The House-Keeper's Guide and Indian Doctor

1851, and one small book promises ice creams, perfumery, soap, furniture polish, a complete system of doctoring — and model letters for every occasion.

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7 recipes in this part of The House-Keeper's Guide and Indian Doctor.

Ice Cream, No

2.-Boil a quart of cream, make it sweet with white sugar, flavor with lemon, vanilla or extract of orange-flower water; when cold, freeze…

Inflammation of the Bowels

Apply a mustard plaster until sufficient irritation is produced, and, on taking it off, flannel dipped in hot water should be applied every…

Intermittent Fever

Take, on the first appearance of the symptoms, a dose of rhubarb and magnesia, or epsom salts; and after they have operated, place the feet…

Itch

Take a quarter of a pound of hog's lard, two ounces of turpentine, one ounce of flour of sulphur, and mix them together thoroughly. Apply…

Inward Ulcers

Take a quarter of a pound of sassafras root bark, a quarter of a pound of colt's foot root, two ounces of gum myrrh, two ounces of winter…

Inward Ulcers, No

2-Steep two ounces each of colt's foot root, sassafras root bark, and blood-root, and one ounce of the gum myrrh, in two quarts of brandy…

Involuntary Swellings

Make an ointment of melilot, saffron, sugar of lead, and elder tags, stewed in hog's lard fifteen minutes, and strained. Anoint the…

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