Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)
Counts 2 of 3 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.
What these numbers assume — 2 portions →
| Ingredient | Portion assumed | kcal |
|---|---|---|
| Pea | 1/2 cup (72g) | 62 |
| Sugar | 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated | 49 |
| Camphor | not in our table | 0 |
Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.
Ingredients
- two grains of quinine
- three drops on a lump of sugar may be taken inwardly
- one wineglassful taken three times a day is a good anti-bilious alterative
- a piece of camphor gum as large as a pea
- a small piece of cotton saturated
- an ounce of pre- ventive is worth a pound of cure any time
- a pound of cure any time
- a piece of flannel
- one must be very careful how they use
- one who has an attack of lockjaw take a small quantity of turpentine
Directions
First on the list is a good bottle of camphor (the gum cut with alco- hol) for use in case of headache, faintness, or if one is hurt or stung by bees ; taken in small quantities for pain in the stomach, it gives great reUef, but one must be very careful how they use it. If taken in too large quantities, camphor, or the gum either, is very dangerous. Never wet the hair with it for headache, or the result will be that the hair will fall out, which would be very unpleasant, to say the least ; but bathe the temples, forehead, and back of the neck with it (camphor), then wet a cloth in hot water and lay over the forehead and eyes, also soak the feet in hot water. Then keep the patient quiet. If your headache is not very obstinate it will be persuaded to desist. This treatment will greatly relieve sick headache, and sometimes cure, as the soaking of the feet reheves nausea of the stomach.
If you have a sore throat, slight or serious, a piece of camphor gum as large as a pea, kept in the mouth until dissolved, will give relief and ofttimes cure. It is said by good authority, if the gum is used in season you will never have diphtheria — it is a good preventive. The second best remedy is magnetic ointment for outward application; for sore throat, sick headache, earache, burns, scalds, cuts, wounds and inflam- mation, etc., and it cannot be equaled.
Then there is the indispensable bottle of pain killer. There are sev- eral kinds which are good. It is used for all kinds of aches and pains. A teaspoonful taken two or three times a day in case of dysentery is very beneficial. Also keep laudanum, quinine, and some mild cathartic around. With the above one can feel quite safe, even in cases of emergency. A small piece of cotton saturated with laudanum and placed in an aching ear, or the cavity of an aching tooth, with a hot flannel cloth placed to the face, often gives a good night's rest, which, if omitted, would cause great suffering and loss of sleep.
One or two grains of quinine, taken just before each meal, will give an appetite and often throw off fever, if taken in time (an ounce of pre- ventive is worth a pound of cure any time) and when a person has a bad taste in the mouth, feels a loss of ambition, chills creeping over them, and a desire to yawn often, there is nothing better than quinine taken as directed above. Always take a mild cathartic at the time ; this will cleanse the system ofttimes, without the aid of other medicines.
There is nothing better for a cut than powdered rosin. Get a few cents worth of rosin, pound it until it is fine, and put it in an empty, clean pepper or spice box with perforated top ; then you can easily sift it out on the cut, put a soft cloth around the injured member and wet it with cold water once in a while. It will prevent inflammation and soreness.
SIMPLE REMEDIES IN SICKNESS. 251
In doing up a burn the main point is to keep the air from it. If sweet oil and cotton are not at hand, take a cloth and spread dry flour over it. and wrap the burned part in it. It is always well to have some simple remedies in the house where you can get them without a moment's loss of time ; a little bottle of peppermint, in case of colic, chlorate of potash for sore throat, pepsin for indigestion, and a bottle of brandy.
Very few persons are aware what a valuable auxiliary turpentine is in many diseases. It is a sovereign remedy for croup. Saturate a piece of flannel in it, and place the flannel on the throat and chest and occa- sionally two or three drops on a lump of sugar may be taken inwardly.
Nothing better than turpentine can be applied to a severe cut or bruise, and it will give certain relief almost instantly. Let any one who has an attack of lockjaw take a small quantity of turpentine, warm it and pour on the wound, no matter where it is, and relief will follow in less than a minute. Flannel cloth wrung out of turpentine into hot water, as hot as the patient can bear, is. one of the best of remedies for inflammation.
Hops, also, have many uses. A handful of them steeped in a quart bowl (always steep in earthen) of water until the strength is extracted, strained and sweetened with loaf sugar, and bottled for use, is as good or better than any hop bitters ever purchased. Dose, one wineglassful taken three times a day is a good anti-bilious alterative and tonic for ordinary family purposes.
For outward application, make some small bags of cotton six inches square and fill with hops. When the face aches, or the head is in pain, or the throat and chest are sore, heat one or more of these bags very hot, up to scorching the cloth even, and apply to the suffering part. It is a great improvement on wet cloths, or wet applications of any kind.
Keep rolls of old pieces of cotton, woolen and linen for use in the sickroom. In times of health always be prepared and preparing for sickness and accident with all things needful.