a half pint of water ; milk 1 gill ; htitter f oz. ; powdei:ed crackers to thicken. Bring the oysters and water to a boil, then add tho other ingredieu'UB prcivioosly mixed together, and boil from 8 to 5 minateti only. Each one will choose to add salt, pepper, &c., to their own taste. Keep about these proportions if you should have to cook for an oyster supper for parties, &o. TRTPE.— To PRErARE and Pickle.— First sew it up, after it is turned inside out ; be careful to sew it up tight, that no lime gets into it ; now have a tub of lime water, the consistence of good thick whitewash ; let it remain in from 10 to 20 minutes, or until when you take hold of it, the dark outside skin will come off ; then put it into clean water, changing three or four tim6s to weaken the lime, that the hands be not ii\jured by it ; then with a dull knife scrape off all the dark surface, and eontinue to soak and scrape several times, which removes all offensive substances and smell. After this, let it soak 20 or 30 minutes in 2 or 3 hot waters, scraping over each time ; then pickle in salt and water 12 hours, and it is ready for cooking ; boil f^om three to four hours, cut in strips to suit, and put it into nice vinegar with the various spices, as desired : renew the vinegar at the expiration of one week, is all that will be required further. Many persons stick up their no«0 when tripe is spoken of; but if nioely prepared, I prefer it to any dish fp'^ished by the beef. MOLASSES CANDY AND POP-CORN BALLS-Oandy.— E^-nal quantities of brown sugtur and molasses, and put theni into a suitable kettle — copper U the best — and when it begins to boil, skim it well, and strain it, or else pour it through a fine wire sieve to free it of slivers and sticks which are often found in the sugar ; then return it to tho kettle and continue to boil, until^ when you have dipped your hand in cold water and passed one or two fingers tibou^ the boiling candy and immediately back to the cold water, what adheres when cold will crush like dry «;gg shells, aud does not adhere to the teeth when bitten. When done, pour it oh a stone or platter which has been-greased, and as it gets cool begin to throw up the edges and work it by pulling on a hook or by the hand, until bright and glistening like gold ; the hands should have a little flour on them occasioo ,.mr-mF.)i f " n- »•. eAUOOS DEPABTUXEIT. 69 / % ally : now keep the mass bv a warm stove, if much is made at one time, and draw it into stick size, occasionally rolling them to keep round, until all is pulled out and cold, then with shears clip a little upon them, at proper lengths for the sticks, and they will snap quickly while yet tne stick will bend ; no color, no butter, no laru or flavor is used or need be, yet any oil can be used for flavoring, if desired, when poured out to cool. Sugar left in molass^ barrels works very nicely in this preparation. Pulverized white sugar sprinkled amongst it will prevent it from stioking together. 2. Candy Perpeotlt White. — Kit is desired to have candy that is perfectly white, proceed as follows : Best coffee sugar 2J lbs. ; the nicest syrup IJ pts. ; boil very carefully, until when tried as above, it crisps like egg shells or flies like glass ; then draw and work upon the hook until very white. 3. Molasses Candy 'WrrHODT Suoab.— -Porto Rico molasses boiled and worked as above, has a cream shade according to the amount of pulling, and most persons prefer it to the mixture a* sugar and molasses, as in the first. 4. Pop Corn Balls.— Pop the corn, avoiding all that is not nicely opened ; place ^ bu. of the corn upon a table or in a large dripping pan ; put a httle water in a suitable kettle with sugar 1 lb. ; and boil as for candy, until it becomes quite waxy in water, when tried as for candy ; then remove from the fire and dip into it 6 to 7 table spoons of thick gum solution, made by pouring boiling Water upon giyn arable, over night, or some hours before ; now dip the mixture upon diflferent parts of the corn, putting a stick, or the hands, under the corn, lifting up and mixing until the corn is all saturated with candy mixture ; then wiih the hands press the corn into balls, as the boys do snow-balls, being quick, lest it sets before you get through. This amount will make about one hundred balls, if prop- erly done. White or brown sugar may be used. And for variety, white sugar for a part, and molasses or syrup for another batch. Either ^f these are suited to street ped- lars. « Action of Suoar or Candy on the Teeth. — M. Larez, of France, in the course of his investigations on the the teeth, has arrived at the following conclusions : First — That " refined sugar, either from cane or beet, is ii^Tiii- ous to healthy teeth, either by immediate contact witli chese orgtttiB, or by the gas developed, owing to the stoppage in the 60 OB. OHASB'S BEOIPia 8toma«h. Second — that if a tooth is macerated in a saturated solution of sugar, it is so much altered in the chemical composi- tion that it becomes gelatinous, and its enamel opaque, spongy, and easily broken. This modillcation is due not to free acid, but to a tendency of sugar to combine with the calcareous basis of the teeth." I have destroyed my own teeth, I have no donbt now, by oonstantly eating candies, while in the grocery business, be- fore I knew its injurious eflfects, and I believe it to have de&troyed tlie first teeth of all my children which were born during my candy-eating propCDsities. What say our candy- eating gentry to the above ? LEMONADE— To Garbt in the Pookbt.— Loaf sugar 1 lb. ; rub it down finely in a mortar, and add citric acid i oz ; (tartaric acid will do), and lemon essence } oz. and continue the trituration until all is intimately nlixed, and bottle for use. It is best to dry the powders as mentioned in the Persian Sherbet next following : A rounding tablespoon can be done up in a paper and carried conveniently in the pocket when persons are going into out-of-the-way places, and added to naif pint of cold water, when all the beauties of a lemonade will stand before you, waiting to be drank, not costing a penny a glass. This can be made sweeter or more sour if desired. If any, how- ever, should prefer an evervescing drink, they can follow the' directions given in the next recipe. * Persian Sherbet. — Pulverized sugar 1 lb. j super-carbonate of soda 4 ozs. ; tartaric acid 3 ozs. ; put all the articles into the stove oven when jioderately warm, being separate, upon paper or plates, let them remain sufficiently long to dry out all damp- ness absorbed from the air, then rub about 40 drops of lemon oil (or if preferred, any other flavored oil,) thoroughly with the • sugar in a mortar— wedgewood is the best — then add the soda and acid, and continue the rubbing until all are thoroughly mixed. Bottle and cork tight, for, if an^r degree of moisture is permitted to reach it, the acid and soda neutralize each other, and the virtue is thus destroyed. A middling sized table-spoon or two teaspoons of this put into a half pint glass and nearly filled with water and quickly drank, makes an agreeable summer beverage ; and if three or four glasses of it are taken within a short time, say an hour or two, it has the e£feot of a gentle cathartic, hence for those habit* SALOON PEPARTMENT. 61 HftUr oofllive ifc wonld bo found nearly or quite eqnal to the seidlitz powder, and for children it would he the pleasanter of the two. [The printers have trie^ it, and can bear tes- timony to its good quahties.] BEERS.— Root Beer. — For each gallon of wator to be useu, take hops, burdock, yellow dock, sarsaparilla, dandelion, and spikenard roots, bniified, of each A oz. ; boil about 20 minutes, and strain while hot, add 8 or 10 drops of oils of spruco and sassafraa mixed In eqnal proportions, when cool enough not to scald your hand, put In 2 or a table-spoons of yeast ; molasses ) ol a pUit, or white sugar ^ lb. gives it about the right sweetness. Keep these proportions for as many gallons as you wish to make. You can uye more or less of the roots to suit your taste after tiying it j it is best to get the dry roots, or dig them and let them get dry, and of course you can add any other root Imown to possess medicinal properties desired in the beer. Afker all is mixed, let it stand in a jar with & cloth thrown over it, to work about two hours, then bottle and set in a oool place. This is a nice way to take altera- tives, without taking medicine. And families ought to make it every Spring, and drink freely of it for several weeks, and thereby save, perhaps, several dollars in doctors' bills. 2. Spruob or Aromatio BEBk. — For 8 gals, water put in 1 qt and one } pt molasses, 3 eggs well beaten, veast 1 gill. Into 2 i][ts. of the water boiling hot put fifty drops of any oil you wish the ilavor of ; or mix 1 ounce each, oils sassafras, spruce and winter- green, then use 60 drops of the mixed oils. Mix all, and strain ; let it stand two hours, then bottle, bearing in mind that yeast must not be put in when the fluid would scald the hand. Boiling water cuts oil for ^beers, equal to alcohol. ^ 3. Lemon Beer. — Water 30 gals. ; ginger root bruised 6 ozs. ; cream of tartar \ lb. ; coffee sugar 13 lbs. ; oil of lemon 1 oz. ; or } oz. of the oil may be used, and 6 good sized lemons, sliced ; yeast 1^ pts. Boil the ginger and cream of tartar, about twenty to thirty minutes, in two or three gallons of the water * then strain it upon the sugar and oils or sliced lemons, which have been rubbed together, having warm water enough to make the whole thirty gallons just so you can hold your hand in it without burning, or about seventy degrees of heat ; then 82 DB. OHABE'S RE0IFE6. work np the ve&st into a paste, as for the oidor, with five or six onnoes of flour. Let it work over night, Bkimming off the yeast, or letting it work over as the eider, then strain and bottle for use. This will keep fifteen or twenty days. The Port Huronites think it a splendid drink. 4. CmoRR Bkkr. — Waite sugar 6 lbs. ; lemon joioe 1 g^l ; hoaey \ lb. ; ginger, brnisod, 6 ozs. ; water 4^ gals. Boil the ginger thirty minutes in 3 quarts of tlia water ; then add the other ingredients, and strain ; when cold, put in the white of an egg, well beaten, with one teaspoon of lemon ossenoe — let stand four days, and bottle. • It will keep for months — much longer than if yeast was used ; the honey, however, operates mildly in place of yeast. 6. PnnjLDELPHTA Beer. — Water 30 gals. ; brown sugar 20 lbs. ; ginger, bruised. l\ lbs.; cream of tartar 4 lb.; super-carbonate of Boda 8 oz. ; oil of lemon, cut in a little alcoliol, 1 teaspoon ; wkltdB of 10 eggs, well beaten ; hops 2 oz. ; yeast 1 qt. The ginger root and hops should be boiled twenty or thirty minutes in enough of the water to make all milk warm, then strained into the rest, and the yeast added and allowed to work over night ; skimmed and bottled. 6. Patent Gab Beek. — Ginger 2 ozs, ; allspice 1 oz. ; cinnamon I oz. ; cloves \ oz. ; all bruised or ground * nolasses 2 qts. ; cold water 7} gals. ; yeast 1 pt. Boil the pulverized articles, for fifteen or twenty minutes in the molasses ; then strain into your keg, and add tlie water, then the yeast; shake it well together and bung down. If made over night it will be ready for use the next day. There ought to be a little space in the keg not filled with the beer. This beer ^ aJiead of all the pops and min- eral waters of the day, for flavor, health or sparkling quali-. ties or speed in making. Be careful you do not burst the keg. In hot weather, draw in a pitcher with ice. I have sold this in the principal towns of Ohio, Indiana and Michi- gan, travelling with a caravan, and obtained two dollars for the recipe from the man who kept the inside stand, and who blew the head out the first keg of it which he made. 7. Corn Bber, Without Yeast.— Cold water 6 gals. ; soupd nice com 1 qi ; molasses 2 qts. ; put all into a keg of this sise ; shake well, and in 2 or 3 days a fermentation will have hem brought on as nicely as with yeast Keep it banged tight. "^rm m HHIII iniMil It may bo flavored with oils of spruoo or lemon, if desiped, by pouriug on to the oils jno or two quarts of the water, boiliog hot. The oorn will last five or six makings. If it gets too sour add more molasses and water in the same pro- portions. It is cheap, healthy, and no bother with yeast. 8. Stbono Bbbb, Enoush Iupboted. — Malt 1 peck ; coarse brown sugar 6 lbs. ; hops 4 oz. ; good yeast, 1 tea-cup ; if you have not malt, take a little over one peck of barley ftwioe the amouai of oats will do, but are not as good,) and put it into an oven aftec the brsad is drawn, or into a stove oven, and steam the moisture from thorn. Grind coarsely. Now your upon the ground malt 8^ gals, of water at 170 or 172® of heat The tub in which you scald the malt should have a false bottom, two or three inches from the real bottom ; the false bottom should be bored full of gimlet holes, bo as to act as a strainer, to keep back the malt meal. When the water is poured on, stir them well, and let it stand 3 hours, and draw off by a &uoet ; put in 7 gals, more of water at 180 to 182 *=* : stir it well, and let it stand 2 hours, and draw it off. Then put on a gal. or ,two of oold water, stir it well and draw it off : you should have 'about 6 or 6 gals. Put the 6 lbs. of coarse brown sugar in an equal amount of water ; mix with the wort, and boil 1^ to 2 hours with the hops ; you should have eight gals, when boiled ; when cooled to 80 *^ put in the yeast, and let it work 18 to 20 hours, covered with a sack ; use sound iron hooped kegs or porter bot- tles, bung or cork tight, and in two weeks it will be good sound beer, and will keep a loag time ; and for persons of a weak habit of bodv, and especially females, one glass of this with their meals is fax better than tea or coffee, or all the ardent i^irits in the universe. If more malt is used, net exceeding 1 a bushel, tl>e beer, of course, would have more sp>14, but this streF^*h Is suffi- cient for the use of families or invaUds. 9. Ale, Home-Brkwed— How it is Made.— The fol- lowing formula for the manufacture of a famous h6jfte-brew(^d ale of the English yeomanry, will convey a very dear idea of the components and mixture of ordinary ales. The middle classes of the English people usually make their alo in quantities of two barrels, that is seventy-two gallons. For this purpose a quarter of malt (8 bus.) is obtained at the malt-house — or, if wished to be extra strong, nine bushels of malt — are te&en. With hops, 12 lbs. ; yeast, 5 qts. The malt, being crushed or ground, is mixed with 72 gals, of water at tiie temperature of 160 ® , and covered up for 8 hours, when 40 gcdlons are drawn off, into whiojli the hops are put, and left to infuse. Sixty gallons of water at a temperature of 1709 aid then added to the mal^ in the mash-tub. and wel^ M DB. OEASE^B BEOmSS. mixed, and after standing 2 hours, sixty gallons are drawn off The wort jlh)m these two mashes is boiled wiA the hops for two hours, and after being cooled down to 66 <=* , is strained through a flannel bag into a fermenting tub, where it is mixed with the veast and left to worlc for 24 or 30 hours. It is then run into barrels to cleanse, a few gallouA being reserved for filling up the caslis as the yeast works over. Of course when the yeast is worked out it must be bungefl. If one half a pint of this was taken each meal by men, and half that amount by females, and no other spirits, tea nor coffee, during the day, I hesitate not in saying that I firmly believe it would conduce to health. I know that this, which a man makes himself, or some of the wines mentioned in this work, home-made, are all that any person ought to allow themselves to use in these days when dollars amd ccjit: are the governing influences of all who deal in such articles. 10. Porter, Ale, OR WiKE, TO Prevent Flatness IN Parts op Bottles for the Invalid. — Sick persons who are recommended to use ale, porter, or wine, and can only take a small glass at a time, nearly always &id the last of the bottle flat or stale. To prevent this, put in the cork firmly, and turn the cork-end downwards in a large ^mibler or other vessel nearly filled with water. This plan prevenu. oommtinication with the external air. 11. Gbbav Neotab, Imferul. — ^First, take water 1 gal. ; loaf sugar 8 lbs. ; tartaric acid 8 cz. ; gum arable 1 oz. ; put into a suitable ketue and place on the fire. Second, take flour 4 teaspoons : the whites of 4 eggs well beaten togetiier with the fiour, and add water A pt. ; when the first is blood warm put in the second, and boil three minutes, and it is -4one. DiRROTiONS. — Three table-spoons of the syrup to a glass half or two-thirda ftill of water, apd one-third teaspoon of Buper-oarbonate of soda, made fine ; stir well, and dri» x at four Insure. i^In getting up any of the soda drinks which are spoken of, it will be found preferable to put about eight ounces of super-carbonate, often called carbonate of soda, into one pint of water in a bottle, and shake when you wish to make a glass of soda, and pour off this into the glass until it foams well, instead of using the dry soda as directed. SALOOJ DEPABTMEMT. 12. GiNGBR Pop.— Water 5i gals. ; ginger root, braised, J lb. : tartaric acid ^ oz. ; white sugar 2i lbs. ; whites of 3 eggs, well beaten ; lemon oil 1 teaspoon ; yeasc 1 gill. Boil the root for thirty minutes in one gallon of tho water, strain off, and put the oil in while hot ; mix. Make AVer night, and in the Tv>oming skim and bottle, keeping out sediments. 13. Spanish GiNaERETTK.— fo each gal. of water put 1 lb. of white sugar; ^ oz. best braised ginger root; i oz. of cream 'of tartar, and. 2 lemons sliced. DiREOTiONS.--In making 6 gals, boil the ginger and lemons 10 minutes in 2 gals, of the water ; the sugar and cream of tartar to be dissolved in the cold water, and mix all, and add i pint oi good yeast; let it ferment over night, strain ZAd bottle in the morning. This is a valuable recipe for a cooling and refreshing bev- erage; compounded of ingredients highly calculated to assist the stomach, and is recommended to persons suffering with Dyspepsia or Sick Headache. It is much used in Eu- topean countries, and persons having once tested its virtues will constantly use it as a common drink. And for saloons, or groceries, no temperance beverage will set it aside. 14. Sham-Champagne. — A Purely Temperance Drink. — Tartaric acid 1 oz. ; one good sized lemon ^ ginger root 1 oz. ; white sugar 1} lbs. ; water 2^ gals. ; yeast 1 gill. Slice the lemon, and bruize the ginger, mix all, except the yeast, boil the water and pour it upon them, and let stand until cooled to blood heat ; then add the yeast and let it stand In the sun through the day ; at night, bottle, tieing the corks, and Ld /-wo days it will be fit to use. — Mrs. Seecher. Be sure and not drink oyer three or four bottles at one time. YEASTS~Hop YEAST.—Hops 1 oz. ; water 3 pts. ; flour I tea. "Mip ; brown sugar 1 tablespoon ; salt I teaspoon ]* brewen' oi ■takers' yeast 1 gill. Boil the hops twenty minutes in tho water, strain into a jar, and stir in the flour, sugar, and salt, and when a little cool add the yeast, and after four or five hours cover up, and stand in a cool place or on tho ice for use. The above makes a good family yeast, but the jfollowing is the regular bakers' yeast, as thev always keep the malt ob hand. n mmmiifmmiim''m mmmmmimm mmmmm fmm mmmn mmmmimm' 66 DB. OHASE'S BEOIPES. 2. Bakers' Yeast.— Hops 2 oz. ; water 1 gal. ; wheat flour 2 Ibe. ; malt flour 1 pt. ; stock yeast } pt. Boil the hops for thirty minutes in the water, strain, and let cool until you can well bear youf hand in it ;* then stir n the flour and yeast ; keep in a warm place until the fer- mention is well under way, and then let it work in a coolti place six or eight hours, when it should be put in pint bot- tles about half full, and closely corked and tied down. By keeping this in a very cool cellar^ or ice house, it will keep for months, fit for use. But as it is often troublesome to obtain yeast to start with, I give you *h« " Distillers' Jug Yeast," starting without yeast. 3. Jua Yeast, Without Yeast to Stabi »/rrH. — Hops J lb. ; water 1 gal. ; fine malt flour ^ pt. ; brown sugar J lb. Boil the hops in the water until quite strong, strain, and stir in the malt flour ; and strain again through a coarse cloth, and boil again for ten minutes ; when lukewarm, stir in the sugar, and place in a jug, keeping it at the same temperature until it works over; then cork tight, and keep in a cool place. 4. Yeast Cake.— Good sized potatoes 1 doz. ; hops 1. larg? handful ; yeast ^ pt. ; corn meal sufficient quantity. Boil the potatoes, after peeling, and rub them through a cullender j boil the hops in two quarts of water, and strain into the potatoes ; then scald sufficient Indian meal to make chem the consistence of emptyings, and stir in the yeast and let rise; then, with unscalded meal, thicken so as to roll out and cut into cakes, dry quickly, at first, to prevent souring. They keep better, and soak up quicker, than if made with flour. ICE CREaM.— Fresh cream J gal. ; rich milk J gal. ; white sugar 1 lb. ; some do use as much as 2 lbs. of sugar to the gallon, ret it leaves an unpleasant astringency in the throat after eating the cream, but please yourselv^es. Dis&olve the sugar in the mixture, flavor with extract to suit your taste, or take ilie peel from a fresh lemon and steep one- half of it in as little water as you can, and add this— it makes the lemon flavor better than the extract — and no flavor will so univer- sally please as the lemon ; keep the same proportion tor any amount desired. The juice of stiawberries or raspberries gives a beantiAil color and flavor to ice creams ; or about 1 02. of essence EaALoon department. 67 or «z(rMlii to p gallon, or to suit the taste. Hare your ice well broken ; 1 qt. salt to a bucket of ice. Alout half an hour's constant stirring and occasional Boraping down and beating together, will freeze it. The old-fajhioned freezer which turns in a tub of ice, makes smoother and nicer ice-cream than all the patent freezers I have Been ; and the plan of using the genuine cream and milk {^ves sufficient profit ; but I will give you the best substitutes there are, in the following recipe, but the lest yoTi eat of either the better will it be for your health. 2. loB Grbam, Ybbt Cheap. — Milk 6 qts. ; Oswego corn starch half a pound. First dissolve the starch in one quart of the milk, then mix all together, and just simmer a little (not to boil). Sweetem and flavor to suit your taste, as above j or— S. Iriih moaa 1} oz. ; milk 1 gal. First Boak ike moss in a little cold water for an hour, aud r^ose well to clear it of sand and a certain peculiar taste ; then steep it for an h&ai in th» milk just at the boiling point, but not to boil ; it imparbs a rich color and flavor without eggs or cream, ihe moss may be steeped twice. It is the Ohieat;o plan. I have eaten it and know it to be very mioe. A. t9V minutes rubbing, at the end of freez- ing, with the spatuU, against the side of the freezer, gives ice cream a smoothnMi not otherwise obtained. WIN31S. — CuEBANT, Cherry, and other Berry Wines. — The juice of either of the above fruits can be used aloce, or in oomMnptions to make a variety of flavors, or suit pKflBons who hM,v% tome and not the other kinds oi fruit. Express all the juice you can, then take an equal amount of boiling waW and pour on tim pressed fruit, let stand two hours, squeeze oi k as much as there Is of juice, and mix, then add 4 lbs. of brown ^ngar to each galloa of the mixture ; let stand until worked, oi 8 or 4 weeks, witttcnit a bung in a keg or barrel, simply put log a piece of gauze over the bung-fhole to keep out flies ; whei it is done working, bong it up. . ' A cool cellar, of course, is the best place for keeping wines, as &ey m^sfc be kept where they will not freeze. Some persons use only one-fourih juice, in making fruit wipe^i and thrieo-fourthi watei:, j^jijit you will be(^ in mind 68 DB. CHASE'S BSOIPES. that the wine will be good or bad, just in proportion to the water and sugar used. If care is taken when you express the juice, to prevent the pulp or seeds from entering or remaining in the juice, no other straining or racking will be needed. Most persons also recommend putting in brandy, but if any spirit is used at all, let it be pure alcohol, from one gill to one-half pint only per gallon, but the strength of juice I recommend, and the amo'int of sugar, Temove all necessity for any addition of spirit whatever. Bear in mind that all fruit of which you are to make wine ought to be perfectly ripe, and then make it as soon as possible there- after, not letting the juice ferment before the addition of the sugar. If bottled, always lay them on the side. 2. Rhubabb, oe English Patent Wine. — An agree- able and health^ wine is made from the expressed juice of the garden rhubarb. To each gal. of juice, add 1 gal. of soft water, in which 7 lbs. of brown sugar has been dissolved 5 AH a keg or a barrel with this proportion, leaving the bung out, and keep it filled with sweetened water as it works over, until clear ; then bung down or bottle as you desire. ^ * These stocks will furnish about three-fourths their weight in juice, or from sixteen hundred to two thousand gallons of wine to each acre of well cultivated plants. Fill the bar- rels and let them stand until spring, and bottlc« as any wine will be better in glass or stone. 3. Some persons give Mr. Gaboon, of Kenosha, Wis., credit for originating pie-plant wine, but that ie a mi ake ; it has long been made in England, and has even been pa- tented in that country. They first made it by the following directions, which also makes a very nice article, but more applicable for present use than for keeping. For every 4 lbs. of the stoclcs cut fine, pOur on 1 gal. of boiling water, adding 4 lbs. of brown sugar ; let stand covered 24 hours ; having also added a little cinnamoa, allspice, cloves and nutmeg, bruised, as may be desired for flavoring ; then strain and let work a few days, and bottle. 4. Tomato Wine. — Express the Juice ftom clean, ripe tomatoea* and to each gallon of it, (without any water,) put brown sugar 4 lbs. Put in the sugar immediatelji or before fermentation 11 flALOON iJKrAilXMFJST. 69 of of begiiiB—this ongbt to be done in making any fruit Tvine. Something of the oharaoter of a oheese press, hoop and cloth, is the best plan to squeeze out the juice of tomatoes or other fruits. Let the wine stand in a keg or barrel for two or three months ; then draw off in bottles, carefully avoiding the sediment. It makes a most delightful wine, haying all the beauties of flavor belonging to the tomato^ and I have no doubt all its medicinal properties also, either as a tonic in disease, or as a beverage for those who are in the habit of using intoxicating beverages, and if such per- sons would have the good sense to make some wine of this kind, and use it instead of rot-gut whisky, there would not he one-hundredth part of the ^' snakes in the boot" that now curse our land. It must be tasted to be appreciated. I have it now, which is three years old, worth more than much pretended wine which is sold for three or four shillings a pint. 6. ToiuTo Cultivation, for Eaiily and Late. — The Working Farmer Bays of the tomato plant : — " That it bears 80 per cent, of its fruits within 18 inches of the ground, wliile more than half the plant is above that part When the branches are cut they do not bleed, and they may therefore be shortened immediately above the large or early-setting fruit ** The removal of the small fruit on the ends of the branches is no loss, for the lower fruit will swell to an un- natural size by trimming, and both a greater weight and measure of fruit will be the consequence, besides obtaining a large portion five to fifteen days earlier. The triniming should bo done so as to have a few leaves beyond the fruit, to insure perfect ripening. The importance of early manur- ing is too evident tc need conmient. The burying of the removed leaves immv lately around the plant is a good practice, both by insuring full disturbance of the soil, and by the presenting of a j'ertilizer progressed precisely to the point of fruit making. The portions buried decay rapidly, and are rapidly assimilated." If wanted very early and large, trim off ail except two or three upon each plant. C. To ripen late tomatoes, pull the plants having green tomap toes on tiiem, before the couuuencement of frosts, and hang then In a well ventilated cellar. The fruit will continue to ripen until early winter, espo- oiaily if the cellar ia oool and damp. ^"-■'-■■■. '■:- r^ -■■-. ' -.-^ i .15 I^IPI «p«li : DB. OHASB'S BEOIF139. 7. The Tomato as Food. — Dr. Bennett/ a professor of some celebrity, considers the tomato ah invaluaUe article of diet, and ascribes to it various important medical properties. S%rat — That the tomato is one of the most; powerful aperienis for the liver and other organs ; where calomel is indicated, it is proba- bly one of the most effective and lea^t harmfiil remedial agentia known to the profession. Second— ihat a chemical extract will be obtained from it that will supersede the use of calomel in the cure of disease. T%ird — that he has successfully treated Diarrhcea with this article alone. IburtK—tha.t when used as an article of diet, it is an almost sovereign remedy for Dyspepsia and indigestion. Fyth — that it should be constantly used for daily food, either cooked or raw, or in the form of catchup ; it is the most healthy article now in use. Knowing personally the value of the tomato in disease, for food and wine, I freely give all the information regard- ing it which I can, that others may make as free use of it as health and economy demand, consequently, I give you the next item, which I have learned just as the type were being set, upon this subject in 1860. 8. Tomatoes as Food for Ca. ^e. — Mr. Davis, the editor of the " Michigan State News," Ann Arbor, Mich., says, '^ that he has fed his cow, this season, at least ten bushels of tomatoes." His plan is to mix a little bran with them (B qts. to a half bushel of tomatoes, when fed ;) they cause an excellent flow of rich and delioiouB milk. He did nut think of it until after the frosts, when ob- serving them going to waste, he thought to see if she would eat them, which she did freely, from the commencement. I have also known pigs to eat them, but this is not common. In 1862, 1 found my cow to eat them as freely as spokei^ of by Mr. Davis. 9. Wine, from Weiite Cuhrants. — Ripe, white currants, any quan- tity ; squeeze out the juice, and put on water to get out as much more as tiiere is of the juice, and mix the two, and to each gallon put '6i lbs. of sugar ; let it work without boiling or Bkimming for 2 S)T tnree months, then rack off and bottle. The white currant has less acidity than the red, and does not require as much sugar. I have iis^cr tasted currant wind equal to this. 10. GiNasB WiMii.—Aloohol of 98 per cent. 1 qi ; beet ginger '«lii i^amSi gui^ijftttmlimmm mum ott ■HMMIi ■H 'wmmmmum SALOON DEPABIMSMT.' 71 root, braised, 1 oz. ; cayenne 5 grs ; tartaric add 1 dr. ; let stttnd 1 week and filter, or draw ofif by feacet above ttie sediment Now add 1 gal. of water in which 1 lb. of cnuLed sugar has been boiled. Mix when cold. To make the color, boil ^ oz. of cochineal^ | oz. of cream of tartar, ^ oz. of saleratnH, and I oz. of alum, m 1 pt. of water until you get a bright red color, and use a proper amount of this to bring the «dne to the desired color. This wine ia suitable for nearly all tho purposes for which any wine is used, and a gallon of it will not cost more than a pint of many wines sold throughout the country for med- icinal purposes, represented to be imported from Europe. Let a man, suffering with a bad cold, drink about half a pint of this wine hot, on going to bed, soaking his feet at the same time in hot water fifteen or twenty minutes, and covering up warm and sweating it out until morning, then washing off his whole body with cool or cold water, by means of a wet towel, and rubbing briskly with a coarse dry towel for four or five minutes, will not be able to find his cold or any bad effects of it in one case out of a hundred. Ladies or children would take less in proportion to age and strength. Females in a weakly condi jion, with little or no appetite, and spare in flesh, from food not properly digest- ing, but not yet ripened into actual indigestion, will find almost entire relief by taking half a wine-glass of this wine twenty minutes before meals, and following it up a month or two, according to their improved condition. IB'or family use it is just as good without color, as with it. 11. Blackberry Wine.— Mash the berries, and ji »». 1 qt. of boiling water to each gal. ; let the mixture stand 24 hours, stir- ring occasionally ; then strain and measure into a keg, ad^g 2 lbs. of sugary and good rye whiskey 1 pt., or best alcohol'} pt. to toach gal. Cork tight, and let it stand until the following October, and you will have wine fit for use, without further straining or boiling, that will make lips smack as they never smacked under its influence before. I feel assured that where this fruit is plenty, that this wine should take the place of all others, as it is invaluable in sickness as a tonic, and nothing is better for bowel dis- ease. I therefore give the recipe for making it, and having tried it myself, I speak advisecQy on the subject. 72 DB. OHABITS BEGIPEB. The Dollar TimeSy Oinoinnati, 0., first published this recipe, not using any spirits, but I find tha^ U will often sour without it. 12. Lawton Blaokbbrrt— Its Cultivation. — An editor at Cold water, Mich., says of this fruit : — " That where it is best known it is one of the most popular small fruits that has ever been cultivated. It has been known to pro- duce over one thousand full-grown ripe berries in one season on a single stalk ; the average size of fruit being from three- ffourths to one and a half inches in diameter ; quality excel- lent, very juicy, seeds very small, and few in number. Five quarts of berries will make one gallon of juice, which, mixed with two gallons of water and nine pounds of refined sugar, will make three gallons of wine, equal in quality to the best grape wine. Professor Mapes, and many others, who have tested the qualities of the same as a vdne fruit, speak of it in terms of the highest praise. 13. Fort Wine. — Folly ripe wild grapes 2 bu. ; best alcohoi 3 gals. ; sugar 25 lbs. ; water to fill a barrel. Mhsh the grapes without breaking the seed^; then put them into a barrel with the sugar and alcohol, and fill up with rain water, and let it lie a few weeks in the sun ; or if the weather has become cold, in a warm place, then in the cellar until spring \ then rack off and bottle, or place in per- fectly clean kegs or barrels, and you have a better article than^nino-tenths of what is represented as imported Port. 14. Cider Wine. — Prof. Horsford, a celebrated chemist, communicated the following recipe to the Horticulture Society of Massachusetts, and recommends it for general trial: " Let the new cider from sour apples (ripe, sound fruit preferred) ferment from one to three weeks, as the weather is warm or cooL When it has attained to a lively fermentation add to each gallon, according to its acidity, from \ a lb. to 2 lbs. of white crushed sugar, and let the whole ferment until it possesses precisely the taste which it is desired should be permanent. In this con- dition pour out a quart of the cider, and add for each gallon \ oz. of aulphUe of lime, not sulphate. Stir the powder and cider until intimately mizedf, and return the emulsion to the ferment- ing Hi id. Agitate bri£lkly and thoroughly for a few moments, and then le^ the cider settle. Fermentation will cease at onoa. HtfiwiiiiiiiiiiiiHnHMI mmm BALOON DEFABTMENT. When, after a few days, the cidor has become clear, draw off um- fiilly, to avoid the aediment, and bottle. If loosely corked, ^'slcb « better, it will become a Bparkl»ag cider wine, and may be kept indefinitely lonp:. This has been tried with varied success ; those who do not think it too much to follow the directions, obtain a good article, but others, supposing it to do just as well without sugar, or drawing off, or bottling, have found but little sat- isfaction — they have no reason to expect any ; and yet they might be well satisfied to obtain a good wine from the orchard, even with all the above requisitions. 15. Grape Wine.—" Ripe, freshly picked, and selected, tame grapes, 20 lbs. ; put them into a stone jar and ponr over them 6 qta. of boiling soft water ; when suflaciently cool to allow it, you will squeeze them thoroughly with the hand ; after which allow them to stand 3 days on the pomace with a cloth l^rown over ihe jar, then squeeze out the j^iice and add 10 lbs. of nice cmshed lugar, and let it remain a week longer in the jar ; then take off the scum, strain and bottle, leaving a vent, until done fermenting, when strain again and bottle tight, and lay ilie bottles on the side In ^ cool place." This wine is the same as used by the Rev. Orrin Whit- more, of Saline, Mich., for sacramental purposes. I have tasted it myself, and would prefer it for medicinal uses to nine-tenths of the wine sold in this country. With age, it is nice. I am of the opinion that it might just sa well re- main in the jar until it is desired to bottle, and thus save tl« trouble of the extra straining. For I have now wine, fom years old in my cellar, made in Evansville, Ind., from the grape, which was lade without the addition of any particle of matter whatever. Simply, the juice pressed out, hauled in from the vinery, put into very large casks in a cool cellar, not even racked off again under one year from the time of making. It tastes exactly like the grape itself; this, you will perceive, saT 3s much trouble in racking, straining, &c. I am told by other wine makers also, that if care is observed when the juice is pressed out to keep clear of the pomace, that wine is better to stand without racking or straining, and that nothing is found in the barrels, after the first year, save the crude tartar or wine-stone, as some call it, which all grape wine deposits on the side ofthe cask. These wines ve every way appropriate for ffiramental and medicinal f 74 DB. OHASE'b BEOIPBB. -p I purposes, and far more pure than can be purobased once in & bundred times, and if one makes their own, they have the satisfaction of knowing that their wines are not made of what is vulgarly, yet truly called, " Bot gut whisky" 16. CoLORiNO FOR WiNES.— White BUgar, 1 lb. ; water 1 gill ; put Into an iron kettle, let boil, and burn to a red black, and thick ; remove ttom the fire and add a ilttle hot water to keep it from hardening as it cooIb ; then bottle for use. Any of the foregoing wines can \h^ colored with this, as desired, but for family use I never use any color. 17. Stomach BrrrEBs Equal to Hosteters', for One-Fourth its Cost, and Sohhsdam Schnapps Exposed. — European Gentian root, 1 1-2 oz. ; orange peel 2 1-2 oz. ; cinnamon 1-4 Ob. , anise seed 1-2 oz. ; coriander seed 1-2 oz. ; cardamon seed 1-8 oz. ; unground Peruvian bark 1-2 oz. ; gum kino 1-4 oz. ; bruise all these articles, and put them into the best alcohol 1 pt. ; let it stand a week and Jour oflf the clear tincture ; then boil the dregs a few minutes in qt. of water ; strain and press out all the strength ; now dissolve loaf sugar 1 lb., in the hot liquid, adding 3 qts. cold water, and mh with the spirit tincture first poured ofi", or you can add these, and let it stand on the dregs if preferred. 18. NOTE.— Schiedam Schnapps. Famblt so Ciiujcp.— It is gene rally known that in Schiedam, Holland, they make the best quality of Gin, calling it " Schiedam Schnapps," consequentlv it might be expected that unprincipled men would undertake its imitation ; but hardly co\\d it have been expected that so base an imitation would start into existence under the guidance of a man, who, at least, ciJls himself honorahk. Take gentian root 1-4 lb. ; orange peel 1-4 lb. ; puds 1-2 lb. ^ (but if this last cannot be obtamed, poma aurantior, unripe oranges), or agaric 1-4 lb. ; best galangal 1-4 lb. ; centaury 1-4 lb.— cost $1 20. Put pure spirits, 10 gals., upon them and let them stand 2 weeks ; stir it every day, and at the end of that time put three gallons of this to one barrel of good whisky ; then bot- tle and label ; and here follows the label : AROMATIC SCHIEDAM SCHNAPPS, A Superlative Tonio, D6JRETI0, AnTI-DySPBPTIO, and iNViaORATINO CORDIAL.— ThIS MeDI- 3AL Beverage is manufactured at Scheidam, in Holland, and ia urarranted free from every injurious property and ingredient, and df the best possible quality. Its extraordinary medicinal properties in Gravel, Gout, Chronic Rheumatism, Incipient Dropsy, Flatulency, Cholic Pains of the Stomach or Bowels, whether in adults or infants. In all ordi- nary cases of obstruction in the Kidneys, Bladder, and Urinary organs, in Dyspepsia, whether Acute or Chronic, in general Debilit^, sluggish Oiroulation of the Blood, Inadequate Assimi- MEDIOAL DEPABTHENT. •7« DDce in ave the lado of 111: put 1 thick ; it from this, as UBTH rra an root, seed 1-2 nground articles, cek and nutes in dissolve and mis lese, and t is gene t quality might be aitation ; mitation , who, at 1-2 lb. > unripe aury 1-4 and let that time Jien bot- B TONIO, ais Mbdi- !, and is lent, and Chronic 18 of the all ordi- Urinary general Aesimi- latlon of Pood, and Exhausted Vital Energy, are acknowledged by the whole Medical Faculty, and attested In their highest arritten Authorities. I purchased the foregoing recipe of an extensive dealer In Evansvllle, Ind. ; he put up the stuff in quart bottles, and labeled it as I have shown you ; his label was got np in splendid style, bronzed letters, and sent out to the world as pure " Schiedam Schnapps " at $1 per bottle. I have given you the whole thing, that the thousands Into whose hands this book may fall shall know what confidence, 6t that no conjldence whatever, can be placed in the " Advertised Nostrums " of the day, but that the only security we have is to make our ovm or go to those persons whom we know to be sciei>tiflc, obtain their prescription and follow their counsel. Every person knows that real Holland Gin possesses diuretic and other valuable properties ; and who would not suppose he was getting a genuine article from this Flaming , Bronze-crested Za5e^ pointing out especi- ally all the complaints that Schiedam-lovers are iDont to complain of I And yet not one drop of gin to a barrel of it And my excuse for this exposure is that thw aad all who may have occasion to use such articles may know Uiat " good whisky " ought to be afforded at less than $4 por gallon, even if $1 20 worth of bitter tonics are put into 3^ barrels of the precious stuff. Then take our advice where gin or other liquor la neodod, 08 mentioned in the first reoipe in the Medical Department MEDICAL DEPABTMEET. I would give an introductory word of Caution in this Department. Whenever you huy an article of medicine which is not regularly labeled hy the Druggist, have hinx, in all cases, write the name upon it. In this way you will not only save money, hut perhaps life. Arsenic, phosphorus, lauda- num, acids, &c., should always be put where children cannot get au them. And alwa/s purchase the best quality oi drugs to insure success. ALCOHOL— In Medicines, Preferable to Brandt, Rum, or Gin of the Present Day. — There is no one thing doing so iiuch to bolster up the tottering yet strong tower of Intem])erancG, as the Old Fogy Physicians, who- ire constantly prescribing therfa articles to their patfentSi \ ' 76 DB. OnA8E*B REOIPES. and one-half of the reason for it is to cover the fanlis 'St their own constant use of these beve ^s. This unneces- sary call for these articles thus used as a medicine, keeps up ft large demand ; and when we take into consideration the almost impossibility of obtaining a genuine article, the sin of prescribing them becomes so much the greater, when it is also known by all really scientific men that with alcohol (which is pure) and the native fruit wines, cider, and cider wines, (which every one can make foi themselves, and can thus know their purity,) that all the indications desired to be fulfilled in oaring disease can ^ aocomplished without ibeir use. Then, when it is deemed advisable lo use spirits to preserve «By bitters or syraps from souring, Instead of 1 oi of brandy, nun or gin, use the best alcohol ^ pi, with about 2S or 3 on. of crushed sng^r for thia amount, increasing or lesseninff according to the amount derired in these proporfions. If a dlurdio effect is de- sired, which is calculated to arise where gin is prescribed, put 1 dr. of oil of juniper into the alcohol before reducing with the water ; or if the preparation admits of it, you mav put in from 1 to 2 OBS. of juniper berrif^s instead of the oil. If the cuMngeni effect is desired, as from brandy, use, say, ^ oz. of gum kino or catoha, either, or a half of each may be used. If the sweating ox onening properties are required, as indicated by the prescription ox rum, sweeten with molasses in place of the sugar, and use 1 dr. of oil|of caraway, or 1 to 2 ozs. of the seed for ^e above amount, ■B tiie juniper berries for gin. If the strength of wine only is desired, use 1 qt. of the glngei wine, or if that flavor is not fancied, use any other of the wines as prefkirred by the patient But no one should use any of the descriptions of alcohol as a constant beverage, even in medicine, unless advised to do so by a physician toho is not himsdf a toper. If families will follow th^ directions above given, and use proper e .re in making some of the various fruit wines as civen in this book for medical use, preparing cider, &o. which is often used in prescriptions, they would selclom, if ever, be obliged to call for the pretended pure brandies, rums, ffins, &c., of commerce, and intemperance would die a natnnJ deat^ for want of support. And you will please allow me here to oorrecu u. common ' error, with regard to the presence of alcohol in wines. It is generally supposed that wine made from fruit, without . fnt^ting some kinds of spirits into it, does not contain any :.^mm MIDICAL DBPABTMKMl*. ^ ff •loohol'; but a ereater mistake does not exist in the world. Any fhiit, the juioe of which will not pass into the yinonS fermentation by wl^ch alcohol is produced, will not mak^ wine at all ; distillation will produce brandy or alcohol froiti my of these fermented liquors. There Is no wine of any note, containing less thr" tO parts of alcohol to 100 parts of the wine ; and from that aiu . * np to 2(4 parts ; currant 20| ; gooseberry 11} ; cider froih 6 to 9 parts { porter 4^ ; j»ven small beer 1^ parts or qts. to 100 qts. So it will be seen that every quart of fruit wine not maaa for medicine, or sacramental purpoMs, helps to build up the cause (intemperance) which we all so much desire not to enf>ourage. And for those who take any kind of spirits for the take of the spirit, let me give you the following : 2. Spibitual Facts. — That whis-key is the key by which many gain entrance into our prisons and almhouses. 3. That brandy brandt the noses of all those who cannot goycm their appetites. 4. That ^uncA is the cause of many ufi-friendly^nmc^. 6. That ale causes the ailingSf while beer hrmge to tho Her, 6. That wine causes many to take a winding way home. 7. That cAomrpagne is the source of many real pains. 8. That ain alihgt have ** slewed" more thar " ^linge of AGUE MEDICINES.— Dr. Erieder's Fills.— Qoimne 20 grs. ; Dover's powders 10 gra. ; snb-carbonate of iron 10 grs. ; mix with mncilage of gum arable and form into 20 pills. Dosa — Two each hour, commencing 6 hours before the chill should set in. Then take one night and morning, until all are taken. I cured myself of Ague with this pill afler having it hang on to me for three years with all the common remedies of the day, five weeks being the longest I could keep it off, until I obtained the above pill. This was before I had studied medicine. I have cured many others w: h it also, never having to repeat the dose only in one case. In attacks of Ague, it is best to take an active cathartio immediately after the first ' fit,' unless the bowels are lax, which is not generally the case, and by the time the cathar- tio has worked off well, you will be prepared to go ahead with the ' cure' as soon as you know its periodku return f I V D&. OHACOf S BXOShB* ■' A For vety yonng dhUdrm, nothing is better than 6 or 6 grs. of quinine in a 2 oz. vial with 1 tablespoon of whiter engar, tiien fill Witll.water. Dosfi — ^A teaspoon given as above, as to time. A tbiok eolation of licorice, however, liicles tile taste of the quinine quite eJDTectaally. 3. AouB BrrTEBS. — Quinine 40 grs. ; capsicum 20 grs. ; cloves I oz. ; cream of tartar 1 oz. ; whiskr 1 pt. ; Mix. Dose — 1 to 2 tabletopoons every 2 hours, beginning 8 hours before the chill comes on, and 3 times daily for several da;s. Or, if preferred without spirits, take the following : ; nr »ii4. Agub Powder. — Qdnine 10 grs. ; capsicum 4 gr&. : mix and divide into 3 powders. Dibegtigns — Take one 4 hours before the chill, one 2 hours, and the third one hour before the chill sJwvJd commence, and it will very seldom commence again. Or 6. Ague Mixture without Quinine.— Mrs.. Wads- worth, a few miles south of this city, has been using the following Ague mixture over iwentv yearS;, curing, she says, more than forty oases, without a failure. She takes — Mandrak* root, fresh dug, and pounds it ; then squeezes out the fyfce, to obtaiivli table-spoons ; with which she mixes the same qutitity of molasses, dividing into 3 equal doses of 1 table-spoon each, to be given 2 hours apart, commencing so as to take all an hour beJbre the chill. tt siekens and vomits some, but she says, it will scarcely ever need repeating. Then steep dog-wood bark, (some oall it box-wood,) make it strong, and continue t6 dmik it freely for a week or two, at least. 6. Ague Cube, by a Clairvoyant. — There is no doubt in my mind but what there is much virtue in the following 'ebdrvoyant prescription, for I have knowledge of the value of one of tho roots. See Cholio remedy : Blue vervain, leaf and top, I lb. ; bone set i lb. ; best rye whiskey 1 gal. ^ The dose was not gixen, but most persons would take a wine glass five or six times daily. 7. Ague Cured for a Penny.— It has been discove/ed that nitric acid is of great value in the treatment of Inter- mittent Fever, or A^e. A physician administered the I article in twenty-three cases of such fever, and it was suc- cessful in all but one, in interrupting the paroxysiud| and there occurred no relapse. ; r^^ \ ■ .jUiiinMiimi ,r? JEDIOAL DE^Asnonsn, u tn the majority of cases, 5 or 6 drops of the strong acid, given In a little gmn macila«e, every 2 hours, until 60 drops had been talcen, were found sufQcient to break the fever, and restore the patient to health. The foregoing confirms the following : 8. AauE Anodvnb.— Muriatic acid and landahum, of each I oz. ; quinine 40 grs. ; brandy 4 ozs. Take 1 teaspoon, 9, 6, and 3 hours before the chill, until broken j then at 17, 14, and 21 days after, take 3 doses, and no relapse will be likely to occur. I am well eatisfied that any preparation of opium, as lau- danum, morphine, &o., which affect ihe nerves, are valuahio in ague medicine, from its intimate connection with, if not entirely confined to, the nervous system ; hence the advan- tage of the first Ague pill, the opium being in the Dover's powder. I have given this. large number of preparations, and fol- low with one or two more^ from the fac^ that almost every physician will have a peculiar prescription of his own, and are generally free to contribute their mite for the benefit of the world ; and aa I have seen about as much of it as most book-makers, I have come in for a large share. The nature of the articles recommended ore such also as to justify their insertion in this work. 9. FEBBiFnaB Wine. — Quinine 25 grs. ; water 1 pt. ; sulphnno acid 15 drops ; epsom salts 2 ozs. ; brandy 1 gill ; loaf sugar 2 ozs. ; color with tincture of red iuuiders. Dose — ^A wine glass 3 times per day. This is highly recommended by a regular practising phy- sician, in one of the ague holes (Saginaw) of the west. It, of course, can be taken without any previous preparation of the system. 10. ToNio WmB TmoTDRE.— A podtive cure for Ague without quinine. Peruvian bark 2 ozs. ; wild cherry tree bark 1 oz. : cin- namon 1 dr. ; capsicum 1 teaspoon ; sulphur 1 oz. ; port wme 2 qts. Let stand a week, shaking occasionally. All the articles are to be pulverized. Dose — A wine glass every 2 or 3 hours through the day until broken, then 2 or 3 times per day until tJl is used. Always buy your Peruvian bark, and pulverize it yo;.'- self, as most of the pulverized article is generally adulterated. This is the reason why more cured are not performed by it. 11. Soot Coffee — Has cured many cases of ague, after « everything else" had failed ; it ia made as follows : Soot. jeenotdo), 1 tableepoon, neepea in water 1 pt,, and settled with 1 egg beaten ap in a little water, as for other coffee, with nugar and cream ; 3 times daily with the meals in place of other coffee. It has oome in Yerj much to aid restoration in Typhoid Foyer, bad cases of Jaundioe) Dyspepsia, &c., &o. | ^ Many persons will stick np their noses at thesb ' Old Grandmother prescriptions/* but I tell many " upstart Phy- sioians," that qui grandmothers are carrying more informa- tion out of the world by their deaths than will ever be possessed by this class of " sniffers/' and I really thank God, so do thousands of others, that He has enabled me, in this work to redeem such an amount of it for the benefit of the world. 12. Balmony ^ of a pint basin of loose leaves, fill with boiling water and steep ; drink the whole in the course of the day, and repeat 3 or 4 days, or until well. It has cured many cases of Ague. It is valuable in Jaundice and all diseases of the Liver; and also for worms, by the mouth and by injection. It is also valuable in Dys- pepsia, Inflammatory and Febrile diseases generally. NIGHT SWEATS— To Rklibvb.— After Agues, Fe- vers, &c., and in Consumption, many persons are troubled with '' Ni^^t Sweats ;" they are caused by weakness or gen- eral debihty. For its relidf: Take Ess. of Tansy 1 oz. ; alcohol | ois. ; water | oz. ; quinine 15 grs. ; muriate aoid SO drops ; mix, Doss.—- One teaspoon in a gill ofcc!dsasete>^ It should !oe taken two or three times during the day, and at bed time ; and the cold sage tea should be used freely as a drink, also, until cured. It will even cure Ague, also, b} repenting the above dose every hour, beginning twelve tc M\een hours before the chill. FEVERS— General Improved Treatment for Bil- ious, Typhoid, and Soarlet Fevers, Congestivb Chills, &o. Axso, Valuable m Ddirrhea, Summer Complaint, Cholera Infantum, and all Forms of Fe- ver IN Children. — The symptoms of Fever are generally understood, vet I will give the characteristic' features by which it will always be detected : oold chills, followed by VEf lOAL DEPABTMENT. 81 a hot skin ; a qniokened pulse, with a weak and languid feeling of distress ; also, loss of appetite, thirst, restlessness, scanty excretions ; in fact, every function of the hody is more or less deranged. Of cour&e, then, that which will restore all the different machinery to healthy action, will restore health. That is what the following febrifii^e has done in hundreds of cases — so attested to by *^ Old Doctor Cone," from whose work on " Fevers and Febrile Diseases," 1 first obtained the outlines of the treatment, and it gives me pleasure to acknowledge my indebtedness to< him through fourteen vears of neighborhood acquaintance, always finding him as willing to communicate, as qualified to practice, and daring, in breaking away from '' Medical Society Rules," to accomplish good. - " Vermifuob fob Fevers in General. — Carbonate of ammonia 2 drs. ; alum 1 dr. ; capsicum, foreign gentian, Colombo root and Prussiate of iron, all pulverized, of each | dr. ; mix, by putting into a bottle, adding cold water 4 ozs. Does — One teaspoon to a grown person, every two hours, in common cases of fever. It may be sweetened if preferred. Shake well each time before giving, and keep the bottle tightly corked. The philosophy of thiti treatment is, the carbonate of am- monia neutralizes the acidity of the stomach, and determines to, and relaxes the surface ; and with tho capsicum is a hun- dred per cent, more efficient. The alura constringes, soothes, and aids in relieving the irritated and engorged mucous mem- brane of the stomach, and finally operates as a gentle laxa- tive. The Colombo and gentian aie gently astringent and stimulating, but chiefly vDnic, and the Prussiate of iron is tonic: and in their combination are, (as experience will and has proved) the most efficient and safe Febrifuge, in all £i)rms and grades of fever, yet known. We therefore wish to otate that, after twenty-five years' experience in the treat- ment of disease, we have not been able to obtain a know- ledge of any course of treatment that will begin to compile with that given above, for the certain, speedy and effectual cure of all forms of fever ; and all that is requisite, is, to have sufficient confidence in the course of treatment recom- mended ; to use it from three to five, and in extreme cases, aoven days, as directed, and that confidence will be inspired In all who use it, whether JPhysioian (if unprejudiced) or 82 DB. OHASE'S BEOIPES. patient, or the heads of families ; remember all prooesseo in nature require time for their accomplishmen After the patient has been twenty-four hours without fever, or if the patient be pale, blanched, with a cool sur- face and feeble pulse, at the commencement of fever, pre- pare the following : 2. Febrifdtje Tea.— Take Virginia snake root and valerian root, of each 2 drs. ; boiling water 1 pt Pour the boiling water on the roots and Bteep half an hour, and give a teaspoon of the Febrifuge and a tablespoon of this Tea together, every 2 hours, and after he has been another 24 hours without fever, give it every three or four hours, until the patient has good appetite and digestion, then three times daily, just before meals, until the patient has gained considerable strength, when it may be entirely discontinued ; or he m9i continue the simple infusion to aid digestion. A strong tea of wild cherry bark makes the best substi- tute for the snake root tea, and especially if mercury has been previously used in the case, and if it has, it is best to continue the cherry bark t«a until the patient is entirely recovered. A patient using this treatment, if bilious, may vomit bile a few times, or if there is congestion of the stomach, he will probably vomit occasionally for a few hours, but it will soon subside. It will not purge, except a patient be very bilious, in which case there will probably be two or three bilious discharges ; but it gives so much tone to the action of the stomach and bowels as to secure regular operations; but if the bowels should not be moved in two or three days, give injections of warm water, or warm water with a little salt in it. Give the patient all the phin, wholesome diet, of any kind, he will take ; especially broiled ham, mush and rich milk, boiled rice, milk or dry toast, hot mealy potatoes, boiled or roasted, with good fresh butter, &c., &o. ; and good pure cold water, or tea and cofifee, seasoned to the taste, as drinks, and keep the person and bed clean, and room quiet and undisturbed by conversation, or any other noise, and see that it is well ventilated. If there should be extreme pain in the hoad^ when the fever is at the highest, or in the back or loins, and delirium Mt «ight) with intolerance of light and noi^ j in such cases MEDICAL DEFABTMEMT. s in addition to keeping the room cool, dark and quiet, and giving the fe>«^uge regularly, as above directed, take the following : 3. Fever Lin ujent.— Sulphuric ether .and aquaammonm. of each 1 oz. : muriate of ammonia | oz. ; mix and shake the boillc, and wet tlie scalp and all painful parts, every 2 or 3 horn's, until the pain abates. Keep tightly corked. After the application of the liniment, fold a muslin cloth four or five thicki?esses, dip it in cold water, and apply it to the head or any part afflicted with severe pain ; or to the pit of the stomach, if there be much vomiting ; and it may be renewed every three or four hours. Besides the above treatment, dip a towel in cold water, and rub the patient o£f briskly and thoroughly, and be care- ful to wipe perfectly dry, with a clean, hot and dry towel ; . this may be repeated every three or four hours, if the skin bo very hot and dry ; but if the surface be pale, cool, moist, livid, or lead-colored, omit the general sponging ; but the face, neck and hands may be washed occasionally, but be sure to wipe j erfectly dry with a clean, hot and (fry towel. But if he be very pale and blanched, with a cool or cold surface, or have a white circle around his mouth and nose, or be covered with a cold clammy perspiration, give the Febrifuge every hour, until the above symptoms disappear, giving the patient hot coflFee or tea, pennyroyal, sage, balm, or mint tea, as hot as he can sup them, and as freely as pos- sible, and make hot applications to his person,' and put a bottle of hot water to the soles of his feet ; and after this tendency to prostration is overcome, then give the Febrifuge once in two hours as before only. Children will use the medicine in all respects as directed for grown persons, giving to a child one year old a fourth of a teaspoon, or fifteen drops ; if under a year old, a little less, (we have frequently arrested Cholera Infantum with the Febrifuge, in children under six months old, and in some in- stances under a month old,) and increase the dose in propor- tion to the age above a year old, giving half a teaspoon to a child from three to six, and three-fourths of a teaspoon from six to ten years old, and so on ; and be sure to offer children some food several times a day, the best of which is broiled smoked ham, good stale wheat bread boiled in good 84 DA. CHASERS BB0tt>lS8. rich milk, mush and milk, boiled rioe, eto. ; bat animal diet HgFoes best, and especially in cases of Summer Complaint, or Cholera Infantum, the diet had better be almost exclu- sively animal. It will be difficult to use the infusion of Buake root with children that are too young to obey the mandate of parents, and the Febrifuge may be made sweet, with white or loaf sugar, for young children, so as to cover • its taste as much as possible, but older children will be bene- fitted very much by the use of the infusion of snake root and valerian, and should take it as prescribed for adults, of course adapting the dose to the age of the patient. 4. Note. — The above treatment, if persevered in for a short time, is effectual in arrosting Diarrhea, Summer Complaint, Chol- era Infantum, and all forms of Fever in children. Give it ever^ two hours, or if the patient be very feeble and corpte-like, give it every hour until there is reaction, and then give it every two hours, as prescribed for fever in general, and you will be satisfied with tiie result after a short time. 5. Typhoid Fever. — If the patient be Typhoid, that is, if his tongue be brown or black, and dry in the centre, with glossy red edges ; if he have Piarrhea, with thin watery, or muddy stools, and a tumid or swollen belly, he will probably have a rapid, or frequent, and small pulse, and be deliiious and rest but little at night ; under these circumstances, give Febrifuge in the tea. No. 2, as for fevers in general, every two hours, and give, also, the following : 6. FEBRiFnoB Bai^am.— Gum camphor 30 grs. ; balsam copai- bis sweet spirits of nitre, compound spirits of lavender, of each ^oz. Shake the vial, and give forty drops every four hours, in with the other medicine, until the tongue becomes moisty^ and the Diarrhea pretty well subsided, when you will dis- continue this preparation, and continue the Febrifuge and snake root tea, as directed for fever in general. NoTE^-We do not believe that one case of fever in a thousand will develop Typhoid symptoms, unless such case, take the : 2. Gabolb for Sorb Throat.— Very strong sage tea } pi 9 strained honey, common salt, and strong rinegar, of each 2 tabler spoons ; cayenne, the pulverized, one rounding teaspoon ; steeping the cayenne with the sage, strain, mix and bdttle for use, gargling tcom 4 to a dozen times daily according to the severity or the case. This is one of the very best gargles in use. By perssver- ing some three months, I onred a case of two years standing where the mouths of the Enstaohian tubes constantly dis- charged matter at their openings through the tonsils into the patient's mouth, he having previously been quite deaf, the whole throat being also diseased. I used the preparation for " Deafness " al?-) as mentioned under that head. Bomembering always to breathe through nature's channel for the breath, the nose. Beeddes the foregoing, you will wa^h the whole surface twice a week with plenty of the " Toilet Soap," in water, wiping dry, then with a coarse dry towel rub the whole sur- face for ten minutes at least, and accomplish the coarse towel part of it every night and morning until the skin will remain through the day with its flushed surface, and genial heat; this draws the blood from the throat and other internal or- gans, or in other words equalizes the circulation; know, and act, upon this fact, and no inflammation can long exist, no matter where it is located. Blood accumulates in the part inflamed, but let it flow evenly through the whole system, and of course there can be no inflammation. '^ou will also apply to the throat and breast the follow- mg: . M 3. Sorb TmiOAT ^ihbnt.— Gum Gamphor 2 o& ; oastlle soap, diaved fine, 1 u«. ; oil of tuipentine 1 tablenspoor* ; oil of origanum ^ oz. ; opium i oz. ; alcohol 1 pint In a week or ten davs it will be fit for use, then bathe the parts freely 2 or 3 times daily. This linirient will be found nseM in ahnost k^y tbfoat or other diseasa where an outward application might be needed. If the forego.'ng treatment should fail, tl^ere is no altwDttife u 'r-. but to bring m emetics with the other treatment, and con- tinue them for a long time. * Ijnention the emetic plan last, from the fact that so many people utterly object to the emetic treatment. But when everything else fails, that steps in and saves the patient, which goes to show how unjust the prejudice. By the phrase, a long time, I mean several weeks, twice daily at first, then once a day, and finally thrice to twice a week, &o. A part of this course you will see, by the following, is cor- roborated by the celebrated Lung and Throat Doctor, S. S. Fitch, of New York, who says " it is a skin disease, and that purifying medicines are necessary to cleanse the blood- taking long, full breaths," &o. This is certainly good sense. His treatment of throat diseases is summed up in the fol- lowing ; .: „ u v:.»' Note.—" Wear but little clothing toohnd the neck— chbW often a little nut-gall and swallow ihe juice — wear a wet cloth about the throat at night, having a dry towel over it — ^bathe freely all over as in consumption, and especially bathe the throat with cold water every morning, also wash out the inside of the throat with cold water— avoid crowded rooms — gargle with a very weak Bolution of nitrate of silver — chewing gold thread and swallowing the juice and saliva from it— borax and honey occasionally, and gum arable water, if much irritation — use the voice as Utile as possible until well, also often using a liniment externally." j-if-.i} I had hoped for very much benefit from using croton oil externally, but time has shown that the advantage derived from it is not sufficient to remunerat> for the excessive irri- tation caused by its continued application. ^''-^^^ •-,-. r >.# V' t ' U.I 4. Smoking dried mullein leaves in a pipe not having been used for tobacco, is said to have cured many cases of r Laryngitis. And I find in my last Eclectic Medical Jour- | giving tne quotation, it says which there is dryness of the trachea, with i constant desire to clear the tiiroat, attended with little expectoration, and considerable pain in the part affected, the mullein smoked through a pipe, acts like a charm, and affords instant relief. It seems to act aB an anoydyne in allaying irritation, while it promotes eicpectoratlon, and removes the gelatinous muo^s ICCDIOAL DEPABTSIENT. 96 OOD- 'f >■ when fcient) the y at ,&o. cor- 8. S. that od — Dse. fol- which gathers in the larynx, and at the Bame time, by some unknown power, completely changes the nature of the dis- ease, and, if persevered in, will produce a radical cure." We read in a certain place of a gentleman who was walk- ing around and throughuri great city, and he came across an inscription " To the unknown God"— ^apd directly we find him explaining that unknown being to the astonished in- habitants. And I always feel, like this old-fashioned gen- tleman, to cry out, upon every convenient occasion, my be- lief, that it was that God's great wisdom, seeing what waa required, and His exceeding goodness, providing according to our necessities, this wondeiful, and to some, that unknown power in the thousands of plants around us. What matters it to \is how it is done ** tf the cure is performed, it is suf- ficient. Since the publicatioi. ^r the foregoing, in the ninth edi^ tion, I have been smoking the dried mullein, and recom- mending it to others. It has given general satisfaction for coughs, and as a substitute for tobacco in smoking, exhilarat- ing the nerves, and allaying the hacking coughs from recent colds, by breathing the smoke into the lungs. In one in- stance, after retiring, I could not rest from an irritation in the upper portixtn of the lungs and throat, frequently hack- ing without relief only for a moment ; I arose, filled my pipe with mullein, returning to bed I smoked the pipeful, drawing it into the lungs, and did not cough again during the night. An old gentleman, an inveterate smoker, from my sugges- tion, began to mix the mullein with his tobacco, one-fourth at first, for a while ; then half, and finally three-fourths ; at this point he rested. It satisfied in place of the full amount of tobacco, and cured a cough which had been left upon him after inflammation of the lungs. The flavor can hardly be distinguished from the flavor of tobacco smoke, in rooms. It can be gathered any time during the season, the centre stem removed, carefully dried, and rubbed fine, when it is ready for use. It gives a pipe the phthysic, as fast as it cures one in the patient ; b the clay pipe, which is to be used, can be readily oleansea by burning out. ,>}:v, ,,..;, Here is the " Substitute for Tobacco" for which the French have offered 50,000 firwiofl. ^^ ^^^>- ft^m vmr^yif ■A- DB. 0HASB*8 BECUFBB. It ean be made into oigars by nsing a tobaeoo-leaf wrapper. Oatairh is often more or less connected with that diseaM. In such oases, in connection with the above treatment, take several times daily of the following: Gatabrh Snuff.— Scotch snnff 1 oe. ; chloi^de of liib*-, dried and l>ulyerized, 1 rounding teaspoon; mix, and bottle, corking tightly. The snuff has a tendency to aid in the secretion from the parts ; and the chloride corrects unpleasant fetor. CANCERS.— -To Cube— Method op Dr. Landolfi, (Suboeon-General or the Neapolitan Abmt) and SEVERAL Suooesspul Amerioan Msthods. — The princi- ple upon which the treatment is baodd, consists in transform- mg a tumor of a malignant character, by conferring upon it a character of benignity, which admits of cure. This trans- formation is effected by cauterization with an agent looked upon as a specific, viz. : chloride of bromine, combined or not, with other substances, which have already been tried, but have hitherto been employed separately. The internal treatment is merely auxiliary. TCancers may be known from other tumors by their shooting, or lacinating pains; and if an open sore, from their great fetor. — Author.) The formulas for the caustics are, with the exception of a few cases, the following : Equal parts of the chlorides of zinc, gold, and antimony, mixed with a sufficient quantity of floor to form a viscid paste. . At Vienna, he used a mixture of the same substances in difTerenl proportions, chloride of bromine 3 parts ; chloride of rinc 2 parts ; chloride of gold and antimony, each 1 part ; made into a thick paste with powdered licorice root This preparation should be made in an open place, on account of the gases which are disengaged. The essential element is the chloride of bromine, which hat • often been employed alone ; tbus, chloride of bromine from 2^ to 4 drs. ; and put licorice root as much as sufficient The cUoride of zinc is indispensible in ulcerated oanoers, in which it acts as a hemastatic, (stopping blood.) The chloride of gold is only useful in cases of encephalMd, (brain like) cancers, in whioh it exercises a special, if not a ipecifie action. Cancers of the skin, (epitheliomas,) lupus, and small cystosarcomas, (watery or bloody tumors,) are tiMilad with bfomine mind witii btdrilioon ointment in the -.HfcgwiijiW''' 'WW^'' ■HP ««1St>10AL BtSPARTUmr. w ipper. f,take and }rkiiig the proportion of erne port o.? bromine to eight of the ointment ; the applioation should not extend to the healthy parts, its action being often propagated through a space of one or two lines. The paste is only allowed to remain on about twenty- four hours ; on removing the dressing a line of demarkation is almost always found separating the healthy from the mor- bid parts. The tumor is itself in part whitish and part reddish, or marbled with yellow and blue. The caustic is replaced with the poultice, or with compresses smeared with basilion ointment only, which are to be removed every three hours until the scar is detached ; the pain progressively di- minishing in proportion aB the mortification Advances, the line of demarkation daily becomes more evident ; about tho fourth or fifth day the cauterized portion begins to rise, and from the eighth to the fifteenth day it becomes detached, oi can be removed with forceps, and without pain, exposing a suppurating surface, secreting pus of good quality and covered with healthy granulations. If any points remain of less satisfactory appearance, or present traces of morbid growth, a little of the paste is to be again applied, then dress the sore as you would a simple ulcer ; if the suppuration proceeds too slowly, dress it with lint dipped in the follow- ing solution: . ^ •" Chloride of bromine 20 or 30 drops ; Oonlard's Extract from 1 to 2 dxa. ; distilled water 16 ozs. In the majority of cases healing takes place rapidly, cica- trization progi'esses from the circumference to the center, no complications supervene, and the cicatrix (scar,) resembles that left by a cutting instrument. His internal remedy, to prevent a relapse, is, ^ ,< Chloride of bromine 2 dropr ; powder Oi »ne seeds of water fennel 23 grs. ; extract of hemlock (Coniom Maoulatum) 12 gn. ; mix and divide Into 20 pills ; one to be taken daily fpr 2 months, and after that.. 2 pills for a month or two longer, 1 night and morning, after meals. In any case of Cancer, either the foregoing, internal rem- edy, or some of the other Alteratives, should be taken two or three weeks before the treatment is commenced, and should also be continued for several weeks after its cure. 2. Dr. H. G. Judkins' Method.-— This gentleman of Malaga, Monroe Co., 0., takes: D m i jA, chase's beoipes. Chloride of zinc the size of a hazel nut, and puts enough water with it to make a thin paste, then niixes it with equal parts of flour, and finely pulverized charcoal, sufficient to form a tolerable stiff' paste. He spreads this on a soft piece of sheepskin, suJffioiently large to cover the tumor, and applies every two days until it is detached, then dresses it with " Judkins' Ointment," which see. Again — 3. L. S. HoDGKiNs' Method. — This gentleman is a mer- chant, of Reading, Mich. The method is not original with him, but he cured his wife with it, of cancer of the breast, after having been pronounced incurable. Some would use it because it contains calomel— others would not use it foi the same reason ; I give it an insertion from the fact that I am well satisfied thai it has cur<>«^ the disease, and from its singularity of composition. Take a white oak root and bore out the heart and burn the •hips to get the ashes, J oz. ; lunar caustic |^ oz. ; calomel J oz, : salts of nitre (salt petre) ^ oz. ; the body of a thousand legged worm, dried and pulverized, all to be made fine and mixed witb ^ lb. of laid. Spread this rather thin upon soft leather, and apply to the cancer, changing twice a day ; will kill the tumor ia three or ' four days, which you will know by the general appearance ; ' then apply a poultice of soaked figs until it comes out, fibres and all ; heal with a plaster made by boiling red beech leaves in water, straining and boiling thick, then mix witl beeswax and mutton tallow to form a salve of proper con- sistency. To cleanse the system while the above is being used, and for some time afte/ •• Take mandrake root, pulver^ed, 1 oz. ; epsom salts 1 oz. ; pu^ into pure gin 1 pt., and take < ^ this three times 4aily> ^c^om 1 tee In a table-spoon, as you can b<)ai He knew of several other curef &om the same plan. ^ 4. The juice of pokeberries, set in the Eun, upon a pewtei dish, and dried to a consistence of a salve and applied as f plaster, has cured cancer. 5. Poultices of scraped carrots, and of yellow dock root have both cured, and the scraped carrot poultices, especially not only cleanse the sore, but remove the very offensiTi smell of fetor, which is characteristic of oanoers. ■* It iDIOAL DEPARTMENT. S^ 6. A gentlekiftn iu Obio cures them by making a tea, of the yellow dock root, and drinking of it freely, washing the sore with the same several times daily for several days, then poulticing with tho root, mashed and applied twice daily, even on the tongue. 7. Rev. 0. C. Cuyler, of Poughkeepsie, N. Y., says he has known several oases cured as follows : Take the marrow-leaved dock-root and boil it in soft water until very strong, wash the ulcer with this strong decotion 3 times in the 24 hours, fill the cavity also with the same 2 minutes, each time, then bruize the root, and lay it on guaze, and lay the gauze next to the ulcer, and wet linen cloths in the decoction, and lay ever the poultice ; and each time let the patient drink a wine-glass of the btrong tea of the same root, with ^ of a glass of port wine sweetened with honey.. 8. Dr. Buchan's work on Medicine, gives the case of a person who had cancer of the tongue, cured in fourteen days, as follows : Dilute nitric acid 1 oz. ; honey 2 ozs. ; pure water 2 pts. ; mix. Dose. — Three tablespoons frequently ; to be sucked pasl; the teeth, through a quill or tube. Opium was given at mightj simply to keep down pain. Great English Remedy — by which a brother of Lowell Mason was cured, is as follows : Take chloride of zinc, blood-root pulverized, and flour, equal quanties of each, worked into a paste, and applied until the mass comes out, then poultice and treat as a simple sore. The Rural New Yorker, in reporting this case, says, in applying it, " First spread a common sticking plaster, much larger than the cancer, cutting a circular piece from the center of it & little larger than the cancer, applying it, which exposes a narrow rim pf healthy skin ; then apply the can< cer plaster and keep it on twenty-four hours. On removing it, the cancer will be found to be burned into, and appears the color of an old shoe-sole, and the rim outside will appear white and par-boiled, as if burned 7)y steam. " Dress with slippery elm poultice until suppuration takes place, then heal with any common salve." 10. Armenian Method. — In Armenia, a ialve, made by boiling olive oil to a proper consistence for the use, is reported by ao eastern traveler to have cured very bad caseB. ^^ , 4 i 11, FigB boiled in new milk until tender, then split and applied hot— otuuiging twice daily, washing the parts erery change, with sonf6 of the milk — drinking 1 gill of the milk also aa often. And oontinning from three to four months, is also re- ported to have cored a man ninety-nine years old by using only six pounds, whilst ten pounds cured a case of ten years' standing. The first application giving pain, but afterwards relief, every application. 12, Red Oak Bark. — A salve from the ashes, has long been credited for curing cancer, and as I have recently seen the method given for preparing and using it, by Isaac Dil- lon, of Oregon, published in a paper near him, I cannot - keep the benefit of it from the public. The directions were sent to him by his father, John Dillon, sen., of Zanes- ville, 0., and, from my knowledge of the Dillon family, I have the utmost confidence in the prescription. It is as * follows: ' Take red oak bark ashes one peck ; put on to them, boiling water ^ 6 qts. ; let it stand 12 hours ; then draw off the ley and boll to a thick salve ; spread this, pretty thick, upon a thick cloth a little : larger than the cancer, and let it remain on 3 hours ; if it is too severe, half of that time ; the same day, or the next, apply again 3 hours, which will generally effect a cure ; after the last plaster, wash the sore with warm milk and water ; then apply a healing ■alve made of mutton tallow, bark of elder, with a little rosin and bees-wax (some root of white lily may be added), stewed over a > slow fire ; when the sore begins to matterate, wash it 3 or 4 times daily, renewing the salve each time ; avoid strong diet, and strong " drink, but drink a tea of sassafhu root and spice wood tops, for a week before and after the plaster. 13, Pboi. B. S. Newton, of Ghicinnati, uses the chloride of Eino. a saturated solution (as strong as can be made), or makes the chlo- ride into a paste, wim thick gum solution. In oases of large ti^nors he often removes the bulk of thorn with a knife, then applies the solution, or paste, as he thinks best, to destaroy any remaining roots which have been • ^ severed by the knife. . 14. Pbof. Calkins, of Philadelphia, prefers a paste made from F yellow-dock, red clover, and poke, using the leaves only of either article, in equal quantities. Boiling, straining and simmering to a paste, applying from time to time, to cancerous growths or tumors, until thj entire mass is destroyed, then poultice and hoal as usual. ^ XXDIOAI. DXPABTlCtNT. 101 Bat Dr. Beaeh, of N. .7., who is a man of much ezperi- enoe in cancers, says beware of the knife, or any plaster which destroys the cancer or tumor ; but first use discutients, (medicines which have a tendency to drive away swellings,) unless already ulcerated, then, mild poultices to keep up a discharge from the tilcer, with alteratived, long continued, keeping the bowels regular, &c., &o. The Vienna physi- cians, as well as Dr. Beach, allow the inhalation of a few drops of chloroform where the pain is excruciating. And I would say, apply a little externally, also, around the sore. Cancers should not bo disturbed as long w they do not grow nor ulcerate, but as soon as either begins, then is the time to begin with them. COSTIVENESS— To Cuee.— Costive habits are often brought on by neglecting to go to stool at the usual time, for most persons have a regular daily passage, and the moist usual time is at rising in the morning, or immediately after breakfast ; but hurry, or negligence, for the want of an un- derstanding of the evil arising from putting it off, these calls of nu,ture are suppressed ; but let it be understood, nature, like a good workman or student, has a time for each duty 'f then not only let her work at her own time, but if tardy go at this time, and not only aid but solicit her call, or in other words : Whan nature caOt at etOur door, do not attempt to bluff her ; 4 ; » , J But haite-awayy night or day, or health Is sure to sufflsr. ' ' ^ The above, with attention to diet, using millc, roasted apples, and if not dyspeptic, uncooked apples, pears, peaches, &c., at meal time, '^ Yankee Brown bread," or bread made of unbolted wheat, if preferred, and avoiding a meat diet, will, in most cases, eovn remedy the difficulty. However : 2. In vbrt Obstinate GASES—Take extract of henbane ^ dr. ; extract of colocynth ^ dr. ; extract of nux vomica 3 grs. ; carefully work into pill mass, an^ form into 15 pills. Dose— One pill ni^t wad morning. Continue their us« until the difficulty is overcome, at the Mune Hme, following the previoiui direotions, faithfulyt ^ -«J DB. OHASB*S BBOIFEB. With many persons the following will be foand all sufficient : 3. Brindt — 4 pt. ; and put into it rhubarb-root, bruised, I dr. ; hiera-picra 1 oz. ; and fennel seed } oz. After it has stood for several days, take a table-spoon of it three times de'Iy, before eating, until it operates, then half tho quantity, or a little less, just sufficient to establish a daily action of the bowels until all is taken. Or, the second pill under the head of Eclectic Liver Pill may be taken as an alterative to bring about the action of the liver, which is, of course, more or less inact'VA in most cases of long continued costiveness. 4. Corn Meal — 1 table-spoon stirred up hx utufflcient cold water io drink well, and drank in the morning immediately after rising, has, with perseverance, cured many bad cases. 5. A Fresh Eao — Beat in a gill of water and drank on rising in the morning, and at each meal, for a week to ten days, has cured obstinate cases. It might be increased to two or three at a time as the stomach will bear. CHRONIC dbUT— To Cure.—" Take hot vinegar, and put into it all the table salt which it will dissolve, and bathe the parts aJBTected with a soft piece of flannel, xlub in with the hand, and dry the foot, &c., by tiie fire. Repeat this operation four times in the 24 hours, 15 minutes each time, for four days ; then twice a day for the same period ; then onee, and follow this rule whenever "(the symptoms show themselves at any future time." The philosophy of the above formula is as follows : Chronic gout proceeds from the obstruction of the free circulation of the blood (in the parts aflfected) by the deposit of a chalky «ubstance, which is generally understood to be a carbonate and phosjAate of lime. Vinegar and salt dissolve these ; and the old chronic compound is broken up. The carbonate of lime, &c., become acetate and muriate, and these being soluble, dre broken up by the circulating system, and di»-' charged by secretion. This fact will be seen by the gouty joints bbcoming less and less in bulk until they assume their natural size. During this process, the stomach and bowels should be occasionally regulated by a gentle purgative. Ab- stinence from spirituous libations ; exercise in the open air, and especially in the morning; freely bathing the whole surface; eating only the plainest food, and occupying the time by study, or uBeful emplojment, are very desirable as* ,>ri-r;:; MSDIJLL DEPABTMENT. 109 2. (JooT Tincture. — Veratram viride, (swamp hellebore) | oOi ; opium 1 Qz. ; wiue J^ pt. ; let them stand for BeverU days. Doss — 16 to 30 drops, according to the robustuuss of tlie patient, at intervals of two to foui* hours. M. Husson, a Frenoh officer, introduoed this remedy in pout'somd sixty years ago, and it became so celebrated that It p i as high as from one to two crowns a dose. It is con- sidured valuable also in acute rheumatism. In gout it re- moves the paroxysms, allays pain, and procures rest and sleep, reduces the pulse and abates fever. 3. Coffee has recently been recommended, not only for gout, but gravel also. Dr. Mosley observes, in his " Trea- tise on Coffee," that the great use of the article in Franco is supposed to have abated the prevalence of the gravel. In ^the French colonies, where colcc is more used than in the English, as well as in Turkey, where it is the principal bev- erage, not only the gravel but the gout is scarcely known. Dr. Faur relates, as an extraordinary instance of the effect of coffee on gout, the case of Dr. Deveran, whc was attacked with gout at the age ^' twenty-five, and had it severely till he was upwards of fifty, with chalk stones in the joints of his hands and feet ; but for four years preceding the time when the account of his case had been given to Dr. Faur to lay before the public, he had, by advice, used coffee, and had no return of the gout afterward. PARALYSIS— If Recent— To Curi..— When paraly- sis, (numb palsy) has existed for a great length of time, but little benefit can be expected from any treatment ; but if recent, very much good, if not a perfect cure will be the re- sult of faithfully governing yourself by the following direc- tions with this : ■'Ui iH-*k / ' i'.jnr Paralytic LiNiMENT.—Sulphuric ether 6 ozs. ; alcohol 2 ozs. ; laudanum 1 oz. ; oil of lavender 1 oz. , mix and cork tightly. In a recent case of paralysis let the whole extent of the numb surface be thoroughly bathed and rubbed with this preparation, for several minutes, using the hand, at least three times daily, at the same time take internally, 20 drops of the same, in a little sweetened water, to prevent translation upon some internal organ. It may be used in old cases, and, in many of them, will undoubtedly do much good ; but I do not Uko to promise what there is no reasonable chance to perform. It is well •t »% %, ^%. ^.. ^>t>^^^ IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 7 // / ^: &:'/' :/ 1.0 I.I "-IIIIIM I |50 I •^ IIIIIM III 1 1^ 12.0 IIIM 12.2 1.8 1-25 1.4 1,6 ■• 6" ► Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, NY. 14580 (716) 872-4503 ^ ¥^ iHB. CBABsfa BMSttm. in Toej recent oases to keep the parts covered with flannels, with a large amount of friction by the hand ; also, eleotrioitj eoientifioally applied, that is by a physician, or rome one who has studied the nature and operations of the electrical machine. This liniment should be applied so freely that about an ounce a day will be consumed on an arm or leg, and if a whole side is palsied, proportionally more. In oases of pains in the stomach or side a teaspoon will be taken with unusual success ; or for pain in the head, apply to the sur- face, always bearing in mind that some should be taken in- ternally whenever an external application is made. In sprains and bruises, where the suface is not broken, it will be found very efficacious. It may be successfully rubbed over the seat of any internal disease accompanied with pain. ENLARGED TONSILS— To Cube.— Where the ton^ sils are enlarged from colds, or epidemic sore throat. Take Ko. fdx 1 oz. ; molasses 2 ozs. ; and hot water 4 ozs. ; mix «nd rip a little into the throat oftea, swallowiiiff a little also ; it keeps up a discharge of saliva from those parts, and thus relieves thuir swollen condition ; and stimulates to renowned healthy action. It has proved ver3r efficacious in the above epidemic cases, which leave the tonsils much indurated (hardened), as well as swollen, with a tendency to chronic inflanmiation of the whole larynx, or throat, often with little ulcers. In that oafo: Put 10 grs. of nitrate of silver to 1 oz. of water, with 3 or 4 drops of creosote, and swab the throat with it, and lay a flannel wet with torpentine upon the outside. The worst cases will shortly yield to this mild treatment Should there, however, be a disposition to fever, you might also put the feet into hot water fifteen or twenty minntes, with occasional sponging the whole surface. ' SIOK HEADACHE.— To Cubs.— Sick headaone, pro- per, arises from aciditv, or over-loading the stomach; wnen it is not from over-eatmg, all that io necessary is to soak the feet in hot water about twenty minutes, drinking at the same time some of the herb teas, such as pennyroyal, catnip,, or miiity &o., then get into bed, oover up warm and keep op a MEDICAL DEPABTMILNT. 105 sweating prooess for abovi an hour, by which time relief will have been obtained ; bat when food has been taken which remains in the stomach, it is much the best way to take an emetic, and the following is the 2. EoLEono EifBTio.— Which is composed of lobelia, and ipeca- enanha, equal parts, and Uood root half as much as of either of the others, each pulverized separately, and mix thoroughly. Dose — Haifa common teaspoon every 15 or 20 minutes in some of the warm teas, for instance, camomile flowers, pennyroyal, or boneset ; drinking fireely between doses of the same tea in which you take It ; conttnue until you get a Hcee and full evacuation of the contents of the stomach. After the operation, and when the stomach becomes a little settled, some nourishment will be desired, when any of the mild broths, or gruel, should be taken, in small quan- tities, without fear of increasing the difficulty. *' There is, probably, no emetic surpassing this, either in efficacy of action, or efficiency in breaking up morbid, un- healthy conditions of the system generally; and exciting healthy action. It is excellent in croup, chronic affections of the liver or stomach, &c., and in fact when and where ever an emetic is needed." — Bea^h. But after a full trial of both, upon my own person and others, I prefer lobelia seed alone, pulverized when used. The manner of administering them has been the cause of bringing the lobelia emetic into disrepute. I take '' Thomp- son's Composition " tea, made as there directed and drink two saucers of it, fifteen minutes apart, and with the third I stir in one rou|iding teaspoon of lobelia seed, pulverized, and drink :t; then every fifteen minutes I ti^e another saucer cf the tea until free vomiting takes place, not taking any more of the lobelia ; by this course I think it more effi- cient and thorough than the mixed emetic, and entirely free from danger of the " alarming symptoms," as they are called, brought on by continuing to give the lobelia every few min- utes mstead of waiting its action, and all for want of know- ledge as to what that action should be ; but if you give it its own time, continuing the stimulating tea, it will have its mecijic action, which is to voinit, no matter at which end it IS introduced. When it begins to vomit it will generally continue its action until it empties the stomaeh, then J begin to substitute the composition with : 10b DB. OHASB'B BEOIPES. S. Trbad Tbi^ Used in Taking Emetics.— Made by taking apiece of dry bread and crumbing it into a bow!, with a little salt, pepper and butter, to suit the taste, then pouring boiling water upon it ; this soon allays the retching, and strengthens the stomach to renewed healthy action. Periodical Headache. — There are those who have sick headache coming on at periods of from a few weeks to two or three months, lasting two or three days, accompanied with nausea, and occasionally with vomiting. In these cases, after using the emetic to relieve the present attack, take the Cathar'ic Syrup next following: 4. Cathartic Syrdp. — Best senna leaf 1 oz. ; jalap J oz. ; butter^ out, the inner bark of the root dried and bruised, 2 ozs. ; pepper- mint leaf, ^ oz. ; fennel seed ^ oz. ; alcohol ^ pt. ; water 1^ pts. ; eugar 2 lbs. ; put all into the spirit and water, except the sugar, and let it stand 2 weeks, then strain, pressing out from the dregs, Adding the sugar and simmering a few minutes only, to form the •yrup. If it should cause griping in any case, increase the fennel ieed and peppermint leaf. Dose— one table-spoon, once a day, or less often if tlie bowels become too loose, up to the next period when the headache might have been expected, and it will not be forthcoming. ' This is a mild purgative, and especially pleasant. Most persons, after a trial of it, will adopt it for their general cathartic, and especially for children. Increase or lessen the dose, according to the effect desired. Females in a weak and debilitated condition, often have a headache which is purely syjnpathetio ; this they will dis- tinguish by their general weakness, irr^ularities, and light- headedness, often amounting to real pain; in such cases take the following : 5. Headache Drops. — Castor, gentian, and valerian roots, bruised, | oi.. ; laudanum 1 oz. ; sulphuric ether 1^ oz. ; alcohol ^ pt. ; water ^ pi ;- put all into a bottle and let stand about lU days. Dose. — ^A teaspoon as often as required, or 2 or 3 times laily. 6. Tlvctdrb op Blood Root. — Made by putting 1 oz. of the dried, bruised root, to 1 pt. of gin, and taking 1 teaspoon before •ating, every morning, and only a reasonable amount of easily digested food. H«8 worked wonders in cases where headaches had boen of very long standing. And it might not be amiss to say that the majority of headaches are found amongst those who are disposed to Dyspepsia, by long continued over-eating, ji MEDIOAL DEPABTMENT. 107 iben reducing the gastric juice by over-drinking, crvren of water, tea or coffee. A Niles paper gives cm^ which is easily tried. It Is as follows : 7. " Chabcoal, a Gub» fob Sick Headache. — It is stated • thai two teaspooniL^ of finely powdered charcoal, drank in half a tum- bler of water, 'vill, in less than 15 minutes, give relief to the sicli headache, when caused, as in most cases it is, by 8uperabnadanc« of acid on the stomach. We have tried this remedy time and again, and its efficacy in every instance has been signally satis* factory." When headache has been brought on by eating too freely of boiled beef, cabbage, &o., or any other indigestible din- ner, one cup of " good tea," at tea time, eating onl^ a slice of dry bread, will often allay the nervousness, quiet the head, and ;iid in getting to sleep. The " Good Samaritan" applied to the head is also good. DELIRIUM TREMENS.— To Obtain Sleep.— Give an emetic of ipecacuanha, then give 15 to 18 grs. of the same, every 2 hours, using the shower baUi, and giving all the beef tea the patient desires. The jail physician of Chicago reports thirty-six favorable cases treated as above. In Boston, at the '' House of Cor- rection," the danger arising from fiie sudden loss of their accustomed stimulus, according to Puritanic economy, is overcome by administering freely, a strong decoction of srormwood. 2. Stimdlatino ANODTira.— Snlj^xnate of qninine 12 grs. ; sulphate tf morphine 1 gr. ; mix, and divide into 6 powders. Dose — One powder every honr. Prof. King, of Cincinnati, 0., says that from two to four powders of the above anodyne, will nearly every time pro- duce sleep in this whisky delirium. TYPnUS FEVER.— To Prevent Infection.— Take nitre, (salt pptre,) pulverized, floz. ; oil of vitrei f oz. ; put the nitre into a teacup and set it on a red hot shovel, adding the vitriol one- sixth at a time, stirring it with a pipe stem ; avoiding the fiimes OS they rise from the cup ; no danger, however, in breathing the air of the room. The above amount is sufficient for a room twelvf) by six- teen feet, and less or more according to the size of other rooms. Dr. J. C. Smith, of London, is said to have re- I ..08 DB. chase's BECIPES. a ceived from Parliament £5000 for making this recipe public. 2. To purify the air from noxious effluvia in sick rooms, not of contagious character, simply slice three or four onions, place them on a plate upon the floor, changing them three or four times in the twenty-four hours. 3. Disinfectant for Rooms, Meat, and FiSH.---Gommon salt I a teacup ; sulphuric acid 2 or 3 ozs. ; put about j^ oz. of the acid apon the salt at a time, every 15 minutes, stirring until all put on : Which will purify a large room ; and for meat or fish, hang them up in a box having a cover to it, and thus confine the gas, and tainted articles of food will soon be purified, by the same operation. And notwithstanding so much was paid for the " Smith Disinfbctant," the above will be found equally good. 4. Coffee, dried and pulverized, then a little of~ it sprinkled upon a hot shovel, will, in a very few minutes, clear a room of all impure effluvia, and especially of an ani- mal oharaeter. 5. Chloride of Lime. — Half a saucer of it, moistened with an equal mixture of good vinegar and water, a few drops at a time only, will purify a sick room in a few minutes. SWEATING PREPARATIONS.— SwEATiNQ Drops..— Ipecacu- anha, safi^on, Virginia snake root, and camphor gum, each 2 ozs. ; opium j^ oz. ; alcohol 2 qts. Let stand 2 weeks, shalung occasion- ally. Dose — ^A teaspoon in a cn^ of hot pennyroyal, spearmint, or catnip tea, every half hour, until perspiration is inducid ] then once an hour, for a few hours. ' ^ It is^zoellent in colds, fevers, pleurisy^ inflammation of* the lungs, &c. It is good to soak the feet in hot water at the same time. '^ 2. Sweating with BuRNma alcohol .—Poor alcohol into a sancer, to about half fill it ^ place this under a chair ; strip the peison to be sweated, of all clothing, and place him in the chair, EutUng a comforter over him, also ; now light a match and throw ito the saucer of alcohol, which sets it on fire, and by the time the alcohol is burned out he will be in a profuise perspiration, il not, put in ^f as much more of alcohol and fire it again, which will accom^ Jsh the object ; then rise up and draw the comforter around you, and get into bed, foUowmg up with hot teas and sweating drops. «9 ia tike first above. MbtOAL DEPABXH^tit. m this lai)t plan of sweating is also good in recent oolds, pleurisy, iLflammation of the lungs, and all otlier inflam- matory diseases, either in recent attacks, or of long standing complaints. See the closing remarks after the treatment of « Pleurisy," also " Ginger Wine." "^ IMPERIAL DROP,— For Gravel and i».idnet Com}?laints.— Take saltpetre 1 oz. '^ putting it into an iron mortar, droppiDg in a live coal with it, which seta it on fire ; stir it around until it all melts down into the 8olid form^ blow out the coals and pulverize ,it : then take an equal amount of bi-carbonate of potassia, or Baleratus, and dissolve both in soft water 2 ozs. Dose — from 20 td 30 drops, morning and evening, in a swallow of tea made from flax seed, or a solution of gum arabic. . In connection with the drbps, let the patient take froin a table-spibon to two or three table-spoons of onion juice — that is, all the stomach will bear — eating all the raw onions he can, and continue it until free of the complaint. I have seen gravel the size of a common quill, crooked, and one and one-fourth inches in length, which a lady passed from the bladder, and smaller bits almost innumerable, by the simple use of onion juice alone. The onion juice, (red onions are said to be the best,) has and may be injected through a catheter, into the bladder ; have no fears to do this, for I know a physician, of forty years' practive who has done it five times with success-^a physician, however, would have to be called to introduce the catheter^ 2. In what is termed " Fits of the Gravel," that is, where small gravel has become packed in the ureter, (tube which leads from the kidney to the bladder,) causing excruciating pain in that regionj a pill of opium must be given, varying in size from one to three grains, aco'^rding to the pain, strength, and age of the patient. 3. A strong decoction made by using a large handful of smart weed, adding a gill of gin, and a gill each of horse mint and onion juices, and taking all in 12 hours, has been known to discharge gravel in large quantities. — Philadelphia Edectio Journal. The surest sign of gravel is the dark appearance of the urine, as if mixed with coffee grounds, and a dull pain in the region of the kidney — if only inflammation, the dark- ness will not appear. See the closing remarks upon €k)ut. CAMPHOR ICE,~FoB Chaffid Hands ob Lips.— Spenuacetio >4lO DB. chase's msaxsm. tallow 11 oz. ; oil of sweet almonds 4 teaspoons ; gum camphor | oz. ; made fine. Set on the stove until dissolved, constantly stlr- riDg. Do not use only just sufficient heat to melt them. Whilst warm, pour into moulds if desired to sell, then paper and put up in tin foil. If for your own use, put up in a tight box. Apply to the chaps or cracks two or three times daily, especially at bed time. BURNS.— Salve for Buhns, Frost-Bites, Cracked Nipples, &0. — Equal parts of turpentine, sweet oil, and beeswax ; melt the oil and wax together, and when a little cool, add the turpentine, and etir until cold, wluch keeps them evenly mixed. Apply by spreading upon thin cloths — linen is the best. I used this salve upon one of my own children, only a year and a half old, which had pulled a cup of hot co^ee upon itself, beginning on the eyelid, and extending down the ijace, neck and breast, also over the shoulder, and in two places across the arm, the skin coming off with the clothes ; in fifteen minutes from the application of the salve, the child was asleep, and it never cried again from the burn, and not a particle of scar left. It is good for chaps on hands or lips, or for any other eore. If put on burns before blistering has taken place, they will not blister. And if applied to sore or cracked nipples every time after the child nurses, it soon cures them also. For nipples, simply rubbing it on is sufficient. I find it valut^ble also for pimples, and common healing purposes; and I almost regret to add any other preparations for the same purposes, for fear that some one will neglect this; but as thero may be cases where some of the following can be made when the above cannot, I give a few others known to be valuable. The first one is from Dr. Downer, of Dixboro, within six miles of our city ; he used it in a case where a boy fell backwards into a tub of hot water, scalding the whole buttock, thighs, and privates, making a bad scald in a bad place, but he succeeded in bringing him successfully through, and from it containing opium, it might be prefer- able to the first in deep and very extensive burns, but in that case the opium might bo "^dded to the first. It is as follows : 2. Db. Downer's Salvb fob j^oua.— Beeswax 4 ozs. ; opium I 02. ; sugar of lead 1 oz. ; melt the beeswax, and lub the lead MEDIOAL DE?ABTM£!n?. Ill up In the wax, then the opinm, and finally add about a gill of sweet oil, or Bufflcient to make a salve of proper consistence. Spread lightly on oloth — no pain, he says, will be felt under its use. He highly recommends it for the pain and inflammation of Piles, also. 3. Poultice foe Burns and Frozen Flesh.— A Brouson, of Meadowville, Pa., says, from 15 years' experience, that Indian meal poultices covered widi Yonng Hyson tea, moistened with hot water, and laid over bums or frozen parts, as hot as can be borne, will relieve the pain in 6 minutes, snd that blisters, if they have not, will not arise, and that one poultice is usually suffi dent. 4. Salve fob Bdrnb. — ^Beeswax, Burgundy pitch, white pine pitch, and rosin, of each \ lb. ; mutton tallow ^ lb. ; goose oil 1 gill ; tai ^ gill, mixed and melted together, and used as other salves. This was used successfully on a very bad case, burned all over the face, neck, breast, bowels, &c., soothing ai^d quiet- ing pain, giving rest and sleep directly. Garden and Kitchen Salve for Burns and Frost Bites.— Liveforever and sweet clover leaves, cammomile and sweet elder, the inner bark, a handful of each ; i»:mmer them in fresh buttei and mutton tallow, of each ^ lb. ; when crisped, strain out, and add 2 rr 3 ozs. of beeswax to form a salve. Spread very thin on thin cloth. Mrs. Miller, of Macon, Mich., cured a bad case with this, burned by the clothes taking fire, nearly destroying the whole surface. She speaks of it in equal praise for cuts and jftost bites. See the Green Ointment also for Chilblains. 6. The white of an egg beat up, then beat for a long time with a table-spocn of lard, until a little water separ- ates from them, I have found good for burns. 7. The white oxide of bismuth, rubbed up in a little 'lard, is also a good appUcation in bums. 8. Glycerine and tannin, equal weights, rubbed together into on ointment, is very highly recommended for sore or cracked nipples. See Dr. Raymond's statement in connec- tion with the treatment of Piles. ITCHING FEET FROM FROST BITES.— To Cube.- Take hy- 4rochloric acid 1 oz. ; rain water 7 ozs. ; wash the feet with it X ffr 3 times daily, or wet the socks with the preparation until i|«fed. 11 % DB. OHASE'S BEOIFES A gentloman whose feet had been fVozen, in the Alps, eight years before, and another man's had been frozen two years before on the Sierra-Nevada mountains, were effeotu- ally cured by its use. - CHUjBLAINS.— To CcRB.— PuBUSHBD BY Order op vue Go- 7EBNHBKT OF WiRTBMBURo. — ^Muttou t^llow and lard; of each f lb. ; melt in an iron "vossel and add hydrated oxyde of iron 2 oz. ; stirring continually with an iron spoon, until the mass is of an uniform black color ; then let it cool and add Venice-turpentine 2 oz. ; and Armenian bole 1 oz. ; oil of bergamot 1 dr. ; rub up the Dole with a little olive oil before putting it in. Apply several times daily, by putting it upon lint or linen — heals the worst cases in a few days. Chilblains arise from severe cold to the part, causing inflammation, often ulcerating, making deep, and very troublesome, long continued sores. FELONS. — If Recent, to Cure in Six Hours. — ^Venice turpen- tine 1 oz. ; and put into it half a teaspoon of water, and stir with a rough stick until the mass looks like candied honey, then spread a good coat on a cloth and wrap around the finger. If the case is only recent, it will remove the pain in 6 hours. 2. A poke root poultice on a felon cures by absorption, unless matter is already formed ; if it is, it soon brings it to a head, and thus saves much pain and suffering. 3. Blue flag and hellebore roots, equal parts, boiled in milk and water, then soak the felon in it for twenty minutes, as hot as can be borne, and bind the roots on the parts for one hour, has cured many felons, when commenced in time. 4. A poultice of clay, from an old log house, made and kept Wet with spirits of camphor, is also good. 6. Felon Ointment. — Take sweet oil i pint, and stew a 3 cen' plug of tobacco in it until the tobacco is crisped ; then squeeze i out and add red lead 1 oz., and boil until black ; when a little cool, add pulverized camphor gum 1 oz. * Mrs. Jordan, of Clyde, 0., paid ten dollars for this recipe, and has cured many bad felons, as well as bad fellows, with it. Bad fellows because they did not pay her. Certainly, this is a rational use of tobacco. 6. Felon Salve. — A salve mado by burning one table- spoon of copperas, then pulverizing it and mixing with the yolk of an egg, is said to relieve the pain, and cure the felon MMi MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. as in twenty-four hours ; then lical with cream ^wo party, and soft soap one part. Apply the healing salve daily aftoi soaking the part in warm water. DEAJi'NESS.— Ik Reoknt, to Core, ip not, to Relieve. — Hen't oil 1 gill ; aud a single handful of the sweet clover raised in gar* dens ; stow it in the oil until the juice is all out, strain it and bottle for Use. Where deafness is recent, it will be cured by putting three or four drops daily into the ear, but if of long standing, much relief will be obtained if continued a sufficient lengSi of time. 2. Much has been said in France about sulphuric ether, fin^i tried by Madam Oleret, of Paris ; and, although she lost her reason by the elation of feeling brought on, no doubt, by the honor given her for the discovery, yet the continued trial of the article does not give the satldfaction which had been hoped for from its first success. WARTS AND CORNS.— To Cube in Tfn Minutes.— Take a small piece of potash and let it stand in the open air until it slacks, then thicken it to a paste with pulverized gum arable, which pre* vents it from spreading where it is not wanted. Pare off the seeds of the wart or the dead skin of the com, and apply the paste, and let it remain on ten minutes ; wash off and soak the place in sharp vinegar or sweet oil, either of which will neutralize the alLali. Now do not jam nor squeeze out the wart or com, like " street-corner ped- dlers," but leave them alone and nature will remove them without danger of taking cold, as would be if a sore is made by pinching them out. Coras are caused by pressure ; in most cases removing the pressure cures the corn. Nine of fcvery ten corns can be cured by using twice, daily, upon it, ^any good liniment, and wearing loose shoes or boots. See Qood Samaritan. 2. Cube for Corns. — If a cripple will take a lemon, cut off a piece, ihen nick it so as to let in the toe with the corn, the pulp next the corn — tie this on at night, so that it cannot move — he will ^iud next morning that, with a blviit knife, the corn will come away to a great extent Two or three applications of this will ma,kc a ** poor cripple" happy for life. — London FielcL 114 l/R. OHASE S REOIPES, 3. Acetic Acid, touched to hard or soft oorns, night and nionuDg, for ono week, will cure them. So will the Samari- tan liniment, which see. i. Dii. Habiman's Innocent and Surb Cdrb for CoJiNa, Wahts AND Cnn^DLAiNS. — Nitric and muriatic acids, blue vitriol and ealta of tarfar, of each 1 oz. ; add the blue vitrei, pulverized, to either of the acids, and in the same way add the salts of tartar : when done foaming add the other acid, and in a few days it will be fit for use. 1 DiRKOTiONS. — For f-osted feet, rub them with a swab or brush, wet with this solution very lightly, every part that is red and dry ; in a day or two, if not cured, apply again QS before. For corns, apply in like manner, scraping off dead skin before using. For warts wet once a week until they disappear, which will be soon, for it is a certain cure in all the above cases, and very cheap. So says the Doctor, of Anderson, Ind. 5. A gentleman in Ohio offers to pay ten dollars a piece for all coins not cured in three days by binding a bit of cotton batting upon it, and wetting it three time£i a day with spirits of turpentine. 6. I am assured by a gentleman of Syracuse, N.Y., that a plaster of the " Green Mountain Salve," put upon a corn, will completely cure it by the time it naturally comes off. LINIMENTS' — Good Samaritan— Ibiproved.— Take 98 per cent alcohol 2 qts., and add to it the following articles : Oils of sassa- fra"?, hemlock, spirits of turpentine, tinctures of cayenne, catechu, gualcaoi,'(guac,) and landanum, of each 1 oz. ; tincture of myrrh 4 0Z8. ; oil of origanum 2 ozs. ; oil of wintergreen ^ pz. ; gum camphor 2 ozs. ; and chloroform IJ^ ozs. I ha^e used the above liniment over five years, and can- not speak too highly of its value ; I have cured myself of two severe attacks of rheumatism with it, the first in the knee and the last in the shoulder, three years after ; my wife lias cured two corns on the toes with ;• t, by wetting them twice daily for a few days ; and it is hard to think v>f anything which it has not cured, such as sprains, bruises, cuts, jams, rheumatism, weak back, reducing swellings^ curing leg-ache in children from over-playing; for horse- flesh, &4i., &c. But you will allow me one remark about liniments— they ought in all cases to ^ put on and rubbed li vJ fcf II lIZDXOAL D£PABTM£N1 116 my in from twenty to thirty minutes, and laying the hand on the part until it bums n-om its effects, instead of one or two minut.es, as is the usual custom ; and if made by the quart, you can use them freely, as the cost is not' more than about one-eighth "S much as to purchase the two fehilUuj< l>ottles. Wetting flannel with the liniment, and binding on, is a good manner of application. Dr. Hale, of this city, has adopted this liniment for general use ; but for headache and neural- gia, he takes eight ounces of it and adds an ounce of chlo- roform, and half an ounce of oil of wintergnen, rubbing upon the head, holding to the nostrils, &o. Pie full pre- scription will usually cost about two dollars. 2. Liniment^ for Old Soers.— Alcohol 1 qt. ; aqu* ammonia 4 ozs. ; oil of origanum 2 osis. ; camphor gum 2 ozs. j opium 2 uzs. ; gum myrrh 2 ozs, ; common salt 2 table-spoons. Mix, and shake occasionally for a week. This was presentad for insertion by H. Loomis, of Ed- wardsburgh, Mich., hoping it might do many others as much good as it had done himself and neighbors. He showed me soars of an old sore on his leg which he had cured with it, after years of suffering ; and also called up a young man whose father he had cured of a similar sore, years before, which had never broken out again ; he used it twice daily. His leg became sore after a protracted fever. I have great coL^dence in it. He uses it also for cuts, bruises, horse- flesh, inflammatory rheumatism, &o., &o. 3. Da. Raymond's Liniment. — Alcohol 1 qt. ; oils of origanum ? ozs., and wormwood 1 oz. ; with camphor gum 2 ozs. ; spirits of turpentine 2 ozs. ; and tincture of cantharidea 1 oz. Mixed and used as other liniments. Dr. D. W. Raymond, of Conneaut, 0., thinks that the last is the best liniment in the world. 4. German Rheumatic Fluto. — Oils of hemlock and cedar, ol each } oz. ; oils of origanum and sassafras, each 1 oz. ; aqua am- monia 1 oz. ; capsicum, pulverized, 1 oz. ; spirits of turpentine aiid gum camphor, each ^ oz. ; put all into a quart botlle, and fill with 95 per cent, alcohol. The Germans speak equally in praise ef this fluid, as a linimeat, as Dr. Raymond does of his, besides they say it is very valuable for cholio in jnaa or horse. Dose. — For colio for man, half a teaspoon ; for a horse, one-half to one ouno« in A little warm water, every fiTteen minutes, untJl • elicved 0*>'h Mi py 1% L16 DB. OHASE S BE0IFIS8. A gentleman purchased a horse for seventy-five dollars, which had been strained in one of the fetlocks, worth before the strain one hundred and twenty-five dollars. He cured him with this liniment, and sold him for the original value. He cured his wife alco of neuralgia, with the same, since I have published this recipe. Judge ye of its value. 5. Cook's Electbo-Magnetio Liniment.— Best alcohol 1 gal. ; oil of amber 8 ozs. ; gum camphor 8 ozs. ; castile soap, shaved fine, % ozs. ; beefs gall, 4 ozs. ; ammouia, 3 F's strong, 12 ozs. ; mix, and Bh&ke occasionally for 12 hourn, and it is fit for use. This will be found a strong and valuable liniment, and also cheap. It may be used in swellings, strains, &o., and rubbed upon the throat, breast and lungs, in ae^hma, sore throat, &c. Liniment for Spinal Affections. — Take a pint bottle and put into it oil of origanum, wormwood, spirits of turpentine and gum cam- phor, of each 1 oz.. and fill it with best alcohol. Mr. Barr, a gentleman with whom I have been acquainted for some four years, has been troubled with spinal weak- ness and pains, and he finds great relief from the use of this liniment ; and his daughter took it intemallv for a cough, also, with success. 7. Great London Liniment. — Take chloroform, olive oil, and aqua ammonia, of each 1 oz. ; acetate of morphia, 10 grs. Mix and jse as other liniments. Very valuable. 8. Gum Liniment— Take gum myrrh, gum camphor, and gum cpium, of each J oz. ; cayenne pepper J oz. ; alcohol 1 pt. ; mix. This liniment is ready for use in three or four days, and is very highly recommended by E. Burrows, of Matamora, Lap ♦-• Co. Mich. He prefers rum, if a good article can be 'X in place of the alcohol. This would be excellent in cob' r diarrhea also. . '.^ l^ATENT Liniment. — In order that those who pur- chao^ the patent liniments may know what they are buying, I give a formula, from which over twenty thousand dollars worth of liniment was sold in two years' time, bui one of the partners going out of the firm and into the livery busi- \)ess, gave me the plan as follows: v Take whisky 15 gals., and put into it 2 lbs. of capsicum, pul- r-rized, let stand 10 days and percolate, or draw off the whisky, f'^e of the sediment ; in the meantime take 1 gal. of spirits of tur- MMH im* MKDIOAL DEFABTMENT. 117 • •> pentltfk) ancl put into it oils of origanum, horse-mint, sassafras, and hemlock, 6 coh. each ; add gum camphor 2 IbB. Mix and it is ready to sell, for the purpose of gulling those who suppose everybody to be honest because they are themselves so. But that no loss m^ arise from tlie space this liniment reoipe ooonpies here, I will tell you how to make a good liniment, by using a part of that with the following : Take of the patent liniment 8 ozs. : sweet oil and oils of origa- num, sassafras and aqua ammonia, of each 2 ozs., and mix, shaking well as used, and this mixture will make a splendid horse liniment, wHh which you can easily blister, by bandaging the part if desired, and wetting the bandage with it. Tlie first would cost less than $1 per gallon, whilst the retail price, two shillings per bottle, makes it over $2 per quart. See where your money goes. 10. LoBELLv AND Catenne Ljniment. — Take a quart bottle and put into it \ oz. of Cayenne, pulverized, then put in 2 ozs. of lobe- lia herb, and fill up the bottle with whisky ; in two weeks it is ready for use, and applicable for cuts, bruises, strains, sprains, &c. and it will heal cork cuts in the leet of oxen or horses, without stopping them from labor, and with but very little soreness, by applying 2 or 3 times daily. I know a gentleman who had a gash cut in his scalp, foui inches in length, and to the skull in depth, by a falling limb, which by the use of this liniment only, as strange as it may appear, it healed without pain or soreness. But some may object to it as a whisky liniment. I admit it to be such, but by knowing how to make it yourselves, you get it for a whisky price, and if it be not found as good as one-half of the two-shilling-a-bottle liniments, then you may tell me that I do not know when I nave a good thing. 11. Liniment— Said to be St. John's. — ^For 70 doz. bottles take spirits of turpentine and seneca oils, of each 4 gals. ; linseed oi sweet oil, 2 gals. ; oils of origanum, hemlock, juniper, amber, and laudanum, of each 3 qts. ; spirits of ammonia 1 qt. ; tincture ol arnica 2 gals. ; camphor gum 1 lb. Put all inco a keg and shake well ; when you wish to fill into small bottles, shake it well, and draw into a convenient bottle or pitcher to pour from ; and shake it well every time you fill five bottles ; and shake the bottle whenever you use the liniment ; thus it might be called " Shaking" Liniment. No matter what you call it, however, it is a good one. I obtained the recipe of a young gentleman who worked in Mr. St. John's store over a year, yet much care was taken ^« 118 DB. OHASE'S BEOIFES. m] to prevent the knowledge of its exact composition, from being found out by assistants ; it is a well known fact, however, that an observing mind can learn much, although not ex- pressed in words. Perhaps he will blame me for publishing information gained in that way, but I obtain knowledge for the benefit of the people ; and as I have called on the Doc- tor two different times to sell my work, but could not suc- ceed, I do not feel under any special obligations to him, and if I did, I go in for the greatest good to the greatest num- ber. Were it not so, I should not publish much L.J, is contained in this work, for there are many persons who have and are making fortunes out of single recipes, now published for the benefit of the world. Because I could not sell my Recipes to I. L. St. John, a druggist, of Tiffin, 0., however, is not saying that I do not sell them to druggists generally, as I do. In Aurora, HI., I sold ta six, and in Pomeroy, 0., to seven, every one in either place, which is not common. They are, however, not only anxious to obtain information generally, but also willing to impart it to others ; and how Mr. St. John should have obtained as good recipes as the ones here attributed to him, without sometime having bought, is a little surprising ; for as a general rule, these who put out " Patent Medicines," are not themselves the originators of the recipes ; even Dr. Jayne is reported, I know not how truly, to have picked up the recipe in an out-house, for his celebrated Alterative. 1 say, then, am I not justified in publishing these recipes? Nay, more 1 am I not honorable in thus benefitting the people? 1 rest the matter with them, always willing to abide their decision. Persons only wishing to put u^ for their own use, will take one-seventieth of the various amounts, which will be about as follows : Turpentine and Seneca oils, of each, 7^ ozb, ; sweet oil and tiactare of arnica, of each, 3| ozb. ; oils of origanum, hemlock, juniper, amber, and laudanum, of each, 1^ ozs. ; spirits of ammo- nia ^ oz., and gam camphor ^ oz., which makes a little less than 1 qt., there being 64 qts., besides the gum camphor, in the whole amount. This calculation will be sufficiently near for all practical l^orposes. i have sold the condition powder and lioiinent, oi^t of th^ 111 '«%'' MEDjfOAL DEPARTMENT. 119 drag store, made by the Doctor, which has always given good satisfaxjtion. And I think any one who tries both will be aa well pleased with those made by these recipes as with that which is sent out from Tiffin, and make it for one- fourth the cost of the other. ' COD LIVER OIL. — Made Palatable and more Dioe' Sed every- thing else in vain, and just ready to wrap the L^antle of the grave around you ; then you need all the care of many friends, and a quiet place to die ; but, strike out the first thing when you become certain that permanent disease has fastened upon the lungs ; then you may not only reasonably expect a cure, but be ahnost certain. Have the means with you to avoid getting wet by rains ; but often wash and rub the whole surface, wearing flannel next the skin, and clothe yourself according to the weather and sex ; for there is no reason why females should not pursue about the same course. They can dress a la Bloomer^ and with their father, hus- band, brother or other known friend, derive the same bene- fit from out-door exercise, like field or forest rambles, botan- ical huntings, geological surveys, ox whatever sports or realities may give just the amount of exercise not to fatiguo the invalid. For females who have families and cannot leave them, gardening will be the best substitute for the travel, or of all the employment which can be engaged in. Lastly — Those who are already far down the consump- tive track and confined at home, will derive much benefit by using, at each meal, half a pint of rich, fre^h creai^. In all cases it is ahead of Cod-Liver Oil, with none of its disagree- ableness. And if it can be borne, *> tea, to a teaspoon of the best brandy may be added. Much is being said now-a-days, -oout the necessity of constant inflation of the lungs by long dra^en breaths, hold- ing the breath, also, as long as possible, when thus fuUy inflated ; but for those whose lungs are extensively diseased, it is not only useless but very dangerous, from the liability to burst blood-vessels in the lungs, causing hemorrhage, if not instant death. In the commencement of the disease, however, or for those in health, the practice is decidedly good. 2. Half a pint of new milk, with a wine-glofis of expressed / '.!•*< 122 DB. OHASE'S BEOlFES. juice of green hoarhotind, each morning for a month, is said to have worked wonders in relieving the soreness of the Inngs, and giving tone to the general health in this disease. 3. Chlorate of Potash, for Consumption. — A gen- tleman of Iowa read a paper about a year ago before the " American Medical Association/' upon the subject of Chlo- rate of Potach in Consumptiou, giving the history of a few cases only. For the want of a more extended trial of it, the Association thought best not to publish his paper, but referred it back to him, and to the consideration of the other members for further test. Amongst those members is Dr. A. H. Palmer, of this city, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Association, and Profes- sor of " Practice, Materia Medica," &c., in the University of Michigan, at Ann Atbor — by the way, a gentleman and a scholar. Having had much experience in practice, he saw fit to give it a trial. He has used it in about thirty cases, and with a single exception with marked success ; and in that case there was at first much improvement, but the par tient was a German who does not understand our language very well, and from this fact when he found that it caused a heat or burning sensation in the stomach instead of going to the Professor and have the quantity lessened, he aban- doned it altogether. But through Prof. Palmer's kindness I have been permitted to refer to other cases where a very marked amelioration has taken place. One of these, a mar* ried lady, although her lungs were full of tubercles, with much coughing, soreness of the lungs, with sharp pains upon full breaths being taken, &o., finds her cough loose, soreness all gone, and that full breaths can be taken without pain, (or stitching, as commonly called.) and fully believes that if she could have had this prescription earlier in the disease^ she would now have been well, yet derives much relief from its use. Another lady has been using it only a few months, and finds that her symptons are all very much relieved, and ehe hafi gained seventeen pounds in flesh. The Professor assures me that in the first few ciMses where he prescribed the chlorate, the benefits were so marked, it was really astonishing ; which, of course, caused him to go on in its use, until, as before remarked, about thirty cases have been more or less benefitted by its use, under Us care M HEDICAL DEPARtMENT. 123 His method of giving it is to put about a teaspoon of tlie chlorate into a glass of water, which is to be drank a tittle at a time, in from six to twenty-four hours, with other ap- propriate treatment. If in any case the chlorate should cause a heat or burning sensation at the stomach, lessen the quantity ; and unless this does occur, no apprehensions need be felt in using it. It improves the general symptoms, lessening the pulse, &c., whilst the Cod-Liver Oil has never done anything more than to benefit merely as food ; and from its very disgusting smell and taste, and the almost impossibility of keeping it upon the stomach, I greatly prefer the fresh sweet oream men- tioned above, or the fat meat, as mentioned below. The hyper-phosphates have been extensively used, but Prof. Palmer tells me that in Paris and other parts of Europe, where he traveled during the past summer, that not Olio well authenticated case of cure by them can be pro- duced. But he feels much encouraged to hope that the chlorate will prove itself worthy of great confidence. The above was written one year ago ; and the reports comiug in since then, both in America and from Europe, more than confirms the expected benefits and hoped for ad* vantages from the use of the chlorate in this disease. 4. Remarks on the Use op Fat Meats — Prven- TivE OF Consumption. — There is so much said against the use of fat meats, and especially pork, as an article of diet, that I cannot better close my remarks upon this subject than by giving the opposite opinions of those in high places, corroborated also by my own experience. Dr. Dixon, of the Scalpel, some time ago, assumed the position that " the use of oils would diminish the vic- tims of consumption nine-tenths, and that that was the whole secret of the use of Cod-Liver Oil, to take the place of fat meats." Dr. Hooker's observations on the'vie of fat meats, con- nected with consumption, are as foilow<^ : " First — Of all persons between the ages of 15 and 22 yewts more than one-fifth eat no fat meat. Second — Of persona at the age of 45. all, exceptir less than 1 in 50, habitually use fat meat. Third — Of perso who, between the ages of 15 and 22. avoid iat meat, a few acquire an appetite for it, aud live to t -.-'V' 1^ t>6. OHA8E*9 BEOlPfiB. good old age, whilst the greater portiot? die with phthesis ^oon- mimption) before 36. Fourth— Of persons dying with phtnesis between ^he ages of 12 and 45, nine-tenths, at least, have never used fat meats. '' MoBt individuals who avoid fat meat, also use little butr t«r or oily gravies, thougli many compensate for this want in part, at least, by a f^ee use of those articles,, and also milk, eggs, and various saccharine substances. But they constitute an imperfect substitute for fat meat, without which, sooner or later, the body is almost sure to show the effects of deficient calorification." A lady-lecturer recently said in this city, in one of her lectures — " Set a piece of porh before a lady : oh, horrible I the dirty, nasty, filthy stuff; give us chicken — clean, nice chicken. Now this lady, certainly, was no farmer's wife, or she would have observed that the habits of chickens are ten times more filthy than that of the hog, if it be possible ; for even the hog's leavings and droppings are carefully over- hauled by them, and much of it appropriated to " ladies' meat." But their filthinees is no argument in either case ; for nature's strainer (the stomach), throws off all impurities. Why do so many young ladies, young clergymen^ and stw- dents die of consumption ? Simply because chicken or other lean meats, hot biscuit, &c., without exercise, make up the sums of their diet ; when, if they would eat fat meats^ with bread not less than one day old, scrub floors, saw woontlnue the stirring until cooled to blood heat, then stir in 1 oz. of spirits of turpentine ; and now take out a little, letting it get cold, and if not tnen sufficiently thick to spread upon thin, soft lin«n, as a salve, you will boil again until this point is reached. He says, and I have no doubt of it, that it is good for all kinds of wounds, bruises, sores, bums, white swellings, rheumatisms, ulcers, sore breasts, and even where there are wounds on the inside, it has been used with advantage, by applying plaster over the part. 3. Sisson's Ointment. — Best brandy ^ pt. ; turpentine 1 |fill ; camphor gum 1 oz. ; beefs gall ^ pt. ; (beefs gall bottled with \ alcohol will keep nice for ftiture use,) neats-foot oil 1 pt. Mix. This ointment, or probably liniment, is probably not equal- ed for reducing swellings which arise from bad bruises, or swellings of long standing ; rub it in for quite a length of time, then wet a flannel in it and wrap around the parts. 4. Green Ointment. — White pine turpentine and lard ^ lb. each ; aoney and beeswax \ lb. each ; melt all together and stir in } oz. of very finely pulverized verdigris. In deep wounds and old sores this works admirably, it keeps out proud flesh, and heals beyond all calculation, keep- ing up a healthy discharge. It was used on a horse, which had run upon a fence stake, the stake entering under the shoulder blade and penetrating eighteen inches alongside of the ribs ; the ointment was introduced by stiffening linen cloth with warm beeswax, and rolling it up into what is called a tent, then smearing the ointment upon the tent and pushing it to the bottom of the wound, whSo? kept the out- MEDIOAL DEFABTMENT. 12r aide from healing until it healed from the boltoni, hnd thus 9aved the horse, which everybody said must die; and of course everybody always knows. The man owning the horse was thrown from his buggy whilst the horse wab running, and had a leg broken ; the horse was well before the man. Hiram Sisson, an old farrier and farmer, of Grown Point, Essex Go., N. Y., has used this and the one bearing his name. No. 3, several years, and speaks of them in the high- est terms. Mr. WykoflF, a few miles north of this city, has used this green ointment for several years, curing a deep cut in the thigh of a friend in a few days with it, which induced him to pay ten dollars to an English lady for the recipe ; since then he cured a bad case of chilblains with it, upon a German boy who had not worn boot or shoe for three years on their account. I have now known it for two years, curing outs on horses' feet, from stepping over corn stubble in spring ploughing, by only a few applications. It is worth more than the cost of this book to any family who has not got it. This mixed with equal parts of the Magnetic) No. 11, and ihe world cannot beat it for general use. 6. Gbeen Ointment. — Honey and beeswax, of each ^ lb. ; epixiia of turpentine 1 oz. : wintergreen oil and laudanum, each 2 okh. ; verdigris, finely pulverlaed, ^ oz. ; lard 1^ lbs. ; mix by a stove fire, a copper kettl<», heating slowly. . I have given this green ointment, varying somewliat from the first, obtained of a gentleman at Jamestown, N. Y., who was selling it in large quantities, as he uses ihe spirits of turpentine instead of the white pine, for that frequently is hard to get, and by some this will be preferred, for the flesh of a few persons will inflame under the free use of verdigris, and it will be seen that this last recipe has not near as much of it in as the first. 6. Dr. KiriREDGE's Celebrated OiUxiubnt. — For " Pimpikd- Paob," " Pbajris Itch," &a — Take a pint bottle and put into it nitric aoid 1 oz. ; quicksilver 1 oz. ; and let stand until the silver is out ; then melt lard i lb. in an earthen bowl and mix all together, and stir with a wooden spatula until cold. Old Dr. Kittredge is an Allopathic Physician, but his ointment has been known over the whole State as death to Hie " Michigan or Vrairie Itch," and the doctor recommends If % ij t| 128 DB. 0HA8E B RECIPES. it for Oanocrons, Sorofulaa, and Syphilitic tJloers, also Salt- rhemn, Ring-worms, " Pimpled Face," Chronic Inflamma- tion of the eyelids, &a. Application — For cutaneous erup- tions, scratch off the scab, warm the cerate, rub in thoroughly once a day ; for running ulcers, spread a thin plaster, and not change oftener than once in thirty-six or forty-eight hours. 7. Mbad'b Salt-Rhedh Oiktment. — AqoafortlB 1 oz. ; quickBilvor 1 oz. ; good hard soap disHolved so as to mix readily 1 oz. ; prepared chalk 1 oz., mixed with 1 lb. of lard ; Incorporate the above by putting the aquafortis and quicksilver into an earthen vessel, and when done effervescing, mix with the other ingredients, cutting the chalk in last, and add a little spirits of turpentine, sa^ half a table-spoon. Mr. Mead is a resident of this eity, adTanced in »ge, over ninety years, and great confidence may be placed in this recipe. He sent it for insertion in the seventh edition of this work, and many have tried it with satisfaction. Ho first proved it on himself, after suffering with Saltrrheum for ten years ; at first it came back after two years ; he then cured It again, and now has been free from it about fourteen years. His only object in presenting me the recipe was to do good to his fellow-creatures. Some physicians think that if Ui. rio acid one ounce, and three drachms, waa put upon the Quick- silver and cut or dissolved by gentle heat, that it would be a better way to prepare it ; but I#ever wish to change when an article works as well as this does. 8. Dr. Gibson, of Jamestown, Pa., says he has never failed in curing sali-rheum or leprosy, (meaning very bad skin diseases) with the following : First, wash the part with Castile soap and water, drv with a soft cloth, then wet the parts erupted with the tincture of iodine ,• ftnd after this gets dry, anoint with citron ointment. When the, eruption exists about parts not covered with clothing, use the fonowing wash alternately with the tincture : Corrosive sublimate 1 dr. ; sugar of lead 3 ozs. ; white vitriol 2 scruples ; salammoniac 3 drs. ; common salt 2 drs. ; soft water 1 pint ; mix. He had a case — a young gentleman who was engaged to be married, but the lady would not marry him till cured, from the fact that a sore of a leprous or obstinate character surrounded his head where the hat came in contact with it. But patience and nine months persc^prance removed the «w^b from his crown, and oroTToed him with a help-moet. HXDIOAL DXfiiaXXST, m Let me here sav that in any disease of long standing, use some of the alterative medicines to cleanse the blood, while using the outward applications. The " Cathartic Al- terative" is especially adapted to these skin diseases, and should be continued some time, even if you ore not anxious to get married. The Citron Ointment is kept by nearly all druggists. 9. White lead in street oil, used as an ointment, cured a lady in Lafayette, Ind., of a bad case of Salt-Kheum. 10. Itch OoiTMBNT.—UnDalted butter 1 i>^. Burgundy pitch 2 0Z8. ; spirits of turpentine 2 ozs. : red precibiiate, pulverized, 1| oz. ; melt the pitch and add the butter, Btirring well together : then remove from the Are, and when a little cool add the spirits oi turpentine, and lastly the precipitate, and stir until cold. This will cure all cases of psora, usually called *' The Itch," and many other skin eruptions, as pimples, blotches, ^. Br. Beach thinks the animal which infests the skin in real itch, is the result of the disetBe, whilst most authors think it the cause. 11. Magnetic Ointment.— Said to bej Tbask's.— Lard, raisins, cut in pieces, and fine-cut tobacco, equal weights ; simmer well together, then strain and press out all from the dregs. The above is an excellent ointment, and looks like its namesake, and its action is really, magnetic. Mix this in equal parts with the first Green Ointment No. 4, and it will make a good application in Piles, Salt Rheam, and all cuta- neous or skin diseases, as well as outs, bruises, &o. If used in Salt-Rheum, some of the alterative remedies must be taken at the same time, and long continued. 12. Stbamonium Ointment. — The probability is, that for general use, no ointment will be found superior to this, when properly made. It is kept by most druggists, but it is not half as good generally as if made by the following directions. I give largo proportions, from the fact that it will be used in large quantities. StramonJim is known by the names of " Jimpson," " Stink Weed.'' ' Thorn Apple." &o., from its thorny burr. Pick about a bushel of the leaves, while yet green, having a fluitabld iron l^ettle placed over a slow fire ; put in a few of the leaves and mash them as you keep adding until you get them E 4? 180 DR. OHASE's BEOIFES. all mashed into a pulpy mass, then put in lard A Iba., and Btew to a crisp ; then strain and box for use. Those who live in towns and prefer to make it with less trouble, will purchase 1 dr. of the soft extract, kept by druggists, rubbing it with a little water until it is of such a cousistence as to allow it to be rubbed into an ointment with lard 1 oz. This will be better than the sale ointment, but not as good as the '* Home Made," above. . It is anodyne, (relieves pain,) in burns, scalds, old irri ta- ble ulcers, shin diseases, painful hemorrhoids, (JPiles,) and is discutient, (driving away swellings,) and very strengthen- ing to broken limbs, i. e., after the bones are I !ed to rub over the limb freely, and thoroughly ; it reduces the swell- ing, and gives tone to the muscles, tendons, &c. We have recently known two cases of fracture, one a compound fracture of the ankle, the other of the wrist, both in persons well advanced in life ; in both cases strength re- turned very slow, but with double speed by the free appli- cation of this ointment ; and in the first case it undoubtedly prevented mortification. It is valuable, also, in .painful or swelled rheumatism. Or, perhaps what would be prefera- ble, in such cases, is a tincture made of the seeds from the thorny burr, two .ounces, to alcohol and water, of each, a half pint, if it is not found ahead of the " Tincture of Arnica," I will give you my head for a " Foot-Ball." In applying it, wet cloths or brown paper, and bind upon the parts, keeping them well wet. To make this tincture, see "Tinctures." 13. Toad Ointment. — For sprains, strains, lame-back, rheumatism, caked breasts, caked adders, &c., &o. « Good sized live toads, 4 in number, put into boiling water and cook very toft ; then take them out and boil the water down to ^ pint, and add fresh churned, unsalted butter 1 lb. and simmer together ; at the last add tincture of arnica 2 ozs. This was obtained from an old Physician, who thought more of it than of any other prescription in his possession. Some persons might think it hard on toads, but you could not kiU them quicker in any other way. JAin.I>ICE.— Dr. Peabodt's Cdrk. — In rrs Worst Forms. — Red iodide of mercury 7 grs. ; iodide of potassium 9 grs, ; aqua dis. (distilled water) 1 oz. ; mix. Commence by giving fi drops 3 or 4 times a day ; increasing one drop a day until 12 or 15 drops ftre given at a dose. Give in a little water immediately / MBDIOAL DEPABTMEMT* 181 r*-' after meals. If it causes a griping sensation in the borels, and fullness in the head when you get up to 12 or 16 drops, go back to G drops, and up again as before. In two very bad cases of jaundice, I have knewn the above to be entirely successful. I am aware that many persons will not use any prepara- tion containing mercury in any of its forms, while there are many others wlio would use them for that very reason ; my object is to benefit all, without strengthening the prejiir dices of ani/ ; for this reason I give you the following : 2. Drink fob Jaundice. — Tie up soot and saffron, equ»l parts, in a cloth to the size of half a nen's egg, let it lie in a glass of water over night ; in the mor ng put the yolk of an eg^, beaten into this water, and drink 't Do this 3 mornings, skipping 3, until 9 doses have been taken. I am assured that it has proved successful in ma»y bad cases. See also Soot Coffee, No. 12, amongst the Ague remedies.. PILES. — Successful Remedies.— Internal Remedy.- -Cwam of tartar, jalap, pulverized, senna and flowers of sulphur I oz. each ; nitrate of potash (saltpetre), ^ oz. ; golden seal 1 oz., thoroughly pulverize all together, in a mortar, and give a teaspoon t^ree times every day, or the dose may bo varied to suit the condition of the patient, taking more or less to suit circumstances, keeping the bowels in a solvent state. External Afflk'vtion.— Inner bark of the white oak trft«, boil and strain, and boii again until you obtain ^ pint of the extract, very thick ; then add i pint of the oil of the oldest and strongest bacon you can procure ; simmer together until a union takes place when cold. Then apply by the finger up the rectum every night until well. Be very strict to abstain from strong and stimu- lating diet. The above is a sure cure for blind or bleeding piles, in all cases, sooner or later. Dr. Harriman, of A&dersontown, Ind., has been very successful with this plan of treating Piles ; and since I ob- tained the plan, now two years, I iia?e iiad one opportunity of proving its efficiency upon a gentleman who had been laid up for days, and sometimes weeks, with the complaint; by a few applications of the external remedy he has b«on enabled to keep dir^tly along with his labor. 2. PiiF Cbbatf — Carbonate o lead ^ oz. ; sulphate of m'>rphipe 15 grs. ; strammonium ointment 1 oz. ; olive oil 20 drops. Mix, and apply three times a day, oi as oooaBion and pain may r«qnire. . ' 132 DB« OBjk Thifl cerate has been highly celebratca &s a remedy in Piles. It will reKeve the pain most assuredly. Piles have been cured with lamp oil applied to the parts two or three times a day. Even tallow, or any simple ointment, is good for dry Piles, that is, for pain m those parts, coming on often in the dead of night, without apparent cause. 3. For External Piles. — The following is very highly spoken of: Take oyster shells, wash and bum them, then finely pulverize and rub up with fresh lard ; anoint with this, and take internally sulphur one ounce, mixed with three ounces of pulverized rosin ; take night and morning what will lay on a five cent piece. Take every day for the first week, then every three or four days, until well, con- tinuing the ointment. 'sjf Mrs." MoRiBHEAD, of Danville, Ind., cured herself of Piles by simply sitting in a hip-bath of warm water, every time the pains would come on, after stools or any other time, remaining in the bath until the pains left her. Her husband cured himself by sitting in cold water, and using upon the parts &n ointment made by stewing celendine in fresh lard. I give these various plans, so that if one fails, a remedy may certainly be found amongst the many given. G. P. Rogers, of Irontown, 0., has kaown cases cured by using the following ointment: Povdered opium and powdered rosin, one ounce each, mixed with one ounce of tallow, and anoint ks required. 6. Dr. D. W. Raymond, of Conneaut, 0., says : Equal weights of glycerine and tannin will cure Piles, by anoint- ing with it, and that very speedily ; also cures sore or cracked nipples in twenty-four hours, and is remarkably Q;ood foi any excoriation, or sore, of the skin. I know that e^mple tallow introduced into the rectum is exceedingly beneficial in Piles, which satisfies me tbat any preparation containing oil or any kind of grease, is good. 7. I have found in the scrap of an old newspaper, the following, and it is so easily tried, and speaks with so much certainty, and is-^so simple, that I givolt an insertion. ^\ Simple Cure for Piles. — Mix one table-spoon of sul- phur with half a pint of milk, to bo taken every day Until MXDIOAL DEPABTMEMT. 183 favorable syniptoms appear, and then oooasionallj, as the case may require. The above is a cheap, simple, and most infallible cure for that most painftd and unpleasant disorder. It has been used with complete success in old and inveterate cases where iudividiials had spent scores of dollars in medi- cal advice. It is equally used as a preventive. It will in- jure none, and only requires a trial." 8. Paschal Mason, living near this city, cured a South- ern lady visiting in the neighborhood, who was goufined to the bed with them, by making a strong tea o£ the wild swamp-currant root, drinking occasionally for a few daj^s only. 9. JiMPSON Leaves and parsely, a handful of each, stewed in lard, one pound, and used as an ointment, haa cured many cases. ANODYNES— Hoffman's Anodtke, or Golden Tinotdkb. — Sulphuric ether 2 ozs. ; alcohol 4 ozs. ; and eiherial oil | dr. ^ mix. Dose— From half to two teaspoons ; {^ dr. to ^ drs.) according to the urgency or pain for which it is given. It is given in a little sweetened water, and much pre- ferred by the Germans to laudanum, especially where lauda* num causes sickness of the stomach. It makes an excellent local application in neuralgia and other painful affections, being second cousin to the Magnetic Tooth Cordial and Paralytic Liniment. 2. Laudanum. — Best Turkey c "iom 1 oz. ; slice aiid pour upon it boiling water 1 gill, and work it in a bowl or morter until it U dissolved ; then pour it into the bottle, and with alcohol of 76 per cent, proof ^ pt., rinse the dish, adding the alcohol to the prepft' ration, shakmg well, and in 24 hours it will be ready for use Dose — From 10 to 30 drops for adults, according to the strengtl of the patient, or severity of the pain. Thirty drops of this laudanum will be equal to one grain of opium, and this is a much better way to prepare it than putting the opium into alcohol, or any other spirits alone, for in that case much of the opium does not dissolve. See the remarks occuring after Godfrey's Cordial. 3. Paregoric. — Best opium 1^ dr., dissolve it in about 2 table- spoons of boiling water ; then add benzoic acid ^ dr. ; oil of anise ^ a fluid dr. ; clarified honey 1 oz. ; camphor gum 1 scruple ; alco- hol, 76 per cent., 11 fluid ozs. ; distilled water 4A fluid oas. ; macerate, (keep warm,) foi;2 weeks. Doss— For children, 6 to 20 drops ■ate, (kee] |ad«te, 1 to 2 teaspooofl. -U- " !• *5 iMfiiim 134 DB. OHASE'S KEOIPfiS. Used as p^ Anoiljne and antispasmodio, allays oough, re- lievefj nausea, and slight pain in the stomach and bowels, checks diarrhea and procures sleep. Used principally for children. See the remarks after No. 5, below. 4. Batbman's Pectoral Drops. — Opium in powder, catechu in powder, camphor gum, red saunders, rasped, of each A oz. ; oil of anise 1 dr. ^ dilute alcohol [alcohol of 76 per cent., and water in equal proportions,] 1 gal. Keep warm for 2 weeks. The opium strength of this is about equal to paregoric, and it is used for sunilar purposes, and doses. See the re- marks below. 6. Godfrbt's Cordial. — ^Diasolve pure carbonate of potassa 1 oz.; in water 5 qts., and add ni^jg golden syrup or best molasses 3 qts., and heat until they begin to simmer ; take off the scum, and add laudanum 9 ozs., and oil of sassafras 1 dr. Mix well. Use similar to the two last. Bemares. — It is a well known fact that much injury is done to children by the use of anodynes, such as the above, and " Mrs. Winslow's soothing syrup," which is now taking the place, to a great extent, in towns, of the foregoing, for I noticed a short time ago eighty-seven empty bottles with Mrs. Winslow's label upon them, sitting on a counter of one of our drug stores, which led me to ask if they put up her syrup. The answer was no, a l/xdy in this city has fed that much to one child within the past eighteen months. The question might be asked, why do we tell people how to make any of these anodynes ? Because they are good in proper cases, when properly used, and to give a place for these remarks ; for those who are evil disposed will find a way to accomplish their designs, whilst the well disposed will, or can, act only from knowledge, and if they do not know tJie evils arising from the constant use of anodynes on children, are as liable to do evil as the evil disposed. Then let it be remembered that the 3onstant use of opium in any of its preparationa on children, or adults, disturbs the nervous system, and establishes a nervous necessity for its continuation. Then use them only in severe pain, or extreme nervousness, laying them by again as soon as possible under the circumstances of the case. Of course ^we do not give a recipe for the Soothing Syrup spoken of, as its ^act com- position has not yet come out to the public ; but that its MEDICAL DEt>AItTMENT. m ddothing properties are owing to opium, there is not the least doubt. See '' Carminatives/' which are preferable to opiates, especially for children. RHEUMATISMS. — Inplammatort Rheumatism — Bill Wright's AND OTHER CcRES.— SulphuT and saltpetre, of each 1 oz. ; gum guaiac 1-2 oz. ; colchicum root, or seed, and nutmegs, of each 4 oz. ; all to be pulverized and mixed with simple syrup of molas- ses 2 ozs. Dose. — One teaspoon every 2 hours until it moves the bowels rather freely ; then three or four times daily until cured. • Mr. Wright, of the Niagara Hotel, Toledo, 0., has several times proved this to be an excellent medicine, and since I obtained it I found a man at Marshall, Mich., one Saturday evening, with his feet and legs so swollen with this disease that he could but just crawl with two crutches. I filled this prescription and gave him a teaspoon of it every two hours until it moved his bowels, then every four hours, and on Monday noon he could walk quite comfortably without cane or crutch, the medicine costing only twenty cents. 2. Rheumatic Alterative. — In^^Rheumatism of long standing the following preparation has often proved very valuable: Colchicum seed, and black cohosh root, of each 1-2 oz., the root to be bruised ; best rye whisky 1 pt ; put together and let stand 3 or 4 days. Dose — From one teaspoon to a table-spoon 3 times daily, before meals. The action will be to loosen the bowels, or cause a little sickness at the stomach ; and the dose may be modified not to cause too great an effect upon the patient either way, but increasing the dose if necessary until one of these specific actions is felt, and lessening it if the action is too great in any case. 3. Rheumatic Lenimeu^.— Olive oil, spirits of camphor, and chloroform, of each 2 ozs. ; sassafras oil 1 teaspoon. First add the oil of sassafras to the olive oil, then the spirits of camphor, and shake well before putting in the chloroform, shaking when used, keeping it corked, as the chloroform evaporates very fast if left open. Apply 3 or 4 times daily, rubbing it well, and always to- wards the body. I had a brother-in-law cured of a very bad case of inflam- matory, or swelling rheumatism, by the use of this liniment — accomplished in ab^ut four days, without other treatment. 186 t>B. OHASE^S BEOtPlBS. He paid five dollars for the recipe after the cure. Bat 1 would recommend the use of this in connection with " Bill Wright's Cure," above, feeling perfectly assured that no attack will stand before the internal and external combina- tion. 4. J. B. HiTOHOOGx, Ypsilanti, Mioh., uses spirits of torpentiae 1 pi ; tar 2 teaspoons ; oil of vitriol 1 teaspoon, mixing in a mug ;' then sets them on fire, letting it bm'n 15 minuteS; and bottle for use. ^e bathes the parts freely twice daily with this prepara- tion, then l^inds on the mashed tory weed, as mentioned under the head of " Reducing Swellings," and gives a little, spirits of turpentine internally. 5. Altah Raymond — Takes rum 1 pt. ; neats-foot oil ^ pt., or if the joint is stiff, skmik's oil instead of the other ; spirits of turpen- tine 1 gill, and simmers them together, and bottle for use, rubbing It in thoroughly 3 times times daily. He also directs to soak the feet in hot water, scraping the l)Ottoms of the feet with an old knife ; then he has poke root roasted a,nd mashed, mixing with it tar and sulphur to form drafts for the feet. With this method of treatment he assures me he has been successful for 30 years. And it bears so strong a resemblance to Dr. Kittredge's preparation next following, for sti£fencd joints in rheumatism, that it gives me double confidence in them both. 6. Db. KrTTBEDOE's Remedy for Rhedmatism and Stiff Joints. —Strong camphor spirits 1 pt. ; neats-foot, coon, bear, or skunk's oil 1 pt. I spirits of turpentine i pt. Shake the bottle when used, and apply 3 times daily, by pouring on a little at a time and rub- bing in all you can for 20 to 30 minutes. The old doctor recommends this as a sure cure for chronic rheumatisms, sprains, stiff joints where they have not formed an anchylosis, that is, if the bones have not actually grown together ; and as remarked in connection with his ointment. No. 6, he has been a very celebrated physician for many years ; but like many other men with superior minds, oh 1 how fallen. Rum, and its advocates, have got a most fear- ful account to balance. 7. French and other Remedies for Chronic Rheu- matism. — Dr. Bonnet, of Graulbet, France, states in a letter to the Abeille Medicale, that he '' has been long in the habit of preaoribing t ( UHMn MEDICAL DEPARTMENT. m ** The essetiUal oU of turpentine for frictions against rheumatism. And that he has used it himself with perfect success, having almost instantaneously got rid of rheumatic pains in botii knees and in the left shoulder/' He was led to make the presoription from having used the oil of turpentine to wash coal-tar and othtv sticking mixture from his hands. After having washed his hands in soap and water, and drying them, a pricking sensation like an electric spark upon the knuckles from a machine, lasting ahout two hours, was always experienced, and it is to this exciting action that he attributes its efficacy. It may be used twice or thrice daily. 8. Chronic rheumatism has been cured in twenty-four hours, after two years' suffering, by using alcohol, spirits of turpentine, sweet spirits of nitre, and oil of juniper, equal parts of each, mix ; rub well into the parts, and take ten drops at bed time in water. * 9. Btttebs fob Chronic Rheumatism. — Prickly-ash berries, spikenard root, yellow poplar and dog- wood barks, of each ^ lb. ; all pulverized and put into a gallon jug, ; iB8d— Elecampane, angelica, oomfrer, and spikenard roots, with hoarhound tops, of each 1 os. ; bnuae and steep in honey 1 pt. Dosa — ^A table-Bpoon taken hot every few minutes, until relief Is obtained, then j^veral times daily until a cure is effected. It cured a young lady near the ^* Falls of the Ohio,** whom the doctors said it was wicked to disturb ; " let her die in peace," was their adyioe to the parents. An old lady, instead, let her Kve in peace. It wul be found yery excel- lent in any cough, eyen low consumptiyes will find great relief from its use. 2. Dr. J. E. Finley, of Pittsburgh, cured a lady with whom I afterwards became acquainted, and fiirom the jonb pleteness of the cure I was induced to write to the doetoSr and obtain the prescription. It is as follows : Oil of tar 1 dr. ; tincture of Teratrom yiride 2 drs. ; rimple Brrap 2 drs. ; mix. Dosa— For adults 15 drops three or four times daily. I haye yery great oonfidence in this preoeription. 3. A lady at Yellow Springs, 0., tells me that she cured hersel' of Asthma by using for her common drink a tea made of tlie leaves of common chestnut, which had fallen f^om the tree in autumn ; sweeten well, and continue its use for 2 or 3 months. She used it for a month at first, and it returned, when she oontinuecl its use for two months ; and ten years, haye elapsed without its return. It is certainly safe as well as «imple, and of easy trial. Lobelia is considered by some a speoifio in asthma, but the prejudice against it is so great I forbear speaking fur- ther of it, but : 4. Iodide of potassium has cured a bad case of asthma kf /^ 140 DB. OHASB'S BEOIPES. 14- takli^ ft gr. doses, 3 times daily. Talie } oz. and put it into a ▼ial, and add S2 teaspoons of water : then 1 teaspoon of it will contain the 6 grs., whloh, put into I gill more of water, and drink before meals. COMPOSITION POWDBB.— Thompson's.— " Bayberry bark 3 lbs. ; hemlock bark 1 lb. ; ginger root 1 lb. ; cayenne pepper 2 ocs. j dlovei 2 on. ; all finely pulverized and well mixed. Dosk — One-half of a teaspoon of it, and a spoon of sugar : put them into a teaoup, and pour it half full of boiling water ; let U stand a few minutes and flii the cup with milk, and drink fteely. If no milk is to b^ Obtained, fill up the cup with hot water. *** This, in the first stages and less violent attao]cs of dis ease, is a valuable medicine, and may be safely employed in all case^. It ii good in rel^z, pain in the stomach and bowels, and to ranove all otDstructions caused by cold. A few doses the patfent being in bed with a steaming stone at the feet, or having soaked the feet fifteen or twenty minutes tn hot wati^, driqking freely of the tea at the same time, will ooice a bad ooM, and often throw off disease in its first st^ges.*^ I use ity taking, or giving lobelia emetics, as men- tioned under the hea'- of ^*Eclecti<^ Smetios." I use it also, as a : 2. Dyspeptic Tba. — ^Where an attack has been brought ^n by oTor-indulgence at on extra rich meal, you will find immediate and generally perfect relief by having a cup of this tea made, and drinking about one-half of it fifteen min- utes before meals, and the balance just as you sit down to the meal, not taking any^ other fli^id at all until after diges- tion is over, fbUowlng up the same plan for a few days or weeks, as may be necessary. It stimulate!^, the stomach to action, cauinng digestion' and absorption,' pifeventing also the accumulation of gas, which is the cause of eructations of wind from the stomach, Oomi^Qnl^ called belching, and gives tone to the whole system. A cup of this tea taken when going out into extreme cold, will be found a better warmer than the i^hiskey or any other ardent spirit, which so many resoH to upon suoh oooas^oni^i and, what is best of all. It will be found : 3. A Pkbpeot Cube voe Dhunkenniss. — Let those who are accustomed to the excessive use of ardent spirits, and who" wish to stop the pru^^ice, I say, let such have a oup of this tea made, as above ^L^ected, and drink a part of P •>»Mi f MEDIOAL BEPABTIOINT. it mmioaiateiy dn rinng in tne morniog, ana. the bafapM > just before meal time, keeping entirely away iVo^ Uia plaoes of temptation, they will find a wfurm, healUjyglow. spreading ftom the etomaoh ov^ the whole syeiem, with a > desire for food, instead of '' rot gut." Follow this up faitli- fully two or three times daily, or whenever the pravingbe^hs for the accustomed stimulus, for a few days or week^, jfa^ neoesmry, and it will be found that the cayenne, which ia the purest stimulant in the whole Materia Medioa, with its assistant, the bay berry, which stimulate without an after. prositat^f have gradually supplied and satisfied the previ:.'** ous false appetite or cravings of the stomach; whilst the combination has toned up the stomach together with the whole system, and again you find yourself a man. But remember, oh, remember ! your only safety is in keep- ing entirely away from places where intoxicating spirits are kept or sold I A 6wrh€(f child will not play with fire. I would to (Jqd that a burned man was equally wise. For not one in a tTwu- sand can resist the solicitation of enemies (called friends), to take a glass, just one, and that one glass acts like fresh coals u]^n extinguished brands, and the fire goes ahead again with a hundred fold more enei^ than if thrown upon wood which had never been charred ; hence the propriety of the Sentence " plucked as a brand from the everlasting burn- ings " — for i£ re-kindled there is but little prospect of another extinguishment of the raging fire. Dr. Thompson, notwith- standing all that has been said against him, has done more good than any other medical man that ever lived ; for he set the people to studying for themselves. * STDtULANT— In Low Fevers, and APnat Utebiwb Hemorr- HAOBS. — MisTUBA Sfuuxus yini Galltoi.— ;-Be8t brandy, and cin- namon water, of each 4 fluid ozs.; the yolks of 2 eggs, w^U beaten ; loaf sugar ^ oz. ; oil of cinnamon 2 drops : mix. Dose — From A to 1 (fluid) oz. ; as often ac required. Tms makes both eat and drink. Of coarse, any other flivvoring oils can be used, i/ preferred, in place of the cinnamon. The mixture is an imitation of the well-known oompousd termed ** egg.flip." It is an exceedingly valuable stimulant and restorative, and is employed in the latter stages of low feveirs, and in extreme exhaustion from uterine hemorrhages^ •VM| 142 ■ » . It mtsj be fund in place of the "egg-iu^" tifokm of in thr teentment of oonsnmption, No. 6. ALTEBAti V Jtg»— Stbut ob Blood Pubifibil— Hondnraa uampt^ rlUft 12 oBk ; gnfttaonm iIuylngB 6 oa. : wintergre«n leaf 4 oa. ; tMnfrM root bark 4 om. ; elder flowen 4 om. ; yellow dock S oai ; bordook root 4 osm. ; dandelion root 6 oxb. ; bitteraweetroot 2 on. : •11 bralMd. Place these ingredients in a ■oitable yenel and add alcohol 1 pt, with water suiBoient to cover handBomelj, set tbem In a moderaielv warm place for 3 ov 4 days, pour off 1 pt of the tinetora and set it aside unUl you add water to the ingredienti and boil till you obtain the strengUit pour off and add more water and boil again, then boil the two waters down to 1 qt ; stndn, and add the liquor first poured olT, and add 2 1-2 lbs. crashed or oolfee Bogar, and simmer to form a svrop ; when cool, bottle and seal up for nse. Dow— One to 2 table-spoons, accerding to the. age and strength oi the patient, haif an hour before meals and at bedtime. Tbii, or any other alteratiTv, when given, should be fol- lowed up for weeks or months, Kooording to the disease for whioh i'^ is prescribed, as scrofula, and for every disease de- pending upon an impure condition of the blood. It ought to be used in sore eyes of long standing, old ulcers, salt- rheum, &c. I would not give this for Jayne's Alterative, nor Swain's, Townsend's or Ayre's Sarsaparillas, because I know it is good, and we also know what it is made of. 2. ALTKBATrvB, VsBT Stbono.— Poke, mandrake, yellow dock, sassafras, blue flag, roots, and bark of the roots, guaiac wood raspings, and sweet elder flowers, of each 4 ora. ; caraway seed 3 ozs. ; bruise the roots, and put to the whole, a!'}ohol 1 qi, and water to cover all handsomely^ let stand S or 4 days in a warm place as the last recipe above, making everv way the same, except to pour off 1 qt instead of 1 pt, as in the first, of spirit ; then boil the waters to 1 qt, adding 4 lbs. of sugar with ue quart of spirit tincture. The dose being only 1 table-spoon 4 times daily . as above. * But if that amount should make the bowels too loose, re- duce the quantity; and if that amount does not act upon the bowels at all, increase the dose to keep the bowels solv- ent. This may bo used in the most inveterate diseases of long standing, syphilis not excepted. 3. Altbbativb Gathai^tio— Powdbb.—- Bochelle salts, 6 ozs. i cream of tartar 2 ozs. ; sulphur 1 oz. ; [epsom salts may be usedi but are not quite as good,] place the salts in a dripping-pan and set in tiie stove oven until all the water of crystalization is dried fat; then place all in a mortar and rob finely and tboronghlf I m f toftttcr. Ow 111 I vp a few ipoons of the p(yw4«r with mo- IflMW : then Uk« a tMwpooa erery three or focr hours until % oethaftio ftOtlon It kept up for 24 to 86 hoon ; then t-ice onoe or twice dellT only, to act on the blood, i^oreMing once in ten days to (d np the oathartio action, ae at Ont This alteratiTO \b espeoiallj valoAUe in any disease of the skin, as itoh, pimplefl, siJt-rheam, and any other erup- tions where an ontward application is heing made, or ii about to be made, also valname in sore eyes. 4. ALTBunyK, Tome, and Gaxuartio Birrms.— Beet rye whiflkir, and a '<«, of each 1 qt ; best ungroond Jt'eruvian bark, oolombo root, jd prickly-ash berries, of each 2 ozs. ; priokly- ash, black (drarry, and poplar barks, of each 1 os. ; all to be the dry ardoles, and all to be pnlverized before potting into the spirits ; shake erery day for a week, by Wi. H time it will be ready foi use. Dcsft— (hie or two table-epoous at morning and evening meals. Although this alterative is mentioned last in the list, yet it is not least in value. I first made this prescription for my own use, feeling that I needed something of just such a nature, and it worked so admirably that I gave it to others* It has given snoh entire satisfaction that I am now at the tenth ecution giving it a place to do a greater good than if kept from the world. If, in any case, it causes any griping sensations, or too great action upon the bowels, lessen the dose, and if neither of these actions are felt, increase the dose, or take it three times daily. I think any of the fruit wines will do in place of the spirits and water, by adding alcohol one-half pint It will be found very valuable in all oases of weakness from, general debility, and especially so when the liver is inactive, known by constant costiveness. After using out the spirits, it may be filled again in the same way. It will J)o found very valuable in ague, acd after all fevers, preventing relapse, and streuigthening up the general system. DIURETICS.— Pnx, Dbops, DsooonoN, Aa^-Solidified co- paiba 2 parts ; alcohoUo extract of cupebs 1 part ; formed into puis with a little oil of joniper. r^osB— 1 or 2 pills three or four times daily. Druggists oaa obtain tbem of Tilden ^ Oo., New YoriL . IM .r^-iJis'i'^iA'i^-j^- ♦.iA-^i^^^-^" I The pUl h«f^i»ib«A4 v^ry vidiii^elii afi thai heading, il< desired. ,. . f/^^ 2. DiUBStio BiSOFS.— Oil of oul>^ i 09lj sweetioflritB of nitre | ^ oz. : balsam of oopaiba 1 oz. : Harlem Oil Ipot^e i oil of iavendei) t 20 drops f spirits Of turpentme 20 ^ps ; m^ Dose— Ten to 25 , . drops, as the stomaob will beat) '3 tiiM» daily. It maj be hm^ Ui any of the aboTe dUseaaes with gxieat . . satisfiMtion. 3. DiDiusno DBooimoN.— <2a6«B of the meadeiw,. dwarf '^Ider^ « v yellow dock and Dolnr^oots, of «acb 1 iti. ; dan^Ht^n,' bnrddb^t?! American ^arsapaiula^ and blaei^iag roots^of eaefa- f tjis. | j^d or ;; poimd all up, and thoroairblv ■iii;.'> DosB-^Take np a pincb with ^ the ends of the fingers and thumb of one hand, say | to ^ oz., and pour upon it 1 pt. of boiling water, stei^iiQg|k|wmlf|^ wbeni^ool, take a swallow ok two BufiSefently often t6 use np the pt in the 4; coarse of the da^bi^ Follow this plantwoor three Myv^or as may benecesMryt^ft resoming the oonrse once in ten or twelve days. It may het| used in all obscniotions of the lddneys^whepca the niine is ,{ high eobred or somty. 4. Diuretic Tinoture. — Green or groT^ingr^amiini nia^e^, put into a bottle and covered with gin,Js an exc3lent mnretic. . 5. DiURHTiq FOB Ghharhn.— Spints of nitre ; a' few drops in a . little spearmint tea., is all sufficient For •very joaog children ^^* pumpkin seed or watermelon seed tep. is f erhajpn thebet^ ^ DROPSY— €TB07.ANDk^tHl«.QnMB «f the meadow root, dwarf -4 elder flowers, berries, or inner bark, juniper berries, horse-raditdiiiri root, pod milkweed or silk weed, often called, root of each i ozs, $ • priQkly*a8b barker berries, maadrake*root, bittiersweet bark, of the root, of ea^h 2 oOi : white muitard seed Jl ^b.^ Holhind gii Ipt Peur boiling water upon all, except^ the. gii^^Andi keep hot for twelve hours; then boil and pour off twiee, and boiki^'' down to three quarts and sMpy.addwguibree.poiuids oft I; sugar, and lastly the gin. DdSE — Take all the > stomach (<»' will bear, four tC jb daily, say a wine-glass or mo«^ This will be used in connection with the foHowing.r, ^ 2. Dropsy Pills.— Jalap . 60 grs. : gamboge. 80 g*^. ; jpodo- p'tysUip 20 grs. ; elat^ium .12 gnt f aloee BOgrSi ^ ei^yenneSaghi. ; - ., castile soap shayed, dried and pulverized, 20 grs. , croton ou 99*'**^ a liaimai; MdRnnnmp 1« r drofp-) powder aH Siely, and mix tbdrdngily j tiiw fttm into ptU mass hy uslDg a thick maeilage made of e^nalfarls of gnm arable and tragacanth, and divide into 8 gr. pills. DosB — One pill every 2 days for the first week, then uvmj 3 or 4 dayiS nnfil the water is evacuated bj the conikbiued aid to venture over one pill at a doae ; t^o have been taken, how- ever : but they made a scattering among the waste paper, oausiug feurteen evacuations, havingr to oall^ for the second « chamber " the first fite% Some have called them the " Irish Pm^" from their resemblance to the Irish girl with her brush and aonib broom. They make eleaa work^ miU7^TING'PLASirBB^EXTiki8iVEa&TUsEDBrEeLB0CSD»^Tar 1 lb. ; Burgundy pitch ^ oz. ; white pir3 turpentine 1 oz. ; rooin 2 ozs. Boil the tar. rgsLi and gum to^;ether a short time, remove from the fl^e, and^ bot In fintelv pulverized niatidihik^TOOt, blood xoot, poke rdot, and thdtau tura!p, of each 1 oz. Thiv plaster is nted ^ztosiSivehr iu oU * oasev where counter irrit8«i6tt or revtildiver are indiottted'j as id oh^lnio affect tions of the liver and lutfgS, or dikeased joints, &c It is ap^kfd^by fijiMxdlng Hi5n'«k»tk said Vt;^'thdiiett(ii# pain, rekt«#i«g it evef^y dayt, wiping* off any altetter whieh may be on Itfartdi^teo wi^itig the sore j. 4^ioed by it with a dry ofothy until > I'OHef is obtainedf^'OraH iOlig<^as the pfttiei^t can bear it. Always avoid wetting the sore, as it will osnsein- fliunmation, and you will be obliged to hwd' it" iq^imtted^ i\ 'I I 1461 DBi OBAMB'S BKOIFBS. ately, nflteftd of which the dedp is to keep a numing tore M long as may be neoesiary, nsiog at the same time ooiuti- tational remedies as the ease may require. INFLAMMATION.— Of the Liykb.— Iniiammatioii of the liver, or as it is generally called, ^* Liver complaint/' is of two forms, acute and ohtonic. The aeute lorm is known by a sense of weight and pain in the right side, un- 'der the short ribs, and often in that shoulder, or between tlie shoulders, pale or yellow appearance, often grea^epres- sion of spirits, not much appetite, costiveness, high colored urine, &o., and often much fever, and sometimes with pain similar to that of pleurisy, difficult breat^iing, dry cough, and sometimes sickness, wiUi vomiting. In the chronic, or long standing complaint, in addition to the above, there is generally flatblence, with pain in the stomach, foul breath and mouth, coated tongue, indigestion, eyes yellow, stools day colOrod, with great weakness and slow emaciation, firequently gdng on to lUoeration, giving symp- toms as mentioned under t^ l^ead of " Ointment of ulcer- ated Liver," &c. In the acute form you will pursue the name course as mentioned under the head of " rleurisy," besides taking either of the Liver Pills or Liver Drops mentioned beloW, in full cathartic doaes, until relieved ^ but in the chronic form, the Pills, in connection with the ** Ointment," or ** Irrita- ting Plaster," will be fbund all sufficient, unless Jaundice has already set in ; then look to the directions undef that disease. 2. EouBCTio LmsB Pill.— Podophyllin 10 gra. ; leptandrin 20 grs. ; sangoinarine^* 10 grs..; extract of dandeUon ZOgrs. ; formed mto 20 puis, by being moistened a little with some essential oil, as oinnamon oi! peppennMit, A». Dota— In dnonio diseases of the liver, take 1 pill at night, for seveoral days, or two may be taken at flrst to move the bowels ; then 1 daily. In connection with the piU, #ear the " IrrittliDg Plaster" over the region of the liver, washing the whole body daily, by means of towels, and rubbing dry, being oareful not to wet the sore caused by the pUuter ; as an active cathartio • NOnE.<-TlMta wtidfl* we Iraptlqr Volwlto fb^iMum, mtAtn twftaBkif tobe 1^') MBDIOAL DXPABTMBRT. t« ^A from two to three pills may be taken & dl oases where eal- omel or blue pills are oonndeied aptplioable by ^* Old Sehool Physioiaiis." ^^^ * 3. LiTSB Fill iMPBOTaD-rLeptaiidrin, 40 grs. ; pbdopbylia and Cayenne 30 grs. each ; sangainarine irldin and ipecac 15 grs. each ; see that all are pnlTeriaed and #eU mixed ^ ttim form into pill- maai by niUig 1-2 dr. of the aoft extract of man^mke and a few drops of anise oil^ then roll oat into tpire^-graiu pills. Do8i — ^Two pills taken at bedtime will generally operate , by morning; but there are those who will require three, whilst one pill every night on retiring, will be found the best 0(Hrr80tiye of the liver of anything now in use, for com- mon oases ; but in very bad cases where the pill, does not ^arouse the liver to aotion, take the following : 4. L^^ Dbops for Obstinatb GaSE^.— Tinctures of mandrake and blue flag roots, of each 1*2 est. ; and of culvers root 2 oZi Dom^YiK adultly 1 teaspoon every 3 to 6 hoars, increaling the dose gra^uidly until you reach two or three teaspoons, if the month aoes not Wome sore, and the stomach not aickened, nox lAe bowels moved too freely. These drops are especially applicable in liver and spleen enlargements, and cases of very long standing disease of these pigans ; and in such cases it mav be well to use exte^ na%, over the liver and spleen, especially if there is believed to be tdceration, the following : 6. OnmuNT for Ulcbbatkd Livbr, Aoiin Gaxi, ftOir— Take a good handihl of amartweed, wormwood, aad tiie bark of somao root, boil all together to get the steength, then strain and boil down carefally to 1-2 pt, adding lard j^ lb., and simniering to- gether ; when nearly cool add a teaspoon of spirits of turpentine. Apply at ni^t, by rubbing it ov^er the liver or other' '(»rgan which may have pain or disease located upon it, heal- ing it in w^ by the stove or by a heated iron, puttiBg it on, rubbing, and heating it in three or four times eadi applioa' 1 obtdned this pretoription from the Rev. Mr. Fraser, of this city, whose nephew was so afflicted with ulceration of the liver that a council of doctors said he must die; the pain was situated just under the short ribs of the right aide, c(»Kipl6tely bowing Hm together, like the one of old, who Qonld <' in no wise lift up henolf." He had htd a n0l»f m ^ pimsb's KBosne. * wf^ cUad «oii|9 jrepf^s lipforo j bujb Ht^t^is juno^ure of 4ie oMe t^ inva|^,dr^lWi^l^S,t rest until |t was tried^ and it entirely cured the patiept. 1!!he £14^ t6)ls me he W given it to a great many pan^vMf, fyie paiofi <<»f Intemtl losgitna, ^goe cakes, &o.y and thstit lMa«iwn gnsi MtisftMStion — a p«rfeot core. The two first named artioks I know to be good tbr what they are here reee^mmended, I thiBy^ are geoain% iised by boilitig a,nd laying tb« herba aver jkliaafiMted parts^ nr by atearoing t^ parta over the heiba I aeeliio reaflon why spints iftom the other world ahoold not be penDutted to communicate with thOiispin^ of friends ;lMare;:.but tiiaib thoy ai« fio per^ mitted to oommttnMate> . in aofdi a wsf. to he undentood by ufl fir^l ffiort^y | never ^id nor do .{ now believe, neither do i bebav^ this tf»}^innsftin4i.t^ \ umnsxmj imptamaasT, ^149 X , 79hf» ii IhUpiiefMriptioii dP the Bev.illflRrii.^d^ftl,^ tho '^ ReOtedf PJbYskBui/' bnnigbil dot nl^lNlyniid ir8t)l)ttftflMttte l&ioi'ittit- t(t» small "tin filf^«3rf9P» .': • If y^ti ire ii(^wf'\s£Mi fm^i&it §io.%m''mLp. upon the pills ; if you do, put in mw^^d Se^niokmi^ it to prevent moistening the pill too miioh|^|tiii|g them into the p^lNH^r as Bobh A^'piiibk 3."Aim)dtkb V^AM.~-^Q^Mm& S|,/gr4k;'e:||r8<||;^Qf .sieaiBjtMSQm and hyoseiamus, of each 18 grs. ; fonn viUk pfll:ma88 by nsjng so* Intioh of gmn alfablo and ttagifl^th, qi3t& thK" Dtvideiiilo 40piH8. DeSB— Inease 6f0(iiV^repdfhWfim taken at bedtime will be foond togive^ar^tiiet'night <0fiMet. (^nt^dy Bg^OntBreiy |i«pti[ed,'is, itlOu. The asdViititage of lihfopi o^vt^iKose^e upon opium or morphine for their anodyne Ihat they may life tiUMh iHitlH^lit 1fi^ of" CROUP.— €iQlf»LS, BUT EfWBOTUAL itBKJfel>Y.-^i%it disease is att«nded^th inifiamiii^tio^ tf^W^^nib^iiijj^tm of the mnStiles (^fhe'to^t/i^bba^di^g^ JN^uhd, liA^rd to be des^l)ed, b^t !wl&|i bnoe heard t>y a Tuiimt wm 150 DB» OHASB'8 BIGIFBS. / :i 'i nevor to be ibxsotten ; oough, difSoolt raqviittioii, and ftyer. The phlegm or muoons often filling, or very mnoh obsiaruot- ing the t&oat, and finally forming a falM membrane whieb eutsoffallpoflsibility ofbreadiing. >!'' The first tMnff to be done Is to ^ hot watefr ready ai soon as ponible, haying flwaya on hand a bottle of ettetie tincture, com- Eosed of equal partt of the tinotore of lobelia and blood-root. •osE— According to the age of the child ; if 2 yean old, about 1 teaspoon every 10 to 16 minntes nutil free vomiting takes place ; if 6 yean old t teaspoons, and increaidng in proportion to ago to 1 tablespoon for a child of 10 yean, decreasing for very yonog •hildr^, say of 4 to 8 months, only 8 to 12 drops. Place the fet>f as soon as possible into hot water, and keep them there until vomiting takes place, laying cloths wrung out of hot water npcu the breast and throat, changing sufficiently often to keep them lii|t?,v The next morning give sufficient ot the ** Vegetable Phydo " to w^py^ the bowels rather freely^ The emetic tincture should be g^yaft in, some wartai tea. ■,i.i XUpeat the emetio as often as the returning symptoms demand it, which usoally occur the following night, repeat- ing tK ft catha^tc^ every second or third day, and I will guarantee success if oommenoed in any kind of leaSonable timia^ bat usually no repetitdon wiQ be needed if parents keep^tlw preparation in the house, so a^ to begin with the begihnijg of the diseue. 2. Duron Bkmbdt.— Goose oil, and urine, equal quantities. Doss —-From a tea to a table-spoon of the mictare, according to the age of ti«e ohil6[. Repeiat the dose every 15 minutes, if the first dose doet not VOmit in that tfane. ' This rem^y will be found valuable in mild cases, and where ihe first is not at hand; and I know it to have saved a ohilB. oniBB's BKnraB. - 2. Baxon BmaDT.— Gastell, a Saxon foreflter, now of ilte IwdeifaW'age^'plreighiy-two, imwilling i^^ to tbe '^iiVe With him a seoret of so muoh importance, has made pablio in the Ldpnc Journal the means which he has used vty years, and wherewith he a£SnnB he has rescued many human beings and cattle from the fearful death of Hydro- phobia. ^ y^9ik» immediately after the bite, warm vinegar or tepid water, W^ the wound clean therewith, and dry it, ^en pour upon the 'Wound a few drops of hydrochloric acid, because miperid, a(4ds iestroy the poison « . the saliya. ' 3. GmoiAM Remedy.— Eat the green shoots of asparagus raw , sleep and perspiration will be induced, and tiie disease can be thus unneMl.in any stage of canine madness. '■ ' A. «^ter in ihe Proyidenoe Jmmal nys, a man in AOx- ens, Greece, was cured of hydrophobia by tlds remedy, even after the paroxysmB had commenced. 4. QtTAK£B BSMEDT — FiFTY YeARS SUOOESSFUL. — Jacob Ely, a good old honest Quaker merchant, of Lloydo- \n\\&, 0., gave me the following plan which his father had Vsed since 1806 with success, to his knowledge, both on ^persons and domestic animals ; and the New York Tribune Iffia recently published something of the same character. The dried root of elecampane ; pulverize it and measure out 9 heaping table-spoons, and mix it with 2 or 3 teaspoons of pulver- ized gum arable ; then divide into 9 equal portions. When a per- son is bitten by a rabid animal take one of these portions and steep it in 1 pt. of new milk, until nearlv half the quantity of ^ailk is evaporated; then strain, and dnnk it in the morning, fasting ^or 4 or 6 hours after. The same dose is to be repeated 8 mornings in succession, then ^p.3, and so' on until the 9 doses are taken. '' The patient must avoid getting wet, or the heat of the sun, and abstain from high seasoned diet or hard exercise, and, if costive, take a dose of salts. The above quantity is for an adult— children will take less according to age. The Tribune^ s publication is as follows : , S. Tribune's Cure for Hydrophobia.— The follow- ing wais sent to *the N. Y. Trihuney by J. W. Woolston, of I*hUadelphia. " BfiGik;.— First dose, 1 oz. of elecampane root, boiled in 1 ptt of milk until reduced to \ pt Second dose, (to b« taken two ICEDIOAL DEPABTMENT. 153 he days After ti^e flnt) 1^ oza. of elecampane root, boiled in 1 pi of icilk, same iis the first. Third dose, same as the second, (to be taken two dayM'alter)— in all, three doses. If there is aOiy virtue in the elecampane, at all, the pref- erence^ of course, is to be given to the Quaker's plan, which f'ves nine instead of three doses. But it substantiates Mr. ly's plan, as it comes from the place of bis faji^er's former residence. Cotisequently it would seem to strengthen con- fidence in the first. 6. Snakb Biths. — In case of being bitten by any of the poisoa- - oos snakes, the best plan is to wash off the plape immedbtely;, then if the position of the wound is such that you can get the mouth to the spot, suck out all the poison in that Way, or if any other person is present whose mouthi is not sore, no danger need be apprehended. For all tihe poisou .Siay be upon the outside, and washed off, yet most likely peuctrates more or less into the wound, if a snake bite, as the arrangement of their teeth is such that the poison comes out near the pdnt, and when in tho wound, thus you see the propriety of sucking it out, Or:if i 7. Spirits of ammonia, a small vial of it can be carried hi tl^it pocket, and if bitten, sharpen a little piece of' wsood to «<«ii|aU point, dipping this stick into the amijionia, and then penetrating the wound with it. A piece of lonar caustic oan.be carried in tbe pocket, and Sharpened, if needed, and used the same as the stick and aimnonia — and one of the celebrated English f^uriers hoA reported that this caustic, used freely on the bite of HiJetmad dog, destroys the poison ; but to insure even a reasonable hope of success, it must be used immediately. This holds good in any of the sucking or caustic applications. All persoiiEl wbrldng on or near marshes, or wcerever tnu uassiisauger is known to inhabit, should always haw one of these caustics wi<(h them. w^t :fio •: 8. But when a ^rson is bitteii in the absence of aU these caustics, and not b^ipg ^ble to re^ch the sjppt to ^ol|, out the poison, he must drink whisky enough to ^et as dpmk as a fool, or his whole dependence must be upqii tlie ash asparagus, or elecampane,^ ^ , , , ThiB national Intelltgehcer, a year or two sinc^, i>ubli^hra a recipe for thd salt and white vitriol, of each one tablenspoon ; heat them upon copper or earth- en nntil dry : the heating drives off the acrid or biting water, called the water ot cryttalizaBon, making them much nulder in theh aetion ; now add them to soft water I pint ; putting in white sugar 1 table-spoon ; bine vitriol a piece the sice of a common pea. If it should prove too strong in any case, tAd a little more soft wcvter to a vial of it Apply it to the eyes 3 or 4 times daily. If the eyes are very sore, or if the soreness has IWn of long standing, take the '^ Alterative Syrup," or the -* Oathar- tic Alterative," continuing them for several weeks, accord- ing to the neoesnties of the case. I find it an excellent plim, in using any preparation for sore or week eyes, to apply it again about twenty minutes from the first appUca- w^ WJ IBj ''}' i.^ • '' MEDIOAL DEPABTMINT. 156 tbn. More than doable speed is made by this v^^d^on. For inflammatioa of any part of the body, apply this by wetting cloths. Even for sores about the ears and groins of babes, reduce it, and three or four applications will cure them. I have also found it valuable for horses, as a wash, when they got the eye injured by straws, or otherwise, which causes the ej a to water, or matterate, using it freely. The use of this eye water enabled me to lay by the spec- tacles after four years' wearing, and I have since studied medicine and graduated as a physician, without resorting again to iJieir use, by the occasional application of the eye water. But I need not have resorted to the use of the eye water again, had I not done in study, as 1 do in all things else, that is, when I have anyfihing to do, I do it with all my might. I read steadily, day by day, sixteen hours- more than five other students read fJtogeUier, who roomed at the same house. Yet this counted in the end ; for when the class began to inquire and look around, near the end of the term, for one to deliver the Valedictory ^ on their behalf, which is the custom in the Eclectic Medical Institute, I re- ceived that, the first honor of the class. I do not mention this to boast, by no means, but to show the necessity, as well as the advantages, of hard study, especially to those who begin their studies late in life, and are obliged to pay their way with their o .vn hands, and support a family also. 1 his was my case exactly. In the commencement of my medi- cal studies, I worked all day, reading half of the night, copying all the latin temUj vriih their significations, on aslif of paper, which I carried in my pocket during the next da/j looking at two or three of the terms at a time, through the day, until all were committed. And thus I accomplished no more than what any other man may do, if he goes at ii with a will, and does as I ctid ; and thai iome one mav be stimulated to this course is the only object of this redtal. dee " Advice to Young Men." 2. Dr. Raymond, of Grass Lake, Mich., who obtained the above proscription of me, adds to each ounce of water used, one grain of morphine,' and. he tells me he has great success with it ; the addition of the morphine making it nearly resemble tiie celebrated prescription used by the Sog- liih poigeons in India, which u as follows : 156 DB. 0HA8£*S BEOIFES. M S.' ^Bu'^iliioRirnoW vor Bosk l^frss.— Salphate of zino. 2 grfl. : tinotnre of op&im (latidanain), 1 dr. ; rose water. 2 oza, ,* mix. Put a drop or Hwo in the eye, two or three times daily. 4. Air Brx PooTOB, of Xenia, 0./ makes great iue of Hhe fbDowing : Sulphate of line, aoetate of lead, and rook salt, of eacli 1-2 os. ; loaf sugar, 1 6z. ; soft water, 12 oz. ; mix without heat, and use as other eye waters. 5. ihi. OooK, of Ashtabula, 0., makes and sc^s large :(aaiititieb, under the head of " Cook's Eye Water/' It is IS foUo^ : Soiphate of idno, 1 oz. ; sugar of lead, 1-2 oz. ; precipitated car- bonate of iron, 1-2 oz.; salit and sugar, of eaeh 1 ta]i^le-spoon ; the ^Ites of tWo eggS ; B6ft water, 32 ozs.; mix the whites of the egKs, dno, salt, MMTtagkt, and iron, well together, then add the water. 6. Fob EzdnsiTa Irflajoution of thb Ento.— Poultice by boiling a handM.of hops in water, putting in firom 1-2 to 1 dr. of opium, whil9, boilio^f ; when sti!^ warm lay the hppa over th« eyei; and kee^ thein wet with the water in which they were boiled. ^ , A Ifltdy #%6 tiad been blistered and starved, aeoording to Shb dM plan, in tibis disease, was soon cured by this poul- id^, liiid washing the eyes oflen with the hop-water con- alUn^ the opium, irith gienerous diet^ &o., contrary to the izpeotetilbDS of ftiends, and the predictions o^ enemies, to the pnuii 7. it sore eyes shed much water, put a littlo of the.o;Kide of tSila into a rial of water, and use it ratheir fireely—it will soon cure that diflkmlty. & GoFPBBAs and water has cured sore eyes ot long standing ; afd used quite stitong it mak^ an excellent application in erysip- elas. 9. Gaedin BkuBiJiB. — Tbd juiois of the root applied lo the eye has cured bad oases. 10. Boil an egg, remove the yolk, and hav^ ready eqtiM parts of sulphate of lino add loaf sugar, pulveriaed ; fill tiiie pldce oc- cupied by the yolk, ai^d squeeze out tlie oil ttirciu|^ a linencloth, wmle hot, and apply as needed. If two strong, add a little rain water, I ikAd ti book to a Mrk. Johnston, iu Wavne Co., Michi who iiad tM. this preparation very Bucoessrully for several yetrS; and had I not have ahready Litd it in my book, I fol fa ml m« * IPSIOAL DBPiBnaHT. 167 Lepf cure ling; LpUed parts 00- clotli^ • [icK.i leveial oould not have purohased it of. her for less than &W dollars, ".|iiid she regretted yery much that I was taking Uqm her a souroe of profit b^ selling the books in her n^hbovhood oontainiQg the rewpe. 11. Sailoes' Ete Prepaiution — Bum alnm, and mix it with the iddte of eggs, and put between two cloths and lay it upon the eyes : taking salts and cream of tartar, equal parts, to cleanse the This was givei; to me, and very highly reoommenfded, by an old Scotch saLor, with whom I have had mitoti enjoy- ment, talking over the sitJerings of the sea. he haTing nsed it many Umes in places where nothing else contd be ob- tei&ed. 12. FAiipa PnoQiaT's FasiPiLaAT^ fob Vs&TlUn Seas liua,— Oastile soap, scraped fine, and half the quantity of very finely pnlTedied chalk; wet tli^ np to a paste wMi4rti«Qg jotee of UriMMCo I when deured to apply to the eye, drop twoi ^ tweoi^rops . of bnMiqV iato-tne box of paste ; then tu^s ont fi^bit of it,wjbere the brandy was dropped, equal In sloe to the fonrtii Of a grain of wheat, to the diseased eVe : wet it on a bit of glass, and put it into the eye with a oamePs hair pencil. ' Appk it twide daily at first, and from that to only ,onoe in two dayi^ for firom one to two weokSi W^ wid h98 cnred ^irrttohea bad cages; so says old Father J^inloMy, of iWnj^e Go., Mioh., who lias used it over fifty years, hfi being over ninety years of age. His only object in giving it an inser- ,i^n here is to do, good to hi0 felW cneatnrmi ; iiuid.iilfio for iVnimals, it being eqiu%, applicable to horses oritatlle. 18. Indun Era Water.— Soft water 1 pt. ; gum aMl»lo 1 oa. ; wbita. vitriol loe.; fine salt } teaspoon; put alliintOiaJntUd and s^e jaigifM 4ia|olved. JE^ci^t into ttie eye jpst as you ,re^ to I paid Mrs Pinny, l3outh of Ypeilanti, Mich., fifty cents for this pr^^ption. She wonl^ not, however, let her own fami^ know its compoaition. Her husband had removed films from horses' eyes with it, and cured Mr. Ohidiater, a merchant of Tpsilanti, by only two i^plioatioBB, as tba say- ipg is, a^tor he JM " ^^^im e^vf^thjiDg ^else." It «aine from im old Indian, l^^t p»y knowledge of the ar^clea WiOpId lead me to say for 0Qmmp^, »t te»st. it wiOi?^ itt- 4aced one-half. 14. T09AC00 Era Wahk.— F^ c!|t tt^MOCO t|)0 alM «C » I 158 DB. OBASB'S BE()IPBS. 1 conittion hleiSMty nut ; sugar of lead mnit in bulk ; rain water k oni. ; opium the size of a pea. Reduce It with more water if n«oe«- ■ary. " 15. Ybbdigbib and Honet ha^e cured inflamed ejm, by using iuBt ralBcient virdigris to color the water a grass color, then making it one-tMrd honey. It is also said to prevent scars by using upon bums. 16. Saw Potato Poultice, for inflamed eyes, is one of the rery best apyliuations in recent cases, scraping fine and applying fre* quently. 17. SLir>BBT Elm PooLnoES are also an excellent f^^PjOation, used as abo>'e. . v .:• -rrr:-', 18. Fiuis— To Remote fbomthe Etb. — ^Hntergreen leaf, bruised, and stew«ad In a suitable quantity of hen's oil to make the oil - strong of the wintergreen — strain and apply twice daily. The above oared a boy of this city, and I am satisfied that the hen's oil has cored recent oases, withont the winter- green, but with it, it has cored beasts also. For oases of a year or two's standing, however, it is best to ose the fol- lowing : ,;.yy. 19. I4IMB Wateb 1 pi ; finely pulverized verdigris ^ oz. : set on •mbers for 1 hour, then strain and bottle tight. Touch the film •ver the pupil, or on the speck, 2 or 3 times daily, by putting the poini of a small camel's hair pencil into the preparation, then to me eye, holding away the lids for a short time by placing the thumb and finger upon them for that purpose. It wUl be fbond necessary to persevere for two or three months with tliis application, and also to ose one of the Al- teratives to cleanse the blood. This coorse, porsoed for three months, gave sight to a young lady who had not seen light for two years, which doctors coold not do, nor were wmng for others to do. 20. Era SyOiVB.- Take white precipitate 1 teaspoon, and rub it , Into a salve with 3 teaspoons of fresh lard, and applied upon the ^ oulside of the lid of the worst chronic [long continued] sore eyes, has cured them i^Mn they were so bad that even the ejelashes f cilia] had fisJlen out firom the disease. A physician was cored with this eye salve when he ooold not oore himself. If red percipitate will cure the itch, why should not the white core disease of the-«ye. 21. SosB Etes— To Remove the Grandlationb.— Cryatalixed nitrate of silver 2 grs. \ morphia 1 gr. ; blue vitriol 1 gr. ; sal* amqioniiM) 1 gr. ; pulverize each one separately, and muc. Ap- ioi "I for itj( said I howl whicl Moi Bf Bweel fflelt andi lODieAL 1>BPAffriaarr. 169 ^ 0D09 difly, by patttng » anall bit of th« idztun opon t^ piooe - oiglMM, moistoniiiff it with a little water, and putting mto the ^e by meant of a ■mail oamerB hair pencil. , uy /V- 2). ANoram Mbthod. — ^b to take a sflok of tag-alder about 2 Upet loog, boring a h<^e nearly through the middle of the stick, oroeawii6\ flUling it with salt, and plugging it up ; then put one end into the fire and ohair it nearly to ue aalt, then the other end, the same wav and finally pnlTerinng and implying the salt, tibe same as the above, once daily only. >' '- ■• In either case after the ^nnlations (little lumpsj are re- moyed from the eye, or eyes, finish the core by using any of the forcing eye letters which yon may choose ; aU the time ufiing some of the alteratives ror cleansing the blood. FEVER SORES— PLASTER, SALVES, Ac.— Black Salve.— Sweet oU, linseed oil, and red lead pulverized, of each 1 oz. [or Sn these proportionB.] Put all into an iron dish over a moderate fire, stibrrmg constantly, until you can draw your finger over a drop of it on a board when a little cool, wi^^out sticking. Spread on doth and apply as ether salves. Mjr brother, J. M. Chase, of Oaneada, N. T., says he has used this salve about fifteen vears, and knows it to be one of the best in the world for all kinds of old sores, as lUeers, fever sores, and all inflamed parts, cleaning, or taking out redness or inflammation, oauBing a white, healthy appearance in a short time, and a certain preventive of mortification, &o., &e., as well as to prevent soreness in more recent outs and broiseSi also ; and from my own knowledge of a salve which is very similar, I have introduced it into this work, feeling assured that whoever may have occasion to try it, will not regret the spaoe it occupies, especially after reading the fol- lowing : A gentleman said to me during the past summer, ** I wBl give you one of the most valuable salves in the world, for I cured a man's hand with it which was so swollen that it. looked more like a ham than a hand , and two Doctors said it must be cut ofl*^ also ulcerated." V^en he told me how it was made, I opened my book to the above salve, whic A was precisely the same as the one he used; 2. Bid Salvb. — Some prefer to prepare the salve as follows : Red lead 1 lb. ; beeswax and rosin, of each 2 ozs. ; linseed and sweet oils, of each 3 table-epoons ; i^iritB of turpentine 1 teaspoon : melt all, except the first and last, together, then stir in the leaa and Bt{r uatU qool, adding the torpenwie. i I t-\ •I i 100 fWMf'iWSBlt'B ^ aMBW. It- .vtshsraeler ; fiat >tiie same tiitie iMog ihe'Mmmg^^'to purify the blood. in theaanA wfiy, a-iat b«i4ilN» ftp 2 or'S 'diys, then add aiioflier pIlUffHid' «ti the end of •« week-take aajreathar- tio von chociee ; then take iodideo^MteahtlO pi.vand pat itf into a TUtl with 1 oz. ofrwateri and take 20 o]r^.d«epe of itjln a) little more water; Instetid'of the 'mandtftke pill, for 3 or 4 days; theii that pillift^dn, a» at first. By the timerou lutve gone aroimd ithiM or four times, the blood 'Will be 'pr^ty'thorotlghhr oleansed-^o not be afraid of the mandrakeipill, a»it wiU< not act as a cathartic, bat eimply work upon (the blodd-^ it does, liBdnce the number. Yon #111 be j^eased with the lOAthod of pmifi- cation. y 4. Indian Cube.— G. A. PdtereKm, df :A»htat^/ (k^ was cured bj an Indian phjBioiaa, in 'Gl^eliiid^^'^e of the worst feY;6r'«ofeB almost everkmowin. ^Hie ttMMotes of his leg were, so contiracted that no ii8e>«ould be made «f his leg in getting about. Four, months^ and ;tho(lblk#iBg^tr«iit- ment, ud the work : A syrup of rWahoo (S^»CBf»as !A;tn»pDrptirenli>^^t^ftire let me say that the Wai^oo is the, great ladiaa Temedy^tir ptti^fblg Uie blood— was made by boiliDg ve^ strofig, then melaases <«iid ram added to makeit ];»alatable and keep it iromeoarin((f this was used^BcAcient to>keep the bowehnsolvent, Boml^tbnes dfaewing the bark of the rootfroai'wliidi tbe^^fvap is ttWcte, prefe^tiUgit a {>art of the time to ilie ata^. The^eere was di es rod - with the fol- owing salve: rosin 1 lb. ; mOttonftaUow 1 lb. } beeswajc 1 4b. ; linseed oil 1 pt ; ambrosial (highly flavored) soap 1 1-2 on. ; to make it, mix in an iron kettle aira enmner 2< hoon, stirrlbg all the. time. Spreads on a cloth and afp\r as needed. TUe eoatfacted mosoles are anointed with skunk's oil only. Mr. Pateison also azt^ it yery highly for sSl common purposes. And as I have a fow other recipes for foyer sores which have been so highly recommended ^bf 4ho6e who have used them, I cannot omit their iD8ei4don,fand I woc^ Spe- cially recommend the next one following, called : I 6. Kstkidge's SajLVB.— Bittersweet and sweet elder roots, of each 1 1-2 lbs. ; hop vines and leaves, and green plantain top albd root, of each 1^2 lb. ; tobacco 1 three eentplttg. BoH all in Yafn water to get oat the strength, then put tlie nerbs in « fhicA: ctoth nai XEDIOAL DBPABflGBIfr. 161. this ring :it a ibl- >lb. ; to lithe. Bted ion Isores Uepe- ItB, of Ipftiid tain •Dd fvm an for 3 weeks'; theja keal with a salve madebt thiokpnin^ honey to a salve with wheat flour. ^ If there are loo«e bones it will be quite sore whib they are woiking out, but p;^sev«^ A o^ise was cured by it of twelve years* standing; tbe same man cu]?ed eight «ther cases» never having a failiurd, aid it has provdd vueSmM of an abcess of th^ bins alDC ^v 7. Ybast 'P die thiok part, thickens with fl^ur and applied to fever sores has proved vei^^ valuabl* continuing it for .several wee^, touolung any points, which dv not heal readav, witih fisMly Wtl^tf^etiM t^' »8*h»« i fi^v-; V^.» f-:',-i Thia heals, leavis^ llie j^M^wliite ani inftoral, instetil d dark, as I haye seen many cases which had been cured* 8. Salvb Foa FsvBs Sokbs, Abcbsbks, Broksn Bsbasts, tSCh-^ Thoroughly sieep tobaoco 1-2 o»i in soft watnr 1 pt., irftrain'' ing out irom the tobacco and boiliuff down to I gill ; then have melted, lard, rosln, and beeswax, of each 1-2 os., dnJEmeriofr to a tbidc salve, then stirtfaig in 1 gill Of old nun, and, if hece#^i^, conthitting the sinmering a little longer. To be uiied aii dthw salves. 9. ODmmrr.— Sweet clover [sown in gardens] stewed in laM < then add beeswax and white pine turpentine, eqoal p«rts^ to form an ointment, is highly recommended* ^Vv-e 10. Salvb fob Fbvir Sorbs, Gins, ^--Spbrita of turpenthM and honey, of each 1-2 pt, simmered over a slow Ust^ uhui they mite by Btinrhig ; then set aside to cool until you can put in thf ^ yolk of an egg without its being cooked by the heM ; stir it is^' and return it to the fire, adding camphor gum ^.oa.» sinuner and iMr until weU ndted. 162 ,DB. chase's BECIPES. By patting \n the e^ when cool) it combinM with the oth«r, bat if put in while the salve is hot it oooks, bat does not combine. This is very highly leoommended, as above indicated. 11. William Howell, a ttrmer living aboat six miles from Jaokson, Mich, says he had a fever sore on his ihin for twenty years, sometimes laying him np for months, and at one time preparations were made to oat off the limb, but ui old man in New Jersey, told him to : 8crape a treah turnip and apply it every 4 hours, night and day, ontil tealed, whieh cured him. And he feels assured {torn nwDg it in other oases, that all will be pWed with it who have any oooasio* for its use. Apply it oftener if it becomes too offensive. SALVES.— Gbejjsn Mouxtjoxi Salve.— BoBin 6 lbs. ; Burgimdy pitch, beeswax, and mutton tallow, of each ^ lb. ; oil of l^emlock, balsam of fir, oil of origanum, oil of red cedar, and Venice tur- pentine, of each 1 oz. ; oil of wormwood | oz. ; vircUgris, very finely pulveriaed, 1 oz. ; melt the Orat articles together, and add the oils, having rubbed the verdigris up with a little of the oils, and put it in with the other artioles, stirring well; then pour into cold water, and work as ^az, until cool enough to roll. This salve has no equal for rheumatic pains, or weakness in the side, back, shoulders, or any place where pain may locate itself. Where the sldn is broken, as in ulcers and bruifies, I use it without the verdigiil, making a white salve, even superior to " Peleg White's old salve." It is valuable in Dyspepsia, to put a plaster of the green salve over the sto- mach, and wear it as long as it will stay on, npon the back also, or any place where jmin or weakness may locate. In cats, braises, abrasions, &c., spread the white salve upon cloth and apply it as a sticking plaster until well ; for rheu- matism or weakness, spread the green salve upon soft leather and apply, letting it remain on as long as it will stay. For corns, spread the green salve upon cloth and put upon the eoms, letting it remain until cui^. It has cured them. A gentleman near Lancaster, 0., obtained one •f my books having this recipe in it, and one year afterwards he told me he had sold over four thousand rolls of the salve, ouziog an old lady of rheumatism in six weeks, who had. i) 168 Tor the my he ve, i9.d beeii oonflned to her bed for seyen weeks, ooTering all ehe laige j<»nts with the salve, without other treatment 2. Gonxlin's Celebrated Salve. — Rosin 4 lbs. : bees-wax, bnr> gr~ ' " *>itch, white pine turpentine, and mutton tallow, each \ lb. : camphor gum and balsam of fir, of each \ os. ; sweet oil | oz. : and alcohol I pt ' Melt, mix, roll out, and use as other salves. Won- ders have neen done wim it 3. Balm of Qiliao Salvib. — Mutton tallow | lb ; balm of gilead buds 2 ozB. ; white pine gom 1 oz. ; red precipitate | oz. : luurd ■oap I oz. : white sugar one table-spoon. Stew the bnw in tne ti^l- tow until tne strenfftti is obtdned, and {iress out or strain, scrape the soap and add It with the other articles to the tallow, using sufficient unsalted butter or rfweet oil to bring it to a projper con- sistence to spread easily upon cloth. When nearly ooM, stir in the red precipitate, mixing thoroughly. This may be more appropriately oalled an ointoMnt It is used for cuts, scalds, bruises, &o., and for burns by spread- ing very thin — ^if sores get proud flesh in them, sprinkie a little burned alum on the salve before applying U. It has been in use in this county about forty years, with tfa-^ gteat- est success. ^_ 4. Adhbsivb Flastbb, Oft Salvs fob Dbbp Wounds, Gum, fta, IN Place of SrrroHBs.— White rosin 7 ozs. ; bees-wax and mvttoo tallow, of each \ oz. ; melt all together, then pour into cold water and work as wax until thoroughly mixed, then roll aaiV able stictu for use. It may be spread upon firm cloth and cut into narrow strips. In case of deep wounds, or cuts, it wili be fou^d to finmy hold them together, by first pressing one end of a strip upon one side of the wound until it adheres, then draw the edges of the wound closely i ^ther, and press down the other end of the strip until it a«ghwtt thy ; wkiii mmn' yon per atel nigl yeai take ^gf)l A the doiuj was, toget the ^ temp migh other Buti peculi furrec anus^i tive, Icathii will would use of ciently tion. ing; 2. numbe: I find I must beobta get the followii give 001 The the "Tak« m f n Q e e e In es es Tjn-' theDj tf Hot in 'td^- fiMtv« Imry^^corer ii|i^^lhe"ittOftabr in 'Wliich^ yon hive rabbedthttn^vii let sUind fromlS tai'84iiotinrto teka<»y ' per ; at wMeil time' they 'will roll out better thte if done* immedi^" ately; divide into 120 loiseaMB. See* appar«tn9^'«b6ye, AMf toH-*'' ing^ and, outtiqg put DoohrFbt a obild onoiyoftr old, 1 Xoscoge, ni^t and nunlmng ; of 2 y^ars, 2 IctKeng^ ; of t TMns 8 : of 8 yean, 4t of 10 yean or bkhm, 6 to T lolgei^sM';faiaH'6a8es,^o bd'^ taken tnwa daily, aad cwrtllHifagi until the'^onnr«t«rton« Toy* ' ageofdiioov«igFf A gentkunao eanM into i3i« drtt]^iit(»»>oiiftii!0niing^ ^withr'^^ the remark- '^Bo yowknovr^'whiiAyoiir lo^sei^es'liin^' been^; doing ?*■ Am thtmgb tiM{f ^^ad kMled Home «ne, the «Affwei^ ^ ' was, BO, is then wiythmg wrongs h^4i^ upboth'tt^ncts^ together, scoop shovel '«tyle,> saying/. " Th«y fefcehed awaj* f the worms by the double* 'haiMlAili" It is iieedless to at^ tempt to ^giiFe >the i^ptomB by which lihe proMiice of * womui"'' might be distinguished; for the eympdota&B of nemrly eveH^' other disease is sometiiBee'inai&iS^McicI t>jr ib6ir' presence: / But if the belly be quite hard^ and unusually la^, with a '''^' peculiar and disagreeable breath,, in the momivgifoul or furred toi^ue^ upper lip swoUei^ itohii^ of thd nose hni^^ anus, milky white urine, boirels' sometimes obiiitiiuitely cos- ' tive, then as ol^stinately loose, with a craving^ appetite, thei\,^ loathing food at times; rest assured that worm medioin^i'*: will not be amiss, whether the person be child, or adult. It would be well to take a mild cathartic ttfter feur to six days, use of the lozenges, unless the worms have passed off suffi-^^ oiently free before that time, to show their general destrue* tion. Veiy high praise has also been ^ven rto tJte foUow- 2. YsRMiFuaB OiL-^pROF. Fbeshan's. — In the May number of the jEdUdtic Medical Journal of Gincinsati, >0^ j, I find so valuable a vennif^ from Prof. Z. Freemwa, that I must be excused for its insertion, as the articles can always be obtained, whilst in some jJaoes you might not be able to get the santQnine called for ia the losenges. His remarks followii^c the. recipe will make all needed explanations, and give oonfidiitioe in tfaoi ireatmentr • The explanations in brackets are my own, aooording ta' the cQfltoM thioiigh thewheleiirerk*^ " Take^eil of dwnopodit } ok. (on Cf #onn 8eed)V 6lt df tlire- IM^kamm;.^ «f4ip«alhe^$ «U ef ridid, H ear (castor iiv m*. I ■4 166 DR. OBASB'S BBGDHBI. oil) ; fluid eximot of nlgelia, ^ oi. (pink) ]ij4nitiii 10 grains ; mm of menth. «ip. } os. (iyrap of peppermini) Does— To » oldld 10 years of age, a teaspoon 3 times a day, 1 hour before «Mh meal^ if it purges too freely, give it less often. " Thu is an exoellent vermiftige, toniO) and oathartio, and has neyerfaaled (as well as I can jndge), to eradicate worms, if any were present, when administered for tliat purpose. I have given no other yermifiige for tlie last five years, and often one teaspoon has brought away from tliree to twenty of the lumbrica. Only a few days ago I prescribed one fluid draohm of it (about one teaspoon), and caused the enilsion of sixty lumbriooids, and one fluid drachm, taken a few days afterwards, by the same child, brought away 40 more, some of them six inches in length. Where no worms Hre present, it answers the purpose of a tonic, correcting the condition of the mucus membrane of the stomach and bowels, improving the appetite and digestion, and operating' as a mild cathartic." 3. WoBM Tbi. — Carolina pink-roov, senna leaf, manna and American wpmhseed, of each i oz. ; braise and pour on boHing water 1 pt, and steep witbont boiling. Sweeten well, add half as much milk. Dosb— A child of five years may take one gill three times daily, before meals, or sofflcient to mdVe the bowels rather freely. If this does not carry off any worms, wait one day and repeat the operation; but if the bowels do not move by the fl.^st day's work, increase the dose and continue to give it until that end is attained before stopping the medicine. This plan will be found an improvement upon the old, where the lozenges or oil cannot be obtained, as above. i. WoBM Caeb.— English Rsmedt.— Wheat flour and jalap, of eadi I lb. ; calomel^ grain-tin, and ginger, of each 1 oz. Mix thoroughly and wet up as dough, to a proper consistence to roll out ; then roll out as lozenge C£&es, to three-sixteenths of an inch in thickness ; then cut out to S-4 inch square and dry them. Doss — For a child from 1 to 2 yean, 3-4 of a cake ; 4 to 5 years, 1 cake ; from 5 to 7 years, 1| cakes ; from 7 to 10, 1 1-2 ; from 10 to 12, If: from 12 to 14,2; ftom 14 to 17, 21; from 17 to 20 years, and all above that age, 2^ cakes, but all men above that age, 3 cakes. ^' Children may eat them, or they can be shaved off vei^ fine and mi d in a little treade, honey or preserves. K •Iter taking the first dosei, t^^ do apt work aa jou doiisi mt ^ ^1 MBDIOAL DEFABTMENT. 167 lap, Mix roll Inch »OSB 12, ;e, 3 inoreaae the dose a little. The patient to take the medioino twice a week — Sandays and Wednesdays. To be taken in the morning fasting, and to be worked off with a little warn tea, water-gruel, or warib broth. N. B. — Milk musknot b« used in working them off, and be oareful of catohing cold.-' JSmoditij Printer y Oahham, Eng" I obtained tiie above of an English family who praised it very highly as a cathartic for common purposes, as well as for worms. And all who are willing to take ccdomdy I have no doubt, will be pleased with its operations. TAPE-WORM— Simple, but Effectual Remedy.— This very annoying and distressing worm has been removed by iaking two ounce doses of common pumpkin seeds, pul- verised, and repeated every four or five hours, for four or five days ; spirits of turpentine, also in doses of one-half to two ounces, with castor oil, have proved very effectual ; the root of the male fern, valerian, bark of the pomegranate root, &c., have been used with success. But my chief object in speaking upon this subject is to give the successes of Drs. Beach, of New York, and Bowler of Beardstown, lU., from their singularity and perfect eradication of the worm, in both oases : The first is from '' Beach's American Practice, and Family Physician," a large work of three volumes, costing Twenty Dollars, consequently not generally circulated ; whilst the latter is taken from the '' Eclectic ' Medical and College Journal," of Cincinnati, and therefore only taken by physicians of that school. The last was first published by the " New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal." First then, Dr. Beach says : " The fiymptoms of a tape-worm, as related to me by Miss puukvoline, who had suffered with it for twenty-five yearB, are in substance as follows : It commenced at the age of ten, and afflicted her to the age of thirty-five. The worm often made her distressingly sick at the stomach; she would .sometimes vomit blood and be t^tken suddenly ill, and occa* wonally while walking. II «aased symptoms of many other diseases, great wasting of the flesh, &o. Her appetite was very capricious, being at times good, and then poor for months, during which time her symptoms were muoh aggra* ▼ated; nokness, voodtingy gieftt pain in the dhest^ sUnaaob la- iJ 1 1^ 16S 'I;,. DB. OHABB'B BEOIPBS. and sid^, m'otibn'in th^ stomaeH, and almtn thel)owel8,witb pain, a feflnfte of fullnoAi or swelling, and beating or throb- bing in the same, dl^zikledid, heaviness of thd eyes, — and she wafl altogMher so miserable thai she feared it would de- stroy her. Wiidn'shfe laced or wore anything tight, it pro-" dnoed great distress. The wonit appeared to rise up in het^' throat and siokin her; Her general hea^^ was very bad. At inl^alB, generally some time afber taking modioine,; pip'^es of the worm would pass from the bowehi — often as many ts forty during the' day, all alire, anid would swim in witer. . " Tbbatmkmt.— Miss Dainoallne stated that she had employe^ twenty pbyaioians, at different periods, and taken a hundred differ-' v«t KiMB of mddlehie withoot expelling the worm. She had ' itiken spMtil of tarji^ntlQe, bat could not retain it upon the . stomadi. Under these circumstances 1 commenced my treatment. Gowflge stripped from the pod, a small teaspoon three times a day,. ^ to be taken raiting, in a little arrow-root jelly ; then occasIonallT " a pxu|;ative of tnandrald». In donneotion with this, I directed het' to eat freely of 'gorlio and common fine salt. I gave the&e under " the bdlief that eaoh article pousessed vermifnge properties, wifhont evar having administered 'them for the tape-worm.— Aibec having taken them for some time, all her unfavorable nrmptoms ceased, and subsequently the remaining portion of the wbim patted lifeless from her^an unprecedented 'circum^ stance; << She inioiBdialiriy tooovered, and haa since retained her '' health, and there is no evidence that there is any remaining. The patient stated that the worm which passed from her ' = during the time she was afflicted with it, would fill, a peck;.' measure, and reaeh one' -mile in length. Her relief and gratitude may be better imagined than described. I have a portion of this worm in my possession. When once the tapeororm begins to pads the bowels, care must be taken not to break it off, for it will gr"^ again — it has this peculiAi property." 2. Sboondlt, Dr. Dowler oaysr "The subject of this* notitie is a daughter of Mr. E.^ish, of Beardstown, 111^^ - about'slt years old. The only point of special interest io:<^^ thecaae consists in thie efficiency of the remedy — to mth wb(^y new, and aooideiitally brought to my notice — whid)'^ waf^8«din its treatment. " I Wflid tat&tifig a broi&lol^ of' lhi(^^all$6tfir; a part of m^ ' an elml conf the I of shot the go ooui MBDIOAL DEPABTICXMT. •rrr ■ M Lis lob prasoription for whom waa, as a drink, the mooilage of ebn bark, made by putting pieces of the solid bark ii^tp water. The girl was seen to be frequently eating portions of the bark during the day ; the next morning ^ler whicl^. upou my visiting the boy, the mother, with much anxiety, sho|wed me a vessel containing something that had that morning passed the girl's boweLii, with bits of the ehn bai^k, envelopea m mucilage, which, upon examination, proved to be about three feet of tape-worm. As I supposeq the passage of the worm was accidental, and had occurred iVbm the Too^ness caused by the bark, I proceeded to preicribe what I sup- posed a much more potent ant|ieImintio, a large dose of tur- pentine and castor oiL The turpentine and oil were ^ven several times during the three CQUseciitive days, causing 'pretty active purging, but with no appearance of aijy poiv Hons of the worm. The girl being slender, and of irritable temperament, I was forced to desist fiom further active me(Ucations ; and partly to allay irritation of the bowels, and partly to test the influences of the bark Bcription of the " irregulars," next following; and there are those who would prefer the *' Cough Candy" in place of either of the lozenges. By the insertion of the variety, all can please themselves. 2. GouoH LozKNGis. — Another valuable lozenge is made as fol« lows : — Extract of blood-root, licorice, and black cohosh, of each ^ oz. ; tinctoreo of ipecac and lobelia, with landannm, of each \ oz. ; cayenne, powdered, 10 grs. ; pulverized gnm arable and starch, of ^ach, f oz. ; mix all together, and add pulverized sugar 3 ozs. If this should be too dry to roll into lozenges, add a tuck solution of gum arable to give it that consistence ; and if it should be yet too moist, at any ttme, add more sugar. Divide into 320 lozenges. Dose— € ne, 8 to 6 times daily, as needed. 3. PuufONio WAFERS.—Pnlverized sugar 7 ozs. ; tincture of ipecac 3 drs. ; tincture at blood-root and syrap of tolu, of each 2 drs. : tincture of thoroughwort ^ oz. ; morphine 1^ grs. Dis- solve the morphine in water ^ teaspoon, having put in snlphnrio acid 2 drops ; now mix all, and add mucilage of comfrey root or gum arH,])io, to form a suitable paste to roll and cut into common sized wafers or lozenges. DmEonoNS — ^AUow 1 to dissolve in the mouth ibr a dose, or dissolve 6 in 3 table-spoons of warm water, and take } of a spoon 6 times daily, or oftener if need be. 4. GouQHs FROM BscBNT GoLDB — ^Remsdt. — Linseod-oil, honey, and Jamaica rum, equal parts of each ; to be shaken when used. This has given very general satisfaction in recent coughs, but the following will probably giVe the most general satis- faction : 5. Cough Mixture for Keoent Colds.— Tincture of blood-root, syrups of ipecac and squills, tincture of balsam of tolu, and paregoric, equal parts of each. DpsE — Half of a teaspoon whenever the cough is severe. It is a very valuable medicine. 6. GonoH Candy. — Tincture of squills 2 ozfr. , camphorated tincture of opium, and tincture of tolu, of eacu | oz. ; wine of ipecac ^ oz. ; oils of gultheria 4 drops, sassafras 3 drops, and of anise-seed oil 2 drops. The above mixture is to be put into 5 1 172 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES lbs. of candy wbich is just ready to *^ike from the fire, continuing the boiling a little longer, fo as to form into sticks. — Parish^: .Pharmacy. Druggists will get confectioners to make thii? for a trifle an tLo pound over common candies, they, of couriie, furnish- ing their own compound. 7. Cough Syrup. — ^Wahoo, bark of the root, and elecampane root, of each 2 ozs. ; spikenard root, &nd tamarack bark (unrossed, but the moss may be brushed off), of each 4 ozs. ; mandrake root ^ oz. ; blood-root ^ oz. 5 mix alcohol 1 pt., with sufficient water to cover all handsomely, and let stand 2 or 3 days ; then pour off 1 qt.y putting on water and boiling twice, straining the two waten and boiling dowi to 3 pints j when cool add 3 lbs. of honey, ani alcoholic fluid poured oflf, with tincture of wine of ipecac IJ oz. : if the cough shoula 1^ very tight, double the ipecac, and wash tiie feet daily in warm \^ter, rubbing them thoroughly with a coarse towel, and, twice a week, extending the washing and rubbing to ♦he whol« body. Dosis — One table-spoon 3 to 6 tmies daily. If the cough is very troublesome when you lie down at night or on waking in the morning, put tar and spirits of ^ nitre, of each one teaspoon into a four ounce vial of T^ter, shaking well ; then at these times just sip about a teaspoon from the bottle without shaking, which will allay the tick- ling sensation causing the cough. I have cured a young lady, during the past winter, with the above syrup, whose cough had been pretty constant for over two years ; her friends hardly expected it ever to be any better, but it was only necessary to mate the above amount of syrup twi«e to perform the cure. ^ 8. CouaH Tincture. — Tincture of blood-ioot and bal- sam of tolu, of each four ounces ; tinctures of lobelia and digitalis, of each two ounces ; tincture of opium (laudanum) one ounce ; tincture of oil of anise (oil of anise one-hall teaspoon in an ounce of alcohol) one ounce. Mix. Dosb — About one-half teaspoon three times daily, in the same amount of honey, increasing to a teaspoon if needed to loosen and lessen the cough. It has raised oases which doctors said must die, causing the patient to raise matter resembling the deaCh smell, awful indeed. It will cure cough, not by stopping it, but by loosening it, assisting thb lungs and throat to throw ofif the offending matter which causes Uie cough, and thi^s scientifically making the cure : HI . XEDIOAL DEPABTMXNT. m J>erfeot ; while most of the cough remedies kept for sale, stop the cough by their anodyne and constringing effects, retaining the mucus and all offending matters in the blood, cmimiig permaTient disease of the lungs. But, notwithstanding the known value of this " Cough Tincture," where the tamarack and other injgredients can be obtained, I must' give my preference to the " Cough Syrup," No. 7. 9. Cough Pill. — Extradt of hyoscyainud, balm of gilead buds, m^ Iverized ipecac, or lobelia, and balsam of fir, of each | oz. ; oil of anise a few drops to form into common sized pills. Dose — One or two pills 3 or 4 times daily. Dr. Beach says he endeavored for more than twenty-five years to obtain a medicine to fulfil the indicatiwns which are effected in this cough pill, particularly for ordinary colds ind coughs ; and this admirably answers the intention, ex- celling all others. It allays the irritation of the mucus membrane, the bronchial tubes, and the lungs, and will be found exceedingly valuable in deep-seated coughs and all diseases of the chest. The bad effects of opium (so much ised in coughs) are in this pill entirely obviated, and it is altogether better than the Cough Drops, which I now dis- pense with. — Beaches American Practice, WHOOPING COUGH— Syrup.— Onions and garlics sliced, of each 1 gUl ; sweet oil 1 gill ; stew them in the oil in a covered dish^ to obtain the juices : then strain, and add honey 1 gill ; pare- goric and spirits of campnor, of each | oz. ; bottle and cork tight for use. Dose— For a child of 2 or 8 years, 1 teaspoon 3 or 4 times daily, or whenever the cough is troublesome, increasing or lessen- ing, according to age. This is a granny's prescription, but I care not from what source I derive information, if it gives the satisfaction that this has done upon experiment. This lady has raised a large family of her own children, and grand-children in abundance. We have tried it with three of our children also, and prescribed it in many other cases with satisfaction, for over seven years. It is excellent also in common colds, attended with much cough. This is from experience, too, which I have found a very competent teacher. It is said that an European physician has discovered that the dangerous symptoms of whooping cough are due to sup- 174 DB. OHASB'S fiSOIPES. pressed entaneons eruptions, and that an external irritant or artifitital rash, is a snre remedy. See ** Small Pox.'' 2. Daii£t's Whooping Gouoh Steup. — Take the 'Strongest West India mm 1 pt ; anise oil 2 ozs. ; honey 1 pt. ; lemon juice 4 ozB. : mix. Dose — ^For adults, 1 table-spoon 3 or 4 times a day, — ohiloreu, 1 teaspoon, with as much sugar and water. He says that he has sncoessfully treated more than one hundred cases with this syrup. 3. SoBKNESs OR HoABSENEss FROM GouoHS — Reuedt. — Spikenard root, bruised and steeped in a teapot, by U8ing half water and half spirits ; then inhaling the steam, when not too hot, by breathing through Uie spout, will relieve the soreness and hoarseness of the limgs, or throat, arising from much coughing. ;; IN-QROWING TOE NAIL—To Cube.— We take the following remedy for a very common and very painful afflic- tion, from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal: " The patient on whom I first tried this plan was a young lady who had been unable to put on a shoe for several months, and decidedly the worst I have ever seen. The edge of the nail was deeply undermined, the granulations formed a high ridge, partly covered with the slun ; and pus constantly oozed from the root of the nail. The whole toe was swoUea and extremely painful and tender. My mode of proceeding wp" this : " I put a very small piece of tallow in a spoon, and heated it until it became very hot, and poured it on the granulations. The effect was almost magical. Pain and tenderness were at once relieved, and in a few days the granulations were all gone, the diseased parts dry and destitute of all feeling, and the edge of the nail e.Tposed ao as to admit of being pared away without any inconvenience. The cure was complete, and the trouble never returned. " I have tried the plan repeatedly since, with the same <3iitVifr,utory results. The operation causes but little pain, if the tsMo^jf is properly heated. A repetition in some cases might be necessary, although I have never met with a case that did not yield to one application. It has now been proven, in many other cases, to be effectual, accomplishing in one minute, without pain, all that can be effected by the painful application of nitrate of silver for several weeks." OILS — British Oils.— Linseed and turpentine oils, of each 8 ozs. ; oils of amber and juniper, of each 4 ozs. ; Barbadoes tar 3 ozs. j lonneca oil 1 oz. j mix. -- ^ /. * -w . ,., UEDiaAL SEPABTHlillT. 176 ,. This is an old prescription, bnt it is worth the whole cost of this book to any one needing an application for otits, bruises, swellings, and sores of almost every description, on persons, horses, or cattle ; so is the following also : 2. Balm of Gilbad On^ — Balm of Gilead buds, any quantity ; place them in a suitable dish for stewing, and ponr upon Uiem Bufflcient sweet oil just to cover them ; stew thoroughly and yress out all of the oil from the buds, and bottle for use. It will be found very valuable as a healing oil ; or lard CPU be used in place of the oil, making an excellent ointment for cuts, bruises, &c. 3. EUrlem Oil, ob Welch Medioambntum. — Sublimed or flowers of sulphur and oil of amber, of each 2 ozs. ; linseed oil 1 lb. ; spirits of turpentine sufficient to reduce all to the consistence of thin molasses. Boil the sulphur in the linseed oil until it is dis- solved, then add the oil of amber and turpentine. Dose — ^from 16 to 25 drops morning and evening. Amongst the Welch and Germans it is extensively used for strengthening the stomach, kidneys, liver and lungs, asthma, shortness of breath, cough, inward or outward sores, dropsy, worms, gravel, fevers, palpitation of the heart, giddiness, headache, &o., &c., by taking it internally ; and for ulcers, malignant sores, cankers, &c., anointing externally and wetting linen with it and apylying to bums. In fact, if one-half that is said of its value is true, no other medicine need ever be made. It has this much in its favor, however — ^probably no other medicine now in use has been in use half so long — over 160 years. The dose for a child is one drop for each year of its age. 4. Oil of Spike.— The genuine oil of spike is made from the 2a- vendula spica (broad leaved lavendar), but the commercial oil of spike is made by taking the rock oil, and adding 2 ozs, of spirits yof turpentine to each pint. The rock oil which is obtained in Ohio, near Warren, is thicker and better than any other which I have ever used. 5. Black Oils. — Best alcohol, tincture of arnica, British oil and oil of tar, of each 2 ozs., and slowly add sulphuric acid 1-2 oz. These black oils are getting intd extensive use as a lini- ment, and are indeed valuable, especially in cases attended with much inflammation. 6. Another Method — is to take sulphuric acid 2 ozs. \ nifcrio aoid 1 oi. ; quicksilver 1-2 oz. ; put them together in a quart bottiei 176 BB. chase's BEOlPEd. or an open crock until dissolved; then slowly add ireoU t^d spirits of turpentine, of each j^ pt., putting in the oil flrst. Let the work be done out of doors to avoid the iiunes arising from the mix< ture : when all id done, bottle and put in all the cotton cloths i'i will dissolve, when it is fit for use. TIio mixture becomes quite hot, although no heat is used in making it, from setting free what is called latent, or insensible heat, by their combining together. Rev. Mr. Way, of Plymouth, Mich., cured himself of sore throat, by taking a few drops of this black oil upon sugar, letting it slowly dissolve upon the tongue, each evening after preaching, also wetting cloths and binding upon the neck. It will be necessary to avoid getting it upon cotton or linen wldch j'^i would not wish to show a stain. A colt which had a nstulons opening between the hind legs, from a snag, as supposed, which reduced him so that he had to be lifted up, when down, was cured by injecting twice only, of this oil to fill the diseased places. Also a very bad fever sore, upon the leg, all! excuse me, upon the limb of a young lady, which bafflod the scientific skill of the town in which she lived. In case they bite too much in any of their ap- plications, wet a piece of brown paper in water and lay it over the parts. OPODBIiDOO— Liquid.— Best brandy 1 qt. ; warm it and add gum camphor 1 oz. ; salammoniac and oil of wormwood, of each | oz. ; oils of origanum and rosemary, of each ^ oz. ; when t^e oils \e dissolved by the aid of the heat, add soft soap 6 ozs. ^s usjBS are two well known to need further description. 1WAERH(BAS— Cordial.— The best rhubarb root, pulverized, 1 tz. ; peppermint leaf 1 oz. ; capsicum ^ oz. ; cover with boiling neater and steep thoroughly, strain, and add bi-carbonate of potash lud essence of cinnamon, of each J oz. ; with brandy (or goo« ivhiskey) equal in amount to tke whole, and tbaf^eugar 4 ozs. Dos. —For an adult 1 to 2 table-spoons, for a child 1 to 2 teaspoons, |rom 3 to 6 tinies per day, until relief is obtained. This preparation has been my dependence, in my travels and in my family for several years, and it has never failed us ; but in extremely j;>ad cases it might be well to use, after each passage, the following : 2. Injection for Chronic Durrhcbsa. — ^New milk, with thick mucilage of slippery elm, of each 1 pt. ; sweet oil 1 gill ; molasses ^ pt. ; salt 1 oz. ; laudanum 1 dr. Mix, and ioJect wEat tbe 1 :Wul retain- w-^^ ;.t.,;^'^»..j. , ~*^.. MEDIOAL DEPABTM3&NT. 177 Very many children, as well as grown persons die, annu- ally of this disease, who might be saved by a proper use of the above injection and cordial. The injection should Dover be neglected if there is the least danger apprehended. Although I believe these would not fail in one case out of one hundred, yet I have some other prescriptions which are so highly spoken of, I will give a few more. The first from Mr. Hendee, of WarsaTf . Indiana, for curing Piarrhoea, or Bloody Flux, as follows : 3. DiARRHCEA TiNCtURB.— Compound tincture of myrrh, 6 0Z3. ; tincture of rhubarb, and spirits of lavender, of each 5 ozs. ; tiac'aire of opium 3 02ss. ; oils of anise and cinnamon, with gum camphor and tartaric acid, of each J oz. Mix. Dope— One teaspoon in ^ a tea-cup of warm water sweetened with loal Rugar ; repeat after each passage. ^ He says he has cured many oases after given up by phy- sicians. It must be a decidedly good preparation. Or, again: 4. DiARRH(EA Dftops. — Tlnctuje of rhubarb, and compound spirits of lavender, of each 4 ozs. ; laudanum 2 czs. ; cinnamon oil 2 drops. Mix. Dose — One teaspoon every 3 or 4 hours, according to the severity of the case. This speaks from ten years successful experience. 6. DlARUH(BA StBDP. — PoR CaSES BROUGHT ON BY LONO OONTINUTB Use op Calomel.— Boxwood, black cherry and prickly ash barks, with dandelion ro3t, of each 2 ozs. ; butternut bark 1 oz. ; boil thoroughly, strain and boil down to 1 qt.; then add loaf sugar 2 lbs., and alcohol 1 gill, or brandy j^ pt. Dose— A wine-glass from 3 to 5 times daily accosding to circumstances. This regulates the bowels and tones up the system at the same time, no matter whether loose or costive. In one case »f oostiveness it brought a man round all right who had been sewed up tight for twelve days. On the other hand, U has regulated the system after months of calomel-diarrhoea. 6. WiNTEBGREBN Berries have been found a valuable corrector of Diarrhoea brought on by the long continued use of calomel in cases of fever, eating a quart of them in three days time. The gentleman of whom I obtained this item tells me Ihat wintergreen essensc has done the same thing, when the berries could not be obtained. In the*(first place, " every- thing else," as the saying is, had been tried in vain, and the man's wife, in coming across the woods, found these berries 178 DB. chase's BEOIFES. I and picked them, which when the husband saw, lie craved, and would not rest without them, and, notwithstanding the fears of friends, they cured him. Many valuable discove- ries are made in a similar manner. 7. DsncD WHOBTLEBEBBiGSf steoped, and the juice drank freely^ has cured Diarrhoea and Bloody Flux, both In children and adtdto. I 8. PiABUHCEA. AND Cankeb Tea. — Pulverized hemlock bark, [(it Is generally kept by Druggists,) 1 tablespoon,. steeped in half 'a tea-cup of water. For young children, in Diarrhoea, or Canker, or when they are combined, feed a teaspoon of it, or less, according to the child's age, two or three times daily, until cured. To overcome oostiveness, which may arise from its use, scorch fresh butter, and give it in place of oil, and in quantities corresponding with oil. Children have been saved with three cents worth of this bark whom " Alopath " said must die. If good for children, it is good for adults, by simply increasing the dose. 9. Sumac bobs, steeped and sweetened with loaf sugar, has been found very valuable for Diarrhoea ; adding in very severe cases, alum pulverized, a rounding teaspoon, to 1 pt. of the strong tea. Dose^— A tea, to a table*spoon, according to the age t the child, and severity of the case. It saved the life of a child when two M. D.'s (Mule Dri- lers,) said it could not be saved. CHOLERA TINCTURE.— Select the tninnest cinnamon bark, cloves, gum, gauiac, all pulverised, of each 1 oz. ; very best brandy 1 qt. Mix, and shake occasionally for a week or two. Dose— A teaspoon to a table-spoon for an adult, according to the condition and robustness or strength of the system. It may be repeated at intervals of 1 to 4 horn's, if necessary, or much more often, according to the condition of the bowels. This I have from an old railroad boss, who used it with his men during the last Cholera in Ohio, and never lost a man, whilst other jobbers left the road, or lost their men in abund- ance, thinking the above too simple to be of any value. 2. Isthmus Cholera Tincture.— Tincture of Rhubarb, cayenne, opium, and spirits of camphor, with essence of peppermint, equal parts of each, and each as strong as can be made. Dose — From 5 to 30 drops, or even to 60, and repeat until relief k obtained, every 6 to 30 minutes. vJUr MEBIOAL DEFABTMEMT. ltd vSkr C. H. Cuyler, who was detained upon the Isthmua during the cholera period, was saved by this prescription, as also many others. 3. Cholera Preventive.— Hoffinan's «aodyno and ef^once of peppermint, of each 2 ozs. ; tincture of ginger 1 oz: ; laudi4,uum, spirits of camphor, and tincture of cayenne, of each ^ oz. ; mix. Dose— For an adult, from a tea to <\ table-epoon, according to symptoms. '4. Cholera. Cordial. — Chloroform, spirits of camphor, lauda- num and aromatic spirits of ammonia, of each 1 dr. ; cinnamon water 2 ozs. ; mii:. Dobe — From 1 tea to a to,ble-Bpoon, to be well shs&en, and taken with sweetened water. 5. German Cholera Tinotore.— Sulphuric ether 2 ozs. ; and put it into castor and gentian, of each | oz. ; opium and agaric, each 1 dr. ; gum camphor ^ oz. : let them stand 2 days, then add alco- hol 1 qt, and let stand 14 days, when it is ready for use. Dobe — One teaspoon every 16 or 20 minutes, according to the urgency of the case. I prooored this prescription of a German at Lawrence- burg, Ind., who had done very much good with it during the last cholera period in that place. 6. Egyptian Cure for Cholera.— Best Jamaica ginger root, bruised, 1 oz. ; cayenne, 2 teaspoons ; boil all in 1 qt. of water to } pt., and add loaf sugar to form a thick syrup. Dose — One table- spoon every 16 minutes until vomiting and purging ceases, ♦hen follow up with a blackberry tea. The foregoing was obtained of a physician who practiced in Eg^ pt (not the Illinois Egypt) during the great devas- tation of the cholera there, wiUi which he saved many lives. 7. India Prescription for Cholera. — First dissolve gum cam- phor \ oz., in li ounces of alcohol. Second, give a teaspoon of spirits of hartshorn in a wine glass of water, and follow it every 5 pninutes with 15 drops of the camphor in a teaspoon of water, for 3 doses, then wait 15 minutes, and commence again as before, and continue the camphor for 30 minutes, unless there is returniog heat. Should this be the case, give ono more dose and the cure is eflfect- ed ; let them perspire freely (which the medicine is designed to cause) as upon this the life depends, but add no additional clothing. _ Lady Ponsonby, who had spent several years in India, and had proved tlie efficacy of the foregoing, returned to Dublin in 1832, and published in the Dublin Mail, for the benefit of her countrymen, declaring tbat "he never knew it to fail. 7 180 DB. OHASE^S BEOIMSS. I would say, be very sure you have the cholera, aa the teaspoon of hartshorn would be a double dose for o^diaary oases of disease. 8. Nature's Cholera Medicine.— Laudanum, spirits of camphor; and tincture of rhubarb, equal parts of each. Dose — One table- spoon every 15 to 30 minutes until relieved. In attacks of cholera, the patient usually feels a general uneasiness and heat about the stomach, increasing to actual distxess an4 great anxiety, finally sickness, with vomiting and purging, surface constringed, the whole powers of the system concentrated upon the internal oi^ns, involving the nervous system, bringing on spasms, and in the end death. Now, whatever will allay this uneasiness, drive to the sur- face, correct the discharges, and sooth the nerves, cures the disease. The laudanum does the first and the last, the camphor drives to the surface, and the riiubarb corrects the alimentary canal; and if accompanied with the hoi bath, friction, &c,, is doubly sure. And to show what may b^ done with impunity in extreme cases, let me say that Merritt Blakely, living near Flat Kock, Mich., came home from Detroit during the last cholera season, having the cholera in its last stage, that is with the vomiting, purging, and spasms; the foregoing medicine being in the house, the wife, in her hurry and excitement, in place of two-thirds of a table-spoon, she read two- thirds "of a tea-cup ; and gave it accordingly, and saved his life; whilst if. taken in tho spoon doses, at this stage of the disease he would most undoubtedly never have fallied from the colapse into which he was fast sinking ; yet in the commencement they would have been as efiectual; so, mistake, would be generally ac- credited for saving the patient. I say Providence did the work. Five to ten drops would be a dobe for a child 2 to 6 jears, and in this dose it savud a child of 2| years in a bad case of bloody flux. ,:!o If any one is permitted to die with all these prescriptions before them, it must be because a proper attention is not given ; for God most undoubtedly works through the use of means, and is best pleased to see his children wear out, father than break by collision of machinery on the way. COLIO AND CHOLEEA MORBUS— Treatment. MEPiG&J^ J>mAJBUmESSf¥, 181 — Cholera mori^ua arisei» from ,a diseased oondition of the bile, often brought on by an over-indulgence with vegetables,, especially unripe fruits ; usually commencing with sickness and pain at the stomach, followed by the most excruciatint^ pain and griping of the bowels, succeeded by vomiting and purging, which soon prostrate the patient. The person finds liimself unavoidably drawn into a coil by the contraction of the muscles of the abdomen and extremities.' Thirst very great, evacuations first tinged with bile, and finally, nearly all, very bilious. Treatment. — The difficulty aiu,«^ from the acidity of the bile ; then take saleratus, peppermint leaf, and rhubarb root, pulverized, of each a rounding teaspoon, put into a cup, which you C£ cov^if, and pour upon them boiling water ^ pt. ; when nearly cold add a table-epoon of alcohol, or twice as much brandy or other spirits. DosK— Two or 3 table-spoons every 20 or 30 minutes, as often and as long as the vomiting and painfiil purgations'con- tinue. If there should be long continued pain about the navel, use th » " injection " as mentioned under that head, in connection with tTie above treatment, and you will have nothiiig to fear. If the first dose or two should be vomited, repeat it immediately, until retained. The above preparation ought to be made by every familj^,, and kept on hand by bottling ; for diseases of this character ir are as liable to come on in the night as at any other time ; then much time must be lost in making fires, or getting the . articles together with which to make it. 2. Common Colic. — There is a kind of colic which some persons are afflicted with from their youth up, not attended with vomiting or purging. I was afflicted with it from my earliest recollection until I was over twenty years of age, sometimes two or three times yearly. In one of these fits, about that age, a neighbor woman came in, and as soon as she found out what was the matter with me, she went out and pulled up a bunch of blue vervain, knocked the dirt from the roots, then cut them ofl* and put a good handflil of them into a basin,, and poured boiling water upon them, and'' steeped for a short time, poured out a saucer of the tea and gavei/^ me to driuk, asking no questions, but simply saying : '* If yoUr)! will drink this tea every day for a month, you ,wJ 11 never have j,^ colic again as long as you live.'' I drank it, and in 15 minutes "*- I was perfectly happy ; the transition from extreme pain to immes diate and perfect relief, is too great to allow one to find wor49 1.: adeq^uate to describe the dlQereuce, 182 DB. OHASB'S BEOIFllSf I oontintied its use as direoted, and have not had a oolio pain sinoe, nearly ihir^ years. I have told it to others, with the same result. It also forms a good tonio in agues, and after fevers, &o. CARMINATIVES - -For the more common pains of the stomach, arising frori accumulating gas, in adults or child- ren, the following preparation will be found very valuable, and much better than the plan of resorting to any of the opium mixtures for a constant practice, as ma':\y unwisely, or wickedly do. See the remarks after " Godfrey's Cordial," and through this subject. Gompouod spirits of lavender, spirits of camphor, and tincture of ginger, of each 1-2 oz.; sulphnric ether and tincture of cayenne, of each 1-2 oz. Mix, and keep tightly corked. Dose— ¥or an adnlt, 1 teaspoon every 16 minutes, until relieved ; for a child of 2 years, 6 drops ; and more or less, according to age and the severity of the pain. 2. GiiBiaNATiVB FOB CHILDREN. — Angelica and white roots, of each 4 ozs. ; valerian and scnlcap root, with poppy heads, of each 2 ozs.; sweet flag-root | oz. ; anise, dill, and iennel seed, with catmint leaves and flowers, motherwort and mace, of each 1 oz.; castor and cochineal, of each 1-2 oz. ; camphor gum 2 scru- ples, benzoic acid (called flowers of benzoin) ^ oz. ; alcohol and water, of each 1 qt., or rum, and brandy 2 qts.; loaf or crushed sugar 1 lb. Pulverize all of the herbs and roots, moderately fine, and place in a suitably sized bottle, adding the spirits, or alcohol and water, and keep warm for a week, shaking once or twice every day ; then filter or strain, and add the camphor and ben- zoin, shaking well ; now dissolve the sugar in another quart of water, by heat, and add to the spirit tincture, and all is complete. Dose — For a very young child, from 3 to 6 drops ; if 1 year old, about 10 drops, and from that up to 1 teaspoon if 2 to 6 years old, Ac. For adidts, from 1 to 4 teaspoons, according to the severity of the pain — to be taken in a cup of catmint or catnip tea for adults, and in a spoon of the same for children. It may be repeated every 2 to 6 hours, as needed. Uses. — It eases pain, creates a moderate appetite and perspiration, and produces refreshing sleep ; is also excel- lent for removing flatulence or wini oolio, and valuable in hysteria and other nervous affections, female debility, &c., in plaoe of the opium anodynes. SEDLITZ POWDERS.— Genuine.— Rochelle salts 2 4rs.: bi-carbonate of soda 2 scruples ; put these into a blue paper, and pnt tartaric acid 35 grs. into a white paper. To rue, put each 1. lOBDIOAL DEPABTMENT. 188 'vrttS^* Into dlffErranttombleTS ; ffll ^ with water, and put a little loaf sugar in with the acid, then pour together and drinlc. This makes a very pleasant cathartic, and ought to be used more generaMy than it is, in pkoe of more aevere medicines. Families can buy three ozs. of the Rochelle-salts, and 1 oz. of the bi-carbonate of soda, and mix evenly to- gether, using about 2 teaspoons for 1 glass, and have the tartaric acid by itself, and use a little over ^ a teaspoon of it for the other glaas, with a table-spoon of sugar, all well idissolved, then pour together and drink while efifervesoing ; and they will find this to do just as well as to have them weighed out and put up in papers, which cost three times as much, and do no better. Try it, as a child will take it with pleasure, as a nice beverage, and ask for more. A lady once lost her life, thinking to have a little sport, by drinking one glass of this preparation, following it directly with the other ; the largo amount of gas, disen- gaged, ruptured the stomach immediately. DIPTHERIA — De. Phinney's Remedy, of Boston —Dr. Phinney, of Boston, furnishes the Journal of that city, "with a recipe for diptheria, which has rec<,ntly been re-published by the Detroit Daily Advertiser^ containing so much sound sense, and so decidedly the best thing that I have ever seen recommended for it, that I cannot forbeai . giving it an insertion, and also recommend it afl the d& pendence in that disease. He says '' the remedy on which I chiefly depend is thi Aotea Racemosa, gs black snake-root, which is used both locally as a gargle and taken internally. << Ab a gargle, 1 teaspoon of the tincture is added to 2 table> spoons of water, and gargled every hour for twentyhor I oz. ; oil of olovee ^ dr. ; sulphurio ether f oz. ; and oil of avonder 1 dr. If there is a nerve exposed this will quiet it Ap- ply with lint. Rnb also on the gnms and upon the face against the tooth, Ireely. **Tlio raging toothache why now endure, when there is found a perfect cure, Which eaves the tooth and stops the pain, and gives the sufllDrer ease again." In the case of an ulcerated tooth at Georgetown, Ohio, Mr. Jenkins, the proprietor of the " Jenkins' House," had been suffering for eignt days, and I relieved him by bathing the face with this preparation, using a sponge, for two or three minutes only, taking a teaspoon or two into the mouth, for a minute or two, as it had broken upon the inside. The operation of the cordial was really magical, according to old notions of cure. I offered to sell a grocer a book, at Lawrenceburgh, Ind. He read tmti^ he sa\j the " Magnetic Tooth Cordial " men- tioned, then he says, " If you will cure my toothache, 1 will buy one." I applied the cordial, it being late Saturday evening, and on Monday momins>' *>« was the first man on hand for his book. The Sheriff of Wayne Co., Ina., *^t Centreville, had been suffering three days of neuralgia, and I gave him such de- cided relief in one evening with this cordial, that he gave me a three-dollar piece, with the remark, '' Take whatever you please." In passing from Conneatville, Pa., upon a canal boat, t-he cook (who was wife of one of the steersmen), was taken, after supper, with severe pain in the stomach. There being no peppermint on board, and as strange as it may appear, no spirits of any kind whatever ; I was appM^J to as a phy- sician to contrive something for her relief; I ran my mind ^over the articles I had with me, and could not hit upon any other so likely to benefit as the " Tooth Cordial," arguing in my mind that if good for pain where it could be applied to the spot externally, I could apply it to the point of pain internally in this case (the stomach), as well. I gave her a teaspoon of it in water, and waited five minutes without relief, but concluding to go "whole hog or none," I re- peated the dose, and inside of the next five minutes she was . perfectly cured. Her husband, the other steersman also, and one of the drivers, bought each a book, and the next week, in Erie, one of her neighbors bought auotho^ upon m tB 186 DA. chase's BECIPIIB. her rcoomraendation ; fince which myself and agents have freely used it, and recommend it for similar conditions i^ith equal success. The cases are too numerous to mention more. I mention these to give confidence to purchasers, that all, who need it, will not fail to give it a trial. It is good for any local pain, wherever it can be applied. Pain will not long exist under its use. 2> HoMEOFATmo Tooth Coedial. — Alcohol J pt. ; tincture of arnica and chloroform, of each, 1 oz. ; oil of cloves } oz. Mix and apply as the other. There are many persons who would prefer this last to the foregoing from the presence of arnica ; and it is especially yaluable as a linimen for braises. involving efdsion of blood under the skin. 3. Neoralou— Intesnal Bbhedy. — Sal-ammoniac I dr. ; dissolve in water 1 oz. Doss — One table-spoon every three minutes for 20 minutes, at the end of which time, if not before, tiic pain will have disappeared. The foregoing is from a gentleman who had been long afflicted with the disease, who found no success with any other remedy. Instead of common water, the " Camphor Water " or " Mint Water " might by some be preferred. The ammonia is a very dififusable stimulant, q^iickly ex- tending to the whole systo*u, especially tending to the sur- face. 4. Kino qp Oils, for Neuralgia and Bheumatism. — ^Burning fluid 1 pt. ; oils of cedar, hemlock, sassafras, and origanum, of each 2 ozs. ; carbonate of ammonia, pulverized, 1 oz. : mix. Directioks. — ^Apply freely to the nervea and gums, around the tooth ; and to the face, in neuralgic pains, by wetting brown paper and laying on the parts, not too long, for fear of blistering, — to the nerves of teetl by lint A blaoksmlth of Sturgis, Mich., cured himself and others, with this, of neuralgia, ^ter physicians could give no relief. 5. Several years ago, I was stopping for a number of weeks at a hotel near Detroit ; whilst there toothache was onee made the snbject of corversation, at which time the landlady, a Mrs. Wood, said she had been driven by it to an extreme measure — no less than boiling wormwood ]ierb IB alcohol and taking a table-spoon of it into i mouth ,/ :/ ^ . ".t. MEDIOAL DEPABTMENT. 187 / / boiling hot, immediately closing the mouth, tarnlng the head in suoh a way as to bring the alcohol into contact with all of the teeth, then epilting it out, and taking the second immediately, in the same way, having the boiling kept up by sitting the tin containing it on a shovel of hot coals, bringing it near the mouth. She said she never had tooth- ache after it, nor did it injure the mouth in the least, but for the moment she thought her head had collapsed, or the heavens and earth come together. And although the lady's appearance and deportment were such as to gain gene- ral esteem, I dared not try it, or recommend it to others. But during the last season I found a gentleman who had tried the same thing, in the same way, except he took four spoons in his mouth at a time, and did not observe to keep his mouth closed to prevent the contact of the air with the alcohol, the result of which was a scalded mouth, yet a per- fect cure of the pain, and no recurrence of it for twelve years up to the time of conversation. And I do not now give the plan, expecting it to become a general favorite, but more to show the severity of the pain, forcing patients to such extreme remedies. It would not be applicable only in cases where the pain was confined entirely to the teeth. 6. Horse-radish Root, bruised, and bound upon the face, or other parts where pain is located, has been found very valuable for their relief. And I think it better than the leaf for drafts to the feet, or other parts. 7. Teeth Extracting with Little or no Pain.— lir. Dunlap, a dentist of Chillicothe, 0., while filling a tooth for me, called my attention to the following recipe, given by a dental publication, to prevent pain in extracting teeth. He d used it. It will be found valuable for all who must have teeth extract '^ii the feeling is sufficiently unpleasant even when all is .ne that can be for its re- lief: TmcTDRB of aconite, chloroform, and alcohol, of each 1 oz. ; mor- phine, V. grs. ; mix. MAyNER op Application — Moisten two pledge 3 of cotton with the liquid, and applv to the gums on each side of the tooth to be extracted , holding them to their place with pliers or some other convenient instrumeot for 5 to 15 minutes, rubbing kbe gam freely inside and o\t. 1 1 , >■ / m DR. GHASE's BEOIPES. i My wife has had six teeth taken at a sittings but the las't bwo she wished to have out, she could not make up her mind to the work until I promised her it should not hurt in the extraction, which I accomplished by accompanying her to Dr. Porter's dental office, of this city, and adminia- terirg chloroform in the usual way, just to the point of nervous stimulation, or until its effects were felt over, the whole system, at which time the teeth were taken, not causing pain, she says, equal to toothache for one minute. Not the slightest inconvenience was experienced from the effects of the chloroform. I consider this plan, and so does Dr. Porter, far preferable to administering it until entire stupefaction, by which many valuaj^le lives have been lost. 8. Dentrifioe] which Removes Tartabeous Adhesions, Arrests DECiiY, AND Induces a Healthy. Action op the Gums. — Dissolve 1 ounce of borax in 1^ pints of boiling water, and when a little cool, add 1 teaspoon ot the tincture of myrrh and 1 table-spoon of the spirits of camphor, and bottle for use. Directions. — At bed- time wash out the mouth with water ; using a badger's hair brush (bristle brushes tear the gums and should never be used) ; then take a table-spoon of the dentrifice with as much warm water, and rub the teeth and gums well each night until the end is attained. 9. Tooth Wash — To Remove Bi^aokness. — Pure muriatic acid 1 oz. ; water 1 oz. ; honey 2 ozs. ; mix. Take a tooth brush and wet it freely with this preparation, and briskly rub the blaok teeth, and in a moment's time they will be perfectly white ; then immediately wash out the mouth with water, that the acid may not act upon the enamel of the teeth. j T' . in three or four again, washing out It need not be used often, say once months, as the teeth become black quickly every time. Without the washing after its use, it would injure the teeth, with it, it never .will This black- ness is hard to remove, even with the brush and tooth powder. 10. Dr. Thompson, of Evausville, Ind., gives the above in twenty drop doses, three times daily, for laryngitis or bronchitis, ti»ken in a little water, throwing it back pist the teeth. „. ... , ;. _ 11. Tooth Powder— Excellent.— Take any quantity of finely pulverized chalk, and twice as much finely pulverized charcoal ; make very fine; then add a very little suds made with Castile ioap, and sufflcieat spirits of c&j^phor to wet all to a Uuoli paste. 4i XEDIOAZi DEPABTMEl!rr. 189 Apply with the finger, rubbing thoroughly, and it will whiten the teeth better than any tooth powder you can buy. I noticed the past season, a piece going the rounds of the papers, " That charcoal ought not to be used on the teeth." I will only add that a daughter of mine has used this pow- der over six years, and her teeth are very white, and no damage to the enamel, as yet. Six years would show up the evil, if death was in the pot. Coal fr'^tQ basswood or other soft wood is the easiest pulverized. ESSENCES. — Druggists' rules for making essences is to use one ounce of oil to one quart of alcohol, but many of them do not use more than half of that amount, whilst most of the pedlars do not have them made of over one-fourth that strength. I would hardly set them away if presented. I have always made them as follown : Peppermint oil 1 oz.; best alcohol 1 pt. And the sam^e amount of any other oil for any other essences which you desire to make. D09E— A dose of this strength of essence will be only from 10 to SO drops. With most essences a man can drink a whole bottle with< out danger, or benefit. Peppermint is colored with tincture of tumeric, cinnamon with tincture of red sandal or sanders wood, and wintergreen with tincture of kino. There is no color, however, for essences, so natural as to put the green leaf of which the oil is made into fiie jar 01 essence, and let it remain over night, or about twelve hou«# ; then pour off, or filter if for sale. But if families are making for their own use they need not bother to color them at all. But many beilieve if they are high oolored they are neces* sarily strong, but it has no effect upon the strength what- ever, unless colored with the leaf or bark, as here roooic- mended. Cinnamon bark does in plaoe of the leaf. See "Extracts." TINCTURES. — In making any of the ilbotures in Com- mon use, or in making any of the medioines called for in this work, or in works generally, it i?^ 3t only expected, but absolutely necessary, that the rootb, leaves, barks, &o., should be dry, unless otherwise directed ; then : Take the root, herb, bark, leaf or gum called for, 2 czs.; and bruise it, then pour boiling water i pt upoi. it^ and when ijold 190 DB. OHABE'S BE0IPE8. add best alcohol J pt., keeping warm for from 4 to 6 days, or let- ting It Btand 10 or 12 days without warmth, shaking once or twice daily ; filter or strain ; or it may stand upon the dregs and be carefully poured off as needed. With any person of oommon judgment, the foregoing directionB are just as good as to take up forty times as much space by flaying — take lobelia, herb and seed, 2 ozs. ; alcohol J pt. ; boiling water J pt., — then do the same thing, over and over again, with every tincture which may be called for or at least those who cannot go ahead with the foregoing in- Btruotions, mre not fit to handle medicines at all ; so I leave the subject with those for whom the given information is BuflEloient. In makiiag compound tinctures, you can combine the simple tinctures, or make them by putting the different arti- cles into a bottle together, then use the alcohol and water it would require if you were making each tincture separately. TETTER, RINGWORM, AND BARBERS' ITCH— To Cure.— Take the bent Cuba cigars, smoke one a sufficient length of time to accumulate i or ^ inch of ashes upon the end of the cigar ; now wet the whole surface of the sore with the saliva from the mouth, then rub the ashes from the end of the cigar thoroughly into, and all over the sore ; do this three times a day, and in- side of a week all will be smooth and well. . I speak from extensive experience ; half of one cigar cured myself when a barber would not undertake to shave me. It is equally successful in tetters on other parts of the body, hands, &o. Tobacco is very valuable in its place (medicine) — like spirits, however, it makes slaves of its devotees. 2. Narrow-Leaved (yellow) dock root, sliced and soaked in good vinegar, used as a wash, is highly lecommended tA a cure for tetter^ or ring-worm. ^ , BALSAMS— De. R. W. HurcmNs' Indian HEAUNa, pormukly Peokham's Cough Balsam. — Clear, pale rosin, 3 lbs., and melt it, adding spirits of turpentine 1 qt. ; balsam of tola 1 oz. ; bal- sam of fir 4 ozs.; oil of hemlock, origanum with Venice tur- Eentlne,^ of each 1 oz. ; strained honey, 4 ozs. ; mix well, and ottle. Dose— Six to 12 drops ; for a child of six, 3 t^ f> drops, on a little sugar. The dose can be varied according to the ability of the stomach to bear it, and the necessity of the case. It is a valuable preparation for coughs, internal pains, or #naQSy and works benignly upon the kidneys. mSDIOAL DEPABTICENT. 191 2. Doctor Metohel's Balsam, for Guts, Bruises, &x). — Fenugreek Beed and gum myrrb, of each 1 oz. ; sassafras root bark, a good handful ; alcohol 1 qt. Put all into a bottle, and keep warm for 5 days. Dr. Mitchel, of Pa., during his life, made great use of this balsam for cute, braises^ abrasions, &o., and it will be found valuable for such purposes. ARTIFICIAL SKIN— For Burns, Bruises, Abrasions, &o.. Proof AoAiNST Water. — Take guu cotton and Venice turpentine, equal parts of each, and dissolve them in 20 times as much sulphuric ether, dissolving the cotton first, then adding the turpentine ; keep it corked tightly. The object of the turpentine is to prevent pressure or pinching caused by evaporation of the ether when applied to a bruised surface. Water does not affect it, hence its value for crack/od nipples, chapped, hands, surface bruises, etc., etc. DISCUTIENTS— To Scatter Swellings.— Tobacco and cicuta (water hemlock) leaves, of each 2 oz. ; stramonium (jimpsom), and solannm nigrum (gardea night shade, sometimes erroneously called " deadly '' night shade), the leaves, and yellow dock root, of each 4 ozs.; bittersweet, bark of the root, 3 ozs. Extract the strength by boiling with water, pressing out and rebelling, strain- ing and carefhlly boiling down to the consistence of an ointment, then add lard 18 ozs., and simmer togetner. It will be used for stiff joints, sprains, bruises attended with swelling when the skin is unbroken, for cancerous lumps, Bcrofulous swellings, white swellings, rheumatic swellings, &c. It is one of the best discutients, or scatter- ers in use, keeping cancers back, often for months. SMALL POX — To Prevent Pitting the Face. — A great discovery is reported recently to have been made by a surgeon of the English army in China, to prevent pitting or marking the face. The mode of treatment is as follows : When, in small-pox, the preceding fever is at its height, and just before the eruption appears, the chest is thoroughly rubbed with Croton Oil and Tartaremetic Ointment. This causes the whole of the eruption to appear on that part of the body, to the relief of the rest. It also secures a full and complete eruption, and thus prevents the disease from attacking the internal organs. This is said to be now the established mode of treatment in the English army in China, by general orders, and is regarded as per-' fecUy effectual. m "DtU" CBMSS^B BBOD iKk' It ia a well known faot, that disease is moRt likely tc make its attack upon the weakest parts^ and especially upon places in the system which have been recently weakened by previous disease ; hence, if an eruption (disease) is caused by the application of croton oil mixed with a tittle of the Tartaremetio Ointment, there is every reason to believe that the eruption, in small pox, will locate upon that part instead of the face. The application should be made upon the breast, fore part of the thighs, &c., not' to Interfere with thd posture upon the bed. It has been suggested that a similar application will re- lieve whooping cough, by drawing the irritation from the lungs ; if so, why will it not help to keep measles to the surface, especially when they have a tendency to the inter- nal Cleans, called, striking in. It is worth a trial, in any of these cases. See ^'Causes of 3 «)flammation," under the head of '' Inflammation." 2. Common Swelltnos, to REDUOfc..— Tory-weed ponnded bo as to mash it thoroughly and bound upon any common swelling, will very soon reduce the parts to their natural size. This weed may be known from its annoyance to sheep raisers, as it furnishes a small burr having a dent on one side of it. There are two species of it, but the burr of the other kind has no dent — is round. It will be found very valuable in rheumatism attended with swellings. WENS — Tq Cube.— Dissolve copperas in water to make it Very strong ; now take a pin, needle, or sharp knife and prick or cut the wen in about a dozen places, just sufficient to cause it to bleed ; then wet it thoroughly with the copperas water, once daily This followed for four weeks, cured a man residing within four miles of this city, who had six or eight of them, somd of them on the head as lai^e as a hen's egg. The prepara- tion is also valuable as a wash in erysipelas. BLEEDINGS — Internal and External— Sttptio Balsam. — For internal hemorrhage, or bleeding from the lungs, stomach, nose, and in excessive menstruation or bleeding from the womb is made as follows : Put sulphuric acid 2 J drs. by weight, in a Wedgewood mortar and slowly add oil of turpentine 1 fluid dr., stirring it constantly with the pestle ; then add slowly again, alcohol 1 9m4 dr., ^ i> 4' IdEDIOAL D^AtKTMENT. 193 Oondntie to slir as long as any fames arise from the mixtnre, then bottle in glass, ground stoppered, bottles. It should be a clear red color, lilce dark blood, but if made of poor materials it wiU be a pale, dirt^ red, and unfit for use. Dose — To be given by putting 40 drops into a teacup and rubbing it thoroughly with a teaspoon of broym sugar, and tnen stir in water until the cup is nearly i\ill, and drink immediately — repeat every hour for 3 or 4 hours, but its use should be discontinued as soon as no more fresh blood ap- pears Age does not iigure it, but t^ skin forms on the top wjiieh is to be broken through, using the medicine below it This preparation was used for thirty years, with uniform success, by Dr. Jas. Warren, before he gave it to the pub- lic ; since then, Dr. King, of Cincinnati, author of the Eo- oletio Dispensatory, has spread it, through that work, and many lives have been saved by it. It acts by lessening the force of the circulation (sedative power), as also by its as- tringent effects in contact with the bleeding vessels. And the probability is that no known remedy can be as safely depended upon for more speedy relief, or certainty of cure, especially for the lungs, stomach, or nose ; but for bleedings from the womb, or excessive menstruation, I feel to give preference to Prof. Piatt's treatment as shown in the recipe for " Uterine Hemorrhages." No relaxation from business need be required, unless the loss of blood makes ii necessary, nor other treatment, except if blood has been swallowed, or if the bleeding is from the stomach, it would be well to give a mild cathartic. Bleeding from the stomach will be dis- tinguished from bleeding from the lungs by a sense of weight, or pain, and unaccompanied by cough, and discharged by ^ vomiting, and in larger quantities at a time than from the lungs. The blood will be <^4rker also, and often mixed with particles of food. , . ,. , m. Exercise in the open air is preferable to inactivity ; and if any symptoms of returning hemorrhage show themselves, begin with the remedy without loss of time '^-^d a reason- , able hope of cure may be expected. 2. External Sttptic Rumedies. — Take a glazea earthen vessel that will stand heat, and put into it water 2 J pts.: tincture •f benzoin 2 ozs. ; alum ^ lb., and boil for 6 hours, replacing the water which evaporates m boiling, by pouring in boiling water •0 as not to stop the boiling process, Oiiiajtantly stirring. At the end of the six hours it is to be filter^, or carefrdly strained and bottled, also ii glass stoppered botUes. AppuoiznoN— Wet linl \ 6 .1 M ''>^'" jiiik^ ^ai^m M-,; ■iMiiiii 194 D». OHilSE's RECIPHS. ftnd lay upon the wound, binding with bandages to prevent, the thickened blood (coagula) from being removed from the months «t the vessels, keeping them in place for 24 to 48 hours will be lufflcient If any doabt is felt about this remedy, pour a few drops of it into a vetMel containing human blood — the lai^er the quantity of the ityptic the thicker will be the blood mass, until it becomes black and thick. Pagliari was the first to introduce this prop^^tion to public notice. — Eclectic Dis- penaatojy, 3. Sttptio TmoTURE — External Application.— Best brandy 2 ozs ; finely scraped i/astile soap 2 drs. ; potash 1 dr. ; mix all and shake well when applied. Apply warm by putting lint upon the cut, wet with the miiture. I have never haJ occasion to try either of the prepara- tions, but if I do it will be the " Balsam," or ** External Styptic" first, and if they should fail I would try the " Tinc- ture," fof I feel that it must stop blood, but I also am cer- tain that it would make a sore-, aside from the cut ; yet, better have a sore than lose life, of course. These remedies are such that a physician might pass a lifetime without oc- casion to use, but none the less important to know. BRONCHOOELE— Enlaboed Neck— To Curb.— Iodine of potas- Bimn (often called hydriodate of potash) 2 drs. ; iodine 1 dr. ; water 2^ ozs. ; mix and shake a few minutes, and pour a little into a vial for internal use. Dose — ^Fivo to 10 drops before each meal, to be taken in a little water. External Application. — With a feather wet the enlarged neck, ivom the mother bottle, night and morning, until well. It will cause the scarf skin to peel ofiF several times be- fore the cure is perfecfc, leaving it tender ; but do not omit the application more than one day at most, and you may rest assured of a cure, if a cure can be performed by any means whatever ; many cures have been performed by it, and there is no medicine yet discovered which haa proved (inflammation of the pleura or iide), and also folded upos MMDtOAL SaKABTMENT. il97 the upper side of the diaphragm ; the diaphragm forming a partition between the upper and lower portions of the cavity of the body, the upper portion containing the lungs, heart, arge blood vessels, &c., called the chett, more commonlvthe orea'' —the lower portion containing the stomach, liver, kidneys, intestines, bladder, &c., called the abdomen — more commonly the bowels. The sides of the abdomen are ooV' ered with a continuation of this serous membrane, which it also reflected upon the lowei side of the diaphragm, liver, atomaoh, small and large intestines, bladder, &c., — here called peritoneum (to extend around), in all places it secretet^ (furnishes) a moistening fluid enabling one organ of tlw body to move upon itself or other organs without frictioiw. This serous membrane is thin, but very firm, hence thi sharpness of the pain when it is inflamed, as it canhot yieU- to the pressure of the accumulating blood. Fourth. — The ligaments or bands which bind the diffee- ent parts of the body t q:ether at the joints, and the grace- fully contracted ends of the muscles (called tendons) which pass the joint, attaching themselves to the next bone above or below, and the wristlet-like bands which are clasped around the joints through which these tendons play, as over a puUy, when the joint is bent, are all of a fibrous construc- tion, nence the grinding or gnawing pains of rheumatism (inflammations), and injuries at or near joints, and it also accounts for that kind of jjain in the latter stages of intestinal inflammations, as the stomach, intestipes, &o., are composed of three coats, the external, serous — middle, fibrous, internal, mucous, and when inflammation of the external, or ii^r- ual, coats are long continued, it generally involves the miadle — fibrous layer. ' . ^ ... -. a Fifth. — The gifeatest portion of the substance of the lungs is of fhrovs tissue, consequently, dull or obtuse pain only, is experienced when inflamed. Lastly. — The nervous system, although of a fibrous character, is so indescribably fine in its structure that, like the telegraph wire, as soon as touched, it answers with a bound to the call ; quick as thought, whether pain or pleasure, jumping, bounding, it goes to the grand citadel (the brain) wbich overlooks ibd weJfart of Uie wl¥vle temple. mm IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 'lO m.. / t/u ^<- 1.0 I.I |50 2.5 110 II 2.0 1.8 1.25 1.4 1.6 < 6" ► Photographic Sciences Corporation A w iV \\ -^ o\ 4^ % n? %"■ 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 198 Dit OHAHB'S BBOIftSS. In geiktiral, the inteneity of the pun attending inflamma* tions will surely indicate the vlolenoe of the febrile (sympa- thetic) reaction ; for instance, in inflammation of the bron- chial tubes, the pain is not very severe, consequentiy not much fever (reaction) ; but in inflammation of the pleura (pleurisy) the pain is very severe, consequently the febrile reaction is exoeedingly great. Causes of Inflammation. — In health the blood is. carried evenly, in proportion to the size of the blood vessels, to every part of the body. And the vessels (arteries and veins) are proportioned in size to the necessity of the sys- tem for vitality, nutrition and reparation. Whatever it may be that cans )S the blood to recede from the surface, or any considerable portion of it, will cause inflammation of the weakest portion of the system; and whatever will draw the blood unduly to any part of the system, will cause inflamma- tion of that part, — ^for instance, cold drives the blood from the surface, consequently, if sufficiently long continued, the internal organ least able to bear the accumulation of blood upon it will be «xcited to inflammation — a blow upon any part, if sufficiently severe, will cause inflammation of the injured part. Also mustard poultices, drafts to the feet, &g., hence the propriety of their proper use to draw the blood away from internal organs which are inflamed. A check of perspiration is, especially, liable to excite inflammation, and that in proportion to the degree of heat producing the per- spiration and the length of time which the person may be exposed to the cold. The object of knowing the cause of disease is to avoid suffering from disease, by keeping clear of its cause ; or thereby to know what remedy to apply for its cure or relief. There is a class of persons who claim that causes will havv their legitimate effects, physical or moral ; physicians know that it is absurd physically ; that is, when philosophically and scientifically combated with, — for instance, a person is exposed to cold ; the blood is driven in upon the internal organs, and the one which is the least able to bear the pres- sure gives way before the invading enemy, and an inflamma- tion is the result ; which, if left to itself, will terminate in death ; but heat and moisture are applied to the constringed 0uriaoe-— the blood is brou^t back and held there, anda ICEDIOAL DiSPABdnsaSNT. 199 cure is speedily eflFeoted— the natural or physical e^«c« of the oause is obviated or avoided. Then why should it be thought impossible with Gt)d that a moral remedy should be provided against moral evils ? Thanks he to God, it has been provided to the willing and obedientj through our Lord Jesus Christ, but only to the willing and obedient, morally as well as physicaUy, for if a person loill not permit a proper course to be pursued to overcome the consequences arising to his body from cold, he must suffer, not only the inflammation to go on, but also guilt of mind for neglecting his known duty. The same is true in either point of view, only it looks so curious that there should be those who can reason of physical things, but utterly refuse to give up their moral bb'**dness ; the conse- quences be upon their own heads. Just in proportion to the susceptibility of an organ to take on diseased action, is the danger of exposure ; for example, if a person has had a previous attack of pleurisy, or inflam- mation of the lungs, those organs, or the one which has been diseased, will be almost certain to be again prostrated, usually called relapise ; which is in most cases, ten times more severe than the first attack ; then be very careful about exposures when just getting better from these, or other disease. Inflammation terminates by resolution, effusion, wujypuror turn, or mortijication. By resolution is meant that the parts return to their natural condition; by effusion, that blood may be thrown out from the soft parts, or from mucous m,emhranes — that lymph, or serum, a colorless part of the blood may be thrown out by serous membranes, which often form adhesions, preventing the after motions of the affected parts — and here what wisdom is brought to light, in the intact that whatever is thrown out from the mv^cous surface never, or at least very seldom adheres or grows up ; if it did, any part of the alimentary canal from the mouth to the •tomaoh, and so on through the intestines, would be con- f tantly adhering ; so, also, of the lungs ; for these various frgans are more frequently affected by inflammations than any other parts of the body — hy suppuration, Mfhenabcessea are formed containing pus (matter), or this may take place upon the surface, when it is usually called canker, or corroding mcers^ cancers, &o. ; by ga/ngrene (mortification) when dMth \ v DB. OHASE'S TOECtSm. of the pai'ts takes place ; in this case, if the part is sofficiently extensive, or if it is an internal part, death of the whole body, if not relieved, is the re.^ult. The methods of inflammatory termination is believed to result from the grade of inflammation — for instance, at the circumference of a boil, the inflammation is weak, serum is thrown out ; near the centre, where the inflammation is a little higher, lymph is poured out and adhesion takes place ; — next pus — at the centre '"{cn'tification and consequent ilou^hing takes place. ^ la boils, the tendency is to suppuration ; in carbuncleSf the tendency is to mortification; but in rheumatism, mumps, &o., there is a strong tendency to resolution ; and it is ^-ften very difficult to avotd the natural terminations. The five diflerent tissues of the body also modify the in- flammation accordii^g to the tissue inflamed, viz : the cellular (fleshy) tissue, is characterized by great swelling, throbbing pain, and by its suppurating in cavities — not spreading aU over that tissue. Inflammation of the serous tissue, has sharp lancinating pain, scarcely any swelling, but much reaction (fever), throws out lymph, and is very liable to form adhesion — ^not likely to terminate in mortification, ex- cept in peritonitis (inflammation of the lining membranes of the abdominal cavity), which sometimes terminates thus in a few hours, showing the necessity of immediate action. Inflammation of the mucous tissue, is characterized by burning heat, or stinging pain (fience the heat of the stom- ach, bowels, &c.) — ^without swelling, not much febrile re- action, and never terminates in resolution (health) without a copious discharge of mucous, as from the nose and lungs, in colds, catarrhs, coughs, &c. Inflammation of the dermoid (skin) tissue, as in erysipelas, is characterized by burning pain — spreads irregularly over. the surface, forming blisters containing a yellowish serum, but never forms adhesions, nor suppurates in cavities but upon the surface. Inflamma- tion of the fibrous tissue, or rheumatic inflammation, is characterized by severe aching or gnawing pain — is not liable to terminate in su|^uration nor mortification — nearly 'always throwing out a gelatinous serum, often causing stiff- joints, or depositing earthy matter, as in gout — is peculiarly iiablo to change its placet beipg verj dadgerous if it ohaiiges m IfEDIOAL DEPARTMENT. 201 the to any of the vital organs, as the brain, heart, stomach, &o., and in the acute form the febrile reaction is usually quite severe. Internal inflammation will be known by the con- stant pain of the inflamed part, by the presence of fever, wHIch does not generally attend a spasmodic or nervous pain, and by the position chosen by the patient, to avoid pressure upon the afflicted organs. Inflammation is known under two heads, acute and chronic The first is generally rapid and violent in its course and characteristics. The last is usually the result of the first — is more slow and less dangerous in its consequences. Treatment. — Sound philosophy (Eclecticism) teaches, that if cold has driven the blood (consequently -he -heat) from the surface, heat will draw it back ; and thus relieve the interQal engorgements (over-full organs), and if held there, sufficiently long, entirely cure the difficulty (inflam- mation) ; upon the same ground, if a person is cold, warm him ; if wet and cold, warm and dry him ; if hot, cool him ; if dry and hot, wet and cool him— equalize the circulation and pain or disease cannot exist. The foregoing remarks must suffice for general directions ; but the following special application to pleurisy and inflam- mation of the lungs shall be sufficiently explicit to enable all to make their general applications. 2. Pleurist. — Pleurisy is an inflammation of the serotu membrane enveloping (covering) the lungs, which is also re- fleeted (folded) upon the parieties (sides or walls) of the ohest [out I trust eli will make themselves familiar with the description of ** Inflammation in General," before they proceed with the study of pleurisy], attended with sharp, lancinating pain in the side, difficult breathing, fever, with a quick, full, and hard pulse, usually commencing with a chill. In jnany oases the iMammation, consequently the pain, is confined to one point, most commonly about the short ribs; but often gradually extends towards the shoulder and forward part of the breast ; the pain increas- ing, and often becoming very violent. It may not, but usually is, attended with cough, and the expectoration is seldom mixed with blood, or very free, but yather of -a glairy or mucous character. As the disease advances, tltc pain is' iiompared to a stab with a sharp instrument, full ol breath!ug ao2 DB. OHASB'S BEOIPES. not being indulged in, from its increasing the difficulty ; the cough alao aggravates the pain ; great prostration of strength^ the countenance expressing anxiety and sutFering. The breathing is short, huiTied, and catching, to avoid increase of pain ; in some cases, the cough is only slight. It may be complicated with inflammation of the lungs, or bronchiaJ tubes, and if so complicated, the expectoration will be mixed or streaked with blood. Yet it makes but very little diflference, as the treatment is nearly the same — ^with the exception of expectorants, quite the same ; although ex- - poctorants are not amiss in pleurisy, but absolutely neces- sary in inflammation of the lungs. Even Mackintosh, of the '^ Regulars," says : '^ It must be recollected that pneu- monia (inflammation of the lungs) and pleuritis (pleu- risy) frequently co-exist (exist together) ; but neither 16 that circumstance of much consequence, being both inflammatory diseases, and requiring the same general lemedies.V But there I stop with him, for I cannot go the bleeding, calomel and antimony. I have quot«d his words io satisfy the people that the " Regulars " acknowledge the kiecessity of a similar treatment in all inflammatory diseases, r-he diflerence between the two branches of the profession (Existing only in the remedies used. Causes op Pleurisy. — Cold, long applied, constringes (makes smaller) the capillaries (hair-like blood-vessels) which cover as a net-work the whole surface, impairing the circulation, driying the blood internally, causing congestion (an unnatural accumulation of blood) upon the pleura, hence pleurisy. Exposures to rains, especially cold rains, cold, wet feet, reoisaion (striking in ) of measles, scarlet fever, rheumatism, &o., often cause inflammation of this char-r Mter. Indioations. — Relax the whole surface, which removes the obstructions — ^restore, and maintain, an equd circulation, and the work is aucomplished. The temperature of the surface and extremities is much diminished, showing that the blood has receded (gone) io the internal, dK»eased, or- gans, the temperature of which is much increased ; for with the 1:' d goes the vitality (heatj of the body. This condi- tion oi' the system clearly indicates the treatment, viz. : the i^^plication of the heat to the surface in such a way as U^ 1 MBDIOAL tnsF^QDU&MT. 208 be able to keep it there until nature is i^ain capable <^ oaiTj' ing Ov> her own work, in her own way. Tbbatment.— It has been found that the qaiokest and least troubleBome way in which heat could be applied to the whole surface, is by means of burning alcohol, formerly called a " Rum sweat," because mm was stronger than at present, and more plenty than alcohol ; but now alcohol is the most plenty, and much the strongest and cheapest It should always be in the house (the 98 per cent.) ready for use a-s described under the head of " Sweating with Burning Alcohol," (which see) or If it is day time, and fires are burning, you cau give the rapo'i-bath-sweat, by placing a pan, half or two-thirds full of hot water under the chair, haying a comforter around you j then putting into it oc- casionally a hot stone or brick, until a free perspiration m produced and held for from 15 to 30 minutes, according to the severity of the case ; and if this is commenced as soon as the attack is fairly settled upon the patient, in not more than one case out of ten will it be necessary to do anything more ; but if fairly established, or if of a day or two's standing, then, at the same time you are administering the sweat, place the patient's feet in water as hot aa it can be borne ; have also a strong tea made of equal parts of pleurisy-root and catnip, (this root is also called while root— Doctors call it asclepias tuberosa)— into a saucer of this hot tea put 2 teaspoons of the ''Sweating Drops,'' drinkioif all at one time, repeating the doae every hour for 5 or tf hours, using only 1 teaspoon of the drops at other times, except the first, giving the tea tteelj once or twice between doses. Ab soon as the sweating is over, place the patient comfortably in bed so as to keep up the perspiration from 6 to 12 hours, or until the pain and uneasiness yield to the treatment If necessary, after the patient takes the bed, place bottles of hot water to the feet and along the sides, or hot bricks, or stones wrapped with flannel wet with vinegar, to help to keep up the perspmttion. Mustard may also be placed over the seat of pain, and upon the feet, also rubbing the less and arms with dry flannel, which very much aids the process when the attack is severe. If the pam >}ontinues severe, and perspiration is hard to maintain, steep cayenne, oi common red peppers in spirits, and rub the whole surfoce with it well and long, and I will assure the blood to come out soon, and see what is going on externally. Keep the patient well covered all the time, and avoid drafts of cold air. As the painful symp- toms begin to subside, the doses of medicine may be lessened, and the time between doses lengthened, until the disease is fairly under control ; then administer a dose of the " Vegetable Physic," or some other cathartic, if preferred, or if that is not at hand, this course may be repeated or modified to meet returning or changing symptoms. Wetting the surface daily, with alcohol and water, equal parts, will be Yound an excellent assistant in treating any disease, e8p<»- daily internal inflammations, as Pleurisy, Inftunmation of tb« Lungs, Consumption, Bronchitis, &c., &c ^ 901 DB. OHASE*S BEOIPEB. The plenrisy root is almost a epeoifio in pleurisy or in flammation of the lungs ; no other known root or herb ia squal to it for producing and keeping up perspiration (drug- gists usually keep it), but if it cannot be got, pennyroyal, sage, <&•.,. or one of the mints, must be used in its place. 'I'he only objection to the forogoins treatment is this, the iVvrtors say : ^ Height I gaesB he wasnH venr Biok: For see I he'B round in ''double quok:" ; But alopath holds 'em for iteeki, six or seren, When bloedinc, calomel, and antimony are given. To illustrate : I awoke one night with severe pain in the loft ride (I had been exposed to cold during the afternoon), could not move or draw a full breath without very much io'veasing the difficulty ; the night was cold and fires all ^nm, I studied my symptoms for a few minuttrs, and also reflected upon the length of time which must elapse, if I waitbd for fires to be built ; then awoke my wife, saying ^ Bo pot be frightened, I have an attack of rleurisy ; you will get me a comforter, sauoer, and the alcohol, and return to bed without disturbing any one.' With persuasion, or almost compulsion, she did so ; for she desired to build a fire and make a more thorough work of it ; but I had made up my mind and resolved to carry out the experiment upon myself, •nd now had the only chance. I arose and poured the «nucer nearly full of alcohol, and set it on fire ; wrapping the comforter around me, I sat down upon Ihe chair, over it, «ad continued to sit until the alcohol was all burned out, aud I in most profuse perspiration; the pain and diffi- cult breathing having nearly all subsided ; I then returned to >ied, the perspiration continuing for some considerable ti/»^»^ lunger, by retaining the comforter around me to avoid clrnking it as I returned to bed, during which time I again foU asleep. When I awoke in the morning I could just realitjse a little pain, or rather uneasiness, upon taking a full breath, but did nothing more, bdng very careful about exposure however, through the day ; but at bed time I took another alcohol sweat, and that was the last of the pleurisy. Again : Mr. — a-, a medical student, rooming in the sam* house where I lived, awoke in the night, attacked with pleurisy, the same as myself, after exposure; but as he was attending the lectures of al*pathie profeators, of iCEDIOAL DEFABTMENT. *M . doarse, lie most have one of them to attend him ; one was called, three pints of blood were taken, calomel and antimony were freely given, and in about three or four days the dis- ease gave way to time, or the treatment; but a talomet Diarrhoea set in and came very near terminating his life, and kept him from college and his studies over six weeks ; and he said if he was ever calomelized again, he would pro- secute the doer to the end of his life ; but he graduated in that school of medicine, and no doubt is now expecting to go and do the same thing. Choose ye your servant. Shall he be reason, with common-sense results, or shall he bo silver-slippered fashion, with his health-destroying policy ? It need not be argued that these were not parsllel oases, for I had the pleurisy when young, and was treated in the fashionaole style, and was constantly liable to, and had firequent attacks of it during my earlier life. In chronic cases, which Sometimes occur, and frequently tinder other treatment, it will be necessary not only to use the foregoing treatment, but to add to it an emetic about once a week, alternating with the sweating process, witn much external friction, occasionallv, wit^ *be pepper and spirits, to hold the blood ic the surface. Since the publication of the foregoing,, I have seen a statement going the rounds of the '' Papers," that a bad case of burning had taken place in N. Y., by the alcohol process of sweating, calling it new ; but it has been in use more ih&n /orti/ years ; I have used it, I speak safely, more than a hundred timea, and ndver before heard of its injuring any one ; but still it is possible that some accident may have occurred in its use, or that some one has undertaken it who was not capable of prescribing ; but if calomel would claim one year's use under its most accomplished prescribers with ono case of injury, I would say, let it be continued ; but in place of one it is himdreds ; further comment is unneoes- eary. But those who prefer* or from the absense of alccaol, or other necessities, can take " grandmother's plan," i.e., place the feet into hot water, and drink freely of pennyroyal, sage, or other hot teas, for tilteen to twenty minutes ; then get into bed, continuing the teas for a short time, remaining in bed for a few hours ; which, if commenced soon after th* mttm m DB. OHASB'B BEOIPEB. «!^ Attack of colds, or even more eoyere diseases, will, in nine out of ten oases, not only relieve, but prevent days, perhaps weeks, of inconvenience and sufifering. Where there are complications with the snbstanoe of the lungs, you wiU find explanations under the next head. 3. Inflammation of thb LuNOd — Is usually, by phy- sicians, called rnenmonia, from the Greek, Pneumon, the Lungs. It may involve the whole lung, on one or beth udes, but is more generally confined to one side, and to the lower portion, than to the whole lung. Oausis. — Exposures to cold, wet, cold feet, orafts of air, especially if in a perspiration, recession of eruptive diseases, &c.; and consequently more liable to ccme on in the winter, or cold wet changes of spring, than at any other time ; and upon those whose lungs are debilitated by previous attacks, or are predisposed to, or actually suffering uuJcr ^^isease. Symptoms. — Inflanmiation of the Lungs, like other dis- eases of an inflammatory character, nearly always commen- ces with a chill, soon followed by fever, more or less violent, according to which, the severity of the case may be some- what predetermined, unless of a congestive character ; in which case, instead of a hot and fevered surface, there will be a cold, clammy feel to the hand, as well as unpleasant to the patient. There will be difficulty in taking full breaths, as well as an increased number of breaths to the minute, which in healthy persons is generally about twenty. Dull pun, with a tightness of the chest, short and perpetual hack- ing cough, scanty expectoration, which is tough, and sticks to the vessel used as a spittoon, and is more or less streaked with blood, or more like iron rust in color, and may have so much blood in it as to make it a brighter red.* The pulse is Tariable, so much so that but little confidence can be placed in it. The tongue soon becomes dry and dark ; but a dry, and glossy tongue, with early deliriutn, are considered dan- f>rous symptoms, that is, under " Old School Treatment." ut with our rational treatment we very seldom have a fatal termination, yet it is occasional, and really wonderful that it 13 not more frequent, when we take into account the neglect of some phygioians and imprudence of many patients. / lODOIOAL DEPABnCDfT. ao7 so . / iNDiOATioii* — Ab the blood has receded from the sur face and oentered npon the lungs ; the indications arc to return it to its original vessels, by judiciously applying heat and moisture, which is sure to relai: -their constringcd con- dition, instead of cutting a hole i>nd letting it run out [bleeding], which prostrates the patient and retards his recovery. Trbatmbnt. — The treatment of Inflammation of the Lungs in recent cases, will be at first the same as for " Pleorisj," that is to produce free perspiration — soak the feet in hot water whil admin- istering the <' Alcohol Sweat," or Vapor Bath, as there directed, with the white-root tea and " Sweating Drops," tor several hours, with bottles of hot water or hot bricks to uie feet and sides, mus- tard-drafts to the feet also, as they can be borne ; and after 6 or 8 hours, the "Vegetable," or other cathartic should be adminis- tered, and great care not to expose the patient to drafts of air dur- in^ its operation, especially if in perspiration. If this course is fkithfnlly persevered in, it will call l£e blood to the surface — prevent congestion of the lungs (unnatural aooumulatlon of blood) — lessen the fever — ease the pain, and aid expectoration. But il the expectoration becomes difficult, and the disease should not seem to yield in from 8 to 12 hours at farthest, or by the time the cathartic has freely operated, then, or soon after, give the " Eclec- tic," or " Lobelia-seed Emetio," as directed under that head ; and if called to a case which is already confirmed, it is best to begin with the emetic, then follow up as above directed In recent cases. An expectorant, in confirmed (established) cases will be needed — let it be composed of tincture of lobelia 1 oz. ; tincture of ipecac \ oz. *, tincture of blood-root \ oz. ; simple syrup or molasses 2 ozs. ; mix. Dose — One teaspoon ev^ry 2 hours, alternately with the white-root tea and "Sweating Drops," except the first dose' may be 2 teaspoons. The case must tlien be watched carefully ; and any part or all of the treatment may be repeated, less^'ned, increased, or modified, to suit returmng or remaining symp- toms. Persons haying this book in the house, and being governed by it, having also the leading medicines on hand ; and com- mencing with this disease, or inflammation of any other organs, modifying the treatment by common sense, accord- ing to the remarks on " General Inflammation," wiU not have to repeat the coarse in one case out of ten. In inflammation of the stomach, known by heat, acfHMfd- ing to the degr^*i of the inflammation, drinks of slippery-elm water, or mucilage of gum arable, &c., may be freely taken ; and in inflammation of other organs, other modifi- oations wilJ. be required ; as for Dysentery, which is an in- JOL OHASB'S BISOIPIS. V^ flammation of the large intestines, the ^' Injection " mttat be freely used, as also the perspiring prooesses in all cases. In ohronio inflammation, the emetic should be giten once a week, and some other times durii , the week, the sweating should be gone through also, with dry friction to the whole surface, by means of a coarse towel, for fifteen to twenty minutes each time, twice daily ; and if the feet are habitually cold, wash them in cold water and wipe them dry at bed time, then rub them with a coarse cloth or the dry hand until they a"*e perfectly warm and comfortable ; and it may be expecteC that these long-standing cases will soon yield to this rational course. Female Debilitt and Irregularities. — It is a self- evident fact that the finer the work, and the more compli- cated a piece of machinery, the more liable is it to become deranged or out of order ; and the more skillful must be the mechanic who undertakes to malr:e any necessary re- pairs. Upon this consideration I argue that the Hystem of the female is the finer and more complicated, having to perform a double work (child-bearing), yet confined to the Bome or less dimensions than the male. And to perform this double function of sustaining her own life, and giving life to her species, it becomes necessary, in the wisdom of God, to give her such a peculiar formation, that between the ages of fourteen and forty-five, or the child-bearing period, she should have a sanguineous (blood-like) montiily discharge, from the organs of generation, known under the various names of monthly sickness, menses, catamenia, courses, menstruation, &c. Why it shoula have been so arranged, or necessary, none can tell. We are left to deal with the simple fact ; and it would be just as wise in us to say that it was not so, as to say there wm no one who planned it, or any other thing, because we caiinot see or fully under- stand the great first cause. The blood discharged usually amounts to from four to six ounces, and should contiauu only from four to five days. And as this book will fall to very many fa:"ilies who will have no other medical work ^r reference upon this subject, it will not be amiss for me to give the necessary instructions here that all may be able to qualify themselves to meet the exigencies (demafid) 'of ' XOEmOAL DKFABTlCEirr. 909 i \^ all ooaes. Previous to moDstruation, paiu or nntnainess if (bit in the baok, loins, thighs, and a sense of heaviness ir the womb, which lies in the lower part of the abdomen Some are very nervous at these periods, othora with flushed face, accompanied with disziness and headache, sickness i1 the stomach, &o. In young girls, these new feelings pro- duce uneasiness, for want of knowledge as to their cause and result, and should lead them to seek maternal advice and counsel, unless they have some book of this kind which explains t&ie whole matter. The breasts, at this period, en- large and often become the seat of uneasiness, or actual pain. Let no real danger be apprehended, for these un- pleasant sensations will continue until in healthy young females there will be a few drops of reddish fluid, resem- bling blood, pass fVom the genital organs, afibrding imm& diate relief, not from its quantibjr, but from the accomplish- ment of their natural work. Owing to their better general health, which is improved by the style of living, some girls menstruate a few months, or a year, perhaps, earlier than others. When they take an active part in die labors of the house, freely romping, playing, &o., their health and strength become fullv developed, and menstruation comes on a Tittle earlier^ and is more healthy and regular. Allow me here to give a word of caution about taking cold at this period. It is very dangerous. I knew a young girl, who had not been properly instructed by her mother upon this subject, to be so afraid or ashamed of being found with stains upon her clothes, which she did not know the meaning of, that she went to a brook and washed her- self and tlothes — took cold and immediately became insane — remaining so as long as I knew her. Any mother who so Delects her duty to her child, in not explaining these things, is verily guilty. j^ilter this discharge takes place, the unpleasant feelings naturally subside, and the health again becomes good for the month, when all the foregoing sensations recur again, with a larger flow and longer continued, recurring every fcur weeks, and is then called menses or monthly courses. The function of the female system, from the fineness and complication of its atruetures is very liub^d to become deranged in various wajs. HO no DB. OHASE S BEOIFBS. It may be entirely stopped, called amenorrhea (green sickness, suppression of the menses, &o.), — it may become painful and imperfect (dysmenorrhea), — it may be very free or excessive {menorrhagia), like hemorrhage; or it may bo irregular in its i'ecurrene>e and duration (leuoorrhea). But aa this monthly discharge is absolutely necessary to liealth, between these periods of life— 4t8 suppression — ' painfulness — excessive flow, or irr^ularity, will soon produce ' leneral female debility. Causes. — The female organism is such that what affects ihe general system of the male, much more frequently af- fects the organs peculiar to her system only. No reason can be given for it, except the wisdom of the Creator, or the necessities of her construction. But this debility and irreg- tdarity are so interwoven together that what causes one must latecessarily affect the other. in the good old grandmother-daySy of girls helping with ehe work of the household ; warm but loose clothing, plain food, good thick-soled shoes, and absence of novels to excite sexual thoughts, &c., such a thing as a feeble, debilitated woman or girl was hardly known, but now sedentary habits, stimulftting food, every conceivable unphysiological style of dress, paper-soled shoes, checking perspiration, excitable reading, repeated cold:; by exposure going to and from par- ties thinly clad, standing out tiilking with supposed friends (real enemies) when they ought to be by the fire or in bed, miusturbatioD, excessive co-habitation, miscarriages, &c., all tend to general debility ; and the real wonder is that there are so few cases. SYMPTOiis. — The very word debility, shows plainly the leading symptom — weakness. She appears pale, especially about the ears, lips, nose, &c., with a bluish circle about the eyes, which appear rather sunken from the fact that the countenance is generahy bloated, leading her friends to feel not over-anxious about her, supposing her to be in good liculth, as she still appears in good flesh; but if you take hold of it, it will be found soft and flabby ; she feels dull, languid, and drowsy, stomach out of order, nausea, often with fluttering about the heart; the nervous system some- times becoming so much involved as to bring on fits of de- vpondenojjeading many to attempt, and occasionally succeed MEDICAL DEFABTiaiNT. 211 -;.. i in taking ikeir ct^n lives. The feet and limbs may become swollen, restless in sleep, often craving unnatural food, as clay, soft stones, teargrounds, &o. There may be a dis- charge from these organs of a glairy or whitish fluid, resem- bling the white of an egg^ the disease taking the name, in this complication of Whites^Jhwr albtis or LeucorrKeay &c. ; it is more common among married females, but often occurs before marriage. There may also be a sensation of bearing down, or even falling of the womb (prolapsus uteri) which is much the most common also amongst the married. The bowels usually costive, but often griping pains which cause much suffering. Pains may occasionally be experienced in the head and back ; but instead of being looked upon as unfavorable, they rather show that nature is trying to bring about tbfe natural ^««)faarg% and needs the assistance of rational remedies It is not to be suppo&>d that every patient wiU experience all of these symptoms, at one, or all of the time ; but they commence as pointed out, and if allowed to go on without proper correction, they will increase in severity until they may be all experienced in a greater or less degree. Indications.— The symptoms indicate point out) th# treatment, that is, if there is debility, tonics are require ' ; paleness shows that the blood has left the surface and must b^ brought back by heat, friction , &c. The softness of the flesb indicates a more nutritious diet. The dullness and drowf^y langnidness indicate active exercise. Stomach and heart in- dicate an alterative cathartic. The nerves require soothing and quieting remedies/ travel, agreeable company, &c., to draw the mind away from self. The glairy mucous discharge, indicates an inflammation, and calls for washings of the part» by cooling and astringent injections, both as an act of clean- liness, as also of cure. The falling of the womb points out tho necessity of a pessary support, until the general treat* ment relieves the difficulty. Costiveness points out laxatives, whilst nature's efforts, shower by pains in the head, back, &c., clearly indicate the whole general remedies above pointed out ; and which shall be a liitle more particulariyed in the following: Treatm-cnt.— For the weakness and general debility of th# patient, let the " Tonio Wine Tincture " be freely taken in coa- Ml *il2 DB. chase's BBdFIBS. neetion with iron to etrengthen and invigorate the system ; befh- root, [often called birth-root, Indian-balm, gronnd-lily, Ac.], the root is the part used, Solomon's seal and columbo, spikenard, comfrey, (gentian, the roots, with comomile flowers, of each 1 oz. ; wi£h a little white oak bark, may be added to the wine tincture to adapt it to these particular cases, taking a wine-glass, if it oan be borne, from 3 to 5 times daily. Domestic wine may be used in place of the Port. The best way to take the iron is to have a foGt or two of nail rod heat, then filled up, mixing with it as much ground ginger, rubbing them thoroughly together. DosB— Half of 1 teaspoon 3 times daily, in a littl'^ honey or molasses, increasing or lessening the dose to prodnc^ a black- ness of the stools ; and continue these preparations for 2 or 3 months «,t least, or until well. Using for the paleness, warm bathing once or twice a week with dry hard rubbings of the whole surface, night and morning, which brings the blood to the surface, relieving the engorged internal organs. Moderate quan- tities of broiled pork, roast beef, mntton, &c., with cold bread and roast or baked potatoes, to oreroome the softness of the flesh, and give strength for the necessary exercise which will remove the dullness and drowsy languid feelings. This exorcise may bo labor about the house, but better to be out of doors, as gardening, romping, swinging, singing and riding, or numing when it can be borne, with agreeable company, trayel, &o. For the stomach, heart and costiveness, make the following : 2. Female Laxative Pill. — Aloes, macrotinr and cream of tar- tar, of each 2 drs. ; podophylin, 1 dr. ; make into common cozed pills by using oil of peppermint 15 to 20 drops and thick solution of gum mucilage. Dose — One pill at bed-time, and sofflciaiitly often to keep ibe bowels just in a solvent condition. If the aloes should not agree with any, they may use the follow- ing :— 3. Female Laxative AND Anodtne Pill. — Macrotin and rhubaib, uf each ten grs. ; extract of hyoscyamus 10 grs. ; Castile soap 40 ozs. ; scrape the soap and mix well together formmg into common sized pills with gum solution. Dose — One pill as the other, or Aufiiciently open to keep the bowels solvent, but not too free. The hyoscyamus tends to quiet the nerves without constipathig th and put into it all the Infiia-rubber it will dissolve ; when dis- aolyed, add curriers' oil 1 pt. ; tallow 6 lbs. ; lamp-black 2 wm, 9 mSz thoroughly by heat This is a nice thing for old harness or carriage-tops, tis well as for boots and shoes. Or you can dissolve the rubber in the oil by set;.Ing them in rather a hot place for a day qz two ; and save the expense of camphene, as that is of no use only as a eXilvent to the rubber. There are those, however, who do not like to use the rubberj thinking it rots the leather ; then use the following : 6. Watbr-Proop Paste wrraour Rubbeb.— Take tallow 1 lb. ; beeswax ^ lb. ; castor or neat's foot oil } pt ; and lamp-black ^ oz. ; mix by heat Or : 7. Neat'b-Foot Oil, brought tc a proper oonsistenoe with a little beeswax and tallow ; colored with lamp-black, will bo found proof against snow or wat^r. 8. Some, however, may prefer the following manner of preserving their boots and shoes, from a correspondent of the Mechanics* Gazette ; but if they do the boots must be made large, from the fact that the preparation has a ten- dency to shrink the leather He says : — " I have had only three pairs of boots for the last six years (no shoes), and I think I shall not require any more the next six years to come, the reason is, that I treat them in the following man- ner: " I put 1 lb. of tallow and | lb. of rosin in a pot on the fire : when melted and mixed, I warm the boots and apply the hot stuff with a painter's brash, until neither the sole nor the upper will soak in any more. If it is desired that the boots should immedi- ately take a polish, dissolve 1 oz. of wax in spirits of turpentine, to which add a teaspoon of lamp-black. A day after the boots have been treated with the tallow and rosin, rub over tiiem this wax in turpentine, but not before the fire. *^ Thus, the exterior wiU have a coat of wax alone, and will shine like a mirror. Tallow or any other grease becomes rancid, and rots the stitching as well as the leather, but the rosin gives it that antiseptic quality which preserves the >ifho\e. I^oots and shoes shouM be made so large as to ad I! LEATHBB-WOBEING DEFABTMENT. 217 .^ mit of working cork soles. Cork is so bad a oonduotor of heat, that with it in the hoots, the feet are always warm on the ooldest stone floor." 9. Black Varnish for Edok.— ?»ke 98 per cent alcohol 1 pt; Bhellac 3 czs. ; rosin 2 ozs. ; pine turpentine 1 oz. : lamp-blaok i oz. ; mix, and when the gums are all cut, it is ready to use ; bu' bear in mind that low proof alcohol will not cut gums properl j, for any varnish. This ap^ed to a boot or shoe edge, with a brush gives It the shining gloss resembling muoh of the Eastern work, it is also applicable to wood or ok)^* requiring a gloB8| «ftor having been painted. 10. Varnish fof. Harness, thr Best in Ijse.— Take 98 per cent alcohol 1 gal. ; white pine turpentine 1^ lbs. ; gum shellac 1} lbs. ; Venice turpentine 1 gill. Let this stand in a jug in the sun or by a stove until the gums are dissolved, then add sweet oil 1 gill, and lamp-black 2 oz3. ; rub the lamp-black first with a little of the varnish. This varnish is better than the old style, from the fact that its polish is as good, and it does not crack when the harness is twisted or knocked about. If you wish a varnish for fair leather, make it as the fjbove, in a clean jug^ but use no lamp-blaok. The pine Mirpentine and sweet oil make it pliable, yet not sticky. TANNING, BLACKING, AND FINISHING.— Process for Calf, Kip, and Harness, in from Six to Thirty Days. — For a 12 lb ealf Bkin, take terra-japonioa 3 lbs. ; common salt 2 lbs. ; alunc. 1 lb. ; put these into a copper kettle with sufficient water to dis- solve the ^hole by boiling. The skin, or skins, will first be limed, haired, and treated in every way as for the old process ; then it will be put into a vessel with sufficient water to cover it, at which time you will put in one pint of the composition, stirring it well ; adding the sau.e amount each night and morning for three days, when you will add the whole ; handling two or three times daily all the time tanning ; you can continue to use the tanning liquid by adding half the quantity each time, of new liquor, and by keeping these proportions for any amount, and if you desire to give the leather the appearance of bark color, you will put in one pound of Sicily sumac. Kip skins wlV require about twenty days, light horse hides for harne. , thirty days, to make good leather, while /' 318 DR. OHASB'S BEOIPES. oftlf skins will only require from six to ten days at moBt. The japonioa is put up in large cakcfi of about one hundred and fifty pounds, and sells, in common times, at about four oents per pound in New York. Btbon Bose, a tanner, of. Madison, 0., says that one quart of oil of vitriol to fifty sides of leather, with the japon- ioa and alum, as above, leaving out the salt, will very much improve it ; the acid opens the pores, quickening the process wiUiout injury to the leather. 2. Canadian Pbooess. — The Canadians make four liquors in using the japonica : . The iiRST liquor is made by dissolving, for '^o sides of upper ; 16 lbs. of terra japonica in sufBcient water to corer the upper being tanned. The second liquor contains the same amount of japonica and 8 lbs. of saltpetre also. The thibd contains 20 lbs. of japonica, and 4} lbs. of alum.- The fourth liquor contains only 15 lbs. of japonica, and I^ Ibe. of sulphuric acid ; and the leather remains 4 days in each liquor for upper , and for sole, the quanti- ty and time are both doubled. They count 50 calf skins in place of twenty sides of upper, but let tiiem lie in each liquor only 3 days. 3. D|!BR Skins— Tannwo and BuFPiNa for Gloves,— For each skin take a bucket of water, and put into it 1 qt of lime ; let the skin or skins lay in from 8 to 4 days ; then rinse in clean water, hair and grain ; then soak them in cold water to get out the glue ; now scour or pound in good soap suds, for half an houi'; after which take white vitriol^ alum and salt, 1 table- spoon of each to a skin ; these will be dissolved in snflBcient water to cover the skin and remain in it for 24 hours ; wring out as dry as convenient ; and spread on with a bmsh ^ pi of curriers' oil, and hang in the sun about 2 days; after which you will scour out the oil with soap suds, and hang out again until per- fectly dry ; then pidl and work them until they are soft j and il A reasonable time does not make them soft, scour out m suds again as before, until complete. The oil may be saved by pour- ing or taking it from the top of the suds, if left standing a sliort time. The buff color is given bv spreading yellow ochre evenly •ver the surfoce of the skin, when finished, rubbing it in well Vitib a brush. The foregoing pkn wm pursued for a number of years Dy % brother of mine, and I have worn the gloves and know the value of the recipe ; but there are plans of using acid, and if the quantity is not too great there is no reason in the world why it may not be used, the only caution necessary is to see that the stkcngth of acid does not kill the nature of T^ LEATHEB-WOBEINO DEFABTMENT 219 the leather; in proper quantities it ians only, instead ^ destroying the fiber. I will give a couple of the most yalu- ablo methods. 4. Tanmino with Acid. — After haying removed the bair, sooar- ing, Boakhg, and poundio^ in the suds, &c., as in the Inst recipe, in place of the :vnite vitriol, alum, and salt, as there mentioned, take oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid), and water, equal parts of each, and thoroughly wet the flesh-side of the skin with it, by means of a sponge or cloth upon a stick ; then folding up the skin, letting it lie for 20 minutes only, having ready a solution of sal-soda audi water, say 1 lb. to a bucket of water^ and soak the skin or skina in that for 2 hours, when you will vash in clean water »nd apply a little dry salt, letting lie in the salt over night, or that length of time ; then remove the flesh \«dth a blunt knife, or, if doing busi- ness on a large scale, b^ means of the regular beam and flesh- knife ; when dry, or neari/ so, soften by pulling and rubbing with the luuids, and also with a piece of pumice-stone. This, of course, is the quickest wav of tanning, and by only wetting the skins with the acid, and soaMug out in 20 minutes, they are noL rotted. 5. Akotheb Method. — Oil of vitriol ^ oz. ; salt 1 teacup ; milk sufficient to handsomely cover the skin, not exceeding 2 qte. ; warm the milk, then add the salt and vitriol, stir the skin iu the liquid 40 minutes, keeping, it warm ;^then dry and work it as directed in No. 4. 6. Tanninq Shbip-Skins, Applioable for Mittens, Door-Mats, Hobes, &o. — For mats, take t^o long-wooled skins, make a strong suds, using hot water ; when it is cold wash the skins in it, carefully squeezing them between the hands to get the dirt out of the wool ; then wash the soap out with clean cold water. Now dissolve alum and salt, of each half a pound, with a little hot water, which put into a tub of cold water sufficient to cover the skins, and let them soak in it over night, or twelve hours, then hang over a pole to drain. When they are well drained, spread or stretch carefully on a board to dry. They need not be tacked if you will draw them out, several times, with the hand, while drying. When yet a little damp, have one ouuce, each, of saltpetre and alum, pulverized, and sprinkle on the flesh- side of each skin, rubbing in well ; then lay the flesh-sides together, and hang in the shade for two or three days, turn- ing the under skin uppermost every day, until perfectly dry. Then scrape the flesh-side with a blunt knife, to remove any remaining scraps of flesh, trim off projecting points, and rub 220 DB. OHASE S BEOIPEB. iho flesh-side with pnmice or rotten stone, and with the hand ; they will be very white and beautiful, suitable for a foot-mat, also nice in a sleigh or waggon of a oold day. They also make good robes, in place of the buffalo if col- ored, and sewed together. And lamb-skins (or sheep-skins, if the wool is tnmmed off evenly to about one-half or three- fourths of an inch in length), make most beautiful and warm mittens for ladies and gentlemen. 7. Tanning Fur and Other Skins. — Fifty Dollar Recipe. — First, Remove the legs and other useless parts, and soak the skin soft ; then remove the fleshy substances and soak in warm water for an hour ; now : V Take for each Bkin, borax, saltpetre, and glanber-salts, of each ^ oz., and dissolvo or wet with warm water Buffloient to allow it to be spMftd on the fleshnside of the skin. Tut it on with a brush, thickest in the centre or thickest part of the skin, and double the skin together, flesh-side in, keeping it in a oool place for twenty-four hours, not allow- ing it lo freeze, however. Sboomd, — Wash the skin clean, and then : Take sel-soda 1 oz. ; borax ^ oz. ; refined soap 2 ozs. (Colgate'! white soap is recommended as Uie best, but our "White Hard Soap " is i « same quality) ; melt tJbem slowly together, being careful not to allow them to boil, and apply the mixture to the flesh-side as it first — ^roU up again and keep in a warm place for 24 hours. Third,— Wash the skin clean, as above, and liave salera- tus two ounuis, dissolved in hot rain water sufficient to well saturate the itiin, then : Take alum 4 ozs. ; salt 8 ozs. ; and di&solve in hot rain water ; when snflSciently cool to allow the handling of it without scalding, pat in the skin, for 12 hours ; then wring out the water and bang np for 12 hours more to dry. Repeat this last soaking and drying from 2 to 4 time^, according to the desired softness of the skiu when finished. Lastly, — FLtish by pulling, working, &o., and finally by rubbing with a piece of pumice-stone and fine sand-paper. This works acmirably on sheep-skins as well as on fur- skins, dog, cat, 01 wolf-skins also, making a durable leather well adapted to washing. A man in our t ninty paid fifl^ ioUara for this recipe, and .281 tuM made hii money uJt of it many times. It is very Tain- able. 8. Tannino Dmr and Woodcbuck Skinb for Whips, Strimob, ko. —Prepare the ekln according to the last recipe, then : Take oil of vitriol 1 ob. ; salt 1 pt ; milk 3 qts. ; mix. Now dip the skin in warm rain water, having sufficient Boleratus in it to make it rather strong, or as in the third head of last recipe, and work and squeeze it well for a few mimites, then wring dry as convenient and put it into the vitriol mixture for fifty minutes, stirring all the time ; now wring out and soak awhile ; and finally dry and work until soft 9. ORADf-fom Blaokuio, fok Tbn Gsnts a Barrel. — Take a barrel and pat into it quite a quantity of old iron, cast or wrooffht, then fill nearly ftiU of soft water, and add 1 pt. of oil of vitrfol : stir it up well, and in a montii or two you have just as good blacking for the grain^flide as could be made by using vinegar in plice of water. This makes good blacking for boot, shoe, or harness edge, also. The aoid used is so trifling that no injury will arias to the leather. Tanners will, of oourse, first apply the urine before ap- plying the blacking, saving from ten to twenty dollars yearly, in this way, instead of the old plan of using vinegar. 10. Fkznoh Finish fob Leather. — Take a common wooden pail of scrape (the legs and pates of calf-skins are the best), and put a handful each, of salt and pulveriied alum amongst them and let them stand three days ; then boil them until you get a thick paste ; in using you will warm it ; in the first application, put a little tallow wiUi it, and for the second, a little sofb soap, and use it in the r^u- lar way of finishing, and your leather will be soft and pliable, like the French calf-skin. I have no doubt that this would make a good preparation for shoemakers to use in treeing-out, leaving a soft pliable- ness, not otherwise obtained. 11. Fbenoh Patent Leather. — The process which has been so successfully adopted by the French artizans in glaa- ing leather, so as to give it the repute for superiok* oualitf •1^ beauty which it now uniTersally sustain, ia as follows i J m HE. c^iasb's beoipeb. Work Into the skin with appropriate tools three or fonr euooee* sive coatings of drying vammn, made by boiling linseed oil, with white-lead and litharge, in the proportion of one pound of each oi che latter to a gallon of the farmer, and adding a portion of chalk or ochre — each coating being thoroughly drleabefoie the applioi^ tion of the nezL lyor^ blade is then substitnted for the clwik or ochre, the varnish thinned with spirits of tnipentine, and five additional applications made in the same manner as before, ezoept that it is put on thin and not worked in. The leather is mbbed down with pumice-stone, in powder, and then f^BO^ in a room a( 90 degs., out of the way of dust The last varnish is prepared by boiling ^ lb. of asphaltum with 10 lbs. of the drying oil used in the first step of the process, and then stirring inlS lbs. of copal var^ aish and 10 lbs. of turpentine. It must have a month's age before it is rtfor use, in ordior to exhibit its true charaoteristios. — U. b* Scusette. \ "if FAIBTERS' DEPARTMENT. DRYING OILS.— To Pbeparb for Carbiaob, Waoon, and Floob pAomzjo.— Take linseed oil 1 gal., and add gnm Boil until it will sooroh a feather. Use this or either o^ tte others, in quantity to suit the object of the work being done. 3. Japan Dryer op the Best QuiLrrr.^Take linoeed oil 1 gal. and put into it gum shellac | lb. ; litharge and burned Turkey umber, of each ^ lb. ; red-lead ^ lb., and sugar of lead 6 ozs. Boil in the oil until t.11 are dissolved, which will require about 4 hours ; remove from tie fire, and pAA spirits of turpentine 1 gaL» and it is done. While in Princeton, Ind., after selling one of my booibi to T. & J. T. EwiUfcT, extensive carriage manufacturers of tint jp'aoe, I obtained the foreeoing recipe. It wis pab- liiheii in a work printed in Commbns, 0., devoted to the art of painting. From this faot, and also that the gentle- men from whom I obtained it, had tested it, and wore using it, I have not myself tried it, but know, from the natura oA the articles used, that nothing better will be required. 4. Anc/thbr. — Another dryer is made by takiug linseed on ^ gals., and adding red-lead and litharge, of each i^ ^^^- > ^^^'^ umber 1^ lbs. ; sugar of lead and sulphate of zino, of eaoc | lb. ; pulverize all the artlQles together, and boil in the oil until did- solved ; when a little cool, add turpentine, 6 gala., or to make it of a proper conaistence. The gentleman of whom I obtained tuis recipe paid ten dollars for it. He was using it suooessfnlly, and said he used two or three drops of it to a quart of varniah also, and especially when the varnish did not dry readily. OIL-PAINT— To RsDUOB wtth WiLTER.-~Take gum shellac 1 lb.; sal-soda ^ lb.: WNter 3 pts.; put all into a sultal^le kettle and boil, sUrring till all is dissolved. If it does not all dlwolve, .rdd a little more sal-soda ; this, when cool, can be bottled for use. If it imells bad when opened it does not hurt it DiBBOTioNS FOR UsiNG. — Mix up two quarts of oil paint as usual, exoept no turpentiLd is to be nsed — any color de- sired. Now put one pint of the gum shellao mixture with the oil paint when it becomes thick, and may be reduced with water to a proper consistence to hj on with a brush. Two coats will be required, and with the second coat, sand may be applied if desired. I used this upon a pioket-feace with white lead and yellow ochre for tlie body and a little lamp-black, to give it a dark shade, putting on sand with the second coat. It is still fi>^ and good, the work being done nearly four years ago. The sand was applied with * tub-Iiko box, with many small holes to allow the even ^reading of the sand, as with a pepper-box. I do not regret using this kind of paint, noi ihe sanding, as it adds much to the durability of any out- door painting. But a better plan of sanding is represented hi the " Painters' Sanding Apparatus " below. 2. Another MKTHOD.—Take *>Aft water 1 gal., and dissolve in H pearlash 3 ozs. ; bring to a boil, . ad slowly add shellac I lb.; whec cold it is ready to be added to oil-paint, in equtd proportions. T1)C expense of these is only one-third of oU-pami WA OB. OHABB'S BBOmB. Gfimo persons may think it bad policy to learn paintfin to reduoe oil-paint with water, but I think evrery man should be told of the plan, who is going to have a job of work done, and if he makes up his mind to try anything of the kind, it is then his own business ; and I am perfectly sincere in recommending it, for if there was any great fault in it four years would show it. 3. Painters' Sanding Appabatuh. — It is made of tin ; the tube enters upon the nozzle of a sn 1 bellows ; the sand is put into the funnel, which stands perpendicular upon the apparatus when the broad mouth-piece is held level in using. The funnel discharges the sand, just before the noz- zle of the bellows ; and by working the bellows the sand is blown evenly upon the freshly put on paint, through the mouth-piece, the escape orifice not being over the sixteenth part of an inch in depth, and may be made two and a hall or three inches wide. Many persons like the plan of sanding generally, after painting, out firom the fact that when it is desired to renew the paint, brushes cannot last long upon the sand, I think it only proper to sand fences or fronts^ where boys' knives would be too freely used. PAINT-SEINS-To Savb ikd Rkduoi *o Oil - DlaBolve sal-Bod^ >| lb., in rain water 1 gal. xlie skins that dry upon the top of paint, which has dc^l left standing for any length of time, maybe made fit for use again by covering them with the sal-soda-water and soaking them therein for a <&oupl6 of days ; then heat them, adding oil to reduoe the mixture to a proper consistence for paint- i^^y and straining. Painters who are doing extensive busi- ness ¥rill save many dollars yearly by this simple prooees. M\ PAINTEBS' DEPABTMENT. 225 NEW TIN ROOFS— Valuablb Process for Paint- ing. — Scrape off the rosin aa olean as Dossible and sweep the roof; now: DisBolve sufficient sal-eoda in a bucket of "yyaier to make it quito strong ; wash the roof thoroughly with the eodarwater, and let it remain until it is washed off by the rains, or after a few hours, wa8hin^t>ff with clean water, Hnrang well. When dry give it cue coat of pnre Venetian-red, iuized with one-third boiled, and two-thirds raw linseed oil ; the second coat may be any color desired. The soda-water dis- solves the rosin remaining after scraping; destroys the greasy nature of the solder, and of the new tin, so that there will be sufficient^iGrip " for the paint to adhere firmly. The pure Venetian-red is one of the most durable paints foi metallic-roofs, but is often rejected on account of its coloi. The above mode of painting will set aside this difficulty. 2. Fire-Proof Paint— For Roofs, &o. — Slack stone-lime by putting it into a tub, to be covered, to keep in the steam. When Blacked. p:8s the powder through a fine sieve ; and to each 6 qts. ot it add 1 qt. of rock-salt, and water 1 gaL ; then boil and skim clean. To each 5 gald. of this add pulverized alum 1 lb. ; pulver- ized copperas ^ lb. ; and still slowly add powdered potash f lb. ; then fine sand or hickory ashes 4 lbs. Now add any desired color, and apply with a brush — ^look's better than paint, and is as durable as slate. It stops small leaks in roofs, prevents moss, and makes it incombustible; and renders brick impervious to wet. — Maine Farmer. 3. Water-Proof, OutRdbber Paint. — Dissolve about 6 lbs. ol India rubber in 1 gal. of boiled linseed oil, by boiling. If this is too thick, reduce with boiled oil ; if too thin, use more rubber. JBspecially applicable to ck>th, but valuable for any other material. Frosting Glass. — The frosty appearance ^f glass, which we often see where it is desired to keep jut the sun, or *' Man's observing eye," is done by using a paint composed as follows : Sugar of lead well ground in oil, applied as other paint ; tiien pounded, while fresh, with a wad of batting held bcrtween the thumb and finger. After which it is allowed to partially dry ; then with a ttraight edge laid upon the sash, you run along by the side mam 226 DR. CHA8E*S RBOIPBS.^ of it, a Stick sliarpencd ^o tho width of line you wish to ap* pear in the diamonds, figures, or squares, into which you choose to lay it oflF; most frequently, however, straight lines «re made an inoh or more from the sash, according to the Rize of light, then the centre of th ^ht made into dia- monds. ORIENTAL — Crystal Painting. — The colors used are Prussian-hlue, crimson, white, and yellow-lakes, Ros- sean, white-zinc, and No. 40 carmine. Drugmsts keep them, in small tubes. They must be mixed withDemar-vamJ' rubbing with a table-knife or spatula upon glass. Dn»E0TIONS FOB MAKING VARIOUS SHADES, OB GOMPOimD GoLOBS. — Proportion them about as follows — ^for green 1-6 blue ; 4-5 yellow- purple, 1-6 blue, 6-6 crimson-orange, i crimson, J yellow-wine- color, 1-12 blue, 11-12 crimson-pink, add a little crimson to white zinc ; brown, mbc a dark purple and add yellow according to the shade desired ; black, add crimson to dark green until the shade Bulls jovi ; to make the compound colors lighter, add the lightest color in it, and make darker by using more of the darkest CQlor in the compound. For bacliigroimds, white, white zinc, or pink white with turpentine and boiled linseed oil and Demar-varnish ; black, iamp-black, with asphaltum-vamish and boiled linseed oil and tur- pentine in equal quantities ; flesh-color, white zino with a email portion of crimson and chrome yellow to suit. For sketching out the figures on the ground-work, use a little lamp-black with asphal- tnm-vamish, turpentine, and boiled linseed oil to make it flow freely. Directions for Painting. — ^Make your glass perfectly ileasi, and place it over the picture you wish to copy^ then with the sketching preparation, trace on the glass all the lines connected with the figures of the picture which you are copying, being careful to sketch vines very distinct; when the sketching is done and dry, proceed to lay on the backgrounds inside of the sketched lines until all the sketch- ing is closed ; and when the background is dry, proceed to put on the colors, commencing with green, if any in the figures, ending with yellow. When the colors are all laid, put the background upon the balanoo of tho ^lass; an gals. ; litharge 1 lb. ; and sulphate of zino ^ lb. ; continuing to boil for three hours ; then add dark gum amber 1} lbs., and continue to boil 2 hours longer. When cool reduce to a proper consistence, to apply with a brush, with spirits of turpentine. 7. I WISH here, also, to state a fact which will benefit those wishing to secure vines or limbs of trees to the side ot a white house, with nails, and do not wish to see a streak of rust down the white paint, as follows : Make a hole, in which to start the nail, putting a little strip oi zinc into the hole, and drive the nail in contact with the wuv. The electrical action of the two metals, in contact, pre- vents rust, proven by over eight years trial. WELDING — Cast Steel Without Borax.— Copperas 2 ozs. ; saltpetre 1 oz. ; common salt 6 ozs. ; black oxide of mangtnese 1 oz. ; Fnissiate of potash 1 oz. ; all pulverized and mixed with nice welding sand 3 lbs. ; and vne it the same as you would innd. Higher tempered steel can bo used with this better than with borax, as it welds at a lower heat — such as pitc\fork tines, toe-corks, &c. The pieces should be held to^thei while heating. I have found some blacksmiths using it !23U DR. OHASFi'B REUtPBB. ^ without the manganese ; but from what I know of the puri fying properties of that article upon iron, I am sure it must be preferable with it, as ♦^-at ia the principal purifyer in the next recipe. POOR IRON— To Improve.— Black oxide of manganeae I part | copperafl and common salt 4 parto each ; dissolve in soft water and boil until dry ; when cool palverize and mix quite freely witb nice welding sand. When you have poor iron which you oannot aflford to throw away, heat it, and roll it in this mixture, working foi a time, re-heating, &c., will soon free it from all impurities, which is the cause of its rottenness. By this process you can make good horse-nails, even out of only common iron. WRITING UPON Irok or Steel, Silver or Gold, Not to Cosi THE Tenth Part op a Cent Per Letter. — Muriatic acid 1 oz. : nitric acid \ oz. Mix, when it is ready for use. BiREOTiONS. — Cover the place you wish to mark or write upon, with melted bees-wax; when cold, write the name plain with a file point or an instrument made for the pur- pose, carrying it through the wax and cleaning the wax all out of the letter ; then apply the mixed acids with a feather, carefully filling each letter ; let it remain from one to ten minutes, according to the appearance, denied; then put on some water, which dilutes the acids and stops the process. Either of the acids, alone, would out iron or steel, but it requires the mixture to take hold of jpld or silver. After you wash off the acids it is best to ap^y a little oil. Mll.L PICKS— To Temper.— To 6 qts, of soft water put in pul- verized corrosive sublimate 1 oz. and two bands of common salt ; when disMlved it is ready for use. The first gives toughness to the steel, whilst the latter gives the hardness. I have found thoee who think it better to add sal-ammoniac, pulverized, 2 ozs., to th above. DiREOTiONS. — Heat the pioks to only a oheny red and plunge them in and do not draw any temper. In «7orking Diill-picks, be VQry careful not to over-heat them, but work them at as low a heat as possible. The reason why so many fail in making good picks, is that they don't work them at as low a heat as* they should. With care upon that point, and the above fluia, no trouble will be experienced, even upon the best diamond barvi. Be sure to \4iQ the preparar .i:*'5'*-' BLAOKSMITHS* D£PAJITMENT. 237 tion covered when not in use, as it is poison. Pigs or dogs might drinlc of it if left unoovered. This is the mixture whioh has gained me the name of hiving the heat prepara- tion in use for mill-picks, and the certificates on this subject, but as I have some others whioh are very highly spoken of, I give you a few others. 2. An English miller, after buying my book, gave me the following lecipe, for whioh he paid ten dollars. He had used it all his iife^ or from the time he began business for himself (about thirty ye^^s), and he would use no other. Salt q teacup ; saltpetre } oe. ; alum, pulverized, 1 teaspoon ; soft water 1 gal. ; never heating over a cherry red, nor drawing any temper. 3. Saltpetre, sal-ammoniac, and alum, of each 2 ozs. ; palt 1| lb. ; water 3 gals. ; and draw no temper. There must be something in this last, as the next one I obtained at least five hundred miles from where I did this, and both from men who knew their value, and yet they re- semble each other near enough to be called '^ the twins." 4. MiLL-PiOKS AND Saw Gummies, TO TEMPER.— Saltpetre and alum, each 2 ozs. ; sal-ammoniac A oz. ; salt 1| lbs. ; soft water 3 gals. Heat to a cherry red and plunge them in, and draw no temper. The .ateel must never be heated above a cherry-red, and in working and drawing the picks there ought to be quite an amount of light water-hammering, even after the steel is quite cool. Once more and I am done j yet it may be pos- sible that the last in this case may be the best. Ilead it : Mill-Pick Tempbbino as Done by Church, of Ann Arbor.— Water 3 gals.; salt 2 qts. ; sal-ammoniac aad saltpetre^ of each 2 ozs.; aahes, from white ash bark, 1 shovel, which causes the picks to Ecale clean and white as silver. '. . t' ' ■,'■' •'^' I obtained this recipe of a blaoksmith who paid young Mr. Church five dollars for it, he coming into the shop and showing him how to work the picks, as also the composi- tion — his instructions were not to hammer too cold, to avoid flaws ; not to heat too high, which opens the pores of the steel, nor to heat more than one or two inches of the pick when tempering. The gertleman says, if care is taken in heating and working, that no other tempering liquid will 238 DB. 0HA8B*S RECIPES. II equal it, yet he spoiled the first hatch hy over-heating, even aner Mr. Church had taken all pains to show him. They (the Messrs. Church) have picks sent to them for tempering, nom lUinou and even Wisconsin. BUTCHER KNIVES— SpRiNa-i'^l»BR AND Bbauti- ifUL Edge. — In forging out the knife, as you get it neai to its proper thiokuesj, he very careful not to heat it too hi^;h, and to water-hammer it as for mill-picks ; when ahout to tem- per, heat only to a cherry-red, and hold it in such a way that yon can hold it plumh as you put it in the water, which prevents it from springing — put it' plumh into the water and it will oome out straight. Take it from the water to the fire and pass it through the blaze until a little hot ; then rab a tandle over it upon both gides, and back to the fire, passing it backward and forward in the blaze, turning it over often to keep the heat even over the whole sorfkee, until fhe tallow passes off as though it went into the steel ; then take out and rub the candle over it again (on both sides oach time) and back to the fire, passing it as before, until it starts into a blftze, with a snap, being careful that the heat i& even ever the whole length and width of the tool, then rub the tallow over it again and- back, for three times, quickly, as it bums off; and lastly rub the tallow over it again and push it into the dust of the forge, letting it remain until cold. If these directions are followed with dexterity you will have the temper alike fk'om edge to hack ; and the edge will be the best you ever saw ; aa Davy Crocket used to say, " It will jump higher, dive deeper," shave more hogs, bend far- ther without breaking, and give better satisfaction than all other knives put together. It works equally well on drawing-knives and other thin tools; and for trap-springs which are to bo set on dry ground ; but if set in water, " pop goes the weasel " the first time the trap is sprung; but the following is the plan for tempering springs for general trapping : 2. TRAP-SPRINGS— To Temper.— For tempering cast steel trap springs, all that is necessary is to heat them in the dabk jost that voumaysee it is red, then cool them in lukewarm water. This is a short recipe, but it makes long-lasting springs. The reason why darkness is required to temper springs is that a lower d^;ree of heat can h\, seen in the night than by daylight ; and && low heat and warm water ^ve the deaired temper. ^'''^ .frz-:-'\\-^.'r-'-- BIAOESMITHS' DEFABTMSNT. 239 wUl will "It I far- m all SILVER PLATING— Fob Cakruqb Work.— First, let tbe parts which are to receive the plate be filed very smooth ; then apply over the surface the muriate of zinc, which is made by diseolviag sdnc in muriatic acid ; now hold this part over a dish containing hot soft solder (pewter solder is probably the softest), and with a swab apply the solder to the part, to which i^- adheres ; brtish off all superfluous solder, so as to leave the surface smooth ; you will now take No. 2 fair, silver plate, of the right size to cover the surface of the part prepared with solder, and lay the plate- upon it, and rub it down smooth with a cloth which h moistened: with oil, then, with a soldering-iron, pass slowly over all the- surface of the plate, which melts the solder underneath it, and causes the plate to adhere as firmly as the solder does to the iron ; then polish Uie surface, finishing with buckskin. The soldering-irons must be tined, and also kept very smooth, »P^ used at about the same heat as for soldering tin. - y^ _ ^^ , ;,._, , IRON — !>». j?RBVBNT Welding. — ^Where it is desired to weld two bars of iron together, for making axletrees or other purposes, through which you wish to have a bolt hole, without punching out a piece of the iron, you will take a piece of wet pasteboard, the width of the bar and Hie length you desire not to weld, and place it between the two pieces of iron, and hold them firmly upon the pasteboard while taking the heat, and the iron will weld up to the pasteboard, but not where it is ; then open the hole, with swedge and punch, to the desired size. In this way blacksmiths' tongs may be relaid, without the trouble of cutting the joints apart and making a new jaw. Simply fit two pieces of iron, the thickness you wish to add to the jaw of the tofigs, have them of the right length and width also, then take them both between the jaws and heat them so you can pound them tog jther, that they will fit closely for a weld ; no^ put a piece of the wet pasteboard between the pieces which you are to weld, havlnc; the handles of the tongs stand sufficiently apart thai you may put on a link or ring to hold all firmly ; then put into ihe fire, and take a good welding heat ; and yet they j not weld where the paper was between them ; if they stick a little at the end, just put them on the sv edge and give them a little tap with the hammer, and they will fly right apart as nice as new. I am told that the . .st from. the ground or floor of the blacksmith shop is as good as the pasticboardi |et I have not seen that tried ; but I know there is no muk i40 DB. chase's BEOIPES. take in tks other; and yet I have found one blacksmitn who declared he would not believe it could be done, even if lie saw it. CAST-IRON — To Gase-Habdbn. — Cast-iron may be case- lardened by heating to a red heat, and then rolling it in a com- j>osition composed of equal parts of prussiate of potash, sal- nmmoniac, and saltpetre, all pulverized and thoroughly mixed, (hen plunge while yet hot, into a bath containing 2 ozs. of the prussiate, and 4 ozs., of the sal-ammoniac to each gal. of cold uater. — ScierUific Artisan. 2. Cast-Iron — The Hardest, to Soften for Drillino. — Heat to a cherry red, having it lie level in the fire, then with a pair of cold tongs, put on a piece of brimstone, a little less in size than you, wish the hole to be when drilled, and it softens entirely through the piece ; let it lie on the fire until a little cool, when it Jb ready to drill. Sleigh-shoos have been drilled, by this plan, in five min- utes, after a man had spent half a day in drilling one- iburth of an inch into it.. It is applicable to any article which can be heated without injury. WROUGHT-IRON— To Case-Harden.— To case-harden wrought /ron, take the prussiate of potash, finely pulverized, and roll the article in it, if its shape admits of it. if not, sprinkle the powder upon it freely, while the iron is hot. This is applicable to iron axletrees, by heating the axle- tree and rolling the bottom of it in the powder, spread out tor that purpose, turning it up quickly and pouring cold water upon it, getting it into the tub of cold water as quick as possible They will wear for years without showing ivear. ■'■■:, i^.r 2. Weldino a Small Piece of Iron Upon a Large One, with Only a Light Heat. — It is often desirable to weld a small bit of iron upoa a large bar, when the large , piece must be heated equally hot as the sma]l one. To save this: Take borax I lb. j red oxide of iron 1 to 2 oza. ; melt them to- gether in a crucible ; and when cold, pulverize and keep the powder dry for use. When you want to perform the operation, just bring the !ttrge piece to a white heat, having a .good welding heat up on the small slip ; take the large one from the fire, and .sprinkle some of the powder upon the place, and bring th V* o , BLACIKSMITHS' DEPARTMENT. 241 Eioksmitn >, even if be case- in a com- itash, sal- ly mixed, azB. of the A. of cold . — Peat to a pair of a size than 18 entirely [)1, when it five min- lling one- ay article en wrought ad roll the the powder the axle- )read out iring cold as quick showing I A LaRGK desirable the larg( I one. To \\t them to- keep the )ring the heat up- fire, and I bring the ,>ther upon it, applying the hammer smartly, and the weld 9(rill be as good as could be made with the greater heat^ without the powder. BRONZING— For Iron or Wood.— First, make a black paint ; then put in a little chrome yellow, only sufficient to give it a dark green shade ; apply a coat of this to the article to be bronzed : when dry give it a coat of varnish, and when the varnish is a little dry, dust on bronze by dipping a piece of velvet into the bronze and shaking it upon the varnish ; then give it another coat ot varnish, and when dry all is complete. % Cast-iron bells, which are now belpg extensively intro- duced to the fp,rming community, will be much improved in their appearance by this bronzing, and also protected from rust, without injury to their sound. Iron fences around yards, porches, verandas, &c., will be much improved by it. It mav also be applied to wood if desired. TRUSS SPRINGS — Directions for Blacksmiths TO Make — Better than the Patent Trusses.-^ After having tried the various kinds of trusses, over two years, having to wear one upon eoiih side, I gave them all up as worse than useless. , -■ / -'■ X then went to a blacksmith and had springs made. They were |bent to suit the shape of the body, and to press upon the body only sufficient, after the pads are put on to hold back that which would otherwise protrude. The pad upon the back end of the spring I make of sole leather, covered witli cotton or linen cloth, laving stuffed in a little batting to make it rest as easy as jossible. The front pad I make by having a piece of wood led the shape and size of a small hen's egg, sawing it through le centre lengthwise, putting two screws into it through holes perforated in the end of the spring for that purpose The back jad is secured by one screw only. The spring is oiled, then 'covered with sheep skin, to prevent rusting. Then it is isecared around the body witii a leather strap and buokie, or with a piece ■J ■V 342 DB. OHASE*S BE0IPE8. of cloth sewed into a string of suitable width to sit easy where it' bears upon the hip, in passing to tie upon the other end of the spring, just baclc of the front pad. The bend which is given the spring, before it is bent to the shape of the body, gives it room to rise when tlie leg is raised, witliout lifting the pad from its position, saving the necessity of another strap to pass around under the thigh, as with the patent truss, which is very annoying to the wearer. Malce the springs of spring steel, about J or | of an inch in width, and about 1-16 in thickness, and of suflacient length to have a bearing just shprt of the spine. T noVi .peak from eight years personal experience, which ought to be a sufficient length of time for an experiment to be well established ' TINNERS' DEPARTMENT. BLACK VARNISH— For Coal BucjaETS.— Asphaltum 1 lb.; lamp-black \ lb. ; rosin ^ lb. ; spirits of turpentine 1 qt. Dissolve the asphaltum and rosin in the turpentine ; then rub up the lamp-black with linseed-oil, only sufficient to form a paste and mix with the others. Apply with a brush. JAPAN FLOW FOR TIN— All Colors.— Gum sandarach 1 lb. ; balsam of fir, balsam of tolu, and acetate of lead, of each 2 ozs. ; linseed-oil J pt. ; spirits of turpentine 2 qts. Put all into a suitable kettle, except the turpentine, over a slow fire, at first, then raise to a higher heat until all are melted ; now take from the fire, and when a little cool, stir in the spirits of turpentine and strain through a fine cloth. This is transparent ; but by the following modifications any or all the various colors are made from it. 2. Black.— Prussian blue ^ oz. ; asphaltum 2 ozs. ; spirits of tur- pentine ^ pt. Melt the asphaltum in the turpentine ; rub up the blue with a little of it, mix well and strain ; then add the whole | to one pint of the Jirst^ above. 3. IJlde. — Indigo and Prussian blue, both finely pulverized, of j each j oz. ; spirits of turpentine } pt. Mix ^\ell and strain. Add of this to one pint of the first until the oolor suits.] TINNEIlS' DEPAllTAtENT. 24d )irita of tur- 4. Red. — Take Bpirits ot turpentine | pt.; aad ooohineal ^ oe.; let stand 15 boure, and strain. Add of this to tho first to suit the fanqy. 5. Yellow.— Take 1 oz, of pulverized root of cnrcumn ^ni stii ot it into 1 pt. of the first, until the color pleases you, let stand 8 few hours and strain. 6. Green. — Mix equal parts of the blue and yellow together) then mix with the first until it suits the fimcy. 7. Oranqe. — Mix a little of the red with more of the yellow, and then with the first as heretofore, until pleased. 8. Pink. — Mix a little ol the blue to more in quantity of th6 rad, and then with the first until suited. In this simple and philosophical way you get all the various colors. Apply with a brush. GOLD LACQUER FOR TIN.— Transparent, All Colors.— Al- cohol in a Stank A pt. ; add gum shellac 1 oz. ; turmeric ^ oz. ; red- sauders \ oz. bet the flask in a warm place, shake frequently for 12 hours or more, then strain off the liquor, rinse the bottle aud return it, corkmg tightly for use. When this varnish is used, it must be applied to the wuik freely and flowing, or, if the work admits of it, it may be dipped into the varnish, and laid on the top of the stove to dry, which it will do very quickly j and they must not be rubbed or brushed while drying ; or the article may be hot when applied. One or more coats may be laid on, as the color is required more or less light or deep. This is applied to lanterns, &o. K any of it should become thick from evaporation, at any time, thin it with alcohol. And by the following modifications, all t^e various colors are obtained. 2. Rose Color, — Proceed as above, substituting 4 oz. of finely ground, best lake, in place of the turmeric. 3. Blue. — The blue is made by substituting pulverized FruB&ian blue J oz. in place of the turmeric. 4. Purple. — Add a little of the blue to the first 5. Green. — Add a little of the rose-color to the first. Here again philosophy gives a variety of shades with only a sUght change of materials or combinations. LACQUER FOR BR ASS.— Transparent.— Turmeric rooV, ground fine, 1 oz. ; best dragon's blood ^ dr. put into alcohol 1 pt . ; place in a moderate beat, shake well for «veral daya It must be strained through a linen cloth, and tAt bottle, and add powdered gvofS., pulverize it and add to the other, and boil ten minutes hi a copper kettle— bear in mind, only copper is to be used to boil in. You will fihd this will cause the solder to flow right along without difficulty. Keep corked tight when not >n use. VARNISH AND POLISH FOR 8T0GKS— Obbuan.— Gnm shel- lac 10 028. ; gumsandarach 1 oz. : Venice tnipentlne 1 drachm ; alcohol, 95 to 98 proof, 1 gal. ; snake tiie jug ocoasienally for c day or two, and it is ready for use. After using a few coats of this, you can have a German polish, by simply leavins out 8 ozs. of the shellac; and a coat or two of the pouoh makes an improvement on the varnish, and does not require the rubbing, that it would if the full amount of shellac was used, in the last coat or two. It is recommended alsO to put upon outs, sores, &c., burns excepted. " JEWELERS* DEPAETMEHT ^ALVANIZING—WiTHODT a BATTBBT.—Dissolve cyanuret of potassium I oz., in pure rain or snow water 1 pint, to which add a -i dr. bottle of the chloride of gold, and it is ready to use Scour the article to be plated, from all dirt and grease, witii wbitiui^K chalk, or rotten stone, pulveri^. and put in alcohol. V JEWELEBS' DEPABTMENT. 240 4 asing a good brash — or the " Polishing GomnoTiad " No. 3 ; if there are cracks it may be necessary to put Che article in a solu- tion of caustic potash — at all events, every particle of grease and dirt must be removed ; then suspend the article to be plated in the cyanuret of gold solution, with a small strip of Eino cnt about the width of a common knitting needle, hooking the top over a stick which will reach across the top of the jar holding Ule sola- tion. Every five to ten minutes, the article should be takea out and brushed over with the scouring preparation ; or 06 smooth surfaces It may be rinsed off, and wiped with a piece of cotton cloth, and return until the coating is suffioientljf heavy to suit. When the plating fluid is not in use, bottle it, keeping ii corked, and it is always ready for use, bearing in mind thai it is as poisorous as arsenic, and must be put high out of the way of children, and labeled — Poison, although you will have no fears in using it ; yet accidents might arise if its nature were not known. The zinc strip, as far as it reaches into the fluid, will need to be rubbed occasionally, until ii is bright. 2. Galvanizing with a Shilling Battset.— I have found some persons who thoi^ht it much better to use a simple battery, made by taking a piece of copper rod about three-eighths of an inch in thickness, a;nd about eighteen or twenty inches long, and bend it as directed below : The rod should be about 4 or 5 inches in the circle or bend Chen run parallel, having 5 strips of sheet zinc, an inch wide, and e to 8 inches long, bent in their centre around the copper, with a rivet through them, close to the rod, as shown above ; vbese strips of zinc are to be placed into tumblers, the rod resting on top of the tumblers, which are to be nearly filled with rain water ; theD pour into each tumbler a little oil of vitriol, until you nee thai H begins to work a little on the zinc. 250 DB. 0HA8E B BEOIFES The Article to be, plated is to be suspended npon the stri)' of sine fastened upon the long end of the rod, which is to bo placed as before spoken of, in a jar containing the gold solution, instead of haying it upon Uie stick spoken of when plating without the battery. And all the operations are the same as before described. JEWELRY — CLBi^iNO AND PoLisniNO Compound. — Aqua aLimo* oia 1 oz. ; prepared chalk | oz. ; mix and keep corked. To use for rings or other smooth-surfaced jewelry, wet a bit of cloth with the compound, after having shaken it, and rub the article thoroughly ; then polish by rubbing with a silk handkerchief or piece of soft buckskin. For articles which are rough-surfaced use a suitable brush. It is appli- oabk for gold, silyer, brass, Britannia-plated goods, &o. FABBIEBS DEPABTMENT. OOLIO — Curb fob Hobseb or Tebsons.— Spirits of turpentine 3 ozs. ; laudanum 1 oz. ; mix, and give all for a dose, by putting it into a bottle with half a pint of warm water, which prevents injury to the throat. If relief is not obtained in one hour, repeat the dose, adding half an ounce of the best powdered aloes, well dissolved together, and have no uneasiness about the result. Stmftoms. — The horse often lies down, suddenly rising again, with a spring ; strikes his belly with his hind feet, stamps with his fore iSset, and refuses every kind of food, &o. I suppose there is Qo medicine in use, for colic, either in man or horse, equal to this iniztnre. For persons, a dose would be from 1 to 2 teaspoons ; children or weak persons, less, according to the urgency of the symptoms ; to be taken in warm water or warm tea. I have been familiar with it for about 5 years, and know tiiat it has been successful in •lany cases, all where it has been used. If any think it the best •olio remedy in the world. 2. Another. — Lnuunnam ^ oz. ; suipnurlc ether 1 oz. Mix, and for a horse give all at a dose, in warm water as above. Dose for a person, as the first. A Mr. Thorpe, of whom I obtained this recipe, tells m€ he has cured coUo in horses, in every case, with the first FAimi£Ils' DEPARTMENT. m do0e, except one, and in tLai« utuw oy repeating the u«m thirty minutes after the first. There is no question but wh:kt it is good, and soif e would prefer it to the turpentine. I know it is valuable. BOTS — SuB« RxMEDT. — When a horse is attacked with bot« it may be known by the occasional nipping at their own sides, and by red pimples or projections on the inner bui^ face of the upper Up, which may be seen plainly by taming up the lip. First, then, tuke new milk 2 qts. ; molasses 1 qt ; and give the horse the whole amomit. Second, 15 minutes afterwards, give very warm sage tea 2 qts. Lastly, 30 minutes after the tea, you will give of curriers' oil 3 pti. (or enough to operate as phyeic.) Lard has been used when tiie oil could not be obtained, wim tiie same success. The cure will be complete, as the milk and molasses Btir the mixture, then slowly add the vitriol and continue to stir until the mixture is complete, which is known by its ceasing to smoke. Bottle for use. Directions. — Tie a piece of sponge upon a stick and rub the preparation by this means, upon the spavin or ring-bone as long as it is absorbed j»)to the parts ; twenty-four hourr after, grease well with lard ; and in twenty-four hours more, wash off well with soap-suds. Mr. Bangs lives at Napoleon, Mich., and has sold books for me nearly two yearn. He says one application will generally be suJEBcient for spavins, but may need two ; ring-bones always require two or three applications, three or four days apart, which prevents the k)ss of hair ; i^ not put on oftener than onoe in three or FABRIEES' DEPABTMENT. 25S foar days, the hair not coming out at all. Said to cure wind-galls, Bplints, &c. He obtained five dollars for curing a neighbor's horse of ring-bone with this preparation ; stop- ping all lameness, but not removing the lump. 5. In very bad cases of long standing, he thinks it pre- ferable to first apply the following: * Take alcohol 1 pt. ; sal-ammoniac, yorruBive sublimate, and oil of Kpike, of each 1 oz ; mix. Apply by washing off and using lard afterwards, as above directed, washing also forty-eight hours after ; and when dry apply the first liniment once or twice, according to direoiioBS. The object of this last is to open the pores of the skin and soften the lump. 6. RiNG-BoNE Remedy. — Pulverized cantharides, oils of spike, origanum, amber, cedar, Barbadoes tar, and British oil, of each 2 ozs. ; oil of wormwood 1 oz. ; spirits of turpentine 4 ozs. j common potash ^ oz. ; nitric acid 6 ozs. ; and oil of vitriol (sulphuric acid) 4 ozs. ; lard 3 lbs. Directions. — Melt the lard and slowly add the acids^ stir well and add the others, stirring until cold. Clip ofl the hair and apply by rubbing and heating in ; in about threa days, or when it is done running, wash off witli suds and apply again. In old cases it may take three or four weeks, but in recent cases two or three applications have cured. It has cured long standing cases. 7. Rawson's Rmo-BoNE and Spavin Cube. — ^Venice turpentine and Spanish flies, of each 2 ozs. ; euphorbium and aqua ammonia, of each 1 oz. ; red precipitate 1-2 oz. ; corrosive sublimate \ oz. ; lard 1 1-2 lbs. Pulverize all and put into the lard ; simmer slowly over coals, not scorch or burn, and pour off free of sedi rnent. Directions. — For ring-bones, cutoff the hair and ?ub the ointment we?l into the lumps once in forty-eight hours. For spavins, once in twenty-four hours for three mornings, has perfectly cured them. Wash well each application, with suds, rubbing over the place with a smooth stick to squeeze out a thick *yellow matter. Mr. Rawson, of llawsonville, Mich., has cured tome ex- ceedingly bad cases of ring-bones, one as thick as a man's arm; and spavina as unpromising in size. If properly cooked it will foam like boiling sugar. m DB. OHi.S£*S BEOIFES. 8. Indian Method. — Bind a toad upoD If 'or two, If one doefc not cover it, and keep it on from 8 to 10 da^ . Ab Indian cured a horse in this wa , n«»r St. Louis, foi which he coveted, and received a rifl^ ^le cure proved permanent. 9. Bone-Spavin&— French Pasts— $300 REOtt'i]. — Corrosive sub- limate, quicksilver, and iodine, of earh 1 oz. ; witli lard only suf- ficient )io form a paste. DiKEOTiONS. — Rub the quicksilver and iodine together, then adding the sublimate and finally the lard, rubbing jthoroiighly. Shat^e off the hair the size of the bone enlai^ement ; then ||!;rease all around it, but where the hair is shaved off; this prevents the action of the medicine, only upon the spavia ; now rub in as much of the paste as will lie on a three cent piece only, each morning for four mornings only ; in from seven to eight days the whole spavin will come out ; then wash out the wound with suds, soaking well, for an hour or two, which removes the poisonous effects of the medicines and -facilitates the healing, which will be done by any of the healing salves ; but I would prefer the f^reen ointment to any other in this case. Mr. Andrews, late of Detroit, who, during his life, knew a good horse, and also desired to know how to ^e goodf ctire of them, did not hesitate to pay three hundred dollars fur this recipe after seeing what it would do; he removed a spavin from a mare's leg with it, and she afterwards won him more than the expense. 10. Bone-Spavins. — Norwegian Cure. — S. B. Mar- shall, the Champion Horse-Shoer and Farrier, of White Pigeon, Mich., obtained this plan of an old Norwegian Far- rier, and also his plan of curing poll-evil, which see, and assures me that he had been very successful with them. I obtained them of him for the purpose of publication, and sincerely think I can reocommend them to all who need them: Take dog's grease 1-2 pt. ; best oil of origanum 1 1-2 ozs. ; pul- verizsed cantharides 1-2 oz. Mix and apply each morning, for three mornings ; heating it in with a hot iron each time ; llien skip 3 mornings, and apply again, as before, until it has been applied 9 times ; after wiuch wait about ten days, an4 if it is not all gone, go over agaia in the saqie way. FABBIEBS' DEPABTMBNT. 255 He says it does not remove the hair, but that it cures the largest and worst caaes. He gives a test for good oil of origanum, saying that much of it is reduced with turpen- tine ; and if so reduced, that it will sprea»l on the skin, like turpentine ; but if good, that it does not implead on the skin, but stands, like other oil, where a drop is put on. I am not certain about the genuineness of this tesT. ; yet I find quite a diflference in the spreading of the oils ; for that which is known to contain tr'T)entine spreads fast and Freely ; whilst that which is believed to be pure, spreads ^ery slowly, yet does finally spread. The pure is of a dark wine color, whilst the poor is of a lighter shade, and some- what cloudy* 11. Spavin Linimbnt.— Oils of spike, origannm, cedar, Britiah and spirits of turpentine, of each 1 oz. ; Spai»«h-£lies, pulverized, J oz. Apply once in six to nine days only^ wiemove the lump of spavins, splints, curbs, &c., if of recent occurrence ; and the man of whom I obtained it, says he has scattered poll- evils before breaking out, with cedar oil, alone. 12. Another. — Alcohol and spirits of turpentine, of each ^ pt. ; gum camphor, laudanum, and oil of cedar, of each 1 oz. j oils of hemlock and rhodium, and balsam of fir, of each ^ oz. ; iodine 1 dr. ; mix. Apply night and morning, first washing clean and rub bing dry with a sponge ; then rub the liniment into the spavin with the hand. It causes a gummy substance to ooze out, without injury to the hair — has cured ring-bones, also removing the lumps in recent cases. It cured the lameness in a case of three years standing. 13. Splint and Spavin Liniment. — Take a large mouthed bottle and put into it oil of origanum 6 ozs. ; gum camphor 2 ozs. ; mer- curial ointment 2 ozs. ; iodine ointnieut 1 oz. ; melt by putting the hottle into a kettle of hot water. Apply it to bone-spavins or splints twice daily, for four or five days. The lameness will trouble you no more. I kave bad men cure their horses with this liniment and re- mark that this recq)6 alone was worth more than the price of the book. 14. Bog-Spavin and Wend-Gall Ointment, also good for Curbs, Splints, Ring-Bonks, and .Bone Spavin.— Take pulver- ized cantharides 1 07 : merooiial ointmout 2 ozs. ; tincture of 256 DB. chase's BEOIFES. iodine 1} (XL : spirits of turpentine 2 ozs. ; corrosive sublimate 1) drs. ; lard 1 lb. Mix well, and when desired to apply, first cut off the hair, wash well and anoint, rubbing it in with the hand or glove if preferred. Two days after, grease the part with lardy and in two days more, wash off and apply the oint- ment again. Bepeat the process every week, as louq; as necessary. SWEENY.— Liniment.— Alcohol and spirits of turpentine, ol each 8 ozs. ; camphor ^m, pulverized cantbarides, and capsicum, nf each 1 oz. ; oil of spike 3 ozs. Mix. Perhaps the best plan is to tincture the capsicum first, and use the tincture instead of the powder, by which means you are free of sediment ; bathe this liniment in with a hot iron. The first case has yet to be found where it has not oared this disease when faithfully followed. 2. Another.— Sal-ammoniac 2 ozs. ; corrosive sublimate 1 oz f alcohol 1 qt. ; water 1 qt, pulverize and mix. This last recipe cured many cases of sweeny, i nd also kid- ney complaints, known by a weakness in the had^ \ of horses 3r cattle. Bathe the loins with it ; and give o^)e to two table-spoons at a dose, daily. POLL-EVIL AND FISTULA— PosmvK Cure.— Common pot- ash J oz.j^ extract of b^Uadotia J dr. ; gum arable ^ oz. Dissolve the gum in as little water as practicable ; then havmg pulverized the potash, unless it is moist, mix the gum water with it, and it frill soon dissolve ; then mix in the extract and it is ready to use : and it can be used without the belladona, but it is more painful w^ithout it, and does not have quite as good an effect. Directions. — The best plan to get this into the pipes is by means of a small syringe, after having cleansed the sore v^ith soap-suds ; repeat once in two days, until all the cal-; lous pipes and hard fibrous base around the poll-evil or fis- tula, is completely destroyed. Mr. Curtis, a merchant of NVheaton, III., cured a poll-evil with tliis preparation, by only a single application, as the maro estrayed and was not found for two months — then completely sound ; but it will generally require two or three applications. This will destroy corns and warts, by putting a little of it upon the wart or corn, letting it remain from five to ten minutes, then wash off and apply oil or vinegar, not squecZ' ing them out, but letting nature remoye them. J^ABBIEBS' DEPARTMENT. 257 2. PoTASHy TO Make. — If you cannot buy the potash, called for in the la»t recipe, you can make it by leaching best wood ashes and boiling down the ley to what is called black ealts, and con- tinuing the heat in a thick kettle until they are melted ; the h*«it burns out the black impurities and leaves a whitish grey 8ub;>«itune called potash. This potash, pulyerized and put into all the rat holes about the cellars causes them to leave in double quick time, as mentioned in the " Rat Exterminator." The black salttf will do about as well for rats, but is not quite so strong They get their feet into it, which causes a biting worse thaw their own, and they leave without further ceremony. Potash making in timbered lands is carried on veiy ex- tensively ; using the thick, heavy potash kettle to boil and melt in ; then dipping it out if *^** three and five pail iron kettles to cool. 3. PoLL-EvHiAND FisTDLA.— NcBnfcGiAN CuRB.— Cover the hoatf ind neck with two or three blankets ; have a pan or kettle of the best warm cider vinegar ; holding it under the blankets ; then steam the parts by putting hot stones, brick, or icon, into the vine- jar, and continue the operation until th'^ horse sweats freely, loing this 3 mornings and skipping 3, until 9 steamings have been accomplished. Mr. Marshall says, the pipes by this time, will seem to have raised up and become loose, except the lower end, (vhich holds upon the bone or tendons, like a sucker's (nouth ] tlie apparent rising being caused by the going down Df rawn out was as long as his finger. See the " Norwegian Cure for Bone-Spavin." . 4. Another. — Rock salt and blue vitriol, of each 1 oz. ; copper^e ^ oz. ; pulverize all finely aud mix well. Fill a goose quill with the powder, and push it to the bottom of the pipe, having a stick in the top of the quill, so that you can push the powder out of the quill, leaving it at the bottom of the pipe ; repeat again in about four days, and in two or three days from that time you can take hold of the pipe and remove it without trouble. I mat Dlt. CUABE 8 RECIPES. Poll-Etil, to SoATTEB.~Take a quantity of mandrake root m VB'J, and boil it ; strain and bcil down untu rather thick , then htm annintmentby simmering it with sufficient lard for thai l)urpose. Anoint the swelling once a day, for several days, until well. It has cured &em after they were broken out, by putting it into the pipes a few times, also anointing around Ihe sore. C. Another. — Poll-evils and Fistulas have been cured Vy pushing a piece of lunar caustic into tiie pipe, then Wing the hole with curriers' oil. Or : 7. Another. — Corrosive sublimate, the size of a common beau . .vjverized and washed in tissue paper, and pressed to the bottouj J! the pipes, leaving it in eight days, then take out, and applying the blue ointment (kept by dm^sists) baa cured them. b. Another.— Arsenic, the size of a pea, treated in the same v/ay, has cured the same disease. But if the Norwegian plan will work as recommended, it is certainly the best of all. 9. Another. — Oil of viti^ "4 put into the pipes has cured many poll-evils. I found one man, alb^, ^ho had cured poll-eyil by placing a barrel of water about fifteen feet high, on a platform, upon two trees — administering a shower bath daily upon the sore ; drawing the water by a faucet, through a dinner horn placed little end down ; tying the horse so as to keep him in posi- tion until all the water runs out. Fifteen or twenty baths oured him, but it broke out again the next season, when a Pew more baths made a final cure. LOOSENESS OU SCOURING IN HORSES OR CATTLE- In Use over Seventy Years. — Tormentil root, powdered. Dose for a horse or cow 1 to 1 1-2 ozs. It may be stirred in 1 pi of milk aad vnven, or it may be steeped in 1 1-2 pts. of milk, then given fron? A iu 5 timep ftaily until cured. It ha/ pti>Yed valuable also for persons. Dose for a p«T- 'Ton wou.d be from one-half to one teaspoon steeped in milk ; i/ut if used for persons I should recommend that half ua uuch rhubarb uo combined with ii. An English gentleman from whom it was obtained, had loen familiar with its use nearly eighty years, and never ;Lew a failure, if taken in any kind of seasonable time. f he tormentil, or septfoil, is an European plant, and very ostriiusent. f ABBIEBS DEPABTMEim 259 an 2. Bribf Bones for Scours.— Bum the bones thoronghly, aBd pulverize finely; then give one table-spoon in some dry feed, 8 times daily, until checked. This preparation has thirty years expenenoe of an Amer- ican gentleman, near Fentonville, Mich., to recommend it to general favor. 3. SCODRS AND PlN-W0RM3 OP HORSBS AND CATTLK. — White ash bark burnt to ashes, and made into rather a strong ley ;^ then mix ^ pt. of it with warm water 1 pt., and give all 2 or 3 times daily. Whenever it becomes certain that a horse or cow is troubled with pin-worms, by their passing from the bowelfi, it is best to adminster the abovd, as they are believed to be the cause, generally, of scours, and this remedy carrier of! the worms, thus curing the inflammation by removing tlie cause. HORSE OINTBiENT.— De Gray or Sloan's.— Rosin 4 oza .; Dees-wax 4 ozs. ; lard 8 ozs. ; honey 2 ozs. Melt these articL-f^ slowly, gently bringing to a boil, and as it begins to boil, remove from the fire and slowly add a little less than a pint of spirits of turpentine, stirring all the time this is being added, and stir until cool. "^ This is an extraordinary ointment lor bruises, in flesh or hoof, broken knees, galled backs, bites, cracked heels, &c., &c. ; or when a horse is gelded, to heal and keep away flies. It is excellent to take fire out of burns or scalds in huma]} flesh also. CONDITION POWDERS.— Said to be St John's.— Feaugrcek, cream of tartar, gentian, sulphur, saltpetre, rosin, black «ntimony, and ginger, equal quantities of each, say 1 oz. ; aU uj be finely pulverized ; cayenne also fine, half the quantity of an> une of the others, say ^ oz. Mix thoroughly. It is used in yellow water, hide-bound, coughs, colds, dis- temper, and all other diseases where condition powders are generally administered. They carry off gross humors and purify the blood. Dose — In ordinary cases give two tea- spoons once a day, in feed. In extreme cases give it .twice daily. If these do not give as good satisfaction as St. .John's or any other condition powder that costs more than double what it docis to make this, then I will acknowledge that travel and study are of ne accoiint in obtaining infor- 260 2. Oathartio Condttton Powdeb.— Gamboge, alnm, saltpetre, rosin, copperas, ginger, aloes, gum myrrb, salts and salt, and if the horse is in a very low condition, put in worm-wood, all the same quantities, viz., 1 oz. each. Dose— One table-spoon in bran twice daily ; not giving any other grain for a few days ; then once a day with oats and other good feed. This last is more applicable for old worn-down horsee which need cleaning out and starting again into new life ; and in such oases, just the thing to be desired. HORSE LINIMENTS— For Stiff-Neok prom Poll Evils. — Alcohol one pint ; oil of cedar, origanum, and gum-camphor, of each two ounces ; oil of amber one ounce ; use freely. 2. English Stable Liniment— Very Strong. — Oil of spike, aqua ammonia, and oi^ of turpentine, of each 2 ozs. ; sweet oil and oil of amber, of each 1^ ozs. ; oil of origantlm 1 oz. Mix. Gall this good for any thing, and always keep it in the stable as a strong liniment ; the Englishman's favorite for po '-evils, ringbones, and all old lameness, inflammations, &c. ; if much inflammation, however, it will fetch the hair, but not destroy it. .S. Nerve and Bone Liniment. — Take beefs gall 1 qt. ; alcohol 1 pt. ; volatile liniment 1 lb. j spirits of turpentine 1 lb. ; oil ol origanum 4 ozs. ; aqua ammonia 4 ozs. : tincture of ca^renne ^ pt. ; oil of amber 3 ozs. ; tinctur^ of Spanish flies 6 ozs. ; mix. Uses too well kndwn to need description. This is more particularly applicable to horse flesh. 4. Liniment for One Shilling a Quart.— Best vinegar 2 qts.: saltpetre, pulverized ^ lb. ; mix and set in a warm place until dissolved. It will be found valuable for spavins, sprains, strains, bruises, old swellings, &o. BROKEN LIMBS— Treatment, Instead of lNHmiAi«LT Shooting THE IIorse. — In the greater number of fractures it is only ne- cessary to partially sling the horse by means of a broad piec« of sail or other strong cloth (as represented in the figure), placed imder the animal's belly, furnished with two breechiuge and two breast-girths, and by means of ropes and pulleys at- tached to a cross-beam above, he is elevated or lowered, as may be required. • - It would seldom be necessary to raise them entirely off Dheir feet, as they will be more quiet, generally, whei / rARBIEB'S DEPABTMENT. 2J1 allowed to tonoh the ground or floor. The h«ad*stall should bo padded and ropes reaching each way to the stall, as well as forward. Many horses will plunge about for a time, but soon quiet down, with an occasional exception ; when they become quiet, set the bone, splint it well, padding the splints with batting, securing carefully, then keep wet with cold water, as long as the least inflammation is present, using light food, and a little water at a time, but mieiy be given often. The use of the difierent bucKies and straps will be easily understood. \ If he is very restive, other ropes can be attached to the corner ring's, which are there for that purpose, and wiU aflford much additional relief to the horse. *98iOT| pdSSa^-uo^ojq « JO U0A9 '9ji| 9X1% 91«T a> !>nwuo© noiC oiojoq 'poij:^ eq ga^9ui JIV.J KidAQ <\9i uar^j; 'jauMO ouurantf eiq ^q p8jno puB 'Sun[s 'pais b uodu sofira painBq sbm oq f'uoii ifpsno oABq pinoii oq Qi[vp oq^ uiiq ;soi qoiqAi 'osn^o tjuoj^dde i^noq^iM *osjnoo-90Bi oq-j uodn 9|qninio o:^ qStq^ s^osioq -b Aioa^i j * BB. OHASB'S BBOICBS. WOUND BALSAM— For Horsh or Buiun FfjgsH.— Gum ben* ■oine, in powder, 6 oza. ; balsam of tola, in po^/d<*r. 3 oass. ; gum 'ioraz 2 ozs. ; frankincense, in powder, 2 ozs. ; gum myrrh, in powder, 2 ozs. ; Socotoriue aloes, in powder, 3 ozs. ; alcohol 1 gal. Mix them all together and put them m a digester, and give them a gentle heat for three or four days ; then strain. A better medioiae can hardly be found in the Material Medica for healing fresh wounds in every part of the body, particularly those on the tendons or joints. It is frequent- ly given internally along with other articles, to great ad- vantage in all colds, flatulency, and in othei' debilities oi the stomach and intestines. Every gentleman, or farmer, ought to keep this medicine ready prepared in his house, iis A fimily medicine, for all cuts, or recent wounds, either -among his cattle or any of his family. Thirty or forty drops, on a lump of sugar, may be taken at any time, for flatulency, or pain at the stomach ; and in old age, where aature requires stimulation. — Every Man his Own Fanrier. GREASE-HEEL AND COMMON SCRATCHES.— To Curk.- Ley made from wood ashes, and boil white-oak bark in it until it it is quite strong, botJi in ley and bark ooze ; when it is cold, it is ready for use. First wash off the horse's legs with dish water or castile soap ; and when dry, apply the ooze with a swab upon a stick which is sufficiently long to keep out of his reach, afi he will tear around like a wild horse, but you must wet nil well once a day, until you see the places are drying up. The grease-heel may be known from the common Bcratches by the deep cracks which va8h them clean vith soap and water, then apply. Some persons prefer lamp-oil. If that ia used, you will mix both together until the oil as- sumes a light straw colo . When the horse comes in at night his legs should be washed perfectly clean and rubbed perfectly dry. Then apply the mixture, rubbing it well to the skin. Two or three applications are sufficient to effect a perfect cure, no matter how bad the case may be. — Corres' pondence of the Country Gentleman. To give confidence in this, I would say that a lady, at Lafayette, Ind., told me she cured herself of salt-rheum mth white-lead and sweet oil only. 2. Another. — Alcohol and extract of lead, of each, 2 ozs. ; sofl water 4 ozs. ; spirits of sal-ammoniac 1 oz. ; white copperas ^ oz. mix all, and shake as used. " Enbwison's Complete Farrier" speaks ver^ highly^ of jMs lost pFepantkm, whim: saa ba tried, should the first above fail. 3. Sores prom Ghafino op the Bits.— Chloroform and sulphuric ether, equal parts of each. Keep closely corked. Sponge off the mouth with water every time the bits ar« ■-^ mmm 164 DB. OHABEH RECIPES. aken out ; then wot well with the mixture. It win alio )o found valuable ^o remove aoreneas from any cause, on uau or horse. 4. Anothbk.— White ashes and spiritB of turpentine, of each I 1-2 tal)lt!-8pooDS ; black pepper, ground, 1 tahle-Hpoon ; lard to niuke 1 pi. uf uU, mix well and anoint. HEAVES. — Great Relief. — Heaves, the common uauio for any diflBculty in the breathing of a horse, is sus- ceptible of great alleviation by attention to the character and quantity of food to be eaten by the animal, as every one knows. If a horse suffering from this disease, is allowed to distend his stomach ut his pleasure, with dry food entirely, and then to drink cold water, as much as he can hold, he is nearly worthless. But if his food be moistened, and he be •allowed to drink a moderate quantit" '»nly at a time, the disease is much less troublesome. A Btill further alleviation may be obtain^u from the use of bal- Bum of fir and balsam of copabia, 4 ozs. each ' and mix with calcined magnesia Bufficiuotly thick to make it into balls ; give a middling sized ball night and morning, for a week or ten days. This gives good eatisfactioo, and is extensively sold by Eberbach & Co., druggists, of this city. 2. Another. — An old Farrier assures me that lobelia one teaspoon, once a day, in his feed, for a week, and then once a week ; that you can hardly tell whether the horstN ever had the heaves or not. 3. Another. — H. Sisson, another Farrier, gives me a cure which somewhat resembles the ball first given under this head, and thus each one supports the other. Ho takes calcined magnesia, balsam of fir, and balsam of copabia, of each 1 oz. ; spirits of turpentine 2 ozs. : and puts them Ail into one pint of cider vinegar, and gives for a dose 1 table- spoon in bis feed, once a day for a week ; then every ot)>er day foi two or three months. The horse will cough more at first, but looser and looser until cured. Wet his hay with brine, and also wet his feed. 4. Another. — Mr. Bangs highly recommends the following : Lobelia, wild turnip, elecampane, and skunk cabbage, equal parts of each. Make into balls of common size, and give one for a dose, or make a tincture, by puttmg four ounces of the mixture into 2 qts. of spirits ; and after a week put 2 table-spoons into their feed, once a day for a month or two. FARBIBBS* DEFARTMBin?. 265 5. Amothbb. — Oyster shells 1 peek ; burp into lime anrl pal- ▼erize ; mix a Bingle handful of it with i gill of alcohol, then mix it with the oata each morning until all is given. This, for bellows heaves, has done very luuoh good. HofHe radish grated and put in with the feed has benefitted. Cabbage, as common feed, is good to relieve, or any j Food, like pumpkins, &o., &o., will be found to relieve very much. Farmers who have their ho/scs always at homo can keep theiii comfortable with some of the foregoing direc- tions ; but broken-winded horses might as well be knocked ill the head as to attempt to travel with them, expecting any - satisfaction to horse or driver. 6. Anothbb,. — A correspondent of the Country Gentle num says that " heaves may be greatly alleviated by feeding raw fat pork. « Commence with a piece of pork, say a onbic hich, chopped very fine, and mixed with the wetted grain or cut feed, twice a day, for two or three days. Then ftom day to day incret.ge the quantity and cut less fine, until there is given with each feed such a «hce aa usually I y a farmer's wife is cut for frying — nearly as large as your hand, cnt into fifteen or twenty pieces. " Ooi'tinue this for two weeks, and the horse is capable of any ordirary work without distress, and without showing the heaves. I have experience and observation for the past ten years as prooi' of the above." — [J., of Burlington^ Vt. DISTEMPER— To Distinouish and Cure.— If it is thought that a horse has the distemper, and you do not feel certain, wet up bran with rather strong weak ley — if not too strong they will eat it greedily ; if they have the distemper a free discharge from the nostrils and a conse- quent cure will be the result, if continued a few days ; but if only a oold, with swellings of the glands, no ohange wiU be discovered. SHOEING HORSES— For Winter Travel.— N. P. Willis, of the Home Jov/malf in one of his recent Idlewild [letters says: " You have discovered, of course, that you cannot have unin [terrupted winter riding with a horse shod' in the ordinary way [The sharp points of the frozen mud wid wound the frog of the foot ; and with snow on the ground, the hollow hoof soon col- lects a hard ball, which makes the footing very insecure. But m< «*,■■ DB. OHASE'S BEOIPES. theso cviit are j'emedied by a piece of soleleatHer nailed on nnder tho slioe — a prottjclion to the hoof which makes a surprising differ- ence in the confidence and sare-footedness of the animal's step.'' FOUNDER— Remedy.— Draw about 1 gal. of blood from the neck ; then drench the horse with linseed oil 1 qt. ; now mb tiie fore legs long and well, with water as hot as can be borne without Bcaldli^f. This remedy entirely cnre^l a horse which had been foundered on wheat two days betbre the treatment began. PHYSIC — Ball por Horses. — ^Barbadoes aloes from 4 to 6 or 6 drs. (according to the size and strength of the horse) ; tartrate of potassia 1 dr. ; ginger and castile soap, of each 2 drs. ; oil of anise or peppermint 20 drops ; pulverize, and make all into one ball with thick gum solution. Before giving a horse physio, he should be prepared for it by feeding scalded bran, in place of oats, for two days at least, giving also water which has the chill taken off, and continue this feed and drink, during its operation. If it should not operate in forty-eight hours, repeat half the dose^ 2. Phtsw fob Cattle. — ^For cattle, take half only of the dose, above, for a horse, and add to it glauber salts 8 ozs. ; dissolve all in gmel 1 qt., and give as a drench ; for cattle are not easily managed f n giving bails, neither is their construction adapted to dry medicina. There is not the need of preparation for cattle, generally, AS for horses, from the fact of their not being kept up to grain, if they are, however, let the same precautions be ob- served tm in ** Physio Ball for Horses." HOOF AHi IN SHEEP— Sure Remedy.— Muriatic acid and but- ter of antimony, of each 2 ozs. : white vitriol, pulverized, 1 6z. Mix. DiajWTiONS. — Lift the foot and drop a little of it upon the bottom. It will need to be applied only once or twice a weelk — as often only as they limp, which shows that the foot iH becoming tender again. It kills the old hoof, and a new one soon takes its place. Have no fears about the re- sult ; apply the medicine as often as indicated, and all is safe. . ; ^: It has proved valuable in growing off horse's hoofs, when snagged, or contraction made it necessary. 'ilYE-WATER— Fob Horses and Cattle.— Al^ ' il 1 table* «p<>on ; extract of lead 1 teaspoon ; rain water 1-2 ps. .%.■ ii ' VABB' IS' DEPABTMENT. Wash the eye freely, two or three times daily. B prefer the " Eye Water" as prepared for persons ; and a me here to say that what is good for man, in the line of medicine, is good for a *• "^se, by increasing the dose to cot- respond. TAMING — ^PRiNOn^iss Applied to Wild and Vi- cious Horses. — I have thought, in closing up this De- partment, that I could not devote a page to a better pur- pose than to the so-called secret of taming. For it is a secret, but it lies in a different point from /what is generally bel»'^ved, which I will attempt to show. ui>7eral persons are advertising books for taming wild horses, and other persons are going about teaching the art to classes in private. Probably the pupils get their money's worth. But, why do so many fail ? The who^^ secret lies in this, that many persons can never handle a horse, with all the instruction in the world — it is not in them. They cannot establish a sympathy between themselves and the horse, and if they become horse trainers, they have only mistaken their calling, and the money they laid out is perhaps as cheap a way * TiM method proposed by Dr. Braeken is to tie «p one of ;yi^ OABINET MAEEBS* BEPARTMSm, 269 the foro feet close, and to fasten a cord or small rope aDout the other fetlock, bringing the end of it over the horse'n shoulders; then let him be hit or kicked with your foot behind that knee, at the same time pulling his nose down strongly to the manger. You will bring him upon his knees, where he should be held till he is tired, which can- not be long, but if he does not lie down soon, let him bo thrust sideways against his quarters, to throw him over ; by forcing him^own several timea in thifl way, you may teach him to lie down, at the same words you first used for that purpose." You will see that Mr. Barey's system m exactly the same. From the foregoing it will be seen that he obtained tho knowledge, and naturally possessing the firnmees, /earksa energy and muacle sufficient to badk the whole, he has be- come the horse tamer of the world, ^„„,fJ^ ^f ^V V,r / Without all these qualifications no one need undertako the business, no matter how often he pays five dollars for 'recipei or instraotiens f CABINET MAKEES' DEPARTMENT. POLujii. — For New FuBNirmiB. — Alcohol, 98 per conL, 1 pt. ; gums copal and shellac, of each 1 oz.; dragon's blood,,^ pz. Mix and dissolve by setting in a warm place, '^rr^ '-■^ *^' *^ J'^l^j*' - Apply with a sponge (it is best in the sun or a warm room) about three coats, one directly after the other as fast as dry, say fifteen to twenty minutes apart ; then have a small bunch of cotton batting tied up in a piece of \^oollen ; wet this in alcohol and rub over the surface well ; now go over the surface with a piece of tallow, ttien dust on rotten- Btone from a woollen bag and rub it with, what is often called, the heel of the hand ; now wipe it oflf with cotton cloth, and the more you rub with this last cloth, the better will be the polish. Although this professes to be for new work, it does not hurt the looks of old, not the least bit j try it all who want their furniture to show a gloss and answei: thQ p)aQ9 pf look t I m If soldiers will try it on their gon-stooks, they will find it JTUt the thing desired. 2. Polish fob Reviving Old Fuiiniturb, Equal to the " Blio- THER Jonathan." — Take alcohol IJ 02a.; epiri' • of salts (muriatic tU3id), ^ oz.; linseed oil, 8 ozs. ; best vinegar, . t. ; and batter of antimony, 1^ ozs.; mix, putting in the vinegar last. It IB an excellent reviver, making fnmiture look nearly eqnal to new, and really giving polish to new work, dways shaking it as used. But if you cannot get the butter of autimony, the following will be the next best thing : 8. Polish for Rbmovino Stains, Spots and Mildew from Furni- ture.— Take of 98 per cent, alcohol, } pt.; pulverized rosin and gum shellac, of each ^ oz. Let these cut in the alcohol ; then add linseed oil, } pt.; shake well and apply with a sponge, brush or cotton flannel, or an old newspaper, rubbing it well after the application, which gives a nice polish. ^ These are just the thing for new furniture when sold and abocv to be taken out t)f the shop ; removing the dust and giving ike new appearance again. 4. Jet, or Polish for Wood or Leath^a, Black, Red, or Blue. — Alcohol (98 per cent), 1 pi; sealing-wax, the color desired, 3 sticks dissolved by heat, and have it warm when applied. A sponge is the best^o apply it with. For black on leather it is best to apply copperas water first to save extra coats ; and paint wood the color desired also, for the same reason. On smooth surfaces, use the tal- low and rottennatone, as in the first polish. It may be applied to carriage-bodies, cartridge-boxes, dashes, fancy baskets, straw bonnets, straw hats, &o. FURNITURE.— FmiSHiNO with only One Coat of Varnish, not using Glue, Paste, or Shellac— Take boiled linseed eil and give the furniture a coat with a brush ; then immediately sprinkle dry whiting upon it and rub it in well with your hand, or a brush which is worn rather short and stiff, over all the surface ; the whiting absorbs the oil, and the j^ ores of the wood are thus filled with a perfect coat of putty, which will last for ages ; and water will not spot it nor have any effect upon it. For mouldings and deep creases in turned work, you can mix them quite thick, and apply them together, with the itll brush, but on smooth surfaces, the hand and dry whit- ing are best. If black walnut is the wood to be finished, you will put a trifle of burned umber in the whiting — if for cherry, a little Venetian red ; beech or maple will re- OABDDBT MASEBS' DEPASHltmr. an quire less red. Only sufficient is to bensed, in eiUMf ease, to make the whiting the color of the wood, being finished. Bedstead-posts, bannisters, or standards, for bedsteads and all other turned articles can have the finish put on in the lathe, in double quick time ; spreading a newspaper on the lathe to save the scattering whiting, applying it with the hand or hands, having an old cloth to rub off the loose whiting which does not enter the pores of the wood ; the same with smooth surfaces also. This preparation is cheap ; and it is a wonder that fumi- ture men have not fbought of it before. Three coats ol varnish without it is not as level as one with it, from the fact that some of the varnish enters the pores of the wood and does not dry smooth ; but with the pores filled with this preparation, of course it mus^ dry smooth and level, with- out rubbing down. STAINS— MAHOGANf pN Walnut, Natdbal as Natdbk.-* Apply aqua fortis by means of a rag tacked to a stick j for if you use a brush it will very soon destroy it. Set the fonuture in the hot sun to heat in the aqua fortis, if no son, heat it in by a stove off fire. It is better if hea' 3d in, but does quite well without h.wJtf ing. Finish up in every other way as U3ual. This finish is applicable to fancy tables, stands, lounges, ooffins, &c., and equally beautiful on knots and crotches, giving walnut the actual appearance of mahogany, and as it is appearances only that most people depend upon, why will this not do as well as toi^ransport timber from beyond the seas ? RosE-WooD Stain, Vert Bright Shade, Used Cold. — Take Al- cohol 1 gal. ; camwood 2 ozs. ; let them stand in a warm place 24 hours ; then add extract of logwood 3 ozs. ; aqua fortis 1 oz. ; and when dissolved it is ready for use ; it makes a very bright ground, i like the most beautiful rose-wood — one, two, or more coats, as you ' desire, over the whole surface. This part makes the bright streaks or grains ; the dark ones are made by applying, in waves, the following : Take iron turnings or chippings, and put vinegar upon them ; let it stand a few hours and it is ready to apply over the other, by means of a comb made for graining ; or a comb made froni thinnish India rubber ; 'the teeth should be rather good length i say half an inch, and cut close together or further apart as de-i BU'ed ; and with a little practice, excellent imitatloug»will b^ made / 272 DB. CHASE'S BEOIPES This, for ohairs, looks very beautiful to apply the darken- ing mixture by means of a flat, thin-haired brush, leaving only a little of the red color in sight ; and if you want to .make the cringles, as sometimes seen in rose- wood, it is done with a single tooth or pen, bearing on sometimes hard and then light, &c., &c. All can and must be got by prac- tice. The above stain is very byight. If, however, you wish a lower shade, use the next recipe. 3 Rosewood Stain — ^Lioht Shade. — Take equal parts of log- wood and redwood chips, and boil well in just safficient water to make a Btrong stain ; apply it to the furniture while hot ; 1 or 2, or even 3 co^to may be put on, one directly after the other accord- ing to the depth of color desired. For the dark lines use th« iron ohippings as in the above recipe. Or, if a rose-pink is desired, use the following : 4. Rose-Pink, Satin and Varntsh'also used to imitatb Rose- Wood. — Put an ounce of potash into a quart of water, with red- sanders 1^ oz. ; extract the color from the wood and strain ; then add gum shellac ^ lb. ; dissolve it by a quick fire — used upon log- wood stain for rose-wood imitation. 5. Black Walnut Stain. — Whenever persons are using walnut which has sap edges, or if two pieces are being glued together which are different in shade, or when a pop- lar panncl, or other wood is desired to be used to imitate black walnut, you will find the following to ^ve excellent satisfaction: , . Spirits of turpentine 1 gal. ; pulverJised gum aephaltuia 2 lbs. ['ut them into an iron kettle and place upon a stove, which pro- vents the possibility of fire getting at the turpentine, dissolve by beat, frequently stirring unnl dissolved. Put into a jug or can while hot. When desired to use any of it, pour out and reduce witl turpentine to the right shade for the work being stained. With a little practice you can make any shade desired. If used with a brush over a red stain, as mentioned in the roscr wood stain recipes, especially for chairs and bedsteads, it very nearly resembles that wood. Mixing a little varnish with the turpentine when reducing it, prevents it from spot- ting, apd causes it to dry quicker. By rubbing a little lamp black with it you can make a perfect black, if de- fiired. 3 darken- i, leaving want to lod, it is mes hard by prac- >tt wish a ts of log- b water to )t ; 1 or 2, er accord- tie above Ting : LTB KOSE- with red- ain ; then ipon log- sons are ire being n a pop- imitate excellent im 2 lbs. hich pro- solve by J or can ice witll stained, •ed. If the rose^ ;ead8, it varnish )n) spot- a little :, if de- 1 OABINET MAKERS* DEPABTMENT. 273 6. Gherrt Stain. — Take rain water 8 qts. ; anotta 4 ozs. ; boil In a copper kettle until the anotta is dissolved ; then put in a piece of potash the size of a common walnut, and keep it on the tire about half an hour longer, and it is ready for use. Bottle for kftoping. This makes poplar and other light-colored woods so near the color of cherry that it is hard to distinguish ; and even improves the appearance of light-colored cherry. , VARNISHES — Black, wfth Asphaltdm.— Spirits of turpentine I p:al. ; pulverized (|;um asphaltmu 2^ lbs. ; dissolve by heat ovei II stove flro. It is applied to iron, frames of door plates, baok-groimds in crystal painting, etching upon glass, and also for fence- wire, or screens which are to go into water above mills to turn leaves and drift-wood, &c. 2. Patent VATNisn for Wood or Canvas. — Take spirit;? of tur- pentine 1 gal. ; osphaltum 2\ lbs. ; put them into an iron kettle which will fit upon a stove, and dissolve the gum by heat. When dissolved and a little cool, add copal varnish 1 pt,, and Ijoiled linseed-oil J pt. ; when cold it is ready for use. Perhaps a little lamp-black would make a more perfect black. If done over a common fire, the turpentine will be very likely to take fire and be lost ; and, perhaps, fire the house or your clothes. This is valuable for wood, iron or teather ; but for cloth first make a sizing by boiling flax seed one quart, in water one gallon ; applying of this for the first coat ; the second coat of common thick black paint ; and lastly a coat of the varnish. Some think that sperm oil, the same quantity, makes a little better gloss. ^ 3. Varnish Transparent for Wood.— Best alcohol 1 gal. ; nice gum shellac 2 1-2 lbs. Place the jug or bottle in a situation to .keep it just a little warm^ and it will dissolve quicker than if hot. or left cold. This varnish is valuable for ploughs, or any other article where you wish to show the grain of the wood, and for pine, when you wish to finish up rooms with white, as the " Por- celain Finish ; " a coat or two of it effectually prevents the pitch from oozing out, which flvould stain the finish. If this stands in an open }!» ./' BABBmS' AND TOILET DEFABTMENT. HAlMt DYE— In Two Numbers.- Ucohoi 8 ozs. ; Bofl water 16 ozs. ihen a^d the water. -No. 1. Take gallic acid } oe. ; put the add in the alcohol, No. i. Take for No. 2, crystalized nitrate of silver 1 oz. ; ammo- nia, strongest kind, 3 ozs. ; gum arabio ^ 02s. ; soft water 6 ozs. Observ<6, in making it, that the silver is to be put into the ammo- Ma, and not corked until it is dissolved ; the gum is to be dis- olved In fh(S water, then all mixed, and it is ready for use. Bai bers will probably make this amount at a time, as it somes much cheaper than in small quantities ; but if fami- lies or others, for individual use, only wish a little, take drachms instead of ounces, which, you see will make only one-eighth of the amount. Directions for Applying. — First, wash the whiskers or hair with the " shampoo," and rinse out well, rubbing with a towel until nearly dry; then with a brush apply No. 1, wetting completely, and use the dry towel again to re- move all superfluous water, then with another brush (tooth- brushes aire best), wet every part with No. 2, and it becomes instantaneously black ; SiS soon as it becomes dry, wash off with hard water, then with soap and water ; apply a little oil, and all is complete. The advantages of this dye are, that if you get any stain upon the skin, wipe it off at the time, and the washing re- moves all appearances of stain, and the whiskers or hair never turn red, do not crock, and are a beautiful black. However, oyanuret of potaSium 1 dr., to 1 oz of water, will take off any stain upon Hhe skin, arising from nitrate of silver ; but it is poison, and should not touch sore places nor be left where children may get at it. '^-^ ' barbers' and toilet depabtmemt. 276 Persons whose hair is prematurely grey, will nnd dye less trouble in using, than the restoratives ; for when once applied, nothing more needs being done for several weeks ; whilst the restoratives are only slow dyes, and yet need several applications. But that all may have the ohuuoe oi choosing K>r themselves, I give you some of the best resta rativcs in nso. HAIR RESTORATIVES AND INVIGORATORS.— Equal in, Wood's, for a TaiFLma Cost.— Sugar of lead, borax, and Ituv sulphur, of each 1 oz. ; aqua ammonia 1-2 oz. ; alcohol 1 gill 'These articles to stand mixed for 14 hours ; then add bay rum 1 gill ; iBne table salt 1 table-spoon ; soft water 3 pts. ; essence oi bergamot 1 oz. This preparation not onl^ gives a beautiful gloss, but will cause hair to grow upon bald heads arising from all common causes, and turn grey hair to a dark color. Manner of Application. — When the hair is thin or bald make two applications daily, until this amount is used up, unless the hair has come out sufficiently to satisfy you before that time; work it to the roots of the hair with a soft brush or the ends of the fingers, rubbing well each time. For grey hair one application daily is sufficient. It is harmless, and will do all that is claimed for it, does not oost only a trifle in comparison to the advertised restora- tives of the day ; and will be ^''und as good or better than most of them. 2. Invioorator. — Vinegar of CAuinarides 1 oz. ; cologne-water 1 oz. ; and rose-water 1 oz., mixed and rubbed on the roots of the bair, until the scalp smarts, twice daily, has been very highly recommended for bald heads, or where the hair is falling out. If there is^.no fine hair on the scalp, no restorative, nor invigorator on earth can give a head of hair. See remarks after No. 8. 3. Another. — Lac-sulphur and sugar of lead, of each 1 dr. ; tannin and pulverized copperas, each 32 grs. ; rose water 4 ozs. ; wetting the hair once a day for 10 or 12 days, then once or twice a week will keep up the color. If it is only desired to change grey hair to a dark color the last will do it ; but where the hair is falling out or hat already fallen, the first is required to stimulate the scalp to healthy action. 4. Another.— Lao-sulphur and sugar of lead, of each 1 os. ; u N 276 DB. OHABB'b REOIFES. pulveriied litharge, (called lithrage) 1 1-2 ozs. ; rain water 1 qt. :' applying 3 morDings and Bkipplng 3, until 9 applications— gives a nice dark color." I obtained thi» of one of the Friends, at Riohmond, Ind., and for turning white or grey hair, it is a good one. The litharge sets the color as the sulphate of iron does in the next. There 'a but little choice between them. 6. ANOTUEii. — Ualu water C ozs. ; lao-snlphnr 1-2 oz. ; suear ol lead 1-4 oz. ; sulphiito of iion (copperas), 1-8 oz. ; flavor mux ber- gamot essence, U' desired ; and apply to the hair daily until suJQQ ciently dark to please. All the forep;oing restoratives will change, or color the grey or white hair black, or nearly so ; but let who will tell you that his restorative will give your hair its original color, .)ust let that man go for all he is worth at the time ; for as time advances his worth will be beautifully less. 6. Hair In viqorator. — A Wheeling barber makes usf of the following invigorator to stop hair from falling out, or to cause it to grow in ; it is a good one, go is the one fol- lowing it: Tak< bay rum pt. ; aloohol 1-2 pt. ; castor oil 1-2 oz. ; carbo- nate of ammonia 1- i oz. ; tincture of cantharides 1-2 oz. Mix, and shake when used. Use it daily, until the end is attained. *' 7. Another. — Carbonate of ammonia 1 oz. ; rubbed up in 1 pt of sweet oil. Apply daily until the hair stops falling out, or U sufficiently grown out. Tkis last is very highly spoken of in England, as a pro- ducer of hab, " where the hair onght to grow," and does not. . 8. Strong sage tea, as a daily wash is represented to dtop hair from fulling out ; and what wiU stop it frotii fall ing, is an invigorator and consequently good. , , There is not a liniment mentioned in this book, but which il' well rubbed upon the scalp daily for two or three months, will bring out a good head of hair ; when the scalp has be- come glossy and shining, however, and no fine hair growing, you may know that the hali follicle or root is dead ; and nothing can give a head of hair in such cases, any more than grain can grow from ground which has had none scat- This condition may be known ' upon log or glistening appearance of the scalp by m. m i ter 1 qt. : —gives a id, Ind., 0. The )8 in tho Buear oi vrith ber- ntil suffi olor the wiUteU lid color, ; for as akes UBff ; out, or one BABBEBS' AND TOUET DEPABTMEM*. 277 fol ; carbo- Mix, and in 1 pt out, or is a pro- id does ^nted to )m fall it which lonths, I has be- [rowingj ; and [y more le soat- flhin- m AJl heads as well as bodies should be often washed with soap and dean water ; but if that is neglected too long, it be- comes necessary to use something stronger to remove the grease and dandruff — then the following will be found just the thing to be desired. SHAMPOOING MIXTURES— For Frns Cents per Qdabt.— Purified carbonate of potash, commonly called salts of tartar, 1 oz. ; rain water 1 qt. Mix, and it is ready for use. A|^ly a few spoons of it to the head, rubbing and work-' ing it thoroughly ; then rinse out with olean soft water, and dry the hair well with a coarfle, dry towel, applying a little oil or pomatum to supply the natural oil which has been saponified and vaahed out by the operation of the mixture. A barbe.' will make at least five dollars out of this five cents worth of material. .;^^r i Another excellent shampoo is made by using acma ammonia 3 ozs. ; salts of tartar 1-4 oz. ; alcohol 1-2 oz. ; and soft water 2 1-2 pts. : and flavoring with bergamot. In applying, rub the head until the lather goes down ; then wasli out. The next recipe also makes as good a shampoo mixture as I wish ; for it kills so many birds st one throw that I do not wish to throw any other. RENOVATING MIXTURES.— For Grikahh Spots, Shampooino, AND KiLiJNO Bed-Buos. — Aqua ammonia 2 ozs. ; soft water 1 qt. ; saltpetre 1 teaspoon ; variegated shaving soap 1 oz. ; or one 3 cent cake, finely shaved or scraped ; mix all, shake well, and it will be a little better to stand a few hours or days before using, which gives the soap a chance to dissolve. Directions. — Four upon the place a sufficient amount to well cover any grease or oil which may get spilled or daubed upon coats, pants, carpets, &o., sponging and rub- bing well, and applying again if necessary to saponify the grease in the garment ; then wash off with clear cold water. Don't squirm now, for these are not half it will do — some people fly entirely off the handle when a preparation is said to do many things — for my part, however, I always admire an article in proportion to the labor which can be performed by it or with it. This preparation will shampoo like a charm ; raising the lather in proportion to the amount of grease and dandruff in the hair. It will remove paint, even from a board, I care not how long it has been applied, . if oil was used in the painir— and yet it does not Injure the I ■IS" 278 DB. OHASE*B BEOIPES. i I I finest textures, for the simple reason that its aiEnity is for grease or oil, changing them to soap, and thus loosening any substance with which they may bo combined. If it is put upon a bed-bug ho will never step afterwards ; and if put into their crevices, it destroys their eggs and thus drives them from the premises. A cloth wet with it will anon remoVe all the grease and dirt from doors which are mneh opened by kitchen-hands. 2. Rbwovatino Clothes— GENtrxMEN's Wbjuei.— To warm soft water 4 gals., put in 1 beefs gall *, laVtratus i lb. Dissolve. Lay the garment on a bench, <\nd soonr every part thoroughly by dipping a sti£f brush ikto the mixture ; spots of grease and the oolar must be done more thorough, and longer continued ^than other parts, and rinse the garment in the mixture by raising up and down a few times, then the same way in a tub of soft cold water ; press out the water and hang up to dry ; after which it needs brushing the way of the nap and pressing well under a damp cloth. Beef's gall will set the color on silks, woollen, or cotton — one spoon to a gallon of water is sufficient for this purpose. Spotted bombazine or bombazette wp°^ed in this will also look nearly equal to new. 3. Faded and Worn Garments — To xtBMKW Tm Golob. — To alcohol 1 qt., add extract of logwood 4 lb. ; loaf sugar 2 ozs. ; blue vitxiol ^ oz. ; heat gently until all are dissolved ; bottle for use. DiBEOTiONS. — To one pint of boiline water put three or four teaspoons of the mixture, and apply it to the garment with a clean brush ; wetting the fabric thoroughly ; let dry ; then suds out well and dry again to prevent croolung ; brush with the nap to give the polish. This may be applied to silks and woollen goods having colors; but is most applicable to gentlemen's apparel. COLOGNES— Imperial.— Take oils of b<)rgamot 1 oz. : neroli 1 dr. ; jesamine ^ oz. ; garden lavender 1 dr. ; cinnamon 6 drops ; tincture of benzoin 1^ oz. ; tincture of musk \ oz. ; deodorized or cologne alcohol 2 qts. ; rose water 1 pt. Mix. Allow the preparation to stand several days, shaking oc- casionally, before filtering for use or bottling. This is rather expensive, yet a very nice article. See *' Rose Water." 2. Cologne fob F.miilt Use— Cheafeb.— Oils of roMemuj BABBKBS' AID) TOILET DEPABnODirF. 27$ •nd lemon, each i ob. ; berg«mot and lavender, each 1 dr. ; oln- namon 8 drops : cloYe and rose, each 15 drops ; common alcohol 2 qts. Mix, and shake two or three times daily for a weelc. Colognes need only be used in very small quantities ; tbe same is true of highly flayored oils or pomades, os too much oven of a good thing soon disgusts tiiose whom they were intended to please. HAIR OILS— New Tork Babbbbs' Star.— Castor oil 6| pto. : alcohol lj| pts. ; oil of oitronella i oz. ; lavender 4 ob. : mixed ai:d shaken when used, makes one of the finest oils for the hair now hi 'use. I have been told this amount of alcohol does not out the oil. Of course, we know that ; that is it does not be- come clear, neither do we want it to do so ; it combines with the oil, and destroys all the gumminess and flavor peouliar to castor oil, by which it becomes one of the best oils for tho hair which can be applied. Gills, spoons or any other measure will do as well, keeping the proportion of flavoring oils ; and if the oitronella cannot be got, use some other oil in its place ; none are equal to it, however. 2. Maoassab, ob Rose. — Olive oil 1 qt. ; alcohol 2j[ ozs. ; rose oil ^ dr. ; tie ohipped-alkanet root 1 oz., Into 2 or 3 nttle muslin bags ; let them lie in the oil until a beautitiil red is manifested ; then hang them up to drain, for if you press them you get out a sediment you do not wish in the oiL 3. Fbaobam*, Eomb-Madb.— Collect a quantity of the leaves of any of the flowers that have an agreeable intgrance or fra- grant leaves, as the rose, geranium, &o. ; card *^ 'a layers of cot- ton, and dip into the finest sweet oil ; sprinkle a small quantity of salt on the flowers ; a layer of cotton and then a layer of flowers until an earthen-ware vessel, or a wide mouthed glass bottle is full. Tie over it a piece of a bladder ; then place the vessel in the heat of the sun ; and in fifteen days a fhigrant oil may be squeesed out, resembling the leaf used. Or, an ex- tract is made by putting alcohol upon the flowers or leaves, in about th6 same length of time. These are very suitable for the hair, but the oil is undoubtedly the best. 4. Pomade — Ox-Marrow. — One of the most beautiful pomades, both in color and action is made as follows : Take beef's marrow 1 lb. ; alkanet root, not chipped, 1 oz. ; put them into a suitable vessel and stew them as you would render tallow * strain through two or three thicknesses of mualiu, and / r I 330 ■\* DB. OHABBS BIOIFEB. tiien Add, of Ofwtor oUl lb. \ bav ruiu J gill : which takes away Che pecuUar freshness of the marrow ; theo use the extract of the common rose-geraneum to give it the flavor uesired^ Half as muoh suet as mMrroW) also makes a yeiy nice article; and can be used where the marrow is not easuj ob- tained. BALM OF A THOUSAND FLOWEKS.— As strange as it may seem, some of tbe most astonishingly named arti- cles, are the most simple in their composition. Although thousands of dollars have been made out of the above named article it is both cheap and simple. DeoderiWd alcohol 1 pt. ; nice whi^e bar eoap 4 ozs. ; shave the soap when put in ; stand in a warm placa nntll dissolved ; then add oil of citioneUa 1 dr. ; and oils of neroli bad rosemary, of It is redommen^cl as a general perfume; but it is more particularly valuable to put a little of it into warm water, with which to cleanse the teeth. RAZOR STROP PASTE.— Take the v^y finest superfine flour of emery and moisten it with sweet oil ; or you may moisten the surface of the strop with the oil, then dust the flour of emery upon it, which is perhaps the best way. Nothing else is needed. You must not take any of the coarse flourt^, nothing but the finest will do. It is often mixed with u little oil and mu(^ other stuff which is of no use, and put up in little boxes and sold at two shillinji^s, not Uaviig more ihan three cents worth of emery rot 7" > - 6 ••i:y> ir»' P'i-i vv*i trnd enforced by Bible precept : " Gather up the fragments, that nothing be lost." Saving is a more diffi-- cult art than earning ; some people put dimes into pies and puddings, where others only put in cents ; the cent didios are the most healthy. • Almost any woman can cook well, if she have plenty with which to do it ; but the real science of cooking is to be able to cook a good meal, or dishj with but Httle out of which 'to make i^ This is what our few recipes shall assist you m doing. » ,-'"r;^-!-:,^:^ >^ : ZZ..r,r. !?« .^ru•l . hf,.H As to the principles of cooking, remember that water cannot be made more than boiling hot— no matter how much you hasten the fire, you cannot hasten the cooking of meat, potatoes, &c., pne moment; a brisk boil is ouffi- oient. When meat is to be boiled for eating, put it into boiUng water at the beginning, by Which its juices are pre- served. But if you wish to extract these juices fdr soup or brotJii, put the meat, in small pieces, into cold water, and - let it simmer slowly. ■> The same principle holds good in baking, also. Make the oven the right heat, and give it time to bake through| * i« the true plan; if you attempt to huny it, you only burn instead of cooking it done. '^ *"^^ ''^^'" ^*' ^'-^ ' ^ If you attempt the boiling ' '■"rry, the wood only is wasted. ■^ But, in attempting the bale .uny, the food, as well, isn't fit to b« tasted CAKES— Federal Caiu..— Flour 2 1-2 lbs. ; pulverized white sugar 1 1-4 lbs. ; fresh butter 10 ozs. ; 6 eggs well beaten ; carbon- . ate ol' nininonia | oz. ; water 1-2 pt. ; or milk is best, if you have it. , ■ Grind down the ammonia, and rub it with thj sugar. Rub the butter into the flour; now make a bowl of the flodir (unless you choose to work it up in a dish), and put 282 DB. OHASiB*S BKOiPfiS. li *■« *••'. in the eggs, milk, sugar, &o., and mix well, and roll out to about a quarter of an inch in thickness ; then cut ont with a round cutter, and place on tins so they touch each other ; and instead of rising up thicker, in baking, they fill up the space between, and make a square looking cake, all attached together. While they are yet warm, drench over with white ooarsely pulverized sugar. If ihey are to be kept in a show-case, by bakers, you can have a board as large as the tin on which you bt^ke them, and lay a dozen or more tins- ful on top of each other, as you sprinkle on the sugar. I cannot see why they are called " Federal," for really they are good enough for any " Whig." Ammonia should be kept in a wide-mouthed bottle, tightly corked, as it is a very volatile salt. It is known by various names, as '* volatile salts," " sal-volatile," " harts- horn," "hartshorn-shavings," &c., &o. It is used foi smelling bottles, fainting, as also in baking. 2. Rough-and-Eeady Cake.— Butter or lard 1 lb. ; molasses 1 qt. ; soda 1 oz. ; milk or water 1-2 pt. ; g^onnd ginger 1 table^ spoon; and a little oil of lemon ; flour sufficient. . i,'^;^ ,t\ ' Mix up the ginger in flour, and rub the butter or lard in also ; dissolve the soda in the milk or water ; put in the molasses, and use the flour in which the ginger and butter are rubbed up, and sufficient more to make ^e dough of a proper consistence to roll out; cut the cakes out with along and narrow cutter, and wet the top with a little molasses and water, to remove the flour from the cake ; turn the top down, into pulverized white sugar, and place in an oven suf- ficiently hot for bread, but keep them in only to bake, not to dry up. This, and the '' Federal," are great favorites in Pennsylvania, where they know what is good, and have the means to make it ; yet they are not expensive. 3. Sponge-Cakb with Sour Milk. — Flour 3 cups ; fine wbite •ugar 2 cups ; 6 eggs ; sour loilk 1-2 cap, with salei'atus 1 tea- Ipoon. • Dissolve the saieratus m tne luilk ; beat the eggs sepa- rately ; sift the flour and sugar ; first put the sugar into the milk and eggs, then the flour, and stir all T'ell together, using any flavoring extract which you prsfer, 1 teaspoon — lemon, however, is the most common. As soon as the flour BASEBS' AND OOOEINa DEPABTMENT. 283 18 stirred in, put it immediately into a quick oven ; and if it is all put into a common square bread-pan^ for which it makes the right amount, it will require about twenty to thirty minutes to bake ; if baked in small cakes, propor- tionately less. 4. Sponge Cake with Sweet Milk. — As sour milk cannot always be had, I give you a sponge cake with sweet milk: Nice brown sugar 1^ cups ; three eggs ; sweet milk 1 cup ; floiir ^ cups ; cream of tartar and soda, of each 1 tea>spo it retains its freshness and moi. nre longer than wheat. An admixture of rye flour with that of wheat, decidedly improves the latter in this respect. Indian com bread is mueh used in this , country. Mixed with wheat and rye, a dough is produced capable of fermentation, but pure maize meal cannot be fer- mented so as to fjrm a light bread. Its gluten lacks the tenacious quality necessary to produce, the regular 'jell-struc- ture. It is most commonly used in the form of calces, made to a certain d^ee light by e^s or sour milk, and saleratus, and is generally eaten warm. Indian corn is ground into meal of various degrees of coarseness, but is never made so fine as wheaten flour. Bread or cakes from maixe require a considerably longer time to be acted upon by heat in the baking process, than wheat or rye. If ground wltieat be unbolted, that is^ if its bran be not separated, wbaat meal or Graham flour results, from whioh Graham or dvKpepsia bread is produced. It is made in the same general way as other wheaten bread, but requires a little peculiar manage- ment. Upon this point Mr. Graham remarks : '^ The wheat meal, and especially if it is ground coaraely, «nrells considerably in the dough, and therefore tEe dough should »ot at first be made'^uite so stiff as that made of soperSne flour ; and when it ia raised, if it is feua tee sefk te mould well, a liM« IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) 1.0 I.I 1.25 144 150 ^ m IIIIIM m 2.2 12.0 1.8 i.4 ill 1.6 V] ^ Photographic Sciences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 k. L

asp mm 292 B. ohase's beoipes. more meal may be added. It ehonld be remarked that dongh made of wheat meal will take on \±e acetoms fermentation, or become sour sooner, than tiiat made of fine flonr. It requires a hotter oven, and to be baked longer, but must not stand so long after being mixed before baking, as that made from flonr. 3. BaowN Bread Bi3«roiT. — Take corn meal 2 qts. ; rye flour 3 pt8.| wheat flour.l pt.; molasses 1 table-spoon ; yeast S table-spoons ; havmg soda 1 teaspoon mixed with it. Knead over night for breakfast. If persons will eat waom bread, this, or buckwheat shoi^t-oakd, shoidd be the only' kinds eaten. 4. Dtspeptigs' Biscuit and Covnsi:. — ^Take Graham flour (wheat: coarsely ground, without bolting); 2 qt8.j com meal sifted, I qt i butter 1-V>'^P ; inolasses 1 cup ; sour milk to wet it up with s^e- ratus. as for biscuit. , , ^ Boll out and out with a teaKsup, and bake as otihor biscuit) and i^hen cold they are just the thing for dyspeptics. And if the flour was sifted, none would refuse to eat, them: For the Coffee./— Continue the baking of the above biscuit in a slow oven for six or seven hours, or until tkey ore browned* through like coffee. Directions.— One bisoult boiled | of an hour wiU be plenty for 2 or 3 eups of coffee, and 2 for six persons ; serve with cream and •agar as other coffee. Dyspeptics should chew very fine and slowly, not drinking until the meal is over; then sip the coffee at their leisure, not more than one cup, however. This will be found very nice for common use, say with one eighth coffee added ; hardly any would distinguish the difference between it and that made from coffee alone. The plan of buying ground coffee is bad ; much of it is undoubtedly mixed with peas, which you can raise for less than fifteen or twenty oents a pound, and mix for yourself. 5. London Bakers' Supbrioe Loaf Bobad. — The Michigan Farmer gives us the following; any one can see, that it contains sound sense : " To uiaka a half-peck loaf, take | tb. of well boiled mealy potatoes; m>^ them through a $ae ««lLender or coarse ftieve; add J part of yeast, or | oz. of Gertnan dried-veast, aind 1| pte.^ of lukewarm water (88 deg. "Falir.), together with f lb. of flour, tcr render the mixture the consistence of thin batter ; this mixture ' is to be se& aside to fefment ] if set in a warm plape it will rise in less &an 2 hours, when it reeembles y«Mt, eofoept in color. MxaSBlBf AND OOOSma DEPABTMENT. 293 The sponge so made is then to be mixed with 1 pt. of water, nearly blood warm, viz., 92 deg. Fahr, and poured into half peck of flour, which has previously had 1^ ow. of salt mi^ed into it ; the whole should then be kneaded into dough, and allowed to rise in a warm place for 2 hours, when it should be kneaded into loaves and baked> The object of adding the mashed potatoes is to increase the amount of fbrmentation in the sponge, which it does to a very remarkable degree, and consequently, renders the bread lighter and better. The potatoes will also keep the bread moist. 6. Old Bachelors' Bread, Biscuit, or Pie-Crust.— Flour 1 qt j~ cream of tartar 2 teaspoons ; soda | teaspoon ; sweet milk to wet up the flour to the consistence of biscuit dough. Bub the flour and cream of tartar well together ; dissolve the soda in the milk, wetting up the flour with it and bake immediately. If you have no milk, use water in its place, , adding a spoon of lard to obtain the salne richness. It . does well for pie-crust where you cannot keep up sour miik. 7. New Fbemoh Method of Makinq Bbbad.— Take rice f lb. j lie it up in a thick linen bag, giving ample room for it to swell ; boil it from 3 to 4 hours, or until it becomes a perfect paste ; mix thie while warm with 7 lbs. of flovte, adding the usual quantities of yeast and salt ; allew the dough to work a proper time near the Qre, then divide into loaves. Dust them in, and knead vigor- ouwy. This quantity of flour and rice makes about thirteen and one-half lbs. of bread, whicb will keep moist much longer than without the rice. It was tested at the London Poly- techuo Institute, after having been made public in l*rance, with the above results. 8. Bakino Powders, for Biscuit Without Shortenino. — Bi- r- carbonate of soda 4 oza. ; cream of tartar 8 ozs. ; and properly dry them, and thoroughly mix. It should be kept in well corked bottles to prevent dampness which no'itralizes the acid. Use about three teaspoons to each quart of flour being baked ; mix with milk, if you have it, if not, wet up with cold water and put directly into the oven to bake. PIES — Lemon Pie, Extra Nice.— One lemon; water 1 cup; brown sugar 1 cup ; flour 2 tablenspoons ; 5 eggs * white sugar 2 table-spoons. Orate the rind from the lemon, squtiufte ^^ the juioe. and chop up the balanee jery &ie ; poi all totether ana KIT AL'Hnis«Lllr*M»»> 1 i j i^M^-nW. ' t ' [M* VW 294 DB. OHAfiB'8 BBOZTBS. add the water, brown sug&r, and flour, woiking toe mum into a smooth paste ; beat the eggs and mix with the paste, saying the whites of two of them ; make two pies, baking with no top crust ; while these are baking, beat the whites of the two eggs, saved for that purpose, to a stiff froth, and stir in the white sugar ; when the pies are done, spread this frosting evenly over them, and set agadn in the oven and brown slighly. 2. Pie-Cbust Glaze. — In making any pie which has a juicy mixture, the juice soaks into the crust, making it soggy and unfit to eat ; to prevent this : Beat an egg well ; and with a brush or bit of cloth, wet the crust of the pie with the beaten egg, just before you put in the pie miicture. * For pies which have a top crust also, wet the top with the same before baking, which gives It a beautiful yellow brown. It gives beauty also to biscuit, ginger cakes, and is just the thing for rusk, by putting in a little sugar. 3. Apple Pie which is Digestible. — Instead of mix- ing up your crust with water and lard, or butter, making it very rich, with shortening, as customary for apple pies : Mix it up every way just as you would for biscuit, using sour milk^and saler&tus, with a little lard or butter only ; mix the dough quite stiff, roll out rather thin, lay it upon your tin, or plate ; and having ripe apples sliced or chopped nicely and laid on, rather thick, and sugar according to the acidity of the apples, then a top crust, and bake well, putting the egg upon the crusts, as mentioned in the '' Pie Crust Glaze,'' and you have got a pie that is fit to eat. But when you make the rich orust, and cook the apples and put them on, it soakes the crust which does not bake, and no stomach can digest it, whilst our way gives jou a nico light crust, and does not take half the shortening of/ the other plan ; yet perhaps nothing is saved pecuniarily, as butter goes as finely with the biscuit-crust pies, when hot, as it does with biscuit ; but the pie is digestible, and when it is cold^ does not taste bad to cut it up on your plate, with plenty of sweetened cream. 4. Apple Custard Pie — Taw Nicest Pie ^ver Eaten. — Peel tour apples and stew until soft and not much water left in them ] then rub them through a cullender ; beat three egga for each pie to be baked, and put m at the rate of one cup of butter and one ef Mgar for tibiee pies ; stiaBon with natm^. miiiii My wife bos more ^ pie, with only half of & cup of bntter and sugar each, to 4 or 6 pies ; but the amount of sugar must be governed somewhat by the acidity of the applds. Bake as pumpkin pies, which they resemble in appear- ance ; and between them and apple pies in taste, very nice indeed. We find them equally nice with dried apples by making them a little more juicy. V If a frosting was put upon them, as in the '' Lemon Pio/ then returned, for a few minutes, to the oven, the appear- ance, at least, would be improved. 6. Apflb Gdstabd, Very Nioe.-- Take tart apples, that are quite juicy, and stew and rub them, as in the recipe above ; and to 1 pi of the apple, beat 4 eggs and pat in, with 1 table-spoon of sugar, 1 of butter, and ^ of a grated nutfheg. Bake as other custards. It is excellent ; and makes a good substitute for butter, apple butter, &o. 6. Paste fob Tarts. — ^Loaf sugar, flour, and butter, equal weights of each ; mix thoroughly, b^ beating with a rolling pin, for half an hour ; folding up and beatmg again and again. When properly mixed, pinch off small pieces and roU out each crust by itself, which causes them to dish so as to hold the tart-mixture. And if ^"^u will have a short pie-crust) this is the plan to make it *v ■ PUDDINGS— Bkootf Pm)DD.af Without BB-BAxmo.— Tak« water 1 qt ; sugar I lb. ; butter the size of a hen^s egg, floor i table-spoons ; nutmeg, grated, 1-2 of one. Mix the flour with just sufficient cold water to rub up aD the lumps whilo the balance of the water is heating, mix all, and split the biscuit once or twice, and put into this ^vy while it is hot, and keep until used at table. It tuses ^p cold biscuit, and I prefer it to richer puddings. It is indeed worth a tnal. This makes a nice dip-gravy also for other puddings. 2. Old English Christmas Plum PuDDiNa.—The Harrisbnrg Telegraph furnishes its readers with a recip« for the real "Old English Christmas Plum Pudding.*' After having given this pudding a fair test, I am willing to endorse every word of it; and wish for the holiday to oomt oftener than once a year : 'To .make what is called a pound poddiog) take of X9UbM k;^ DB. CHASES BEOIPBS. i.:»V well stoned, bat not chopped, currants thoronghl v washed, 1 lb. eacb ; chop suet 1 lb. ^ery finely, and mix with them ; add 1-4 lb of flour or bread very finely crumbled ; 3 ozs. of sugar ; 1 1-2 oes. of grated lemon peoj, a blade of mace, 1-2 of a small nutmeg, 1 teaspoon of ^ringer, 1-2 doz. of eggs, well beaten ; work it weh together, put it in a cloth, tie it firmly, allowing room to swell : put it into boiling water, and boil not less than two hdnrs. It should not be suffered to stop boiling. The cloth, when about to be used, fibould be dipped* into boiling water, squeezing dry, and floured ; and wnen the pudding is done, have a pan of cold water ready, and dip it in for a moment, as soon aa it comes out of the pot, which prevents the pudding from sticking to the cloth, ^r a dip-gravy for this or other puddings, see the ''^ Biscuit Pudding, without Be-Baking," o* ** Spreading Sauoe for Puddings." 3. Indian Puddtno, To BiJOB.— Nice sweet milk 1 at ; batter 1 ox. ; 4 e^ga, well beaten ; Indian meal 1 tea-cup ; raisms 1-2 lb. ; wgarjlb. Scald the milk, and stir in the meal whilst boiling ; then let it stand until only blood-warm, and stir all well together, and bake about one and a Ibalf hours. Eaten with sweet- ened cream, or either of the pudding sauces mentioned iu the " Christmas Pudding." m-Hf^.* o M 4. Indian Puddino To Boil.— Indian meal 1 qt., with a little salt ; 6 eggs ; sour milk 1 cap ; saleratos 1 teaspoon ; raisiiis< I lb. Scald the meal, having the salt in it ; when cool stir in the beaten eggs ; dissolve the saleratus in the milk and stir in also, then the raisins ; English currants, dried currants, or dried benies, of any kind, answer every purpose, and are, in fact, very nice in place of the raisins. Boil about one and a half hours. Eaten with sweetened cream or any of the pudding sauces. Any pudding to be boiled must not be put into the water until it boils, and taken out as soon as done, or they become soggy and unfit to eat. 5. Quick Indian Pudding. — ^Take 1 1-2 cups of sour milk ; 2 '»ggs, well beaten ; 1 small teaspoon of saleratus : dissolved in the i^ilk ; then sift in dry com meal, and stir to tne consistence of corn bread ; then stir in 1-2 lb. of any of the fruits mentioned .*bove ; or. If yof. have no fruit, it is quite nice T^ithout. Tie up and boil one hour ; sweetened cream with a little nutmeg makes a^nice sauce. As I have just eaten of this for my dinner, I throw it iu eictra; fbr it is worthy. ai SI lib. 1-4 It 2 OES. aeg,l i well jwell ; ». It rinto a the wWcli ^r a (iSCTUt Loe for butter 1-2 lb. ; ; ; then fgether, Bweetr onedin 1;le 8«\lt ; lb. stir in and stir arrants, )se, and >il about a or any nust not ( 9& 60on Bki^B»' AND OOOEINa DEPABTMEin?. 297 6. Flour Pudding, to Boxl. — When persons hav« plenty of dried apples or peaches, and not much of the sn^aUei fruits; or desire to change from them in puddings. Take wheat flour eulBcient to make a good pan of biscuit, and mix it up as for biscuit, wiiii Boor milk, saleratus, and a little Dutter or lard, roll out rather thicker than for pie crust ; now, bafrinff your apples or peachei^ nicety stewed, wet the crust over txritb tbo ** Fie Crust Glaae," then spread a layer of the fruit upon it, adding a little sugar, as it lies upon the table ^ and if you cbooee, scatter over tnem a handflil of raisins, or any other oi the dried fruits mentioned ; roll up the whole togetlier, and boil 1 hour. Eaten with any sauoe which you may prefer. Butth^' ooramielJ puddinga are much the most healthy, and I pre* fer their taste to £o8e made from flour. 7. Potato FuDraara— Bub throng a cullender 6 large or 12 mi'^dle-sized potatoes; beat 4 eggs, mix with I pt of good milk;' stii: in the potatoes, sugar and seasoning to taste ; butter the dish ; bake half an hour. This recipe is simple and economical, as it is made of what is wasted in many families, namely, cold potatoes; which may be kept two or three days, until a EQiffioieni quantiiy is collected. To be eaten with butter. 8. Green Gobn Puddq^o. — Green corn, raw, 2 doz. ears ; sweel m^ 8 to 4 qts. ; 6 cfggii ; sugar 1 to 2 cups. Salt to suite the taste. Split the kernels lengthwise of the ear with a sharp knife ; th^n with a case knif^ scrape the com from the cob, which leaves the hulls oa the ^b ; uax it with the milk and othef ' articles,, and bake from two to three hours. To be eateo with butter and sugar. 9. Steamed Puddqiq.— Two eggs ; «igar 1 cap ; sour milk 1 cup; Baleratus 1-^ teaspiOoiu a little salt l dried whortleberries, cmv rants, raisins, or oUier fruit, 1 cup ; flour. Beat the eggit aiid Btir in the sugar ; disserve the saloratui in the milk, and mix in also the fruit and salt ; then thicken wiih floui rather thicker than for cake ; put into a two-quart pan and set in the steamer^ and steam an hour and a half; . and I think it will crack open on the back — if not, try again. It is wte^ tW te^i^, espeoiaHy )f you have plenty of .'^^:, I ]f«i 9rtmumc9amnBi 4ev.;8agar6oii.| 296 m. OHABBfS BEOmUB. Grato the nutmeg and mb all together ; these are about the proper proportions; but more or less can be made, as desired, and more or less nutmeg oan also be used ; or any other flavoring in their place. This sauoe is nice on baked puddings, hot or cold ; and to tell it all, it is not bad on bread. See the " Biscuit Pudding," for dip-sauces. DOMESTIC DISHES— Gbbbn Corn Omelet.— Green corn boiled I ioz. ears ; 6 eggs ; salt and pepper to euit the taste. Bemove the com from the cob, as mentioned in the^ '* Green Com Pudding." The splitting allows the asoape of the pulp, whilst the hull is held by the cob ; season, form into small cakes and fry to a nice brown, and you have a Ttiy nice omelet. -^ 2. APPLES— To Bake— Stbamboat Style— Bbttbr than Peb- ■iAVES.~Take moderately sour apples, when ripe; and with a pocket-knife cut out the stem, and flower end also, so as to re- aove the skin from these cup-shaped cavitieb ; wash them, and place them in a dripping-pan ; now fill these cavities with brown sugar, and pretty freely between them also, with sugar ; then lay •na few lumps of butter over the sugar: place Siem thus ar- ranged, into the oven when you b«»gin to heat up the stove for breakfast cr dinner, and keep them in until perfectly baked tiirough and soft. Take and dip butter, meal is maybe have all persons 3. Fried Apples— Extra Nice. — Take any nice sour cookhig apples, and after wiping them, cut into slices about one-fourth ol an inch thick; have a frying-pan ready, in which there is a email amount of lard, saj ^ or f of an inch in depth. The lard must be hot before the slices of apples are put in. Let one ^de of them fry until brewn ; then turn, and put a small quantity of sugar on the browned side of each slice. By the time the other tide is browned, the sugar will be melted and spread over the whole surface. Serve them up hoti and you will have a dish gocd enough for kings and queens,' or any poor man's breakfast ; and I think that even the President would not refuse a few ^oeSi if properly cooked. There is but little choice be- them up on plates, while hot, by means oi a spoon, the gravy, arising from the apple juice, sugar and over them. Should any of them be left sher the over, set them by until the next meal, when thev placed in the stove oven until hot, and they wiU the beauty of the first baking. Or perhaps some may prefer them fried, as follows : BAKEBS' AND COOEINa DEPABTUBHT. 299 ?i fcween frying and baking by these plans ; either one U ywf nice. 4. Apfle ^rittkrs.— Sour milk 1 pt,; Baleratus 1 teaspoon; flour to make a batter not very stiff ; 6 apples pared an'*, cored ; 3 eggs. Dissolve the saleratus in the milk ; beat the eggs and put in ; then the flour to make a soft batter ; chop the apples to about the size of small peas, and mix them well in the batter. Fry them in lard, as you would dough-nuts. Eaten with butter and sugar. 6. Afplb Mbranqe.— An Ezoellbnt SoBsrrrDTB for Pm or PoD' DiNO. — First take a deep disli and put a bottom crust into it, as for a pie ] have nice sour apples, pared, sliced and stewed, sweet- ening Bliglitly ; place a layer of the stewed apple upon the crust, say about half an inch in thiclmess; then put on a layer of nice bread, spread with butter aa for eating, then another layer of the apple : now place in an oven and bake as a pudding or pie : when done, have the whites of eggs beaten and mixed with a little loaf or other white sugar, say 2 eggs for a 2-quart dish ; place this upon the merange and return it to the oven for a few nmiutes, to brown the egg mixture or frostmg. Serve with sugar dissolved in a little water, adding a little butter, with nutmeg or lemon, as de- sired or preferred. 6. Bread, to Fbt— Bettk^^ than Toast.— Take bread that is drr, the dryer tibe better, so it is not mouldy ; first dip it rather quickly into cold water, then into e^gs which are weU beat, having a little salt in them ; then immediately fry for a short time in hot lard until the surface is a pretty yellow or light brown, accbrding to the beat of the lard. I have never eaten bread cooked in any form whioh suits me as well as this. But the following is very nioe : 7. Toast—German Style.— Bakers' bread, 1 loaf, cut Into siloes 1-2 inch in thickness ; milk 1 qt.; 3 eggs, and a little salt ; beat the eggs and mix them with tne milk, and flavor as for custard, ' not cooking it, however. Dip the sliced bread into the mixture occasionally until it is all absorbed ; then fry the pieces upon a buttered griddle. S^i've for dinner with sugar syrup, flavored with lemon. This is the (German style of mak ag toast ; but Sn quite good enough for an American. And I have no doubt that home-made bread will answex all purposes — our's does, cer- tainly. 8. Backwoods' Preserves. Moderately >oil a pint of mo- lasses, from 5 to 20 minutes, acoording to itti) consistency , tbea tv«i.>Vk J/. (, • ■ .. Do not fail to give it a trial. 9. French Honkt. — White sugar 1 lb.; 6 eggs, IeaTln|^ out the whites of 2 : the juice of 3 or 4 lemons, and the grated rind of 2 ; and \ lb. of butter. Stir over a Blow fire until it is about the connstency of honey. This and the last will be fonnd to oome mnoh nearer what they represent, than the Yankee '' wooden natmegs *' didj upon trial. 10. Muffins.— To each qt. of sweet milk add 2 %^^ well beaten ; a lump of butter, half the size of an egg, and flour enoagh to make a stLOT batter. Stir in 1-2 pt. of yeast ; let them stand until perfectly light, and then bake on a griddle, in tin rings made for thiU purpose. These are merely strips of tin, three-qnarters of an inch wide, made into rings from two and a half to three inohes in diameter, without bottom — the ring beiug simply placed on a griddle, and the batter poured in to fill it. 11. Mock Otbtbrs. — Six nice, plump, ears of tfweet com, uncooked ; grate from the cob ; beat one egg^ stirring into It flour and milk, of each 1 table-spoon ; season with a little aalt and pepper. Put about a teaspoon of butter into a suitable pan for trying, having mixed in the com, also, drop the mixture into the hot butter ; one spoon of it in a plac«), turnlDg them so as to fl7 brown. Serve hot, for break&st Whether they imitate oysters ot not, no one need regret giving them a trial. 12. Fbuit Jamb, Jellies and Pebssbvss. — The differenoe between ocmmon preserves, jellies and jams, is this : Preserves are made by taking fruit and su^r, pound ibr pound, and simply cooking them together until the fruit jysdone. 13. Jellies are made by squeezing and straining out the juice only, of the fruit ; then taking a pount. of sugar for a pound of juice, and cooking until it jells, which is told by taking out a little upon a cold plate. 14. Jams are made by weighing the whole fruit, wash- ing, slioing, and putting in sufficient water to cook it well ; then when cool, rubbing it through a fine sieve, and with this pulp, putting in as much sugar as there was of the lOM BAKEBS' AND GOOKlKO DEFABTiaSNT. 801 fruit only, and oooking it very carefully, until tho weight of the jam is the same as the fruit and added sugar , the water you see is all gone ; and this is easily told by having pre- viously weighed the kettle in which you are oooking it. The jam, if nicely done, contj^ins more of the fruit navoi^* than the jell, and is as valuable aa the jell to put into water' as a drink for invalids ; and better for flavoring syrups for soda-fountains, &o. Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, peaches, ana pine-apples, make very nice jams for flavoring syrups. Much of the flavor of the fruit resides in the skin, pits, &0. And jams made in this way from tho biuokbeony, are good for sore mouth, diarrhoea, dysentery, &o. 15. Faurr Extraots.— Best alcohol 1 pt. ; oil of lemon 1 oe. ; peel of 2 lemons. Break the peels, and put in with the others for a few days ; then remove them and you will have just what you desire for a trifling cost compared with the twenty-five «ent bottles, which are so prominently set out as the nicest Uiiug in the world. This rule holds good fot all fruit oils ; but for fjniitB, such B8 peaches, pine-apples, strawberries, raspberries, blackber- ries, &c., you will take alcohol and water equal parts, and put upon them sufficient to handsomely cover ; and in a few davs you havo^the flavor and juices of the fruit, upon the pnnciple of making '' Bounce," which most men know more or less about. If persons will act for themselves, osiog common sense, working from known facts like these, they will not need to run after every new-fangled thing which is seen blazing forth in almost every advertisement of the day. Vanilla, nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, &o., are made by out- ting up the vanilla bean, or bruising the nutmegs, cinnamon, &c., and putting about two ounces to each pint of pure spirit, or reduced alcohol, frequently shaking for about two weeks, and filtering or pouring off very carefully ; if for salo, however, they must be filtered ; for coloring any of the extracts see the '' Essences" and '' Syrups.'^ For cakes and pies, however, it is just as well to pulverize nutmegs, mace, cinnamon, &. ., and use the powder, for the quantity re- quired is so small that it will never bo seen in the oakjs or pie. 802 i>B. OEAfflB'S BlOZPii MEn)IOAT£D WATERS— Rosi Watbb.— Take oorboDftto of magneflia | oe. ; oil of rose 80 drops : drop the oil npon the nuig- nesia, and mb it together ; then add, vubbing all ttie time, of distilled water, if you can get it, 1 ^t, if not tc^e the purest rain or snow water,— a porcelain morta" is best, but a bowl does yery well,— then filter through filtering paper. The magnesia breaks up the oil globnlea and enables the water to take it up ; and the filtering removes the magnesia. 2. Cinnamon Watkr. — Use the same amount of oil magnesia, and water, and treat the same as the " Rose Water.^' ^ 3. PiAPPE£MQr Bpearmint AMD Pbnntbotal Watibs afo made the same as above. 4. Camphor Water.— To make camphor water, you must first put on a few drops of alcohol ; say 40 or 60 drops, to camphor gum \ OK. ; and rub the camphor fine, which enables you to work it up with magnesia A oz. ; then gradually add water \ qi, as mentioned in the waters aboye, and filtered. The rose and cinnamon waters am used for oookljg ; but the others for medioal purposes. mSGELLAISEOUS DEFAKTimST. WASHING FLUID— Saving Hai.f thb Wash-Boabd Labob.— Sal-sodf ID). ; stone lime i lb. ; water 6 qts. ; boil a short time, stirring occasionally ; then let it settle and pour off the clear fluid Into a stone jug and cork for use ; soak your white clothes over night, in simple water ; wring out, and soap wrist-bands, c hilars, and dirty or stained places ; baxe your boiler half filled with v^ater, and when at scalding; heat, put In one common teacup of the fluid, stir and put in yotit clothes, and boil for half an hour ; then rub lightly through one suds only, rinsing well in the bluing water, as usuid, and all is complete. If you wifih to wash on Monday, put warm suds to the clothes whilst breakfast is being got ready ; then wring out and soap as above, will do just as well as soaking theni l . ^ night, and my wife thinks better. For each additional boiler of clothes add haii a oup of the fluid only ; of conrse boiling in the same water through the whole washing. If more water is needed in the boiler for the last clothes, dip it from the sudsing tub. Stdk. your woolen and oalico in the suds from which yoa have MlBGBLLAMBOtTB DEPABnOENT. > washed the white clothes, whilst hanging them out, dipping in some of the hoiling water from the boiler, if necossur^ ; then wash out the woolen and calico as usual — of course, washing out woolen goods before you do the calico. The fluid brightens instead of fading the colors in calico. This plan not only saves the two rubbings which woneo give their clothes before boib'ng, and more than half of ti>9 soap — does not injure the oloflics, but saves their wear in . two rubbings before boiling ; and is a good article for re- moving grease from floors, dooi'S, and windows, and to re- move tar or grease from the hands, &o. I hope every lady into whose hands this recipe may fall, will give it a trial, as my family have now used it over seven years, not missing only two washings. It does not rot clothes, but makes them wash full or more than one-half easier than the old way. Seven years ought to be considered a su£5icient test. The honor of this reoipe is accredited to Prof. Liebig, of Ckrmany. I have found many women using turpentine, alcohol, am- monia, camphor gum, &o., in their washing fluids ; but none of them ought ever to be used for such purposes (one wo- man k)st the use of her arm, for six months, by using a fluid containing turpentine) ; the turpentine and alcohol, es- pecially, tend to open the pores of the skin, and thus malio the person more liable to take cold in hanging out the clothes, as also to weaken the ^rm. And hear let me say, if it is possible to avoid it, never allow the woman who washes the clothes, and thus becomes wu'm and sweaty, to hang them out ; and especially ought this to be regarded in the winter or windy weather. Many consumptions are undoubtedly brought on by these frequently repeated colds, in this way. It works upon the principle that two thin shoes make one cold, two colds an attack of bronchitis ; two attacks of bronchitis one consumption — the end, a coffin. LIQUID BLUEING— For Clothes.— Most of the blueing sold is poor stuff, leaving specks in the clothes. To avoid this : Take best Prussian-blue, pulverized, 1 oz. ; ozalio acid, also pulverized, ^ oz. ; soft water 1 qt Mix. Tiie ac^d diasolvee thi An be got, is the best, and on|^ ncc, with throe cents for the acid, mA satisfaction than fifty cents worth of the common This amount has now lasted my -family over a OAPS— Soft Soap— For Half the Ezfensb aicd One-Fourth E^TReuBLB OP THE Old Wat.— Take white-bar soap 4 lbs ; cut V fine and dissolve, by heating in soft water 4 gals. ; adding sal- Btda 1 lb. When all is dissolved and well mixed, it is done. Yellow soap does very well, but Colgate's white, is said 6o be the best. But our " White ha..d soap" is the same land. This soap can be made thicker or more thin, by us'^ns more or less water, as yOu may think best after once m jjj^ ;.}^^ it. Even in common soft soap, if this amount o^ snlxj^Ju is put into that number of gallons, washing ^H] i)o djr»e much easier, and |he soap will more tharj compensate ior the expense and trouble of the addition. 2. Gerbian Erasive, or Yellow SoAiv-Tallowaiid sjvI soda of each 112 lbs. ; rosm 66 lbs. ; stone linie 28 lbs. ; palm-oVi 8 lb:» • soft water 28 gals.; or for smaU ^uantUies. tallow and eal-soJa' of each 1 lb. ; roJn 7 ozs. ; stone lime 4 ozs. ; palm^)!! 1 oz • solt water 1 qi ' ' Put soda, lime, and water into a kettle and boil, stirring well ; tlien let it setVle and pour off the ley. In anothei kettle, melt the tallow, rosin, and palm oil j having it hot, the ley being also boiling hot; mix all together stirring well, and the work is done. i- S. Hard S>ap, with Lard.— Sal-sod» and lard, of each 6 lbs, i stone lime 3 lbs. ; soft water 4 gals. • dissolve the lime and soda in the water, by boiling, stirring, eettling and pouring oflF: then return to the kettle (brass or copper) and add the lard and boil u' til it becomes soap ; then pour into a dish or moulds, an'' cold, dut it into bars and let it dry. This recipe was cbtaiaed by finding an over-oo in the pocket,, an ^ also a piece of the soap j the with him, as '.. irritated his salt-rheum so ' pB. It has proved valuable for »- % B laSCELLANEOnS DfiPABTllENT. 805 and also for shaving purposes. It would be better than half the toilet soaps sold, if an ounce or two of sassafras o}\ was stirred into this amount ; or a little of the poap might be put in a separate dish, putting in a little of the oil, to correspond with the quantity of soap. 4. White Hard Soap, with Tallow.— ^resh slacked lime, sal- soda, and tallow, of each 2 lbs. ; dis?olve the soda in 1 gal. boiling soft water ; now mix in the lime, stirring occasionally for a few hours ; after which let it settle, pouring off the clear liquor and boiling the tallow therein until it is all dissolved ; cool it in a flat box or pan, and cut into bars or cakes, as preferred. It can be flavored with sassafras oil, as the last, by stir- ring it in when cool ; it can be colored also, if desired, as mentioned in the " Variegated Toilet Soap." When any form of sod? is used in making soap, it is necessary to use lime' to give it causticity ; or, in other words, to make it caustic; which gives it much greater power upon the grease, by removing the carbonic acid ; hence the benefit of putting lime in the l^ottom of a leach when making soap from common ashes. 6. Transparent Soap. — Take nice yellow bar soap, 6 lbs. : cut it thin, and put into a brass, tin or copper kettle ; with alcohol 1-2 gal. ; heating gradually over a slow fire, stirring until all is ' ,- solved ; then add an ounce of sassafras essence, and stir until weil mixed ; now pour into pans about 1 1-2 inches deep, and when cold, cut into square bars, the length or width of the pan as de- sired. This gives you a nice toilet soap for a trifling expense, and when fully dry it is very transparent. 6. One Hundred Podnds op Good Soap for $1.30. — ^Take pot- ash 6 lbs., 74 cts. ; lard 4 lbs., 50 cts. ; rosin ^ lb., 5 cts. Beat up the rosin, mix all together, and set aside for fife 'days ; then put the whole into a ten gallon cask of warm water, and stir twice a day for ten days ; at the expiration of which time you will have one hundred pounds of excellent soap. 7. Chemical Soft Soap.— J. Hamilton^ ^n English gentleman, and proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, Aurora, In- diana, makes his soap for house use, as follows : Take grease 8 lbs. ; caustic soda 8 lbs. ; sal-soda 1 lb, ; melt lh« tcrease iu a kettle, melt the sodas in soft water 4 gals, and poor 806 DB. OHASE'S BBOIFBS. all into a barrel holding 40 gals., and fill up wiih soft water, and the labor is done. When the oaustio soda cannot be obtained of soap-makers, jou will make it by obtaining soda-ash and fresn slacked lime, of each eight pounds ; dissolving them in the water with the sal-soda, and when settled, pouring off the clear Kquid as in the " White Hard Soap with Tallow." i 8. Soap without Heat. — Mr. Tor: 'son, writing to Judge Buel, says : I " My wife has no trouble about soap. The grease is put into a cask, and strong le^ added. During tiie year, as the fat increases, more ley is stirred m ; and occasionally stirred with a stick that is kept in it. By the time the cask is full, the soap is made f^r use.'' There is no mistake about this manner of making soap: The only object of boiling is to increase the strength of weak ley and hasten the process. 9. Windsor, or Toilet Soap. — Cut some new, white bar soap into thin slices, melt it over a slow fire, and scent it with oil of caraway ; when perfectly dissolved, pour it into a mould and let it remain a week, then cut it into such sized squares as you may re- quire. 10. VinmoATED Toilet Soap.— Soft water 3 qts. ; nice white bar soap 3 lbs. ; sal-soda 2 oz9. ; Chinese vermillion and Chinese blue, of eacli, as much as will lie on a 5-cent piece ; oil of sassafras i oz. Shave the soap fine and put it into the water as it begins to boil ; when dissolved, set it from the fire ; take out a cup of the soap and stir in the vermillion ; take out another cup of the soap and stir in the blue ; then pour in one of the cups and give two or three turns only with the stirring stick ; then put in the other in the same way ; and finally pour into a suitable box, and when cold it can be cut into bars ; or it can be run in Uioulds, if desired ; it will become hard in a short time ; giving most excellent satisfaction. If stirred thoroughly, oher putting in the colors, it would be all of a mixed color ; but giving it only two or three turns, loaves it ill streaks, more beautiful. Soap manufacturers generally use soda in preference to wood ashes, because less troublesome ; and to make it more caustic, or, in other words, to absorb the carbonic acid gas, ihej muit put about pound for pound for recently slacked • iffg flici^.- '^'^nfl DEPABTMENT. SW lime with soda-ash, or sal-soda ; dissolvm^ .^ ring; or by both; using sufficient water to mako'ttifliiy; support a fresh laid egg, and drawing oflf clear of the lime sediment. Thirteen hundred pounds of the tallow, or there- abouts, with the ley, makes one ton of white soap ; auJ yel- low soap, by using ten hundred of tallow and three hundred and fifty of yellow rosin, for each ton, boiling with the ley until they unite ; then pouring into frames, made to fit one upon another, to cool and harden ; finally taking off one frame at a time, and with a wire, having a handle at each end to draw it- with, cut into slices, then bats, and cording up, as wood, to dry. If wood-ashes are used, plenty of lime must be put into the bottom of the leach. TALLOW CANDLES—Foa Summer Usb.~Mos4 tallow, in summer, is more or leso Roft, and often quite yel- low, — to avoid both : 4 Take your tallow and put a little tieea-wax with it, especially if your betis-wax is dark and not fit to sell ; put iuto a ^soitable kettle, adding weak ley and gently boil, an hour or two eaoh daj for 2 days, stirring and skimming well ; each morning cutting it out and scraping off the bottcm which is soft, adding fresh ley (be sure it is not too strong) 1 or 2, or 3 gals., according to the amount of (aIIow. The third morning use water in which alum and saltpetre are dissolved, at the rate of 1 lb each, for 30 lbs. of taUow: then simmer, stir, and skim again ; let cool, and you can take it on the water for use. They may be dipped or run in moulds ; for dipping, allow two pounds for each dozen candles. Saltpetre and alum are said to harden lard for candles; but it can bo placed amongst the humbugs of the day. But I will give you a plan which is a little shorter for harden- ing tallow ; either will work well, take your choice : 2. Tallow — To Cleanse and Bleach.— Dissolve alum 5 lbs., in water 10 gals., by boiling ; and when it is all dissolved, add tallow 20 lbs. 5 continue the boiling for an hour, constantly stirring and skimming ; when sufficiently cool to allow it, strain through thick musliii ; then set aside to harden ; when taken from the water, lay It by Cor a short time to drip. Dip or mould, as you please, not expecting them to "run" in summer nor "crack" in winter. They will also bum very brilliantly, at which, however, you will not be sur- prised when you conndjUi the amount of filth ihiowu off in cleansing. Ill i ■I \ DB. OflAflEs' BT^'^ ^^, ^ — Ao Prevent Rotting. — A oorres- FEJiCUF ine American Agriculturist says : " I think it would be well to call the attention of farmers to the me of coal-tar as a paint. The tar produced in coal gas- works is extensively used in England for painting fences, out- buildings, &c. ; and is being introduced in this country, also. It never alters by exposure to the weather : and one or two 'good coatt) will last for many years. It is the cneapest and best black paint that can be used. Our buildingn are painted with it ; all oui apparatus also ; and even the wrought-iron pipe we place in the ground is coated with it. I think if its advantages were fuUv known, it would be generally 4jsed throughout the United States. The Government soak the brick used in 'building the fort at Throgg's Neck in this tar, which renders them impervious to water ; and posts painted wit^ it are protected from rot ; when in tho ground, as effectually as if they had been charred." I know this tar is muoh more effectual than charring, and is not one-tenth the trouble. Th^re are posts near this city, which have now been set over ten years, and yet no ap- pearance of decay. The coating is still perfect also. The only objection to it as a paint above ground, is its offensive smell, from the heat of the sun. No persons should allow themselves to set a single post without its application, and farmers who are pnttiog out much fence, cannot possibly be so short sighted as to neg- lect it after it comes to their notice. It is doubly important to railroad companies from the fact that these roads run through the most level portions of country, and consequently the most swampy and wet, there- foio fence posts are the most liable to ro> The mode of application is as follows : Have a large iron kettle so arranged that vou can make and keep the tar hot, then, after having removed the bark, if any, set the end of the post into the tar ; and if the tar is not sufficiently deep to take the post into it as far as you wish to tar it, have a swab of cloth tied upon a broom-handle or other stack, and swab it up at least 6 to 10 Inc&es above the ground line, when the post is set ; then lift up the post, letting it drip a moment, and lay it away upon rails or poles placed for that purpose, not allowing them to touch each other until dry. Two men will tar about five hundred posts in one day, and one barrel of tar will h sufficient for that nuttiber. Who then will hesitate to »dopt its use ? especially when the tar can be purchased at the gas works for about two dol- Utisper barroi. ; ' f( >'X IKC. for 2 f honm to draw olT thp h\rr>H, ^ np letting it cirivlii, and pack a8 desired. TiiiiiD.baTO feady a pickle prepared jifl IoHowh:— hu' every 10) lbs. ol beef i:o« Y lbs. of salt ; salt- petre and cayenne pepper, of each I oz. ; "Tjolaeses 1 qt., and Bofk water 8 gals, ; boil and skiin well, and whei Md pour it over the beef. This amount will cover one hundred poundt% if it has been properly paokcd. I have found persons ivho use nothing hut salt with water, and putting on hot, Boalding a^^ain at the end of three weeks, and putting on hot again. The only ohjeot claimed for putting the brine on tie meat while hot, is, that it hardens the surface, wh V}i retains the juices, instead of drawing them of^ 2. The Michigan E'aemeb.-i' Method.— .Ja, * for each 100 lbs. ol beet; use salt 6 lbs. ; saltpetre J oz. ; bjowii sugar 1 lb. ; dissolve in sufficient water to cover the meat — two weeks after take up, drain — throw away the brine, make mor« the same as first, it will keep the season through— wheu to be boiled for eating, put intt boiling water — ^for sonps into cold witer." I claim a preference for the first plan, of drawing oflf thv! blood before pickling, as saving labor ; and that the cayenne and saltpetre improves th« flavor and helps preserve ; and that boiling and skimming cleanse the brine very much. Of late years I pursue the following : ^ 3. Beef— To Pioilb fob Winter or Presr. (Jsb, and fob Drtino.— Gnt yo«ir beef into sizeable pieces, sprinkle a little saU npon the bottoot of tiie barrel only, then pack your beef without ealt amongst it, and when packed pour over it a brine made bji difv-olving 6 lbs. of salt for each 100 lbs. of beef in just sufficient culd water to handsomely cover it Ton will find that you can cut and fry as nice as fresh, , U St long time ; just right fqr boiling also ; and when it geta » little too salt for frying, you can freshen it nearly as wcely as pork, for frying purposes ; or you can boil of it, then make a stew for breakfast, very nice indeed. By the other plan it soon becomes too salt for eating, and the juices are drawn off by the salt. In three weeks, perhaps a little less, such pieces as are designed for drying will be ready to hang up, by soaking over night to remove the salt from the outside. Do not be afraid of this way, for it is very nice for winter and drying purnoses ; but if any is left- unti*^ 810 DB. GHA8B*B BEOIPIB warm weather, throw away this brine, put salt&mongft what is left and cover with the first brine, and all is right for long keeping. 4. Mutton Hams — To Pioelb for Drying.— First take weak brine and put tho hams into it, for 2 days, then poiir off and apply the following, and let it remain on from 2 to 3 weeks, ac- cording to the size : For each 1^ lbs., take salt 6 lbs. : saltpetre 1 oz. : salerat.i 2 oz. ; molasses 1 pt. ; water G gals., will cover these if closely packed. The saleratus keeps the mutton f^om beooming too hard. 5. Cubing, Smoking, and Ejeeping Hams. — Rose Cot- tage, MuNOiE, Ind., Nov. 26th, 1859 : I noticed an article in the Gazette of yesterday, headed as above, from the pen of Mr. Alexander Brooks, taken from tho Rural New TorkeTy and as I have Bc^me useful experience in that line, I desire to suggest my plan for curing and keeping : To a cask of hams, say from 25 to SO, after liaving packed them closely and sprinkled them slightly with salt, I let them lie thus for 3 days ; uien make a brine sufficient to cover them, by putting salt into clear water, making it strong enough to bear up a sound egg or potato. I then add \ lb. of &iiltpetre, and a gallon of molasses ; let them lie in the brine for C> weeks— toey are then exactly rights I then take them up and let them drain \ tiben while damp, rub the flesh side and the end of the. leg with finely pulverized black, red, or cayenne pepper ; let it be as fine as dust, and dust every part of the flesh side, then hang them np and smoke. TOn may leave them hanging in the ^moke-house or other cool place where the rats cannot reacn them, as they are perfectly safe from all insects *, and will be a dish f^ for a prhlce^ or an American cifizen, which is better. Respectfully yonrs. Thos. J. Samflb. I find that Mr. Sample uses twice as much saltpetre and double the time, for my eating, but perhaps not for general market. If grocers will take this plan for preparing their hams and shoulders, there will be no need for sacking; and such as they buy in during the summer should receive a coat of pepper immediately, to prevent annoyance from flies. 6. T. E. Hamilton's Maryland Method. — The hams of Maryland and Virginia have long enjoyed a wide cele- brity. At one of the exhibitions of the Marylaiid State Agncultural Society, four premiums were awarded for mSGEDLofOBOnS DEPAitTMESrr. 811 The one which took the first premium wts oared ly Ifr. T* B. Hamilton, from the following recipe : '* To erery 100 IbB. take best coarse Bait 8 Ibg. ; saltpetre 2 o%. ; t>iown sngar 2 lbs. ; potash 1^ ozs. ; aad \vater 4 gals. Mix the above- and pour the brine over the meat, after it has lain in t)ie tab for some two days. Let the bMnsreihaia weeks in the brine and then di^ several days before smoking. I have generally had the meat rubbed with fine salt, when it is packed down," The meat should be perfectly oool before paoldog. The potash keepa it from drying up and becoming har£ 7. PoBC— To Have Fresu from Wintbr Enxmo, for Summeb Fbtino. — ^Take pork when killed in the early part of the winter, land let it lie in pickle about a week or I'l days ; or until just sni&ciently salted to be palatable ; then slice it up and fry it aboul half or two-thirds as much as you would for prese^it oaung ; now lay it away in its own grease, in jars properly covered, in a cool place, as you would lard. When desired, in spring or summer, to have fresh pork, take out what you wish and re-fry suitable for eating, and you have it as nice as can be imagined. Try ajar of it, and know that some things can bo done as well as others. It if equally applicable to hams and shoulders, and I have no doubt it will work ab well upon beef, using lard sufficient to cover it. So well satisfied am 1 of it ^hat I have put in beef-steak this spring, with my fresh ham in frying foi summer use. It works upon the principle of canning fhiit« to exclude the air. I put in no bone. 8. Salt Pork, fob Frying — ^Nearly Equal to Frbsb — For the benefit of those who are obliged to use oonsider- able salt pork, the following method much improvca it foi firying: Gut as many slices as may be needed ; if for breukfitst, the night previous, and soak till morning in a quait or two ;;? milk, and water, about one-half milk, skimmed -milk, sour milk, oi buttermilk ;— rinse till the water is clear and then fry. It is neai or quite as nice as fresh pork, — both the fiit and lean parts. Occasionally I like to have this rolled in oom meal befon Prying, as it makes such a nice imitation of fresh fish. 9. Fbesh Meat — To Keep a Week ok Two in Sciuieh.— Farmen or others, living at a distance from butcHeis, can koop fresl meat very nicely, for a week or two, by putting It into sour milk, or buttermilk r ^ing it in a cool cellar. The bone or fiit need noi bo removed. Rinse well when uaed. aia ]Xil*„ chase's KBOlFASi 10. 8M0KBI> MbAT-^To PBBfiBRYB TOB YSAIW, OB WOU 8iA VoTAQES. — How often are we disappointed in onr hopes of having sweet hams daring the summer ? Aftur meal was cooked eight months before. Upon asking for an explar iMm, he stated that it was his prac-. tice to slice and firy his bacof; immediately on its being "'ired, and* then pack it in its own fa^ When occasion came for using it, the slices, slightly re-fried h^^e all the freshness and flavor of new bacon just prepared, l^y this precaution, our friend always succeeded in *' savioa hif b»con," fresh and sweet, through the hottest of weather. — New ik^nd Shrmer. I have no doubt but liat it will do as well to pack meats if fried in this way, i i tubs or barrels as in Jars, but I rather prefer covered ^ an, putting a couple of thicknesses of cloth over the jar beloyt puttjtfk^ on the cover ; placed in a cool cellar. Ml MISOELLAKEOUS DEPABTMXNT. 818 I also find it necessary to put in lard occasionally as yon are frying, as there is not generally enough brought out by the Arying to fill the crevices between the slices, which must be filled. CANNING FnuiTS— Peaches and PKARS.--After paring and coriug, put amongst tbem eulBoient Bugor to make them pauitable for present eating— about 3 to 4 lbs. only for each biiBhel ; left them stand awhile to dissolv* the sugar, not using any water ; then beat to a boil, and continue the boiling, with caie,from 20 to 30 minutes ; or sufficiently long to heat through, which expels the air. Have ready a kettle of I at water, into which dip the can long encugh to heat it; then fill in the fruit while hot, corking it immediately, and dip the end of the cork into the " Cement for Canning Fruits." When cold it is best to dip the second time to make sure that no air holes are left which would spoil the frui*^ All canned fruits are to be kept in a very cool cellar- We have, yesterday and to-d^ ^ , been eating peaches put up in this way, two years ago, which were very nice indeed. See " Peaches, To Peel." ^ - 2. IBerrdss, Pldms, Cuerries, &c.— Raspberries, blackberries, wtiortleberries, currants, cherries, and plums, need not be boiled over 10 or 15 minutes ; using sugar to make palatable, in all cases; as it must be put in some time, and it helps to preserve the fimit. They require the same care in heating cans, &o., as above, for peaches. 3. Strawberribs.— For strawberries, put sugar } lb. for each lb* of berries ; and proceed as for berries above. Strawberries are so juicy, and have such a tendency to fermentation, that it is almost impossible to keep them*- I have found it absolutely so, until I adopted the phm of Wng the amount of sugar above named : if others can do with less, they can benefit the public by telling me how they do it 6. Tomatoes.— For tomatoes, scald and peel them as for other cooking ; then scald, or rather boil for about 16 minutes only, and can as above. Or what I think best, is to use a little salt, and put them into half-gallon jugs ; for we want them in too great quan- tities to stop on a few ghiss jars, such as we use for other 8U DB. OlU8]a'8 BSOIPES. fruits ; m for tin oana, I nover use them ; if ycu do use tin oans for tomatoes it will not do to use salt with them, as it has a tendency to cause nist. 6. Gkmsnt fob Ganmino Funns.— Rosin 1 lb. ; lard, tallow and beeswax, of each 1 oz. Melt and stir together ; and have it hot, ready to dip into irhen canning. 7. Bubal Niw Yobkbb's Mbthod. — The editor says : From four vears' experience with not only Btrawberries, but peaches, cherries, raspberries, pine-«pple8, &o., without losing a dngle jar, the flavor being also perfect : Using only self-soahng glass jars. Put into a porcelain preserving kettle, enough to fiU two quart jars ; sprinkle on sugar | lb. ; place over a slow fire and heat through, not cooked, While the miit is heating, keep the jars flUed with hot water. FiU up to the brim, and seal imme- diately. As It oools, a yaouum is formed which prevents bursting. In this m^ay every kind of fruit will retain its flavor. Some- times a thick leathery mould forms on the top — ^if so, all the better. CATCHUP — Tomato Catchup.— Take perfectly ripe toma- toes I bushel ; wash them clean and break to pieces ; then put over the fire and let them come to a boil, and remove from the lire ; when they are suflloiently cool to idlow your hands in them, rub through a wire sieve ; and to what goes through, add salt 2 tea-cups ; allspice and cloves, of each, ground, 1 tea-cup ; best vinegar 1 qi Put on to the fire again and cook 1 hour, stirring with great care to avoid burning, ^ttle and seal for use. If too thick when used, ^ut in a little vinegar. If they were very juicy they may need boiling over an hour. This recipe is from Mrs. Hardy, of the American Hotel, J>resden, 0., and is decidedly the best catchup which I have ever tasted ; the only fault I have ever heard attributed to* It was, ^' I Wish we had made more of it." " We have no| got haJf enough of it," &o. But there are those who can- not use tomatoes in any shape; such persons will undoubt- edly like the following : Currant Catchup.— Nice fiilly ripe currants 4 lbs. ; sugar 1^ lbs. ; cinnamon, ground, 1 tablespoon ; salt, with ground cloves and pepper, of each 1 teaspoon ; vinegar 1 pt. Stew the currants and sugar until quite thick ; then add the other ingredients, and bottle for use. rr 816 PBESEEVBS— Tomato Pbukryis.— Ab some per Bons will have preserves, I give thorn the plan of making the most healthy of any in use : Take ripe, scalded and peeled tomatoefl, 13 lbs. ; nice, Boalding hot molaBses 1 gal. ; pour tlie molasses upon them and let stand 12 hoars ; then boil until they are properly cooked ; nqw skim out the tomatoes, but continue boiling the synip until quite thick ; then ponr again upon the tomatoes, and put away ns other pre- serves. A table-spoon of ginger tied up in a bit of cloth, and boiled in them, gives u nice flavor ; or the extracts can be used : oi lemon peel, as preferred— if sugar is used, pound for pound is the amount. But I prefer to put them, or any other fruit, into jugg) cans, or bottles, wliich retain the natural flavor and does noii injure the stomach, which all preserves do, to a greater or less extent. Yet I give you another, because it does so nicely in place of oitron, in cakes. 2. Pbbsbrvkd WATBR-Mi:r/>N in Placb op Citron for Cakes. — The harder part of water-melon ; next the skin mode into pre- serves, with sugar, equal weights ; cooking down the syrup rather more than for common use, causes it to granulate, like citron, which is kept for sale. This chopped fine, as citron, makes an excellent substi- tute for that article ; and for very much less cost. Call in the neighbors, to help eat about a dozen good sized liielons, and you have outside enough for the experiment ; and if the Doctor is near he will help without a fee. They are nice, also, in mince-pies in place of raisins. CURRANTS— To Dry with Suoar.— Take fully ripe (urrants» stemmed, 5 lbs. ; sugar 1 lb. ; put into a brass kettle, stirring at first, then as the currants boil up to the top, skim them o£f ; boil down the juicy OTmp until quite thick, and pour it over the cur- rants, mixing weU, then place on suitable dishes, ani! dr;^ them by placing in a low box, over which you can place musquito-bar, to keep away flies. ■ y'^ When properly dried, put in jars and tie paper over them. Put cold water upon them and stew as other fruit for eating or pie-making, adding more sugar if desired. TIN-WARE— To Mend by the Heat of a Candle,- -Take a vial about two-thirds full of muriatic acid, and pu^ into it little bits of sheet zmo, as long as it dissolves them ; thcL put in a crumb of sal-ammoniac, and fill up with water, and it is ready to ase. With the cork of the vial wot the plaoa to b« uended. 316 VA. OHAS£*B HEOITES. drith tho prepftration ; then pnt a piooo of Rheet sine over the hole and hold a lighted candle or spirit lamp under tlio place, which melts the Bolder on the tin and causes the sine to adhere without further trouble. Wot the zinn also with khe solution. Or a little solder may bo put on in place of the sine, or with the sine. WATER FILTER— HoMB-MADK.--Rain water is much healthier than hard water as a beverage ; and the fol- lowing will be found an easy and cheap way to fit for drink- ing purposes : Have an oak tub made, holding firom half, to a barrel, aocording k> the amount of water needed in the famL^ let !t stand on end urith a faucet near the bottom : or, I prefer a hole through the oottom, near the front side, wito a tube in it which proventn the water fh>m rotting the outside of the tub ; then put clean pebbles S or 4 Inches in (Sickness over the bottom of tho tub ; now have charcoal pulverized to the size of small peas (that mad(^ from hard maple is best) and pnt in half bushel or so at a time ; pound it down quite firmly, then put in more and pound again until the tub is lilled to within 8 inches of. the top ; and again put on 2 inches more of pebbles ; then put a piece of clean white flannel over tho whole top as a strainer. The flannel can be washed occasionally, to remove the impurities collected from the water, and it might be well to put a flannel between the pebbles and flannel at the bottom also. When the charcoal becomes foul, it can be renewed us before, but will work a whole season without renewing. Put on your water freely until it becomes clear ; when you will be as well satisfied as you would be if it ran through a patent filter, costing six times as much as this. A large jar to hold the filtered water can be set in an ioe^ box if preferred ; or an occasional piece of ice can be put in the water ; but if the filter is set in the cellar, as it c.M be, the water will be sufficiently cool for health. nikes a good cider filter, also, first straining the cid**' <'X)tton to free it from the coarsest nomace. ICISOELLAIIXOtTS DEPABTKENT. 817 Hy method of filling the fellies^with the oil iB m toUowst I uBe a long, oast iton oil-heater, made for the purpose ; the oil If! brought to a boiling heat, the wheel is placed on a sMck, bo as to hang in the oil, each telly an hour, for a common-sized felly. Th« timber should be dry, as green timber will not take oil. Care should be taken that the oil be not made hotter than a boil- ing heat, in order that the timber be not burnt. Timber fllle'l with oil is not susceptible to water, and is much more desirable ' I was amused some time ago when I told a blaoksmith how to keep tir<5ll tight on wheels, by his telling me it was a profitable business to tighten tiu - and the wagon maker will say it is profitable to him Uj make and repair wheels — but what wiU the farmer, who supports the wheel-wright and the blaoksmith say ? The greatest good to the greatest number, is my motto. WEEDS— To Destbot in Walks.— The following method to destroy weeds is pursued at the mint in Paris, with good effect : Water 10 gals. ; stone lime 20 lbs. ; flour of sulphur 2 lbs. Boil in an iron kettle ; after settling, the clear part is to be poured off and sprinkled freely upor ihe weedy walks. Care must be taken, for it will destroy weeds ; and as certainly destroy edging and border flowers, if sprinkled on them. CEMENTS— Chmbnt For GmNA, &o., wftch Stands Fire and VITatbr.— With ft small camel's hair brush, rub the broken edges with a little carriage oil-varnish. If neatly put together, the fracture will hardly be per- oeptible, and when thoroughly dry will st-aud both fire and water. 2. Russian Cement. — Much is said about cements; but there is probably nothing so white and clear, and certainly nothing better than the following : Russian isinglass dissolved in pure soft water, snow water is beat; for it takes 12 hours to soften it by soakinjj^ in pure soft water, then considerable heat to dissolve it : after which it is ap- plicable to statuary, chir" glass, alabaster, &o., &c. In ^i oements the fhoea must be secured until dry. It is ea:^ to icason that If twelve to fifteen hours are required fo mlm ^B isinglass Ihat no dish-washing will ever afifeot 818 DB. OHASB'8 BECIFES. i "i it. Ton may judge from tbe price whetner you get the Russian, for thirty-seven cents per ounce, is as low as the ^nuine article oan be purchased in small quantities, whilst the common, bear a price of only from, ten to twelve cents, ind even less. 3. Cement, Cheap and Valuable. — A durable cement is made t)7 burning ouster Bhells and pulverizing the lime from them very Ine ; then mixing it with white of egg to a thick paste, and Applying it to the china or glass, and securing the pieces together in til dry. When it is dry, it takes a very . ,4ig soaking for it to be- 3ome soft again. I have lifted thirty pounds by the stem of i wine-glass which had been broken, and mended with this semen t. Common lime will do, but it is not so good ; either jhould be fresh burned, and only mix what is needed, for ffhen once dry you cannot soften it. 4. Cement— Water-Proof, for Cloth or Belting. — Take ale L pt ; best Russia isinglass 2 ozs. ; put them into a common glue ' Settle and boil until the isinj^lass is dissolved ; then add 4 ozs. of the best common glue, and dissolve it with the other ; then slowly add li ozs. of boiled linseed-oil, stirring all the time while adding and until well mixed. When cold it will resemble India-rubber. When you wish to use this, dissolve what you need in a suitable quantity of ale to have the consistence* of tliick glue. It is appli- cable for earthenware, china, glass, or leather ; for harness, bands for machinery ; cloth belts for cracker machines for bakers, &e.f s &c. If for leather, shave off as if for sewing, apply the cement '■' with a brush while hot, laying a weight to keep each joint firmly for 6 to 10 hours, or over night. This cement will supersede '^Spaulding's Prepaired ?^i:poBure. Some will o?> ject to killing rats about the houso ', but I had rathftr HmoU. their dead carcases than taste thei/ tail prints, left oit everything possible for them to get at, osr suffer loss from their tooth prints on all things possible foi tbcm U> devour or destroy. 3. Death for the Old Sly Rat. — Some Mts get sr; cunning that it is almost impossible to ovcrco tar, as in real stone-work. Now you are ready to move down the scaffold, and go over the same thing as before. After the colors have been dissolved with spirits, they can be reduced with water, or what is better for them and the color- wash also, is skimmed milk ; and where milk is plenty, it ought to be used in place of water, for white-wash or color-washes, as it helps to resist the weather, and prevents the colors from fading — see '* Paint, to Make without Lead or Oil," which gives you the philosophy of using milk. Speck quite freely with the white, then about half as much with the black, and then rather froe again with the red. The proportion of lime 824 IHL OHASE'S BBOIPES. probabl/j should not exceed one, to eix or se^eii of sand. Our University buildings, represented in the frontiBpiece, except the Laboratory, and Law-building, which have been more recently put up, are finished with it, and also whole blocks in the business part of our city. Prof. Douglass' house is probably the prettiest color of any in the city — an^ imitation of "Free-stone," made with lamp'black, yellow ochre, and a larger proportion of Spanish brown. But all will have a preference for some special color ; then, with a little ingenuity and patience, nearly any colored Btone can be imitated. GRAVEL HOUSES— To Make— Peeparations op Lime, Sand, and Geavel. — It has become quite common to put up gravel houses ; and many persons are at a great loss to know what proportions of materials to use. Various proportions have been proposed ; but from the fact that the philosophy was not explained, np real light was given upon the subject. All that is required to know, is, that sand and Hme are to be used in proportion to the flize of the gravel — say for 15 bushels of clean gravel, from the eize of peas up to that df hen's eggs, it will take about 3 bushelB of clean sharp sand and 1 of lime to fill the crevices w4thout swelling the bulk of the gravel, if the gravel is coarse, up to 5 bushels of sand may be required, but the lime will not need to be increased but very little, if any- Then the philosophy of the thing is this — about 1 to 1} bushels lime to 16 bushels of gravel, and just sand enongh to fill the crevices without increasing the bulk as above mentioned, If the gravel is free of dirt, the sand also clean, and the weather dry, the walla can be raised one foot each day, if you have help to do that amount of labor. Some prefer to make the gravel and sand into mortar and press it into bricks ; then lay into walls, but the wall must be stronger if laid up solid, in board frames, made to raise up B» required. Many persons argue for the eight-square or octagon house, but I like the square form much the best, carrying up the hall and main partition walls of the same material. The eight-square house looks like an old fort, or water tank, and is very expensive to finish ; costing muoh more than the same room with square angles , for mechanics cannot put up cornice outside, or in, in less than double the time re- quired for making the common square mitre. ma ICtSOfcLLAKEOtTS DEPABTKSMT. m Prof. Winohell, of the University, aud State Geologist, in this city, has put up one of the octagons which looks well, however, for the style of finish is what attracts atten- tion, instead of the style of form. WHITEWASHES AND CHEAP PAINTS.— Bbil- LiANT Stucco Whitewash — Will Last on Bbiok ob Stone, Twenty to Thirty Years. — Many have heard of tho brilliant stucco whitewash on the east end of the President's house at Washington. The following is a recipe for it, as gleaned from the National Intdligencerj with eoms additional improvements learned by experiments : Nice unslacked lime ^ bushel ; slack it with boiling water ; cover it^ during tiie procesa, to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it, salt 1 peck ; previously well dissolved in water ; rice 3 lbs. — ^boiled to a tJiin paste, and stirred, in boiling hot ; Spanish whiting A lb. ; clean nice glue 1 lb., which hoa been previously dissolved by soaking it well, and then hanging it over a slow fire, ia a small kettle, immersed in.a larger one filled with water. Now add hot water 5 gals., to the mixture; stir it well, and let it stand a few days covered from the dirt. It should be put on hot. For this purpose it can be kept in a kettle on a portable furnace. Brushes more or less small may be used, according to the neatness of job ri&- . quired. It answers as well as oil paint for brick or stone, and is mncb cheaper. There is one house in our city which had this applied twelve years ago, and is yet nice and biljht. It has re- tained its brilliancy over thirty years. Coloring matter, dissolved in whiskey, may be put in and made of any shade you like; Spanish brown stirred in will ^. make red-pink, more or less deep, according to quantity. . A delicate tinge of this is very pretty for inside walls. Finely pulverized common clay, well mixed with Spanish brown, makes reddish stone color. Yellow ochre stirred in makes yellow wash, but chrome goes further, and makes a color generally esteemed prettier. In all these cases tho darkness of the shade, of course, is determined by tho quantity of the coloring used. It is difficult to make rules, because tastes are different — it would be best to try experi- ments on a shingle and let it dry. Green must not be mix- ed with lime. The lime destroys the color, and the color BB. OHAflB'B BB0IFI8* has an effect on tibe Trhitewaeli, which makes it oraok and peel. When inside walls have been badl^ smoked, And you wish to make them a clean, clear white, it is well tosqneeie indigo plentifully through a bag into the water you use, be- fore it is stirred into the whole mixture, or blue vitriol pul- verized and dissolved in boilinj"; water and put into white- wash, gives a beautiful blue tint. If a larger quantity than five gallons be wanted, the same proportion should be ob- served. 2. Whitewash— Vert Nice fob Rooms.— Take whiting 4 lbs. ; white or common glue 2 ozs. ; stand the glue in cold water over night ; mix the whiting with cold water, and heat the glue until dissolved ; and pour it into the other hot. ' Make of a proper consistence to apply wil^ a common whitewash brush. Use these proportions for a greater or less amount. In England scarcely any other kind of whitewash is used. A lady, of Black River Falls, Wis., who had one of my books, TTrote to me, expressing her thankfulness for the beauty of this whitewash. 8. Paint. — To Make withodt Lead ob Oil.— Whiting 6 lbs. ; skimmed milk 2 qts. ; firesh slaked lime 2 ozs. Put the lime into a stoneware vessel, pour upon it a sufficient quantity of the milk to make a mixture resembling cream ; the balance of the milk is then to be added ; and, lastly, the whiting la to be crumbled upon the surface of the fluid, in which it gradually sinks. At this period it must be well stirred in, or ground as you would other paint, and it is fit for use. There may De added any coloring matter that suits the fancy (see the first whitewash for mixing colors), to be ap- plied in the same manner as other paints, and in a few hours it will become perfectly dry. Another coat may then be added, and so on until the work is done. This paint i of great tenacity, bears rubbing with a coarse cloth, ha. little smell, even when wet, and when dry is inodorous. The above quantity is sufficient for fifty-seven yards. — An- napolis Republican, " We endorse the recipe. The casein or curd of the milk, by the action of the caustic-lime, becomes insolnble, and has been used for time immemorial, as a lute for chem- ical experiments. It is good, and, in comparison >vith white lead, a durable paint.*' — Moore^s Rural New Yorker, Host of the dieap paints will require about three ooats. MISOELLkNEOTTB DEPABTMENT. 827 White lead always requires two, but some people think be- cause they get a cheap paint that one coat ought to make a good job. Two will generally do with any except white. 4. White Paint — A New Way of Manufaoturino. — The following was communicated by a man who was for- merly a carpenter in the U. S. Navy. " During a cruise in the South Pacific, we went into the harbor of Coquimbo ; and as the ship had been out a long time, she was covered with rust from stem to stern. It was the ai^ous wish of the commander that she should be restored to her original colors ; but on examining the store- room, it was ascertained that there was not a pound of white lead in the ship. In this emergency I bethought me of an expedient which concocted an admirabU substitute, com- posed of the following ingredients : — "Air-slaked lime, pulverized until it was of the fineness of flour, whioh was then passed through a seive. Rice boiled in a large kettle until the substance was drawn entirely oat of the grain : the water, then of a plastic nature, was strained to sejpa- rate the grain, &c., from the clear liquid. A tub about ite size of a half barrel, of the prepared lime and rice water, was mixed with 1 gallon of linseed oil ; and the material had So much the appearance of paint that a novice could not have told the difibr* ence. ** The ship was painted outside and inboard with the above mixture (which cost next to nothing), and never pre- sented a finer white streak on her bends, or cleaner bulwarks and berth deck than on that occasion, and no other kind of white paint was used during the remainder of the cmise." If this is good for ships out and inboard, it is Worth try- ing for fences and out-work requring a cheap white paints 6. Black and Green Paint— Durable and Cheap, for Out-Door Work.— Any quantity of charcoal, powdered ; a suflBoient quan- tity of litharage as a dryer, to be well levigated (rubbed smooth), with linseed oil ; and, when used, to be thinned with well boiled linseed oil. The above forms a good black paint. By adding yellow ochre, an excellent green is produced, which is preferable to the bright green used by painters, for all garden work, as it does not fade witii the sun. This composition was first used by Dr. Parry, of Bath, on some spouts ; which, on beiug examined, fourteen yean afterwards, were found to be as perfect 9& when first put up. iisd DB. OHA0B'S BXanlSB, 6. Milk Padjt for Barkb— Ant Color*—" Mix water Hsse trith ekimmilk, to a proper conBiaienoe to apiplj with a brush, and it Is ready to use. It will adhere well to wood, whether smooth or rough, to brick, mortar or stone, where oil has not been osed (In which case it cleaves to some extent), and foims a very hard snb- etance, as durabl a as the best oil paint It is too cheap to estimate, and any one can put it on who can use a brush.'' — Country Om^ Ueman. Any color may be given to it, by using colors of the tinge dtdired, dissolving in whiskey nrst, then adding in to init the fancy, as in the first recipe. If a red is preferred, mix Venetian-red with milk, not Qsing any lime. It looks well for fifteen years. LIQUID, AND WATER-PROOF GLUES— LiQuro Gldb.—To bave a good glue always ready for use, just p'lt a bottle two-thirds full of best common glue, and fill mp the bottle with common whiskey ; oork it up, and set by for three or four days, and it will dissolve without the application of heat. It will keep for years, and is always ready to use without heat, except in very cold weather, when it may need to be set a little while in a warm pluce, before using. 2. Imtfation of Spauldino'S Glub. — ^First, soak in cold water, all the glue you wish to make at one time, nsing only glass, earthen,^ or porcolain dishes ; then by gentle heat dissolve the glue in the same water, and pour in a little nitric acid, sufficient to give the glue a sour taste, lilr-^ <\Degar, or from ^ oz. to 1 oz. to each pound of glue. The acid keeps it in a liquiu iHsAOy and prevents it from spoiling ; as nice as Spaulding's or any other, for r, very trifling expense. If iron dishes are used, the aoid corrodes them and turns the glue black. Or : 3. Acetic acid 1 oz., pure soft water 6 ozs.: glue 3 ozs.; gom tragacanth I oz. Mix, and if not as thick as desired, add a little more glue. This keeps in a liquid state, does not decompose ; and is valuable for druggists in labeling ; also for house use ; and if furniture men were not prejudiced, they would find it valuable in the shop. 4. Wateb-Proop Glue — Is made by first soaking the glue in cold water, for an hour or two, or until it becomes a little soft, yet retaining its original form ; then taking it from the water, and dissolving it by gentle heat, stirring in a little boiled linseed- lOSOELUNEOUS DEAAR'rMBHT. 82tf if mfthoeany veneers were put on with this glue, they would not fall off, as they now do, by the action of the at- mosphere. FIRE KINDLEHS.— To make very nice Are kindlen, take rosin, any quantity, and melt it, putting in for each pound being used, from 2 to 3 oza. of tallow, and when all is hot, stir in pine saw-dust to make very thiok ; and, while yet hot, spread it out about 1 inch thick upon boards which have rnie saw-dust sprinkled upon them to orevent it from sticking. When cold, break up into lumps about 1 inch Bquare. But if for sale take a thin board and press upon it, while yet warm, to lay it off into 1 inch squares ; this makes it break regularly, if you press the criease sufficiently deep, grease the marking-board to prevent it from sticking. One of these blocks will easily ignite with a match, and bum with a strong blaze long enough to kindle any wood fit to burn. The above sells readily in all our largo towns and cities, at a great profit. 2. Most of the published recipes coll for rosin 3 lbs. ; tai 1 qt. ; and 1 gill of turpentine ; but they make a black, sticky mess of stuff, which ai«vay3 keeps the hands daubed. On the other hand, this makes a rosin-colored kindlof, which breaks nicely also when cold ; and they are decidedly A nice thing ; ana much more certain to start a fire than shavings, if the tar plan is used, 1 nt. is enough for 5 lbs. of rosin. &TARGH FOLISH.-.White-waz 1 ok, ^ spermaceti 2 ozs. ] molt them together with a gentle heat. When you have prepared a sufficient amount of starch, in the usual way, for a dozen pieces — put into it a piece of the polish the size of a large pea ; more or less, according to large or small washings. Or, thick gum solution (made by pouring boiling water upon gum arabic), one table-spoon to a pint of starch, gives clothes a beautiful gloss. PERCUSSION MATCHES— Op t»k Best Quautt.— Chlo- rate of potash ^ lb. ; glue 3 lbs. ; white lead, dry, 6 lbs. ; red lead h lb. ; phosphorus 2| lbs. Direotions. — First put the chlorate into a dish made for the purpoi^e, deep and of a suitable size to set into a kettle of water, which can be kept on the fire for two or three days, having 2 qta. of water on the chlorate : then put the glue on top of the chlorate water, and let soak until all is perfectly dissolved ; then add the leads and heat up quite hot, and tho- roughly mix ; let coollind add the phosphorus ; let it dissolve, and be careful never to heat hot after the phosphorus is added ; stir DB< OHASES' BK0IFB9. Bf(m»ll7 while dipping, and If little partloles of photphoros Irefl push them down Into the mixtnre, or pat on warm water ; If TOa put CD cold water it will fly all over you. Keep it rather win after the pbospbonw is put in, and there will be no danger ; although the cnlorate of potash it coneidered a dangerons article to work with ; so is powder, yet when you know how to work with them, you can do as safely with one as the other. When dry give them a ooat of varnish. I have been aoquainted with a man for about fourteen yean who makes them, and several others for a less time, . without trouble or acoident. A better matoh was never ^ mode to stand dampness, or bear transportation without set- ting on fire. I have used and sold them much of the time and speak from knowledge. One explosion has since taken plaee. The plan pursued here in preparing the splintp is as fol- lows : Sawed pine timber from four to eight inches each way, is cut off the right length for the match, then one end of it is shaved smooth, with a drawing-knife ; the block ih hold upon the horse by a brace from the top of the horses' head against the book side of the block, so as to be out of the way of the knife instead of putting the block under the jaws of the horses' head, as the dents made in th>) end of match timber would not answer ; the front edge oomos against a strip put on for that purpose ; then glue the other end and put on brown paper, which holds them to(>:ethcr when split ; machines are used to split with which feeds up the block enough eaMi time the knife is raised, to make the size of the match when split the other way, or about ten to the inch. These machines cost about fifty dollars, and the work goes ahead like a young saw-mill, by simply turning a crank. There are two standards bolted upon a base plank, four. feet in length ; these standards support a shaft, with crank and balance wheel, which is two feet in diameter; the Bhafb has upon it an oval wheel, which sinks the knife, twioe in each revolution, the knife passing down through a &;oaee in a thin iron strip, standing out from the two blocks, under which the match block passes by the drawing of the chain seen to pass over a small drum, upon the shaft of the rag wheel, the notches being only one-fourth inch apart, and fed up by the hand, attached to MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT, 881 the Iron frame being^ kept back to the earn wheel, which hai two swells upon it, bjr a light spring. The hand is kept down into the cogs or notches, by the little spiral wire spring ; the match-block to be split, setr m the frame forward of the block, which has a pin in it to draw back the frame. When the block of matches is split, this frame goes for- ward to touch a catch, th *iame as a saw-mill, whioh lets another spring raise the hauu, when the feeding operation ceases. The frame is then drawn back and the same re- peated. As the match is split thov open and require a rounding mortice made through the base plank between the blocks, which allows them -to remain in a half circular form — the knife is raised by a line attached to a spring pole, the knife is Borewed upon a piece of cast-iron which works in the guide, having the back end firmly twisted by a bolt through one of the standards. This knife stands at right angles with the shaft. ' When the matches are split and sufficiently dry to work upon, they are dipped in melted brimstone, kept hot, and the match also kept hot on a sheet iron stove, and all the brimstone is thrown oiF which can possibly be by jerking the block with the hand. If any brimstone remains upon the end it mtist be scraped oS before dipping into the match composition. Without the chlorate, *he composition makes a firgtK)laat a82 DB. chase's BEOIPES. " Friotion Match." It ought to be known, howover, that the match business is an unhealthy oooupation^ from the poisonous e£feots of the phosphorous. STEAM BOILERS.— To Prevent Limb Deposits.— Put into your cistern or tanic, irom which the boiler is fed, a su^cient amount of oak tan-bark, in the oiece, to color the water rather dark ; run 4 weeks and renew. This plan has been much used in the lime-stone eeotions •f WasUngton, 0., giving general satisfaction. 2. Omo RivEB PiiAN.—Sprouts from barley, in malting, are lecommended by Captain Lumm, part owner of a steunboat, and engineer on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, to prevent the de- posit of lime upon beilers, and he says tightens up old leaky DoUers, also. It may be used in quantities of from 3 pts. to 2 or 8 qts., according to the size of boilers. When it is put ia you must know the quantity of water In the boiler, n>r imless you heat up quite ^'low it causes a foaming of the water, and might deceive the eUgineer about die amount of water in the boiler, but if heated up slow «here is no danger of this deception. 3. To Prevent Explosion, with the Beabon why THEY Explode. — At a recent meeting of the Association for the advancement of science, Mr. Hyatt, of New York, prevented what we believe to be the true cause. He pre- sented the following table, showing the rapidity with which pressure is doubled by only a slight increase of heat. At 212 defaces of heat water begins to boil ; at 868 degrees iron becomes of a red heat 212 degrees of heat. 16 pounds to square inch. 261 « " 30 " " " 294 " " 60 " " ** , 842 *• " 120 " u u 398 " " 240 " « « 464 " " 480 " " ** 868 " " 7680 " " " it was stated ^hj Mr. Hyatt, that, from experiments he had Oittde, ttm groat increase of i ressuro could be obtained in six to Beven minutes, with an engine at rest. This rapid doubling of pressure, with but a small increase of heat, is due to the conver- sion of what is termed latent ^eat, in steam into sensible heat. If we immerse a thermometer into boiling water, it stands at 212; if we place it in steum immediat^y above the water, it Indicates the same temperature. The ^estion then arises, what becomes of all the heat which is communicated to the water, MZSOEIJANEOUS DEPABtNENT. 333 dnceitisneitherindicatedbythe water nor by the steam formed from it ? The answer is, it enters the water and converts it iato steam without raising its temperature. One thousand degrees of heat are absorbed in the conversion of water into steam, and this is called its latent heat. And it is the sudden conversion of latent heat into sensible heat that produces the ^vpioslon. If an enguie is stopped, even if there is but a moderate fire, if the escape valvo is closed, there is rapid absorption or accigxiulation of latent heat. The pressure rises with great rapidity, and when the engineer thinks everything is safe, tibe explosion comes. That thia is the true cause of nearly all the explosions that occur, will be plain to every one who will look at the relations between latent and sensible heat. Prof. Henry and Prof. Silliman, Ji\, endorse the view. What, then, is the security against explosiong ? We know of no securities but these — a sufficiency of water in the boilers, and the escape valves open at light pressure, when the engine is at rest. — Springfield Republican, There is no question about the foregoing explanations being founded in true philosophy ; and if engineers will be governed by them, instead of by a desire to hold on to steam for the purpose of getting ahead or of keeping ahead, aa the case may be, of some other boat ; or on land, to save the expense of fuel, not one exploslr-** would take place where now there is at least a hundred yf Awful* will bo the reckoning with these murderers ; for in Heaven's sight they are one and the same. A series of experiments have recently been concluded on the U. S. Steajner Michigan, and a full but voluminous re- port iaid before the Navy Department, upon the subject of steam expansioL* . It would pa^ all interested in steam woi to obtain and ret^d it. PLUMS AND OTHER FRUIT— To Prevent Insects from Stinqing.— Take new dry lime. Sulphur and gunpowder, equal parts, pulverized very fine, and throw It amongst the flowers when m full bloom ; use it freely, so Uiat all may catch a little. This has been tried with success. Working upon the principle of pepper, to keep flies fom meat. The injury to fruit being done while in bloss( m. BED-ROOM CARPETS— For jl xve and a Hat.f Cents Pi!» Yard.— Sew together the cheapest cotton cloth, the size of thp room, and tack the edges to the floor. Now paper the cloth ■» you would the sides of tt room, ^tli^chi>Ap rooiiij>aper j p^v 831 DB. OHASB'S BEOZFEB. . i i ' I tilDg a border around the edge If desired. The paste will be the better if a little gam arable is mixed with it. When thoroughly dry, give it two coats of famiture or carriage varnish, and when dry it is done. It can be washed ; and looks Well in proportion to the quality and figure of the paper used. It could not be ex- pected to stand the wear of a kitchen, for any length of time, but for bed-rooms it is weU* adapted. COFFEE— MoaB Healthy and Bbttsb Flavored, for Onb- FoDRTH THE EiPENSiff OP CoMMON.— Coflfee, by Weight or measure, one-fourth, rye three-fourths. Look them over separately, to remove bad grains ; then wash to remove dust, draining off the water for a moment as you take it with the hands from the washing water, putting directly into the browning skillet, carefully stirring all the time, to brown it avenly. Brown each one sepa- rately ; then mix evenly, and grind only as used ; settling with a beatened egg, seasoning with a little cream and sugar as usual. And I do sincerely say the flavor is better, and it is one hundred per cent, more healthy than all ooffee. You may try barley, peas, parsnips, dandelion roots, &c., but none of their flavors are equal to lye Yet all of them aro more or less used for coffee. PICKLING FRUITS, AND CUCUMBERS— riCKLiNO Apples.— Best vinegar 1 gallon ; sugar 4 lbs. ; apples all it will cover handsomely; cinnamon and cloves, ground, of each 1 table- spoon. Pare and core the apples, tying up the cinnamon and cloves in a cloth and putting with the apples, into the vine- gar and sugar and cooking until done, only. Keep in jars. They are nicer than preserves and more healthy, and keep a long time ; not being too sour, nor too sweet, but an agree- able mixture of the two. It will be seen below that the difinrent fruits require different quantities of sugar and , vinegar, the reason for it is, the difference in the fruit. 2. PioKLiNO Peaches. — ^Best vinegar 1 qt. ; sugar 4 lbs. ; peaches , peeled and stoned, 8 lbs. ; spices as desired, or as for apples. Treated every other way as apples. If they should begin to ferment^ at any time, simply boil down the juice ; then boil the peaches in it fo^ a few minutes only. MISOELLANEOUS DEFABTHEin?. 33^ 3. Feaohsb — To Peel. — In peeling small peaches with a knife, too much of the peach is wasted; but by having a wire-cage, similar to those made for popping corn ; fill the cage with peaches, and dip it into boiling water, for a mo- ment, then into cold water for a moment, and empty out ; going on in the same way for all you wish to peel. This toughens the skin and enables you to strip it off, saving much in labor, as also the waste of peach. Why not, as well as tomatoes ? 4. PioKLiNO Plums. — Best yinegar 1 pt. j sugar 4 lbs. ; plums 8 lbs. ; spices to taste. Boil them in the mixture until soft ; then take out the plums, and boil the syrup until quite thick and pour it over them again ; 6. PiCKUNG CuouMBBBS. — ^Plck each morning ; stand in weak brine 3 or 4 days, patting in mustard pods and horse raddish leaves to keep them green. Then take out and drain, covering with vinegar for a week; at which time take out and drain again, putting into new vinegar, adding mustard seed, ginger rooi^ cloves, pepper and red pepper pods, of each about 1 or 2 ozs. ; or to suit different tastes, for each barrel. The pickles will be nice and brittle, and pass muster at any man's table, or market. And if it was generally known that the greenness of pickles was caused by the action of the vinegar on the copper kettle, producing a poison (ver- digris), in which they are directed to be scalded, I think no one would wish to have a nice looking pickle at the ex- pense of health ; if they do, they can continue the bad prac- tice of thus scalding, if not, just put your vinegar on cold^ and add your red peppers, or cayennes, cloves, and other spices, as desired ; but the vin^ar must be changed once, as the large amount of water in the cucumber reduces the vinegar so much that this change is absolutely necessary ; and if they should seem to lose their sharp taste again, jusi add a little molasses, or spirit, and all will be right. SANDSTONE— To Peevent Scauno by Frost.— Raw linseed- oil, 2 or 3 coats. Apply in place of paint, not allowing the first coat to get entirely dry until the next is applied ; if it does, a skin is formed which prevents the next from penetrating the stone. Poorly burned brick will be equally well preserved by the same prooew. T^ 886 DB. OHABE'B REOIFEB. i SEALING WAX— Red, Blaok, and BLUE.—Gum shellac 8 ozs. ; Venice turpentine 4 ozs. 'j vermillion 2 1-2 ozs. ; alcohol 2 ozs. ; camphor gum 1-2 oz. Dissolve the camphor in the alcohol, then the shellac, adding the turpentine, and finally the vermillion, be- ing very careful that no blaze shall come in contact with its fumes ; tor if it does, it will fire very qulcldy. Blue. — Substitute fine Prussian-blue for the yermillion, same quantity. Black. — Lamp-black only sufficient to color. Either color must be well rubbed into the mixture. ADVIC^ — To Young Men and others out of Em- ployment. — Advice — How few there are who will hear advice at all ; not because it is advice but from the fact that those who attempt to give it are not qualified for the work they assume, or that they endeavor to thrust it upon their notice at an inopportune time ; or upon persons over whom no control is acceded, if claimed. But a book or paper never give ofifence from any of these causes , there- fore, they are always welcomed with a hope that real benefit vmay be derived from their suggestions. Whether that end will be attained in this case, I leave to the judgment of those for whom it is intended ; hoping they may find them- selves sufficiently interested to give it a careful perusal, and candid consideration. And although my remarks must, in this work, be necessarily short, yet every sentence shall be a text for your own thoughts to contemplate and enlarge upon ; and perhaps, in some future addition of the work, I may take room and time to give the subject that attention which is really its due : and which would be a pleasure to devote to its consideration. First, then, let me ask why are so many young men and other persons out of employment ? The answer is very posi tive Bsiwell as very plain, it is this — indolence, coupled witlj^ a determination that they will do some great thing, only. ■ And because that great thing does not turn up without eiFort, they are doing nothing. The point of difficulty is simply "^ this : they look for the end, before the beginning. But just consider how few there are that really accomplish any great thing, even with a whole life of industry and economi- cal perHOverence. And yet most of our youth calculate that their beginning shall be amongst the greats. But aa no one oomes to o£fer them their expectations, indolence says wait, aam warn MISCELLANifiOUS DEPARTMENT. sa^ and so tboy are still waiting. Now mind you, as long as y(s:* expectations aro placed upon a chance offer of some- thing very remunerative, or upon the assistance of others ; even in a small way, so long will you 'continue to wait in vain. At this point, then, the question would arise, what can be done ? and the answer is equally plain with the other. Take hold of the first job you can find, for it will not find you. No matter how insignificant it may be, it willbe bet- ter than longer idleness; and when you are seen doing something for yourself, bv those whose opinions are worth any consideration, they will soon offer you more and better jobs ; until, finally, you will find something which agrees with your taate or inclination for a life business. But re- member that the idle never have good situations offered them. It is the industrious and persevering only who are needed to assist in life's great struggle. There are a few lines of poetry called ** The Excellent Man," which advocates the principles I am endeavouring to advance, so admirably, that I cannot deny myself the plea- sure of quoting them. The old proverb, " God helps those who help themselves," is as true as it is old, and after all that is said and done, in this country, if in no other, a man must depend on his own exertions, not on patronage, if ho would have or deserve suooess : " They gave me acmoe and oounsei m store, Fraised me and honored me more and more ; Bald that I only should * wait awhile,* Oflbred their patronage, too, with a smile. ** Bat with all their honor and approbation, I should long ago have died of staryatlon. Had there not como on bzcrllknt man. Who, bravely to help me along began. •* Good fellow I he got me the food I nt», His kindness and core I shall never foi^et ; Tet 1 cannot embrace him— though othor folKfl oan, For I, HTSRLF, am this excellent man 1 " Up then, and at it, for there is Knitting and sevring, and reaping and mowing, And all kinds of work for the people to do, To keep themselves busy, both Abram and Lizzlo ; Begin then, ye idle, there is plenty for ycu. When you have found a situation or a job of work, prove yourself honest, industrious, persevering, and faithful in \ \ mm 888 DB. chase's BEOIPIS. h av&rf trust, and no fears need be apprehended cf your final success. Save a part of your wages as a sinking fund, or rather as a floating fund, which shall keep your head above water in a storm ; or to enable you, at no distant day, to commence a business of your own. A poor orphan boy, of fourteen, once resolved to save half of hie wages, which were only four dollars per month, for this purpose; and actually refused, oven in sickness, Although really suffering for comforts, to touch this business fund. He was afterwards the richest man in 8t. Louis. His advice to young men was always this : '* Gb to work ; Bave half your wages, no matter how small they may be, until you have what will enable you to begin what you wish to follow ; then begin it, stick to it ; be economical, prudent, and careful, and you cannot fail to prosper." My advice is the same, with this qualification, however ; that in choosing your occupation, you should be governed by the eternal principles of right I never choosing that which when done, injures a fellow creature more than it can possibly benefit yourself — I mean the liquor traffic. But with the feeling of St. Paul, when he saw the necessity of doing something different from what he had been doing, he eried out, " Lord, what wilt thou have me to do ?" Ask your own tastes, being governed by conscience, under the foregoing principles ; knowing that if a person has to learn a trade or business against his own inclination, it requires double diligence to make only half speed, and hardly ever meeting with success. The question to be settled, then, is this : Shall I work the soil ; shall I be a mechanic, teacher, divine, physician, lawyer, merchant, druggist, or grocer, or shall it be some- thing else? Whenever you make up your mind what it shall be, make it up, also, to be the best one in that line ol business. Set your mark high, both in point of mora) purity and literary qualifications. If you choose any of the occupations of trade, you must save all that it is possible for economy and prudence to do, for your beginning. But if you choose one of the learned professions, you must work with the same care and prudence until you have accumulated sufficient to make a fair oommenoemeut in youi "rsmtj),. MISOEIiLANEC IS DEFABTMEIIT. 389 stndios ; then prosecute them in all faithfulness as far as the accumulated means will advance you; realizing that this increase of knowledge will give you increased power in obtaining the further means of prosecuting your studies, necessary to qualify you to do one thing only in iiic. Nearly all of our best men are self-made, and men of one idea, L e., they have set themselves to be mechanics, physi- cians, lawyers, sculptors, &c., and have bent their whole energies and lives to fit themselves for the-great work before them. Begin then ; o£fer no excuse ^e sure you are on the right track, then go ahead : "Live for something," slothful be no longor, look around Tor some ompr>y ; Labor always makes you stronger, anl also gives you swoetunt Joy. Idle hands are always weary : faithfal hearts are are always gay ; liil'e for us, should not be dreaay ; nor can it, to the active, every day. Always remembering that industry, in study or labor, wil keep ahead of his work, giving time for pleasure and enjoy- ment ; but indolence is ever behind ; being driven with hei work, and no prospect of its ever beirg accomplished. When you have made your decision, aside from what time you must necessarily devote to labor, let all possible time be given to the study ^f the best works upon the subject of your occupation or profession, knowing that one hour's reading in the mommg, when the mind is calm and free from fatigue, thinking and talking with your companions through the day upon the subjects of which you have been reading, will be better than twice that time in evening read- ing, yet if both can be enjoyed, so much the better ; but one of them must certainly be occupied in this way. If you choose something in the line of mercantile or trade life, do not put off, too long, commencing for yourself. IBet- ter begin in a small way and learn, as your capital increases, how to manage a larger business. I knew a gentleman to commence a business with five dollars, and in two weeks his capital waa seventeen dollars, besides feeding his family. I knew one also to begin with sixty dollars, and in fifteen months he cleared over four hundred and fifty doDars, be- sides supporting his family ; then he sold out and lost all before he again got into successful business. No person should over sell out, or quit an honorablo pay- bg business. iW,ff^,. 540 DB. chase's REOIPES. Those who choose a professional life, will hardly find a plaeo in the West, equal to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, to obtain their literary qualifications. An en- trance fee of Ten Dollars, with Five Dollars yearly, pays for a full Literary, Law, Medical, or Civil Engineering course; the first requiring four, the next two, and the last three years. Or, in tile words of the catalogue : " The University, having been endowed by the General (Government, affords educatir 1, without money and without price. There is no young man, so poor, that industry, diligence and persever- ance, will not enable him to get an education here. " The present condition of the University confirms this view of its character. While the sons of the rich, and of men of more or less property, and, in large proportion, the sons of substantial farmers, mechanics, and merchants, arc educated here, there is also a very considerable number of young men dependent entirely upon their own exertions — young men who, accustomed to work on the farm or in the mechanic's shop, have become smitten with the love of knowledge, and are manfully working their way through, to a liberal education, by appropr "^ing a portion of their time to the field or the workshop/ ^ Perqons wishing* to qualny themselves for teaching in this State, will find the Normal fcichool, Ypsilanti, undoubt- edly preferable. And that none may excuse themselves from an effort be- causa somewhat advanced in life, let me say that Doctor Ebarle, who wrote several valuable medical works, did not begin his medical studies until forty-five years of age; and altbnugh I could mention many more, I will only add, that £, myself, always desired to become a physician, yet circum- stances did not favor nor justify my commencement until I was thirty-eight. See the remarks following ''Eye Water." There is no occupation, however, so free and independent as that of the farmer; and there is none, except parents, capable of using so great an influence, for good or for evil, as that of teacher. AU might and ought, to a greater or less extent, be farm era: >ut all cannot be teachers. ' Then let those who& MISOELLANEOUS DEFABTmSTT Uk tasto ioolines them to teaoh, not shrink the respupfiihility, but fully qualify for the work -, learning also the ways of Trutli and Righteousness for thcmselyes ; teaching it through the week-school, by action as well as by word, and in the Sabbath-school fail not to take their stand for the right, like our President elect ; then when it comes your turn to assist in the governmf »it of the State or Nation, the people will come to your support as you do to your work — as they have just done to his (1860) ; feeling, as now, that tJio government must be safe iu the hands of thobo who love God — deal honestly with their fellows ; and wiio, ia re- membering the Sabbath to kwp it holy themselvM, are not ashamed — nor forget to teach the children to iove the same God, and reverence His Word Only thinl. — a Sabbath- School Teacher — a Bail Splitter — a Boatman^ President of the United States ! Who will hereafter be tfraid of common kbor ; or let indolence longer prevent their activity ? when it is only those who begin with small things aid persevere through life, that reach the final g;oal of grea^uess ; and, as in this case, are crowned with the greatest honor which man can receive — the confidence of his NatiDia. Then let Industry take the platiye of Indolence, beginning to be great, by grappling with the small things of me — be faithful to yourself, and you may reasonably expeot the end shall indeed be great. And although it could not he expected, in a work of this kind, that much could or would be said directly regarding a future life, yet I should be recreant to duty if I did not say a word more upon that subject. It shall be only a word. Be as faithful to God, as 1 have recommended you to be to yourself, and . all things pertaining to a future, will bo ^ually prosperous and glorious in its results. GRAMMAR IN RHYME— For the Little Folks— It is seldom that one sees so much valuable matter as thtt following lines contain, comprised in so brief a space. Every young grammarian, and many older heads, will find it highly advantageous if> eommit tht " poem " to memory 842 Z>B. OHASB S BEOIFES. for with these linos at the tongue's end, none need ever mistake a part of speech : 1. Three little words yoa often see, Are articles — a, an, and the, 2. A Noun's the name of any thing, As school or garden, hoop or smng. h. Adjectives tell the Idnd of Noun, As great, 8maU,preUy, white or brovm. 4. Instead of Nouns the Pronouns stand— Her head, hia face, your arm, my hand. 5. Verbs tell of something to be done — To read, couiU, sing, laugh, jump or run. 6. How things are done the adverl^s tell, As slowly, quickly, iU or toeZ/. 7. Conjunctions join the words tv/gtjther— _ As men and women, wind or weather. 8. The Preposition stands before A Noun, as in, or through a door. 9. The Inteijection shows surprise, As oi^ / how pretty — a/i/ how wise. The whole are called Nine Parts of Speech, Which reading, writing, speaking teach. fli JSIOAL CURIOSITY— SooTOH Gbnjus in Tbacjiino.— A Iligu- land piper, haying a scholar to teach, disdained to crack his braios with the names of semibreves, minims, crotchets and quavers. " Here, Donald," said he, " tak' yer pipes, lad, and gie us a blast. So — vcrra weel blawn, indeed ; but what's a sound, Donald, without sense ? Ye maun blpw forever without making a tune o't, if I dinna tell you how the queer things on the paper muun help you. You see that big fellow wi' a round, open face ? (pointing to a semibreve between two lines of a bar.) He moves slowly from that line to tl^is, while ye beat ane wi' ycr fist, and gie us a long blast. If, now, ye put a leg to him, ye mak' twa o' him, and he'll move twice as fast ; and if ye black his fac3, he'll run four times faster than the fellow "kI' the white face ; but if, after blacking his face, ye'll bend lile ^^lees' or tie his leg, he'll hop eight times faster than the whi!;e-fac'id chap I showed you first. " Now, whene'er ye blaw yer pipes, Donald, remember this — that the tighter those fellows' legs are tied, the faster they'll run, and the quicker they're sure to dance. That is, the more legs they have bent up, contrary to nature, the faster goes the music. in ^ COLOEINQ DEFABTHEIIT. BE MARKS. — It may be necessary to remark, and I do it here, once for all, that every article to be dyed, as well ae everything used about dying, should be prfeotly clean. In the next place, the article to be dyed should be well scoured in soap, and then the sonp rinsed out. It is also an advantage to dip the article you wish to dye in warm water, just before putting it into the alum or other preparation ; for the neglect of this precaution it is nothing unoonunon to have the goods or yam spotted. Soft water should al- ways be used, if possible, and sufficient to cover the goods handsomely. As soon as an article is dyed it should be airad a litUe^ then well rinsed, and afterwards hung up to dry. When dyeing or scouring silk or merino dresses, cart should be taken not to wring them, for this has a tendenojf to wrinkle and break the silk. In putting dresses and shawls out to dry, that have been dyed, they should be hung up by the edge so as to dry evenly. Great oonfidenoe may be placed in these coloring reoipesi, as the author has had them revised by Mr. Storms, of thiir oi(y, who has been in the business over thirty years. OOLOES ON WOOLEN GOODS. 1. CHROME BLAOK— Superior to Ant in ITsk.— For 5 lbs. of goods— blue vitriol 6 ozs. ; boil it a few min utes, then dip the goods f of an hour, airing often ; take out the goods, and make a dye with logwood 31bs. ; boil \ hour ; dip f of an hour and air the goods, and dip f of an hour more. Wash in strong suds. N. B. — This will not impart any of its color in fulling, nor fade by exposure to the sun. 2. BLACK ON WOOL— For Mixtures.— For 10 lbs. of wool — bi-chromate of potash 4 ozs. ; ground argal 3 ozs. ; boil together and put in the wool ; stir well and let it re- main in the dye 4 hours. Then take out the wool, rinse it slightly in clear water; then make a new dye, mto whiob 9§m DB. OHAfld'B BBOmB. pat logwood 8^ lb0. Boil 1 hoar, and add ehtmborley 1 pt, and let the wool lie in all night. Waah in clear water. 3. STBEL MIX— Ba&k.— Black wool— It may bo na- tural or colored, 10 lbs. — white wool 1} lbs. Mix evenly together and it will be beautifnl. 4. SNUFF BROWN— Daek, for Oloth ob Wool.— For & lbs. goods — camwood 1 lb. ; boil it 15 minutes tlicn dip the goods for f hour; take out the goods, and add to the dye, ftistic 2Mbs. : boil 10 minutes, and dip the goods I hour ; then add blue vitrol 1 oi. ; co^^ras 4 ozs. ; dip again i hour ; if not dark enough, add more copperas. It is dark and permanent. 5. WINE COLOR.— For 6 lbs. goodb- -oamwood 2 lbs.; boil 16 minutes and dip the goods ^ hour ; boil again and dip i hour ; then darken with bine vitrol 1} oes. ; if not dark enough, add copperas } 02. 6. MADDER RED.— To each lb. of goods— alum 5 oiq*; red, or cream of tartar 1 ok; put in the goods and bring your kettle to a boil for j^ hour ; then air them and boil ^ hour longer ; then empty your kettle and fill with clean water, put in bran 1 peck ; make it milk warm and let it stand until the bran rises, tben skim off the bran and put in madder ^ lb. ; put in your goods and heat slowly until it boils and is done. Wash in strong suds. 7. GREEN- -On Wool or Silk, with Oak Bark.— Make a strong vellow dye of yellow oak and hickory bark, in equal quantities. Add the extract of indigo or oliomic (which see), 1 tablespoon at a time, until you get the shade of color desired. Or : 8. GREEN— With Fustic— For each lb. of goods- fustic 1 lb. ; with alum 3} ozs. Steep until ilie strength is out, and soak the goods therein until a good yellow is ob- tained ; then remove the chips, and add extract of indigo or chranio, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the color suits. 9. BLUE — QuiOK Process.- For 2 lbs. of goods— alum 5 028. ; cream of tartar 3 ozs. ; boil the goods in this for 1 hour ; then throw the goods into warm water, which has more or less of the extract of indigo in it, according to the depth of color desired, and boil again until it suits, adding more of the blue if needed. It is quick and permanent. OOLOBma DEPABTMENT. 845 10. STOOiCINO YARN, OR WOOL, TO OOLORr- Between a Blue and Purple. — For 6 lbs. of wool, bi-chromato of potash 1 oz.; alnm 2 ozs. ; diflsolve them and bring the water to a boil, putting in the wool and boiling 1 hour ; then throw away tJie dye and make another dye with logwood chips 1 lb., or extract of logwood 2\ ozs., and boil 1 hour. This also works very prettily on sUk. N. B. — Whenever you make a dye with logwood ohipf either boil the chips ^ hour, and pour o£f the dye, or tie up the chipg in a bag and boil with the wool or other goods, or take 2{ ()zs. of the extract in place of 1 lb. of the chips is less trouble and generally the better plan. In the above recipe the more logwood that is used the darker will be the Hhadfi 11.' SCARLET, WITH COCHINEAL.— For Yabn OR Cloth. — For 1 lb. of goods — cream of tartar J oi. ; cochineal, well pulverized, ^ oz. ; muria(« of tin 2^ ozs. ; then boil up the dye and enter the goods ; work themoriskly for 10 or 15 minutes, after which boil IJ hours, stirring the goods slowly while boiling ^9^h in dear water and drf in the shade. 12. PINK. — For 3 lbs. of guods — alum 3 ozs., boil and dip the goods 1 hour ; then add, to the dye, uream of tartar 4 ozs. ; cocliineal, well pulverized, 1 oz. ; boil well and dip the goods wliile boiling, until the cobr suits. 13. ORANGE.— For 5 lbs. of goods— Muriate of tin 6 table-spoons ; argal 4 ozs. : boil and dip 1 hour ; then add to the dye, fustic 2} lbs. ; boil 10 minutes, and dip J hour, and add, again, to Uie dye, madder 1 t«a-cup ; dip again J hour. N. B.^— Cochineal in place of madder makes a much brighter color, which should be added in small quantities unUl pleased. About 2 ozs. 14. LAC RED.— For 5 lbs. goods—aigal 10 ozs. ; boil a few minutes ; then mix fine ground tao 1 lb. with muriate of tin 1^ lb., and let them stand 2 or 3 hours ; then add half of the lac to the argal dye, and dip J hour ; then add the balance of the lac and dip again 1 hour ; keep the dye at a boiling heat, until the last half hour, when the dye may be cooled off. * 346 DIt. OnAS£*S RECIPES. 15. PURPLE. — For 5 lbs. goods— cream of tartar 4 ozs.; alum 6 ozs. ; cochineal, well pulverized, 2 ozs. ; muri- ate of tin J tea-cup. Boil the cream of tartar, iilum and tin 15 minutes ; then put in the cochineal and boil 5 min- utes ; dip the goods 2 hours ; then make a new dye with alum 4 ozs. ; Brazil wood 6 ozs. ; logwood 14 ozs ; muriate of tin 1 tea-cup, with a little chemic; work again until pleased. 16. SILVER DRAB— Light.— For 5 lbs. goods— alum 1 pmall teaspoon, and logwood about the same amount ; boil well together, then dip the goods 1 hour; if not dai'k enough, add in equal quantities alum and logwood, until '^uited. 17. SLATE, ON WOOLEN OR COTTON— With Beach !Bark. — Boil the bark in an iron kettle, skim out the chips after it has boiled sufficiently, and then add cop- peras to set the dye. If you wish it very dark add more copperas. This is excellent for stockings. 18. EXTRACT OF INDIGO OR CHEMIC— To Make. — For good chemic or extract of indigo, take oil of vitriol i lb., and stir into it indigo, finely ground, 2 ozs., continumg the stirring at first for J hour; now cover over, and stir 3 or 4 times daily for 2 or 3 days ; then put in a crumb of saleratus and stir it up, and if it foams put in more and stir, and add as long as it foams; the saleratus neutral) "Lcs any excess of acid ; then put into a glass vessel and cork up tight It imp** — *»q by standing. Druggists keep this prepared. ^ 19. WOOL— To Cleanse.— Make a liquid of water 3 parts and urine 1 part ; heat it as hot as you can bear the hand in it ; then put in the wool, a little at a time, so as not to have it crowd ; let it remain in for 15 minutes ; take it out over a basket to drain , then rinse in running water, and spread it out to dry ; thus proceed in the game liquo/ ; when it gets reduced fill it up, iu the same proportions, keeping it at hand heat, all the time, not using any soap. 20. DARK COLORS— To Extract and Insert Light. — This recipe is calculated for carpet rags. In the first place let the rags be washed clean, the black or brown ragS can be colored red or purple, at the option of the dyer ; to do N OOLOBma DEPABTMENT. 347 this, take, for every 5 lbs. black or brown rags, muriate of tin i 11^., and the lao i^ lb. ; mixed with the same, as for the lao red ; dip the goods in this dye 2 hours, boiling J of the time, if not red enough add more tin and lac. The goods can then be made a purple, by adding a little log- wood ; be careful, and not get in but a very small handful, «s more can be added if not enough. White rags make a beautiful appearance in a carpet, by tying them in the skein %nd coloring them red, green, or purple ; gray rags will take ^ very good green — the coloring will bo in proportion to the darkness of mix, DUBABLE COLORS ON COTTON. 1. BLACK. — For 5 lbs. goods — sumac, wood and bark together, 3 lbs. ; boil i hour, and let the goods steep 12 hours J then dip in lime water J hour ; then take out the goods and let them drip an hour ; now add to the sumac liquor, copperas 8 ozs., and dip another hour ; then run them through the tub of lime water again for 15 minutes; now make a new dye with logwood 2 J- lbs., by boiling 1 hour, and dip again 3 hours ; now add bi-carbonate of pot- ash 2 ozs., to the logwood dye, and dip 1 hour. Wash in clear cold water and dry in the shade. You may say this is doing too much. You cannot get a permanent black on cotton with less labor. 2. SKY BLUE.— For 3 lbs. goods— blue vitriol 4 ozu ; boil a few minutes ; then dip the goods 3 hours, after which pass them through strong lime water. You can make this cok)r a beautiful brown by putting the goods through a so- lution of prussiate of potash. 3. LIMB WATER, AND STRONG LIME WATER. — For Coloring. — Lime water is made by putting stont lime 1 lb., and strong lime water, 1 J lbs. into a pail of wa- ter, slacking, stirring, and letting it stand until it becomes clear, then turn into a tub of water, in which dip the goods. 4. BLUE, ON COTTON OR LTNEN— With Log- wood. — In all cases, if new, they should be boiled in strong soap-suds cr weak ley and rinse clean ; then for cotton 6 lbs., or linen 3 lbs., take bi-carbonate of potash f lb. ; put k t^e goods and dip 2 hours, then take out, rinsf* ; make a 348 dh. chase s nmwtiia. dye with logwood 4 lbs. ; dip in this 1 hour, air, and let stand in the dye 3 or 4 hours, or till the dye is almost cold, wash out and dry. 5. BLUE ON cotton—Without LoawooD.-J'or 5 lbs. of rags — copperas 4 ozs. ; boil and dip 15 minutes, then dip in strong suds, and back to the dye 2 or 3 times * then make a dye with prussiate of potash 1 oz. ; oil of yitrioj 3 table-spoons ; boil 30 minutes and rinse ; then dry. 6. GREEN. — If the cotton is new, boil in weak ley or strong suds ; then wash and dry ; give the cotton a dip in the home-made blue dye tub until blue enough is obtained to make the green as dark as required, take out, dry, and rinse the goods a little ; then make a dye with fustic 4 lb. ; logwood 8 ozs. to each lb. of goods, by boiling the dye 1 hour ; when cooled so as to bear the hand, put in the cotton, move briskly a few minutes, and let lay in 1 hour ; take out and let it thoroughly drain ; dissolve and add to the dye, for each lb. of cotton, blue vitriol ^ oz., and dip another hour ; wring out and let dry in the shade. By adding or diminishing the logwood and fustic, any shade of green may be obtained. 7. YELLOW.— For 5 lbs. of goods— sugar of lead 7 ozs. ; dip the goods 2 hours ; make a new dye with bi-ohro- matu of potash 4 ozs. ; dip until the color suits, wring out and dry, if not yellow enough repeat the operation. 8. ORANGE.— For 5 lbs., goods— sugar of lead 4 ozs. ; boil a few minutes, and when a little cool put in the goods, dip 2 hours, wring out ; make a new dye with bi-chromate of potash 8 ozs. ; madder 2 ozs. ; dip until it suits ; if the color should be too red, take off a small sample and dip it into lime water, wh«n the choice can be taken of the sam- ple dipped in the lime or the original color. 9. RED. — Take muriate of tin f of a teacup ; add suffi- cient water to ^ver the goods well, bring it to a boiling heat, putting in the goods 1 hour, stirring often; takeout the goods and empty the kettle and put in clean water, with nic-wood I lb., steeping it for J hour, at hand heat ; then put in tb^ goods and increase the heat for 1 hour, not bringing to a boil {^t all ; air the goods, and dip an hour as before; waib without soap. OOLOBma DEPABTUENT. 849 9. MURIATE OF TIN— Tin Liquor.— If drnggists keep it, it is best to purchaae of them already made ; out if you prefer, proceed as follows : Get at a tinner's shop, block tin ; put it in a shovel and melt it. After it is melted, pour it from the height of 4 or 5 feet into a pail of dear water. The object of this is to have the tin in small particles, so that the acid can dissolve it. Take it out of the water and dry it ; then put it into a strong glass bottle ; pour over it muriatic acid 12 ozs. ; then slowly, add sulphuric acid 8 ozs. The acid should be added about a table-spoon at a time, at intervals of 5 or 8 min- utes, for if you add it too rapidly you run the risk of breaking the bottle by heat. After you have all the acid in, let the bottle stand until the ebulition subsides ; then stop it up with a bees-wax or glass stopper, and set it away, and it will keep good for a year or more, or will be fit for use in 24 hours. COLORS ON SILK GOODS. GREEN— Very Handsome with Oak Bark.— For 1 lb. of silk — ^yellow oak bark 8 ozs. ; boil it J hour, turn off the liquor from the bark and add alum 6 ozs. ; let stand until cold ; while this dye is being made, color the goods in the blue dye-tub, a light blue ; dry and wash ; then dip in the alum and bark dye ; if it does not take well, warm the dye a little. 2. GREEN OR YELLOW— On Silk or Wool, in Five to Fifteen Minutes. — For 6 lbs. of goods — black oak bark or peach leaves i peck ; boil well ; then take out the bark or leaves, and add muriate of tin ^ tea-cup, stir- ring well ; then put in the goods and stir them round, and ^ it will dye a deep yellow in from 5 to 15 minutes, according to the strength of the bark ; take out the goods, rinse and dry immediately. N. B.— For a green, add to the above dye, extract of indigo, or chemio 1 table-spoon only, at a time, and work the goods 5 minutes, and air ; if not sufficiently dark use the same amount of ohemio as before, and work again until it suits. 3. MULBERRY.— For lib. of silk— alum 4 0Z8.; dip 1^ d50 DB. OHASE'S BEOIFES. hour ; wash out, and make a dye with Brazil wood I oi., and logwood J- oz. by boiling together; dip in this J hour, then add more Brazil wood and logwood, in equal propor- tions, until the color is dark enough. 4. BLACK. — Make a weak dye as you would for black on woollens, work the goods in bi-chromate of potash, at a little below boiling heat, then dip in the logwood in the same way ; if colored in the blue vitriol dye, use about the tsame heat. 5. SPOTS — To Remove and Peevent when Color- ing Black on Silk or Woollen. — N.B. In dyeing silk or woollen goods, if they should become rusty or" spotted, all that is necessary is to make a weak lye, and have it scalding hot, and put your goods in for fifteen minutes; or throw some ashes into your dye, and run your goods in it 5 minutes, and they will come out a jet black, and an even color. I will warrant it. — Storms, The reason that spots of brown, or rust, as it is generally called, appear on black cloths, is that these parts take the color faster than the other parts ; but I have no doubt Mr. Storms' plan will remove them, for he regretted much to make public the information, whkh he says is not generally known. And if the precaution, given in our leading re- marks on coloring, are heeded, there will be but very little danger of spotting at all. 6. LIGHT CHEMIC BLUE.— For cold water 1 gal., dissolve alum ^ table-spoon, in hot water 1 teacup, and add to it ; then add chemic 1 teaspoon at a time, to obtain the desired oolor, — the more chemic that is used, the darker will be the color. 7. PUEPLB.--For 1 lb. of silk— having first obtained^ a light blue by dipping in the home-made blue dye-tub, an ' dried, dip in alum 4 ozs., to sufficient water to cover, when a little warm ; if the color is not full enough, add a little chemic. 6. YELLOW.— For lib. of silk— alum 3 ozs,; sugar oi lead J oz. ; immerse the goods in the solutioa^ver night ; take out, drain, and make a new dye with fustic 1 lb. ; dip until the required color is obtained. N.B. — The yellow or green, for wool, works equally well on silk. ■M OOLOBING DEPABTMENI^ 861 9. OBANGE. — Take anotta and soda, and add in equal qnantities, according to the amount of goods and darkness of the color wanted : say 1 oz. of each, to each pound of silk, and repeat as desired. 10. CRIMSON.— For 1 lb. of silk— alum 3 ozs. ; dip at hand-heat 1 hour j take out and drain, while making a new Icy, by boiling 10 minutes, cochineal 3 ozs. ; bruized nut-galls 2 ozs. ; and cream of tartar ^ oz., in one pail of water ; when a little cool, begin to dip, raising the heat to a boil, continuing to dip 1 hour. 11. CINNAMON OR BROWN ON COTTON AND SILK.— Bt a New Prooess— Vert Beautiful.— Give the goods as much color, from a solution of blue vitriol 2 ozs., to water 1 gallon, as it will take up in dipping 15 minutes; then run it through lime-water; this will maKC a beautiful sky-bltie, of much durability ; it htu^ now to be run through t solution of Prussiate of potMib T oz.. to wat«r 1 gal well I Sr . TABLES AND EXPLANATIONS OF INTEEEST:. INTEREST — Legal Rates allowed in each op the DIFFERENT STATES ; AlSO, SHOWING WHAT RATES MAY BE CONTRACTED FOR, AND COLLECTED ; AND GIVING THE FOBFEIl^CRES WHEN ILLEGAL RATES ARE ATTEMPTED TO BE COLLECTED. — FiRST, then, Six per cent is the Legal rate in the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Oonnectiout, Vermont, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, (Eight per cent, is allowed in this State if agreed upon), Mississippi, Tennessee, Ar- kansas, Kentucky, Ohio, ■ Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and New Jersey, excepting in Hudson and Essex Coun- ties, and the city of Patterson ; in this last State Seven per cent, is allowed, when either of the parties reside therein. Second : Seven per cent, is the Legal rate in Michigan, New York, Minnesota. Wisconsin, South Carolina and G^rgia. Third : Ten per cent, is the Legal rate in California ; Eight per cent, in Alabama and Texas, and as strange as it may appear, in Louisiana only Five per cent. Maine and Vermont allow no higher than legal interest to be collected, even if agreed upon. And if paid it can be recovered again, but no forfeiture. In New Hampshire, three times the legal rate is forfeited, if unla . ; fully taken. Rhode Island has no forfeiture, but allows legal interest to be collected, even on usurious contracts. In Connecticut, if usurious contracts are made, the prin- cipal only can be collected, to the lender, or, if collected, can be recovered, one-half to the informer, the other half to the State Treasury. New York voids usurious contracts ; but, if paid, only allows the excess over legal rates to be collected^back. New Jersey, also, voids usurious contracts, reserving half to the State, and half to the informer. Pennsylvania allows only legal interest to bo collected. i[|iliil>iiiiii IKTEBEST DEPABTMENT. 858 Delaware allows usurions contracts to be collected, half bo the State and half to the prosecutor. Maryland allows only legal rates to be collected. Virginia voids the contract, and doubles the debt, half to the informer and half to the State. North Carolina is the same as Virginia. South Carolina, Florida, and Alabama, allow forfeitures if only the interest. In Mississippi, although six per cent, is the legal inter ^j**" oa common debts, yet for money, actually borrowed, 3ight per cent, is allowed, and although a rate may be igroed upon above what the law allows, simple interest may still be collected. ^ Louisiana, although allowing only five per cent, where no stipulation is made, permits eight per cent, in agreement, ind Bank interest to be six per cent. In Texas, although eight per cent, only is the legal rate, fct twelve may be contracted for, but if higher rates are Agreed upon, none can be collected. Arkansas allows &sh ^^ «s ten per cent, on contract, but 7oids usurious contracts Tennefisee allows a fine to be collected, not less in amount than is unlawfully taken. Kentucky only voids usurious excesses. Michigan allows ten per cent, to be contracted for, and 7oids only excesses, if any are taken. Indiana allows only her legal rates to be contracted for and may be collected back, if, in any case, it should be ob bained. Illinois allows ten per cent, on money actually borrowed ind only lawful rates can be collected. In Missouri ten per cent, may be contracted for, but forfeits ten per cent, to the common school fund, in cases sphere more than lawful rates are obtained. Iowa permits ten per cent, to be agreed upon, and allows til illegal interest to be collected back. 854 DB. OHASE's RE0IPII8. Wiseonsin formerly permitted twelve per cent, to be sagreed upon, and those who paid more than lawfal rates might recover back three times the amount paid ; but more recently allows only seven per cent., and inakes all above that amount usurious. California and Minnesota allow any rate agreed upon to be collected. The interest which the State aUowa to be oolleoted on notes drawn, ''with use/' not speoif^ng the rate, is called legal, and that which some States allow to be contracted for above the legal rate is lawful ; but when a larger rate is taken, or agreed upon, it is called usurious, and subjects the person agreeing for it, or receiving it, to the penalties, or forfeitures, as given in the forgoing explanations. Any Agent, or other person, who may know of any ohnnges in their States from these rules, will confer a favor on ^hc AutlK^r by 'Mmmianioating the some. *«j>lmif!!g|*jfc' EZFLAHATIONS OF TEE nTTEBSST TABLES. IXAlf PLl : Desired to obtain the interest on $1,111.00, for 1 year, 4 naonths, and 27 days, at 6 per cent. Turning to the tables you will see that the time is given in the left-hand column, the amounts on which you desire to find the interest are given at the heads of the various right-hand columns, the sum sought is found at the meeting •of the lines to the right of the time, and down from the amount, as follows : The interest on $1,000, 1 year, at 6 per cent (( « tc u u t( U it tt It " a tt « it tt a u tt tt . it tt u tt tt tt tt tt tt tc tt tt tt tt « tt tt 100, " 10," 1," 1,000, 4 months," 100," 10," 1," 1,000, 27 days, 100," " 10," " 1," tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt it tt tt tt It tt It tt tt tt it ft tt tt tt tt tt tt tt tt It tt .$60.00 . 6.00 60 . 06 . 20.00 . 2.00 . 20 . 02 . 4.50 . 45 05 . 00 Whole sum of interest sought $93.88 In the same manner, proceed with any other amounts, or any other time, or rate per cent. ; and if for more than one year, multiply the in 9rest for 1 year by the number of years for which the interest is sought ; if for twenty, thirty, sixty, or any other amount between ten and one hundred dollars, multiply the interest on ten dollars, by the number of tens in the amount, which gives you the whole sum of interesi sought; the same rule holds good on hundreds, betweco one hundred and one thousand, and, also, on thousands. To find interest at 5 per cent., take one-half of the !(' per cent. rate. And, of course, the principle works the same on all o/ the tables, for the different ratei of per cent BB. OHASB'a BECI?ES. INTEREST TABLE. SIX PER CENT. i 1 OAT 2 3 4 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 l6 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 $1 1 MONTH 1 2 3 4 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 2 2 8 3 4 4 6 5 6 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 2 3 4 5 6 7 2 3 5 6 8 9 11 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 6 1 TEAR 6 8 12 9 14 10 15 11 17 12 18 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 5 8 8 10 12 10 13 15 12 15 18 14 18 20 16 20 24 18 23 27 20 25 30 22 28 33 24 30 36 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 7 11 $9 $10 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 8 12 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 ,3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 9 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 10 14 16 18 20 21 24 25 28 28 32 32 36 85 40 39 44 42 48 14 16 18 20 23 25 27 30 32 35 36 40 41 45 45 50 50 54 54 60 flOO 2 3 5 7 8 10 12 13 15 17 18 20 22 23 25 27. 28 SO 82 S3 S5 87 88 40 42 43 45 47 48 50 1.00 1.60 2.00 2.50 3.00 3 60 4.00 4.50 5.00 5.60 6.00 $1000 17 33 50 67 68 1.00 1.17 1.33 1.50 1.67 1.83 2.00 2.17 2.33 2.60 2.67 2.83 3.00 3.17 3. S3 3.60 3.67 3.83 4.00 4.17 4.33 4.50 4.67 4.83 6.00 10.00 15.00 20.00 25.00 80.00 35.00 40.00 45.00 60.00 55.00 60.00 IMTBBB8T DEPABTMENT. INTEREST TABLE. SEVEN FEB OENT. 357 B 11 1 PAT. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 16 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 !•• 25 26 27 28 29 1 MONTH 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 92 13 $4 2 2 3 4 4 5 6 6 6 iTIUB 7 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 4 5 6 7 $5 |6 $7 |8 19 t) 2 2 2 2 2 4 5 7 9 12 11 14 8 12 16 9 14 17 11 16 21 12 18 23 13 19 26 14 21 28 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 7 2 2 2. 2 2 2 2 2 3 2 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 6 9 11 12 12 14 16 15 18 20 18 21 25 20 25 29 23 28 33 26 32 37 29 85 41 32 39 45 35 42 49 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 8 $10 $100 $1000 2 19 4 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 9 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 5 11 14 16 19 21 23 26 28 32 33 87 37 42 42 47 47 53 51 58 56 fift 10 12 39 58 78 97 1.17 14 1.36 2 16 1.56 2 18 1.75 2 19 1.94 2 21 2.14 2 23 2.33 3 25 2.53 3 27 2.72 3 29 2.92 3 31 3.11 3 35 3.^1 4 35 3.50 4 37 3.69 4 39 3.89 4 41 4.08 4 43 4.28 4 45 4.47 6 47 4.67 5 49 4.86 5 51 5.06 5 63 5.2f' 5 54 5.44 6 66 5.64 6 58 5.83 12 1.17 11.67 18 1.76 17.50 23 2. S3 23.33 29 2.92 29 17 35 3.60 36.00 41 4.08 40.83 47 4.67 46.67 63 5.26 62.60 68 5.83 68.33 64 6.42 64.17 70 7.00 70.00 ; I 868 V DB. OHASB*S RBTIIFZS. INTEREST TABLE. BIGHT PER CENT. I 1 OAT 2 8 4 6 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 -» 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 $1 12 $3 $4 tf«)e0«ta.— Difficult digestion. i^ m OLOSSABIAL DEPARTMENT. Fluoric Add. — A fluid obtained from the fluor spar out with sulphuric acid. Flatulence. — Gas in the Btomaoh. Flooding. — Uterine hemorrhage. Fluor. — An increased discharge, to flow. Fluor Spar. — Fluoride of calcium. Flvjor Alhus. — White flow, lucorrhea, whites, &o. Flux. — To flow, diarrhea. Friction. — Kubbing with the dry hand, or dry coarse cloth. Fumigate. — To smoke a room, or any article needing to b^ cleansed. Fundament. — The anus. Formula. — Medical proscription. Fulminating Powder. — An explosive preparatio used in fireworks. Function. — The particular action of an organ, as the func- tion of the stomach, liver, lungs, heart, &o. Ftmgus. — Spungy flesh in wounds, proud-flesh, a soft cancer, which bleeds upon touching its broken surface. Fusion. — To fuse, to melt. Furor. — Very violent delirium, not accompanied by fever. Galhanum. — A resinous gum, from a genus of plants. Genus. — Family of plantia, a group, all of a class, or nature. Gall.~B\\Q. Gall Bladder. — A bag which receives the gall, or bile, I through daots, from the liver, delivering it to the stomach, in health, through the duct called communis choledochus. Gall Stones. — Hard biliary concretions found in the gall bladder, and sometimes causing death, from not being able to pass through the ductus com- munis. 'Galla. — The gall nut, an excrescence fouad upon tihe (>ak. Gallic Add.-^Axi acid from the nut-gall. Galipot. — A glazed jar, used for putting up gammy extracts. Galvanic. — Having reference to galvanism. Gamboge. — A drastic purgative, unless combined with aro- matios. Gangrene. — Partial death of a part, often ending in entire mortification of the part, and sometimes of the whole My. B70 DB. OHASB'S BEOIPES. Ganglion. — A knot, or lump on tendons^ '^gaments, or nerves. Oaseout. — Having the nature of gas. Ooitric. — Of, or belonging to the stomaob. Oattric Juice. — Secretion of the stomach. QastrUU. — Inflammation of the stomach. Goitrod^iua. — Pain in the stomach, sometimea with spasms of the stomach. Gelatine. — Isinglass. Gelatinotis. — Like jelly. Genitals. — Belonging to generatio?., the sexual organs. Gentian. — An European root, possessing tonic propcrtieSt Genu. — The knee. Genuflexion. — ^Bending the knee, kneeling. Germ. — The vital principle, or life-spark. Gestation. — To be pregnant. Gland. — Secreting organs having ducts emptying irio cavi- ties, which often become obstructed, causing them to enlarge ; hence, the enlargement of the thyroid gland in the neck, caufting brouchocele. Glans. — ^A gland. Gleet. — Chronic gonorrhea. Globules. — Small round particles, having special reference to particles of the red part of the blood. Glossa. — Thej-tongue, a smooth toBgue. Gloss. — To give lustre \ to oouuaent ; to write or make ex- planations. Glossarist. — A writer of ^sses or comments. Glossary. — An explanation of words. Glossarial. — Oontainiag explanations. Glossitii. — Inflammation of the tongue. Glottis, — The opening into the wind-pipe at the root of the tongue, larynx, covered by the epiglottis. 6^^to».-^CIoagulable lymph, white of an egg, a principle in wheat and otiber vegetables. GlrnUon. — One who ea^ excessively. Gonorrhea. — An infectious discharge from the genital or- gans. Go¥i, — ^Painful inflammation of the joints of the toes, or c^ the fingers. Qramik*-^'K small particle of healthy matter, not pus. ..." ^ imimm 0L08SABIAL DBPABTMENT. 871 UtamulaHon. — Healing up of an uloer or wound with healthy matter. Gravel. — Crystalino particles in the urine. OreertrSickness. — Chlorosis, debility requiring iron. Oriping. — Grinding pain in the stomaoh, or bow eld. Qutta. — One drop, drops. Gutta Percha. — Dried juice of a genus of trees Isonandra gutta. Guttural. — Kelating to the throat. Gymnaaivm. — ^A place for sportive exercises, which is very valuable to those who cannot or will not take exercise for the sake of dollars and cents. Gypsum. — Sulphate of lime, more commonly called plaster of Paris, because first introduced from that place. Habit. — Good or bad habit, constitutionally, or prejudicially predisposed to do some particular thing ; medi- cally, as consumptive habit, rheumatic habit, &c. Hema. — Blood, prefixed to other words. Hematemem. — Hemorrhage from the stomach. Hematuria. — Hemorrhage from the bladder. Hemoptynt. — Hemorrhage from the lungt . Hemorrhoids. — Piles, bleeding pile« Henbane. — Hyoseyamus. Hereditary. — Disease from parents. Hernia, — Rupture, which permits a part of the bowel to protrude. Herpes. — Disease of the skin. Hiera Ficra.—A medicine containing aloes. Humerus. — The single bone of the upper arm. Humeral. — Pertaining to the arm. Hwnors. — The fluids of the body, excluding the blood. Hydrayogues. — Medicines which produce watery discharges, used in dropsy, as elaterium. Hydrargyrum. — Metallic mercury, quicksilver. Doctors* name for calomel. HydrocyanU Acid. — Pruasic acid, nothing more poisonous. Hydrofluoric Acid. — Same as fluoric acid. Hygea. — ^Health. Hygiene, — Preserving health by diet and other preoau- tlooft. * m Uypo. — Sig more annoying to the sufforors than to their friends, who are constantly boring them about it ; called hysterics in womaij, (from hysteria, the womb or uterus,) but blues only, when it gets hold of men ; they come from the same cause, general debility ; takes a strong remedy, iron, as medicine. Hypoglotth. — Under the tongue. Hysteria. — The uterus, (womb,) also disease, depending upon, or caused by uterine irregularities. Hysteritis. — Inflammation of the uterus. Ichor, — An acrid, biting watery discharge from ulcers, often corroding, eating the surface. Icterus. — Jaundice, a bilious disease which shows itself by yellowness of the eyes and skin. Icterus Alhus. — Chlorosis, Whites, &c. Ignition. — To catch on fire, from Ignis, fire. ZfeM«.— Colic in the small intestines Iliac. — Situated near the flank. Iliac Region. — Sides of the abdonaen, betTreen the ribs and the thighs. Imhecile. — One of weak mind, imbecility. Inibihe. — To absorb, to drink. Imbricate. — To over-lap, as tiles on a house. Immerse. — To plunge under water. Immobile. — Immovable, as stiff joints. Imperforate. — Without a naturad opening. Impervious. — Closed against water. Impetigo. — Tetter. Imponderable. — Not having weight, light or elasticity. Impoverished. — Exhausted vitality. Impotence. — Sterility, not being able to produce. Impregnation. — The act of producing. Incision. — To cut. Incombustible. — Incapable of being burned. Incompatibles. — Medicines which ought not to be mixed, or given together. Inconsistence. — Not being able to hold the natural excretions. Incorporate. — To mix medicines together. TncubaMon. — To hatch eggs, slow developmr at of disease. k\dication. — That which shows what ougH to be done. i; msoi >«■■ OLOSSABIAL DEPABTMEKT. 878 [ndigencms. — Peculiarity of a country, or of a small seotioD of country, applied to disease, plants, &o. Indigestion, — Dyspepsia. Indolent. — Slow in progress, applied to ulcers and tumors, which are slow, and with but little or no pain. Induration. — Hardening of any part of the system by dis- ease. Infectious. — Communicable disease, from one to another. Injinndry. — Where medicines are distributed gratuitously to the poor ; but more recently some physicians have got to calling their offices infirmariec. Inflammation. — Attended with heat, redness, swelling, ten- derness, and often with throbbing. Inflatus. — To distend, to blow up with wind, or to fill up with gas, as the stomach, bowels, &e. Influenza. — A disease aflFecting the^Hostrils, throat, &o., ol a catarrhal nature. ^^ /^MWOTO.-Medicines prepared by steeping in water,not to boil. Inguinal. — In the groin. Ingredient. — One article of a compound mixture. Inhalation. — To draw in the breath. •'^ Injection. — Any preparation to be introduced by the rectum. Inorganic. — Matter not having organs, all alike, as metals. Insanity. — Derangement of the mind. Insertion. — The attachment of muscles and tendons to the bones, which they move by contraction. Inspiration. — The act of drawing in the breath. Insipissation. — To thicken by boiling,to make what is called the concentrated extracts, desiccation. Instinct — An involuntary action, as closing the eyelids breathing, &c., natural perception of animals. Integument, — A covering, the skin. Inter. — A prefix denoting between. Intercostal. — Between the ribs. Intermission. — Time between paroxysms of fever, or othei disease. Intermittent Fever. — Fever which comes on at regular peri- ods, between which periods there is little, and sometimes no fever, an interval. Internal. — Upon the inside. Interosseus. — Between tbe bones. Htt 87i DB. OHASE'S BEOIPES. Interval, — The period between the paroxysms of periodioal ^ diseases^ as ague, &c. Intettineg. — The contents of the abdomen. Inteitlnal Canal. — Embracing the deodenum (the first di- vision below the stomach,) the jejunum (the second division of the small intestines,) the ileum, (the third and longest portion of the small intestines,) the secum, (the first portion of the large intestines,) the colon, (the large intes- tine,) and the rectum, (the lower trap-door.) Intolerance. — In medicine, applied to the eye, as intolerance of light; to the stomach, as intolerance of food. Inversio Uteri. — Inversion of the uterus. Inversion. — To turn the inside out. Irredttcihle. — Applied to hernia, and to joints which have been put out and ^'annot be put back to their place. Ischuria. — Not being able to pass the urine. Issue. — Sore made as a counter-irritant, to draw irritation from a diseased part. Itch. — Psora, scabies, a catching eruption of the skin. Ms.— Aa addition to a word denoting i Jlammation., as pleu- ritis, pleurisy, &o. Ivory Black. — Animal charcoal. Jaundice.-=^A disease caused by the inactivity of the liver, or ducts leading from it. [See Icterus.] Jelly. — Cklatine in a fluid state, as applied to medicine. Jesuits' Bark. — First name of Peruvian bark, from its hav- ing been discovered by Jesuit missionaries. Juglar. — Applied to veins of the throat. Jujube. — ^An East India fruit, something like a '^^im, used in coughs, but of doubtful reputation. Kali. — Potash. Kelp. — ^Ashes of searweed. Knot. — Surgeons tie their knot by passing tiie thread twice through the loop, which prevents slipping. Labia. — Lips. Labia Pudmdi. — Lips, or sides of the Vuiva Labial, — 0*^^ or belonging to the I'p Labor, — Ohild-biiih, parturition. OLOBSABIAL DEPABTUEZTF. 875 J^oftorafoiy. — Aplaoe of ohemioal em#imentfl, or operations. Laneinatinff* — Sharp, piercing, aa lancinating pain. Latynffea$.—Of the larynx. Ziarjfnaj.— The upper pait of the throat. Larywptis. — Inflammation of the throat. Latent. — Hidden, bb latent heat, see the remarks oonaeoted with steam boiler explosion. Ttannivde. — ^Weakness, a feeling of stupor. ficaeative. — A very gentle cathSrtio. ' C'qptandrin* — ^Powder made from the leptandria vir^uuoa, blaokroot. Culver's physio. Ueucorrhea* — Fluor albus, whites, chlorosis, &o. ~ \ Levigate. — To reduce to a very fine powder. Ligatwre.^^-K thread, to ligate, to tie with a ligature. Located. — Fixed, seated upon the same organ. Lingua. — The tongue. Lingwitt. — ^A apetier, fluency, one who understands dif- ferent languages. Liniment. — A fluid preparation to be applied by fnotion. Lithontriptic. — A medicine reported to dissolve gravel, or stone in the bladder. '^''^ Lithotomy. — The operation of cutting, to take out stone of the bladder. Liver. — The largest gland, and largest organ of the body. Livid. — ^A dark colored spot on the surface. Loins. — Lower part of the back. , /•^'" Lotion. — ^A preparation to wash a sore. ' ■ Lt^nicate. — To soften with oil, or to moisten with a fluid. The internal organs are covered wilh a mem- brane which throws out a lubricating fluid, en< abling them to move easily upon each other. {L\ . — A paste with which to close chemical retorts, the casein, '^ of milk, is used for that purpose. Lymph. — A thin, c^ less fluid, carried in small vein-like vessels called lymphatics. Macerate. — To steep, soften by soaking. Mai — Bad, mal practice, bad practice, not aoeofding to ecieuce. Jla(^>fma<»ot).— Irregular, unnatural formation. Maiaria.-^Biid gases, causing disease, supposed to arise fiom decaying vegeteb'e matter. . ^) 876 DB. OHASB'S BlECnPlS. Malignant, — ^A pestilentisd, and generally dangerous di» ease. Mamma* — The female breast, which is composed of glands that secrete the milk, upon the principle that the liver secretes bile ; each organ for its spe- cific purpose ; but secreting organs, or glands, are the more liable to get obstructed, thus pro* dnoing disease. MatHcatUm. — The act of chewing. MoitwrhatUm, — Excitement, by the hand, of the genital or- _ gans. The most injurious, health-destroying, soul-debasing, of all evils introduced into the world, because its frequent repetition draws very heavily upon the nervous system, prostrat- ing the energies, destroying the memory, to- gether with the life principle, as well as the principles of morality which ought to govern every human being, between himself and his Creator. Maturity, — To become ripe, to arrive at adult age, beyond further growth. Materia. — Matter, healthy substance. Materia Medica.—^hd science of medicine and medioal combinations. Maturation, — Formation of pus, unhealthy matter. Matrix. — The womb. Meconium. — The first passages after birth. Medioal. — Relating to medicine. MecUcated. — Having medicine in its preparation. Membrane, — A thin lining, or covering, skin-like, as the peritoneum, which lines the cavity of the bow- els and <}overs the intestines ; and the perios- teum mombrane, which covers the bones, &o. Medicament, — A remedy, hence, medioamentum, the Welsh remedy for every disease. Medicinal. — Having medical properties Medullary. — Like marrow, brain-like. Mel. — Honey. Menstruation. — Monthly flow. Mentha Piperita, — Peppermint. Median.— ^ha middle. GLOSSABIAL DEFABTMENT. 877 MelKftuow. — Flowing with honey, sweetness, deUoious ; akin to lucious, juicy mellowness. Menorrhagia. — Exoessive flooding. Micturition. — To urinate, to pass the urine. Midvn/ery. — Art of assisting at child-birth. Minim. — About one drop, one-sixtieth of a fluid draohm. Minimum. — The smallest, the smallest dose, the opposite of maximum. Modus Operandi. — The way in which medicines act, appli- cable abo to any action, the way of doing it. Morbid, — Unhealthy. Morbus, — A disease ; hence, cholera morbus, disease of the bowels. Mordant, — That which fastens the colors in dyeing, as alum, cream of tartar, argul, vitriols, tin, liquor, &o. Mucus. — Animal nnuilage. Mucus Membrane. — See remarks under the head of " In- flammation," in the body of the work. Mucilage. — A watery solution of gum, or elm bark, &c. Muriatic. — Having reference to sea salt. Muriatic Acid. — Marine acid, often called hydrochloric acid. Muscle. — A bundle of fibres. Muscular. — Having reference to the muscles, strong built. Myrrh. — A resinous gum. Narcotic. — Stupefying mec^-unes, producing sleep. Nares. — The nostrils. J^ Nasal. — Of the nose. \^..,Z.l\!^!', Nausea. — Sickness of the sKmact^ may increase until vom- iting takes place, or it may not* Nauseant. — That which produces nausea. iNavel. — Centre of the abdomon. ' iVecro«.~Death. " -^ " ' '" Necrosis. — Death of a bone. Nephros. — The kidney. JVcpAnVw.— Inflammation of the kidney or kidneys. Nervous. — Easily excited Nervine, — That which wL allay, or soothe nervous exoito ment. Neuralgia. — Pain in nerves. Mire.— Saltpetre. *-- . ^ ' '". I ' '^ Nocturnal, — Ooourrlng in the nigbii , I 878 DA. OHASE'S BE0IPE8. iVi^'ote.-— Nitrio aoid oombined with alkalies or alkaline salts. Normah — In a natural and healthy oondiUon. Noitrum, — ^A medical preparation. iVb^Attc^-Spurious, illegitimate, a bastard. Nudua, — Nude, without clothing. Nutrition, — ^Nourishment. NutritiouM. — Nourishing, Obesity. — Corpulence, excess of fat, fleshy. Obstetrics. — The science o^ midwifery. Ochre, — ^An ore of iron. Oculvs, — The eye. Oculist. — ^An eye>doctor. Oleaginous, — An oily substance. Omentum, — The caul, peritoneal covering of the intes- tines. Opacity, — To obstruct lighi C^[Mque,^-Noi transparent, inattniity to see through. Opihalmos, — The eye. Opthahnia. — Disease of the eye, inflammation of the eye. Opiate, — An anodyne. Organ, — ^A part of the body, which has a certain work to perform, called the functions of organs, as the stomach, lungs, womb, &c. Organic, — Bodies made up of organs. Orgamism. — ^Vital organization. v Organized. — Furnished with life. Orgasm, — The closing excitement of sexual oonnection. Origin, — The point of commencement. Oryfice. — An opening. Os Tince, — Mouth of the womb, or uterus. Osseous. — A bony substance. Ossification. — To become bone ; from ost, or osteo, a bone, or like a bone. Ostalgia. — Pain in a bone. Osteoma, — Tumor, like bone. Ostitis. — Inflammation of a bone, or bones* Otic. — ^Having reference to the ear. Otitis. — Inflammation of the ear. ^ , Otorrhea. — Discharge from the oar. Ovoo — An egg made up of little eggfi. TtSH OLOSSABIAL DBPABTMENT. 879 ,Owma» — Testes : most generally applied to the female ; fe- male testes, two egg-shaped bodies (made up of little particles, or eggs); having an attach- ment to the Hbania in the broad ligaments, which support that organ, having tubes, or ducts, opening from them into the uterus, called Fallopian tubes, from the man's name who first gave a description of them. One of these particles is thrown off at each menstrual flow. (hnparom, — ^Birds, or any animals that produce their young from eggs, or by eggs. ^ Ovum, — ^An egg. Oxalic Acid. — An acid found in sorrel, very poisonous. Oxide. — A combination of oxygen with a metal, or fluid, as oxygen combining with vinegar-fluid, forms vinegar, oxygen combining with iron, forms oxide of iron, rust of iron, &c. Oxygen. — One of the elements of the air, an acidifying (souring) principle, and an element (a particle or part) of water. OxjffneL — ^A preparation of vinegar and honey, from mel ; • honey. Ozena. — Fetid ulcer of the nose, or fetid discharge from the nose. Pdbuhm. — Food; aliment. Pad. — A cushion. Palliative. — To afford relief, only. Palpitation. — ^Unhealthy, or unnatural beating of the heart- Pan. — ^As a prefix, means all. Panacea. — Kemedy for all diseases, consequently (speaking ironically) any patent medicint. Paralym. — Loss of motion, dumb palsy. Partus. — Labor ; the young when brought forth. Parturition. — Child-birth. Paroxysm. — A fit of disease occuring at certain periods. Periodical. — Occurring at a certain time. Petal—A flower leaf, as rose leaves, &o. Phthisit. — A wasting, consumption. P^hos. — ^^A disease. PtUhology.—The doctrine of dmm. 380 Dtt. OfiASE*S BEOIPES. V Pectoral. — Pertaining to the breast. Pediluviumi — A foot-bath. Pe.iduhu8. — To hang down. Penis. — The male organ of generation. Pepsine. — A peouliar sabstfinoe in the stomach, which aids digestion. PepHe. — Digestive; hence, dyspeptic, not digesting. Percolation. — To run, or draw through some substance, straining. Premonitory. — To give a previous notice, as premonitory symptoms. Peri. — Around, a covering. Pericardium. — Around the heart, sac containing the heart. Pericarditis. — Inflammation of the pericardium. ^erin. — A testicle, male organs, corresponding with testes, in fejiales, with this diflference, however, that with males they are upon the outside, whilst with females they are upon the inside of the body. Perineum. — That part between the anus and organs of generation or genitals. FenncaZ.—Kelating to the region of the perineum. Period. — A certain time. Periodicity. — Returning at-a certain time. Periosteum,. — The membrane which covers all bones. Perspective View. — As it appears to the eye at a certidn distance. Perturbation. — To disturb. Perversion. — An unhealthy change; to change from its proper or natural course. Pessary. — That which will support, or hold up the womb,, in prolapsus; see our remarks on "Female Debility." Phagedenic. — An eating and fast spreading ulcer. Pharmacy. — The art of combining and preparing medicines. Phlegm. — Mucus from the bronchial tubes and throat. Phlogistic. — Tendency to inflammation. Phosphorus. — An inflammable and luminous substance, prepared from urine and bones. Phosphate. — Phosphoric acid in combination with metals, as phosphate <)f iron, phosphate of lime, &o. f". OLOSSAKtAL DEPABTMENT. 881 1U9 i\*fo».— Tumors at, or in the anus ; bometimes protading ; ofben attended with hemorrhage, then called hemorrhoids. Piperine. — A preparation from black pepper, considered valuable in ague. Placenta,, — After-birth, which has a connection to the womb, and to the child, during pregnancy ; » but is naturally thrown oflf by the violent con- tractions of die womb, at this, period, th^te being no further use for it. Oh, the wisdom of our Creator, how glorious to contemplate ! Everything adapted to the necessities of the case. Plethora, — Over fullness ; if healthy, causing obesity, cor- pulance. PhutitU. — Inflammation of the pleura, pleurisy. Pneumon, — The lungs. Pleura. — The serous membrane covering the lungs, and folded upon the sides. Pneumonia, — Inflamn^ation of the lungs. PodophilUn, — A powder made from the podophillum pelta- tum, mandrake root. Pemum. — The apple ; hence, pomace, mashed apple. Potassium, — The basis of potash. Potus.—A drink ; hence, potion, a medicated drink. Predisposition. — A tendency to a certain disease. Pregna/ney. — Being with cmld. Prognosis, — The art of guessing how a disease will ter minate. Prolapsus. — A falling. Prolapsus Ani. — ^Falling of the anus. Prolapsus Uteri. — Falling of the ut^ms. ', ; ^ Prostration. — ^Without strength. V Pnissiate. — A compound with prussio acid. Prusslc Acid. — Hydrocyanic acid; one of, or the aaoflt virulent poison in existence. Psora. — Theitoh. Pubes. — The prominence at the lower front part of the body. Puberty. — Full growth ; an adult ; perfection. Pubic- Having reference to the region of the pubes. MDlMaBSMI ,jx I ^ '.' 182 DB. OHASB'S BEOIFBS. Pudendum. — The female organs of generation. Puer, — A boy, or child. Puerpera, — A woman who has just brought forth a child , hence, pearperal fever, fever at, or soon after child-birth. Pulmo. — A lung. Pulmomtis, — Inflammation of the long or Inngs. Pulmonary. — Relating to the lungs, as pulmonary Balsam pulmonic wafers, &o. PidvU. — ^A powder ; hence, pulverize, to make fine. Al. diese words show how heavily we have drawL upon other languages, for our own, conse- quently, the necessity of studying the Latin and Greek, to properly understand ours. Pupil, — The dark circle in the eye. Purgative. — ^A gentle Cathartic. Pu8. — Unhealthy matter. PuituU. — A slight elevation, having poB. Putrefaction. — To decompose, by fermentation. Putrid. — Rotten ; decomposed. Pyroligneous Add. — An acid obtained from wood ; t!ie essence of smoke; if a little of it is put into a barrel with meat, in the brine, it smokes it without trouble. I think a gill to the barrel sufficient, perhaps a little less will do. It is obtained by inserting an old gun barrel or other iron tube into a coal-pit, near the bottom, when burning ; it condenses in the tube and drops from the outer end into a dish, then bottled for use. Quassia. — A bitter tonic ; the chips of the wood are used Rjchis. — The spine. l> Rachitis. — Rickets, bending of the spine, and sometimes the long bones of the limbs ; may be also en- largement of the head, bowels, and the ends of the long bones. Radius. — The bone of the upper arm. Radial. — Having reference to the upper arm. Radiated. — Diverging from a centre. Radix. — ^A root. Ramus, — A branch. f' m OLOSaABIAL DEPASTMZNT. 888 Ramifieation, — To branoli out Ran(kditi/.—Ra.noidj stale ; applied to oil, fat, bntter, &o. Rath. — A redness of the skin, in pp.^hes. Ratsbane. — Arsenious acid; arsenic. Rattk.^ — Noise of air passing through mnous, aa in cronp. Reaction. — To return, after recession. Recession. — Striking in, the blood, or disease, going to'tlie internal organs. Rectimt. — The lower portion of the intestines. Reduction. — To set a fracture, or to return a hernia. Refrigerant. — A cooling medicine, or drink. Regimen. — Kegulation of diet, and habits, to preserve health, or to cure disease. Relapse. — Recurrence of disease after an apptv/ved appear- ance, which is generally worse than the first attack. Relaxation. — Losing the healthy tone of any part, or the whole system. RefpUtion. — Fullness. Reproduction. — Generation, picjreation. Respiration, — To breathe, including both inspiration and expiration. Retoluvion. — To return to health, applied to inflammations. Retching. — An e£fort to vomit. Retention. — Delay of the natural passage of the urine or foxjes. RevuUion, — To draw away disease, as draughts, or blisters, irritating plasters, &c. Rheumatism. — Inflammation of the fibrous tissue, mostly confined to the large joints. Recini Oleum. — Castor oil. Rigor. — Coldness, with shivering. RocheUe Salts.~A mixture of tartarate of potash and soda. Ruhe/acients. — Medicines which cause redness of the skin, afl mustard, raddish leaves, &o. Rupture. -Hernia ; by some, called a breach. Saccharine. — The properties of sugar. Saliva. — The secretion of the mouth, spittle; hence, sali- vation, an increased flow of saliva. Salt. — A compound of acid, with an alkali, or metal. 8a^petre,—Kitr&te of potash. IffiMk DB. OHASE'S BEOIFES. Salubrumt. — Olimate favorable to health. Sanative. — A curative medicine. Sanguis. — Blood. ounces of butter; stir into a teacup of boiling water, quickly and well, until it has dissolved ; on no account omit stirring constantly till well dissolved, or it will lose its lightness ; add grated nutmeg to taste. Serve hot. Pudding Sauce.— One cup of sugar, yolk of one egg well beaten with the sugar, four tablespoonfuls of boiling milk ; add the whites well beaten. Pudding Sauoe. — Bub to a cream two cups of sugar with three- ^urths of a cup of butter ; flavor to taste ; float the dish in boiling water until well heated j pour one-half pint of boiling water on it just before serving. Lemon Sauce. — One-half cup of butter, one cup of sugar, yolk5 of two eg^s, one teaspoonful of cornstarch. Beat the eggs and sugar until light ; add the grated rind and juice of one lemon. Stir the whole into three gills of boiling water until it thickens suffi- ciently for the table. Lemon Sauce. — One large tablespoonful of butter, one small tablespoonful of flour, one cup of sugar« grated rind and juice of one lemon. " _ Steawberry SAtrcB. — Rub half a cup of butter and one cup of sugar to a cream ; add the beaten white of an egg, and one cup o( strawberries thoroughly mashed. Hard Sauce for Puddings. — One cup butter, three cups sugar, beat very hard, flavoring with lemon juice ; smooth into shape with a knife dipped into cold water. English Plum Pudding. — Nine eggs beaten to a froth ; add flour sufficient to make a thick batter free from lumps ; add one pint new milk and beat well ; add two pounds of raisins stoned, and two pounds currants washed and dried, one pound of citron sliced, "one-quarter pound bitter almonds divided, three-fourths of a pound brown sugar, one nutmeg, one teaspoon of allspice, mace and cinnamon, three-fourths of a pound beef suet, chopped fine ; mix three days before cooking, and beat well again ; add more milk if required. If made into two puddings, boil four hours. Apple or Peach Dumplings. — Pare and core fine juicy Japples ; then take light bread dough, cut into round pieces half an inch thick, and fold around each apple until well covered ; put them into a steamer, let them rise, then set the steamer over a pot of boiling water, and steam. Eat with butter and sugar, or cream. Use peaches in the same way. Baked Apple Dumplings. — Cook apples almost entirely whole, coring or not, as you may prefer ; melt butter and sugar in a baking-pan, and, having enclosed them in a good paste, bake ; baste them constantly. ^ Apple Batter udding. — Thre eggs one coffeecup of sour milk, one large teaspoonful of butler, three large tablespoonfuls of sugar, one-half tablespoonful of soda, and flour enough to make a batter as stiff as cake. Add quartered apples as desired. mMH iMB ^ ing^umi imii 894 DB. chase's BECIPES. i Bread Puddivo. — One coffeecup bread crambs, dried and rolled fine; one teacup of sagar, one quart of milk, one teaspoon ful rin- ger, a little salt, three eggs (saving the whites of two). When DiOced, Spread jelly over the top, then a frosting made of the whites of the eggo, and one tablespoonful of sugar. Ileturn to the oven until slightly browned. Bread and Apple Pudding. — Butter a padding dish ; place in it alternate layers of bread crumbs and thinly-sliced apples ; when the dish is filled, let the top layer be of bread crambs, oyer which two or three tablespoonfuls of melted butter should be poured. Bake in a moderately hot oven, and place two or three nails under the pudding-dish to keep fron^ burning in the bottom , let it bake from three-quarters to a whdie hour, according to the quality of the cooking apples. Cabinet Pudding. — The remains of any kind of cake broken up, two cups ; half cup raisins ; half can peaches, four eggs, one and a half pints of milk. Butter a plain pudding mould and lav in one of the broken cakes, one-third of theraisins, stoned, one-third of the peaches ; make two layers of the remainder of the ca]:e, raisins and peaches. Cover with a very thin slice of bread, tJien pour over the mi^^ beaten with the eggs and sugar. Set in a sauce-pan of boiliog water to reach two-thirds up the side of the mottid, and steam three-quarters of an hour. Turn out carefully on a dish, and serve with peach sauce, made &s follows : Place the peach juice from the can into a small sauce-pan ; add an equal volume of watei , a little more sugar and eigh,t or ten raisins ; boil ten minutes, strain, and, just before serving, add six drops of bitter almond. Cracker Pudding. — Mix ten ounces of finely-powered crackers with a little salt, half a nutmeg, three or four tablespoonfuls of sugar, and three of butter ; beat six eggs to a froth ; mix with three pints of milk ; pour over the crackers, and let it stand till soft ; then bake. f Sauoe for Craokbb Puddin».— One cup of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one egg, one teaspoonml of ^ated nutmeg, one lemon, inside grated, three tablespoonfuls of boiling water. Cocoanut Pudding. — One-quarter of a pound of butter, yolks of five eggs, one-quarter of a pound of sugar ; beat butter and sugar together ; add a little of the cocoanut at a time, and one-half tea- cupful of cream. Do not bake too long, or it will destroy the flavor. Use one cocoanut. After it has haked, best the whites of the eggs with four or five tables][ )onfuls of sugar. Spread over the pudding and bake a light brown. Chocolate Pudding. — Scrape very fine two ounces of vanilla chocolate ; put it into a pan, pouring over it one quart of new milk, stirring it until it boils ; and adding by degrees four ounces of sugar, milling the chocolate until it is smooth and light ; then pour out to co^ ; beat eight eggs to a froth, and mix with the API^NDIX. S95 chocolate ; p(Mir into a buttered dishy and bake three-qaarters of an hour. Serve cold with sifted sugar over it. Suet Pudding — One teacupful of molasses, one of suet, one of sweet milk, two cups of raisins, two and one-half cups of flour, one teaspoon^'ul ol ginger, one of cinur.tnon, one-half Icaspooniul of all- spice, one- half teaspoonful nutmeg, one teaspoonful of soda. Boil or steam. Make «auce same as for plum pudding Sago Pudding. — Two large spoonfuls of sago boiled in one quart of water, the peel of one lemon, a little nutmeg ; when cold add four eggs and a little salt. Bake about one hour and a half. ?lut with sugar and cream. Tapiuca fuDDiNG. — Four tablespoonfuls of tapioca, one quart of milk, four eggs, leaving out tli whites of two for frosting ; three tablespoonfuls of sugar. Soak the tapioca over night, or for several hours, in a little water. Boil the milk and turn over the tapioca. Add, when it is .blood warm, the sugar and eggs well beaten ; bake about an hour, and after it has cooled a little add the whites of the eggs to one-half pound of sugar for frosting. It answers well for a sauce, and looks quite ornamental. Rice Pudding. — Soak one cupful of best rice ; after soaking four hours, drain it olf ; place the rice in pudding dish ; add one oupful sugar, and one teaspoonful of salt, and eleven cupfuls milk and spice ; put ia a moderate oven, and bake from two to three houn, stirring occasionally at first, if the rice settles. BREAD, BISCUITS, ETC. Yeast. — Take two good-sized potatoes, grate them raw. Add gne-half teacupful white sugar, one teaspoon of salt, a little ginger. Pour over the mixture one-half pint of boiling water, in which one tablespoonful of hops has been boiled. Save halt a cup each time to start anew. ^ Yeast. — To one cup of grated raw potato add half cup salt and half cup su^ar ; pour over all one quart boiling water, stirring well ; it will thicken like starch ; when nearly cold, add one cup of good yeast. In about twelve hours it should be light ; put in jug or bottle, and cork tightly. Yeast. — A double handful of hops, one-half dozen lar^e potatoes ; boil together in one half gallon of water till done ; strain and mash on to one one-half cup of ginger, small cup of flour, and one cup of brown sugar, and half cup of salt. Let stand until cool, tnen add one cupful of good yeast. Next day cork up tight in a jug. Yeast and Bread. — Take ten large potp' ^ pare and put them in a kettle with three quarts of water ; pu* pint of hops in a thin muslin bag in the same kettle with the potatoes ; boil until potatoes are soft, then pour the water from this kettle boiling hot over a pint of floar in a orook. S<|Qeeae all the ^resgtn ( 396 DR. chase's recipes. bs. — Many of our young people are much troubled with an irruption on the face. It often proves u great annoyance to them ; but there is a simple remedy, which, if it does not effe'ct a complete cure, will obviate the difficulty in a great ' degree, without the least injury to the health or skin. To 1 gr. of corrosive sublimate add 1 oz. of rose water ; filter, and apply twice a day. Hands, to Whiten.— Take a wineglass of Eru de Cologne, half a cup of lemon juice, scrape two cakes of Windsor soap to a powder ; mix well, then add a teaspoon of sulphuric acid. Mould it and let it harden. Compounds to Promote the Growth of the Hair.— When the hair falls off, from diminished action of the scalp, preparations of cantharides often prove useful ; they are sold under the names of Dupuytren's Pomade, Cazeuze's Pomade, etc. The following directions are as good as any of the more complicated recipes : Pomade Against Baldness. — Beef marrow, soaked m several waters, melted and strained, half a-pound ; tincture of cantharides (made by soaking for a week 1 dr. of powdered cantharides in 1 oz. of proof spirit), 1 oz.; oil of bergamot, 12 drops. Erasmus Wilson's Lotion Against Baldness, — Eau de Co- logne, 2 ozs. ; tincture of cantharides, 2 di*8. ; oil of lavender or rosemary, of either 10 drops. These applications must be used once or twice a day for a considerable time ; hut if the scalp be- comes sore they must be discontinued for a time, or used at longer intervals. Bandoline, or Fixature. — Several preparations are used ; vhe following are the best : 1. Mucilage of clean picked Irish moss, made by boiling | oz. of the moss in 1 qt. of water until sufficiently thick, rectified spirit in the proportion of a teaspoon to each bottle to prevent its being mildewed. The quantity of spirit varies ac- cording to the time it requires to be kept. 2. Gum tragacanth, IJ drs, ; water, ^ pt. j Proof spirit (madeby mixing equal parts o*' rectified ipkit and water), 8 oz.; otto .of roses, ten drops ; soak U twenty-four hours and itrain, ^■^^i^ ^»WWW|^"IWWW wmmmmrnm^^mm^^mm 402 f)R. CftASE^S ttECI{»fiS. Excellent Hair "Wash, — Take 1 oz. of borax, i oz. of camphor} powder these im?redient8 fine, and dissolve them in 1 qt. of boiling water ; when cool, the solution will be ready for use ; damp the hair frequently. This wash effectually cleanses, beautifies, and strengthens the hair, preserves the color, and prevents e?trly bald- ness. The camphor will forni into lunaps after being dissolved, but the water will b^ sufficiently impregnated. . HAIR OILS— Rose Oil.— Olive oil 1 pt. ; otto of roses 6 to 16 drops. Essence of bergamot, being much cheaper, is commonly used instead of the more expensive otto of roses. Red Rose Oil, — The same. The oil colored before scenting, by steeping in it 1 dr, of alkanet root^ with a gentle heat, until the desired tint is produced. Oil of Roses. — Olive oil 2 pts. ; otto of roses 1 dr. ; oil of rose- mary, 1 dr. ; mix. It may be colored red by steeping a little alkanet root in the oil (with heat) before scenting it. Pomatums. — For making pomatums, the lard, fat, suet, or mar- row must be carefully prepared by being melted with as gentle a heat as possible, skimmed, strained and cleared from the dregs which are deposited on standing, CoMMOM Pomatum. — Mutton suet, prepared as above, 1 lb. ; lard, 3 lbs. ; carefully melted together, and stirred constantly as it cools, 2 ozs. of bergamot being added. Hard Pomatum. — Lard and mutton suet carefully prepared, of each 1 lb. ; white wax, 4 ozs. ; essence ot bergamont, 1 oz. HOW TO ACT IN EMERGENCIES. In giving the following advice as to conduct in accident and emergencies affecting the bodily health, it is, of course, understood that skilled medical advice should be at once obtained, but the delay unavoidable in procuring a physician or surgeon would often result more seriously if something was not done immediately, while a little attention may not only relieve the person, but render the work of the physician or surgeon much lighter. The hints here given can be all acted on without difficulty, requiring no special apparatus or medicines. BURNS OR SCALDS. If a person's clothing takes fire, lay him down on the floor ; throw a rug, tablecloth, carpet, blanket, coat or large piece of cloth over imi and roll him in it. The first thing to be done with a perann who haa been burned or scalded is to remove the olothing a« K«Qtly ai possible^ lo m not to tear away the ekin, li u Bi APPENJ TX. m or break any blister ; if there should be pieces of burnt clothinff adhering to the body, do not spend time trying to pick them off! Then wrap the entire surface in carded cotton or wadding — the ob- ject being to exclude the air. This is the main object of all kin(^ of (kessings for burns. If eotton is not at hand, dust the parts thickly with flour or finely pvRveriistid chalk. When there is time to prepare an ointment, tne chalk ointment, a linament ofliine- water and linseed ^ or of linseed oil with a little carbolic acid, are the best applic ,.ons. If the person is much exhausted, and especiaUy if the burn has been extensive, give a little brandy and ; water. CONVULSIONS, In convulsions or fits, whether apoplectic, epileptic or hyg- j terical, the chief thing is to keep the person from nurting himself, not so much by holding him as by guarding him from the effects of his own violent movements. Raise the head, loosen all tight clothes, strings, etc. If the head is hot, as is usualljr the case, \ ^ apply ice or cold water, and warmth to the extremities. Sun stroke and lightning stroke are treated similarly. Children in fits should be put into a warm bath, with cold applicatibns to the head. DROWNINO. Handle the body gently ; carry it face downwards, head slightly raised ; never hold it up by the feet, or roll it over barrels. The' two great points to be arrived at are the restoration of breathing and the promotion of warmth. Remove all clothing from face, neck and chest at once ; place the person on the ground, face downwards, mth one of the arms under the forehead, in which position fluids will readily escape from Ihe mouth, and the tongue fall forwards, leaving the entrance to the windpipe free ; wipe and cleanse the mouth at the same time. If breathing commences satisfactorily, use treatment hereafter described to promote warmth. If no breathing, or only slight, turn the person on the side, supporting the head, and excite the nostrils with snuff or smelling- salts, if convenient. If no result, replace the person on the face, raising and supporting the chest on a folded coat or other article ; turn the body gently on the side, then briskly on the face, then back again — repeating the movement about once every five seconds. On eacn occasion that the body is on the face, make steady pressure with brisk movement on the back between the shoulder blades, re- moving the pressure immediately before turning on the side. (This is Dr. Marshall Hall's method of inducing respiration.) While these operations are being proceeded with, some one per- son should attend solely i.o the movements of the head and the ama placed under it ; ai,nother should dry the body, and extremities^ 404 PR. CHASE S RECIPES. removing wet clothing and cover it with dry and warm clothing — taking care not to interfere with the movemonts to induce re^pira- tion. If after five minutes this method ddes not prove successful, Dr. Sylvester's plan may be tried, as follows : Place the person on the back, shoulders supported ; tongue drawn well forward, and retained between the teeth by raising the lower jaw. Standing at the person's head, grasp the arms just abova the elbows, ana draw the arms guntly and steadily upwards above the head, keep them stretched upwards for two seconds ; then turn them down and press them gently but firinly against the sides for two seconds. Repeat movements steadily, until breathing com* mences. As soon as breathing begins rub the limbs upward with the hands encased in warm woollen socks or mittens, or dry cloths — keeping the body at the same time covered with warm blankets. Place warm bricks, bottles, etc., in the arm-pits, between the thighs, on the pit of the stomach, at the soles of the feet. Give a spoonful of warm water ; and the^, if the power df swallowing has returned, small quantities of warm stimulants, such as brandy and water. ^ Prevent unnecessary crowding arou ad the person, especially if in a room ; avoid all rough usage ; and continue mr-king efforts to re* store life for an hour at least, and even longer. Some persons have been thus restored after several hours of elBTort. (These rules for the restoration of the Apparently drowned are similar to those issued by the Royal Natioual Life Boat Association of England ; and are used in the British army ana navy.) PAiNTma. Loosen the garments ; lay the body in a horizontal position ; give plenty of fresh air, dash cold water on the face ; apply hartshorn smelling salts to the nose. FROST BITE. Rub the frozen part slowly and steadily with snow, or bathe with cold water, in the open air or a coid room ; continue till circulation is restored. When the entire person has been rendered insensible by exposure to intense cold, the same treatment is to be adopted ; and^ of course, applied to the whole body at the same time. As soon as sensibility returns, carefully dry the body, and put the per- son to bed in cold sheets iu a cold room, giving a few spoonfuls of gruel, with a little weak brandy and water. Great caution has to be used in giving stimulants ; as the reaction from freezing is al- ways serious, and may be nade more so by injudipious stimulation. mmm MBHBtBI APPENDIX. 405 •*. HANGINa. A peraou found suspended should be taken down gently, the cord or rope loosened and removed, and then treated as though drowned. Bleeding from the temporal artery by some competent {person is generally required. HEMOBRHAQE. When an artery is cut the blood flows in jets, and is of a bright scarlet color. If the vein is injured the blood is darker, and flows in a continuous stream. To arrest arterial bleeding, take a handkerchief and tie a knot in the middle of it, place the knot over the artery, and tie the two ends to a stick (a piece of broom handle or walking cane) by means of which the handkerchief can be twisted tight around the limb. If you cannot wait for this bandage place your thumb over the spot whence the blood flows, and press hard, keeping up the pressure till a bandage can be applied, or till a surgeon arrives. Bleeding from a vein can usually be arrested by a compress and a bandage. Always remember that in arterial bleeding the bandage is to be applied, and pressure made, between the wound and the heart ; in venous bleeding the pressure is to be on the side of the wound furthest from the heart. '^ Bleeding from the nose may usually be arrested by the applica- tion of cold to the forehead, the temples, the face or the back of the neck . Cold water may be snuffed up ; the nose may be plugged with cotton batting dipped in some astringent, as alum, tincture of iron, tannin, etc. Whenever bleeding is at all excessive the person should be placed in a horizontal position, head level with the body, or even lower. If on a bed, the lower part of the bedstead may be raised up, and bricks or blocks of wood placrd under its legs. Fresh air should be supplied by fanning, cool drinks for thirst, and ice cold applica- tions in the locality from vAence the blood flows. POISONS. When a person in apparently good health is suddenly attacked, after having taken food or drink, with violent pains or cramps in the stomach, with nausea, vomiting, convulsive twitchings, and a feeling of sutfucaiiou, or with extreme giddiness, delirium or sleepiness, poisoning may be suspected. Where poisoning is sus- pected or known, a physician should be immediately sent for, and all remains of food taken by the sick person, all cups, glasses, dishes, etc., used by him, together with all matters vomited, shoijild be at once gathered up and preserved under lock and key. 406 - DR. CHASE S RECIPES. As a general rule of treatment m all cases of poisoning, free vom- iting should be produced, and especially after those poisons which cause delirium or sleeping. If the poison has alropiy caused vom- iting, and the vomiting has been abundant, chalk, milk, the white of eggs and oil are useful. If an emetic is wanted, two table- spoonfuls of mustard in a pint of warm water will be effectual, and. can easily be obtained. If no mustard can be had readily, large draughts of warm water, either alone or mixed with oil, butter oi lard, can be used. If there is no inflammation of the throat, tickling it with a feather, after a draught of warm water, will geu- erally accomplish the purpose. The following are some of the more common poisons, with the antidotes that can be easily applied : Acids {Aqua fortis, etc.) — Give chalk or common soap ; tear some of the plaster off the wall and powder it, washing it down with copious draughts of warm water. If sulphuric acid, as little water as possible. After the poison has been vomited, drinks of milk, whites of eggs, or mucilaginous drinks (slippery elm, flax seei.) Alkalies (Potash, Soda, Lye, etc.) — Give acids, such as vinegar, or oil, butter, lard. Arsenic. — Any oil or fat. (Hydrated oxide of iron is the best antidote to arsenic, but is not likely to be at hand when wanted.) Antimony (Tartar* emetic.) — Any astringent tea, such as oak bftrk, Peruvian bark, or very strong green tea. Copper (Blue vitriol.) — Milk, or white of egg in water. Avoid vinegar. Gases. — Where poisonous gases from old pits, cess-pools, etc., have been breathed to sach an extent as to produce insensibility, dash, cold water over head and shoulders, and give plenty of fresh air. Mercury (Corrosive sublimate, etc.) — Same as copper. Opium (Morphine, Laudanum, ) — Cause profuse vomiting at once ; then give strong coffee ; dash cold water on face, head and shoulders, and keep the person awake and in motion. Phosphorus (This is the poison off matches. It also enters into many forms of rat poison.) — Magnesia with water, and copious draughts of mucilaginous drinks ; charcoal . Silver (Caustic.) — Common salt in solution. Strychnine. — Emetics freely. Strammonium (Thorn apple.) — Same as for opium. Give also animal charcoal. Never keep any poisonous article in the house without having the word POISON, in large letters, written or printed on it. POISONED WOUNDS. The Stings of Insects tjiough painful are not usually danger* ous, yet they may prove so by inducing erysipelas in unhealthy con^ m Hmii appendix; 407 at stitutions, or by giving rise to intense irritation by the multiplicity of the stings. Apply cooling lotions, or a cold poultice ; rubbing with olive oil is sometimes useful; while touching the pai stung with annnonia (hartshorn) will often give immediate relief. Sfake Bites — The bite of the rattlesnake is the principal form of 8nake bite to be dreaded in this country. The first indication of treatment is to prevent the absorption of the poison into the sys- tem. If bitten on a limb, tie a ligature around it just above the wound; twist it so tight as to prevent circulation. The wounded part should then be burnt deeply with a red hot iron, or aqua rortis dropped into it; or> better still, cut out entirely. After this a cupping glass should br pplied, or, if not convenient, the wound may be sucked by some person — care being taken that thert are no cuts, scratches, ulcers, or abrasions of any kind in the mouth of the person sacking. Frictions with oil to the limb are said to be advantageous. Whisky may be takan by the person bitten; and in large quantities, sufficient to produce intoxication. The Bite of a Mad Dog gives rise to disease called Hydropho- bia or Rabies. The bite is most dangerous when inflicted on a naked part, as on the hands or face. A person bitten through the clothing will often escape any ill eflfects, in consequence of the teeth being wiped and the poisonous saliva arrested by the clothes* Symptoms of the disease do not usually appear for some weeks a£|[|r the bite, and olten a longer period elapses; and thus medical advice can be obtained before they appear. But if there is any cause to suspect hydrophobia in the animal, then some steps must be taken to prevent the absorption of the poison, as are ad- vised in cases of snake bite. Symptoms of Hydrophobia in the Dog, — When a dog or other animal is suspected to be mad, he should be confined and not killed until the character of the disease is fully ascertained. Great relief may thus be given to those who have been bitten. Rabies is to be suspected when the animal manifests a notable change of habits, becoming sly and irritable, eating straws, bits of paper, etc., and refusing food. When the disease becomes developed, the appearance is much changed; the look is depressed and haggard, the eyes and tail droop, tljie quality of the bark is altered, the eyes are watery, the back part of the mouth reddened, saliva flows freely, and there is more or lest* fever; delirium supervenes, and the dog snaps at every person and every animal that comes in his way; and sometimes at invisible objects; he is not ferocious, but bites and runs away. There is dread of water sometimes, but this ia not really a test, though supposed to be; a mad dog will fre- quently lap water without diflficulty. Convulsions may or may not occur. Death usually takes place within five hours. THE EYES. The sensitiveness as well as the importance of these organs justi- fies a word of advice regarding accidenta^hereto. 408 DR CHASE S RECIPES. If dust gets into the eyes avoid rubbing ; syringe the eye with water ; separate the eyelids by drawing on them with finger, and if the offending particle is visible remove it with the rounded point of a pencil or the corner of a handkerchief. Another method is to take hold of the upper eyelid near its angles with the index finger and thumb of each hand ; draw it gently forward and as low down over the lower lid as possible ; re- tain it in this position for a minute, taking care to prevent the tears flowing out. Then when the eyelid is allowed to resume its place there will be a rush of water which will very likely carry out the offending particle. If lime gets into the eyes it should be syringed out with vinegar and water. (One ounce vinegar to eight of water.) In wounds of eyelids or eyeball cold water bandages are useful in preventing inflammation. OR AMPS. Irregular spasmodic convulsions of the muscles in different parts of the body. Relief will be most readily given by friction, either with the hand alone, or a piece of flannel, and at the same time the application of heat. Colic is the term ajfplied to cramps in the bowels ; and reqiflpa the immediate application of cloths wrung out in hot water and turpentine or mustard — the feet at the same time being put in a hot bath, or, if not convenient, hot bricks applied to them . DELIRIUM TREMENS. The deliriums of drunkards require emetics, cold applications to the head, heat to the extremities, and mustard to the nape of the neck, the back, and the soles of the feet. The emetics can be given in a drink of the liquor to which the person is accustomed, and will then be taken by him without any objections, FALLS. A person who has fallen a great height, and is picked up either wholly or partially insensible, should, if possible, be placed at once on a wide board, or on a door taken from its hinges, so that in conveying him from one place to another his body need not be moved after the first lifting,. until the surgeon takes him in charge. He is almost certain to have broken some of his bones, and the less they are moved about before being properly set the better. He should be laid flat ; all tight clothing loosened, but not removed. All crowding around should be avoided, and fresh air allowed to reach him freely. At the same time, as he will, in consequence of tmm MattKMH APPENDIX. 40» the shock, be more or less cold, warm applications should be ap* Elied to the feet, and warm but light coverings thrown ovbr the ody . If at all sensible, a little warm tea, or spirit and water, or wine, may be administered ; if insensible, do not give any liuuidn, as they might flow into the larynx, but apply ammonia (hartshorn) or smelling-salts to the nostrils. The injured part should be placed in as comfortable a position a« possible, but handled very carefully. A simple fracture is Bome« times seriously complicated by carelessness or rouch usage, which may cause the broken end of a Ipone to protrude through the skin. If a limb is injured let it take the easiest position possible — gener- ally flexed. If the person has to be removed any great distance before a surgeon can be obtained, wrap a quantity of cotton wool, or tow, around the broken limb — thickly, but evenly ; then get a large number of straight twigs or small sticks, lay them along the limb and bind them to it, moderately tight, with strips of cotton. This will keep the limb compt,ratively still while noving the body ; and should the person complain of the bandag? yeing too tight, one or two of the sticks can be slipped out witb «i.t disturbing the limb. The geneial rule to be observed in all thfese cases, until the sur- geon arrives, is to do as little as possible after once getting the patient into an easy position ; keep him warm, if cold, and cool, if hot ; let everything around him be quiet ; speak encouragingly ; and make him feel as comfortable a& he can be under the circumstances. MANAGEMENT OF INFANTS IN HOT WEATHER. The following excellent rules for the care of infanta during the hot months were prepared by a committee of six physicians appoint- ed for the purpose by the Obstetrical Society of P'oiJadelphia : Jtule 1 .—Bathe the child once a day in tepid water. If it is feeble, sponge it all over twice a day with tepid water, or with tepid water and vinegar. The health of a phild depends much upon its cleanliness. Bute 2. — Avoid all tight bandaging. Make the clothing light and cool, and so loose that the child may have free play of its limbs. At night undress it, sponge it, and put on a slip. In the morning remove the slip and dress the child in clean clothes. If this cannot be afforded, thoroughly air the day-clathing by hanging it up during the night. Use clean diapers, and change them often. Never dry a soiled one in the nursery or in the sitting-room, and never use one for a second time without first washing it. Rule 3,— The child should sleep by itself in a cot or cradle. It should be put to bed at regular hours, and be early taught to go to sleep without being nursed in the arms. Without the advice of a, physician never give it any spirits, cordials, carminatives, soothing^ *yrupSf or sleeping-drops. Thousands of children die every mt mmmmmm ^410 DR. CHXSte'S RECIPES. year from the use qf these poisons. If the child frets and does not sleep, it is cither hungry or ill. If ill it needs a physician. Never aniet it with candy or cake; they are the coninioii causes of diarr- (Ah, and other troubles. Jtule 4. — Give the child plenty of fresh air. In the cool of the morning and evening send it out to the shady trees of broiid streets, to the public squares or to the Park. Make frequent ex* "ctirsious on the rivers. Whenever it seems to suffer from the heat, let it drink freely of ice-water. Keep i€ out of the room in •'which washing or cooking is going on. It is excessive heat that destroys the lives of young infants. I{ule 5. — Keep your house sweet and clean, cool and well aired. In very hot weather lei ,he windows be open day and night. Do your cooking In the ya ■ in a shed, in a garret, or in an upper room. Whitewash the walls every spring, tand see that the cellar is clear of all rubbish. Let no slops collect to poison the air. Correct all smells by pouring carbolic acid or quicklime into the privies. The former article can be got from the nearest druggist, who will give the needful directions for its use. Make every effort yourself, and urge your neighbors, to keep the gutters of your street or court clean . Hule 6. — Breast-milk is the only proper food for infants. If the supply is ample, and the child thrives on it, no other kind of food should be given while the hot weather lasts. If the mother has not enough she must i> t wean the child, but give it, besides the breast, goat'a or cow's milk, as prepared under Kui'e 8. Nurse ~'the child once in two or three hours during the day, and as seldom as possible during the night. Always remove the child from the brenst aa soon as it has fallen asleep. Avoid giving the breast when you are overfatigued or overheated. BuleT. — If, unfortunately, the child must be brought up by hand, it should be fed on a milk-diet alone, and that, warm milk out of a nursing bottle, as directed under Kule 8. Goat's milk is the best, and next to it cow's milk. If the child thrives on this diet, no other kind of food whatever should be given while the hot weather lasts. At all seasons of the year, but especially the summer, there is no safe substitute for milk to an infant that has not cut its front teeth. Sago, arrow-root, potatoes, corn-flour, crackers, bread, every patented food, and every article of diet con- taining starch, cannot and must not be depended on as food for very young infants. Creeping or walking children must not be al- lowed to pick up unwholesome food. Rule 8.— Each bottleful of milk should be sweetened by a smaU lump of loaf sugar, or by half a teaspoonful of crushed sugar. If the n^ilk is known to be pure, it may have one-fourth part of hot water added to it; but if it is not known to be pure, no water need Be ad'^^d. When the heat of the weather is great, the milk may h* given quite cold. Be sure that the milk is unskimmed ; have it APPENDIX. 411 as fresh as rjossible, and brought very early in the morninff. Be- fore using tne jwins into which it is to be poured, alwayg goaki them with boiling suds. In very hot weather boiji the milk aa soon as it comes, and at once put away the vessels holding it in the coolest place in the house— upon ice if it can be affonleci, or down a well. Milk carelesaly allowed to stand in a warm room soon bpoiL) and be- comes unfit for food, Hule 0. — If the milk should disagree, a tablespoonful of lime- water may be added to each bottlcful. Whenever pure milk can* aot be got, try the condensed milk, which often answers admirably . It is sold by all the leading druggists and grocers, and may be pre- pared by addi^ without sugar, one teaspoonful, or more, accord- ing to the a^e ot the child, to six tablespoonfuls of boiling water. Should this disagree, a teaspoonful of arrow-root, of sago, or of com starch to the pint of milk Inay be cautiously tried. It mUk in any shape cannot be digested, try, for a few days, pure cream diluted with three-fourths or three- fifths of water — returning to the milk aa soon as possible, Bule 10. — The uursing bottle must be kept perfectly clean ; other- wise the milk will imm sour, and the child will be made ill. After each meal it should be emptied, rinsed out, taken apart, and the tube, cork, nipple, and bottle be placed in clean water, or in water N to which a little soda has been added. It is a good plan to have two nur&ing bottles, and to use them by turns. ^tule 11.— Do not wean the child just before or during the hot weather, nor, as a rule, until after its second summer. If suckling disagrees with the mother, she must not wean the child, but feed it iu part out of a nursing bottle, on such food as has been directed. However small the supply of breast milk, provided it agrees with the child, the mother should carefully keep it up against sickness ; italoue wi.'l often save the life of a child when every thing else fails. When the child is over six months old, the mother may save her strength by giving it one or two meals a day of stale bread and milk, which should be pressed through a sieve and put into a nurs- ing bottle. When from eight months to a year old, it may hare also one meal a day of beef or mutton-broth, into which stale bread has been crumbled. When older than this, it can have a little meat finely minced ; but then even milk should be its prin- cipal food, and not such food as grown-up people eat. DIET OF INFANTS. Boiled Flour, or Flrur Ball. — Take one quart of good flour, tie it up in a pudding bag so tightly as to get a firm, solid mass, put ' it into a pot of boiling water early in the morning, and let it boil until bedtime. Then take it out and let it dry. In the morning, pee ff from the surface and throw away the thin rind of dough, and, with a nutmeg-grater, grate down the hard, dry mass into a powder. Of this from one to three teaspoonfuls may be used, 412 i)R. chase's recipes. by first rttbbine it into a paste with a little milk, then addhig it to a pint of mil^, and, finally, by bringing the whole to just th« boiling point. It must be given through a nursing- bottle. An excellent food for children who are costive in their bowels may be made by using bran meal or unbolted flour instead of the white flour, preparing it as above directed. Jiice Water. — Wash four tablespoonfuls of rice, put it into two quarts of water, which boil down to one quart, and then add sugar and a little nutmeg. This makes a pleasant drink. A half pint or pint of milk added to thic just before taking it from the fire, and allowed to come to ir boil, gives a nourishing food suitable fo %ses of diarrhoea. Sago, tapioca, barley, or cracked com can be prepared in the same manner. Beef Tea. — Take one pound of juicy, lean beef — say a piece off the shoulder or the round — and mince it u^with a sharp knife on a board or a mincing block. Then put it with its juice into an earthen vessel containing a pint of tepid water, and let it stand for two hours. Strain off the liquid through a clean cloth, squeezing well the meat, and add a little salt. Place the whole of the juice thus obtained over the fire, but remove it as soon as it has become browned. Never let it boil; otherwise most of the nutritious matter of the beef will be thrown down as a sediment, A little pepper or allspice may be added if preferred. Mutten tea may be prepared in the same way. It makes an Agreeable change when the patient has become tired of beef tea. Haw Beef /or Children. — Take half a pound of juicy beef, free irom any fat; mince it up very finely; then rub it into a smooth pulp either in a mortar or with an ordinary potato-masher. Spread a little out upon a plate and sprinkle over it some salt, or some sugar, if the child prefers it. Give it with a teaspoon or upon a buttered slice of stale bread. It makes an excellent food for children with dysentery. THE METRICAL SYSTEM OF WEIGHTS MEASURES. AND The metrical system is now used very largely in the European Continent, and is employed, frequently for scientific purposes. As references are continually made to it in the newspapers as well AS in books, a description of it will be found useful. The, standard unit of linear measure is a metre; of capacity, a litre; and of weight, a gramme. The names of the higher orders, or the multiples of the unit are formed by prefixes taken from Greek numerals, viz., deca, 10 ; hecto, 100 ; kelo, 1000, etc. The lower orders, or subdivisions, are formed by prefixes from Latia numerals, as deci, 10 ; centi, 100 ; wiWt, 1000, etc. Remembering this, and learning the value of the three units, we c: fc r( n o g t\ b( h; m APPENDIX. 418 •an readily understand any weight or measure referred to. For •xample, a metre is 39.37 inches ; or for practical purposes, say 3 feet, 3^ inches. A decimetre is of course, one tenth of that, or 3.93 inches ; while a decametre would be ten times as much, or 393.7 inches, or 32 ft. 9 inches. The following tables give the English equivalents, as established by the Congress of July, 1866 :— LINEAR MEASURE. 1 Centimetre 1 Decimetre 1 Metre 1 Decametre 1 Hectometre 1 Kilometre 0.3937 inches. _ 3.937 ** 39.37 *• 393 7 ** 328 feet, 1 inch. 3280 feet, 10 inches. MEASURES OF CAPACITY. 1 1 1 1 1 1 Centilitre Decilitre Litre Decalitre Hectolitre Kilolitre 0.6102 cubic inches. 6.1022 •* 1.0567 wine quarts. 2.6417 wine gallons. 26.417 •* 264.17 •• *• WJflQHTS. 1 Centigramme 1 Decigramme 1 Gramme 1 Decagramme 1 H«'ctogramme 1 Kilogramme 0.1543 grains 1.5432 " 15.432 " 0.3527 oz., avoirdupois. 3.5274 '« ♦• 2.2046 pounds ♦• we MISCELLANEOUS DEPARTMENT. Bug Poisox. — Proof spirit, 1 pt. ; camphor, 2 ozs. ; oil of ter- pentine, 4 ozs. ; corrosive sublimate, 1 oz. Mix. Substitute fob Cement. — The white of an egg, well beaten with quicklime, and a small quantity of very old cheese, forms an excellent substitute for cement, when wanted in a hurry, either for broken china or old ornamental glassware. Cement for Broken China, Glass, Etc. — The following recipe, from experience, we know to be a good one; and beine nearly colorless, it possesses advantages which liquid glue and other cements do noi;: — Dissolve ^ oz. of gum acacia in a wine- glass of boiling water; add plaster of Paris sufficient to form a thick paste, and apply it with a brush to the parts required to be cemented togetlier. Several articles upon our toilet table have been repaired most effectually by this recipe. Capacity of Cisterns or Wells. —Tabular view of the 414 DR. chase's recipes. numbor of gallons contained in the clear, between the brick-work^ for each ten inches of depth: DIAMETER. GAL. 2 feet equal 19 30 ••,. 44 60 78 99 ,.- 122 ,.; 148 176 207 240 275 2^ 3 3i 4 5 6- ?i 7i DIAMETER. 8 9 9i 10 11 12 1 o - *• 20 25 GAL- (( 353 It 396 (( ^ 461 489 (< 592 .( (( (( << 705 827 959 1101 1958 3059 Disinfecting Fumugation. — Common salt. 3 oz3,; black man- ganese, oil of vitroil, of each, 1 oz. ; water. 2 ozs, ; carried in a cup through the apartments of the sick; or the apartments in- tended to be fumigated, where sickness has been, may be shut up for an hour or two, and then opened. Coffee a Disinfectant. — Numerous experiments with roasted coflfee prove that it is the most powerful mean8,not only of render- dering animal and vegetable effluvia innocuous, but of actually de- stroying them. The best mode of using the coffee as a di.dnfectant is to dry the raw bean, pound it in the mortar, and then roast the powder on a moderately heated iron plate, until it assumes a dark brown tint, when it is fit for use. Then sprinkle it in sinks or cesspools, or lay it on a plate in the room which you wish to have purified. Coffee acid or coffee oil acta more readily in minute quantities. Charcoal as a Disinfectant. — The great efficacy of wood and animal charcoal in absorbing effluvia, and the greater number of gases and vapors has long been known. Charcoal powder has also, during many centuries, been advantageously employed as a filter for putrid water, the object in view being to deprive the water of numerous organic impurities diffused through it, which exert injurious effects on the animal economy. Charcoal not only absorbs effluvia and gaseous bodies, but especially when in con- tact with atmospheric air, oxidizes and destroys many of the easily alterable ones, by resolving them into the simplest combi- nationa. they are capable of forming, which are chiefly water and carbonic acid. >. Flies to Destroy. — A teaspoon of laudanum, and two table- spoons of water, strongly sweetened with sugar, placed in a saucer. Or dissolve quassia chips in boiling water, and sweeten. Or a strong infusion of green tea, well sweetened. Or ground black pepper and sugar, diluted in milk, and put on plates, etc. m APPENDIX. 415 Flies to Keep Off, — Dust meat over with pepper, or powdered ginger, or fasten it to a piece of paper on which cam* phor has been well rubbed, or a few drops of creosote. Mixture for Destroying Flies. — Infusion of quassia, 1 pt., brown sugar, 4 ozs., ground pepper, 2 ozs. To be well mixed to- gether and put in small shallow dishes when required. To Destroy Flies in a room, take half a teasjioonful of black pepper in powder, 1 teaspoon of brown sugar, and 1 tablespoon of cream, mix them well together and place them in the room on a plate, where the JSies are troublesome, and they will soon disappear. Flies. — Cold green tea, very strong, and sweetened with sugar, will, when set about the room in saucers, attract flies, and destroy them. Grease, to Clean From Floors.— Spread over the stain a thick coat of soft soap, then pass a heated flat-iron a few times across it, after which wash immediately, first with fullers' earth water, and then clean water. Grease Spots, to Remove. -The application of spirits of tur- pentine, and a little essence of lemon, wash with soap and water. Some wash with alum water, or white soap, potass, and ox-gall, or with sour butter-miik, mixed with strong ascetic acid. — Or apply a solution of magnesia. Grease Spots, to Remove From Books. — Moisten the spot with a camel-hair pencil dipped in spirits of turpentine; when dry, moisten with spirits of wine. Grease, to Remove From Cloth. — Soft soap, and fullers' €arth, i lb. ; beat well together in a mortar, and form into cakes. The spot, first moistened with water, is rubbed with a cake, and allowed to dry, when it i^ well rubbed with a little warm water, and rinsed, or rubbed oflf clean. To Prevent Moths. — In the^ month of April or May, beat your fur garments with a small cane or elastic stick; then wrap them up in linen, without pressing the fur too hard, and put be- twixt the folds some camphor in small lumps; then put your furs in this state in boxes well closed. When the furs are wanted for nse, then beat them well as before, and expose them for twenty- four hours to the air, which will take away the smell of the eamphor. If the fur has long hair, as bear or fox, add to the camphor an equal quantity of black pepper in powder. To Free Plants From Leaf-Lice.— M. Braun, of Viennsi, gives the following as a cheap and easy mode of effecting it: — Mix 1 oz. of flour of sulphur with 1 bushel of sawdust; scatter this over the plants infected with these insects,, and they will soon be freed,*though the second application may possibly be necessary. Destruction OF Rats. — The following recipe for the destruc- tion of rats has been communicated by Dr,Ure to the council of the English Agricultural Society, and is highly recommended as the best known means of getting rid of these most obnoxious and de- 4.16 DR. CHASE S RECIPES. struotive vermm. It has been tried by several intelligent persons and found perfectly effectual. Melt bog's lard in a bottle plunged in water, hfeated to about 150 deg. of Fahr. ; introduced into \ oz, of phosphorus for every pound of lard; then add a pint •f proof spirits, or whisky; cork the bottle firmly after its con> tents have been heated to 1 50 deg. , taking it at the same time out of the water, and agitate smartly until the phosphrous be- ' come uniformly diflFused, forming a milky looking liquid. This liquid, being cooled, willa£Ford a white compound of phosphorus and lard, from which the spirit spontaneously separates, and may be poured off to be used again, for none of it enters into the com- bination, but it merely serves to comminute the phosphorus, and diffuse it in very fine particles through the lard. This compound, on being warmed very gently, may be poured out into a mix- ture of wheat, flour and sugar, incorporated therewith, and then flavored with oil of rhodium, or not, at pleasure. The flavor may be varied with oil of aniseed, etc. This dough being made into pellets, is to be laid in rat-holes. By its laminousness in the dark, it attracts their notice, and being agreeable to their palates and noses, it is readily eaten; and proves certainly fatal. Razor, to Sharpen. — The simplest method of sharpening a razor is to put it for half an hour in water to which has been added one- twentieth of its weight of muriatic or sulphuric acid, and after a few hours, set it on a hone. The acid actu as a whetstone, by corroding the whole surface uniformly, so that nothing fur- ther than a smooth polish is necessary. Razor, to Smooth — Pass the razor on the inside of your hand, first warming it before the fire. Or, use the strap of a soldier's knapsack, or calf leather, on which some fine blacklead has been rubbed and consolidated to a slight surface. Razor, Strop, and Paste. — It may be made of rough, calf leather, two or three inches broad, or of the strap of a soldier's knapsack. Upon it spread powdered oxalic acid and candle- snuffs, with a little tallow. — Or spread upon it crocus martis and fine tallow. — Or, emery ground as fine as possible, mixed with spermaceti or fine tallow. — Or, glue, ^ oz.; molasses, | oz,; steep the glue in water to soften it, and then boil both together for a few minutes, and crocus martis, or fine emery powder, and then spread on the leather. When you' use it apply first a drop or two of sweet oil. SIGNS OF THE WEATHER— Dew.— If the dew lies plenti- fully on the grass after a fair day, it is a sign of another fair day. If not, and there is no wind, rain must follow. A red evening portends fine weather; but if it spi;ead .too far upwards from the horizon in the evening, and especially in the %noming, it foretells wind or rain, or both. When t^e sky, in rainy weather, is tinged with sea green, the rain will increase; if with deep blue, it will be showery. ^^.> ■■M «i.i ) 1^