The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tablesAdams, Samuel, servant
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The complete servant: Being a practical guide to the peculiar duties and business of all descriptions of servants, from the housekeeper to the servant of all-work, and from the land steward to the foot-boy. With useful receipts and tables
Adams, Samuel, servant
Home economics; Household employees
A large tea-cupful of linseed, two pennyworth of stick-liquorice, and
a quarter of a pound of sun raisins, put to two quarts of soft water,
and simmered over a slow fire, till reduced one-third or more; add
thereto a quarter of a pound of sugar-candy pounded, a table-spoonful
of old rum, and a table-spoonful of white wine vinegar, or
lemon-juice. Note—the rum and vinegar should be added only to the
quantity which is about to be taken immediately. Drink half a pint
at going to bed, or a small quantity at any time when the cough is
troublesome.
FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL OR WINTER COUGH, BY SIR WILLIAM KNIGHTON, BART.
Take of almond emulsion, 7½ ounces; syrup of white poppies, oxymel
of squills, of each two drams; compound powder of gum tragacanth, one
dram. Two table-spoonsful to be taken frequently.
FOR A SORE THROAT.
Inhale the steam of hot vinegar, through the spout of a tea-pot, or
a funnel, for about half an hour just before you go to bed:—also
two or three times in the course of the day, and keep at home. A
piece of flannel dipped in hartshorn will be serviceable, applied
when going to bed. In a relaxed sore throat, a few lumps of sugar
dipped in brandy, and gradually dissolved in the mouth, will be very
efficacious.
FOR A COLD.
Bathe the legs and feet in warm water at night, and take, going into
bed, a drink of hot whey, with 4 grains of nitre.
If a sore throat, tie round it three or four folds of flannel
sprinkled with spirits.
BATHING THE FEET AND LEGS IN WARM WATER AT NIGHT.
This is an excellent remedy in all cases of colds, coughs,
hoarseness, pains and head-aches; for in the above-mentioned
complaints, inflammation, or undue determination of blood to the
part affected, is present. After this operation the patient should
instantly go to bed.
TO CLEAN THE TEETH AND GUMS, AND MAKE THE FLESH GROW CLOSE TO THE ROOT
OF THE ENAMEL.
One ounce of myrrh, in fine powder, two spoonsful of the best honey,
and a little sage, in fine powder, mixed together, with which rub the
teeth and gums night and morning.
A PRESERVATIVE FROM THE TOOTH-ACHE.
After having washed your mouth with water, rinse the mouth with a
tea-spoonful of lavender water mixed with an equal quantity of warm
or cold water, to diminish its activity.
_Another._
To a table-spoonful of any spirit, and the same quantity of vinegar,
add a tea-spoonful of salt. When mixed, hold the liquid in your
mouth, so as to enter the cavity of the tooth.
WARTS AND CORNS.
Red spurge destroys warts and corns.
WARTS.
Cut an apple, and rub it for a few minutes over the wart; the juice
of the apple will loosen the wart, and in a few days it will drop
off. Any strong acid, either vegetable or mineral, has the same
tendency.
CORNS.
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