Mother's Remedies by Thomas Jefferson Ritter (positive books to read txt) 📕

cents. [PATENT MEDICINES 477] GRANDMOTHER'S OWN COUGH REMEDY.

One green paneled bottle contains seven and one-half fluid ounces of a brownish-yellow, semi-clear, very sweet, thickish liquid, of a tarry odor, and pronounced taste and smell of chloroform. From a close examination we have ascertained that an exactly similar preparation is easily made In the following way:

Rub well together:—

    Liquid Tar 5 grains
    Fluid Extract Hemlock 1 fluid dram
    Powdered White Sugar 2 ounces av.

and add

    Alcohol 1/2 fluid ounce
    Aquae 1-1/2 fluid ounces
    Molasses 3 ounces av.
    Fluid Extract Ipecac 8 minims

Mix well and add finally

Chloroform 1 fluid dram

Mix. The above amount would cost about 25 cents.

HEART DISEASES, FLUTTERING, PALPITATION, ETC.

    Tincture Digitalis 2 drams
    Elixir Valerian 1 ounce
    Simple Syrup to make 4 ounces

Mix. Dose: Teaspoonful at once. In ten minutes another, and afterward every four hours for twenty-four hours or less.

When there is fluttering or palpitation of the heart, do not get excited but use the above, it is the best thing you can use in this trouble.

The above amount would cost about 30 cents.

GREEN MOUNTAIN SALVE.

    Resin 1 pound
    Burgundy Pitch 1 ounce
    Beeswax 1 ounce
    Mutton Tallow 1 ounce
    Oil of Hemlock 2 drams
    Balsam Fir 2 drams
    Oil Origanum 2 drams
    Oil of Red Cedar 2 drams
    Venice Turpentine, 2 drams
    Oil Wormwood 1/2 dram
    Copper Acetate 2 drams

Melt the first articles together, and add the oils; having rubbed up the copper acetate with a little oil, put it in with the other articles, stirring well; then put into cold water and work until cold enough to roll.

The above amount, over thirty-six ounces, would cost about 50 cents.

IRON TONIC BITTERS.

    Elixir Calisay and Iron 4 ounces
    Alcohol 1 ounce
    Pure Water 2 ounces
    Syrup Simple 1 ounce

Mix. Dose: One teaspoonful four times a day.

The above amount would cost about 35 cents.

[478 MOTHERS' REMEDIES] GUNN'S RHEUMATIC LINIMENT.

    Oleum Olivi 1 ounce
    Oil Cedar 1 ounce
    Oil Amber 1 ounce

Take camphor gum one-half ounce; rub in a mortar with alcohol or sulphuric ether till pulverized, and while damp add

    Oleum Olivi 1/2 ounce
    Turpentine 1/2 ounce
    Laudanum 1/2 ounce

After which add the first three articles. The above amount would cost about 40 cents.

ITCH OINTMENT.

    Lac. Sulphur 160 grains
    Naphthaline 10 grains
    Oil Bergamot 4 drops
    Cosmoline 1 ounce
    This is good.

Rub Lac. Sulphur into fine powder, sift it into the melted cosmoline and stir until nearly cool, then add napthaline and oil bergamot. Stir until cool.

The above amount would cost about 25 cents.

HAINES'S GOLDEN SPECIFIC FOR OPIUM HABIT.

    Myrica Cerif 8 ounces
    Ginger Powdered 3 ounces
    Capsicum, powdered 1/2 ounce
    Mix. The above amount would cost about 40 cents.

KIDNEY AND LIVER CURE.

    Fluid Extract Cascara Sagrada 1 ounce
    Fluid Extract Uva Ursi 1 ounce
    Fluid Extract Buchu 1 ounce
    Tincture Gentian Compound 1/2 ounce
    Syrup Simplicis to make 16 ounces

Mix. Dose: Teaspoonful four times daily or less dose if bowels move too freely.

The above amount would cost about 80 cents.

DR. B. W. HAIR'S ASTHMA CURE:

    Potassii Iodidi 1 ounce
    Tar Water 16 fluid ounces
    Carmel sufficient to color light brown or about 30 grains

The above amount would cost about 60 cents.

[PATENT MEDICINES 479] LINIMENT.

    Chloroform 3 drams
    Oil Cloves 1 dram
    Tincture Opii 1 ounce
    Oil Sassafras 2 drams
    Aromatic Spirits Ammonia 2 drams
    Alcohol to make 6 ounces
    Mix. This is excellent.

This liniment is for household use; in sprains, bruises, cuts, and bites from insects it cannot be excelled. It is a very fine liniment to keep on hand.

The above amount would cost about 50 cents.

HALL'S HAIR RENEWER.

    Sulphur Precipitated 1/2 dram
    Lead Acetate 1/2 dram
    Sodium Chloride 1 dram
    Glycerin 4 ounces
    Bay rum 1 ounce
    Jamaica rum 2 ounces
    Water enough to make 8 ounces

The above amount, nearly pint, would cost about 35 cents.

LINIMENT.

    Camphor Gum 1/2 ounce
    Tincture of Capsid 1/2 ounce
    Oil of Turpentine 1/4 ounce
    Water Ammonia, U. S. P 5 ounces
    Alcohol enough to make 12 ounces

Dissolve camphor gum and turpentine in alcohol and add balance of ingredients. Do not use internally. The above amount would cost about 35 cents.

HAMBURG DROPS.

    Powdered Socotrine Aloes 1-1/2 ounces
    American Saffron 1/2 ounce
    Tincture Myrrh 16 ounces

Macerate for fourteen days and filter through paper.

The above amount would cost about $1.00.

LIVER PILLS.

    Aloin 5 grains
    Podophyllin 10 grains
    Capsicum Powder 5 grains
    Extract Nux Vomica 10 grains
    Henbane 1 grain

Mix. Make fifty pills. Dose: Take one or two at night.

This little pill is one which you can always depend on and in old chronic cases, torpid liver and constipated bowels, these pills if kept up will make a permanent cure. The above amount would cost about 40 cents.

[480 MOTHERS' REMEDIES] HAMLIN'S WIZARD OIL.

    Alcohol 1 pint
    Gum Camphor 1 ounce
    Oil Sassafras 1/2 ounce
    Tincture Myrrh 1/2 ounce
    Tincture Capsicum 1/2 ounce
    Chloroform 1/2 ounce
    Mix.

I consider this recipe as harmless (and useful too) as Hamlin's famous
Wizard Oil, and I believe it is as perfect an analysis as we can get.

The above amount would cost about 60 cents.

NEW YORK SUN CHOLERA CURE.

    Essence Peppermint 1 ounce
    Laudanum 1 ounce
    Tincture Rhei 1 ounce
    Tincture Camphor 1 ounce
    Tincture Capsicum 1 ounce

Mix. Dose: Teaspoonful every ten minutes for three doses if necessary.

This preparation has a national reputation, and is certainly the very best preparation you could keep on hand for immediate relief from cramps, colic, and diarrhea, and no family should be without it. This preparation alone is worth the price of the book.

The above amount would cost about 50 cents.

HINKLEY'S BONE LINIMENT.

    Oil of Wormwood 40 minims
    Oil of Hemlock 2 drams
    Oil of Thyme 2 drams
    Oil of Turpentine 4 drams
    Fluid Extract Capsicum 1 dram
    Alcohol to make 4 ounces
    Mix. The above amount would cost about 25 cents.

NERVOUSNESS.

    Tincture Chloride of Iron 1 ounce
    Aromatic Spirits Ammonia 1 ounce
    Compound Spirits Lavender l ounce

Mix. Good when run down. Dose: Fifteen drops four times a day.

People suffering from nervousness, fainting spells or shortness of breath, can obtain relief from a few doses of this medicine. The above amount would cost about 30 cents.

[PATENT MEDICINES 481] HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT.

The formula for this preparation is said to be:

    Yellow Wax 2-1/2 drams
    White Wax 2-1/2 drams
    Terebinth 6 drams
    Lard 13 drams
    Sweet Oil 19 drams

Mix. The above amount would cost about 40 cents.

NEURALGIA.

    Acetanilid 160 grains
    Sodium Bicarbonate 15 grains
    Tartaric Acid 5 grains
    Simple Elixir