CJass. FRE.SEXTCl) iiY 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS, WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD. A. THIRTY YEu^RS' COLLECTIOHN", By JOH^ MARQUART, LEBANON, PA. TO WHICH IS ADDED TWO SIMPLE GAUGING TABLES, TO ENABLE MERCHANTS TO TAKE INVENTORY OF THEIR STOCK. LEBANON, PA.: PUBLISHED BY CHRISTIAN HENRY. C. p. PERRY, BINDER AND PRINTER, COR. FOURTH & RACE, PHILADA. 1860. 4,^ ^t^ Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by CHRISTIAN HENRY, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. STEREOTTPKD BY L. JOHNSON i CO. PHILADELPHIA. PREFACE. T The title of this work is '* Six Hundred Miscel- laneous Valuable Keceipts, Worth their Weight IN Gold." The indication of it will at once show to the reader what he may expect by procuring a copy of it ; and, by perusing thoroughly the contents, he will be perfectly persuaded to have a copy of the same, let the cost be what it may; ancj that it will — what its title indicates — be worth its weight in gold. There should not be a family, young gentleman or lady, without a copy of this valuable book. It is not the great number of receipts that makes a book valuable ; only the usefulness is appreciated. The reader is referred to the Index to find what he wants. The heading of each department is in alphabetical order, and he will see it commences with a B, Bat- tery ; C, Cakes and Pies ; D, Diseases in human beings ; &c. &c. ; and each department is subdivided into an alphabetical order. For example : you have a sick horse ; all you have to do is to look for the H in the index, and you will find at the heading of this depart- ment ^'Horse-diseases, cures for," and whatever the disease may be you can find under this head. Say you want a cure for the gripes in a horse : look for "Gripes, cure for," and the corresponding number 4 PREFACE. will be 444, which, after you have found this number, will be what you want to cure the gripes with ; and so on with every receipt you want to make use of, which is so simple that any school-boy who is able to read can find. The object of this book is to show in a clear and comprehensive manner how to use the within-mentioned receipts ; and they are embodied in as little space and as simple language as possible, and include all the information derived from them. The compiler has been thirty years in collecting some of the ^' Six Hundred Miscellaneous Valuable Re- ceipts, worth their weight in gold,'' some of which never before appeared in print, and some have been col- lected from the very best of works treating on this subject. His aim has always been to include all the very best and most useful and valuable receipts. It is not deemed necessary to comment on the useful- ness of the contents of this work, as all will have ample remuneration for the money laid out to pos- sess a copy of it. In the performance of the task of collecting these '^ Six Hundred Miscellaneous Valu- able Receipts,'' the chief aim was to render this book as extensively useful as possible. It is confidently believed that it will form a course of useful science for the farmer, mechanic, merchant, tradesman and professional man, as well as the heads of families and their children ; and it is also believed that there are few persons who will not find, on looking over its contents, some articles that will be useful and inte- PREFACE. O resting to them. The receipts are so simpie and plain that he who reads can understand. Should any of the readers wish to make use of some one of the receipts, and have not the necessary scales or measures for the compounding of the same, he only has to copy it off and go to a druggist, who will at once compound the article for him. And any person that wishes to manufacture for wholesaling articles, and the quantity of the ingredients men- tioned in the receipts is too large or too small, he, in either case, must make the ingredients in propor- tion to the quantity he intends to manufacture ; and he must also be careful to get always the very best of ingredients, or he may not succeed in getting the articles desired. The contents of this work, or heads of the different departments in the index, are as follows, to wit: — Battery, galvanic, how to construct for gilding and silver-plating. Bedbug-poison, how to make. Brandy, how to imitate foreign, &c. Beverages, how to make. Blacking, how to make. Brass polish, how to make. Burning-fluid, how to make. Butter, rancid, how to cure. Cakes, how to bake. Cider, how to make anil keep good. Cements, how to make. Cordials, how to make. Cow-diseases, cures for. Diseases in human beings, cures for. Dyieing, how to manage. Eggs, how to preserve. Extract of vanilla, how to make. Foul smell, how- to destroy. Fish, how to keep fresh. Gilding edges 1* b PREFACE. of paper. Gin, Holland, how to imitate. Gloves, how to clean. Grease-spots, how to remove. Horse- diseases, cures for. Hams, how to cure. Ice-cream, how to make. Inks, writing, &c., how to make. Lard candles, how to make. Lime-water, how to make. Milk, how to preserve. Mildew, how to take out of linen. Painters, how to mix different colors to make different shades, &c. Perfumery, how to make. Pickle, how to make to cure meat. Printers' ink, how to make. Preserves, &c., how to make. Hectifying raw whiskey, how to put up stands. Hum, how to imitate. Sealing-wax, how to make. Sheep, cures for. Sugar, how to clarify, and how to boil coloring. Silk, how to clean. Silver, how to plate with, and German, how to make. Soldering without fire. Spirits, Jamaica, how to imitate. Swine, cures for. Syrup, simple, how to boil. Tinc- tures, how to make. Washing, how to save labor. Water-proof, how to make. Whitewash, brilliant, how to make. Wines, domestic, how to make, and foreign, how to imitate. Whiskey, Monongahela, &c., how to make. Yeast, how to make for dis- tillers, &c. To which is also added gauging regular-lying casks, which will enable any person to ascertain in a few minutes what number of gallons are contained in regular-shaped casks of different dimensions, when full or partly full, which is very handy to merchants in taking an inventory of their stock. INDEX. Receipt Battery, Galvanic — To construct, for Gilding and Silver plating 488 Bedbug-Poison 536 Brandy — Blackberry, how to make. No. 1 311 Blackberry, " " No. 2 316 Bordeaux, to imitate 303 Cherry, how to make. No. 1 304 Cherry, " " No. 2 312 Cherry, " " No. 3 314 Cognac, to imitate. No. 1 293 Cognac," " No. 2 294 Cognac, " " No. 3 295 Cognac," " No. 4 296 Cognac," " No. 5 301 Common, how to make 305 Domestic, " " 306 French, how to imitate. No. 1 297 French, " " No. 2 298 French, " " No. 3 307 French, " " No. 4 308 French, " " No. 5 309 Ginger, how to make 319 Lavender, '* " 318 Peach, " " 310 Raspberry," " 313 Rochelle, how to imitate. No. 1 300 Rochelle, " " No. 2 302 Rochelle, " " No. 3 317 Rose, how to make 315 7 8 INDEX. Receipt Beverages — Cottage Beer, how to make 86 Cream Beer, how to make 92 Gas, " " " 91 Ginger pleasant, how to make 94 Ginger Powder, " " 95 Ginger Imperial, " *' 89 Ginger Beer, " *' 88 Ginger Pop, " *' 96 Mead 93 Mead, Sassafras 98 Spruce Beer 87 Spruce White 90 Pineapple-ade 99 Silver top 97 Blacking — Harness, &c., how to make 560 Jet, for harness and boots 590 Japan, for leather 589 Liquid, how to make. No. 1 247 Liquid, '' " No. 2 248 Oil paste, " ** No. 1 50 Oil paste, " " No. 2 251 Brass — Polish for .' 72 yy^ Burning-Fluid, how to make ; 540 Butter — Bad, to improve 512 Rancid, to cure 511 To cure, that it will keep for years 513 Cakes and Pies — Bread-cheese, how to bake 126 Buns, how to bake 133 Biscuits, " " 109 Cider, " " Ill Cream, " " 130 Cup, " " 113 Custard, without eggs 116 Frosting, how to 101 Ginger, how to bake 114 Green corn Omelet 522 Lemon, how to bake. No. 1 102 Lemon, " " No. 2 129 Lemon, white, how to bake 105 Lemon pies, *' " 110 INDEX. 9 Receipt Cakes and Pies — Mock mince pies 108 Muffins 131 Pound cake, plain, how to bake 127 Queen " " " 103 Eice " " *' 128 Rusks, " " No. 1 107 Rusks, " " No. 2 132 Sponge cake, " " 104 Strasbourg " " " 106 Sugar *' " " 112 Cider — General Rules to make 266 How to make 262 How to manage 263 Observations on 265 Raisin, how to make 264 Rule for making good 267 To keep good for years , 268 To keep good 269 Cements — Crockery 508 Hard, for seams 509 Liquid 507 Water and fire proof 510 Which will get as hard as a stone 506 Cordials — Aniseed 253 Citron 254 Cinnamon 256 Cloves 258 Orange 257 Peppermint. No. 1 255 Peppermint. No. 2 261 Rose 260 Strawberry 259 Spirits, for beverage, to manufacture 252 Cow-Diseases — Cure for distemper in cattle 465 Flesh-wounds in cattle, tincture for 559 Frenzy, or inflammation of the brain 482 Garget in cows 447 Hoven or blown in cattle, cure for 479 Hoven in cattle, Mr. Gowen's simple remedy 432^ Method to cure the frenzy 483 10 INDEX. Receipt Cow-Diseases — Paunching 484 Pleura Pneumonia in cattle, cure for 556 Purging drink 480 Red-water in cattle, to cure 468 Scouring, in cattle, " *' 469 Scouring 558 Swelled cattle with green food, cure for 470 Tar-water for cattle 466 Worms or bots in cattle or horses 557 Yellows or jaundice in cattle, cure for 481 Diseases in Human Beings, Cures for — Balsam-de-Malda, how to make 6 Balsam Locatellis, how to make 35 Bitters, German, *' " 36 Blood-spitting, cure for 553 Burning and scalding, cure for 15 Burns and scalds, '* " No. 1 19 Burns and scalds, " " No. 2 20 Burns, liniment for.... 34 Carlcer, cure for. No. 1 69 Cancer, " " No. 2 70 Cancer, " " No. 3 71 Cerate, simple, how to make 30 Chilblain, frost-bitten, cure for 14 Colds, cure for 75 Consumption, cure for 59 Corns, certain cure for 535" Corns, cure for '. 9 Cough, " " 45 Cough-drops , 41 Cough-drops, Dr. Monroe's 43 Cough-Mixture. No. 1 42 Cough-Syrup 545 Cough-drops. No. 2 550 Cramp in the stomach, cure for , 40 Croup, cure for 66 Diarrhoea, *' " 64 Dyspepsia, " " 44 Dropsy, " " 51 Dysentery, " " No. 1 j 68 INDEX. 11 Receipt Diseases in Human Bodies, Cure for— Dysentery. No. 2.. 526 Dysentery, cure for. No. 3 ^27 Dysentery and bloody flux ^28 Epilepsy, cure for ^^^ Erysipelas, " " Eye-water, how to make Eye-water or Collyrium ^^ Eye-water or Vitriolic Collyrium ^^ Felon, certain cure for Giddiness, cure for ^J Godfrey's Cordial, how to make ^2 Gravel, Turkish cure ^25 Headache, bilious or sick, cure for 5»' Hooping-cough, Dr. Barton's remedy 571 Liver-complaint, cure for Lip-salve Lockjaw, cure for ^^^ Life Tincture (a German medicine) 33 Liniment, children's sore throat 26 Mad dog bite, Dr. Stoy's cure 1 Mother-drops, Dr. Stoy's 4 Mother-drops, simple Mortification powders. Dr. Stoy's 2 Nails on toes, ingrowing '^ Nipples, sore, ointment for 531 No. 6 Medicine, how to make 7" Ointment to draw splinter out of the flesh 47 Paregoric elixir, how to make ol Peppermint-essence, how to make. 8 Piles, certain cure for 549 Piles, a mild aperient for 567 Piles, a cure for ^^2 28 Piles, liniment Piles, ointment for. No. 1 29 Piles, ointment " No. 2 498 Piles, ointment " No. 3 530 12 Piles, simple cure Purifying the blood ^^ Quinsy, cure for • ^^^ Kheumatism, cure for. No. 1 52 12 INDEX. Diseases in HuxMan Bodies, Cure tor — Receipt Eheumatism, cure for. No. 2 53 Eheumatism, " " No. 3 73 Rheumatism, " " No. 4 496 Rheumatic Gout, cure for. No. 1 497 Rheumatic Gout, " " No. 2 529 Rheumatism, inflammatory, remedy for 534 Rheumatism, liniment 5G1 Rheumatism, simple cure 562 Salt Rheum or Scurvy, cure for 544 Scabby heads on children, cure for 16 Scarlet Fever, cure for 62 Salt, medical use of. 65 Sleepless, how to make a tea for 17 Smallpox, cure for 63 Smallpox, " " 533 Sun-stroke, " " 551 Summer-complaint, cure for 37 Summer-complaint, Blackberry Syrup for ^ 39 Swelling from bruises, to prevent 27 Swinney, cure for. No. 1 24 . Swinney, " " No. 2 25 Tetter, " " No. 1 21 Tetter, " " No. 2 22 Tetter, Ringworm, Swinney, and Rheumatism 23 Toothache-drops 546 Toothache-preventive 600 Vermifuge, Hamilton's celebrated..., 54 White Swelling, cure for 74 Whitlow 554 Worms, Dr. Stoy's simple cure for 2 Dyeing — Aluming 160 Black, on silk 167 Black, inclining to purple, on wool and silk 185 Black, inclining to brown, " " 186 Black jet, on woollen 187 Black, on cotton 208 Blue-black, on silk 168 Blue, Prussian, on woollen 188 Blue vat, for silk and woollen 214 INDEX. 13 Receipt Dyeing — Blue, on silk 166 Brown, on silk 163 Brown, on silk dress 175 Brown, on woollen cloth, or cloth of any description 181 Brown, on the red cast 182 Brown, inclining to snuff. 184 Buff, on cotton 201 Brown, on cotton 204 Crimson, on silk 179 Dove, on silk 177 Drab, on cotton .' 205 Drab, on silk 176 Drab, on wool 191 Dye-liquors, preparing 161 Fancy dyeing, on cotton, various shades 198 • Flesh, on silk 180 General remarks 159 Gloss on silk, a fine 209 Gloss on silk 201 Gray, on silk 171 Green, on silk 164 Green, on wool 189 Green, on cotton 200 Indigo, Sulphate, how to make 165 Indigo, vat for cotton, "how to set 213 Lilac, on wool 190 Maroon, on silk 169 Olive, on silk 173 Olive-brown 183 Orange, on silk 170 Orange, on wool 197 Orange, annetto on cotton 202 . Pink, on silk 162 Purple, on cotton 207 Eed, on cotton 203 Eed, on wool 192 Slate, on cotton 206 Slate, on silk 172 Slate, on woollen 195 Stone, on silk 174 2 14 INDEX. Receipt Dyeing — Tin Liquor, No. 1, how to make 193 Tin Liquor, No. 2, " " 194 Tin Liquor, for pinks, scarlet, crimson, &c 211 Tin Liquor, for scarlet and crimson, on silk 212 Yellow, Turmeric 199 Yellow, on silk 178 Yellow, on woollen 196 Black, on leather 222 Blue, " 221 Purple, " 224 Red, Turkey, on leather 217 Eed, on leather 218 Shades, different, on leather 223 Yellow, on leather 219 Yellow, on leather 220 Blue, on straw 216 Red, " 215 Eggs — Preserving, to keep. No. 1 514 Preserving, " No. 2 515 Preserving, " No. 3 516 Extract — Vanilla 539 Foul Smell — To destroy 504 Fish — Fresh, how to keep 523 Gilding — Edges of paper 491 Gin — Holland, how to imitate. No. 1 277 Holland, '* " No. 2 278 Holland, " *' No. 3 279 Holland, " " No. 4 , 280 Holland, " *' No. 5 281 Country, how to make 282 Gloves — French Kid, how to clean 591 How to clean 592 Grease — Spots to remove, a liquid for 10 Spots to remove from woollen cloth 11 Horse-Diseases — Abscess, cure for 361 Adhesive Plaster, and sewing 354 Alterative Balls, for surfeit, mange, &c 435 Anbury, or wart 362 Anodyne medicine 449 Appetite, loss of. 364 INDEX. 15 Receipt Horse-Diseases — Astringent drink, after looseness 427 Astringent balls, for profuse staling 436 Bandage 355 Bladder, Inflamed 365 Bleeding, to stop 353 Bleeding in general 420 Bleeding, to stop, a paste for 461 Blood-Spavin 366 Blue water, for wounds, how to make 48 Bone-Spavin ,.. 368 Bots 369 Bowels, inflammation of. 372 Broken knees 376 Broken wind 374 Burns and Scalds 377 Canker 378 Canker, liniment for 379 Canker in the mouth, mixture for 464 Capped Hocks 380 Cold 381 Composition, for sand-cracks 410 Convulsions 382 Convulsions, clyster for 443 Cough 383 Cough-drink, for horses 428 Corns 384 Curb 385 Cracked Heels , 386 Diabetes 389 Diabetes, balls for 390 Drink, to check over-purging 426 Drink, for an inflammatory fever 431 Drink, for worms 439 Eyes 391 Eye-Water, No. 1 392 Eye-Water, No. 2 457 Farcy 394 Farcy, cure for 395 Fever-Balls 429 Film, or cataract 393 16 INDEX. Receipt Horse-Diseases — Food and Regimen 360 Fulness of blood 421 Foundered Feet 397 Grease 396 Grripes 387 Gripes, draught for. No. 1 388 Gripes, '* No. 2 445 Gripes, cure for 444 Gripes, further treatment 446 Gripes, white ball for 447 Hoof-bound , 398 Horse-Powder, how to make 13 Horse, how to make him drink freely 487 Inflammation of the lungs 458 Lameness 453 Lampass 399 Laudanum draught 448 Laxity 400 Laxative and diaphoretic powder 422 Lungs, inflammation of. 401 Mallenders 402 Mange 403 Mange, liniment for 456 Mange, ointment for 455 Mercurial ball, for worms 438 Molten Grease 404 Ointment 357 Ointment, Blistering 367 Ointment, Green 358 Paste-balls, for broken wind 375 Pectoral balls, for broken wind 434 Physic 424 Poll-Evil 405 Powerful mixture, for fever..... 430 Purging 423 Purgative balls 425 Purging-balls, for jaundice 432 Purging-balls, for worms 440 Quitter 470 Restorative balls after jaundice 433 INDEX. 17 Receipt Horse-Diseases — Restorative, for profuse staling 437 Eingbone ; 408 Sallenders 412 Salve, how to make for wounds 49 Sand-crack 409 Scratched Heels, ointment for 462 Sitfasts 411 Sores and Bruises 356 Sore Backs, cure for 485 Sprains, bracing mixture for 460 Sprains, embrocation for 459 Sprains, &c., lotion for 486 Staggers 363 Staggers, balls for 442 Strains 413 Strains in different parts, an astringent embrocation for 463 Stomach-drink after expulsion of the worms 441 Strangury 414 Strangles 415 Surfeit, or bad coat 451 Suppurating poultice 406 Treatment 373 Thrush 416 Thrush in feet, cure for 454 Treatment according to appearance of the part 359 Urine-balls 452 Vives 417 When on a journey 450 Wind-gall 418 Worms 370 Worms, remedy for 371 Wounds 419 Wounds, ointment for 46 Wounds in cattle, farrier's cure 352 Hams — To cure, without pickle 519 Ice-Cream — How to make : 134 Inks — Black writing, how to make 136 Black writing, cheap 137 Blue " No. 1 38 Blue " No. 2 143 2* 18 INDEX. ^ Receipt Inks— Green writing 570 Indelible, how to make 139 Japan black writing 135 Eed writing. No. 1 141 Eed writing. No. 2 142 Lard Candles — How to make 505 Lime-Water — How to make 18 Milk — How to preserve any length of time 115 How to preserve 568 Mildew — How to take out of linen 577 Painters — Colours, how to make different shades 225 Colours used, different names for 226 Linseed-oil, how to prepare, for boiling varnish 228 Linseed-oil, how to boil, for painting 229 Oils, different kinds used in painting 227 Paint, outside, cheap 575 Perfumery, &c. — Black Teeth, remedy for 83 Cologne, how to make 82 Cologne, superior article 541 Cologne : 537 Gums and Teeth, how to clean 84 Hair-Oil , 574 Hair-Oil, common 78 Hair-Oil, excellent 79 Hair-Grease, or ox-marrow imitated 80 Hair-Oil, how to make 77 Hair-restorative 543 Lotion for Freckles 547 Otto of Roses, how to make 588 Pomatum, ox-marrow 542 Pomade against baldness 564 Preventing hair falling out 538 Soap, Shaving, how to make 572 Soap, " best invented 573 Tooth-Powder, rose * 81 Tooth-Powder : 548 Pickle — To cure Hams, Pork, and Beef. 517 T. B. Hamilton's receipt 518 Printers' Ink — How to make 138 Printing-ink, excellent 597 INDEX. 19 Receipt Preserves, &c. — Barberries, how to make 123 Blackberry-Jam 520 Cherries, how to preserve 124 Cucumber-Catsup, how to make 503 Currants, how to preserve 125 Fruit, how to keep fresh 500 Fruit and Vegetables, how to preserve.... 501 How to keep 117 Peaches, how to preserve 119 Plums, elegant green 118 Plums, magnum-bonum 120 Quinces, how to preserve 121 Kaspberry-Jam 122 Tomato-Catsup, how to make. No. 1 499 Tomato-Catsup, " " No. 2 502 Razor-Strop-Powder 5/8 Rats — Poison, how to make 586 Rectifying — Raw whiskey, stand, how to put up 270 Rum — Jamaica, how to imitate. No. 1... 283 Jamaica, " " No. 2 284 Jamaica, " " No. 3 292 New England, " " No. 1 287 New England, " " No. 2 288 St. Croix, " " No. 1 289 St. Croix, " " No. 2 290 Sealing-Wax — Red, how to make 593 Black, " " No. 1 594 Black, • " " No. 2 595 Sheep — Foot-rot, cure for. No. 1 473 Foot-rot, " No. 2 474 Foot-rot, " No. 3 475 Foot-rot, prevention and cure 476 Maggots in 478 Scab, cure for 477 Sugar-Colouring — How to boil 343 How to clarify 100 Silk — Stained by corrosive or sharp liquors, how to clean 598 Silver — How to write in 599 Articles, how to clean 576 Copper, how to 563 20 -INDEX. Receipt Silver — German. No. 1 581 German. No. 2 582 German. No. 3 583 German. No. 4 584 German. No. 5 585 By heat 492 Plating fluid, galvanism simplified 489 Silvering of metal .% 565 Solution, for plating copper, brass, &c 490 Soldering — Iron or any other metal without fire , 566 Spirits — Jamaica, how to imitate 286 Pure, how to make 345 Pure, how to make by distillation 346 Swine — Cholera, how to cure with alum 569 Common diseases, how to cure 579 Measles, how to cure 471 Rupture in , 472 Syrup — Simple, how to make 344 Tinctures — Allspice, how to make 323 Cardamom-seed 321 Catechu 291 Cinnamon 320 Cloves 326 Japonica , 299 Kino , 285 Red Sanders 325 Rhatany 322 Saffron 323 Varnishes — Amber 236 Copal, how to boil. No. 1 230 Copal, " " No. 2 231 Copal, gold colour 232 Copal, to dissolve, in fixed oil 235 Harness, how to make for 240 Iron and Steel, how to make for 524 Leather, how to make for , 241 Leather, how to boil 243 Linseed-Oil 237 Seed-lac 233 Shellac 234 INDEX. 21 Receipt Varnishes— Sheet Iron 250 Straw and Chip Hats 249 Turpentine 238 White, hard 239 Vinegar — Cider, how to make 1^4 Common, " " 1^^ Currant, '* " 1^^ Elderberry, " " 1^^ Gooseberry, " " 1^0 German, " " 1^^ How to make. No. 1 l^^^J How to make. No. 2 144 How to make. No. 3 145 How to make. No. 4 147 Primrose, how to make 1^2 Raisin 1^^ Raspberry ^^^ Sugar ^^^ Wine 148 How to strengthen 1^^ How to sharpen, or increase sharpness 158 Venice Turpentine — How to make 242 Washing — Occupying one hour 493 Another receipt 494 Water-Proof — Leather, how to make 245 Leather preservative 246 Shoes and Boots, how to make 244 Whitewash — Brilliant ^55 Wines— Apple, how to make 342 Blackberry, " " ^21 British Champagne ^^1 Bottling ^38 Cider 340 Claret, how to imitate 333 Currant 339 Cypress 341 Fining 337 Lisbon, how to imitate 331 Madeira, " " No. 1 329 Madeira, " " No. 2 330 22 INDEX. Receipt Wines — Malaga, how to imitate 332 Port, " " No. 1 327 Port, " " No. 2 328 Racking 336 Sherry, how to imitate 334 Teneriffe, " " 335 Whiskey — Apple, how to imitate ., 273 Bourbon, " " 274 Irish, " " 275 Monongahela, how to make. No. 1 271 Monongahela, " " No. 2 271J Scotch, how to imitate 276 Wheat " '' 272 Yeast — Distillers' and Brewers', how to make, with hops.. 347 How to make another 348 Beer, how to make, with 349 600 No. 1. Doctor Stoy's Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog, Take 1 ounce of red chicken-weed, (gathered and dried in the shade during the month of June,) put it into 1 quart of strong (or brewers') beer, boil it down to 1 pint. Strain the tea through a clean linen cloth, then stir into the tea 1 ounce theriac so that it will be well mixed. The theriac is not to be boiled. Dose. — For a man with a strong constitution, one half-pint taken in the morning, sober, and the next morning the other half-pint, also sober. The patient ought to fast three hours after he has taken the medicine ; then he can eat bread and but- ter, or bread and molasses, for at least a week or ten days ; he must not eat any pork, nor any fish or water-fowls, and must not drink any water. He can drink any kind of tea, and he must not get angry or overheat himself for two weeks. For a person of a weak constitution, make 3 doses out of the above-prepared quantity, and also for children in proportion. 3 doses will be sufficient for a cure. For animals, the medicine must be doubled ; and its food, water and wheat bran, to be given warm. 23 24 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 2. Doctor Stoy's Simple Cure for Worins, Take ^ pound fresh butter, unsalted. 2 ounces of garlic, cut fine. Put the garlic into a pint of warm water, then strain it into the butter ; put it on hot coals, and mix it well through. No. 3. Doctor Stoy's Mortification- Powder, to prevent Lockjaw. Take ^ pound gunpowder. J pound brimstone. ^ pound alum. 1 ounce charcoal. Pulverize the above ingredients in a mortar, and mix thoroughly. Dose. — For a strong constitution, take as much as will lie on a ten-cent piece, in a small teaspoonful of strong vinegar. N.B. — The charcoal is only used in case of wounds, to dry them up. No. 4. Doctor Stoy's celebrated Mother-Drops, Take 1 ounce opium. 1 ounce castor. 1 ounce saffron. 1 ounce maple-seed. 1 quart Lisbon wine. Mix all the above ingredients, and distil in the sun or a warm stove for three weeks. Dose, — ^For adults, from 20 to 30 drops, twice a f 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 25 day, and for children from 5 to 10 drops, twice a day. No. 5. Simple Valuable Mother-Drops, Take J ounce ether. J ounce laudanum. 1 ounce essence of peppermint. Mix the above ingredients in a vial, and shake it well, when it will be ready for use. Z)o56.— One teaspoonful, or 60 drops, for adults. If one dose does not allay the pains in half an hour, take another. To children, give in proportion to their age. No. 6. How to make good Balsam-de-Malda, Take 3 ounces powdered benzoin. 2 ounces balsam of Peru. ^ ounce hepatic aloes in powder. 1 quart rectified spirits of wine. Put all the above ingredients into a bottle, and digest them in the sun or near a stove for a week or two ; then strain the balsam. Or you may use it by taking the clear from the top as you want. This balsam, or rather tincture, is applied exter- nally to heal recent wounds and bruises. It is like- wise employed internally to remove coughs, asthmas, and other complaints of the breast. It is said to ease the colic, cleanse the kidneys, and to heal internal ulcers, &c. Dose, — For adults, from 20 to 60 drops ; for chil- dren in proportion. 26 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 7. Mow to make No. 6. Thompsonian Medicine. Take 1 ounce Cayenne pepper. ^ ounce cloves, bruised. J ounce Russian castor. J ounce mace, bruised. 1 quart brandy. Put all into a bottle, and distil in tbe sun or near a warm stove for two weeks, when it will be ready ; you can strain it, if you think proper, or pour the clear oiF as you use it. Dose. — One teaspoonful, in 1 gill or half teacup- ful of warm water sweetened with sugar, for adults. For children, mix more water, and give in propor- tion. No. 8. To make good Essence of Peppermint Take 1 pint spirits of wine, (alcohol.) J ounce oil of mint. Mix and shake it well ; let it stand a day, and, if not clear, filter it through paper. Add a little tur- meric, to colour. No. 9. - A cure for Corns. Take nightshada-berries ; boil them in hog's lard, and anoint the corn with the salve. It will not fail to cure. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 2? No. 10. To make a liquid to remove Grease-spots out of Woollen Cloth. _ Take 1 quart spirits of wine, (alcohol.) 12 drops winter-green. 1 gill beef-gall. 6 cents' worth lavender. And a little alkanet, to colour, if you wish. Mix. No. 11. Another, to clean Woollen Cloth, Take equal parts spirits of hartshorn and ether. Or ox-gall mixed with it makes it better. No. 12. A certain and simple cure for Piles, Take 3 cigars ; rub them fine. 1 handful the inner bark of elder. 1 gill hog's lard. Boil all the above ingredients together, and, after it becomes cool, anoint the part a few times a day. No. 13. How to make Horse-Poioder, Take J pound foenugreek-seed in powder. I pound fiour of sulphur. J pound antimony, powdered. 1 pound cream of tartar. I pound saltpetre, powdered. Mix all the above ingredients thoroughly. j)ose,—l tablespoonful three times a week, mixed with their feed; and if the animal is sick, give every day. 28 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE KECEIPTS. No. 14. A simple cure for Chilblain^ {Frost-bitten.) Take alum, and dissolve in warm water, and apply it to the affected part. No. 15. A cure for Burning or Scalding, Take sweet oil, mix into it pulverized red chalk and white lead. Then take a feather and anoint the affected part. With children you must be careful that they do not scratch at the sore, or else it will leave a mark. No. 16. A cure for Scabby Heads on Children, Take 1 pound pickled pork. 1 pound cabbage. Boil the above the same as you would for eating; then skim it off, and wash the head with the liquid. No. 17. Hoio to make a Tea for a Sleepless person to Sleep, Make a tea of Jerusalem oak, which grows in the woods, and drink it, as you would any other tea, before going to bed. No. 18. How to make Lime -Water, Take J pound of unslaked lime; put it in an earthen pot ; pour 2 or 3 quarts of pure water on it ; cover the pot ; let it stand one day ; skim off the top, and take the clear water for use. To keep it any length of time, put it in bottles and seal them. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 29 No. 19. A cure for Burns and Scalds. No. 1. Mix in a bottle 3 ounces of olive-oil and 4 ounces of lime-water. Apply the mixture to the part burned live or six times a day, with a feather. Linseed-oil is equally as good. No. 20. Another cure for Burns and Scalds. No. 2. Spread clarified honey upon a linen rag, and apply it to the burn immediately, and it will relieve the pain instantly and heal the sore in a very short time. No. 21. A cure for Tetter. No. 1. Take as much mustard as will make into a salve mixed with honey ; spread it on a rag, and lay it on the sore for 24 hours. If the sore is not dead, make new salve, and lay it on 3 or 4 hours longer. Then take the inside of elder-bark and stew it in lard ; put in beeswax enough to make a salve ; set it b}^ until it gets cold. This is to heal the sore. Don't let the sore get wet. Then take mullein and boil it in water, and wash with after the wound is healed. This is to harden the tender skin again.^ No. 22. Another cure for Tetter. No. 2. Take one ounce of sulphuret of potash. Obtain it from a druggist. Put the sulphuret into a large glass bottle, and pour on it a quart of cold water, 3* . 30 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. (soft ;) stop it tightly, and leave it to dissolve. Care must be taken to keep it closely corked. To use it, pour a little into a cup, and, dipping in it a soft sponge, bathe the eruption with it five or six times a day. Persi&t, and in most cases it will soon effect a cure. Should the tetter reappear in cold weather, immediately apply the solution. No. 23. A never-failing Salve for the cure of Tetter, Ringworm, Swinney, and Rheumatism. Take 3 fresh eggs. \ pound fresh butter, unsalted. J gill oil of spike. J gill oil of stone. Take the eggs and break them in an earthen pot, and whip them up with a pine- wood shovel ; melt the butter on coal ; don't let it boil ; then pour the butter on the eggs ; stir them ; then mix it with the oil of stone and spike ; mix it well ; then it is ready for use. Make it the third day after new moon, and it must be the first time used. Eub the diseased part with the salve at a warm stove, or in the sun in summer. For horses, take double portions to prepare the salve. For children of 12 years of age, take 2 eggs and half the quantity of the other articles. No. 24. A cure for the Swinney. No. 1. Take 1 pint spirits of turpentine. 1 tablespoonful cream of tartar, pulverized. 1 large teaspoonful pulverized frankincense. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 31 Mix all the ingredients together in a bottle, and let it stand in the sun four or five days, and shake it well ; then ready. Take a feather and grease the diseased part. No. 25. Another cure for the Swinney. No, 2. Take 1 ounce oil of spike. 1 ounce oil of stone. 1 ounce oil of juniper. Mix all the above oils together; take a feather and anoint the diseased part. No. 26. A Liniment for Children's Sore Throat. Mix two parts of sweet oil and one part of spirits of hartshorn. No. 27. To prevent Swelling from Bruises. Apply at once a cloth five or six folds in thickness, dipped in cold water, and when it grows warm renew the wetting. No. 28. A Liniment for Piles. Take 2 ounces emollient ointment. J ounce laudanum. Mix these ingredients with the yolk of an egg, and work them well together, and then anoint the diseased part or sore. 32 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 29. Ointment for Files. No. 1. Take 1 scruple powdered opium. 2 scruples flour of sulphur. 1 ounce simple cerate. Keep tlie affected part well anointed ; be prudent in your diet ; don't eat too much ; keep in pure air ; have abundance of exercise, &c. "With strict regard to these directions, the dreadful complaint we have alluded to will depart and give you no more affliction. No. 30. To make Simple Cerate. Take 1 pound white wax. 4 pounds lard or mutton-suet. Melt them with a gentle heat, and stir it well until cool. I^.B. — ^Yellow wax will answer the same purpose. No. 31. A cure for Giddiness. Take 2 ounces Epsom salts. 1 ounce senna. 1 pint wine. Distil in the sun or a warm stove a few days. (Ready.) Dose. — Take as much as will physic you tho- roughly the first day, and after that take as much as will physic you once a day: take it in the morn- ing, sober. This cured a case of seven years' stand- ing. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 33 No. 32. To make Godfrey's Cordial. Dissolve I ounce opium and one drachm oil of sassafras in two ounces spirits of wine, (alcohol.) Now mix 4 pounds of molasses with 1 gallon of boiling water ; when cold, mix the other ingredients with it. (Ready.) It will soothe the pains in children. No. 33. To make Life Tincture. {A German Medicine.) Take 1 quart good whiskey. 9 drachms aloes. 1 drachm zedora-root, bruised. 1 drachm agaric, bruised. 1 drachm saffron. 1 drachm gentian-root, bruised. 1 drachm myrrh. 1 drachm nutmeg, bruised. 2 drachms rhubarb. Distil in the sun or a warm stove a few days, then it is fit for use. Bose.—'Fox adults, 1 teaspoonful (or 60 drops) in sugar. No. 34. Liniment for Burns. Take equal parts of Florence oil, or fresh-drawn linseed-oil, and lime-water; shake them well to- gether in a wide-mouthed bottle so as to form a liniment. This is found to be an exceedingly proper appli- 34 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. cation for recent scalds or burns. It may either be spread upon a cloth, or the parts affected may be anointed with it two or three times a day. No. 35. Locatelli's Balsam,, Take 1 pint olive-oil. J pound Strasbourg turpentine. J pound yellow wax. 6 drachms red saunders, pulv. Melt the wax with part of the oil over a gentle fire ; then add the remaining part of the oil and the turpentine ; afterward mix in the saunders, and keep stirring them together till the balsam is cold. This balsam is recommended in erosions of the intestines, dysentery, hsemorrhages, internal bruises, and in complaints of the breast. The dose when taken internally is from 2 scruples to 2 drachms for adults. No. 36. To make German Bitters. Take J pound gentian-root. 2 ounces bitter orange-peel. I ounce chamomile-flowers. cinnamon and cloves as much as you wish. 1 quart whiskey. 2 ounces red saunders. Put all together in a bottle, and distil in the sun or near a warm stove for one week. Dese. — 1 table- spoonful in the evening before going to bed j take 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 35 it clear, or in water. It strengthens the stomach and gives vigor to the system, and is an excellent remedy for dyspeptic people. I received the above recipe thirty years ago. No. 37. A cure for Summer Complaint, Take f teaspoon ful pulverized rhubarb. 1 teaspoonful magnesia. Put it into a teacupful of boiling water; let it stand until it is cold ; stir it well. Then add 2 tea- spoonfuls of good brandy, and sweeten it with loaf sugar. Dose. — For a child 1 to 3 years old, 1 teaspoonful five or six times a day. How to prepare food: Take a handful of flour; tie it into a clean cloth ; boil it three hours ; after it is cold, take oft' the crust, and take the hard white substance and pulverize it; put into it a sufficient quantity of milk to make it thin ; let it boil one or two minutes ; stir it well with a piece of cinnamon- stick, and sweeten it with sugar. No. 38. To make Blue Ink. No. 1. Take 1 ounce best Prussian blue. IJ ounce oxalic acid. 1 pint water. Let it dissolve, when it will be ready for use. 36 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 39. To make Blackberry-Syrup, for Summer CompMnL Take 2 quarts blackberry-juice. 1 pound loaf sugar. J ounce nutmeg, grated. J ounce ground cinnamon. J ounce cloves, ground. J ounce allspice, ground. Boil the above ingredients together; when cold, add 1 pint fourth-proof brandy. Dose. — From 1 tea- spoonful to 1 wineglassful, according to the age of the patient, as often as will be necessary to effect a cure. No. 40. A cure for Cramp in the Stomach, Warm water, sweetened with molasses or brown sugar, taken freely, will in many cases remove cramp in the stomach when opium and other remedies have failed. No. 41. Cough-Drops, Take tincture of bloodroot, syrup of ipecacuanha, syrup of squill, tincture of balsam of Tolu, and pare- goric, of each 1 ounce. Mix. This is used in all severe coughs from colds. It is a valuable mixture. Dose. — } to 1 drachm, whenever the cough is severe. No. 42. No. 1 Cough-Mixture, Take J ounce paregoric. 1 ounce syrup of squill. 2 drachms antimonial wine. 6 ounces water. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 37 Dose. — 2 teaspoonfuls every 15 minutes until the cough abates. No. 43. Dr. Monroe's Cough-Drops, Take 4 drachms paregoric, 2 drachms sulphuric ether, 2 drachms tincture of Tolu. Mix. Take a teaspoonful night and morning, or when the cough is troublesome. No. 44. A cure for the Dyspepsia. Take 1 ounce pulverized rhubarb. 1 ounce caraway-seed. 1 tablespoonful grated orange-peel. Put these into a decanter with 1 pint of best brandy, shake it well together, and keep in a warm place. Dose. — 1 tablespoonful in the morning, fast- ing, and at night going to bed. Shake the mixture well before taking it. No. 45. A cure for Cough. Take J pint honey. 3 tablespoonfuls elecampane-root, pulv. 3 tablespoonfuls ginger. 1 pint vinegar. Put all the above in a jug, and make a paste of flour or chop-stuff, and shut the jug close up with this paste ;• and then, when you put your bread in the oven, put this jug in also, and leave it in the oven until you take the bread out ; then it is ready 88 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. for use. Dose, — 1 teaspoonful two or three times a day, and as you can stand it. No. 46. To make an Ointment to heal Wounds in Horses. Put into a well-glazed earthen vessel 2 ounces beeswax and 2 ounces rosin. When this is melted, put in ^ pound hog's lard ; to this put 4 ounces tur- pentine ; keep stirring all the time with a clean stick. When all is well mixed, stir in 1 ounce of jmlverized verdigris ; be careful that it don't boil over : it ought to be a coal fire. Strain it through a coarse cloth, and preserve it in a gallipot. This ointment is very good for old and recent wounds, whether in flesh or hoof; also galled backs, cracked heels, mallender, sallenders, bites, broken heels, &c. No. 47. To mxike a Drawing Ointment Take elder-root and the seed of Jamestown-weed and fry it in lard. It will draw any splinters out of the flesh, or any thing else in man. No. 48. How to make Blue Water, to cure Wounds in Horses, Take IJ pounds unslaked lime; put it into an earthen pot, (glazed ;) pour 2 quarts warm water on it ; let it stand 3 days : stir it 3 or 4 times a day ; after it is settled, pour off the pure water; add 2 ounces sal ammoniac and 8 grains camphor; dis- solve the sal ammoniac and camphor in alcohol ; let 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 39 it staud 12 hours ; put it in a copper vessel and mix well. No. 49. Another excellent Simple Salve for Wounds in Horses. Take lime-water as much as you will ; pour into it linseed-oil, and stir it well all the time until it is the consistency of salve, and anoint the wound with it; in a short time the wound or scald will be healed. No. 50. To make Oil-Paste Shoe-Blacking, No, 1. Take 8 pounds ivory-black. 1 gallon molasses, (the cheapest you can get.) 1 pint fish-oil. 2 pounds oil of vitriol. Mix the molasses, ivory-black, and the fish-oil thoroughly, and then pour on the oil of vitriol in small quantities at a time, and keep stirring until the boiling is over ; then put it in boxes while it is warm. N.B. — The oil of vitriol will cause the boiling. You will have to use a stone or earthen pot. No. 51. A Cure for the Dropsy, Take a stone jug and put in 1 gallon good cider, 2 handfuls parsley, with the root cut fine, 1 handful grated horseradish, 2 tablespoonfuls bruised mustard- seed, J ounce squill, 1 ounce juniper-berries. Mix all together, and let it remain 24 hours near the fire, shaking it often; then strain it. Dose, — J gill 3 40 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. times a day, on an empty stomach. Don't drink mucb. while taking the medicine. Eat dry meals. No; 52. A Cure for Rheumatism. No, 1. Take 1 pint best brandy. 1 ounce gum guaiacum. Mix. Dose, — Take as much as you call bear, and take it clear. Repeat the dose until a cure is effected. No. 53. Another Cure for JRheumatism. No. 2. Take 2 ounces centaury. 2 ounces senna. 4 ounces boletus of oak. 4 ounces canella alba. 2 ounces zadora-root, pulverized. 2 ounces gum myrrh. 2 ounces caraway-seed. 1 gallon rum. Mix all together, and infuse for 8 or 10 days, wheii it will be ready for use. Dose. — 1 tablespoonful, always before meals. No. 54. Hamilton's Celebrated Vermifuge. Take J gallon castor-oil. J pound Baltimore wormseed-oil. J ounce oil of aniseed. 2 ounces tincture of myrrh. 2J ounces pinkroot. 1 ounce senna. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 41 Boil the pinkroot and senna together in 2 quarts of water, enough to take the strength out ; then Btrain it through flannel ; boil the tea again down to half; then mix it with the above, and shake it well, so that it shall be mixed thoroughly while you put it into vials. Dose. — 1 teaspoonful, morning and evening, for a child 3 years old. The vial must always be well shaken before it is given, so that the sediment is well mixed. N.B. — I myself paid 15 dollars for this recipe. It was also sold to a party in this county (Lebanon) for 100 dollars nearly 30 years ago. No. 55. To make Eye - Water, Take 2 scruples white vitriol. 2 scruples sugar of lead. 1 teaspoonful laudanum. Mix in J pint rain-water. No. 56. Collyrium, or Eye - Water. Collyrium of alum : Take | drachm of alum, and agitate it well together with the white of an Qgg. It is used in inflammation of the eyes, to allay heat, and restrain the flux of humours. It must be spread upon linen and applied to the eyes, but should not be kept on above 3 or 4 hours at a time. 4«- 42 oOO MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 57. * Vitriolic Oollyrium, or Eye - Water. Take J drachm white vitrioh 6 ounces rose-water. Dissolve the vitriol in the rose-water, and filter the liquor. It is a useful application in weak, watery, inflamed eyes. No. 58. A simple Cure for Liver- Complaint. Take 1 tahlespoonful pulverized charcoal and J teacupful sweet fresh milk in the morning and even- ing. Continue for some time. No. 59. A Cure for Consumption. Take hart's tongue. lungwort, (or pulmonary.) liverwort, sarsaparilla-root. speedwell. One handful of each. Boil on a coal fire, in an earthen pot, well covered ; stir it every 5 minutes with a pine stick; let it boil 15 minutes; let it stand until milk-warm, then strain and bottle it close. Dose. — For an adult, 1 tahlespoonful in the morning, sober ; afterward, every 3 hours. Also eat every day spoonwort or water-cresses. Don't eat pork or drink very sour vinegar. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 43 No. 60. A Remedy for Purifying the Blood. # Take J ounce cloves. 1 ounce cinnamon. J ounce mace. 6 cents' worth saffron, J ounce borax. 1 handful rosemary. 1 quart wine. Distil in the sun or warm stove for 5 or 6 days. Dose. — J gill in the morning and evening. It is good for women when their blood is out of order. No. 61. Paregoric Elixir. Take 1 drachm opium, in powder. 1 drachm benzoic acid. 2 scruples camphor. 1 drachm oil of aniseed. 1 quart proof spirits of wine, (alcohol.) Digest for 10 days, and strain. It contributes to allay the tickling which provokes frequent coughing, and at the same time it opens the breast and gives greater liberty to breathing. It is given to children against the chincough, in doses from 5 to 20 drops. Adults, from 20 to 100 drops. No. 62. A simple Cure for Scarlet Fever. For adults, give 1 tablespoonful of good brewers* yeast in 3 tablespoonfuls of sweetened water, 3 44 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. times a day; and if the throat is much swollen, gaigle with yeast and apply to the throat as a poul- tice, mixed with Indian meal. Use plenty of catnip- tea, to keep the eruptions out of the skin, for several days. No. 63. A Cure for Small-Pox. Use the above doses of yeast 3 times a day, and milk diet, throughout the entire disease. ITearly every case can be cured without leaving a pock- mark. — Dr. William Fields. No. 64. A Cure for Diarrhoea. Put into a bottle 3 ounces pimento, (allspice,) upon which pour 1 pint best French brandy ; sweeten with sugar. Dose. — A wineglassful every hour for 3 hours, for adults. For children, dilute, and give a table- spoonful each hour. This remedy has been known to cure violent cases of diarrhoea. No. 65. Medical use of Salt. In many cases of disordered stomach, a teaspoon- ful of salt is a certain cure. In the violent internal aching termed colic, add a teaspoonful of salt to a pint of cold water. Drink it, and go to bed. It is one of the speediest remedies known. The same will revive a person who seems ahnost dead from a heavy fall, &c. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 45 In an apoplectic fit, no time ehould be lost in pouring down salt and water, if sufficient sensibility remain to allow of swallowing ; if not, the head must be sponged with cold water until the sense returns, when salt will completely restore the patient from the lethargy. In a fit, the feet should be placed in warm water, with mustard added, and the legs briskly rubbed, all bandages removed from the neck, and a cool apartment procured, if possible. In many cases of severe bleeding at the lung, and when other remedies failed. Dr. Rush found that two teaspoonfuls of salt completely stayed the blood. In case of a bite from a mad dog, wash the part with a strong brine for an hour, and then bind on some salt with a ras:. In toothache, warm salt and water held to the part, and removed two or three times, will relieve it in most cases. If the gums be afiected, wash the mouth with brine. If the teeth be covered with tartar, wash them twice a day with salt and water. In swelled neck, wash the part with brine, and drink it, also, twice a day, until cured. Salt will expel worms, if used in food in a mode- rate degree, and aids digestion; but salt meat is injurious if used much. No. 66. A Cure for the Croup. Take a piece of fresh lard, as large as a butternut, rubbed up with sugar in the same way that butter •»>. 46 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. and sugar are prepared for the dressing of pud- dings, divided into three parts, and given at inter- vals of twenty minutes, will relieve any case of croup which is not already allowed to progress to the fatal point. No. 67. Said to he a certain Cure for a Felon. " Take a pint of common soft soap, and stir in it air-slaked lime till it is of the consistency of gla- ziers' putty. Make a leather thimble, fill it with this composition and insert the finger therein, and change the composition once in twenty minutes, and a cure is certain." — Buffalo (JV. Y.) Com. Advertiser, "We happen to know that the above is a certain remedy, and recommend it to any who may be troubled with that disagreeable ailment." — Public Ledger, No. 68. A sure and simple Care for Dysentery. No. 1. Drink a gill (or teacupful) of West India (or Trinidad) molasses. This is a dose for adults; children in proportion. No. 69. To cure the Cancer. No. 1. Take bread dough the size of an Qgg, old hog's lard the same quantity, mix it well, and spread it on white leather, and apply it to the sore. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 47 No. 70. Another Cure for Cancer, No. 2. Take alum, vinegar, and honey, equal quantities, and wheat flour, and make a plaster by mixing it all together ; renew every twelve hours. No. 71. Another for Cancer. No. 3. Take pulverized alum and fish-worms smashed, and a salve made like a plaster and put on the sore. No. 72. To polish Brass, Take 6 cents' worth sour salts, and pumice-stone pulverized, soft water, and olive-oil, mix all together, and strain the liquor. No. 73. To cure Bheumatism. No. 3. Take 1 quart spirits of wine. 2 ounces camphor. 2 ounces cloves. 3 handfuls salt. 6 heads red pepper. Infuse for 3 or 4 days in the sun or warm stove, and bathe with it. 48 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 74. To cure White Swelling, Take 1 handful sarsaparilla-root. 1 handful sassafras-root. 1 handful dittany. 3 quarts water. Boil down to one-half. Dose. — Every morning, sober, 1 gill until it is all used. While taking the above internally, make the following salve : — Take 2 quarts cider. 1 pound beeswax. 1 pound sheep tallow, (suet.) 1 pound smoking-tobacco. Boil this well, and then put it on the sore like plaster is put on, and renew whenever you think proper. No. 75. A certain Cure for Colds, Take 1 teaspoon flaxseed. 1 ounce liquorice. \ pound raisins. Put the above articles into 2 quarts of water, and boil it down with a slow fire to one-half; then add \ pound rock-candy pounded fine, and add 1 tablespoonful lemon-juice. Dose.— I pint on going to bed, and take a little when the cough is trouble- some. This receipt generally cures the worst of colds in 2 or 3 days. It is a sovereign balsamic cordial for the lungs. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE EECEIPTS. 49 No. 76. A Care for ingrowing Nails on Toes, Take a little tallow and put it into a spoon, and heat it over a lamp until it becomes very hot ; then pour it on the sore or granulation ; the effect will be almost magical. The pain and tenderness will at once be relieved. The operation causes very little pain if the tallow is properly heated ; perhaps a repetition may in some cases be necessary. No. 77. To make a very superior Hair- Oil. Take half an ounce of alkanet-root, which may be bought for a few cents at the druggist's. Divide this quantity into four portions, and tie up each portion in a separate bit of new bobinet or clean thin mus- lin. The strings must be white : for instance, coarse white thread or fine cotton cord. Take care to omit any powder or dust that may be found about the alkanet, as if put in it will render the oil cloudy and muddy. Put these little bags into a large tumbler or a straight-sided white-ware jar, and pour on half a pint of the best fresh olive-oil. Cover the vessel, and leave it untouched for three or four days or a week, being careful not to shake or stir it ; do not press or squeeze the bags. Have ready some small clear glass vials, or a large one that will hold half a pint. Take out carefully the bags of alkanet and lay them in a saucer. You will find that they have coloured the oil to a beautiful crimson. Put into the 60 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. bottom of each vial a small portion of any perfume you fancy : for instance, oil of orange-flowers, oil of jessamine, oil of roses, oil of pinks, extract of violets. The pungent oils (cloves, cinnamon, ber- gamot, lavender, orange-peel, lemon, &c.) are not good for the hair, and must not be used in scenting this oil. Having put a little perfume into the vials, poTir into each through a small funnel suffi- cient of the coloured olive-oil to fill them to the neck. Then cork them tightly, and tie a circular bit of white kid leather over the corks. To use this oil, (observing never to shake the bottle,) pour a little into a saucer or some other small vessel, and with the finger rub it into the root of the hair. The bags of alkanet may be used a second time. No. 78. Another Hair- Oil. A very excellent hair-oil, which answers all com- mon purposes, is made by mixing 1 ounce of brandy with 3 ounces of sweet oil. Add any scent you pre- fer ; a selection can be got at the drug-store. No. 79. Another excellent Hair- Oil. Take 1 quart olive-oil or fine lard-oil. 2| ounces spirits of wine. 1 ounce cinnamon powder. 5 drachms bergamot-oil. Heat them together in a large pipkin, then remove it from the fire, and add four small pieces of alkanet- 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 51 root ; keep it closely covered for 6 or 8 hours, let it then be filtered through a funnel lined with blotting or filtering paper. No. 80. To make Imitation of Ox-Marrow Hair- Grease. Take fresh hog's lard, and melt it on a stove in any tin vessel ; when melted, add such fine oil as you wish to perfume it to your fancy, such as ex- tract of violet, oil of orange-flowers, oil of jessa- mine, oil of roses, oil of pinks, &c. The quantity you must use will depend on the quantity of lard you use. And to make it a bright yellow, take a little turmeric aijd boil it in a little lard, so that the colouring will be extracted; strain it, and pour it into your scented lard as much as will give the desired colour ; this must be done when the scented lard is milk-warm, and must also be well mixed. Then pour it into wide-mouthed vials, such as are used for ox-marrow. Keep the vials well corked. To make it a purple colour, take a little alkanet-root, and pro- ceed the same as with the yellow. No. 81. To make Bose Tooth Powder, Take 3 ounces prepared chalk. i ounce cinnamon, ground, i ounce orris-root, pulverized, i ounce rose-pink. Make all very fine by pulverizing it, and mix. (Heady.) 52 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 82. To make very nice Cologne, Take 2 drachms oil of lemon. 2 drachms oil of rosemary. 1 drachm oil of lavender. 2 drachms oil of bergamot. 10 drops oil of cinnamon. 2 drops oil of rose. 10 drops oil of cloves. 8 drops tincture of musk. 1 quart alcohol, (or spirits of wine.) Mix all together, and shake well, when it will be ready to use. The older it gets, the better. No. 83. A remedy for Black Teeth. Take equal parts of cream of tartar and salt ; puU verize it, and mix it well. Then wash your teeth in the morning, and rub them with the powder. No. 84. How to clean the Teeth and Gums, Take 1 ounce myrrh, in fine powder. 2 tablespoonfuls honey. A little green sage, in very fine powder. Mix them well together, and wet the teeth and gums with a little every night and morning. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 53 No. 85. A Lip-Salve. Take 2 ounces oil of lemon. 1 ounce white wax. 1 ounce spermaceti. Melt these ingredients, and while warm add 2 ounces rose-water, and J ounce orange-flower water. These make Hudson's cold cream, — a very excellent article. The lips are liable to excoriation and chaps, which often extend to considerable depth. These chaps are generally occasioned by mere cold. The above salve will be found efficacious in correcting these evils. No. 86. To make Cottage Beer. Take 1 peck good sweet wheat bran, and put it into 10 gallons of water, with 3 handfuls of good hops; boil the whole together in an iron, brass, or copper kettle, until the bran and hops sink to the bottom. Then strain it through a hair sieve, or a thin sheet, into a cooler, and when it is about luke- warm add 2 quarts of molasses. As soon as the molasses is melted, pour the whole into a 9 or 10 gallon cask, with 2 tablespoonfuls of yeast. "When the fermentation has subsided, bung up the cask, and in 4 days it will be fit for use. 5*- 54 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 87. Brown Spruce Beer, Pour 8 gallons fresh water into a barrel, and then 8 gallons more boiling hot ; add 1 gallon molasses, and J pound essence of spruce ; when nearly cool, put in J pint of good ale yeast. This must be well stirred and well mixed ; leave the bung out 2 or 3 days. After which, the liquor may be immediately bottled, well corked and tied, and packed in sawdust or sand, and it will be ripe and fit to drink in two weeks. No. 88. To make good Ginger Beer, Take 1 spoonful ground ginger. 1 spoonful cream of tartar. 1 pint yeast. 1 pint molasses. . 6 quarts cold water. Mix, and let it stand a few hours, until it begins to ferment ; then bottle it, set it in a cool place : in 8 hours it will be good. No. 89. To make Imperial Ginger Beer, Take 1 pound cream of tartar. 2 ounces ginger, ground. 7 pounds white sugar. 1 drachm essence of lemon. 6 gallons water. ^ pint yeast. Bottle, and tie the corks down. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 55 No. 90. To make White Spruce Beer. Take 3 pounds loaf sugar. 4 gallons water. 1 ounce ginger. \ pound essence of spruce. A little lemon-peel. 1 cupful good yeast. Mix all together, and when fermented bottle it close. No. 91. How to make Gas Beer, Take 4 gallons cold water. 3 pints molasses. 1 quart yeast. 1 handful hops. And such spices as you wish. Then take 1 J pints of the above molasses, and mix it well with the yeast; then take 3 quarts of the above cold water and make it boiling hot ; put into this boiling water the other IJ pints of molasses, and such spices as you wish ; then take some more of the above cold water and cool down the boiling water, molasses, and spices until it is milk-warm ; then boil the above handful of hops in water, to take the strength out of the hops, and strain the hops out of the liquor. Then put all together into a strong cask, and bung it tight ; then put the cask in the sun, or near to a warm stove, about five or six hours ; after this put the cask into a tub of fresh 56 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. or cold water 3 or 4 hours. In 24 hours it will be ripe. Keep the cask all the time closed up tight. You must take a very strong cask, or it will burst. No. 92. To make Cream Beer, Take 2 ounces tartaric acid. 2 pounds white sugar. 3 pints water. The juice of half a lemon. Boil all together five minutes ; when nearly cold, add the whites of 3 eggs, well beaten, with J cup flour, and | ounce essence of winter-green. Bottle. Take 2 teaspoonfuls of this syrup for a tumbler of water, and add to it J teaspoonful of baking-soda. Drink it fresh. No. 93. How to make Mead, Take 12 gallons water. 20 pounds honey. 6 eggs, the glair only. Let it boil 1 hour; then add cinnamon, ginger, cloves, mace, and a little rosemary. When cold, add one spoonful of j^east, from the brewer ; stir it well, and in 24 hours it will be good. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 5T No. 94. Ginger Beer — a pleasant beverage. Take 10 pounds white sugar. 9 fluidounces lemou-juice. 1 pound honey. 11 ounces ginger, (ground.) Boil the ginger in 3 gallons water for | hour ; then add the sugar, the lemon-juice, and the rest of the water, and strain through a cloth. When cold, add the white of an Oigg^ J fluidounce essence of lemon. After standing 4 days, it may be bottled off. A glass of this on a hot day, with a lump of ice in it, is very refreshing. No. 95. Hoio to make Ginger Beer Powders. Take 1 ounce and 54 grains (apothecaries') bicar- bonate of soda, reduce it to powder, and divide into 16 papers ; to each paper add 5 grains ground ginger, and a drachm of white sugar. Then take 1 ounce tartaric acid, which powder divide into 16 parcels, and do it up in separate papers. Two of these papers will make a pint of beer. Dissolve the soda in 2 gills of water in one glass, and the acid in 2 gills in another glass ; pour them together, and swallow quickly. No. 96. How to make Ginger-Pop. Take 2 gallons hot water, (foiling ;) mix 2 ounces ground ginger and the peel of 2 lemons, 1 teaspoon- 68 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS ful cream of tartar, 2 pounds white sugar ; let this stand until milk-warm. Then put in the other part of the 2 lemons, 1 teaspoonful saleratus, 4 table- spoonfuls yeast, and the glair of 4 eggs, to clear. Cinnamon and cloves to your taste. No. 97. How to make Silver-top, a temperance drink. Take 1 quart water, 3J pounds white sugar, 1 tea- spoonful lemon-oil, 1 tablespoonful flour, with the white of 5 eggs, well beat up ; mix all the above well together. Then divide the syrup, and add 4 ounces carbonate of soda into one part, and put it into a bottle, and then add 3 ounces tartaric acid to the other part of the syrup, and bottle it also. Take 2 pint tumblers, and put in each tumbler 1 table- spoonful of the syrup, (that is, from each bottle of the syrup,) and fill them half full with fresh cold water; pour it together into one tumbler. Superb. No. 98. Sassafras Mead, a cheap beverage. Stir gradually with 1 quart boiling water, IJ pounds brown sugar, 3 gills molasses, and 1 drachm tartaric acid. Stir it well, and when cold strain it into a large earthen pan or crock ; then mix in 1 drachm essence of sassafras. Transfer it to clean bottles, (it will fill 2 or 3 ;) cork it tightly, and keep it in a cool place. Have ready a box containing about J pound carbonate of soda, to use with it. To prepare a glass of it for drinking, pour a little 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 59 of the mead or syrup into a tumbler ; stir into it a small quantity of soda, and then add sufficient cold fresh water (ice-water, if you have it) to half fill the glass ; give it a stir, and it will immediately foam up to the top. No. 99. To make Fineapple-ade, Pare some fresh, ripe pineapples, and cut them into thin slices ; then cut each slice into small bits ; put them into a large pitcher, and sprinkle powdered white sugar among them ; pour on boiling water in proportion of J gallon of water to each pineapple ; cover the pitcher, stop up the spout with a roll of soft paper, and let the pineapples infuse into the • water till it becomes quite cool, sti^ing and pressing down the pineapple occasionally with a spoon, to get out as much juice as possible. When the liquid has grown quite cold, set the pitcher for a while in ice. Then transfer the infusion to tumblers, add some more sugar, and put into each glass a lump of ice. You may lay a thin slice of fresh pineapple into each tumbler before you pour out the infusion. No. 100. How to clarify Sugar. Take J pint water to 1 pound sugar, (loaf sugar ;) set it over the fire to dissolve ; to 12 pounds sugar thus prepared, beat up an egg very well, put in when cold, and, as it boils up, check it with a little cold water. The second time boiling, set it away to cool. 60 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. In a quarter of an hour, skim the top, and turn the syrup off quickly, leaving the sediment which will collect at the bottom. No. 101. For frosting Cakes. Allow for the white of 1 egg^ 9 large teaspoonfuls of double-refined sugar, and 1 teaspoonful of nice Poland starch, both powdered and sifted through a very fine sieve. Beat the whites of eggs so stiff they will adhere to the bottom of the plate on turning it upside down ; then stir the sugar in gradually with a wooden spoon, stirring constantly about fifteen minutes ; add a teaspoonful of lemon-juice, or vine- gar, and a little rose-water. Stir in a few grains of cochineal-powder,lace during winter. The proper time for racking may always be best known by the brightness of the liquor, the discharge of the fixed air, and the appearance of a thick crust formed of fragments of the reduced pulp. The liquor should always be racked off' anew as often as a hissing noise is heard, or as it extinguishes a candle held to the bung-hole. 132 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. When a favourable vinous fermentation has been obtained, nothing more is required than to fill up the vessels every 2 or 3 weeks, to supply the waste by fermentation. In the beginning of March the liquor will be bright and pure, and fit for final racking, which should be done in fair weather. When the bottles are filled they should be set by uncorked till morning, when the corks must be driven in tightlj^, secured by wire or twine and melted rosin, or any similar substance. No. 263. How to manage Cider, To fine and improve the flavour of 1 hogshead, take a gallon good French brandy, with J ounce cochineal, 1 pound alum, and 3 pounds rock-candy ; bruise them all well in a mortar, and infuse them in the brandy for a day or two ; then mix the whole with the cider, and stop it close for 5 or 6 months. After which, if fine, bottle it off. Cider, when bottled in hot weather, should be left a day or twa uncorked, that it may get flat ; but if too flat in the cask, and soon wanted for use, put into each bottle a small lump or two of rock-candy, 4 or 5 raisins of the sun, or a small piece of raw beef; any of which will much improve the liquor, and make it brisker. Cider should be well corked and waxed, and packed upright in a cool place. A few bottles may be kept in a warmer place, to ripen and be ready for use. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 133 No. 264. To make cheap Cider from Raisins. Take 14 pounds raisins, with the stalks ; wash them out in four or five waters, till the water remains clear; then put them into a clean cask with the head out, and put 6 gallons of good water upon them ; after which cover it well up, and let it stand 10 days. Then rack it off into another clean cask, which has a brass cock in it, and in 4 or 5 days' time it will be fit for bottling. When it has been in the bottles 7 or 8 days, it will be fit for use. A little colouring should be added when putting into the cask the second time. The raisins may afterwards be used for vinegar. No. 265. Observations on Cider. From the great diversity of soil and climate in the United States of America, and the almost endless variety of its apples, it follows that much diversity of taste and flavour will necessarily be found in the cider that is made from them. To make good cider, the following general, but important, rules should be attended to. They de- mand a little more trouble than the ordinary mode of collecting and mashing apples of all sorts, rotten and sound, sweet and sour, dirty and clean, from the tree and the soil, and the rest of the slovenly process usually employed ; but in return they produce you a wholesome, high-flavoured, sound, and palatable liquor, that always commands an adequate price, 12 134 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. instead of a solution of "villanous compounds," in a poisonous and acid wash, that no man in his senses will drink. The finest cider was made of an equal portion of ripe, sound pippin and crab apples, pared, cored, and pressed, etc., with the utmost nicet3^ It was equal in flavour to any champagne that ever was made. No. 266. General Hides for making Cider. 1. Always choose perfectly ripe and sound apples. 2. Pick the apples by hand. An active boy, with a bag slung over his shoulders, will soon clear a tree. Apples that have lain any time on the soil contract an earthy taste, which will always be found in the cider. 3. After sweating, and before being ground, wipe them dry, and if any of them are found bruised or rotten, put them in a heap by themselves, for an inferior cider to make vinegar. 4. Always use hair cloth, instead of straw, to place between the layers of pomace. The straw when heated gives a dis- agreeable taste to the cider, 5. As the cider runs from the press, let it pass through a hair sieve into a large open vessel, that will hold as much juice as can be expressed in one day. In a day, and some- times less, the pomace will rise to the top, and in a short time grow very thick ; when little white bubbles break through it, draw off the liquor by a spigot, placed about three inches from the bottom, so that the lees may be left quietly behind. 6. The cider must be drawn oiFinto very clean casks, and closely watched. The moment the white bnbbles before mentioned are perceived rising at the bung-hole, 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 135 rack it again. When the fermentation is com- pletely at an end, fill up the cask with cider in all respects like that already contained in it, and bung it up tight; previous to which a tumblerful of sweet oil may be poured into the bung-hole. Sound, well- made cider, that has been produced as described, and without any foreign mixtures, excepting always that of good cognac brandy, (which, added to it in the proportion of 1 gallon to every 30, greatly im- proves it,) is a pleasant, cooling drink, and useful beverage. Cider prepared as above is generally used to imi- tate the different kinds of wine. No. 267. Another Bulefor making good Cider, In grinding the apples, reduce the whole fruit to a uniform pomace. Allow the pulp to remain from 2 to 6 or 8 days ; if warm weather, for a shorter time, and if cold, a longer time, according to the state of the weather, stirring it every day, until put to the press. If there should be any wanting of the sac- charine matter, add sugar before fermentation takes place, and after fermentation add spirits of wine. After the liquor has remained a few days, (after its having been strained through a sieve,) taking off the scum as it rises, then draw it off* into casks, and place in a cool cellar; or let it be, a short time after the pressing, placed in a cool place, put into strong, light casks, and after the pomace has all overflown, drive the bung close, and bore with a gimlet a hole through the bung, and put in a spile to draw, when the cask appears to be in danger of bursting. 136 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 268. How to keep common Cider good for years. Take the cider when you think it will suit your taste, put it into a kettle, and boil it very little. Make a bag and put into it \ pound of hops, then put the bag with hops into the kettle with the cider, and tie it fast to the handle so that the bag with hops will not touch the bottom of the kettle ; scum off the cider while you have it on the fire, and after it has boiled a short time take it oif the fire, and let it cool down lukewarm ; put it into a good sweet barrel, and add 1 pint good fresh brandy, bung it up, and it will keep the same as you put it into your barrel for years. No. 269. Another way to keep Cider. Take cider after it is taken from the press, or when it suits your taste, and put it into a good, strong, tight, sweet barrel, and add 3 gallons apple whiskey, and 6 cents' worth mustard-seed, and bung it up tight, and let it ferment in the barrel ; bore a gimlet-hole through the bung, and put a spile into it, so that you can let some of the gas out, to prevent the cask from bursting. When the fermentation is subsided, draw it off clear, and clean out your barrel, and put the cider in again, and bung it up close. N.B. — This cider will also be good to imitate all Kinds of wines ; that is, if the cider is clear. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 137 No. 270. How to put up a siwple Stand for Rectifying Raw Whiskey. Purifying spirituous liquors consists in passing the liquor through prepared charcoal, sand, or gravel, or fine-broken brick, (washed very clean,) flannel, blanket, and charcoal, particularly prepared for this purpose. Take a good, common, tight barrel for a stand, and bore one of the heads full of J inch holes, J inch apart, so that it appears like a sieve, or riddle ; when this is done, take the perforated bottom out, and sink down into the barrel within 2 inches of the lower bottom ; first nail 3 or 4 strips of wood, 2 inches thick, to answer for legs, (so that there will be an empty space of 2 inches between the two bottoms,) to rest the second bottom on, between which you will have to bore a hole through the side, to put in a brass or wooden spigot, between the empty space of the two bottoms, to draw out the rectified liquor, which, if the rectifier is good, should not run out faster than the thickness of a middle- sized knitting-needle, or still less ; and after you have the perforated bottom at its proper place, put a layer of flannel or blanket over this bottom, so that it will come all round up the sides a little ; now take some fine, clean sand, and put from 4 to 6 inches on the flannel or blanket; now put another layer of flannel on the sand, and on the top of this put from 12 to 15 inches of the prepared cliarcoal, and on the top of this put another layer of blanket or flannel ; on the top of this flannel lay 4 or 6 bricks, to keep the flannel down, or else if you pour in yotir 12« 138 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. liquor it would rise on the top of the liquor ; now your stand is ready to receive the liquor you wish to purify. This stand is capable to rectify 10 barrels of strong whiskey, when the coal will be worn out ; and when the coals are worn out, renew them, the same as before. Observe, there will be left a great deal of strength in the coal after it stops running; to get that strength out, pour water on and let water through, until no strength of the liquor remains in it. To ascertain this, a hydrometer is indispensably necessary to try the liquor ; by this mode you can find how many degrees of spirits you have in the water. These spirits can be used for liquor that is over proof, to bring it down to proof. You may put up as many stands as you wish, of the same size, or make them as large as you please. Some rectifiers put up two, one above the other, and let the whiskey through them both ; and if you want your spirits very fine, you can let it run through 3 or 4 times ; the oftener, the finer your spirits gets. Keep your rectifier always in use, or the coal will become mouldy and unfit for use. The charcoal ought to be prepared from sugar maple wood. Some rectifiers use raw cotton, or straw, instead of flannel, and put between the sand and charcoal, malt, or lime, according to fancy. Hecajpitulation of Directions in jputting up a Rectifying Stand. 1. Take a good, tight barrel, or any other good cask. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 131? 2. Bore holes through one of the heads, as descrihed. 3. Take out the head and sink it down within 2 inches of the bottom. 4. Cover with a layer of flannel this perforated bottom. 5. Put 4 to 6 inches washed sand on the top of the flannel. 6. Put another layer of flannel on the top of the sand. 7. Put 12 or 15 inches of charcoal on the top of the flannel. 8. Put another layer of flannel on the coal. 9. Put 4 or 6 bricks on the flannel, to keep it from rising up to the top. 10. Keep the stand, after you have poured liquor on, well covered. The spirituous liquor which is rectified thus is called pure spirits or sweet liquors, and is flavoured for wines, brandies, spirits, rum, Monongahela whis- key, cordials, etc., and should be clear of all foreign matter. No. 271. Hoio to make Monongahela Whiskey. No. 1. Take 36 gallons pure spirits, and add \ pound young hyson tea, 6 pounds dried peaches, baked brown, not burned, 4 pounds loaf sugar, 4 ounces cloves, 4 ounces cinnamon. Mix them all together, and stir them well for 3 or 4 days, and in a few weeks it will be good. N.B. — You can put double or triple the quantity 140 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS.^ of flavouring in, and then take 3, 4, 5, or 6 gallons of it and pour it into a barrel of pure rectified whis- key, and add 2 pounds loaf sugar to each barrel. The longer your flavouring will lie, the better. No. 2711. Another way to make Monongahela Whiskey. No. 2. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey; add 12 ounces burned barley, ground or bruised, 6 drachms sweet spirits of nitre, 4 pounds dried peaches, 4 pounds l^ew Orleans sugar, 3 ounces allspice, 2 ounces cinnamon ; mix them all together, and let stand from 6 to 12 days, and stir them every day. Draw ofi*. No. 272. How to nvake Wheat Whiskey. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, proof; add 1 ounce spirits nitre dulc, J ounce tincture of rhatany, 1 pint simple syrup, 4 J gallons pure wheat whiskey, 2 ounces tincture of cinnamon; mix them all together, and colour it with sugar-colouring if you wish. No. 273. How to make good Apple Whiskey. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, from 5 to 10 degrees above proof; add 4J gallons pure apple whiskey, 1| pints simple syrup, 2 good pineapples, (the juice of them only.) Mix thoroughly, and let stand for 2 weeks. Then ready for use. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. l41 No. 274. How to imitate Old Bourbon Whiskey, Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 6 gallons pure Bourbon whiskej^, 3 half-pints simple syrup, 1^ ounces sweet spirits of nitre ; mix them all to- gether, and colour with sugar-colouring. No. 275. How to imitate Irish Whiskey. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, proof, 6 gallons pure Irish whiskey, 6 drachms acetic acid, 1 drachm acetic ether, 75 drops kreosote cut in 3 half- pints alcohol, 3 half-pints simple syrup, and manage as before. No. 276. Hoiu to imitate Scotch Whiskey. Take 30 gallons pure proof rectified whiskey, 6 gallons pure Scotch whiskey, IJ ounces acetic acid, 3 pints simple syrup; mix, and add 45 drops kreosote cut in 1 pint alcohol ; let stand a few days, when it will be ready for use ; stir it well. No. 277. How to imitate Holland Gin. No. 1. Take 30 gallons pure spirits, add 2 gallons pure imported Holland gin highly flavoured, 4 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 1 ounce pure oil of juniper, 2 drachms oil of caraway. Cut the oil of juniper and oil of caraway in 1 pint alcohol, and mix all together, when it will be ready for use. The older, the better. 142 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 278. Another imitation of Holland Gin, No. 2. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 1 gallon pure imported Holland gin, 1 ounce pure oil of jumper, 2 drachms oil of caraway, (cut the oil of juniper and caraway in 1 pint alcohol,) 1 ounce sal-ammoniac. Mix them all together, and in a short time it will be good for use. No. 279. Holland Gin. No. 3. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 4 gallons pure Holland gin, 1 ounce oil of juniper cut in alcohol, 1 pound coriander-seed. Mix them all together, let it stand, and stir it well for 3 or 4 days ; then draw ofi£* and strain. No. 280. Holland Gin. No. 4. Take 10 gallons pure rectified whiskey, IJ gallons pure Holland gin, 1 drachm oil of juniper cut in alcohol, J drachm fennel-seed, J drachm caraway-seed. Infuse the fennel and carawaj^ seed in 2 quarts rectified whiskey, for 8 or 10 days, then mix. No. 281. Holland Gin. No. 5. Take 5 gallons pure spirits, and add 1 gallon pure imported Holland gin. Good. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 143 No. 282. How to make Coimiry Gin. Take 32 gallons pure rectified whiskey. Infuse 4 pounds juniper-berries in 4 gallons of the pure rectified whiskey for 8 or 10 days; separate the juice from the berries, and add it to the rest of your liquor. N.B. — The pure rectified whiskey, or pure spirits, ought to be from 3 to 5 degrees above proof, for good gin. No. 283. How to imitate Jamaica Rum. No. 1. Take 28 gallons pure spirits, 3 gallons pure Ja- maica rum, 3 ounces' sweet spirits of nitre, 1 ounce tincture of kino. Mix them all together. No. 284. Jamaica Rum. No. 2. Take 32 gallons pure spirits. Then boil in 2 gal- lons of pure spirits 4 pounds foreign locks, 4 pounds bitter orange-peel, 4 ounces anise-seed, until the flavour is drawn out, and strain it while hot; add it to the rest of your liquor. No. 285. How to make Tincture of Kino. Take If ounces powdered kino, and macerate it in 1 pint alcohol for 2 weeks ; then filter it through paper. 144 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 286. How to make Jamaica Spirits. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 6 gallons pure Jamaica rum, 1 ounce tincture of kino, 1^ pints syrup, IJ ounces butyric acid cut in 2 quarts alcohol. Mix well, and colour. No. 287. New England Rum. No. 1. Take 28 gallons pure spirits, 2 gallons St. Croix rum, 4 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 1 ounce sal-ammo- niac, 50 drops nitric acid. Mix all together. No. 288. Another Mum. No. 2. Take 29 gallons pure spirits, 1 gallon rum, 2 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 3 ounces tinture of argol, 2 ounces spirits of hartshorn ; mix well. No. 289. St. Croix Bum. No. 1. Take 32 gallons pure spirits, and boil 6 pounds liquorice-sticks, 2 pounds winter-bark, J pound anise- seed, until the flavour is drawn out; strain it while hot, and add it to your pure spirits ; buug it tight, and in 3 days it will be good. No. 290. Another St. Croix Bum. No. 2. Take 5 gallons pure spirits, 1^ gallons St. Croix 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE KECEIPTS. 145 rum, I pint syrup, | ounce tincture of catechu, | ounce butyric acid ; cut, mix, and let stand 5 days. Colour with sugar-colouring. No. 291. How to make Tincture of Catechu. . Take 3 ounces catechu, and macerate it in 1 quart diluted alcohol for 2 weeks, and filter through paper or strain through cloth. No. 292. Another Jamaica Rum. No. 3. Take 32 gallons pure spirits ; add 5 gallons pure imported Jamaica rum from the custom-house. No. 293. Cognac Brandy. No. 1. Take 31 gallons pure spirits, 4 pounds peach-pits, 1 pound winter-bark, 4 pounds bitter orange-peel; steep the peach-pits, winter-bark, and the orange- peel in a few gallons of pure spirits, until the flavour is drawn out; then pour it off, and put it into your pure spirits, and add as much pure imported cognac brandy as you wish. No. 294. Another Cognac Brandy. No. 2. Take 31 gallons rectified whiskey; set the barrel on the head. Then take of this whiskey 2 gallons, and boil 4 pounds peach-pits, 1 pound winter- is 146 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. bark, and 4 pounds bitter orange-peel, the whole broken together until the flavour is drawn out, and while hot strain it into other liquor, and stop tight 2 hours. Then add i pound sweet oil cut up clear in alcohol, and pour it into your barrel, and draw and pour back until well mixed, and in 3 days it will be fit for use. Colour. No. 295. Another Cognac Brandy. No. 3. Take 35 gallons pure rectified whiskey, from 10 to 15 degrees above proof, and add 7^ gallons pure cognac brandy, 1| drachms cognac-oil cut in alcohol, 1\ ounce oenanthic acid, 1^ ounce acetic acid, 2J ounces tincture of kino, 3 half-pints syrup, and mix it thoroughly, and colour it to your fancy. No. 296. Another Cognac Brandy. No. 4. Take 5 gallons pure sweet liquor, \ gallon pure cognac brandy imported, 2\ pounds bruised raisins, \ ounce acetic acid, 2 pounds loaf sugar, 1 ounce tincture of catechu, and mix. Manage as before. No. 297. Imitation of French Brandy. No. 1. Take 32 gallons pure spirits. Then take \ gal- lon dried peaches baked brown, (not burned,) beat them to powder, and put them to your pure spirits in the barrel. Then take | pound crude or red tartar, (')()() MISCELLANEOUS VALUAIiLE RKCKII'TH. 147 l)oil it in 4 gallons water until it \h reduced to 2 gallons, then strain the liquor throiiglj a fine cloth, and when cold put tliem into the cask and stir them well tof^etlH;r; then add to it 8 gallons pure French brandy, fourth proof, allowing the pure spirits to bo first proof; or cider brandy is the best. The above will make 42 gallons of first-rate French brandy in months, and scarcely distinguishable from French brandy by the best of judges. No. 298. Another imitation of French Brandy, No. 2. Take 30 gallons \)nv(t spirits, 10 to 15 degrees above proof; then take some of the pure spirits and mix with it 3 ounces tincture of japonica and 9 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, and, when this is well incor- porated, pour it into the barrel with your spirits. Mix it thoroughly. (Ready.) The older, the better. No. 299. How to 'prepare Tincture Japomca. Take of the best saffron, and dissolve, 1 ounce; mace, bruised, 1 ounce ; infuse them into a pint of brandy till the whole tincture of the saffron is ex- tracted, which will be in 7 or 8 days: then strain it through a linen cloth, and to the strained liquor add 2 ounces tartar japonica powdered fine ; let it infuse till the tincture is wholly impregnated. No. 300. Rochelk Bramlij. No. 1. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 5 degrees above proof, 8 gallons pure Kochelle brandy, 6 148 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. pounds raisins, 6 ounces tincture of kino, 1 pound loaf sugar, 1 ounce acetic ether ; mix, and colour. No. 301. Cognac Brandy. No, 5. Take 30 gallons pure sweet liquor, 3 ounces acetic ether, 3 ounces acetic acid, 5 ounces tincture of kino, 7 J pounds raisins, 3 pints simple syrup ; mix, and let it stand 2 weeks, then draw it off clear. No. 302. Rochelle Brandy. No. 2. . Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 7} gallons pure imported Rochelle brandy, 2J drachms oil of cognac, 2 ounces cenanthic acid, 1^ ounces acetic ether, } ounce acetic acid, 6 ounces tincture of kino ; mix, and colour with sugar-colouring. No. 303. Bordeaux Brandy. Take 30 gallons sweet liquor, 15 degrees above proof, 7J gallons pure Bordeaux brandy, f ounce oil of cognac, 2 ounces cenanthic acid, 4| ounces acetic ether, 3 ounces tincture of kino, IJ quarts simple syrup. Mix and colour. No. 304. Cherry Brandy. No. 1. Take 10 gallons pure rectified whiskey, proof, 2 gallons water, 9 pounds sugar, } pound bruised bit- ter almonds, } ounce tincture of cardamom-seed, J 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 149 ounce tartaric acid, 1 drachm orange-flower-water. Let it stand 20 days, draw off, and colour dark. No. 305. Common Brandy, Take 28 gallons rectified whiskey, add 3 gallons brandy, 1 ounce spirits of nitre dulc, 1 ounce tinc- ture of kino : mix, and let stand 24 hours. Good. No. 306. Domestic Brandy, Take 28 gallons rectified whiskey, pure, 2 gallons fourth-proof brandy, high-flavoured, 4 ounces tincture of kino, 2 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 100 drops nitric acid, and a few pounds burnt raisins ; mix all together, and let it stand a few weeks, and draw off. (Ready for use.) No. 307. French Brandy. No. 3. Take 35 gallons pure spirits, 15 degrees above proof, 1 pound stone-lime, | pound pulverized alum, 3 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 2 pounds liquorice- sticks, 1 pound winter-bark. Put them all into your cask together, stir, and mix them well ; let them stand 24 hours, then draw it off; take good care that you dr^w it off very clear. Put into a clean bar- rel. Then add 6 gallons fourth-proof French brandy, 2 pounds burnt raisins, 1| ounces mace, 1 ounce nut- meg, 1 quart peach-pits, 2 quarts red-oak sawdust : it will be good in a few days, but the older the better. 13* 150 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 308. Another French Brandy. No. 4. Take 10 gallons pure spirits, | pint tincture of bitter almonds, 2J gallons good brandy ; mix, and colour with sugar-colouring. No. 309. Another Brandy. No. 5. Take 29 gallons pure spirits, 1 gallon pure brandy, 2 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 4 ounces tincture of kino, 100 drops nitric acid. Mix. No. 310. Peach Brandy. Take 20 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 6 gallons good peach brandy, 4 pounds loaf sugar, J drachm oil of bitter almonds cut in alcohol, | pint orange- flower-water ; mix, colour, and let stand 6 or 8 days, and it is ready. No. 311. Blackberry Brandy. No. 1 Take 10 gallons pure proof rectified whiskey, 2J gallons raspberry brandy, 2 gallons water, 5 pounds sugar, ^ ounce tincture of cinnamon, J ounce tinc- ture of cardaijiom ; colour, and let stand 10 days ; draw ofi", and it is fit for use. No. 312. Another Cherry Brandy. No. 2. Take sweet black cherries J bushel, put them in a clean barrel, pour on them good rectified whiskey to 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 151 cover them well, then let it lie until you got good cider, which you have to boil and skim off clean ; then fill up the barrel which contains the cherries and whiskey with the cider, and let it lie, and in a few months it will be good. No. 313. JRaspberry Brandy. Take 10 gallons pure spirits, proof, 13 quarts rasp- berries, 2 gallons water, 6 pounds loaf sugar, J ounce, unground cloves, | ounce cinnamon ; mix, and let stand 25 days ; draw off, and fine if necessary. No. 314. Another Cherry Brandy. No. 3. Take 10 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 13 quarts wild cherries, bruised ; let stand 8 days ; strain it, and add 6 pounds loaf sugar, and 2 gallons water. No. 315. Hose Brandy. Take 10 gallons pure sweet liquor, 2J gallons water, 10 pounds sugar, 15 drops oil of roses cut in alcohol, 2 drachms tartaric acid ; colour, and let stand a few days, when it will be good. No. 316. Blackberry Brandy. No. 2. Take 10 gallons rectified whiskey, 12 quarts black- berries, 4 gallons soft water, 6 pounds loaf sugar, 2 152 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. drachms unground cloves, J ounce cinnamon, bruised ; mix, and let stand 2 or 3 weeks ; draw off, strain, and fine if necessary. No. 317. Rochelle Brandy. No. 3. Take 15 gallons pure spirits, 9 pounds bruised raisins, 3 ounces acetic ether, IJ ounces acetic acid, 3 ounces ground cinnamon, 3 pounds loaf sugar, 3 ounces tincture of kino, 3 ounces tincture of catechu ; mix, and manage as the last. Colour. No. 318. Lavender Brandy. Take 5 gallons pure spirits, proof, J drachm oil of lavender dissolved in alcohol for 10 or 12 hours, then add it to your pure spirits ; also add 1| gallons soft water, 2 drachms tincture of cinnamon, 1 quart simple syrup. Colour with sugar-colouring. No. 319. Ginger Brandy. Take 10 gallons pure sweet liquor, add J ounce tincture of cardamom-seed; then take J pound ground ginger-root, infuse in 1 quart alcohol for 6 or 8 days ; filter, and add to your liquor ; mix thoroughly. Then add 2J gallons soft water, and 2 quarts simple syrup. No. 320. How to make Tincture of Cinnamon. Take 4J ounces ground cinnamon, alcohol, diluted, 3 pints: infuse for 2 weeks. (Ready.) 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 153 No. 321. How to make Tincture of Cardamom- Seed. Take 2 ounces cardamom-seed, bruised, and 1 pint alcohol, diluted ; macerate it for 2 weeks, and filter. No. 322. How to make Tincture of Rhatany. Take 6 ounces rhatany, 1 quart diluted alcohol : macerate for 2 weeks, and filter. No. 323. How to make Tincture of Allspice. Take 4 ounces allspice, 2 quarts alcohol, and in- fuse for 2 weeks ; filter. No. 324. How to make Tincture of Saffron. Take 1 ounce saffron, 1 pint rectified whiskey, pure first-proof, and infuse for 2 weeks ; filter. No. 325. Hoio to make Tincture of Red Sanders. Take J pound ground red sanders, 1 quart alcohol ,* macerate for 2 weeks ; express and filter. No. 326. How to make Tincture of Cloves. Take 2 ounces ground cloves, infuse it in alcohol for 2 weeks, and filter. 154 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 327. How to iynitate Port Wine. No. 1. Take 6 gallons good prepared cider, 1^ gallons good imported Port wine, IJ gallons juice of elder- berries, 3 quarts good brandy, If ounces cochineal. This will produce 9| gallons. E'ow pulverize the cochineal very fine, put it w^ith the brandy into a stone jug, let it remain at least 2 weeks, shake it every day, and at the end of 2 weeks have your cider read}^ ; put 5 gallons of the cider into a 10- gallon cask, add to this the elder-juice and Port wine and the brandy and cochineal ; take the re- maining 5 gallons of cider, with part of which clean out your jug that contained the brandy, and pour the whole into your cask, bung it tight, and in 6 weeks it will be ready for use. No. 328. Another Imitation of Port Wine. No. 2. Take 10 gallons prepared cider, 2 gallons good pure imported Port wine, 3 quarts good sweet liquor, 2 quarts good brandy, 1 pound bruised raisins, 1 ounce tincture of kino, J ounce extract of rhatany, 1 pint simple syrup. Colour, if necessary, with tinc- ture of red Sanders ; let it stand 2 weeks ; rack and fine until perfectly clear and transparent ; keep cool. No. 329. How to imitate Madeira Wine. No. 1. Take of white Havana sugar 30 pounds, water 10 gallons, white tartar 6 ounces ; boil the whole half 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 155 an hour, and skim it well ; let it stand until cool ; then add 8 gallons strong beer-wort from the vat while working ; stir it well together, and let it stand until next day ; then put it into a sweet cask ; then add to it 6 pounds bruised raisins, 1 quart French brandy, J pound brown rock-candy, 2 ounces isin- glass. After the wine is put into the cask, put a piece of muslin over the bung-hole ; and when it has done working, which will be in about 6 weeks, then add 2 green citrons ; let them remain until the wine is bottled; it will be ready for bottling in about 6 months. No. 330. Another Imitation of Madeira Wine, No, 2. Take 10 gallons prepared cider, IJ gallons pure imported Madeira wine, 3 quarts sweet liquor, 1 ounce tartaric acid, J drachm oil of bitter almonds cut in alcohol, 2 pounds bruised raisins, 2 quarts brandy ; let stand 10 days; then rack and fine until clear. No. 331. How to imitate Lisbon Wine. Take 10 gallons prepared cider, 2} gallons pure imported Lisbon wine, 2J pounds grapes in cluster, J ounce tincture of rhatany, J ounce tincture of kino, 1 gallon sweet liquor, IJ pounds loaf sugar; let stand 10 days, and manage as before. No. 332. How to imitate Malaga Wine, Take 10 gallons good cider, 2 gallons imported 156 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE EECEIPTS. Malaga wine, 1 ounce cream of tartar, 2 pounds raisins, 1 pint good brandy, J ounce tincture of kino, 1 pint syrup. Colour with sugar-colouring, and manage as before. No. 333. How to imitate Qlaret Wine. Take 5 gallons cider prepared, 3 quarts good im- ported claret wine, 24 drachms cream of tartar, J drachm citric acid, J pound raisins, 1 gill honey, J ounce tincture of red sanders, 1 quart water. Manage as before. No. 334. How to imitate Sherry Wine. Take 12 gallons prepared cider, 9 quarts imported pure sherry wine, 6 quarts native wine, f drachm oil of bitter almonds dissolved in alcohol, 9 pints rectified whiskey, IJ pounds loaf sugar, IJ ounces tincture of saflron. Mix, and manage as before. No. 335. How to imitate Teneriffe Wine. Take 10 gallons cider, 2J gallons pure imported Teneriffe wine, 3 quarts sweet liquor, 2 drachms citric acid, J pint simple syrup. Mix, and let stand for 6 or 8 days, then draw off. No. 336. How Racking Wine is performed. This is an operation highly requisite to the keep- 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 157 ing of wine good, — to its purification, strength, colour, brilliancy, richness, and flavour, — and is per- formed by drawing off the wine and leaving the sediment in the cask. A siphon should be used ; but, if not, the cask should be tapped 2 or 3 days previously. It may be racked off* into another cask again, after it has been well cleaned; and, if re- quisite, the cask may be slightly fumigated, imme- diately before the wine is returned into it. If the wine, on being tasted, is found weak, a little spirits to be given to it, Jthe cask filled up, and bunged tight. The racking off* ought to be performed in temperate weather; and, as soon as the wines appear clear, a second racking will make them per- fectly brilliant ; and, if so, they will want no fining. No. 337. How to fine or clear Wine. One of the best finings is as follows : Take 1 pound fresh marshmallow-roots, washed clean, and cut into small pieces ; macerate them in 2 quarts of soft water for 24 hours, then gently boil the liquor down to 3 half-pints, strain it, and, when cold, mix with J ounce pipe-clay or chalk in powder; then pour the mucilage into the cask, and stir up the wine, so as not to disturb the sediment or lees, and leave the vent-peg out for some days after. Or, take boiled rice, 2 tablespoonfuls, the white of 1 new Q^g^ and \ ounce burnt alum in powder. Mix with a pint or more of the wine, then pour the mucilage into the cask, and stir the wine with a stout stick, but not to ao^itate the sediment or lees. Or, dissolve, in a gentle heat, \ ounce isinglass in 14 158 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE KECEIPTS. a pint or more of tlie wine ; then mix with it J ounce chalk in powder. When the two are well incorporated, pour it into the cask, and stir the wine, so as not to disturb the sediment or lees. As soon as the wines are clear and bright, after being fined down, they ought to be racked into a sweet and clean cask, — the cask to be filled up and bunged tight. No. 338. How the Bottling of Wine is performed. Fine clear weather is best for bottling all sorts of wines ; and much cleanliness is required. The first consideration in bottling wines is to examine and see if the wines are in a proper state. The wines should be fine and brilliant, or they will never brighten after. White wines, before being bottled, must go through the process of fining. For 1 hogs- head, (or any quantity in proportion, more or less,) take 2 ounces isinglass, and dissolve it in 1 quart water, and mix with 2 quarts of the wine. Eed wines are fined by beating to a froth the white of 7 eggs, and mixing them with 3 times the bulk of water ; then, adding 2 quarts of the wine, mix well, and pour it into 1 barrel of your wine. The bottles must be all sound, clean, and dry, with plenty of good, sound corks. The cork is to be put in with the hand, and driven well in with a flat wooden mallet, the weight of which ought to be 1\ pounds, but, however, not to exceed 1\ pounds ; for, if the mallet be too light or too heavy, it will not drive the cork in properly, and may break the bottle. The corks must so com- 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 159 plctcly fill up tlic neck of each bottle as to render tlieni air-tight, but leave a space of an iucli between the wine and tlie cork. When all the wine is bottled, it is to be stored in a cool cellar, and on no account on the bottles' bottoms, but on their sides, and in sawdust. No. 339. How to make Currant Wine. To every quart of currant-juice, add 3 pounds sugar and 3 quarts water. Put all together into your cask, (be careful to take such a cask that you can fill up to the bung-hole. Should it not quite fill up your cask, add a little water until it is full.) When your cask is full, leave the bung out, and lay thin gauze or bobinet over the bung-hole, to keep the flies out; let it ferment until it stops. After fermentation, draw it off, and clean out your cask very clean ; return the liquor, bung your cask up tight, and it will be fit for use in 3 or 4 months. If you wish, you can add 1 quart brandy to every 10 gallons before you bung it up tight. N.B. — The following wines can all be made on the above principle: Morelle jerries, sour jerries, blackberries, elderberries, raspberries, strawberries, and grape of every kind. No. 340. How to make Cider Wine. Take 25 gallons good cider, add 1 gallon good French brandy, 4 gallons good wine, \ pound crude tartar, 1 pint new milk. 160 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 341. . How to make Cyjpress Wine. To 10 gallons soft water, add 5 quarts juice of elderberries. The berries are to be slightly pressed: each quart of the liquid will contain 6 ounces juice; and to the whole quantity add 2 ounces ginger and 1 ounce cloves. Boil the whole for an hour. Skim the liquid, and pour it into a vessel which should contain the whole, throwing in IJ pounds bruised grapes, which leave in the liquor until the wine is of a fine colour. No. 342. How to make Apple Wine, To every gallon of cider, immediately as it comes from the press, add 2 pounds loaf sugar. Boil it as long as any scum arises, then strain it through a sieve, and let it cool ; add some good yeast, mix it well ; let it work in the tub 2 or 3 weeks, then skim off' the head ; draw it oft' close and tun it ; let stand 1 year, then rack it off, and add 2 ounces isinglass to the barrel ; then add J • pint spirits of wine to every 8 gallons. No. 343. How to boil Sugar- Colouring, Take 3 or 4 pounds brown sugar, boil it well, and burn it so that it tastes very bitter; thin it with water while on the fire ; pour in very little at a time, and keep stirring all the time you are pouring water on it. If you pour too much in at a time, it will ex- plode, and may burn you badly. As soon as the 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 161 sugar commences to boil, you must commence stir- ring, and continue all the time, else it will boil over for you. Very much care is required to make good sugar-colouring. After you have thinned it down to its proper consisteiacy, strain it while warm. ' ' ^]^ . -. uiTl Ji Li' i:-j Li','!' fit ill .Vii-i IjVO DiJ'-ji j -ob riiili nodW .[> - ■ ;: ^i'-ijiu.-i. nod M....M. ^.; .r .m:-, No. 344w^,-.^/^.,... ....ijood Hoiv to make Simple Syrup, hr n ^o Take 1 pint water to every 2 pounds loaf sugar'; dissolve it over the fire ; remove the scum that will arise ; as soon as it commences to boil, remove it from the fire ; and, while hot, strain it' " ^'e/^^-*'^^^^ J iulno id til:;' ' No. 345. S'ow to make Pure Spirits. Take 38 gallons rectified whiskey, as pure as you can rectify it, 5 degrees above proof, add 1 pound stone-lime, i pound sweet spirits of nitre, 1 pound alum. Put the lime, nitre, and alum into the whis- key; stir them well together, let stand 24 hours; then add 1 pound liquorice-stick, and I pound winter- bark ; let them stand 36 hours, then draw it off as pure as possible. .v9±^R .■' How to make Pure Spirits by Distillation. Prepare a work as a copper-still. Take good rec- tified whiskey, for every barrel add 1 bushel fine- pulverized charcoal, 1 pound rock-salt, and 1 pound orris-root ; put the whole together in the still with your liquor, and run it off by a slow fire, t ^ . .: % 14* 162 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 347. How to make Yeast for Distillers, Brewers, with Hops. Take 6 quarts soft water, and 2 handfuls wheat or barley meal ; stir the latter in the water before the mixture is placed over the fire, where^ it must boil till two-thirds are evaporated. When this de- coction becomes cool, incorporate with it, by means of a whisk, 2 drachms salt of tartar, and 1 drachm cream of tartar, previously mixed. The whole should be kept in a warm place. For bread, it ought to be diluted with pure water, and passed through a sieve, before it is kneaded with the dough, in order to deprive it of its alkaline taste. No. 348. Another Yeast. Boil 1 pound good flour, \ pound brown sugar, and a little salt, in 2 gallons water for 1 hour ; when milk-warm, bottle it and cork it close : it will be fit for use in 24 hours. One pint of this yeast will make 18 pounds of bread. No. 349. How to make a Beer to wake Yeast, Take 9 gallons boiling water, and let it stand until it is 170 degrees ; then add 1 peck malt, put it in by degrees ; then let it stand 3 hours until it is settled, then pour it ofi* and add I pound hops ; then boil down to half, which must be strained through a tin strainer, and squeeze the hops out well. This will make about 4 gallons juice, well 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 16c squeezed out; then let it stand until 90 degrees; then put into this juice 1 quart good yeast ; let it stand and work for a few days until the foam will fall back ; put the beer into a stone jug, and it will be good for months. ^•^•— This is very valuable for distillers and brewers. No. 350. Hoiv to make French Raspberry Vinegar, Take a sufficiency of the ripe raspberries, put them into a deep earthen pan, and mash them with a wooden beetle in a large linen bag, and squeeze and press out the liquor into a vessel beneath. Measure it, and to each quart of the raspberry-juice allow a pound of powdered white sugar and a pint of the best cider vinegar. First mix together the juice and the vinegar, and give them a boil in a preserving-kettle. When it has boiled well, add gradually \hQ sugar, and boil and skim it till the scum ceases to rise. When done, put it into clean bottles, and cork them tightly. It is a very pleasant and cooling beverage in warm weather, and for in- valids who are feverish. To use it, pour out half a tumbler of raspberry vinegar, and fill it up with ice or fresh cool spring-water. No. 351. HoiD to make British Champagne. 'Take gooseberries before they are ripe, crush them with a mallet in a wooden bowl, and to every gallon of fruit put a gallon of water; let it stand 2 164 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. days, stirring it well ; squeeze the mixture well with the hands through a hop-sieve ; then measure the liquor, and to everj gallon put 3i pounds loaf sugar ; mix it well in the tub, and let it stand 1 day; put a quart good brandy into the cask, and leave it open 5 or 6 weeks, taking off the scum as it rises ; then make it np, and let it stand 1 year in the barrel before it is bottled. The proportion of brandy to be used for this liquor is 1 pint to 7 gallons. ' FARRIERY. * No. 352. To cure Wounds in Cattle. ,i{ rjiuajiiaM . When horses, cattle, or any of our domestic animals are wounded, the treatment may be very simple, and much the same as with the human race. It is extremely improper to follow a practice that is common in many parts of the country among far- riers, cow-doctors, and even shepherds, — that of ap- plying to the wound, or putting into the sore part, common salt, powder of blue vitriol, or tar, or cloths dipped in spirits, as brand}^, rum, &c., or turpentine, or any other stimulant articles ; for all such very much increase the pain, and by irritating the sore may increase the inflammation even to the length of inducing mortification. Though the treatment may be varied according to circumstances, yet, in most cases, it may be sufficient to take notice of the following particulars : — It will be proper to wash away any foulness or dirt about the part, and to examine particularly its condition. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 165 No. 353. To stop the Bleeding. Should any large blood-vessel be cut, and dis- charging copiously, it will be right to stop it, by some lint or sponge, with moderate compression, or bandaging, at the same time, and not taking it off for 2 or 3 days. Should the pressure fail of effect, caustic applications, such as lunar-caustic, or even the actual cautery, the point of a thick wire sufficiently heated, may be tried; or, if a surgeon be at hand, the vessel may be taken up by a crooked needle, with waxed thread, and then tied. No. 354. Adhesive Plaster and Sewing. "When there is no danger of excessive bleeding, and a mere division of the parts, or a deep gash or cut, it will be right to adjust the parts, and keep them together by a strip of any common adhesive plaster ; or, when this will not do by itself, the lips of the wound, especially if it be a clean cut, maybe closed by one or more stitches with a moderately coarse needle and thread, which, in each stitch, may be tied, and the ends left of a moderate length, so that they can be afterwards removed when the parts adhere. It is advisable to tie the threads, because sometimes the wounded part swells so much that it is difficult to get them cut and drawn out without giving pain and doing some mischief. 166 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 355. Bandages, If the part will allow a roller or bandage to be used to keep the lips of it together, this may like- wise be employed ; for, by supporting the sides of the wound, it would lessen any pain which the stitches occasion. With this treatment the wound heals often in a short time, or in a few days, rarely exceeding 5 or 6, and sooner in the young and healthy than in the old and relaxed, and sooner in the quiet and motionless than in the restless and active. Should the wound be large, and inflammation, with the discharge of matter, likely to take place, it ma}^ still be proper, by gentle means, to bring the divided parts near to each other, and to retain them in their natural situation by means of a bandage. This should not be made too tight, but merely to support the part. In this way, and by avoiding stimulant applications, the wound will heal more readily than otherwise, and the. chance of any blemish following will be diminished. Washes of spirits, brandy, and the like, " Friar's balsam," spirits of wine and camphor, turpentine, or any other irritating applications, are highly improper, and sometimes make a fresh clean wound (that would readily heal almost of itself) inflame and perhaps mortify, or become a bad sore. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 167 No. 356. Sores and Bruises. Over the whole sore, or where the part is bruised, or where there is a tendency to suppuration, a poul- tice should be applied and kept on by suitable band- ages. The poultice may be made of any kind of meal, fine bran, bruised linseed, or of mashed turnips, carrots, &c. The following has been found useful as a common poultice. " Fine bran, 1 quart ; pour on it a sufficient quantity of boiling water to make a thin paste ; to this add linseed-powder enough to give it a proper consistence." The poultice may be kept on for a week or 10 days, or even longer, if necessary, changing it once or twice a day; and clean the wound w^hen the poultice is removed, by washing it by means of a soft rag or linen cloth with water not more than blood-warm, (some sponges are too rough for this purpose ;) or, where the wound is deep, the water may be injected into it by a syringe, in order to clean it from the bottom. No. 357. Ointment, In the course of a few days, when the wound, by care and proper management with the poultices, begins to put on a healthy appearance, and seems to be clean and of a reddish colour, not black or bloody, then there may be applied an ointment made of tallow, linseed-oil, beeswax, and hog's lard, in such proportion as to make it of a consistence somewhat firmer than butter. The ointment should be spread on some soft clean tow ; and when applied 168 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. to the sore, it ought never to be tied hard upon it, (which is done too frequently, and very improperly,) but only fixed by a bandage of a proper length, (for a mere cord is often improper,) so close and se- curely as to keep it from slipping off. This appli- cation may be changed once a day ; or, when nearly well, and discharging but little, once in 2 days. No. 358. Green Ointment for Wounds, Put into a -well-glazed earthen vessel 2 ounces beeswax; melt it over a clear fire, and add 2 ounces rosin ; when that is melted, put in ^ pound hog's lard ; to this put 4 ounces turpentine ; keep stirring it all the time with a clean stick or w^ooden spatula. When all is well mixed, stir in 1 ounce finely-powdered verdigris. Be careful that it does not boil over ; strain it through a coarse cloth, and preserve it in a gallipot. This ointment is very good for old and recent w^ounds, whether in flesh or hoof, — also galled backs, cracked heels, mallender, sallenders, bites, broken knees, &c. No. 359. Treatment, according to appearance of the part. When the wounded part begins to discharge a whitish, thick matter, and is observed to fill up, the general treatment and dressings to the sore, now mentioned, should be continued ; and, in the course of the cure, the animal, when free of fever, may be allowed better provision, and may take gentle exer- cise. If the animal be feeble from the loss of blood 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 169 originally, or from the long continuance of a feveriah state produced by the inflammation attending the wound, or from weakness arising from confinement, or connected with its constitution naturally, and if the wound appear to be in a stationary state, very pale and flabby on its edges, with a thin dis- charge, then better food may be given to it ; and, if still no change should be observed along with the better food, the wound may be treated somewhat difierently from what has been already advised. The ointment may be made more stimulant, by adding to it some rosin and less beeswax, — or, what would be more stimulant still, some common turpentine ; but it is only in very rare cases that oil of turpentine can be requisite. The eftects of an alteration in the mode of treatment should be par- ticularly remarked, and stimulants should be laid aside, continued, or increased according as may be judged proper. Before changing the dressings ap- plied to the wound, or before rendering them more stimulant and active by using heating applications, the eflfect of closer bandaging may be tried ; for, sometimes, by keeping the parts a little more firmly together the cure is promoted. No. 360. Food and Regimen, In case of severe wounds, attention should be paid to the condition of the animal in other re- spects. There being always in such cases a ten- dency to violent inflammation and fever that may end fatally, means should be employed to moderate 15 170 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. both. The apartment should be cool and airy, and so quiet that the animal should not be disturbed ; the drink should not be warm, but rather cold, and given freely, though not in too large quantities at a time ; the food should be sparingly given, and of a poorer quality than usual, and should be rather succulent and laxative than dry or apt to produce costiveness. Bleeding may be employed, either generally from a vein, or in some cases, when it can be done, by cupping from the hurt part, as in the case of a bruise, (though this last will seldom be requisite,) if found convenient; and it may be done more than once or twice, as may seem proper. Laxative medicines also ought to be given and re- peated as there may be occasion. No. 361. Abscess. These are swellings containing matter, that make their appearance in different parts of the body. The remedies are, first, to bleed, then to wash the swollen part with a quart of vinegar, in which are dissolved 2 ounces sal-ammoniac, and | ounce sugar of lead. If the swelling does not abate in 2 or 3 days, apply the suppurating poultice. When the tumour becomes soft and points, open it with a lancet, and let out the matter. Then dress it with basilicon ointment. No. 362.' Anbury or Wart. Tie a strong silk, or 2 or 3 horse-hairs, round the -<:-^' 5v?^^"l'/^4 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 171 neck of the wart, tightening it gradually till it falls away. Then dip a piece of tow in alum-water and bind it on the spot for a whole day. Heal the sore with the green ointment. No. 363. The Staggers, Bleed the animal copiously, (the disease is a true apoplexy,) 2i quarts at once ; then give him J pint linseed-oil, the same of castor-oil, 40 grains calomel, 60 grains jalap, and 2 ounces tincture of aloes. Give him twice a day warm bran mashes. No. 364. For Loss of Ajypetiie. Take 1 quart blood from the neck, and give him a purging ball, made as follows: aloes, 1 ounce; jalap, 1 drachm; rhubarb, 1 drachm; make into a ball with castor-oil and J drachm ginger. No. 365. Inflamed Bladder. Make the animal drink largely of flaxseed tea, barley or rice water, or any mucilaginous Hquid, and inject a portion of the same frequently. Bleed- ing, and a dose of castor-oil, are never to be omitted. After the oil has operated, give the fol- lowing ball every six hours: powdered nitre, J ounce; camphor, 1 drachm; liquorice-powder, 3 drachms ; honey suificient to form the ball. Should 172 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. these means not relieve the animal, omit the ball, and give 1 drachm opium twice a day. No. 366. Blood Spavin, Clip off the hair from the swelling, and rub all round outside of the swelling with a piece of hard brown soap; then apply to the swelling a blister made of the following No. 367. Blistering Ointment. Take hog's lard, J ounce ; beeswax, 3 drachms ; sublimate, in fine powder, J drachm ; Spanish flies, 2 drachms. Mix them all well, and spread it on white leather, and apply it to the spavin. No. 368. Bone Spavin, This may be treated like the former : it is, how- ever, generally incurable. The operation of firing, (which should be done by a professed farrier,) and turning to grass, aftbrd the only reasonable chances of relief. No. 369. Bots. Three kinds of worms infest the bowels of horses, called by the English farriers bots, truncheons, and maw-worms. The hot infests the great gut near 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 173 the anus : it is a small worm with a large head, and may be frequently observed in the dung. The truncheon is short and thick, with a blackish head, and is found in the maw, where, if suffered to remain, it sometimes pierces through, and thus is many a fine horse destroyed. The maw-worm is of a pale-red colour, resembling an earth-worm, from 2 to 3 inches long, occupying also the maw. No. 370. Symptoms of Worms in Horses, Stamping forcibly on the ground with either of his forefeet, and frequently striking at his belly with his hind ones; belly projecting; and hard looking frequently behind- him, and groaning as if in great pain. No. 371. Remedies for Worms. Keep the horse from all kinds of food for one day ; at night give him a small quantity of warm bran mash, made as usual, and, directly after, a ball made of 1 scruple calomel, 1 scruple turpeth mineral, and as much crumb of bread and honey as will form the mass. ]N^ext evening give him a pint of castor and i pint of linseed oil. The animal is then to be fed as usual for 2 or 3 days, and the same plan again to be employed. No. 372. Inffiu^mation of the Boioels. This not very common — but, when it does occur, 15* 174 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. dangerous — disorder is of two kinds. The first, or peritoneal, inflammation, begins with an appearance of dulness and uneasiness in the animal ; appetite diminished or totally gone ; constant pawing with the forefeet, frequently trying to kick the belly ; he lies down, rises suddenly, looks round to his flanks, — countenance strongly expressive of pain; urine small, high-coloured, and voided with great pain ; pulse quick and small ; legs and ears cold ; profuse sweats ; mortification and death. The second species of the disorder is when the inflammation attacks the internal coat of the intes- tines, and is generally accompanied by a violent purging and some fever. The symptoms of the latter, however, are much less violent ; nor does the animal appear to be in so much pain. No. 373. Treatment In the first, or peritoneal, inflammation, the only dependence is on early and large bleedings. In addition to this, rub the whole belly well with the mustard embrocation, clothe the animal warmly, (with fresh sheepskins if possible,) insert several rowels about the chest and belly, — putting into them the blistering ointment. As the horse is generally costive, give him a pint of castor-oil, and inject clysters of warm flaxseed tea ; give him warm water, or thin gruel, or flaxseed tea, to drink ; rub his legs with the hands well, and see that he has plenty of clean fresh litter. If in six hours the disease is not relieved, bleed him again ; and should the costive- ness continue, repeat the oil and clysters. If, after 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 175 giving all these remedies a faithful and continued trial, the pain should continue, recourse may be had to the anodyne clyster. In the second species of this disorder, bleeding need not be resorted to unless the febrile symptoms run high. Clothe the horse warmly, use the mus- tard embrocation freely, and omit the oil. Give him frequently, by means of a bottle, (if he will not drink it,) quantities of very thin gruel or flaxseed tea. If in spite of this the disease continues, use the anodyne clyster ; if that fail, the astringent draught. The pain occasioned by phj^sicking is to be re- lieved by large clysters of thin gruel of flaxseed, which produce copious evacuations and relief. No. 374. Broken Wind. This is an incurable disease ; all that can be done is to relieve the animal for a time, so as to enable him to perform a day's work. To do this, make the following No. 375. Paste- Ball for Broken- Winded Horses. Assafoetida 2 ounces, elecampane 2 ounces, flowers of colt's-foot 2 ounces, powdered squills 2 drachms, linseed powder 1 ounce, honey as much as will make the mass. Divide it into 4 balls, and give 1 morning and evening. Much benefit may result from bleeding in this disorder, at an early period of the complaint. His food should be carrots or 176 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. turnips. The hay, oats, or whatever is given, should be in small quantities at a time, and always sprinkled with clean, soft water. No. 376. Broken Knees. Apply a poultice of bread and milk, or bread and warm water, to reduce the inflammation ; then dress the wound with basilicon. No. 377. Bums and Scalds, If slight, apply cold lead- water; if extensive, a liniment made of equal parts of linseed-oil and lime- water. If there is much fever, bleed. No. 378. Canker. Cut away freely all the diseased parts, and if necessary draw the frog ; then apply the following liniment. No. 379. Liniment for Canker. "Warm 6 ounces tar, mix with it, drop by drop, 1 ounce, by measure, oil of vitriol; then add 1 ounce oil of turpentine. Bind this firmly on the part, destroying all tlie diseased protuberances with lunar-caustic. When the wound looks healthy, dress it with the green ointment. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 177 No. 380. Cap]ped Hocks, If the swelling proceed from a bruise or a blow, bathe it three or four times a day with salt and vinegar, made warm. If it proceed from natural cause, apply the suppurating poultice, and when matter is formed, let it out; then use the green ointment. No. 381. Cold, Take a quart of blood from the neck, then give warm mashes, with a scruple of nitre in them. Purge with castor and linseed oil, and keep the stable warm. No. 382. Convulsions, Symptoms. — The horse raises his head higher than usual, and pricks up his ears;- neck stiff and im- movable, skin tight. He stands in a straddling posture, pants, and breathes with difficulty. Cure. — Bleed him, if his strength will permit it, and his pulse is high, eyes red, etc. ; otherwise not. If you observe bots, or any other kind of worms, pursue the treatment recommended for them. • No. 383. Cough. Take 1 quart of blood from the neck, and give the following ball for couo-h: — Take i ounce Venice 178 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. soap, J ounce nitre, 10 grains tartar-emetic, and 10 grains opium. Make these into a ball with honey, and give one every other night. Keep the horse warm, and remedy costiveness by castor-oil. No. 384. Corns, Let the farrier cut them out with a sharp knife. Should they show a disposition to grow again, touch them with oil of vitriol, or caustic, and dress them with green ointment. Be careful, in shoeing, not to let the shoe press on the corn. No. 385. Curb. Cauterize the curb in a line down its middle, and then apply the blistering ointment. No. 386. Cracked Heels, Poultice the parts with carrots, or turnips, boiled soft, three or four times; then anoint them with yellow basilicon, mixed with a little green ointment. No. 387. * The Grippes. As soon as the disease is observed, give the draught below, and a clyster composed of warm water. If there is great pain, with quick pulse, take away 3 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 179 quarts of blood. The belly should be well rubbed with the mustard or other stimulating embrocation. If no relief is obtained in 2 hours, repeat the draught and embrocation, and should even this fail, give him a pint of castor-oil, with IJ ounces laudanum. If castor-oil cannot be had, IJ pints linseed oil may be used. No. 388. Draught for Gripes, No. 1. Take balsam copaiva 1 ounce, oil of juniper 1 drachm, spirits of nitrous ether J ounce, mint-water 1 pint. Mix for 1 dose. No. 389. Diabetes. This disorder, which consists in an involuntary discharge of the urine, which is pale and thin, fre- quently proves fatal. To cure it, take a quart of blood from the neck, and give the following ball : — No, 390. Ball for Diabetes, Take 4 ounces Peruvian bark, 1 drachm ginger; if costive after it, give a pint of castor-oil. Repeat, if necessary. No. 391. Eyes. Inflammation of the eyes is often cured by scari- fying with a lancet the inside of the upper and lower 180 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. brow, and the distended vessels of the eye itself. It is to be remembered that in treating an inflam- mation of this important organ we should proceed precisely as if treating a human being labouring under the same complaint, and keep the animal on short allowance, prevent costiveness, keep the stable cool and dark. Soreness or weakness of the eyes is cured by bleeding from the neck and using the following eye-water : — No. 392. Uye- Water, No. 1. To 1 quart water put 3 drachms sugar of lead, and 2 drachms white vitriol. When dissolved, let it settle, and pour off the clear liquor for use. A drop may be put into each eye, 3 times a day, with a feather. No. 393. Mlm, or Cataract, There is no remedy for this but an experienced farrier. There are a variety of washes, etc., recom- mended by various authors, but they are useless. No. 394. JF'arcy. This disease commences in small, hard knots, which soon become soft and ulcerous, generally situated on the veins and extending upwards. It is a contagious disorder, and not unfrequently ends in the glanders. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 181 No. 395. Cure for Farcy, Open the ulcers, and touch the inside of the edges shghtly with powdered verdigris, by means of a camel's-hair pencil. At the same time give the fol- lowing ball : White arsenic 8 grains, and corrosive sublimate 6 grains, powdered and mixed with flour or bread, or any other vehicle that will form a ball with molasses. Keep the animal warm, mix chopped carrots with his mashes. Intermit one day, and give a similar ball ; if it purge, add 10 grains opium to it. Attend constantly to the ulcers ; wash them with warm soap-suds, and keep the animal by him- self; if the disease gains the nostrils and head, and becomes glanders, shoot him at once. There is no remedy. No. 396. Grease, Wash the part well with warm soap-suds twice a day, and if the swelling is great apply a poultice to it ; when the sores are cleansed, touch them with a rag or feather dipped in the vulnerary-water. No. 397. Foundered Feet This is known by the contraction of the hoof, which will appear considerably smaller than the sound one. The horse just touches the ground with the toe of the foundered foot, on account of pain, 16 182 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. and stands in such a tottering way that you may shove him over with your hand. Cure. — Take off the shoe, bleed freely from the thigh-vein, and purge 2 or 3 times. Keep the hair close-trimmed and the parts clean. No. 398. Hoof-Bound, Cut several lines from the coronet down to the toe, all round the hoof, and fill the cuts with tallow and soap mixed. Take off the shoes and (if you can spare him) turn the animal into a wet meadow, where his feet will be kept moist. JN'ever remove the sole nor burn the lines down, as this increases the evil. No. 399. Lamjpass. This consists in a swelling of the first bar of the upper palate. It is cured by rubbing the swelling two or three times a day with half an ounce of alum and the same quantity of double-refined sugar mixed with a little honey. No. 400. Laxity. !N"ever attempt to stop the discharge too suddenly or too soon ; this common but erroneous practice has killed many fine horses. To begin the cure, give the following Mild purgative-ball : Rhubarb, in powder, 1 ounce; magnesia, J ounce ; calomel, 1 scruple ; oil of anise- 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 183 seed, 1 drachm. Make up a ball with honey and liquorice-powder. E"ext day give the horse 1 fluid- ounce liquid laudanum, with 20 grains tartar-emetic, in a pint of water. On the third day, repeat the purge, then the drench, until the animal is well. No. 401. Inflammation of the Lungs, Bleed, the animal copiously as soon as the com- plaint is perceived, and repeat in six hours if the fever, quickness *of breathing, &c. do not abate. Blister his sides, rowel the chest, and give the follow- ing ball, which is to be taken, morning and evening, until the stalling is considerably increased : one day will then be sufficient. Grass or bran mashes should be the food. The ball : Powdered nitre, 6 drachms ; camphor, 1 drachm ; as much syrup and linseed-meal as will form the ball. No. 402. Mallenders. "Wash the cracks w^ell with warm soap-suds and a sponge, and then with the vulnerary-water, twice every day. Wipe the parts dry, and apply the green ointment. No. 403. Mange, Wash with soap-suds and vulnerary-water, and purge with castor-oil. Feed the horse well, and work him moderately. 184 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 404. Molten Grease, Bleed and purge moderately, and feed regularly on a diminished allowance. No. 405. Foil-Evil. Bring the swelling to a head, as any other tumour, by the suppurating poultice, which is made as fol- lows : — No. 406. Suppurating Poultice, Take four handfuls of bran and three middling- sized turnips ; boil them till soft, and beat them well together ; then boil them again in milk to a thick poultice, adding to it 2 ounces linseed and J pound hog's lard. No. 407. Quitter. Make an opening for the matter to descend from all the neighbouring sinuses. Keep the parts well cleaned with warm soap-suds; then inject the vul- nerary-water into the sinuses. If there is a core, touch it with caustic ; when this is discharged, dress with the green ointment. No. 408. Ringbone. If recent, blister the part; if an old affection, recourse must be had to firing. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 185 No. 409. Sand- Crack, Remove the shoe, and ascertain carefully the extent of the injury. If the crack is superficial, fill it with the composition below, and keep the foot cool and moist. If the crack has extended to the sensitive parts, and you can see any fungus flesh, with a small drawing-knife remove the edges of the cracked horn that press upon it. Touch the fungus with caustic, dip a roll of tow or linen in tar, and bind it firmly over it. The whole foot is to be kept in a bran poultice for a few days, or until the lameness is removed. A shoe may then be put on so as not to press on the diseased part. The pledget of tow may now be removed, the crack filled with the compo- sition, and the animal turned into some soft meadow. No. 410. Composition for Sand- Crack. Take 4 ounces beeswax, 2 ounces yellow rosin, 1 ounce turpentine, and J ounce tallow or suet : to be melted together. No. 411. Sitfasts Are horny substances on the back, under the saddle. Take hold of them with a pair of pincers and cut them out radically. Leave no part behind, or they will grow again. Dress the wound with green oint- ment. 16» 186 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 412. Sallenders Require the same treatment as mallenders, which see. No. 413. Strains. In whatever part of the body this accident occurs, the treatment should be perfect rest, moderate bleed- ing, and purging till the inflammation is reduced, when any stimulating embrocation may be used. No. 414. Strangury. Take away 1 quart of blood, and throw up a laxa- tive clyster ; then give 1 ounce saltpetre and 1 fluid- ounce sweet spirits of nitre in a pint of water. No. 415. Strangles. This is known by a swelling between the jaw-bone and the root of the tongue. If a large tumour appear under the jaw, apply the suppurating poultice. When it is ripe, open it, squeeze out the matter, and re- apply a warm poultice. In a few days it will run off. Give warm bran mashes and gentle exercise. No. 416. Thrush. Remove the shoe, and pare off all the ragged parts 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 187 SO as to expose the diseased parts. After cleaning the frog nicely, apply a solution of blue vitriol, and shortly after pour some melted tar-ointraent into the cleft of the frog and cover its whole surface with tow soaked in the same ; and place on the tow a flat piece of wood, about the width of the frog, one of its ends passing under the toe of the shoe, the other extending to the back part of the frog, and bound down by cross-pieces of wood, the ends of which are placed under the shoe. Repeat the dressing every day. . No. 417. Vives. This is a disease most common to young horses, and consists in a long swelling of the parotid gland, beginning at the roots of the ears and descending downward. If it is painful and inflamed, apply the poultice ; if it suppurates, open the lump, let out the matter, and dress with the green ointment. If it is hard and indolent, apply strong mercurial oint- ment, to disperse it, and bleed moderately. No. 418. Wi7id- Galls. These swellings appear on each side of the back sinew, above the fetlock. It is dangerous to punc- ture them, as is sometimes done, as it may produce an incurable lameness. Tight bandages and moist- ening the parts frequently with a strong solution of Bal-ammoniac in vinegar may do some good. 188 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 419. Wounds. All the rules laid down iu this hook for the treat- ment of wounds in the human suhject apply strictly to horses. As in simple cuts, however, sticking- plaster cannot be used, the edges of the wound should be neatly stitched together. Much can be done also by the judicious application of bandages. Farriers generally are in the habit of pursuing such absurd, cruel, and fatal practices in these cases, either by cutting off a part that appears to be partly torn from its connection, or by using stimulating applications, that it becomes necessary to repeat again that all the rules laid down for the treatment of wounds in this work as applicable to man are equally so to the nobfe Animal of which we are speaking. Read over these rules, substitute the word ''horse" for "patient," and you will be at no loss how to proceed. No. 420. Bleeding in General. Bleeding is often the most useful and efficacious means of curing diseases in horses. In inflamma- tory affections, it is generally the first remedy re- sorted to; and its immediate salutary effects are often surprising. When it is necessary to lessen the whole quantity of blood in the system, open the jugular or neck vein. If the inflammation is local, bleed, where it can be conveniently done, either from the part affected 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 189 or in its vicinity, as by opening the plate vein, super- ficial vein of the thigh, or temporal arteries. In fevers of all kinds, and when inflammation at- tacks any important organ, as the brain, eyes, lungs, stomach, intestines, liver, kidneys, bladder, &c., bleeding is of the greatest use. It diminishes the quantity of blood in the body, and by this means prevents the bad consequences of inflammation. The quantity of blood to be taken varies according to the age, size, condition, and constitution of the horse, and the urgency of the symptoms. From a large, strong horse, 4 or 6 quarts will generally be requisite; and this may be repeated in smaller quantities if the symptoms demand it. The blood, in these diseases, must flow from a large orifice made in the vein. A horse should never be sufi'ered to bleed upon the ground, but into a measure, in order that the proper quantity may be taken. Horses have sometimes much constitutional irrita- tion, which bleeding relieves. But in these aft'ectious ' it is very rarely necessary to bleed to the same ex- tent as in fevers, &c. ; 2 or 3 quarts generally suflace to be taken away. No. 421. Fulness of Blood. Moderate bleeding, as from 2 to 4 quarts, is also used to remove fulness of habit, or plethora, attended with slight inflammatory symptoms. In this case the eyes appear heavy, dull, red, or inflamed, frequently closed as if asleep; the pulse small and oppressed; the heat of the body somewhat increased ; the legs 190 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. swell, the hair also rubs off. Horses that are re- moved from grass to a warm stable, full fed on hay and corn, and not sufficiently exercised, are very subject to one or more of these symptoms. Regulating the quantity of food given to him, proper exercise, and occasional laxatives, as the following powder, will be commonly found sufficient after the first bleeding, and operation of an aloetic purge. In slight affections of this kind, a brisk purge will often alone be sufficient. No. 422. Laxative and Diaphoretic Powder. Take of crocus of antimony, finely levigated, nitre, cream of tartar, and flour of sulphur, each 4 ounces. Powder and mix them well together for use. One tablespoonful of this mixture may be given every night and moruing, in as much scalded bran, or a feed of corn moistened with w^ater, that the powder may adhere thereto. This powder will be found excellent for such horses as are kept on dry food, whether they be in the stable or travel on the road; also for stallions in the spring of the year, as they not only keep the body cool and open, but cause him to cast his coat, and make his skin appear as bright as silk. No. 423. Purging. In obstinate grease and swellings of the legs, ac- companied with lameness of the joints, dry coughs, 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 191 worms, diseases of the skin, farcy, apoplexy or stag- gers, affections of the liver, and several other diseases treated of in this book, mercurial purges are of the greatest service. The purges destroy worms, gene- rally increase the flow of urine, operate upon the skin, liver, and other viscera in a peculiar manner, cause a healthful action in these parts, and remove many chronic complaints incident to the horse. Great caution is necessary during their operation, lest 'the horse take cold. The water given him must be warm, and when exercised he should be properly clothed. Horses that are kept on dry food, and are full fed, with little or no exercise, require regular purging every six months, with 2 or 3 . doses each time, allowing proper intervals between each; and those horses which run in stage-coaches, (whose labour is often more than their natural strength is able to bear,) and those whose legs are inclined to swell, all require purgative medicines, the use of which would be a means of preventing many of the diseases that attack this useful animal. No. 424. To prepare Horses for Physic. After violent exercise, horses are liable to lose their appetite, and to have their stomach loaded with crudities and undigested matter, the non- removal of which by the use of proper physic is the chief cause why so many die daily. Previous to administering a purge, the body should be prepared. The proper method of preparing a horse* for 192 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. physic is to give him 2 or 3 mashes of scalded bran and oats, and warm water, for 3 or 4 days together. This will soften the fseces and promote the operation of the medicine. But if a strong purge be given to a horse of costive habit with- out preparation, it will probably occasion a violent inflammation. No. 425. Purgative Balls for Horses. Take of Barbadoes aloes 7^ ounces, Castile soap Ij ounces, powdered ginger 1| ounces, oil of anise- seed 2 drachms, syrup a suflB.cient quantity to make 6 balls, each of w^hich is a dose. No. 426. Drink to check Over-Purging. Take of prepared chalk, ginger, and anise-seed, in powder, each 1 ounce, essential oil of peppermint 15 drops, rectified spirits of wine | ounce. Mix the whole in a pint and a half of warm linseed gruel, and give it. Another. — Take of prepared chalk 2 ounces, anise- seed and caraway-seed, prepared, each 1 ounce, opium I drachm. Mix, and give it in a pint of linseed gruel. No. 427. Astringent Drink after Looseness. If the looseness continues after the above drink has been administered for 2 or 3 days, the following may be given: — 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE KECEIPTS. 193 Take of pomegranate-shell, in powder, and pre- pared testaceous powder, each 1 ounce, Dover's powders, and ginger powdered, each 2 drachms. Mix, and give in a pint of warm gruel, and repeat twice a day. No. 428. Cough Drink. Take of Barbadoes tar, anisated balsam of sul- phur, each 1 ounce. Incorporate them with the yolk of an Qgg) then add nitre 1 ounce, ginger ^ ounce, tincture of opium 1 ounce. Mix them to- gether. Let this drink be gradually mixed in a pint of warm ale or linseed tea, and give it in the morning, fasting; let the horse stand without food for 2 hours after, then give him a mash of scalded bran and oats and warm water. Repeat every other morning, three or four times. No. 429. Fever-Balls for Horses. Take of antimonial powder, tartarized antimony, and camphor, each 1 drachm, nitre, and Castile soap, each 2 drachms, Barbadoes aloes 2 drachms. Mix, and beat them into a ball with syrup of buckthorn. Let this ball be given to the horse about 2 hours after bleeding, and in 6 hours after giving him the ball, let him have the following Purgative drink. — Take of Epsom salts 4 ounces, nitre i ounce, coarse sugar 2 tablespoonfuls. Dissolve them in a quart of gruel, then add 10 17 194 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. ounces castor-oil. Mix it while new-milk- warm. After the first ball given, the aloes may be left out, and then the ball and drink may be given once a day (one in the morning and the other in the evening,) until a proper passage be obtained. No. 430. Powerful Mixture for Fevers. If the fever still continues to increase, it will be proper to take a little more blood from him, and then to have recourse to the following fever-powder. Take of emetic tartar 1 ounce, calcined antimony 2 ounces, calcined hartshorn 1 ounce. Mix, and grind them in a mortar to a fine powder ; then put them in a bottle for use. 2 drachms of these powders are a proper dose for a horse. A dose of this powder, with an ounce of nitre, may be given twice or three times a day, in a pint of warm gruel, or to be made into a ball with con- serve of roses. If the fever be violent, and the horse in a raging state, | ounce tincture of opium may be added to each dose of powders. No. 431. Drink for an Infiammatory Fever. Take of tartar-emetic 1 drachm, prepared kali | ounce, camphor 1 drachm, rubbed into powder, with a few drops spirits of wine. This drink is excellent for all kinds of inflammatory fevers, especially such as are attended with im- GOO MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 195 minent danger. It may be given every 4 hours, or 3 times a day, in a pint of water-gruel. No. 432. Parging-Ball for Jaundice, Take of Barbadoes aloes from 4 to 5 drachms, white antimonial powder, and Castile soap, each 2 drachms, calomel 1 drachm. Mix, and beat them into a ball with a sufficient quantity of syrup of buckthorn. The horse should have a couple of mashes the day before this ball is given, by way of preparation, and the ball should be given fasting the morning follow- ing ; let him fast for 2 hours after, then give him a mash of scalded bran and oats, with warm water, and treat him in the same manner as for other physic. No. 432^. Hove or Hoven in Cattle.— Mr. Goiven's siinple Reynedy, He sa^^s, Let a straw or hay rope, made of two strands of thumb rope laid or twisted together, be introduced between the jaws of the animal bridle- wise, drawing it back by both ends, and tying it tightly around the roots of the horns at the back of the head, till the jaws are fully opened and gagged. If this is done in the stall and the animal is able to stand or walk, it should be turned out at once and kept moving about, when in a few minutes the dis- tension will subside and all will be well ao:ain. o 196 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 433. Restorative Balls after Jaundice. Take of gentian and caraway-seeds, in powder, each 8 ounces, powdered ginger, and precipitated sulphur of antimony, each 6 drachms, Castile soap, 1| ounces, and honey sufficient to form into 6 balls. One of these balls should be given every other day for some time. No. 434. Pectoral Balls for Broken Wind. Take of Barbadoes tar, Venice turpentine, and Castile soap, each 2 ounces, squills in powder, 1 ounce ; then add nitre 2 ounces, anise-seed and caraway-seeds, fresh powdered, each 1 ounce ; beat them into a mass wdth honey and liquorice-powder, and divide into 10 balls. No. 435. Alterative Balls for Surfeit, Mange, ^c. Take of precipitated sulphur of antimony and gentian-root, and Socotrine aloes, each 1 ounce, in fine powder, nitre 2 ounces, calomel and can- tharides, in powder, each 2 drachms. Mix, and make them into a mass of balls with honey or molasses. Each ball to w^eigh 1| ounces. This ball will be found very useful in many dis- eases, such as surfeit, hide-bound, mange, grease or swelled legs, lameness of the joints, molten grease, inflammation of the eyes, and, indeed, in all linger- ing and obstinate diseases. One ball may be given every other morning for 2 or 3 weeks. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 197 No. 436. Astringent Ball for Profuse Staling, Take of galls and alum, in fine powder, each 2 drachms ; Peruvian bark, | ounce. Make into a ball with honey or molasses. It will be proper to repeat this ball every morn- ing, and, if the disease is obstinate, every night and morning, and continue until the urine is diminished to about its natural quantity. No. 437. JRestorative Balls for Profuse Staling. Take of gentian-root, in powder, \ ounce, ginger, powdered, 2 drachms, alum 1 drachm, molasses sufficient to make into a ball. No. 438. Mercurial Balls for Worms. Take of calomel and Castile soap, each, 1 drachm, wormseed, in powder, \ ounce. Beat them into a ball with syrup of buckthorn. This ball should be given at night, and the follow- ing drink or purging-ball the next morning : — No. 439. • Drink for Worms. Take of Barbadoes aloes from 3 to 6 drachms, (ac- cording to their size and strength,) wormseed and gentian in powder, each, | ounce, caraway-seed, in powder, 1 ounce ; mix, and give in a pint of strong decoction of wormwood, and repeat in about 4 or 5 i7* 198 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. days ; but omit giving the mercurial ball after the first time. No. 440. Purgmg-Ball for ^Yorms. Take of Barbadoes aloes 8 drachms, ginger, Cas- tile soap, and oil of savin, each, 2 drachms, s^Tup of buckthorn sufficient to make them into a ball. This purge is calculated for a strong horse ; but it may be made weaker by lessening the quantity of aloes to 6 or 7 drachms, which is in general suffi- cient after a mercurial ball. The horse should have mashes, warm water, and proper exercise. No. 441. Stomach-Drink after the Expulsion of the Worms. Take of compound spirit of ammonia, and sweet spirits of nitre, each 1 ounce, gentian-root, in powder, 1^ ounces, Peruvian bark and hicra-picra, in powder, each, \ ounce, horse-spice 2 ounces. Mix the whole in 3 pints of ale, and divide into 3 parts, and give one part every morning, fasting. Two hours after, give him a mash and warm water. The virtues of this drink deserve the highest recom- mendation in restoring horses which have been much reduced by some long-continued disease, as in lowness of spirits, debilit}', and relaxation of the solids, a loss of appetite, and for such also as are over-ridden either in the field or on the road. No. 442. Balls for the Staggers. Take of James's powder 2 drachms, turmeric and cream of tartar, each, \ ounce. Make them into a 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 199 ball, with conserve of roses or honey a sufficient quantity. No. 443. Clyster for Convulsions. Take of linseed and valerian-root, each, 4 ounces ; boil them in 3 quarts of water to 4 pints; add Epsom salts 4 ounces, assafoetida \ ounce, opium 2 drachms. Dissolve the whole in the above while hot, and apply it new-milk-warm. This is a most powerful clyster in all disorders of the intestines that are attended with pain and con- vulsions or spasms iu those parts, such as a violent attack of the colic proceeding from an obstruction of the urinary passage. No. 444. To cure Gri'pes in Horses. This disorder goes by different names in different districts of the country ; as fret, — from the uneasiness attending it; bots, — from its being thought to arise from these animals or worms, &c. The animal looks dull and rejects his food; becomes restless and un- easy, frequently pawing ; voids his excrements in small quantities, and often tries to stale ; looks round, as if toward his own flank or the seat of complaint ; soon appears to get worse, often lying down, and sometimes suddenly rising up, or at times trying to roll, even in the stable, &c. As the dis- order goes on, the pain becomes more violent ; he appears more restless still, kicks at his belly, groans, rolls often, or tumbles about, with other marks of great agitation ; becomes feverish, and has a cold 200 600 MISQELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. moisture at the roots of his ears and about his flanks, and, when he lies at rest a little while, begins to perspire strongly, and to get covered with sweat more or less profuse. In most cases of ordinary gripes, signs of flatu- lence, or of the presence of air confined in the bowels, occur, and constitute a part of the disease, or increase it. The removal of it is, therefore, an object to which the attention of most grooms has been in a chief degree directed ; and as it can frequently 'be got rid of, and the disease cured, by exciting the powerful action of the intestines, cordial and stimu- lating medicines are had recourse to, and no doubt in many have aflbrded relief. Some farriers, indeed, without much care in distinguishing cases, almost exclusively rely upon such, and employ them too freely. This, however, should not be done ; for it sometimes happens that disorders not unlike flatu- lent colic or gripes occur when there is neither pent-up air present, nor any relaxation or want of energy and action in the intestines themselves ; and stimulating medicines might then do no good, but often much mischief. When the disorder is early discovered, or has newly come on, it will be proper to lose no time to get ready a clyster, and likewise a medicinal draught for removing the wind and abating the pain. After removing with the hand any excrement in the great gut that can be reached by it, a clyster, made of 5 or 6 quarts of water or water-gruel, blood-warm, and 6 or 8 ounces of common salt, may be injected ; and one or the other of the following draughts may be given before, or about the same time: — 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 201 No. 445. Draught for the same. No. 2. Take of Venice turpentine 1 ounce, beat it up "v\dtli the yolk of an egg, and then add of pepper- mint-water, or even of common water, if the other is not at hand, li pints and 2 ounces of whiskey or gin. This will serve for one dose. Another. — Take of table-beer, a little warmed, 1| pints, common pepper, or powdered ginger, 1 tea- spoonful ; gin, whiskey or rum, from 2 to 4 ounces or from 1 to 2 glassfuls : these mix together for one dose. Another. — Oil of turpentine 1 ounce, and water- gruel 11 pints, mixed, for a dose. These and the like preparations may be given, either out of a bottle or drench-horn, one or two persons raising and keeping properly up the horse's head, while another, who administers the medicine, pulls out, and a little aside, the tongue, with his left hand, and with the other pours in the draught. No. 446. Further Treatment. Cordial drenches of the kinds recommended, with the clyster, will have the eflect, in ordinary cases, to relieve the disorder. But should this not be the case, after waiting an hour or two, (longer or shorter ac- cordiog to the severity of the ailment, or the period since its commencement,) then the medicine should be repeated, but in a less dose than at first, — perhaps one-half or two-thirds of the former quantity. The horse should be occasionally walked out, properly 202 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. covered witli cloths, lest the chill air bring on shi- vering and give rise to feverishness ; and his belly should be now and then ruobed a considerable time at once, 5 or 10 minutes, but with intervals of rest, so that it may have time to stale or dung. If the disorder does not yield to these remedies, then others must be employed of a more active nature. Some persons recommend castor-oil, in the propor- tion of half a pint to a pint, with an ounce or two of laudanum or tincture of opium, mixed with water-gruel in the quantit}' of a pint or rather less. In case the horse has lain down, and continued so for some time, and is covered with sweat, when he rises, two or more persons should be employed to rub him dry; and he should also be kept well clothed. The stable should be airy, moderately cool, and his place in it roomy and well littered, to keep him from hurting himself should he roll about. No. 447. White's Ball for Gripes. Draughts of liquid medicine operate more speedily than any other form ; but, as the disorder may attack a horse during a journey, where such cannot readily be procured, Mr. White has given a receipt for a ball for the convenience of those who travel; and if it be wrapped up closely in a piece of bladder, it may be kept a considerable time without losing its power. The ball is composed of the following ingredients, viz. : Castile soap, 3 drachms ; camphor, 2 drachms ; ginger, 1^ drachms; and Venice turpentine, 6 drachms : to be made into a ball for one dose. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE KECEIPTS. 203 No. 448. Laudanum Draught. Laudanum may be used in cases of urgency, es- pecially in the wet or lax gripes. Take a quart of beer, and make it a very little warmer than blood- heat ; then put a tablespoonful of powdered ginger into it, and a small wineglassful of laudanum, just before it is given to the horse. This, in most cases, will give ease in a short time ; but, if the complaint is exceedingly violent, give about half the above quantity again in 15 or 20 minutes. As soon as the pain seems to be abated, if the belly is costive, give the horse a purgative. In case of looseness, no pur- gative must be given : the laudanum, which is of a binding nature, will correct it. When pain is occasioned by inflammation, it is seldom proper to employ opium, or any medicine of that kind ; but when it depends upon spasm or irri- tation, no medicines are so beneficial. In inflamma- tion of the bowels, for example, opium would cer- tainly do much injury; but in flatulent or spasmodic colic, or gripes, it seldom fails of success. No. 449. Another Anodyne Medicine, When horses are aftected with colic, or where the use of anodynes is requisite, the following prepara- tion may be given, namely : opium, 1 drachm, or 60 grains; Castile soap, 2 drachms ; and powdered anise- seed, 1 ounce, or 4 drachms : to be made into a ball with syrup for one dose. 204 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. In speaking of the medicines for gripes, or the flatulent colic, sometimes termed fret, Mr. White mentions, "Domestic remedies may be employed when proper medicines cannot be procured in time. For this purpose a draught may be readily made up of a pint of strong peppermint-water, with about 4 ounces of gin, and any kind of spice." Another. — A pint of Port wine, with spice or ginger. Another. — Half a pint of gin diluted with 4 ounces water, and a little ginger. Another. — Take of Epsom salts, 6 ounces ; Castile soap, sliced, 2 ounces. Dissolve them in IJ pints warm gruel ; then add tincture of opium, J ounce ; oil of juniper, 2 drachms. Mix, and give them new- milk- warm. This drink may be repeated every 4 or 5 hours, till the symptoms begin to abate. No. 450. The same when on a Journey. Take tincture of opium, and oil of juniper, each, 2 drachms ; sweet spirits of nitre, tincture of benzoin, and aromatic spirit of ammonia, each \ ounce. Mix them together in a bottle for one drink, and give it in a pint of warm gruel. For the colic, flatulency, and colicky pains of the intestines, this drink will be found a valuable cordial. Another. — The complaint may be removed by warm beer and ginger, or a cordial ball mixed with warm beer. It is necessary to repeat the caution given respect- 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 205 ing the necessity of distinguishing the flatulent, or windy, or spasmodic colic, from the inflammatory one, and from that which depends on costiveness. It is always necessary to empty the bowels by means of clysters; and, should the horse have ap- peared dull and heavy previous to the attack, it will be advisable to bleed. If costiveness attends it, give a laxative drench after the paroxysm, which will prevent its return. No. 451. To cure Surfeit or bad Coat in Horses. Take crocus metallorum, or liver of antimony, 1 ounce ; sprinkle it with water, or mix it with moist bran. This may be given to horses subject to this disorder once a day, among their oats : it relieves the appetite, destroys worms, sweetens the l.lood, against all obstructions opens the passage, and im proves tired and lean horses in a great degree ; it is also of great service in coughs and shortness of breath. It may be given daily from 2 to 4 weeks, and will soon produce a fine coat. The horse may be worked while he is taking the medicine, care being taken not to expose him to wet or cold. No. 452. Urine-Balls for Horses. Mix together 1 ounce oil of juniper, 1 ounce bal- sam of sulphur, 2 ounces Venice turpentine, 4 ounces sal-prunella, and 1 pound black rosin. Melt all together gently, over a slow fire, in an 18 206 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. iron pot, and make up into balls of tlie size of a nutmeg. Another. — Take nitre, 3 pounds ; rosin, 3 pounds ; soap, 1| pounds; juniper-berries, 1 pound; oil of juniper, 1| ounces. To be made up into balls, of the common size, with spirits of turpentine. No. 453. Bemedy for Lameness in Horses, Mr. Sewell, of the Veterinary College, stated his having discovered a method of curing horses which are lame in the forefeet. It occurred to him that this lameness might originate in the nerves of the foot, near the hoof; and in consequence he imme- diately amputated about an inch of the diseased nerve, — taking the usual precaution of guarding the arteries and passing ligatures, &c. By this means the animal was instantly relieved from pain, and the lameness perfectly cured. No. 454. To Cure the Thrush in Horses' Feet, Simmer over the fire, till it turns brown, equal parts of honey, vinegar, and verdigris, and apply it with a feather or brush occasionally to the feet. The horse at the same time should stand hard, and all soft dung and straw be removed. No. 455. Ointment for Mange. Take common tui'pentine, 1 pound ; quicksilver, 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE KECEIPTS. 207 4 ounces; hog's lard, f pound; flour of sulphur, 4 ounces ; train-oil, J pint. Grind the quicksilver with the turpentine, in a marble mortar, for 5 or 6 hours, until it completely disappears ; and add a little oil of turpentine to make it rub easier ; then add the remainder, and work them all well together till united. This ointment must be well rubbed on every part affected, in the open air, if the sun shine and the weather be warm ; but, if it be winter, take the horse to a blacksmith's shop, where a large bar of iron must be heated, and held at a proper distance over him, to warm the ointment. No. 456. Liyiiment for the Ifange. Take white precipitate, 2 ounces; strong mer- curial ointment, 2 ounces ; sulphur of vivum, 1 pound ; flour of sulphur, J pound ; rape-oil, 2 quarts. First grind the white precipitate in a little oil; afterwards add the remainder, taking care that they are well mixed. This liniment must be well rubbed in with a hard brush, in the open air, provided the day be fine and the weather warm. If the horse draws in a team, the inside of the collar must be washed, or the in- side of the saddle, if a saddle-horse ; for the disease is highly contagious. No. 457. Ui/e- Water. No, 2. Take camphor, 2 drachms, dissolved in 2 ounces 208 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. rectified spirits of wine ; Gould's extract, 1 ounce ; rose-water, 1 quart. Shake all together in a bottle for use. Let the eye and the eyelids be well bathed 3 or 4 times a day with a clean linen rag dipped in the eye-water. No. 458. For Inflammation of the Lungs. Take wbite antimonial powder, 2 drachms; pre- pared kali, I ounce ; Castile soap, 2 drachms ; aro- matic confection, \ ounce. Beat them into a ball. This ball must be given to the horse as soon as it can be prepared, after lie has been bled ; and con- tinue it 2 or 3 times a day as long as the inflamma- tion continues. About six hours after, give him a purging drink, and repeat it every night and morn- ing until a passage is obtained, or the bowels are sufficiently opened. No. 459. Embrocation for Sprains. Take of soap-liniment and camphorated spirits of wine, of each 8 ounces, and oil of turpentine, J ounce. Mix, and shake when used. This evaporating and discutient embrocation is well calculated to remove pain and inflammation, which is generally efl:ected in the course of a fort- night or three weeks. During that time the horse sliould not be allowed to go out of the stable or farm-yard. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 209 No. 460. Bracing Mixture for Sprains. After the above embrocation the following bracing niixture must be rubbed on the part once a day. Take of Egyptiacum, 2 ounces ; oil of turpentine, 1 ounce. Shake well together; then add cam- phorated spirits of wine and compound tincture of benzoin, each 1 ounce, and vinegar, 11 ounces. Mix, and shake well together every time it is used. No. 461. Paste to stop Bleeding. • Take of fresh nettles,' 1 handful, and bruise them in a mortar. Add blue vitriol, in powder, 4 ounces ; wheat flour, 2 ounces ; wine vinegar, J ounce : oil of vitriol, 1 ounce. Beat them all together into a paste. Let the wound be filled up with this paste, and a proper pledget of tow laid over the mouth, in order to prevent it from falling out, and then bandage it on with a strong roller. This dressing must remain on the wound 10 or 12 hours. No. 462. Ointment for Scratched Heels, Take of hog's lard, 1 pound ; white lead, 4 ounces; alum, in fine powder, 2 ounces ; white vitriol, 1 ounce ; sugar of lead, J ounce; olive-oil, 3 ounces. Grind all the powders in a marble mortar with the oil, or on a marble slab ; then add the lard, and work the whole together till united. This is a neat composition, and very proper to 18* 210 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. keep in the stable during the winter. It will not only be found useful for greasy and scratched heels, but also for stubs and treads of every description. A small quantity must be rubbed on the part affected every night and morning, in slight cases ; but in treads, or wounds upon the heels, it will be best to spread the ointment on pledgets of tow and secure them with bandages. No. 463. Astringent Embrocation for Strains in (liferent parts. Take of camphor, 2 drachms, dissolved in J ounce strong rectified spirits of wine ; nitre, 1 ounce, dis- solved in i pint wine vinegar ; spirits of turpentine, 4 ounces ; white lead, or Armenian bole, in powder, J ounce ; aqua-fortis, 1 ounce. Mix, and shake them all together in a bottle for use. No. 464. Mixture for Canker in the Mouth. Take of wine vinegar, J pint; burnt alum and common salt, each 1 ounce ; Armenian bole, ^ ounce. Mix, and shake them together in a bottle for use. It will be proper to dress the horse's mouth with this mixture, every morning and evening, in the fol- lowing manner : — Take a small cane, or a piece of whalebone, half a yard long, and tie a linen rag, or a little tow, round one end ; then dip it into the mixture, pass it up his mouth, and gently remove it to all the affected parts. Let him champ it well about in his mouth; after which let him fast an hour, then give food as usual. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 211 No. 465. I>isteraj)er among Cattle, Examine your cow's mouth, though she appears very well; and if you find any x^iraple in it, or on the tongue, or if you perceive any within the skin ready to come out, immediately house her, keep her warm, and give her warm tar-water. To a large beast give 1 gallon ; to a small one, 3 quarts. Give it four times every day, but not every time the quan- tity you first gave. Lessen the dose by degrees, but never give less than 2 quarts to a large beast, nor less than 3 pints to a small one ; and house her every night for some time, and give her warm gruel and malt mash. No. 466. To make Tar - Water for Cows. Take 1 quart tar, put to it 4 quarts w^ater, and stir it very well 10 or 12 minutes; let it stand a little while, and then pour it off for use. You must not put water to the same tar more than twice. Let the first dose be made of fresh tar. Continue to give it till the beast is well. Don't let her go too soon abroad. No. 467. For the Garget in Cows. This disorder is very frequ6nt in cows after ceasing to be milked ; it aflfects the glands of the udder with hard swellings, and often arises from the animal not being clean milked. It may be removed by anoint- ing the part three times a day with a little ointment composed of camphor and blue ointment. Half a 212 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE KECEIPTS. drachm or more of calomel may be given in warra beer, from a horn or bottle, for three or four morn- ings, if the disorder is violent. No. 468. To cure the Bed Water in Cattle, Take 1 ounce Armenian bole, ^ ounce dragon's blood, 2 ounces Castile soap, and 1 drachm rock- alum. Dissolve these in a quart of hot ale or beer, and let it stand until it is blood-warm. Give this as one dose, and, if it should have the desired eftect, give the same quantity in about 12 hours after. This is an excellent medicine for changing the water, and acts as a purgative. Every farmer that keeps any number of cattle should always have doses of it by him. No. 469. To cure the Scouring in Cattle. The following composition has been found to suc- ceed in many cases which were apparently drawing to a fatal termination : — Take of powdered rhubarb, 2 drachms ; castor-oil, 1 ounce ; kali, prepared, 1 teaspoonful. Mix well together in a pint of warm milk. If the first dose does not answer, repeat it in 36 hours. If the calf will suck, it will be proper to allow him to do it. No. 470. Cure for Cattle Swelled, ivith Green Food. - When any of your cattle happen to get swelled with an overfeed of clover, frosty turnips, or such 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 213 like, instead of the usual method of stabbing in the side, apply a dose of train-oil, which, after repeated trials, has been found to prove successful. The quantity of oil must vary according to the age or size of the animal. For a grown-up beast, of an ordinary size, the quantity recommended is about an English pint, which must be administered to the animal with a bottle, taking care at the same time to rub the stomach well, in order to make it go down. After receiving this medicine, it must be made to walk about until such time as the swelHng begins to sub- side. No. 471. To cure Measles in Swine. It sometimes happens, though seldom, that swine have the measles. While they are in this state their flesh is very unwholesome food. This disorder is not easily discovered while the animal is ahve, and can only be known by its not thriving or fattening as others. After the animal is killed and cut up, its fat is full of little kernels, about the size of the roe or eggs of a salmon. When this is the case, put into the food of each hog, once or twice a week, as much crude pounded antimony as will lie on a shil- ling. This is very proper for any feeding swine, even though they have no disorder. A small quan- tity of the flour of brimstone, also, may be given among their food when they are not thriving, which will be found of great service to them. But the best method of preventing disorders in swine is to keep their sties perfectly clean and dry, and allow thorn air, exercise, and plenty of clean straw. 214 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 472. HiqMre in Swine. "Where a number of swine are bred, it will fre- quently happen that some of the pigs will have what is called a "rupture," — Le. a hole broken in the rim of the belly, where part of the guts comes out and lodges betwixt the rim of the belly and the skin, having an appearance similar to swelling in the tes- ticles. The male pigs are more liable to this dis- order than the females. It is cured by the following means : — Geld the pig aflected, and cause it to be held up with its head downward. Flay back the skin from the swollen place, and, from the situation in which the pig is held, the guts will naturally return to their proper place. Sew up the hole with a needle, which must have a square point, and also a bend in it, as the disease often happens between the hind-legs, w^here a straight needle cannot be used. After this is done, replace the skin that w^as flayed back, and sew it up, when the operation is finished. The pig should not have much food for a few days after the operation, until the wound begins to heal. No. 473. Cure for the Foot-Bot in Sheep. No. 1. Take a piece of alum, a piece of green vitriol, and some white mercury, — the alum must be in the largest proportion ; dissolve them in water, and after the hoof is pared anoint it with a feather, and bind on a rag over all the foot. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 215 No. 474. Another Cure for Foot-Rot in Sheep. No. 2. Pound some green vitriol fine, and apply a little of it to the part of the foot affected, binding a rag over the foot, as above. Let the sheep be kept in the house a few hours after this is done, and then turn them out to a dry pasture. This is the most common way of curing the foot-rot. No. 475. Another Cure for Foot-Rot in Sheep. No. 3. Some anoint the part with a feather dipped in aqua- fortis or weak nitrous acid, which dries it at once. Many drovers that take sheep to market carry a little bottle of this with them, which, by applying to the foot with a feather, helps a lame sheep by hardening its hoof, and enabling it to travel better. Some may think aqua-fortis of too hot a nature ; but such a desperate disorder requires an active cure, which, no doubt, is always to be used cautiously. Another. — Spread some slaked quick-lime over a house-floor pretty thick, pare the sheep's feet well, and then turn them into this house, w^here they may remain for a few hours ; after which, turn them into a dry pasture. This treatment may be repeated 2 or 3 times, always observing to keep the house clean, and adding a little more quick-lime before putting them in. The feet must be often dressed, and the sheep kept as much as possible on dry land. Those animals that are diseased should be kept separate from the flock, as the disorder is very infectious. 216 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 476. Prevention and Cure of the Foot-Rot in Sheep. On suspected ground, constant and careful ex- amination ought to take place ; and when any fis- sures or cracks, attended with heat, make their ap- pearance, apply oil of turpentine and common brandy. This in general produces a very beneficial efiect ; but where the disease has been long seated, and becomes in a manner confirmed, after cleaning the foot and paring away the infected parts, recourse is had to caustics, of which the best seems to be sul- phuric acid and the nitrate of mercury. After this, pledgets are applied, the foot bound up, and the animal kept in a clean dry situation until its re- covery is effected. But it often happens, where the malady is in- veterate, that the disease refuses to yield to any or all of the above prescriptions. The following mode of treatment, however, if carefully attended to, may be depended upon as a certain cure. "Whenever the disease makes its appearance, let the foot be carefully examined, and the diseased part well washed, and pared as nigh as possible not to make it bleed; and let the floor of the house where the sheep are confined be strewn 3 or 4 inches thick with quick-lime hot from the kiln ; and the sheep, after having their feet dressed in the manner above described, to stand in it during the space of 6 or 7 hours. In all cases, it is of great importance that the animal be afterw^ards exposed only to a moderate 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 217 temperature, be invigorated with proper food, and kept in clean, easy, dry pasture ; and the disease will be eftectually remedied in the course of a few days. No. 477. To cure the Scab in Sheep, Take 1 pound quicksilver, J pound Venice tur- pentine, 2 pounds hog's lard, and | pound oil or spirits of turpentine. A greater or less quantity than this may be mixed up, in the same proportion, according to the number of sheep affected. Put the quicksilver and Venice turpentine into a mortar or small pan, and beat together until not a particle of the quicksilver can be discerned ; put in the oil, or spirits of turpentine, with the hog's lard, and work them well together until made into an ointment. The parts of the sheep affected must be rubbed with a piece of this salve, about the size of a nut, or rather less. When the whole flock is affected, the shep- herd must be careful in noticing those that show any symptoms of the disorder, by looking back and offering to bite or scratch the spot ; and if affected, he must immediately apply the ointment, as it is only by paying early and particular attention that a flock can be cured. No. 478. To destroy Maggots in Sheep. Mix with 1 quart spring-water a tablespoonful spirits of turpentine, and as much of the sublimate powder as will lie upon a shilling. Shake them well 19 218 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. together, and cork it up in a bottle, with a quill through the cork, so that the liquid may come out of the bottle in small quantities at once. The bottle must always be well shaken when it is to be used. When the spot is observed where the maggots are, do not disturb them, but pour a little of the mixture upon the spot, as much as will w^et the wool and the maggots. In a few minutes after the liquor is ap- plied, the maggots will all creep to the top of the wool, and in a short time drop off dead. The sheep must, however, be inspected next day, and if any of the maggots remain undestroyed, shake them off, or touch them with a little more of the mixture. No. 479. To cure Hoven or Blown in Cattle, This complaint is in general occasioned by the animal feeding for a considerable time upon rich, succulent food, so that the stomach becomes over- charged, and they, through their greediness to eat, forget to lie down to ruminate or chew their cud. Thus the paunch, or first stomach, is rendered inca- pable of expelling its contents ; a concoction and fermentation take place in the stomach, by which a large quantity of confined air is formed in the part that extends nearly to the anus, and, for want of vent at that part, causes the animal to swell even to a state of suffocation, or a rupture of some part of the stomach or intestines ensues. As sudden death is the consequence of this, the greatest caution is necessary in turning cattle into a fresh pasture, if the bite of grass be considerable ; nor should they 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 219 be suffered to stop too long at a time in such pas- ture before they are removed into a fold-yard, or some close where there is but little to eat, in order that the organs of rumination and digestion may have time to discharge their functions. If this be attended to several times, it will take away that greediness of disposition, and prevent this distressing complaint. Treatment. — As soon as the beast is discovered to be either hoven or blown, by eating too great a quantity of succulent grasses, let a purging-drink be given : this will, for the most part, check fermenta- tion in the stomach, and in a very short time force a passage through the intestines. No. 480. Purging- Drinks, Take of Glauber's salts, 1 pound ; ginger, in pow- der, 2 ounces ; molasses, 4 ounces. Put all the in- gredients into a pitcher, and pour 3 pints of boiling water upon them. When new-milk-warm, give the whole for one dose. Another. — Take of Epsom salts, 1 pound; anise- seed and ginger, in powder, each, 2 ounces ; molasses, 4 ounces. Let this be given in the same manner as the preceding. In most cases these drinks will be sufficient to purge a fall-grown animal of this kind. By strict attention to the above method of application, a fever may be prevented, and the animal speedily restored. If the fever continues after the intestines have been evacuated, (which is seldom the case,) it will be 220 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. proper to take some blood from tlie animal ; and the quantity must be regulated according to the disease and habit of body. No. 481. !Zb cure the Yellows, or Jaundice, in Neat Cattle. As soon as this disease makes its first appearance, it may, for the most part, be removed by adminis- tering the following drinks. Reduce to powder cumin-seeds, anise-seed, and turmeric-root, each, 2 ounces; grains of paradise and salt of tartar, each, 1 ounce. Now slice 1 ounce Castile soap, and mix it with 2 ounces molasses ; put the whole into a pitcher ; then pour a quart of boiling ale upon the ingredients, and cover them down till new-milk-warm ; then give the drink. It will often be proper to repeat this 2 or 3 times every other day, or oftener, if required. If the beast be in good condition, take away from 2 to 3 quarts of blood ; but the animal should not be turned out after bleeding that day, not at night, but the morning following it may go to its pasture as usual. After this has had the desired effect, let the following be given. Take of balsam copaiva, 1 ounce ; salt of tartar, 1 ounce ; Castile soap, 2 ounces. Beat them together in a marble mortar ; and add valerian-root, in pow- der, 2 ounces ; ginger-root and Peruvian bark, in powder, each, 1 ounce ; molasses, 2 ounces. Mix, for 1 drink. Let this drink be given in a quart of warm gruel, and repeated, if necessary, every other day. It will be proper to keep the body sufficiently GOO MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 221 open through every stage of the disease ; for, if cos- tiveness be permitted, the fever will increase ; and, if not timely removed, the disorder will terminate fatally. No. 482. Frenzy, or Inflammation of the Brain, Is sometimes occasioned by wounds or contusions in the head, that are attended with violent inflamma- tions of the vessels, and, if not speedily relieved, may terminate in a gangrene or a mortification, which is very often the case, and that in a few days. No. 483. lleihod of Cure. In the cure of this disease, the following method must be attended to. First, lessen the quantity of blood by frequent bleeding, which may be repeated daily, if required, and by which the great efflux of blood upon the temporal arteries will be lessened and much retarded. The following purgative drink will be found suitable for this disease, and likewise for most fevers of an inflammatory nature. Take of Glauber's salts, 1 pound ; tartarized anti- mony, 1 drachm ; camphor, 2 drachms ; molasses, 4 ounces. Mix, and put the whole into a pitcher, and pour 3 pints of boiling water upon them. When new- milk-warm, add laudanum, J ounce, and give it all for one dose. This drink will in general operate briskly in the space of 20 or 30 hours; if not, let 222 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. one-half of the quantity be given to the beast every night i tained. night and morning, until the desired effect be ob No. 484. Paunchhig. This is a method frequently resorted to in dan- gerous cases. The operation is performed in the following manner : — Take a sharp penknife and gently introduce it into the paunch between the haunch-bone and the last rib on the left side. This will instantly give vent to a large quantity of fetid air ; a small tube of a sufficient length may then be introduced into the wound, and remain until the air is sufficiently evacuated ; afterward take out the tube and lay a pitch-plaster over the orifice. Wounds of this kind are seldom attended with danger ; where it has arisen, it has been occasioned by the injudicious operator introducing his knife into a wrong part. After the wind is expelled and the body has been reduced to its natural state, give the following : — Cordial Drink. — Take anise-seed, diapente, and ele- campane, in powder, each 2 ounces; tincture of rhu- barb, 2 ounces ; sweet spirits of nitre, 1 ounce ; treacle, 4 tablespoonfuls. Mix, and give it in a quart of warm ale or gruel. This drink may be repeated every other day for two or three times. Another. — Take anise-seed, grains of paradise, and cumin-seed, each 2 ounces, in powder; sjDirits of turpeiitine, 2 tablespoonfuls ; sweet spirits of nitre, 1 ounce ; treacle, 2 tablespoonfuls. Mix, and give them in a quart of warm ale or gruel. This may be repeated once a day for two or three times. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 223 No. 485. Cure for Sore Backs of Horses. The best method of curing sore backs is to dis- solve half an ounce of blue vitriol in a pint of water, and daub the injured parts with it four or five times a day. No. 486. An Infallible Lotion for Blows, Bruises, and Sprains in Horses, Take of spirits of wine, 8 ounces ; dissolve 1 ounce of camphor first in the spirits of wine ; then add 1 ounce oil of turpentine, 1 ounce spirit of sal-ammo- niac, j- ounce oil of origanum, and 1 large table- spoonful of liquid laudanum. It must be well rubbed in with the hand, for full a quarter of an hour, every time it is used, which must be four times a day. You will be astonished at its efficacy when you try it. No. 487. To make a Horse drink freely. A horse has a very sweet tooth when he is unwell and will not drink freely. Mix molasses and coarse brown sugar in the water : he will then drink freely. No. 488. How to construct a Battery for Gilding and Silver- Plating. 1st. Make five copper cylinders or cups, 4 inches in diameter and 4 inches high, with copper sockets soldered to the top, to receive the conducting-wires. 224 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 2d. Construct 5 sheepskin cups, of the same height as the copper ones and 3 J inches in diameter. Set them inside the copper cups. 3d. Make 5 zinc cylinders, 4J inches high and 2J inches in diameter, open at each end, and place them inside the sheepskin cups, with copper sockets at- tached to them, as with the copper cups. 4th. After placing the cups thus formed in a con- venient position, connect them together with copper wires, as follows : — The first copper cylinder with the second zinc ; the second copper with the third zinc ; the third copper with the fourth zinc ; and the fourth copper with the fifth zinc; observing always to con- nect the copper with the zinc. How to charge the Battery. — Fill the cups within about half an inch of the top with water -, then put 1 teaspoonful of Glauber's salts into each of the sheep- skin cups, between the zinc and sheepskin ; then put 1 teaspoonful of blue vitriol into each of the copper cups, which, when dissolved, will charge the battery for some days. Introduce the conducting- wires, and it is ready for action. To prejxire the Gold Solution. — Dissolve the gold in two parts of muriatic acid with one of nitric acid. Then evaporate it to dryness, and redissolve the powder in the proportion of 1 gill of pure water to 1 pennyweight of gold. Boil it a few minutes, and then add J ounce prussiate of potash : boil it 5 or 10 minutes. Let it cool and settle ; then pour it ofi", and it is ready for use. E'.B. — Dissolve silver in nitric acid, and pursue the same process as with the gold. Prepare a solution by dissolving 1 ounce prussiate of potash in 1 quart water. Put a sufiicient quantity of it in a 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 225 bowl or other earthen vessel, and add to it the gold solution. Bend the conducting wires so that the two poles will be immersed in the solution. Attach a small piece of gold or platina to the positive pole or couducting-wire which is attached to the copper cups, and place the pieces to be gilted on the nega- tive or the one proceeding from the zinc cup. No. 489. ■ Galvanism Simplified^— Silver- Plating Fluid. Dissolve 1 ounce nitrate of silver, in crystal, in 12 ounces soft water. Then dissolve in the water 2 ounces cyanuret of potash. Shake the whole to- gether, and let it stand till it becomes clear. Have ready some half-ounce vials, and fill them half full of Paris white, or fine whiting; then fill up the bottles with the liquid, and it is ready for use. The wdiiting does not increase the coating-powder; it only helps to clean the articles, and to save the silver-fluid by the bottles. No. 490. Silver Solution for Flating Copper^ Brass, and German Silver. Cut into small pieces a twenty-five-cent-piece, and put it into an earthen vessel with J ounce of nitric acid. Put the vessel into warm water, uncovered, until it dissolves. Add J gill of water and 1 tea- spoonful of fine salt: let it settle. Drain off" and repeat, adding water to the sediment until the acid taste is all out of the water. Add, finally, about a pint of water to the sediment and 4 scruples cyanide 22G 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. of potassa, and all is ready. Put in bottom of so- lution a piece of zinc about 2 inches long, 1 wide, and J in thickness. After cleaning, immerse the article to be plated in the solution about half a minute, letting it rest on the zinc. Wipe off with a dry cloth and repeat once. Polish with buckskhi. Thickness of plate can be increased by repeating. No. 491. Gilding the Edges of Pa];)er. The edges of the leaves of books and letter-paper are gilded while in a horizontal position in the book- binder's press, by first applying a composition formed of four parts of Armenian bole and one of candied sugar, ground together with water to a proper con- sistence, and laid on by a brush with the white of an Qgg. This coating, when nearly dry, is smoothed by the burnisher. It is then slightly moistened by a sponge dipped in clean water and squeezed in the hand. The gold-leaf is now taken up on -a piece of cotton from the leather cushion and applied on the moistened surface. When dry, it is to be burnished, by rubbing the burnisher over it repeatedly from end to end, taking care not to wound the surface by the point. No. 492. To Silver hy Heat, Dissolve 1 ounce pure silver in aqua-fortis, and precipitate it with common salt; to which add J pound sal-ammoniac, sandever, and white vitriol, and J ounce sublimate. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 227 Or dissolve 1 ounce pure silver in aqua-fortis and precipitate it with common salt ; and add, after wash- ing, 6 ounces common salt, 3 ounces each of san- dever and white vitriol, and J ounce of sublimate. These are to be ground into a paste, npon a fine stone, with a muller. The substance to be silvered must be rubbed over with a sufficient quantity of the paste and exposed to a proper degree of heat. When the silver runs, it is taken from the fire and dipped into weak spirits of salts, to clean it. No. 493. A method of Washing occupying one hour. Have a preparation made from 2 tablespoonfuls alcohol, 2 tablespoonfuls turpentine, J pound brown soap, cut fine and mixed in 1 quart hot water. Pour the same into a large tub of boiling water, and allow the clothes to soak for 20 minutes. Then take them out and put them in a tub of clean cold water for 20 minutes. Afterward boil them in a like quantity of the above preparation for 20 minutes, and rinse in cold water. E".B. — In using the above method of washing, all fine clothes should be gone through with first, as coloured, very dirty, or greasy clothes ought not to be boiled with those of finer fabric and containing less dirt, as the water in which they are boiled must of course partake more or less of its contents. The same water that has been used for the finer clothes will likewise do for the coarse and coloured. Should the wristbands of the shirts be very dirty, a little soap may be previously rubbed on. The above is a very excellent receipt, and may be confided in as particularly eflective in labour-saving. 228 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. ^ No. 494. Another Washing-JReceipt. Take 1 pint alcohol, 1 pint spirits of turpentine, and 2 quarts strong soda-water. Manage the clothes as above directed. Another very good Beceipt. — Take 1 pound hard soap, (for 4 dozen clothes,) 7 teaspoonfuls spirits of turpentine, 5 teaspoonfuls hartshorn, and 5 teaspoon- fuls vinegar. Directions. — Dissolve the soap in hot water ; mix the ingredients. Then divide the mixture in two parts ; put half in the water with the clothes over- night ; next morning wring them out. Put them to boil in 5 or 6 gallons of water, and add the rest of the mixture ; boil 30 minutes, and rinse out thoroughly in cold water ; blue them, and hang out to dry. This receipt has been found to answer a very valuable purpose, and is worthy of trial. No. 495. How to cure the Lockjaw. The "l^ew York Observer" says : — A young lady ran a rusty nail into her foot recently. The injury produced lockjaw of such a malignant character that her physicians pronounced her recovery hopeless. An old nurse took her in hand, and applied pounded beet-roots to her foot, removing them as often as they became dry. The result was a most complete and astounding cure. Such a simple remedy should be borne in mind. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE KECEIPTS. 229 No. 496. A Remedy for JRheumaiis^n, ^c. No. 4. Take 1 raw egg well beaten, | pint vinegar, 1 ounce spirits of turpentine, J ounce camphor. These ingredients to be beaten well together, then put in a bottle and shaken for 10 minutes, after which, to be corked down tightly to exclude the air. In half an hour it is fit for use. Directions. — To be well rubbed in, 2, 3, or 4 times a day. For rheumatism in the head, to be rubbed at the back of the neck and behind the ears. No. 497. Cure for Hheitmatic Gout. No. 1. Take | ounce nitre, J ounce sulphur, J ounce flour of mustard, J ounce Turkey rhubarb, and 2 drachms powdered gum guaiacum. Mix. A tea- spoonful to be taken every other night for three nights, and omit three nights, in a wineglassful of cold water, — water which has been w^ell boiled. No. 498. Ointment for Files. No. 2. Take of hog's lard, 4 ounces ; camphor, 2 drachms ; powdered galls, 1 ounce ; laudanum, J ounce. Mix, and make an ointment. To be applied every night, at bedtime. No. 499. How to make Tomato Catswp. No. 1. Take 1 bushel tomatoes, and boil them until they 20 230 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. are soft ; squeeze them through a fine wire sieve, and add J gallon vinegar, 1^ pints salt, 2 ounces cloves, J pound allspice, 3 ounces cayenne pepper, 3 table- spoonfuls black pepper, and 5 heads garlic, skinned and separated. Mix together, and boil about 3 hours, or until reduced to about one-half; then bottle without straining. No. 500. Sow to preserve Fruit A number of persons who- have been putting up fruit in " air-tight cans" have stated to us that they are losing large quantities of it by fermentation, and inquire of us the cause of the difficulty. This we cannot easily explain without first seeing the cans. The cause may be in the imperfect manner of scalding and putting up the fruit; or it may arise from the defective form in which the cans are made. If the cans are properly constructed, it only remains to scald the fruit sufficiently, and to fill the cans so near the top as to leave the least possible amount of air in them, taking care that the moisture does not rise into the channel formed for the sealing- material, and to close the cans while scalding hot. To do this, as we before stated, the most expeditious and sure method is to first scald the fruit in a kettle, fill the cans, and set them into a vessel of boiling water, there to remain until the sealing is com- pleted. — Louisville Journal. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 231 No. 501. Another method of preserving Fruits and Vegetables. A great deal of mystery has been made of this simple matter, and it is generally supposed that the process is known only to the initiated. "With a good air-tight can, the simple agent in the work is heat; and it is only necessary to know what degree of heat is required, and how to apply it. The common mode is to fill the can with the fruit, and set it in a vessel of boiling water, letting it remain until the fruit is thoroughly heated through, — say from a half to three-quarters of an hour, and then seal up. This mode is objectionable, on ac- count of the time required and shrinkage of the fruit, leaving the can but about two-thirds full, by which the use of one-third (or four cans of every dozen) is lost. The most convenient, certain, and expeditious method is to prepare fruit, either with or without sugar, as if for immediate use, put it in a preserving- kettle or open vessel, (with a small quantity of water when necessary to prevent scorching,) and let it remain over the fire until it comes to the boiling- point ; then fill the can, and seal it up immediately. Direction for sealing. — Fill one can at a time with the boiling fruit, put on the cap, press it to its place, until you fill the groove around it with the melted composition ; pour a little cold water on the top of the can to chill the wax; then set the can in cold water, and let it remain until cool : when taken out, hold it to the ear, and, if there be any imperfection in the can, the air will be heard forcing itself in. 232 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 502. Another way to make Tomato Catsiqy. JVo. 2. To 1 bushel skinned tomatoes, add 1 quart good vinegar, 1 pound salt, J pound black pepper, 2 ounces African cayenne, J pound allspice, 6 onions, 1 ounce cloves, and 2 pounds brown sugar. Boil this mass for 3 liours, constantly stirring, it to keep it from burning. "When cool, strain it through a fine sieve or coarse cloth, and bottle it for use. Many persons omit the vinegar in this preparation. No. 503. • JIoio to make Cucumber Catsup. Take 3 dozens full-grown cucumbers and 8 white onions. Peel the onions and cucumbers, and then chop them as fine as possible. Sprinkle on f pint fine salt ; put the whole in a sieve, and let it drain 12 hours ; then take a teacupful of mustard- seed, J teacupful ground black pepper, and mix them well with the cucumbers and onions. Put the whole into a stone jar with the strongest vine- gar ; close it up tightly for 3 days, and it is fit for use. It will keep for years. No. 504. Mow to destroy a Foul Smell. Dissolve 1 pound copperas (green) in 1 quart water, and pour down a privy, will effectually con- centrate and destroy the foulest smells. For water- closets aboard ships and steamboats, about hotels and other public places, there is nothing so nice to 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 233 cleanse places as simple green copperas dissolved, under the bed, in any tMng that will hold water, and thus render a hospital, or other places for the sick, free from unpleasant smells. For butchers' stalls, fish-markets, slaughter-houses, sinks, and wherever there are offensive putrid gases, dissolve copperas and sprinkle it about, and in a few days the smell will pass away. If a cat, rat, or mouse dies about the house, and sends forth an offensive gas, place some dissolved copperas in an open vessel near the place where the nuisance is, and it will soon purify the atmosphere. No. 505. Directions for making good Candles from Lard. For 12 pounds lard, take 1 pound saltpetre, and 1 pound alum ; mix and pulverize them ; dissolve the saltpetre and alum in a gill of boiling water ; pour the compound into the lard before it is quite all melted ; stir the whole until it boils ; skim off what rises ; let it simmer until the water is boiled out, or until it ceases to throw off steam ; pour off the lard as soon as it is done, and clean the boiler while it is hot. If the candles are to be run, you may com- mence immediately; if to be dipped, let the lard cool to a cake, and then treat it as you would tallow. No. 506. How to make a Cement v)liich loill get, gradually, as hard as a stone. Take 20 parts by weight clean sharp sand, 2 parts litharge, and 1 part whiting ; mix, and make them 20* 23-4 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. into thin putty with linseed-oil. For seams in roofs, a cement maybe made of white or red lead, thinned with boiling linseed-oil, into which some sharp, dry white sand is stirred. For the joints of water and gas pipes, white lead cement is the best. No. 507. Liquid Cement. Cut gum-shel-lac in 70 per cent, alcohol ; put it in vials, and it is ready for use. Apply it to the edge of the broken dish with a feather, and hold it in a spirit-lamp as long as the cement wiU simmer; then join together evenly, and, when cold, the dish will break in another place first, and is as strong as new. No. 508. Crockery Cement which is transparent. Take 1 pound white shel-lac, pulverized, 2 ounces clean gum mastic ; put them into a bottle, and then add J pound pure sulphuric ether. Let it stand half an hour, and then add J gallon 90 per cent, alcohol : shake occasionally till it is dissolved. Heat the edges of the article to be mended, and apply the cement with a pencil brush ; hold the article firmly together till the cement cools. No. 509. Hard Cement for Scams. Take equal quantities of white lead and white sand, and as much oil as will make it into the con- sistence of putty. Apply this to the seams in the GOO MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 235 roofs of houses, &c. It will in a few weeks become as hard as a stone. No. 510. Water-Proof and Fire-Proof Cement for Roofs of Houses. Slake stone-lime in a large tub or barrel with boiling water, covering the tub or barrel to keep in the steam. When thus slaked, pass 6 quarts through a fine sieve : it will then be in a state of fine flour. To this add 1 quart rock-salt, and 1 gallon water. Boil the mixture, add 1 pound alum and \ pound copperas ; by slow degrees add | pound potash, and 4 quarts fine sand or wood-ashes, sifted. Both of the above will admit of any colouring you please. It looks better than paint, and is as durable as slate. No. 511. To cure Rancid Butter. A writer in the "Journal of Industrial Progress'* recommends that butter should be kneaded with fresh milk, and then with pure water. He states that by this treatment the butter is rendered as fresh and pure in flavour as when recently made. lie ascribes this result to the fact that butyric acid, to which the rancid taste and odour are owing, is readily soluble in fresh milk, and thus removed. No. 512. How to improve had Butter. Bad butter may be improved greatly by dissolving it thoroughly in hot water ; let it cool, then skim it 236 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. off, and churn again, adding a little salt and sugar. A small quantity can be tried and approved before doing 'a larger one. The water should be merely hot enough to melt the butter — or it will become oily. No. 513. How to cure Butter that will keep for Years. Take 2 parts good common salt, 1 part sugar, and 1 part saltpetre ; beat them up and blend the whole together. Take 1 ounce of this composition for every pound of butter; work it well into the mass, and close it up for use. Butter cured in this way appears of a rich, marrowy consistence and fine colour, and never acquires a brittle hardness nor tastes salt. It will likewise keep good 3 years, — only observing that it must stand 3 weeks or a month before it is used. It ought to be packed in wooden vessels, or in jars vitrified throughout, which do not require glazing, because during the decom- position of the salts they corrode the glazing, and the butter becomes rancid. No. 514. How to ineserve Eggs. No. 1. Apply with a brush a solution of gum-arabic to the shells, or immerse the eggs therein ; let them dry, and afterward pack them in dry charcoal-dust. This prevents their being affected by any alternations of temperature. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 237 No. 515. Another method to preserve Eggs. No. 2. Mix together, in a tub or vessel, 1 bushel quick- lime, 2 pounds salt, \ pound cream of tartar, with as much water as will reduce the composition to a sufficient consistence to float an a^g. Then put and keep the eggs therein, — which will preserve them perfectly sound for 2 years at least. No. 516. Another method to preserve Eggs. No. 3. Take a half-inch board of any convenient length or breadth, and pierce it as full of holes (each Ij inches in diameter) as you can, without risking the breaking of one hole into another. Then take 4 strips of the same board, 2 inches broad, and nail them together edgewise into a rectangular frame of the same size as your board ; nail the board upon the frame, and the work is done. Put your eggs in this board as they come in from the poultry-house, the small end down, and they will keep good for 6 months, if you take the following precautions : — Take care that the eggs do not get wet, either in the nest or afterward. If 2 boards are kept, one can be filling and the other emptying at the same time. No. 517. A Pickle to cure Hams, Pork, and Beef. To each gallon of water add 1\ pounds salt, | pound sugar, I ounce saltpetre ; boil all together and skim it off, then rub the meat with salt, and pack it down ; pour on your pickle when milk-warm. 238 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 518. T. E. Hamilton's Receipt for Pickling Meat or Hams, To every 100 pounds of pork take 8 pounds ground alum-salt, 2 ounces saltpetre, 2 pounds brown sugar, 1\ ounces potash, and 4 gallons water. Mix them all together, and pour the brine over the meat after it has lain in the tub some 2 days. Let the hams re- main 6 weeks in the brine, and then be dried several days before smoking. He says he has had the meat rubbed with fine salt when it is packed down. The meat should be perfectly cool before packing. No. 519. How to cure Pork and Hams dry without Brine. First rub your hams and pork on the flesh-side with brown sugar thoroughly, and take care that as much sugar will lie on it as you possibly can. Having it covered all over, (from 1 to 2 pounds of sugar to each hog is suflicient,) you can either lay the meat on a table or any kind of vessel that will not hold any pickle ; then, when you have one layer laid, cover it all over with fine salt, (of course, the flesh- side,) and squeeze it on with your hand as tight as you can, and so on with each layer. Then leave it so for 8 or 10 days. By this time the salt will nearly all be dissolved, when you have to take it out and pack it again, and cover it all over with fine salt the same as at first. Then let it stand for 3 or 4 weeks longer, according to the size of the hogs, then hang it in smoke. This method is excellent for dried beef. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE KECEIPTS. 239 No. 520. Blackberry Jam. Gather the fruit in dry weather; allow half a pound of good brown sugar to every pound of fruit ; boil the whole together gently for an hour, or till the blackberries are soft, stirring and mashing them well. Preserve it like any other jam. It will be found very useful in families, particularly for children, regulating their bowels, and enabling you to dispense with cathartics. It may be spread on bread or on puddings, instead of butter ; and, even when the blackberries are bought, it is cheaper than butter. No. 521. JBlackherry Wine. Gather when ripe, on a dry day. Put into a vessel with the head out, and a tap fitted near the bottom ; pour on them boiling water to cover them. Mash the berries with your hands, and let them stand covered till the pulp rises to the top and forms a crust, in 3 or 4 days. Then draw off the fluid into another vessel, and to every gallon add 1 pound sugar ; mix well, and put into a cask to work, for 1 week or 10 days, and throw off any remaining lees, keeping the cask well filled, particularly at the com- mencement. When the working has ceased, bung it down. After 6 to 12 months, it may be bottled.. No. 522. Green- Com Omelet. ' The following receipt for this delicacy is said to 240 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. be excellent : — Grate the com from 12 ears of corn boiled, beat up 5 eggs, stir them with the corn, sea- son with pepper and salt, and fry the mixture brown, browning the top with a hot shovel. If fried in small cakes, with a little flour and milk stirred in for a. batter, it is very nice. No. 523. HoiD to keep fresh Fish, In order to keep fresh fish, draw the fish and re- move the gills ; then insert a piece of charcoal in their mouths, and 2 or 3 pieces in their bellies. If they are to be conveyed any distance, wrap each fish separately in paper and place them in a box. Fish thus preserved will keep fresh several days. No. 524. To varnish Articles of Iron and Steel. Dissolve 10 parts clear grains of mastic, 5 parts camphor, 15 grains sandarac, and 5 parts elemi, in a suflicient quantity of alcohol, and apply this var- nish without heat. The articles will not only be preserved from rust, but the varnish will retain its transparency, and the metallic brilliancy of the articles will not be impaired. No. 525. A Turkish Cure for the Gravel. Take equal parts of small pebble-stones, pulve- rized very fine, nettle-seed, and honey; mix them 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 241 well together. Dose, — 1 teaspoonful morning and evening. No. 526. A Cure for Dysentery. No. 2. Take 1 tablespoonful common salt, mix it ^\^th 2 tablespoonfuls of vinegar, and pour upon it a half-pint of water, either hot or cold, (only let it be taken cold.) A wineglassfull of this mixture in the above proportions, taken every half-hour, will be found quite efficacious in curing dysentery. If the stomach be nauseated, a wineglassful taken every hour will suffice. For children, the quantity should be a teaspoonful of salt and one of vinegar, in a teacupful of water. No. 527. Another for Dysentery. No. 3. Take new-churned butter, before it is washed or salted, clarify over the fire and skim off all the milky particles, add brandy to preserve it, and loaf sugar to sweeten : let the patient (an adult) take 2 table- spoonfuls twice a day. No. 528. A Cure for Dysentery and Bloody Flux. Take 2 tablespoonfuls elixir salutis, 1 tablespoon- ful castor-oil, and 1 tablespoonful loaf sugar; add to these 4- tablespoonfuls boiling water. Skim, and drink hot. 21 242 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. The above is a dose for an adult ; for a child 6 to 7 years old, half the quantity ; 1 year old, one-quarter the quantity. "When this is manufactured for sale, the water is added when used. No. 529. A Cure for Rheumatic Gout or Acute Rheumatism. No. 2. Take J ounce saltpetre, J ounce sulphur, J ounce flour of mustard, | ounce Turkey rhubarb, and \ ounce powdered gum guaiacum. Mix. A tea- spoonful to be taken every other night for three nights, and omit three nights, in a wineglassful of cold water, — water which has been well boiled. No. 530. Ointment for Piles. No. 3. Take of hog's lard, 4 ounces ; camphor, 2 drachms ; powdered galls, 1 ounce ; laudanum, J ounce. Mix. Make an ointment, to be applied every night at bed- time. No. 531. Ointment for Sore Nipples. Take of tincture of Tolu, 2 drachms ; spermaceti- ointment, J ounce ; powdered gum, 2 drachms. Mix. Make an ointment. The white of an egg mixed with brandy is the best application for sore nipples. The person should at the sanie time use a nipple-shield. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 243 No. 532. Another Cure for Files. Take flour of sulphur, 1 ounce ; rosin, 3 ounces ; pulverize, and mix well together. Dose. — What will lie on a iive-cent-piece, night and morning, washing the parts freely in cold water once or twice a day. This is a remedy of great value. No. 533. A Cure for Smallpox. Take 1 grain each of powdered foxglove (digitalis) and sulphate of zinc. Kub together thoroughly in a mortar with 5 or 6 drops of water ; this done, add 4 or 5 ounces of water, and sweeten with loaf sugar. Dose. — A tablespoonful for an adult, and 1 or 2 tea- spoonfals for a child, every 2 or 3 hours, until symp- toms of disease vanish. No. 534. A sure Remedy for Inflammatory Rheumatism, Take 1 ounce pulverized saltpetre and put it into a pint of sweet oil. Bathe the parts affected, and a sound cure will speedily be made. No. 535. A certain Cure for Corns. One teaspoonful tar, 1 teaspoonful coarse brown sugar, and 1 teaspoonful saltpetre; the whole to be warmed together. Spread it on kip leather the size of the corns, and in two days they will be drawn out. V 244 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 536. Bedhug-Poison. Take 1 pint spirits of wine, 2 ounces sal-ammoniac, 1 pint spirits of turpentine, 2 ounces corrosive sub- limate, and 2 ounces gum camphor; dissolve the camphor in the alcohol ; then pulverize the corrosive sublimate and sal-ammoniac, and add to it; after which put in the spirits of turpentine and shake well together. No. 537. Cologne. Take 1 gallon spirits of wine, and add of the oil of lemon, orange, and bergamot each a spoonful ; add also extract of vanilla, 40 drops. Shake until the oils are cut, then add a pint and a half of soft water. [No. 538. To 'prevent Hair falling off. Take J pint French brandy, 1 tablespoonful fine salt, and 1 teaspoonful powdered alum. Let these be mixed and well shaken until they are dissolved ; then filter, and it is ready for use. If used every day, it may be diluted with soft water. No. 539. How to make Extract of Vanilla. This is made by taking 1 quart pure French brandy, and cutting up fine 1 ounce vanilla beans and 2 ounces Tonqua, bruised. Add these to the coo MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 245 brandy, and let it digest for two weeks, frequently shaking ; then filter carefully, and it is ready for use. This is excellent for flavouring pies, cakes, and pud- dings. No. 540. How to make Burning-Fluid. Take 8 gallons 95 per cent, alcohol, and add 2 gallons camphene, 10 grains camphor, and 10 to 15 grains nitre. No. 541. A superior article of Cologne. Take 1 gallon 90 per cent, alcohol, and add to it 1 ounce oil of bergamot, 1 ounce oil of orange, 2 drachms oil of cedrat, 1 drachm oil of iTevoli, and 1 drachm oil of rosemary. Mix well, and it is fit for use. No. 542. Ox-Marrow Pomatum. Take 2 ounces yellow wax and 12 ounces beef- marrow. Melt all together, and, when sufficiently cool, perfume it with the essential oil of almonds. This is an excellent article. No. 543. Hair-JRestorative. Take 1 drachm lac-sulphur, 1 drachm sugar of lead, and 4 ounces rose-water. Mix, and shake the vial on using the mixture. Bathe the hair twice a 2l« 246 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE EECEIPTS day for a week. This preparation does not dye the hair, but restores its original colour. No. 544. A Cure for Salt Bheum or Scurvy. Take of the pokeweed, any time in summer; pound it, press out the juice, and strain it into a pewter dish. Set it in the sun till it becomes a salve, then put it into an earthen mug. Add to it fresh water and beeswax sufficient to make an oint- ment of common consistence. Simmer the whole over a fire till thoroughly mixed. When cold, rub the parts aftected. The patient will almost imme- diately experience its good effects, and the most obstinate cases will be cured in three or four months. N.B. — The juice of the ripe berries may be pre- pared in the same way. No. 545. Cough-Syrup. Put 1 quart of hoarhound to 1 quart of water, and boil it down to a pint ; add 2 or 3 sticks of liquorice and a tablespoonful of essence of lemon. Bose. — Take a tablespoonful of the syrup three times a day, or as often as the cough may be trouble- some. No. 546. Toothache-Drops, Two or three drops of essential oil of cloves, put upon a small piece of lint or cotton-wool and placed 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 24^ in tlie hollow of the tooth, will be found to have the active power of curing the toothache without destroy- ing the tooth or injuring the gums. No. 547. Freckle-Lotion. Take muriate of ammonia, J drachm ; lavender- water, 2 drachms ; distilled water, | pint. Applied with a sponge 2 or 3 times a day. No. 548. Tooih-Powder, Take rose-pink, 2 drachms ; precipitated chalk, 12 drachms ; carbonate of magnesia, 1 drachm ; sulphate of quinine, 6 grains. All to be mixed together. No. 549. A certain Cure for the Piles. Mix 1 ounce ung. gallac, 3 drachms powdered gallac, 1 drachm laudanum, and J drachm extract of lead. To be used externally, night and morning. Then mix 2 ounces confection of senna and 20 grains powdered saltpetre. To be used internally. "" I)ose.—H\\Q size of a hazel-nut to the size of a hickory-nut. No. 550. Cough-Brops. No. 2. Mix 2 ounces syrup of squill, 2 ounces paregoric, 1 ounce antimonial wine, J ounce spirits of nitre, 248 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. and 1 ounce tinct. benzoin comp. Shake well when two ingredients are in. JDose. — A teaspoonful an hour before each meal, and 2 teaspoonfuls at going to bed. No. 551. How to cure Sun-Stroke. Immediately bruise horseradish and apply it to the stomach, and give him gin to drink. Never-failing. No. 552. Cure for the Quinsy. Simmer hops in vinegar until their strength is extracted. Strain the liquid, sweeten it with sugar, and give it frequently to the patient until relieved. This is an almost infallible remedy. No. 553. Spitting of Blood. Take 2 spoonfuls of the juice of nettles, at night, or take 3 spoonfuls of sage-juice in a little honey. This presently stops either spitting or vomiting blood. Or give 20 grains of alum, in water, every 2 hours. No. 554. To cure the Whitlow. Steep in distilled vinegar, hot as you can bear it, 4 or 5 times a da}^, for 2 days successively; then moisten a leaf of tobacco in the vinegar, bind it round the part affected, and a cure follows. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 249 No. 555. Brilliant White- ^Yash, Many have heard of the brilliant stucco white- wash on the east end of the President's house at "Washington. The following is a receipt for it : it is gleaned from the "iN'ational Intelligencer." Take J bushel nice unslaked lime, slake it with boiling water, cover it during the process to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a peck of salt, previously well dissolved in warm water, 3 pounds ground rice,- boiled to a thin paste, and stirred in boiling hot, J pound powdered Spanish whitiug, and a pound of clean glue, which has been previously dissolved by soaking it well, and then hanging it over a slow fire, in a small kettle w^ithin a large one filled with water. Add 5 gallons hot water to the mixture, stir it well, and let it stand a few days, covered from the dirt. It should be put on right hot : for this pur- pose, it can be kept in a kettle on a portable furnace. It is said that about a pint of this mixture will cover a square yard upon the outside of a house, if properly applied. Brushes more or less small may be used, according to the neatness of the job required. It answers as well as oil-paint for wood, brick, or stone, and is cheaper. It retains its brilliancy for many years. There is nothing of the kind that will com- pare with it, either for inside or outside walls. Colouring-matter 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 the quantity. A delicate tinge of this is very pretty for inside 250 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. walls. Finely pulverized common clay, well mixed with Spanish brown, makes a reddish stone colour. Yellow ochre stirred in makes yellow wash ; but crome goes further, and makes a colour generally esteemed prettier. In all these cases the darkness of the shades of course is determined by the quantity of colouring used. It is difficult to make rules, because tastes are different : it would be best to try experiments on a shingle, and let it dry. Green must not be mixed with lime : it destroys the colour, and the colour has an effect on the white-wash which makes it crack and peel. "When walls have been badly smoked, and you wish to have them a clean white, it is well to squeeze indigo plentifully through a bag into the water you use, before it is stirred in the whole mixture. If a larger quantity than 5 gallons be wanted, the same proportion should be observed. No. 556. An English Cure for Fleuro-Pneumonia in Cattle. The only chances in this disease are the adoption of very prompt measures, — bleeding early, and repeat if necessary. Then give a drench, composed of 1 pound Epsom salts, 1 ounce powdered saltpetre, J drachm tartar-emetic. Give it in 2 pints gruel, and repeat in 6 or 8 hours. No. 557. Worms or Bots in Cattle or Horses. Give J pound Epsom salts, with 2 ounces coriander- seed bruised in a quart of water. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 251 No. 558. Scouring. Give \ ounce powdered catechu, and 10 grains powdered opium, in a little gruel. No. 559. Flesh-Wounds in Cattle, a Tincture for. 4 Take Socotrine or Barbadoes aloes, in powder, 4 ounces, m3^rrh, coarsely powdered, 1 ounce, recti- fied spirits of wine 1 pint, water 2 pints. Let them stand 14 days, occasionally shaking; then fit for use. Wounds are best without sewing. Cleanse from dirt or gravel. If much inflamed, apply a poultice. If unhealthy fungous granulation arises, wash the part with the following mild caustic wash, previous to applying the tincture :— Blue vitriol (sul- phate of copper) 1 ounce, water 1 pint ; dissolve. No. 560. Blacking for Harness, ^c. Melt 4 ounces mutton-suet with 12 ounces bees- wax ; add 12 ounces sugar-candy, 4 ounces soft-soap dissolved in water, and 2 ounces indigo, finely pow- dered. When melted and well mixed, add ^ pint turpentine. Lay it on the harness with a sponge, and polish off with a brush. 252 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 561. Liniment for Bheumatism. Take 1 ounce soap liniment, | ounce tincture of opium, 2 drachms oil of cajeput, 2 drachms hartshorn. Mix, and rub the parts afiected night and morning. Flannel, or chamois leather, should be worn in winter. No. 562. A Simple Cure for Rheumatism, ■Take 1 drachm hjdriodate of potash, distilled water 2 ounces; mix, and give a teaspoonful in a wineglass of water, morning, noon, and night. This seldom fails to afford relief. No. 563. To Silver Copper, Take a small quantity of pure silver, and pour over it twice its weight of nitric acid, and twice as much water as acid. The silver will be quickly dis- solved. The solution, if the metal and acid be both pure, will be transparent and colourless. Then pre- cipitate the silver by the immersion of polished plates of copper. Take of the silver 20 grains, cream of tartar 2 drachms, 2 drachms common salt, and \ drachm alum; mix the whole together. Take then the article to be silvered, clean it well, and rub some of the mixture, previously a little moistened, upon its surface. The silvered surface may be polished with a piece of soft leather. The dial- plates of clocks, scales of barometers, etc. are all plated thus. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 253 No. 564. A new Pomade against Baldness. Take of extract of yellow Peruvian bark 15 grains, extract of rhatany-root 8 grains, extract of burdock- root, and oil of nutmegs, (fixed,) of each 2 drachms, camphor (dissolved with spirits of wine) 15 grains, beef-marrow 2 ounces, best olive-oil 1 ounce, citron- juice i drachm, aromatic essential oil as much as sufiicient to render it fragrant. Mix, and make into an ointment. 2 drachms bergamot and a few drops otto of roses would suffice. This is considered a valuable preparation. No. 565. Silvering of Metals, Cold Silvering. — Mix 1 part chloride of silver with 3 parts pearlash, IJ parts common salt, and 1 part whiting, and well rub the mixture on the surface of brass or copper, (previously well cleaned,) by means of a piece of soft leather, or a cork moistened with water and dipped into the powder. 1 part precipi- tate silver powder, mixed with 2 parts each cream of tartar and common salt, may also be used in the same way. When properly silvered, the metal should be well washed in hot water slightly alka- lized, and then wiped dry. No. 566. To solder Iron or any other Metal without Fire. Take 1 ounce of sal-ammoniac, and 1 ounce of 22 254 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. common salt, and an equal quantity of calcined tartar, and as much of bell-metal, with 3 ounces of antimony. Pound well all together, and sift it. Put this into a piece of linen, and enclose it well all round with fullers' earth about an inch thick. Let it dry, then put it between two crucibles over a slow fire, to get heat by degrees. Push on the fire till the lump becomes red-hot, and melted all together ; let the w^hole cool gradually, and pound it into powder. When you want- to solder any thing, put the two pieces you want to join on a table, approach- ing their extremities as near as you can to one another, making a crust of fullers' earth, so that holding to each piece and passing under the joint, it should open over it on the top ; then throw some of your powder between and over the joint. Have some borax, which put into hot spirits of wine till it is consumed, and with a feather rub your powder at the joint: you will see it immediately boih As soon as the boiling stops, the consolidation is made. If there be any roughness, grind it ofl:* on a stone. No. 567. Mild Aperient for Piles, Take of precipitated sulphur 15 grains, magnesia 1 scruple. Mix. To be taken daily at bedtime, in a glass of milk or of water. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 255 No. 568. 3Iilk, to Preserve. When milk contained in wire-corkecl bottles is heated to the boiling-poiDt in a water-bath, the oxygen of the included small portion of air under the cork seems to be carbonated, and the milk will afterwards keep fresh, — it is said, for a year or two. No. 569. Alum for the Hog Cholera, A writer says, — " Last May my hogs were attacked with hog cholera; and, upon mentioning it to a friend, he. spoke of a suggestion published in the Cincinnati papers, advising the use of alum. I pro- cured some, made a strong solution, (all the water would bear,) and drenched all I found with the disease npon them, and gave to the lot (about 100 head) a pound of pulverized alum in some mill-feed each day for two weeks, by which time all remain- ing seemed healthy. Out of twenty-two drenched with one pint of the solution to each, administered with the assistance of a rope behind the tusks, and a horn with the small end sawed off, I lost five head, and, with the exception of two, the remaining seventeen appear to have entirely recovered to a healthy, thrifty condition. Some of those which have recovered were in the last stage, vomiting, with red blotches on the skin, and bleeding at the nose, which I have always considered the last stage of the disease. The above is but little cost, and, if it is as successful as with me, is well worth the trial." 256 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 570. Green Wriiing-lnk. Take 1 ounce verdigris, and, having powdered it, put to it 1 quart vinegar. After it has stood 2 or 3 days, strain off the liquid. Or, instead of this, use the crystals of verdigris dissolved in water ; then dissolve in 1 pint water either of the solutions, 5 drachms gum-arabic, and 2 drachms white sugar. No. 571. Hooping- Cough. — Dr. Barton's Bemedy. Take of powdered cantharides, powdered cam- phor, of each 1 scruple, extract of hark 3 drachms. Rub them well together, and divide into powders of 8 grains each. Dose. — One every 3 or 4 hours. To be used only in advanced stages of the disease. No. 572. How to make Shavmg-Soap. Take 2 pounds best white bar soap, and ^ pound good common bar soap; cut them up fine, so that they will dissolve readily. Put the soap into a copper kettle, with 1 quart of soft water: let it stand over the fire, and, when it is dissolved by boil- ing, add 1 pint alcohol, 1 gill beef's gall, | gill spirits of turpentine; boil all these together for five minutes, stir while boiling; while it is cooling, flavour it with oil of sassafras to suit, and colour it with fine vermilion. This soap makes a rich lather, Boftens the face, and can be made cheap. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 257 No. 573. Shaving- Soa])^ — Best ever Invented. Take 4^ pounds white bar soap, 1 quart rain- water, 1 gill beef's gall, and 1 gill spirits of turpen- tine; cut the soap thin, and boil five minutes, stir while boiling, and colour with J ounce vermilion. Scent with oil of rose or almond. No. 574. Hair- Oil. Take 1 gallon alcohol 95 per cent., 1 pint castor-oil, or as much as the alcohol will dissolve: add 1 ounce oil of cinnamon, or as much as will bring to the desired flavour. ^ No. 575. Cheap Outside Faint Take 2 parts (in bulk) of water-lime ground fine, 1 part (in bulk) of white lead ground in oil. Mix them thoroughly, by adding best boiled linseed-oil enough to prepare it to pass through a paint-mill, after which temper with oil till it can be applied with a common paint-brush. Make any colour to suit. It will last three times as long as lead paint, and cost not one-fourth as much. It is superior. No. 576. How to clean Silver Articles. The best way to clean silver articles is to wash them first with warm water and soap, and afterwards 22* 258 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. polish them with pure London whiting and a piece of leather. As pure whiting, free of grits, cannot always be had, except in London, you may sub- stitute hartshorn-powder for it. No. 577. To take Mildew out of Linen, "Wet the linen which contains the mildew with soft water, rub it well with white soap, then scrape some fine chalk to powder and rub it well into the linen, lay it out on the grass in the sunshine, watch- ing to keep it damp with soft water. Repeat the process the next day, and in a few hours the mildew will entirely disappear. No. 578. An excellent Poioder for Razor- Strops. Ignite together in a crucible equal parts of well- dried copperas and sea-salt. The heat must be slowly raised and well regulated : otherwise the materials will boil over in a pasty state, and the product will be in a great measure lost. When well made, out of contact with air, it has the brilliant aspect of plumbago. It requires to be ground and elutriated, after which it afibrds, on drying, an im- palpable powder, that may be either rubbed on a strap of smooth buff leather or mixed up with hog's lard or tallow into a stiff cerate. No. 579. Cure for Common Diseases of Pigs or Hogs, For common diseases of pigs, the following re- 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 259 ceipt may be employed ; i pound sulphur, -| pound madder, { pound saltpetre, 2 ounces black antimony ; mix these together, and give a table- spoonful night and morning in the food. No. 580. Dr. CiiUeri's treatment of Epilei^sy, or Falling Fits. Take of ammoniate of copper 20 grains, bread- crumbs and mucilage of gum-arabic a sufficient quantity to form it into a mass, which is to be divided into 40 pills. In the beginning, one of these is to be taken three times a day, and gradually in- creased to 2 or 3 pills, thrice a day. No. 581. German Silver. No. 1. The following are the different receipts for the manufacture of German silver which are adopted by one of the first manufacturers in London ; pre- mising that the metals should be as pure as possible. Common German Silver. — Copper, 8 ; nickel, 2 ; zinc, 3i. This is the commonest that can be made with any regard to the quality of the article pro- duced. It might do for common purposes. If the quantity of nickel be reduced much below this, the alloy will be little better than- pale brass, and will tarnish rapidly. No. 582. German Silver. No. 2. Good Cferman Silver. — Copper, 8 ; nickel, 3 ; zinc, 3|. This is a very beautiful compound. It has the 260 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. appearance of silver a little below standard ; by some persons it is even preferred to the more expensive compound. We strongly recommend manufacturers not to use a metal inferior to this. No. 583. German Silver. No. 3. Mectnim. — Copper, 8 ; nickel, 4 ; zinc, 3|. This is a compound which, for ease of working and beauty of appearance, is to be preferred to all others by the manufacturer, and is generally preferred by the pub- lic. It has a shade of blue like very highly-polished silver ; it tarnishes less easily than silver. No. 584. German Silver. No. 4. Copper, 8; nickel, 6; zinc, ^. This is ^ the richest in nickel that can be made without injuring the mechanical properties of the metal. It is a YQvy beautiful compound, but requires a higher heat for fusion than the preceding, and will be found rather more difficult to work. No. 585. German Silver. No. 5. Tutenag. — Copper, 8 ; nickel, 3 ; zinc, 4^. These proportions were obtained by the analysis of a piece of Chinese tutenag of the best ordinary quality; but some of the specimens of Chinese tutenag are equal 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 261 to the electrum, ^N"©. 3 ; but these are very rare. This alloy is very fusible, but very hard, and not easily rolled : it is the best adapted for casting. No. 586. Hoici to Foison Rats. Mix 2 pounds carbonate of barytes with 1 pound lard, and lay it in their way. It is tasteless, odour- less, and impalpable, produces great thirst, and death immediately after drinking. Another way is to mix arsenic and lard together, and spread it on bread, and push a piece in every rat-hole ; or some small pieces of sponge may be fried in drippings or honey, and strewed about for them to eat. The sponge will distend their intestines, and will cause their death. Or \ pint plaster of Paris, mixed with oat-meal, 1 l^int, w^ill prove equally fatal to them. No. 587. Bilious or Sick Headache. Headache is in general a symptom of indigestion or deranged general health, or the consequence of a confined state of the bowels. The following altera- tive pill will be found a valuable medicine. Take of calomel, 10 grains ; emetic tartar, 2, 3, or 4 grains; precipitated sulphuret of antimony, 1 scru- ple ; guaiacum, in powder, 1 drachm. Kub them well together in a mortar for 10 minutes; then, with a little conserve of hips, make them into a mass, and divide it into 20 pills. Dose. — One pill is given every night, or every other night, for several weeks in succession. 262 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 588. Hoiu to make Otto of Hoses. Gather the flowers of the hundred-leaved rose, (rosa centifoha,) put them in a large jar or cask, with just sufficient water to cover them ; then put the vessel to stand in the sun, and in about a week after- ward the otto (a butyraceous oil) will form a scum on the surface, wdiich should be removed by the aid of a piece of cotton. No. 589. Japan f 07' Leather, 1. Boiled linseed-oil, 1 gallon ; burnt umber, 8 ounces ; asphaltum, 3 ounces ; boil, and add oil of turpentine to dilute to a proper consistence. 2. Boiled oil, 1 gallon ; the black of Prussian blue to colour. Prussian blue, when heated, turns of a black colour ; thus the black japanned cloth used for table-covers is prepared by painting the cloth with Prussian blue and boiled oil, and then drying it by the heat of a stove ; when, in the drying, it takes its intense colour. No. 590. Jet for Harness and Boots. Three sticks of the best black sealing-wax dissolved in J pint spirits of wine ; to be kept in a glass bottle, and well shaken previous to use. Applied with a soft sponge. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 263 No. 591. To clean French Kid Gloves. Put the gloves on your hands and wash them, as if you were washing your hands, in some spirits of tur- pentine, until quite clean ; then hang them up in a w^arm place, or where there is a current of air, and all smell of the turpentine will be removed. !N'.B. — This method is practised in Paris, and, since its introduction into this country, thousands of pounds have been saved or gained by it. No. 592. HoiD to clean Gloves. "Wash them with soap and water, then stretch them on wooden hands, or pull them into shape without wringing them; next rub them with pipe-clay, or yellow ochre, or a mixture of the two in any re- quired shade, made into a paste with beer ; let them dry gradually, and, when about half dry, rub them well, so as to smooth them and put them into shape ; then dry them, brush out the superfluous colour, cover them with paper, and smooth them with a warm iron. Other colours may be employed to 'mix the pipe-day besides yellow ochre. No. 593. Red Sealing- Wax, Shel-lac, (very pale,) 4 ounces, cautiously melt in a bright copper pan over a clear charcoal fire, and, when fused, add Venice turpentine, \ ounce ; mix, and further add vermilion, 3 ounces; remove the 264 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. pan from tlie fire, cool a little, weigh it in pieces, and roll them into circular sticks on a warm stone slab by means of a polished wooden block; or it may be poured into moulds while in a state of fusion. No. 594. Black Sealing- Wax. No. 1. Purchase best black rosin, 3 pounds ; beeswax, J pound; and finely-powdered ivory-black, 1 pound. Melt the whole together over a slow fire, and pour into sticks. If \ pound Venice turpentine is added, it will be fit for letter-use. No. 595. Black Sealing- Wax. No. 2. Take 30 ounces shel-lac, 15 ounces ivory-black, in an impalpable powder, and 10 ounces Venice tur- pentine. For mode of procedure, see Receipt No. 593. No. 596. A Cure for Erysipelas, and all high Inflammation of the Skin. A simple poultice of cranberries pounded fine, and applied in a raw state. No. 597. An excellent Printing-ink. Balsam of copaiva, (or Canada balsam,) 9 ounces ; lampblack, 3 ounces ; indigo and Prussian blue, each 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE EECEIPTS. 265 5 drachms ; Indian red, f ounce ; yellow soap, (dry,) 3 ounces. Grind it to an impal]3able smoothness. Mix with old linseed-oil. No. 598. Hoio to clean Silk stained by corrosive or sharp Liquor, We often find that lemon-juice, vinegar, oil of vitriol, and other sharp corrosives, stain dyed gar- ments. Sometimes by adding a little pearlash to a soap-lather, and passing the silks through these, the faded colour will be restored. Pearlash and warm water will sometimes do alone ; but it is the most efiicacious to use the soap-lather and pearlash together. No. 599. JIoiv to Write in Silver. Mix 1 ounce the finest pewter or block tin, and 2 ounces quicksilver, together, till both become fluid ; then grind it with gum-water, and write with it. The writing will look as if done with silver. No. 600. Toothache Preventive. A correspondent of the "Monthly Magazine" says : — '' Although I am unacquainted with any thing which gives immediate ease in that severe pain, yet I can inform you how the toothache may be prevented. I was much tortured with it about twenty years ago. Since that time, however, by 23 266 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. using flour of sulphur as a tootli-powder, I have been wholly free from it. Rub the teeth and gums with a rather hard tooth-brush, using the sulphur every night ; if done after dinner, too, all the better. It preserves the teeth, and does not communicate any smell whatever to the mouth. GAUGING- SIMPLIFIED; OR, €vn^ m^itlimit lusi mn €mipt GAUGING REGULAR SHAPED LYING CASKS. EXPLANATION OP TABLES. The chief design in this invention has been to enable any person to ascertain in one minute what number of gallons are contained in a lying cask, regular shaped, of different dimen- sions, when full or partly full. EULE I.— For Table No. 1. Take the rod with inches and tenths of inches marked on it, put it into the cask diagonally, from the bung-hole to each head, to get the exact centre. Then look at Table No. 1 : the first column will show the diagonal inches from centre of bung to each head of cask, and the second column the con- tents of cask. RULE II.— For Table No. 2. To get the number of gallons when a cask is not full, take the bung diameter and wet inches on rod, and look at Ullage Table No. 2 for full contents of cask. The 1st column shows the number of gallons in a full cask. ^^ ^d " " the bung diameter. " 3d " '' wet or dry inches on rod. ^' 4th " ^^ what remains, if part be out. Suppose a cask to contain 135 gallons, and the bung dia- meter to be 34 inches, and 10 inches wet on the rod, the right-hand, or 4th column will show 30 J gallons remaining. Should the wet inches come above the centre, and only 10 inches be dry, there would be 30 j gallons out, leaving 104^ gallons in. 268 269 Table No. 1. FOR WHOLE CONTENTS OF CASKS. Diagonal inches. Diagonal inches. Contents of cask. a CO CD d Jo Mi -2^ Diagonal inches. i2^ 6 ° 7.1 1 21.8 28 27.3 d5 31.1 82 34.2 109 9.0 2 22.0 29 27.4 56 31.2 83 34.3 110 10.3 3 22.3 30 27.6 57 31.4 84 34.4 111 11.3 4 22.5 31 27.7 58 31.5 85 34.5 112 12.2 5 22.7 32 27.9 59 31.6 86 34.6 113 13.0 6 23.0 33 28.0 60 31.7 87 34.7 114 13.7 7 23.2 34 28.2 61 31.8 88 34.8 115 14.3 8 23.4 35 28.4 62 31.9 89 34.9 116 14.9 9 23.7 36 28.5 63 32.1 90 35.0 117 15.4 10 24.0 37 28.7 64 32.2 91 35.1 118 15.9 11 24.1 38 28.8 65 32.3 92 35.2 119 16.4 12 24.3 39 29.0 66 32.4 93 35.3 120 16.8 13 24.5 40 29.1 67 32.6 94 35.4 121 17.2 14 24.7 41 29.2 68 32.7 95 35.5 122 17.6 15 24.9 42 29.4 69 32.8 96 35.6 123 18.0 16 25.1 43 29.5 70 32.9 97 35.7 124 18.4 17 25.3 44 29.6 71 33.0 98 35.8 125 18.8 18 25.5 45 29.8 72 33.2 99 35.9 126 19.1 19 25.7 46 29.9 73 33.3 100 36.0 127 19.4 20 25.9 47 30.1 74 33.4 101 36.1 128 19.7 21 26.0 48 30.2 75 33.5 102 36.2 129 20.1 22 26.2 49 30.3 76 33.6 103 36.3 130 20.4 23 26.4 50 30.5 77 33.7 104 36.4 131 20.7 24 26.6 51 30.6 78 33.8 105 36.5 132 21.0 25 26.7 52 30.7 79 33.9 106 36.6 133 21.2 26 26.9 53 30.8 80 34.0 107 36.7 134 21.5 27 27.1 54 31.0 81 34.1 108 36.8 135 23-* 270 -2^ Diagonal inches. Contents of cask. Contents of cask. Diagonal inches. Contents of cask. Diagonal inches. 03 ^ 6^ 36.9 137 38.3 153 39.5 167 40.5 181 41.5 195 37.0 138 38.4 154 39.5 168 40.6 182 41.6 196 37.1 139 38.5 155 39.6 169 40.6 183 41.7 197 37.2 140 38.5 156 39.7 170 40.7 184 41.7 198 37.3 141 38.6 157 39.8 171 40.8 185 41.8 199 37.4 142 38.7 158 39.8 172 40.9 186 41.9 200 37.5 143 38.8 159 39.9 173 40.9 187; 42.0 202 37.6 145 38.8 160 40.0 174 41.0 188 i 42.1 204 37.7 146 38.9 161 40.1 175 41.1 189 42.2 205 37.8 147 39.0 162 40.1 176 41.2 190 42.3 206 37.9 148 39.1 163 40.2 177 41.2 191 42.4 208 38.0 149 39.2 164 40.3 178 41.3 192 42.5 210 38.1 150 39.3 165 40.3 179 41.4 193 42.7 213 38.2 152 39.4 166 40.4 180 41.5 194 2T1 Ullage Table, No. 2. d a o o o ,Jd 18 © © d d 16 Wet or dry I inches. | Ullage or remainder. 06 d © d © 1— t © "© a fcfl d d >> f-i -d ^ d © .rt 4 aj © d bc.2 galls. H Whole contents. © © a d d ^^ -^ d © .rt 5 © ® d g| galls. 31 galls. 1 3 2 5 H 6 4f 4 3 . 6 H 7 6 5 ^ 7 7| 8 73 ' 4 6 5f 7i * 2 H 9 8| 7 8 9 8 n ^ '^1 19 17 2 1 If 20 16 2 1 2 18 17 2 1 3 3 3 1| 4 3 3i 2f 4 5 6 2i 4 51 5 6 7 4J 5f 4 ^ 5 8J 5 7 8 6f 8i 8 8^ 8J 9* 5J 6 5f 6* 8i 9 19 18 6J 7 7-^ 9 2 3 1 If 18 18 2 1 3 If 4 2J 8 10 4 5 91 3f 5 6 3$ 5 20 17 2 1 6 7 5i 6f 7 8 8 3 4 If 2* 8 9 7J 9 8J 9 8f 9J 4J 5 6 61 8i 4i 6 6f 19 19 2 3 3 19 16 2 1 If 3 2 4 2i 7 7i 272 CI o o > 2 Ullage or remainder. a o o 'o o s p QQ Wet or dry inches. j§ a "5 o o a> O a fcD a >> Ti oj . 1> 4 Ullage or remainder. galls. galls. 8f galls. 22 20 1 3 3 If 9 101 5 41 ^2 4 2f 9* lU 6 6 5 6 3| 5 7 8 23 20 2 1 7 6* 3 If 9 11 8 7f 4 3 9* 12 9 9i 11 5 6 4 5i 10 24 20 2 1 7 8 3 4 2 2^ 4 23 17 2 1 1 3 2 9 n 5 8f 4 5 31 8* 10 iij 6 7 8 9 5f 7 m 6 7 24 17 2 3 2i 8 101 4 4 10 12 81 ^IIJ 5 6 7 5J 7 9 "2 25 17 9. 2i 23 18 2 1 3 3 2 8 10^ 4 4 4 3 8i 12 5 51 5 4J 6| 6 7 7i 8| 6 24 18 2 1 7 7f 3 Ql ■"4 8 101 8 9 9J 111 4 5 6 7 3i 4i 8+ 8J 121- 25 18 2 1 2 23 19 2 1 3 3 4 3 8 9 101 12 4 5 8i 5 5 6 4i 5f 6 7 6f 8^ 24 19 2 1 7 6J 3 2 8 101 274 a O o o a bJO <0 -r-l '0 a bJD P .r-l ^a galls. '0 a fcO f^ CO hC-g galls. galls. 9 121 5 6 7 5i 7 8,f 27 18 2 3 4 li 91 25 19 2 1 ^4 31 3 2 8 11 5 5* 4 3 9 13 6 71 5 6 4J 7 8 91 111 26 19 2 1 7 n 3 2 9 131 8 n 4 3i 9 iif 5 4f 27 19 2 1 91 121 6 61 3 2 7 8 101 4 5 5 25 20 2 1 3 If 9 12 6 H 4 3 qi 13 7 81 5 4i 5f Q 121 6 26 20 2 1 91 7 8 9 11 3 4 5 If 3 4* 9J 131 9 27 20 2 1 10 12J 6 7 8 6 71 ' 2 9| 3 4 5 2 4f 26 17 2 n 3 4 2i 4 9 10 Hi 18 6 7 6i 8 5 6 7 5J 71 " 2 9| 8 94 131 27. 17 2 3 li 91 ■"2 9 10 8 11 3 4 5 4i 6| 81 13 28 17 2 u 6 7 8 10 3 4 2i 41 26 18 2 1 3 2i 8 121 5 6i 4 3i 8J 13| 6 8J 275 -•J 0) s o aJ 0) o o (U a> o) rt a> O fl Oi OJ © ^ a o o tp >> P a> o a bC O o to O o &n o -3 o ej -^ rt o a -►^ rt a -^ rt ^ a> .rH O .rt >-M O .fH ^ M ^ galls. 29 17 2 galls. ^ W pS: galls. 101 7 101 8 8 12f 3 2f 9 121 8i 14 4 4i 10 141 5 «* 28 18 2 li 6 81 30 17 2 U 3 21 7 lot 3 n 4 4 8 131 4 4f 5 5} 8* 14* 5 n 6 7i 6 H 7 y* 29 18 2 U 7 Hi 8 llf 3 2* 8 131 9 14 • 4 5 6 4 6 8i 15 28 19 2 H 30 18 2 n 3 2 7 10 3 2J 4 3* 8 121 4 4 5 5J 9 14i 5 6 6 7 7 8f 6 7 8 101 29 19 2 1 8 lOf 3 2i 8 121 9 12f 4 8f 9 15 91 131 5 5* ^ 14 6 7 8 7i 9 lOJ 30 19 2 3f 28 20 2 1 4 3 2 9 181 5 51 4 3i n 14* 6 71 5 4i 7 8 9J 11? 6 H 29 20 2 1 7 8i 3 2 9 13f 8 9f 4 3* 91 15 9 12 5 5 10 14 6 7 6f 8* 30 20 2 3 1 2 1 276 1=1 o 'o 31 31 31 a> a 3 20 21 22 r "^ o -^ *^ !=1 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 lOi 2 3 4 5 l4 ^ <1> 1=1 !"•§ ::::J i=l galls. ^ 5i 7 8f 10} 12} 15 o (=1 o 32 32 32 i o a s ba ;3 20 21 22 b . 1^ CO ■s.a 6 7 8 9 10 11 --§ II galls. 6 7f 9J 11* 18i 15i 1 CO o o a> 1— < o u s fao ;=! u . 7 8 9 10 11 P 2 galls. 33 33 33 20 21 22 9} 12 14 16 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9i 10 2i 3} 5} 7} 9} 11} 14 151 16i 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9J 10 3} 5J 71 91. nj 13} 14} 16 3i 7i 9 11 121 141 151 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 lOJ 1 2i H 5 7 8f 10} 13 151 16J 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3J 4} 6} 8i 101 12i 14} 16 1 2 6i 8i lOi 141 15J 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 4} 8} 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 4} 1 2 3 44 27T 05 PI o o (D "o Si 34 34 34 © S fcC 20 21 22 s-S 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 n 10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 101 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 o^ o ^ bc.;:: galls. 10 121 14i 161 a* "5 a o o 'o 35 35 35 i a o B bfl C pi « 21 211 22 ^ . 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