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One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed
C. A. Bogardus

CONTENTS.
Chapter.
I. Quick Shooting Records of C. A. Bogardus
II. Medical Department
Accidents and Emergencies—What to Do
The Mind Cure
Poisons and Their Antidotes
III. Ink Department
IV. Cosmetic Department
V. Live Stock Department
How to tell the Age of Horses, Cattle, etc.
VI. Hog Department
VII. Poultry Department
VIII. Chemical Department
IX. Miscellaneous Department
What to Invent, and How to Protect Your Invention
Candy—Directions for Making all Kinds of
X. Coin Department—Illustrated List and Tables of
Values of Rare Coins
Loisette’s System of Memory
Useful Tables of Mnemonics
Facts Worth Knowing
Art Department
Gems of Thought from Poor Richard’s Almanac, etc.
Robert Burns
XI. Oratorical Department
Patrick Henry’s Speech
Abraham Lincoln’s Speech
Wm. J. Bryan’s Speeches
Speeches of C. A. Bogardus
Address Delivered at Farmington, Iowa
Speech at Decatur, Indiana
Speech at Jacksonville, Ill.
What Next
ANNOUNCEMENT.
SPRINGFIELD, MO., August 28th, 1907.
TO THE PUBLIC:
In as much as the former editions of this book have been so well
liked, excepting the type being so small, it has been mentioned by
many that a correction in that particular would be well. I have
revised and enlarged the book and it now appears from larger type.
C. A. B.

PREFACE.
Agesilaus, king of Sparta, being asked what things he thought most
proper for boys to learn, replied: “Those things which they should
practice when they become men.” His reply was in perfect harmony
with the good judgment of mankind, and cannot fail to be
appreciated by all who have good common sense. If Agesilaus lived
at the present time, the question would most probably have included
both boys and girls, and undoubtedly his reply would be so worded
as to apply to men and women.
Mankind, especially of the United States, has two great duties. First,
that of self-support and education. Second, that of governmental
support and national enlightenment. While I have thus divided
man’s responsibility in two parts, it might not be improper to
obliviate the dividing line and say that man’s duties are all under
one comprehensive head, viz.: “Mankind’s duty is to man.”
However, in the preparation of this volume the dividing line is
recognized and two general departments are presented; that of
domestic or household economy, and national or political economy.
The former department is a compilation of useful household
formulas so arranged and worded as to form a neat and concise
household receipt book. Frequent reference to its pages will impart
such information as will enable the reader to save money and at the
same time enjoy life.
Department number two treats on social questions that are now
knocking at humanity’s intellectual threshold for admission and
solution.
Records show that less than one-thirtieth part of the time of man in
general is consumed in productive pursuits, yet some people toil
diligently three-fifths of their time and receive only a scanty living.
To assist in making clear the road to private and national prosperity
is therefore the motive which actuates me in the publication of this
book.
C. A. B.

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CHAPTER I.
QUICK SHOOTING RECORDS.
From the time I was twelve years old I was considered a very fine
shot with a rifle, although I did but very little shooting, and, in fact,
did not know that I was any more than a common marksman; yet in
any contests while a boy I always won.
One day in June, 1884, while passing a shooting gallery, my friends
called me in for a match to pay for shots: I beat them all shooting, my
score was 11 consecutive bull’s eyes, while none of my friends had
made half that score. The boys said I did well, to which I jestingly
remarked that “that was common shooting for me; just throw up an
apple and I will hit it.” The apple was thrown up, and I hit it, which
was as much of a surprise to me as it was to any of the rest. I then
borrowed a 22-calibre Stevens rifle and practiced shooting at objects
thrown in the air, first shooting at tomato cans, afterwards at smaller
objects, and finally at marbles and various other small objects. By
practicing half an hour a day, within a month I could hit 70 per cent
of the glass balls which were thrown in the air. On July 4, 1884, I shot
a match with James Robinson, at Pratt, Kansas; conditions, 10 glass
balls each at 21 foot rise, he using a shot gun, I a rifle; I lost with a
score of 4 to 6. This is the only match I ever lost with a rifle against a
shot gun. The trouble with me was, this being my first match, I was
thinking more about the stake money than the shooting. Besides the
stake money which I lost, I had to treat all the boys who attended the
match; they all laughed and had a good time at my expense.
The next day after my shoot with Robinson, I sent to P. Power & Son,
of Cincinnati, for a 32-calibre Winchester repeating rifle. I continued
practicing with the Winchester for about six weeks, when I
challenged G. W. Washburn of Kingman, Kansas, to a match. (Mr.
W. was at that time champion of Kingman County.) He to use a shot
gun at glass balls from a Moles rotary trap, 21 yards rise, I to use a
32-calibre Winchester, balls from a straight trap, 10½ yards rise, 50
balls each. In the toss up I won and preferred to shoot second. The
score was a tie on 47 balls; we shot the tie off at 10 balls each; again
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we tied on ten balls straight. The match was continued at 10 balls
more each. By this time things had become a little exciting. Over
$1500 was bet; many were betting $4 to $1 against me, thinking that I
would lose my nerve and go to missing. Mr. W. walked to the score
for the third time and broke 9 balls out of 10 shot at; it then came my
turn to shoot, and I hit nine balls in succession when I was
interrupted by a big fellow who offered to bet $25 I would miss the
10th ball; this bet was accepted, and it turned out that the fellow had
just spoken in time to lose his $25, for the 10th ball had not got eight
feet from the trap when I broke it. I won this match with a score of 67
against 66 out of 70 balls shot at. I then went to shooting at glass
balls with rifle against a shot gun, and in the past 20 years I have
competed against 206 good trap shots and have not lost a match. I
will mention only a few of them. In the summer of ‘85, in Medicine
Lodge, Kansas, an expert shooter came over from Cold Water,
Kansas, to shoot with me. We had a match at target, distance 90 feet,
with 22-calibre Stephens rifle; he used globe and peep sight, I used
open sights. The score stood in my favor 114 to 107 out of a possible
120, at a quarter-inch bull’s eye. The next day we shot a match at 100
glass balls, he using a shot gun, I a rifle. The score stood 99 to 94 in
my favor. I will mention a match which I had in Omaha, Nebraska,
in August, 1886. There was nothing very striking about this match
because of fine shooting; I only mention it to show how unfair
people sometimes are toward strangers. I have forgotten the man’s
name, but he was a barber working on Tenth street; he held a
championship medal that he had won in Dakota with a Winchester
rifle at glass balls. He challenged me to shoot three matches: First,
100 glass balls hanging still from the limb of a tree, fifty yards
distance. Second match at 100 balls, 10 yards rise, thrown by hand.
Third match, each to shoot 100 glass balls laid on the ground in a
circle 200 feet in circumference, balls two feet apart, shooter to stand
in the center of the circle, the one who broke the balls in the shortest
time to win, but neither of us was allowed more than 133 shots in
which to break the 100 balls. I had heard a good deal said of this
man, over Nebraska everywhere he was spoken of as a fine shot, and
in the first match I was really afraid of being beaten, for I never had
practiced a great amount at stationary targets, but on the whole I
was not afraid, for the party who won two out of the series of
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matches was to be declared the winner. In the first match I broke 100
balls in 206 shots, while my opponent broke 82 in the same number
of shots; this made me easy winner of the first match. In the second
match all kinds of tricks were resorted to, to beat me. My opponent’s
friends tried to rattle me by offering to bet that I would miss certain
balls, but when they failed in this, the party throwing the balls
would first throw a ball four feet high, then one 20 feet high, while
my opponent’s were thrown uniformly. Notwithstanding the fact
that I was treated very unfair, the score stood a tie on 83 balls out of
100. In the third match at 100 balls in shortest time, I won easily,
breaking the 100 balls in two minutes and three seconds, shooting
127 shots, while my opponent broke 61 balls in 133 shots, time four
minutes, forty-two seconds. In Fort Smith, Arkansas, March 21, 1889,
I shot on time at 100 glass balls against five men with shot guns, I
using a 32-calibre Winchester rifle. I broke 100 balls in ninety-five
seconds, while the five men broke 100 balls in three minutes and two
seconds. Ravena, Ohio, July 4, 1890, I broke 250 glass balls in four
minutes and sixteen seconds. At Newark, N.Y., July 4, 1891, I broke
81 glass balls in seventy-four seconds, 31 of which I broke in sixteen
seconds, which is far the best record ever made with a rifle. In all of
the matches I had assistants to load. I have hit 39 44-calibre cartridge
shells out of 110 thrown up, 67 22-calibre cartridge shells out of 110
thrown up. The most difficult feat I ever performed was hitting 7
balls thrown up at one time. This I did at Shelby, Michigan, October
24, 1889, using a 44-calibre Winchester rifle loaded with shot
cartridges. On July 4, 1893, I hit 1000 wooden balls with 22-calibre
Marlin rifle in 17¼ minutes, which is 9.25 minutes quicker than the
feat has ever been accomplished by any other person.
I have thrown an object into the air and hit it 12 times before it struck
the ground, I using an automatic shot gun.
In concluding this article, I will suggest to those learning to shoot,
that as a workman is known by the kind of tools he uses, it is equally
true of the marksman. In order to do good shooting a good gun must
be used. As a repeating rifle I have never seen the equal of the
Marlin, model ‘92. When the gun is kept in good repair, used with
well loaded cartridges, it is absolutely sure to repeat, a thing that I
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cannot say of any other repeating rifle. Although others are good, I
consider the Marlin the best.
C. A. BOGARDUS,
Champion Quick Shot of the World.
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CHAPTER II.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.1
BOGARDUS’ LINIMENT.—Take two ozs. Oil Cajeput, one oz. Oil
Sassafras, one oz. Oil Cloves, one oz. Oil Organum, ½-oz. Oil
Mustard, one oz. Tinc. Capsicum, two ozs. Gum Camphor, one-half
Gallon of Alcohol. Use as other liniments for any ache or pain. For
sore throat or hoarseness, saturate a towel with the liniment, place it
over the mouth, let it remain so for 4 or 5 hours, and you will be
cured. For croup, bathe throat and chest with the liniment. Give onefourth
teaspoonful of liniment in one teaspoonful of warm water
every 5 to 10 minutes till relieved. Also, let the child breathe the
fumes of the liniment. I especially recommend this liniment for
general family use.
HEALING SALVE.—One lb. Lard, ½ lb. Resin, ½ lb. Sweet Elder
bark. Simmer over a slow fire 4 hours, or until it forms a hard, brown
salve. This is for the cure of cuts, bruises, boils, old sores and all like
ailments. Spread on a cotton cloth and apply to the parts affected.
SPECIFIC INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATISM.—One oz. Salt Petre,
pulverized; one pint Sweet Oil. Bathe the parts affected three times a
day with this mixture and a speedy cure will be the result.
ANOTHER SALVE.—One oz. Sheep’s Tallow, Beeswax one oz., onehalf
oz. Sweet Oil, one-half oz. Red Lead, two ozs. Gum Camphor.
Fry all these together in a stone dish. Continue to simmer for 4
hours. Spread on green basswood leaves or paper and apply to the
sore.
MAGNETIC OINTMENT.—One lb. Elder Bark, one lb. Spikenard
Root, one lb. Yellow Dock Root. Boil in two gallons of water down to
one, then press the strength out of the bark and roots and boil the
liquid down to one-half gallon. Add 8 lbs. of best Resin, one lb.
Beeswax, and Tallow enough to soften. Apply to the sores, etc., by
spreading on linen cloth.
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OINTMENT STRAMONIUM.—One lb. Stramonium Leaves, three
lbs. Lard, one-half lb. Yellow Wax. Boil the Stramonium Leaves in
the Lard until they become pliable, then strain through linen. Lastly
add the wax previously melted and stir until they are cold. This a
useful anodyne application in irritable ulcers, painful hemorrhoids,
and in cutaneous eruptions.
CATHARTIC PILLS.—One-half oz. extract Colacinth, in powder,
three drms. Jolop in powder, three drms. Calomel, two scru.
Gamboge in powder. Mix these together and with water form into
mass and roll into 180 pills. Dose, one pill as a mild laxative, two in
vigorous operations. Use in all bilious diseases when purges are
necessary.
FOR HEARTBURN—LOZENGES.—One oz. Gum Arabic, one oz.
pulverized Licorice Root, one-fourth oz. Magnesia. Add water to
make into lozenges. Let dissolve in mouth and swallow.
ANOTHER COUGH CURE—(GOOD).—Take the white of an egg
and pulverized sugar; beat to a froth. Take a tablespoonful every
hour for 3 or 4 hours.
TETTER OINTMENT.—One oz. Spirits Turpentine, one ounce Red
Precipitate in powder, one oz. Burgundy Pitch in powder, one lb.
Hog’s Lard. Melt all these ingredients over a slow fire until the
ointment is formed. Stir until cold. Spread on a linen rag and apply
to the parts affected.
A SURE CURE FOR PILES.—Confection of Senna, two ozs., Cream
of Tartar one oz., Sulphur one oz., Syrup of Ginger, enough to make
a stiff paste; mix. A piece as large as a nut is to be taken as often as
necessary to keep the bowels open. One of the best remedies known.
DIPHTHERIA.—Take a clean clay tobacco pipe, put a live coal in it,
then put common tar on the fire and smoke it, inhaling and
breathing back through the nostrils.
FEVER AND AGUE.—Quinine one scru., Elixir Vitriol one drm.
Dissolve the Quinine in the Elixir and Tinc. of Black Cohash fourteen
drops. Dose: 20 drops in a little water once an hour.
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CORNS.—A SURE CURE AND PAINLESS ERADICATION.—
Extract of Cannabis Indicus ten grs., Salicylic Acid 6 grs., Collodion
one oz. Mix and apply with a camel’s hair pencil so as to form a thick
covering over the corn for 3 or 4 nights. Take a hot foot bath and the
corn can easily be removed with the aid of a knife.
MAGIC OIL.—One gallon Sweet Oil, two ozs. Oil Hemlock, two ozs.
Oil Organum, two ozs. Chloroform, four ozs. Spirits Ammonia. Mix.
Let it stand 24 hours and it is ready for use. Dose, internally, one
teaspoonful for adults. Bathe the affected parts well. This is a great
remedy for aches and pains, Rheumatism, Neuralgia, and all
nervous and inflammatory diseases.
CURE FOR SORE THROAT IN ALL ITS DIFFERENT FORMS.—Two
ozs. Cayenne Pepper, one oz. common Salt, one-half pint of Vinegar.
Warm over a slow fire and gargle the throat and mouth every hour.
Garlic and Onion poultice applied to the outside. Castor Oil, one
spoonful to keep the bowels open.
DROPS OF LIFE.—One oz. Gum Opium, one drm. Gum Kino, forty
grs. Gum Camphor, one-half ounce Nutmeg powdered, one pint
French Brandy. Let stand from one to ten days. Dose, from 30 to 40
drops for an adult; children, half doses. This is one of the most
valuable preparations in the Materia Medica, and will in some
dangerous hours, when all hope is fled, and the system is racked
with pain, be the soothing balm which cures the most dangerous
disease to which the human body is liable—flux, dysentery and all
summer complaints.
CATARRH, POSITIVE CURE.—Carbolic Acid, ten to twenty drops;
Vaseline, one to two ozs. Mix and use with an atomizer 3 or 4 times
per day.
COUGH DROPS.—Tinc. Aconite 5 drops, Tinc. Asclepias one drm.,
Glycerine two ozs., Syrup of Wild Cherry. Mix and take a
teaspoonful every 40 minutes until relieved.
EYE WATER.—Table Salt and White Vitriol, each one teaspoonful.
Heat them on earthen dish until dry. Now add them to soft water
one-half pint. White Sugar one teaspoonful, Blue Vitriol a piece as
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large as a common pea. Should this be too strong add a little more
water. Apply to the eye 3 or 4 times a day.
TO REMOVE TAPE WORM.—Let the patient miss two meals. Give
two teaspoonfuls powdered Kamala. Should the bowels not move
within two and-a half hours, give another teaspoonful of the Kamala.
You may follow this in two hours by from half to one oz. Castor Oil.
This is a positive cure for Tape Worm. It will not make the patient
sick. In buying the drug be sure and get Kamala, not Camellea.
Kamala is in appearance like quite red brick dust, and is nearly
tasteless, whereas Camellea is of a yellowish color.
A SURE CURE FOR SMALL POX.—A gentleman contributes to the
Chicago News the following as a sure and never failing cure for small
pox: One ounce Cream of Tartar dissolved in pint of boiling water, to
be drank when cold at intervals. It can be taken at any time, and as a
preventive as well as a curative. It is known to have cured in
thousands of cases without a failure.
TO STRENGTHEN AND INVIGORATE THE SYSTEM.—Two drms.
Essential Salt of the Round Leaf Cornel, one scru. Extract Rhubarb,
one scru. Ginger Powder. Make into pills, and take for a dose 2 or 3
twice a day.
GONORRHEA.—Balsam of Copabia one oz., Oil of Cubebs two
drms., Laudanum one dram, Mucilage of Gum Arabic two ozs.,
Sweet Spirits Nitre half oz., Compound Spirits Lavender three drms.,
Camphor Water four ozs., White Sugar two drms., Oil of Partridge
Berry five drops. Mix. Dose, a tablespoonful 3 or 4 times a day.
SURE CORN CURE.—One-half ounce Tincture of Iodine, one-half
ounce Chloride or Antimony, 12 grains Iodide of Iron. Mix. Pare the
corn with a sharp knife; apply the lotion with a pencil brush. Put up
in one ounce bottles. Sell for 25 to 40 cents. This sells to everybody.
(See price of labels.)
N.B.—The law imposing stamp duty on medicines, compounds,
perfumes, cosmetics, etc., has been repealed.
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RUSSIA SALVE.—Take equal parts of Yellow Wax and Sweet Oil,
melt slowly, carefully stirring; when cooling stir in a small quantity
of Glycerine. Good for all kinds of wounds, etc.
PARADISE LINIMENT.—Take a gill of Alcohol, one-fourth ounce
Tincture Capsicum, one-half ounce Paradise Seed, cracked, and put
all together. For rheumatism, sprains, lameness, etc.
COURT PLASTER.—This plaster is a kind of varnished silk, and its
manufacture is very easy. Bruise a sufficient quantity of Isinglass,
and let it soak in a little warm water for twenty-four hours. Expose it
to heat over the fire until the greater part of the water is dissipated
and supply its place by proof Spirits of Wine, which will combine
with the Isinglass. Strain the whole through a piece of open linen,
taking care that the consistency of the mixture shall be such that
when cool it may form a trembling jelly. Extend a piece of black or
flesh-colored silk on a wooden frame, and fix it in that position by
means of tacks or twine. Then apply the Isinglass, after it has been
rendered liquid by a gentle heat, to the silk with a brush of fine hair
(badger’s is the best). As soon as this coating is dried, which will not
be long, apply a second, and afterward, if the article is to be very
superior, a third. When the whole is dry, cover it with two or three
coatings of the Balsam of Peru. This is the genuine court plaster. It is
pliable and never breaks, which is far from being the case with
spurious articles sold under the same name.
A CERTAIN CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS.—Sulphate of Iron five
grains, Magnesia ten grains, Peppermint water eleven drachms,
Spirits of Nutmeg, one drachm, twice a day. This preparation acts as
a tonic and stimulant, and so partially supplies the place of the
accustomed liquor, and prevents that absolute physical and mental
prostration that follows a sudden breaking off from the use of
stimulating drinks.
FRENCH LUSTRAL.—Take Castor Oil three ozs., Alcohol one and
one-half ozs., Ammonia one-sixteenth of an oz., well shaken and
mixed together; perfume to suit—Bergamont or any other perfume.
Splendid hair dressing. Three ounce bottles, twenty-five cents.
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LUNG MEDICINE.—Take Black Cohosh one-half oz., Lobelia onefourth
oz., Canker root three-fourths oz., Blackberry Root threefourths
of an oz., Sarsaparilla one oz., Pleurisy Root one-half oz.,
steeped in three pints of water. Dose, one tablespoonful three times a
day, before eating. Sure cure for spitting blood.
TOOTHACHE DROPS.—Four ounces pulverized Alum, fourteen
ozs. Sweet Spirits of Nitre. Put up in one oz. bottles. Retails readily at
25 cents per bottle. This is the most effective remedy for toothache
that was ever discovered, and is a fortune to any one who will push
its sale. It sells at every house.
MAGNETIC TOOTHACHE DROPS.—Take equal parts of Camphor,
Sulphuric Ether, Ammonia, Laudanum, Tincture of Cayenne, and
one-eighth part of Oil of Cloves. Mix well together. Saturate with the
liquid a small piece of cotton, and apply to the cavity of the diseased
tooth, and the pain will cease immediately. Put up in long drachm
bottles. Retail at 25 cents. This is a very salable preparation, and
affords a large profit to the manufacturer.
GREEN MOUNTAIN SALVE.—Take one pound Beeswax, one
pound of soft Butter, and one and one-half pounds soft Turpentine,
twelve ounces Balsam Fir. Melt and strain. Use to heal fresh wounds,
burns, scalds and all bad sores.
WARTS AND CORNS—TO CURE IN TEN MINUTES.—Take a
small piece of Potash and let it stand in the open air until it slacks,
then thicken it to a paste with pulverized Gum Arabic, which
prevents it from spreading where it is not wanted.
LINIMENT—GOOD SAMARITAN.—Take 98 per cent Alcohol two
quarts, and add to it the following articles: Oils of Sassafras,
Hemlock, Spirits of Turpentine, Tincture Cayenne, Catechu, Guaic
(guac), and Laudanum, of each one ounce, Tincture of Myrrh four
ounces, Oil of Organum two ounces, Oil of Wintergreen one-half
ounce. Gum Camphor two ounces, and Chloroform one and one-half
ounce. This is one of the best applications for internal pains known.
It is superior to any other enumerated in this work.
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PLAIN COURT PLASTER, that will not stick and remains flexible:
Soak Isinglass in a little warm water for twenty-four hours, then
evaporate nearly all the water by gentle heat. Dissolve the residue
with a little Proof Spirits of Wine, and strain the whole through a
piece of open linen. The strained mass should be a stiff jelly when
cool. Stitch a piece of silk or sarcenet on a wooden frame with tacks
or thread. Melt the jelly and apply it to the silk thinly and evenly
with a badger hair brush. A second coating must be applied after the
first has dried. When the both are dry apply over the whole surface
two or three coatings of Balsam of Peru. This plaster remains quite
pliable, and never breaks.
A CURE FOR CANCER (AS USED BY A NEW YORK PHYSICIAN
WITH GREAT SUCCESS).—Take Red Oak Bark, and boil it to the
thickness of molasses, then mix with sheep’s tallow of equal
proportion. Spread it on leaves of Linnwood green, and keep the
plaster over the ulcer. Change once in eight hours.
DAVIS’ PAIN KILLER—One quart proof Alcohol, one drm.,
Chloroform, one oz. Oil Sassafras, one oz. Gum Camphor, one drm.
Spirits of Ammonia, two drms. Oil of Cayenne. Mix well and let
stand 24 hours before using.
AUGUST FLOWER.—Powdered Rhubarb one oz., Golden Seal onefourth
oz., Aloes one drachm, Peppermint Leaves two drms.,
Carbonate of Potash two drms., Capsicum five grs., Sugar five ozs.,
Alcohol three ozs., Water ten ozs., Essence of Peppermint twenty
drops. Powder the drugs and let stand covered with Alcohol and
water, equal parts for seven days. Filter and add through the filter
enough diluted Alcohol to make one pint.
BLOOD PURIFIER—B.B.B.—Fluid Extract Burdock one oz., Fluid
Extract Sarsaparilla one oz., Fluid Extract Yellow Dock one oz., Fluid
Extract Senna one oz., Syrup eight ozs., Alcohol two ozs. Mix.
BOSCHEE’S GERMAN SYRUP.—Wine of Tar two ozs., Fluid Extract
Squills one oz., Tinct. Opium two drms., Fluid Extract Sanguinarie
two drms., Syrup of Sugar eight ozs. Mix.
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CENTAUR LINIMENT.—Oil Speke one oz., Oil Wormwood one oz.,
Oil Sassafras one oz., Oil Organum one oz., Oil Cinnamon one oz.,
Oil Cloves one drm., Oil Cedar one drm., Sulphur. Ether one oz.,
Aqua Ammonia one oz., Tinc. Opium one oz., Alcohol one gal. Mix.
This is an excellent liniment and good whenever a liniment is
needed.
CASTORIA.—Pumpkin Seed one oz., Cenria Leaves one oz.,
Rochelle Salts one oz., Anise Seed one-half oz., Bi. Carb. Soda one
oz., Worm Seed one-half oz. Mix and thoroughly rub together in an
earthen vessel, then put into a bottle and pour over it four ozs. water
and one oz. Alcohol, and let stand four days, then strain off and add
Syrup made of White Sugar, quantity to make one pint, then add
one-half oz. Alcohol drops and five drops Wintergreen. Mix
thoroughly and add to the contents of the bottle and take as directed.
HARTER’S IRON TONIC.—Calisaya Bark two ozs., Citrate of Iron
two ozs., Gentian two ozs., Cardamon Seed two ozs., Syrup two ozs.,
Alcohol two ozs., Water eight ozs. Mix.
HALL’S BALSAM FOR THE LUNGS.—Fluid Extract Ipecac one-half
oz., Fluid Extract Squills one oz., Chloroform one-fourth oz., Wine of
Tar one oz., Tinct. Opium, one-fifth oz., Fluid Extract of Mullen one
oz., Syrup enough to make one pint.
GODFREY’S CORDIAL.—Tinct. Opium six ozs., Molasses four pints,
Alcohol eight ozs., Water six pints, Carbonate Potash four drms., Oil
Sassafras cut with Alcohol one drm. Dissolve the Potash in water,
add the Molasses; heat over a gentle fire till it simmers, remove the
scum, add the other ingredients, the oil dissolved in the Alcohol.
HALL’S HONEY OF HOARHOUND AND TAR.—Wine of Tar one
oz., Fluid Extract of Hoarhound one oz., Tinct. Opium one drm.,
Syrup Orange Peel one-half oz., Honey three ozs., Syrup enough to
make one pint.
HOOD’S SARSAPARILLA.—Fluid Extract Sarsaparilla one oz., Fluid
Extract Yellow Dock one oz., Fluid Extract Poke Root, one-half oz.,
Iodide of Potash one-half oz., Syrup Orange Peel one oz., Alcohol
four ozs., Syrup enough to make one pint.
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HAMLIN’S WIZARD OIL.—Oil Sassafras two ozs., Oil Cedar one
oz., Gum Camphor one oz., Sulph. Ether two ozs., Chloroform two
ozs., Tinct. Capsicum one oz., Aqua Ammonia two ozs., Oil
Turpentine one oz., Tinct. Quassia three ozs., Alcohol half a gallon.
Mix and you have a fine liniment.
HOP BITTERS.—Hops four ozs., Orange Peel two ozs., Cardamon
two drms., Cinnamon one drm., Cloves one-half drm., Alcohol eight
ozs., Sherry Wine two pints, Simple Syrup one pint. Water sufficient.
Grind the drugs, macerate in the Alcohol and Wine for one week,
percolate and add enough syrup and water to make one gallon.
HOSTETTER’S BITTERS.—Gentian Root (ground) one-half oz.,
Cinnamon Bark one-half oz., Cinchona Bark (ground) one-half oz.,
Anise Seed one-half oz., Coriander Seed (ground) one-half oz.,
Cardamon Seed one-eighth oz., Gum Kino one-fourth oz., Alcohol
one pint. Water four quarts, Sugar one lb. Mix and let stand for one
week, pour off the fluid, boil the drug for a few minutes in one quart
of water, strain off and add the first fluid, and then the sugar and
water.
INJECTION BROU.—Water four ozs., Nitrate Silver twenty grs.,
Tinct. Opium one-half oz., Sulph. Bismuth and Hydratis two oz. Mix.
JAYNE’S EXPECTORANT.—Syrup Squills two ozs., Tinct. Tolu one
oz., Spirits Camphor one drm., Tinct. Digitalis one drm., Tinct.
Lobelia one drm., Wine of Ipecac two drms., Tinc. Opium two drms.,
Antimonia two grains. Mix.
JAYNE’S TONIC VERMIFUGE.—L. santonnie twenty grs., Fluid
Extract Pink Root three drms., Fluid Extract Senna two drms., Simple
Elixir two ozs., Syrup two ozs. Mix. Take tablespoonful night and
morning.
MUSTANG LINIMENT.—Linseed Oil fourteen ozs., Aqua Ammonia
two ozs., Tinct. Capsicum one-fourth oz., Oil Organum one-fourth
oz., Turpentine one oz., Oil Mustard, one-fourth oz. Mix.
S.S.S. FLUID.—Extract Phytolacca one oz., Fluid Extract Sarsaparilla
one oz., Iodide Potash one oz., Extract Fluid Xanthoxylon one-half
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oz., Culiver’s Root Fluid Extract one oz., Acetate Potash one oz.,
Cinnamon Tinct. one-fourth oz., Tinct. Cardamon Seed one oz.,
Alcohol four ozs., Sugar one-half pound, Water thirty-six ozs. Mix.
SMITH’S TONIC.—Fowler’s Solution of Arsenic two drms.,
Culiver’s Root one oz., Syrup Orange Peel four ozs., Simple Syrup
twelve ozs. Mix. Then add Chinchonia forty grains dissolved in
Aromatic Sulph. Acid. Shake to mix well.
SOZODONT FRAGRANT.—Tinct. Soap Bark two ozs., Tinct. Myrrh
one drm., Glycerine one-half oz., Water one and one-half ozs.,
Essence Cloves ten drops, Essence Wintergreen ten drops, Tinct.
Cochineal enough to color. Mix. Accompanying the above is a
powder composed of prepared Chalk, Orris Root, Carbonate
Magnesia, of each equal parts. Mix.
SHAKER’S CUTIVE SYRUP.—Fluid Extract Blue Flag twenty drops,
Fluid Extract Culiver’s Root twenty drops, Fluid Extract Poke Root
twenty drops, Fluid Extract Butternut twenty drops, Fluid Extract
Dandelion twenty drops, Fluid Extract Prince Pine ten drops, Fluid
Extract Mandrake five drops, Fluid Extract Gentian five drops, Fluid
Extract Calcium five drops, Fluid Extract Black Cohoes thirty drops,
Tinct. Aloe thirty drops, Tinct. Capsicum ten drops, Tinct. Sassafras
thirty drops, Borax one drm., Salt three-fourths drm., Syrup three
ozs., Water eight ozs.
AYER’S CHERRY PECTORAL.—Take four grains of Acetate of
Morphia, two fluid drachms of Tincture of Bloodroot, three fluid
drachms each of Antimonial Wine and Wine of Ipecacuanha, and
three fluid ounces Syrup of Wild Cherry. Mix.
BROWN’S BRONCHIAL TROCHES.—Take one pound pulverized
Extract of Licorice, one and one-half pounds Pulverized Sugar, four
ounces pulverized Cubebs, four ounces pulverized Gum Arabic, and
one ounce of pulverized Extract of Conium. Mix.
SUCCUS ALTERNS (McDADE’S).—Fluid Extract Starlinga one oz.,
Fluid Extract Sarsaparilla one oz., Fluid Extract Phytolacca Decandra
one-half oz., Fluid Extract Lappa Minor one oz., Fluid Extract
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Xanthoxylon one-half oz., Syrup fourteen ozs., Mix. Teaspoonful
three times a day.
SEVEN SEALS OF GOLDEN WONDER.—Oil Cajeput two drms.,
Sassafras one-half oz., Oil Organum one drm., Oil Hemlock one
drm., Oil Cedar one drm., Tincture Capsicum one-fourth oz.,
Alcohol enough to make one pint.
WAKEFIELD’S WINE BITTERS.—Cinchona Bark four ozs., Gentian
Bark two ozs., Juniper Berries one oz., Orange Peel one oz., Lemon
Peel fresh sliced one-fourth oz., California Port Wine four pints,
Alcohol one pint, Water three pints. Digest or let stand ten days, then
filter and add wine enough to preserve measure.
ST. JACOB’S OIL.—Camphor Gum one oz., Chloral Hydrate one oz.,
Chloroform one oz., Sulphate Ether one oz., Tinct. Opium (nonaqueous)
one-half oz., Oil Organum one-half oz., Oil Sassafras onehalf
oz., Alcohol one-half gallon. Dissolve Gum Camphor with
Alcohol and then add the oil, then the other ingredients.
R.R.R.—Alcohol two pints, Oil Sassafras two ozs., Oil Organum twi
ozs., Camphor Spirits one-half oz., Tinct. Opium one oz., Chloroform
one oz. Mix.
PISO’S CONSUMPTION CURE.—Tartar Emetic four grains, Tinc.
Tolu one-half oz., Sulphate Morphia four grains, Fluid Extract
Lobelia two drms., Chloroform one drm., Fluid Extract Cannabis
Indica two drms., Essence Spearmint ten drops, Hot Water eight
ozs., Sugar four ozs., Dissolve the Morphia and Tartar Emetic in hot
water and add the rest.
WARNER’S TIPPECANOE BITTERS.—Cardamon Seed two ozs.,
Nutmeg one drm., Grains of Paradise one drm., Cloves one oz.,
Cinnamon two ozs., Ginger one oz., Orange Peel one oz., Lemon Peel
one oz., Alcohol one gallon, Water one gallon, Sugar three pounds.
Mix and let stand for six or seven days and filter. Then add enough
water to make four gallons.
WARNER’S SAFE CURE.—Take of Smart Weed four pounds, boil
for one hour with one gallon soft water, adding warm water to
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supply waste by evaporation; then strain off and add Acetate Potash
four ozs., Sugar four pounds. Boil again till sugar is dissolved, then
add Alcohol eight ozs., and flavor with Oil of Wintergreen cut with
Alcohol.
WAKEFIELD’S BLACKBERRY BALSAM.—Blackberries crushed
two pounds, Boiling Water four ozs., Sugar four ozs., Jamaica Ginger
four grs., Alcohol two ozs. Mix and add Syrup enough to make
sixteen ozs.
ACCIDENTS AND EMERGENCIES.
WHAT TO DO.
If an artery is cut, red blood spurts. Compress it above the wound. If
a vein is cut, dark blood flows. Compress it below and above.
If choked, go upon all fours and cough.
For slight burns, dip the part in cold water; if the skin is destroyed,
cover with varnish or linseed oil.
For apoplexy, raise the head and body; for fainting, lay the person
flat.
Send for a physician when a serious accident of any kind occurs, but
treat as directed until he arrives.
SCALDS AND BURNS.—The following facts cannot be too firmly
impressed on the mind of the reader, that in either of these accidents
the first, best and often the only remedies required, are sheets of
wadding, fine wool, or carded cotton, and in the default of these,
violet powder, flour, magnesia or chalk. The object for which these
several articles are employed is the same in each instance; namely, to
exclude the air from injured part; for if the air can be effectually shut
out from the raw surface, and care is taken not to expose the tender
part till the new cuticle is formed, the cure may be safely left to
nature. The moment a person is called to a case of scald or burn, he
should cover the part with a sheet, or a portion of a sheet, of
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wadding, taking care not to break any blister that may have formed,
or stay to remove any burnt clothes that may adhere to the surface,
but as quickly as possible envelope every part of the injury from all
access of the air, laying one or two more pieces of wadding on the
first, so as to effectually guard the burn or scald from the irritation of
the atmosphere; and if the article used is wool or cotton, the same
precaution, of adding more material where the surface is thinly
covered, must be adopted; a light bandage finally securing all in
their places. Any of the popular remedies recommended below may
be employed when neither wool, cotton nor wadding are to be
procured, it being always remembered that that article which will
best exclude the air from a burn or scald is the best, quickest, and
least painful mode of treatment. And in this respect nothing has
surpassed cotton loose or attached to paper as in wadding.
If the Skin is Much Injured in burns, spread some linen pretty thickly
with chalk ointment, and lay over the part, and give the patient some
brandy and water if much exhausted; then send for a medical man. If
not much injured, and very painful, use the same ointment, or apply
carded cotton dipped in lime water and linseed oil. If you please,
you may lay cloths dipped in ether over the parts, or cold lotions.
Treat scalds in same manner, or cover with scraped raw potato; but
the chalk ointment is the best. In the absence of all these, cover the
injured part with treacle, and dust over it plenty of flour.
BODY IN FLAMES.—Lay the person down on the floor of the room,
and throw the table cloth, rug or other large cover over him, and roll
him on the floor.
DIRT IN THE EYE.—Place your forefinger upon the cheek-bone,
having the patient before you; then slightly bend the finger, this will
draw down the lower lid of the eye, and you will probably be able to
remove the dirt; but if this will not enable you to get at it, repeat this
operation while you have a netting needle or bodkin placed over the
eyelid; this will turn it inside out, and enable you to remove the sand
or eyelash, etc., with the corner of a fine silk handkerchief. As soon
as the substance is removed, bathe the eye with cold water, and
exclude the light for a day. If the inflammation is severe, let the
patient use a refrigerant lotion.
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LIME IN THE EYE.—Syringe it well with warm vinegar and water
in the proportion of one ounce of vinegar to eight ounces of water;
exclude light.
IRON OR STEEL SPICULAE IN THE EYE.—These occur while
turning iron or steel in a lathe, and are best remedied by doubling
back the upper or lower eyelid, according to the situation of the
substance, and with the flat edge of a silver probe, taking up the
metallic particle, using a lotion made by dissolving six grains of
sugar of lead and the same of white vitriol, in six ounces of water,
and bathing the eye three times a day till the inflammation subsides.
Another plan is—Drop a solution of sulphate of copper (from one to
three grains of the salt to one ounce of water) into the eye, or keep
the eye open in a wineglassful of the solution. Bathe with cold lotion,
and exclude light to keep down inflammation.
DISLOCATED THUMB.—This is frequently produced by a fall.
Make a clove hitch, by passing two loops of cord over the thumb,
placing a piece or rag under the cord to prevent it cutting the thumb;
then pull in the same line as the thumb. Afterwards apply a cold
lotion.
CUTS AND WOUNDS.—Clean cut wounds, whether deep or
superficial, and likely to heal by the first intention, should always be
washed or cleaned, and at once evenly and smoothly closed by
bringing both edges close together, and securing them in that
position by adhesive plaster. Cut thin strips of sticking plaster, and
bring the parts together; or if large and deep, cut two broad pieces,
so as to look like the teeth of a comb, and place one on each side of
the wound, which must be cleaned previously. These pieces must be
arranged so that they will interlace one another; then, by laying hold
of the pieces on the right side with one hand, and those on the other
side with the other hand, and pulling them from one another, the
edges of the wound are brought together without any difficulty.
Ordinary Cuts are dressed by thin strips, applied by pressing down
the plaster on one side of the wound, and keeping it there and
pulling in the opposite direction; then suddenly depressing the hand
when the edges of the wound are brought together.
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CONTUSIONS are best healed by laying a piece of folded lint, well
wetted with extract of lead, or boracic acid, on the part, and, if there
is much pain, placing a hot bran poultice over the dressing,
repeating both, if necessary, every two hours. When the injuries are
very severe, lay a cloth over the part, and suspend a basin over it
filled with cold lotion. Put a piece of cotton into the basin, so that it
shall allow the lotion to drop on the cloth, and thus keep it always
wet.
HEMORRHAGE, when caused by an artery being divided or torn,
may be known by the blood issuing out of the wound in leaps or
jerks, and being of a bright scarlet color. If a vein is injured, the blood
is darker and flows continuously. To arrest the latter, apply pressure
by means of a compress and bandage. To arrest arterial bleeding, get
a piece of wood (part of a broom handle will do), and tie a piece of
tape to one end of it; then tie a piece of tape loosely over the arm,
and pass the other end of the wood under it; twist the stick round
and round until the tape compresses the arm sufficiently to arrest the
bleeding, and then confine the other end by tying the string around
the arm. A compress made by enfolding a penny piece in several
folds of lint or linen should, however, be first placed under the tape
and over the artery. If the bleeding is very obstinate, and it occurs in
the arm, place a cork underneath the string, on the inside of the
fleshy part, where the artery may be felt beating by anyone, if in the
leg, place a cork in the direction of a line drawn from the inner part
of the knee towards the outer part of the groin. It is an excellent
thing to accustom yourself to find out the position of these arteries,
or, indeed, any that are superficial, and to explain to every person in
your house where they are, and how to stop bleeding. If a stick
cannot be got, take a handkerchief, make a cord bandage of it, and tie
a knot in the middle; the knot acts as a compress, and should be
placed over the artery, while the two ends are to be tied around the
thumb. Observe always to place the ligature between the wound and the
heart. Putting your finger into a bleeding wound, and making
pressure until a surgeon arrives, will generally stop violent bleeding.
BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE, from whatever cause, may generally
be stopped by putting a plug of lint into the nostrils; if this does not
do, apply a cold lotion to the forehead; raise the head, and place over
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it both arms, so that it will rest on the hands; dip the lint plug,
slightly moistened, into some powdered Gum Arabic, and plug the
nostrils again; or dip the plug into equal parts of powdered Gum
Arabic and alum, and plug the nose. Or the plug may be dipped in
Friar’s balsam, or tincture of Kino. Heat should be applied to the
feet; and, in obstinate cases, the sudden shock of a cold key, or cold
water poured down the spine, will instantly stop the bleeding. If the
bowels are confined take a purgative. Injections of alum solution
from a small syringe into the nose will often stop hemorrhage.
VIOLENT SHOCKS will sometimes stun a person, and he will
remain unconscious. Untie strings, collars, etc.; loosen anything that
is tight, and interferes with the breathing; raise the head; see if there
is bleeding from any part; apply smelling salts to the nose, and hot
bottles to the feet.
IN CONCUSSION, the surface of the body is cold and pale, and the
pulse weak and small, the breathing slow and gentle, and the pupil of
the eye generally contracted or small. You can get an answer by
speaking loud, so as to rouse the patient. Give a little brandy and
water, keep the place quiet, apply warmth, and do not raise the head
too high. If you tickle the feet, the patient feels it.
IN COMPRESSION OF THE BRAIN from any cause, such as
apoplexy, or a piece of fractured bone pressing on it, there is loss of
sensation. If you tickle the feet of the injured person he does not feel
it. You cannot arouse him so as to get an answer. The pulse is slow
and labored; the breathing deep, labored, and snorting; the pupil
enlarged. Raise the head, loosen strings or tight things, and send for
a surgeon. If one cannot be got at once, apply mustard poultices to
the feet and thighs, leeches to the temples, and hot water to the feet.
CHOKING.—When a person has a fish bone in the throat, insert the
forefinger, press upon the root of the tongue, so as to induce
vomiting; if this does not do, let him swallow a large piece of potato
or soft bread; and if these fail, give a mustard emetic.
FAINTING, HYSTERICS, ETC.—Loosen the garments, bathe the
temples with water or eau-de-Cologne; open the window, admit
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plenty of fresh air, dash cold water on the face, apply hot bricks to
the feet, and avoid bustle and excessive sympathy.
DROWNING.—Attend to the following essential rules: 1. Lose no
time. 2. Handle the body gently. 3. Carry the body face downwards,
with the head gently raised, and never hold it up by the feet. 4. Send
for medical assistance immediately, and in the meantime act as
follows: 5. Strip the body; rub it dry, then wrap it in hot blankets,
and place it in a warm bed in a warm room. 6. Cleanse away the
froth and mucous from the nose and mouth. 7. Apply warm bricks,
bottles, bags of sand, etc., to the arm pits, between the thighs, and to
the soles of the feet. 8. Rub the surface of the body with the hands
inclosed in warm, dry worsted socks. 9. If possible, put the body into
a warm bath. 10. To restore breathing, put the pipe of a common
bellows into one nostril, carefully closing the other, and the mouth;
at the same time drawing downwards, and pushing gently
backwards, the upper part of the windpipe, to allow a more free
admission of air; blow the bellows gently, in order to inflate the
lungs, till the breast is raised a little; then set the mouth and nostrils
free, and press gently on the chest; repeat this until signs of life
appear. The body should be covered from the moment it is placed on
the table, except the face, and all the rubbing carried on under the
sheet or blanket. When they can be obtained, a number of tiles or
bricks should be made tolerably hot in the fire, laid in a row on the
table, covered with a blanket, and the body placed in such a manner
on them that their heat may enter the spine. When the patient
revives, apply smelling-salts to the nose, give warm wine or brandy
and water. Cautions.—1. Never rub the body with salt or spirits. 2.
Never roll the body on casks. 3. Continue the remedies for twelve
hours without ceasing.
HANGING.—Loosen the cord, or whatever it may be by which the
person has been suspended. Open the temporal artery or jugular
vein, or bleed from the arm; employ electricity, if at hand, and
proceed as for drowning, taking the additional precaution to apply
eight or ten leeches to the temples.
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APPARENT DEATH FROM DRUNKENNESS—Raise the head,
loosen the clothes, maintain warmth of surface, and give a mustard
emetic as soon as the person can swallow.
APOPLEXY AND FITS GENERALLY.—Raise the head; loosen all
tight clothes, strings, etc.; apply cold lotions to the head, which
should be shaved; apply leeches to the temples, bleed, and send for a
surgeon.
SUFFOCATION FROM NOXIOUS GASES, ETC.—Remove to the
fresh air; dash cold vinegar and water in the face, neck, and breast;
keep up the warmth of the body; if necessary, apply mustard
poultices to the soles of the feet and to the spine, and try artificial
respirations as in drowning, with electricity.
LIGHTNING AND SUNSTROKE.—Treat the same as apoplexy.
MIND CURE.
THE MIND CURE, otherwise known in its various subdivisions as
metaphysics, Christian science, mental science, etc., is a species of
delusion quite popular at the present time. Every era of the world
has cherished similar delusions, for the mass of the human race, even
in what are considered the educated classes, are so unfamiliar with
the processes of exact reasoning that they fall a ready prey to quacks
of all kinds. The fundamental idea of the mind cure system is that
there is no such thing as sickness. Disease, says one of their apostles,
is an error of the mind, the result of fear. Fear is only faith inverted
and perverted. God, who is all good Himself, and who made
everything good, cannot have been the author of any disease. As
disease, therefore, is not a creation, it has no existence, and when the
healer has succeeded in impressing this fact upon the mind of the
patient, the cure is effected. It is curious to note into what utter
absurdities the need for consistency carries these apostles. Poisons,
they say, would be quite harmless if the fear of them was removed,
but we have yet to find the “mental science” teacher who will
undertake to prove this by herself taking liberal doses of aconite and
strychnine. The illnesses of children are explained by the hypothesis
of hereditary fear. The majority of the teachers of this new faith are
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women, many of whom, no doubt, are sincere in their belief; but it
may be safely stated that the men engaged as the so-called
physicians of the new practice are, with few exceptions, unprincipled
quacks, who have gone into the business for the money they can
make by duping the ignorant. As far as there is any truth underlying
the vagaries of mind cures, and their boasts of remarkable cases of
healing, it may be admitted that the mind has much influence over
the body. This fact has been recognized by intelligent physicians for
centuries. And that the peculiar modern type of nervous diseases,
which are so largely caused by excessive stimulus of the nerves and
the imagination, should be amendable to cure through the
imagination, is not strange. It will be noted that this mental cure has
effected its miracles mainly among women, where it has the
emotional temperament to work on, and almost wholly in the ranks
of the wealthy and well-to-do, where there is little or no
impoverishment of the system by insufficient food and excessive toil
to hinder its effects. We have not heard, nor are we likely to hear, of
an epidemic disease checked by the mind cure, or of the healing of
acute affections or organic troubles through its agency. Nor do we
hear of its seeking to carry its message of healing into the houses of
the suffering poor in large cities, where hunger, exposure and foul
airs open wide the door to fevers and all deadly diseases, nor yet
into the hospitals for contagious or incurable affections. In the
presence of such realities it would prove, as its votaries probably
understand, a too-painful mockery. Intelligently analyzed, therefore,
this new revelation amounts to nothing more than a quite striking
proof of the remarkable influence of the mind over the nervous
system. Beyond this, the craze, in attempting to disprove the
existence of disease, and to show that poisons do not kill, is simply
running against the plain and inevitable facts of life, and can safely
be left to perish through its own rashness.
While it must be admitted that many upright and worthy people are
followers of this faith, it can be asserted that to say “disease is only a
mental derangement” is carrying the idea of the power of mind over
matter entirely too far.
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POISONS AND THEIR ANTIDOTES.
Always send immediately for a medical man. Save all fluids
vomited, and articles of food, cups, glasses, etc., used by the patient
before taken ill, and lock them up.
As a rule give emetics after poisons that cause sleepiness and raving;
chalk, milk, eggs, butter and warm water, or oil, after poisons that
cause vomiting and pain in the stomach and bowels, with purging;
and when there is no inflammation about the throat, tickle it with a
feather to excite vomiting.
Vomiting may be caused by giving warm water, with a teaspoonful
of mustard to the tumblerful, well stirred up. Sulphate of zinc (white
vitriol) may be used in place of the mustard, or powdered alum.
Powder of ipecacuanha, a teaspoonful rubbed up with molasses,
may be employed for children. Tartar emetic should never be given, as it
is excessively depressing, and uncontrolable in its effects. The
stomach pump can only be used by skillful hands, and even then
with caution.
Opium and Other Narcotics.—After vomiting has occurred, cold water
should be dashed over the face and head. The patient must be kept
awake, walked about between two strong persons, made to grasp the
handles of a galvanic battery, dosed with strong coffee, and
vigorously slapped. Belladonna is an antidote for opium and for
morphia, etc., its active principles; and, on the other hand, the latter
counteract the effects of belladonna. But a knowledge of medicine is
necessary for dealing with these articles.
Strychnia.—After emetics have been freely and successfully given,
the patient should be allowed to breathe the vapor of sulphuric
ether, poured on a handkerchief and held to the face, in such
quantities as to keep down the tendency to convulsions. Bromide of
potassium, twenty grains at a dose, dissolved in syrup, may be given
every hour.
Alcoholic Poisoning should be combated by emetics, of which the
sulphate of zinc given as above directed, is the best. After that,
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strong coffee internally, and stimulation by heat externally, should
be used.
Acids are sometimes swallowed by mistake. Alkalies, lime water,
magnesia, or common chalk mixed with water, may be freely given,
and afterward mucilaginous drinks, such as thick gum water or
flaxseed tea.
Alkalies are less frequently taken in injurious strength or quantity,
but sometimes children swallow lye by mistake. Common vinegar
may be given freely, and then castor or sweet oil in full doses—a
tablespoonful at a time, repeated every half hour or two.
Nitrate of Silver when swallowed is neutralized by common table salt
freely given in solution in water.
The salts of mercury or arsenic (often kept as bedbug poison), which
are powerful irritants, are apt to be very quickly fatal. Milk or the
whites of eggs may be freely given, and afterward a very thin paste
of flour is neutralized.
Phosphorus paste, kept for roach poison or in parlor matches, is
sometimes eaten by children, and has been wilfully taken for the
purpose of suicide. It is a powerful irritant. The first thing to be done
is to give freely of magnesia and water; then to give mucilaginous
drinks, as flaxseed tea, gum water or sassafras pith and water; and
lastly to administer finely-powdered bone-charcoal, either in pill or
in mixture with water.
In no case of poisoning should there be any avoidable delay in
obtaining the advice of a physician, and, meanwhile, the friends or
by-standers should endeavor to find out exactly what has been
taken, so that the treatment adopted may be as prompt and effective
as possible.
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CHAPTER III.
INK DEPARTMENT.
RED INK.—Two ounces Cochineal, bruised; pour over it one quart
Boiling Water, let it stand eight hours. Boil two ounces Brazil Wood
in one pint of Water, let it stand eight hours and then add the two
together. Dissolve one-half ounce Gum Arabic in one-half pint Hot
Water; add all together and let stand four days. Strain and bottle for
use.
BLUE INK.—Six parts Persian Blue, one quart Oxalic Acid; triturate
with little Water to smoothe paste, add Gum Arabic and the
necessary quantity of Water.
INDELIBLE INK TO MARK LINEN.—One and a half ounces Nitrate
of Silver dissolved in six ounces Liquor Ammonia Fortis, one ounce
Archill, for coloring; one-half ounce Gum Arabic. Mix.
FOR YELLOW.—Write with Muriate of Antimony; when dry wash
with Tincture of Galls.
BLACK.—Write with a Solution of Green Vitriol and wash with
Tincture of Galls.
BLUE.—Nitrate of Cobate, wash with Oxalic Acid.
YELLOW.—Subacetate of Lead, wash with Hydrochloric Acid.
GREEN.—Arsenate of Potash, wash with Nitrate of Copper.
PURPLE.—Solution of Gold and Muriate of Tin.
BLACK.—Perchloride of Mercury, the wash is Hydrochloric of Tin.
BLACK INK.—Extract of Logwood one ounce, Bicromate of Potash
one-quarter ounce. Pulverize and mix in a quart of soft hot water.
This makes a beautiful jet black ink, which will not spoil by freezing.
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COPYING INK.—One-half gallon of soft water, one ounce Gum
Arabic, one ounce Brown Sugar, one ounce clean Copperas, three
ounces powdered Nut Gall. Mix and shake occasionally from 7 to 10
days and strain. The best copying ink made.
BLACK INK.—Shellac four ounces, Borax two ounces, Water one
quart; boil till dissolved and add two ounces Gum Arabic, dissolved
in a little hot water; boil and add enough of a well triturated mixture
of equal parts of Indigo and Lampblack to produce a copper color.
After standing several hours draw off and bottle.
GREEN INK.—Dissolve 180 grains Bichromate of Potash in one fluid
ounce of Water; add while warm one-half ounce Spirits of Wine,
then decompose the mixture with concentrated sulphuric acid until
it assumes a brown color; evaporate this liquid until its quantity is
reduced one-half, dilute it with two ounces distilled water, filter it,
add one-half ounce Alcohol, followed by a few drops of strong
sulphuric acid; it is now allowed to rest, and after a time it assumes a
beautiful green color. Add a small quantity Gum Arabic and it is
ready for use.
BEAUTIFUL BLUE WRITING FLUID.—Dissolve Basic or Soluble
Prussian Blue in pure water. This is the most permanent and
beautiful blue ink known.
VIOLET COPYING INK.—For blue violet dissolve in 300 parts of
boiling water, Methyl Violet, 5 B, Hofman’s Violet, 3 B, or Gentiana
Violet, B. For reddish violet dissolve in a similar quantity of water
Methyl Violet BR. A small quantity of sugar added to these inks
improves their copying qualities. If the writing when dry retains a
bronzy appearance, more water must be added.
NEW INVISIBLE INK.—C. Wideman communicates a new method
of making an invisible ink to Die Natur. To make the writing or
drawing appear which has been made upon paper it is sufficient to
dip it in water. On drying the traces disappear again, and reappear
again at each succeeding immersion. The ink is made by intimately
mixing Linseed Oil one part. Water of Ammonia twenty parts, Water
100 parts. The mixture must be agitated each time before the pen is
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dipped into it, as a little of the oil may separate and float on top,
which would, of course, leave an oily stain upon the paper.
BUCHER’S CARMINE INK.—Pure Carmine, twelve grains, Water of
Ammonia three ounces, dissolve, then add Powdered Gum eighteen
grains. One-half drachm of Powdered Drop Lake may be substituted
for the Carmine, where expense is an object.
BRILLIANT RED INK.—Brazil Wood two ounces, Muriate of Tin
one-half drachm, Gum Arabic one drachm. Boil down in 32 ounces
water to one-half, and strain.
WHITE INK.—Mix pure freshly precipitated Barium Sulphate, or
“Flake White,” with Water containing enough Gum Arabic to
prevent the immediate settling of the substance. Starch or
Magnesium Carbonate may be used in a similar way. They must be
reduced to palpable powders.
INDELIBLE INK FOR MARKING LINEN.—Add Caustic Alkali to a
saturated solution of Corpous Chloride until no further precipitate
forms; allow the precipitate to settle, draw off the supernatant liquid
with a siphon and dissolve the hydrated copper oxide in the smallest
quantity of Ammonia. It may be mixed with about 6 per cent of Gum
Dextrine for use.
TO WRITE SECRET LETTERS.—Put five cents’ worth Citrate of
Potassa in an ounce vial of clear cold water. This forms an invisible
fluid. Let it dissolve and you can use on paper of any color. Use quill
pen in writing. When you wish the writing to become visible hold it
to red hot stove.
BLACK COPYING INK OR WRITING FLUID.—Take two gallons of
Rain Water, and put into it Gum Arabic one-fourth pound, Brown
Sugar one pound, clean Copperas one-fourth pound, Powdered
Nutgall three-fourths pound; mix, and shake occasionally for ten
days, and strain; if needed sooner let it stand in an iron kettle until
the strength is obtained. This ink will stand the action of the
atmosphere for centuries if required.
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TO MAKE RUBBER STAMP INK.—Dissolve Aniline in hot
Glycerine, and strain while hot or warm.
COMMERCIAL WRITING INK.—Galls one ounce, Gum one-half
ounce, Cloves one-half ounce, Sulphate of Iron, one-half ounce,
Water eight ounces. Digest by frequent shaking till it has sufficient
color. This is a good durable ink and will bear diluting.
TRAVELERS’ INK.—White Blotting Paper is saturated with Aniline
Black, and several sheets are pasted together, so as to form a thick
pad. When required for use a small piece is torn off and covered
with a little water. The black liquid which dissolves out is a good
writing ink. A square inch of paper will produce enough ink to last
for a considerable writing, and a few pads would be all that an
exploring party need carry with them. As water is always available
the ink is readily made. This is a perfectly original and new recipe.
Any enterprising man can make a large income out of its
manufacture.
INDELIBLE MARKING INK WITHOUT A PREPARATION.—
Dissolve separately one ounce of Nitrate of Silver and one and onehalf
ounces of Sub-Carbonate of Soda (best washing soda) in rain
water. Mix the solutions and collect and wash the precipitate in a
filter; while still moist rub it up in a marble or hardwood mortar
with three drachms of Tartaric Acid, add two ounces of Rain Water,
mix six drachms White Sugar and ten drachms powdered Gum
Arabic, one-half ounce Archill and Water to make up six ounces in
measure. It should be put up in short drachm bottles and sold at
twenty-five cents. This is the best ink for marking clothes that has
ever been discovered. There is a fortune in this recipe, as a good
marking ink is very salable.
INVISIBLE INK.—Sulphuric Acid one quart, Water twenty parts;
mix together and write with a quill pen, which writing can be read
only after heating it.
HORTICULTURAL INK.—Copper one part, dissolve in Nitric Acid
ten parts and add Water ten parts; used to write on zinc or tin labels.
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GOLD INK.—Honey and Gold Leaf equal parts, Turpentine until the
Gold is reduced to the finest possible state of division, agitate with
thirty parts Hot Water and allow it to settle. Decant the Water and
repeat the washing several times; finally dry the Gold and mix it
with a little Gum Water for use.
SILVER INK.—For silver ink the process is the same as gold,
substituting Silver Leaf for the Gold leaf.
INDELIBLE INK FOR GLASS OR METAL.—Borax one ounce,
Shellac two ounces, Water eighteen fluid ounces; boil in a covered
vessel, add of thick Mucilage one ounce; triturate it with Levigated
Indigo and Lamp Black q.s. to give it a good color. After two hours’
repose decant from the dregs and bottle for use. It may be bronzed
after being applied. Resists moisture, chlorine and gases.
BROWN INK.—A strong decoction of Catechu. The shade may be
varied by the cautious addition of a little weak solution of bicromate
of potash.
LUMINOUS INK.—Shines in the dark. Phosphorous one-half
drachm, Oil Cinnamon one-half ounce; mix in a vial, cork tightly,
heat it slowly until mixed. A letter written in this ink can only be
read in a dark room, when the writing will have the appearance of a
fire.
TICKETING INK FOR GROCERS, ETC.—Dissolve one ounce of
Gum Arabic in six ounces of Water and strain; this is the Mucilage;
for a black color use Drop Black, powdered and ground with the
mucilage to extreme fineness; for blue, Ultra-Marine is used in the
same manner; for green, Emerald Green; for white, Flake White; red,
Vermillion, Lake or Carmine; for yellow, Chrome Yellow. When
ground too thick they are thinned with a little water. Apply to the
cards with a small brush. The cards may be sized with a thin glue,
afterward varnished, if it is desired to preserve them.
COMMON INK.—To one gallon boiling Soft Water add threefourths
ounce Extract of Logwood; boil two minutes; remove from
the fire and stir in forty-eight grains Bichromate of Potash and eight
grains Prussiate of Potash. For ten gallons use six and one-half
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ounces Logwood Extract, one ounce Bichromate of Potash, and
eighty grains Prussiate Potash; strain. Six cents should buy the
former and twenty-five cents the latter.
RED INK.—In an ounce phial put one teaspoonful Aqua Ammonia,
Gum Arabic size of two or three peas, and six grains No. 40 Carmine.
Fill up with soft water and it is soon ready for use.
INK FOR MARKING PACKAGES.—Take Lamp Black and mix
thoroughly with sufficient Turpentine to make it thin enough to flow
from the brush. Powdered Ultra-Marine instead of Lamp Black,
makes a fine blue marking mixture for the same purpose.
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CHAPTER IV.
COSMETIC DEPARTMENT.
LIQUID FOR CURLING THE HAIR.—Two ounces scrapings of lead,
half ounce Litharge, one-quarter ounce Gum Camphor. Boil all in
one pint of soft water for half an hour. Let it cool; pour off liquid and
add to it one drachm Rosemary Flowers. Boil all again and strain,
when it is ready for use. Apply about once a week.
HAIR OIL.—One gallon Cologne Spirits, 90 per cent proof, one pint
Castor Oil, one ounce Oil Cinnamon. Mix well and it is ready for use.
POWDER FOR THE COMPLEXION.—Half ounce Tincture of Elder
Blossoms, half ounce Beef Marrow, half pint Orange Flower Water,
one Cassia Buds, two ounces Bitter Almonds, four drachms Spirits
Oriental Roses. Mix, and apply it in the evening and wash it off in
the morning.
PASTE TO PRODUCE WHISKERS.—One ounce of Oil of Paricada,
two ounces Southern Wood Bark, one ounce Dog’s Lard. Fry over a
slow fire until it forms a paste. Apply to the face once a day until the
whiskers begin to grow.
TO CLEAN THE TEETH.—Castile Soap and Cigar Ashes applied
with a soft rag is one of the best tooth preparations known.
TO MAKE THE HAIR SOFT AND GLOSSY.—One pint Alcohol,
four ounces Castor Oil. Mix, and flavor with Bergamot. Apply
frequently with the hands.
TO REMOVE FRECKLES.—Use Oxolate of Copper Ointment.
HAIR TONIC.—Sugar of Lead five grains, Sulphate Quinine two
grains, Muriat of Ammonia one drachm, Glycerine six ounces,
Distilled Water six ounces. Mix and apply two or three times per
day.
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HAIR DYES. NO. 1.—Distilled Water six ounces, Alcohol one ounce,
Pyrogalic Acid one drachm. The Acid must be dissolved in the
Alcohol before the water is added.
NO. 2.—Aqua Ammonia one ounce, Water one ounce, Nitrate of
Silver two drachms. Dissolve the Silver in water and add the
Ammonia. Cork tight and keep in a cool place.
NO. 3.—Water four ounces, Sulphate of Potash half ounce. Mix. To
dye the hair or whiskers, have them free from dirt or soap suds.
They should be a little damp. Add carefully No. 1, using care not to
allow the dye to touch the skin. When somewhat dry apply No. 2; in
about three minutes apply No. 3. Use care not to allow any of these
preparations to touch the skin.
TO BEAUTIFY THE TEETH AND MAKE THE BREATH SMELL
SWEET AND PLEASANT.—One ounce Chlorate of Lime in a pint of
Soft Water, and let it stand 24 hours. Then pour off the clear water
and add forty drops of Essence of Rose.
TO MAKE THE CHEEKS AND LIPS ROSY.—Use a little Red
Carmine.
PERFUMERY.—Oils of Rosemary and Lemon each a half ounce,
Bergamot and Lavender half drachm, Cinnamon four drops, Cloves
and Rose each two drops, Alcohol one quart. Mix and let stand one
week.
HAIR RESTORATIVE.—Sugar of Lead, Borax and Lac Sulphur each
one ounce, Aqua Ammonia half ounce, Alcohol one gill. Mix and let
stand 20 hours, then add Bay Rum one gill, fine Table Salt one
tablespoonful, Soft Water three pints, Essence of Bergamot half
ounce.
NEW YORK BARBER’S STAR HAIR OIL.—Castor Oil six and onehalf
pints, Alcohol one and one-half pints, Oil of Citronella one-half
ounce, Lavender one-fourth ounce. Mix well, put in four ounce
bottles, retail for 25 cents.
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CELEBRATED MOTH AND FRECKLE LOTION.—For the skin and
complexion; a great secret. Distill two handfuls Jessamine Flowers in
a quart of Rose Water and a quart of Orange Water. Strain through
porous paper and add a scruple of Musk and a scruple of Ambergris.
Bottle and label. Splendid wash for the skin.
IMPERIAL ONGUENT FOR FORCING WHISKERS AND
MUSTACHE TO GROW.—Made as follows: Two drachms of
Benzoin Comp., two drachms Tincture of Cantharides, six ounces of
Castor Oil, nine and one-fourth ounces Alcohol, one drachm Oil of
Bergamot. Mix well, bottle and label. Apply the Onguent night and
morning. Circulation should be stimulated with a rough towel.
CURLOLINE, FOR MAKING THE HAIR CURL.—One pound Olive
Oil, one drachm Oil of Origanum, one and one-half drachms Oil of
Rosemary. Mix well, bottle and label. Apply two or three times
weekly. Will curl the straightest hair if not cut too short.
HAIR RESTORATIVE AND INVIGORATOR.—For a trifling cost.
Sugar of Lead, Borax and Lac Sulphur of each one ounce, Aqua
Ammonia one-half ounce, Alcohol one gill. mix and let stand for
fourteen hours; then add Bay Rum one gill, fine Table Salt one
tablespoonful, Soft Water three pints, Essence of Bergamot one
ounce. This preparation not only gives a beautiful gloss, but will
cause hair to grow upon bald heads arising from all common causes,
and turning gray hair to a dark color.
Manner of Application.—When the hair is thin or bald, make two
applications daily, until this amount is used up. Work it into the
roots of the hair with a soft brush or the ends of the fingers, rubbing
well each time. For gray hair one application daily is sufficient.
JOCKEY CLUB.—Spirits of Wine five gallons, Orange Flower Water
one gallon, Balsam of Peru four ounces, Essence of Bergamot eight
ounces. Essence of Musk eight ounces, Essence of Cloves four
ounces, Essence of Neroli two ounces. Mix.
LADIES’ OWN.—Spirits of Wine one gallon, Otto of Roses twenty
drops, Essence of Thyme one-half ounce, Essence of Neroli oneOne
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fourth ounce, Essence of Vanilla one-half ounce, Essence of Bergamot
one-fourth ounce, Orange Flower Water six ounces.
UPPER TEN.—Spirits of Wine four quarts, Essence of Cedrat two
drachms, Essence of Violets one-fourth ounce, Essence of Neroli onehalf
ounce, Otto of Roses twenty drops, Orange Flower Essence one
ounce, Oil of Rosemary thirty drops, Oils of Bergamot and Neroli
each one-half ounce.
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CHAPTER V.
LIVE STOCK DEPARTMENT.
Each and Every Recipe in This Department Has Been Tested by the
Most Eminent Veterinary Surgeons in the United States, and
Pronounced by Them as the Best.
WOUNDS AND CUTS.—Take four ounces Lard, Beeswax four
ounces, Resin three ounces, Vaseline four to six ounces. Melt these
together and add Carbolic Acid half ounce. This is excellent.
COLIC.—Gum Camphor one ounce, Cayenne one ounce, Gum
Myrrh one ounce, powdered Gum Quaial one ounce, Sassafras Bark
one ounce, Spirits of Turpentine one ounce, Oil of Origanum onequarter
ounce, Oil Hemlock half ounce, Pulverized Opium half
ounce, good alcohol two quarts. Mix and let stand ten to twelve days
and filter. Dose from one to four teaspoonfuls in a pint of milk. Keep
this on hand. It is the best colic cure known.
LINIMENT TO KILL PAIN.—One gallon Alcohol, one ounce
Tincture Cayenne, two ounces Tincture Gum Camphor, two ounces
Tincture Ammonia, one-half ounce Chloroform. Mix well and let
stand twelve hours.
BEST CONDITION POWDERS.—Fenugreek, Cream of Tartar,
Gentian, Sulphur, Saltpetre, Resin, Black Antimony and Ginger each
two ounces, Cayenne Pepper one ounce. Pulverize and mix
thoroughly. Dose, two tablespoonfuls once a day in feed.
BRITTLE AND CONTRACTED HOOFS.—Take Castor Oil,
Barbadoes, Tar and Soft Soap. Equal parts of each. Melt all together
and stir while cooling, and apply a little to the hoof three or four
times a week.
CONTRACTED HOOF AND SORE FEET.—Take equal parts of Soft
Fat, Yellow Wax, Linseed Oil, Venice Turpentine and Norway Tar;
first melt the wax, then add the others, mixing thoroughly. Apply to
the edge of the hair once a day.
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CRACKED HEELS.—Tar eight ounces, Beeswax one ounce, Resin
one ounce, Alum one ounce, Tallow one ounce, Sulphate of Iron one
ounce, Carbolic Acid one drachm. Mix and boil over a slow fire.
Skim off the filth and add two ounces of the scrapings of Sweet
Elder.
EYE WATER.—White Vitriol and pure Saltpetre of each one scruple,
pure soft water eight ounces. Mix. This should be applied to the
inflamed lids three or four times a day, and if the inflammation does
not lessen in one or two days it may be injected directly into the eye.
The writer has used this for his own eyes, reduced one-half with
water, and dropped directly into the eye, which would cause the eye
to smart considerably for about five minutes, when he should bathe
the eye with cold water for a few minutes, and by repeating this
three or four times a day, it has given the best of satisfaction. It does
nicely, many times, to just close the eye and bathe the outside freely.
CURE FOR SWEENEY.—Alcohol and Spirits of Turpentine each
eight ounces, Camphor Gum, pulverized Cantharides and Capsicum
each one ounce, Oil of Spike three ounces. Mix. Bathe with hot iron.
FARCY.—Nitrate of Potash four ounces, Black Antimony two
ounces, Sulphite of Soda one ounce, Elecampane two ounces. Mix.
Dose, one tablespoonful once or twice a day.
FARCY AND GLANDERS.—Iodide of Potassium one and onequarter
drachms, Copperas one-half, Ginger one drachm, Gentian
two drachms, powdered Gum Arabic and Syrup to form a ball; or,
take one-half ounce Sulphite Soda, five grains powdered
Cantharides. Mix, and give at night in cut feed for several weeks;
give at the same time every morning and noon three drachms
powdered Gentian, two drachms powdered Blue Vitriol, give the
medicines for a long time; feed well. This is the best treatment that
can be given for this disease.
WOLF’S LINIMENT.—One quart Alcohol, two ounces Tincture
Arnica, one ounce Oil Hemlock, one ounce Oil of Spike. Mix well
and let stand twenty-four hours. This will cure any burn, scald,
bruise, sprain or any like ailment; also aches and pains of all kinds.
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Apply by wetting a flannel cloth and wrapping it around the
diseased parts.
CUTS, WOUNDS AND SORES.—Take of Lard four ounces, Beeswax
four ounces, Resin two ounces, Carbolic Acid one-quarter ounce.
Mix the first three and melt, add Carbolic Acid, stirring until cool.
This is excellent for man as well as beast.
FOR POLL EVIL.—Rock Salt one ounce, Blue Vitriol one ounce,
Copperas one-half ounce. Pulverize and mix well. Fill a goose quill
with the powder and push to the bottom of the pipe. Have a stick at
the top of the quill and push the powder out of the quill, leaving it at
the bottom of the pipe. Repeat in four days, and in two or three days
you can remove the pipe without any trouble.
CURE FOR SCRATCHES.—Sweet Oil three ounces, Borax one
ounce, Sugar of Lead one ounce. Mix and apply twice daily after
washing thoroughly with castile soap, giving time for legs to dry.
GREAT ARABIAN HEAVE REMEDY.—Give your horse a
teaspoonful of Lobelia once a day for a week and then once a week,
and you will hardly know he ever had the heaves. Try it.
BOTS.—Take new Milk two quarts, Syrup one quart, mix and give
the whole, and in fifteen or twenty minutes after give two quarts of
warm, strong Sage tea; half an hour after the tea give one quart of
raw Linseed Oil, or if the Oil cannot be had give Lard instead.
DIURETICS.—Take Balsam Copaiba two ounces, Sweet Spirits of
Nitre three ounces, Spirits of Turpentine two ounces, Oil of Juniper
two ounces, Tincture of Camphor two ounces. Mix; shake the bottle
before pouring the medicine. Dose for adult horse, two
tablespoonfuls in a pint of milk, repeated every four to six hours, if
necessary. This is a reliable preparation for kidney difficulties.
FOUNDER.—Vinegar three pints, Capsicum one-half drachm,
Tincture of Aconite Root fifteen drops. Mix and boil down to one
quart; when cool give it as a drench. Blanket the horse well; after the
horse has perspired for an hour or more, give one quart of raw
Linseed Oil. This treatment will be found good for horses foundered
by eating too much grain.
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MANGE.—Oil Tar one ounce, Lac Sulphur one and one-half ounces,
Whale Oil two ounces. Mix. Rub a little on the skin wherever the
disease appears, and continue daily for a week, then wash off with
castile soap and warm water.
POLL EVIL AND FISTULA.—Tincture of Opium one drachm,
Potash two drachms, Water one ounce; mix, and when dissolved
inject into the pipes with a small syringe, having cleansed the sore
with soap-suds; repeat every two days until pipes are completely
destroyed.
CONDITION POWDER.—Take Antimony Crude one ounce, Lobelia
gr. one ounce, Ginger two ounces, Sulphur Flour three ounces,
Berberry gr. one ounce, Cream Tartar four ounces, Saltpetre Flour
four ounces; well mixed. Dose, one tablespoonful each day in wet
feed. Best in the market; will sell well.
FOR BONE SPAVIN.—Hog’s Lard half pint, best Oil Origanum one
and a half ounces, Oil Cajeput two ounces, pulverized Cantharides
half ounce. Mix, and apply each morning for four mornings, heating
it in with hot iron each time, then discontinue its use for three days,
after which use as before for five mornings. Wait about eight or ten
days and if not gone repeat as before.
ARABIAN HORSE TAMER’S SECRET.—Take Oil of Cummin, Oil of
Rhodium and Horse Castor. Keep separate in air-tight bottles. Rub a
little of the Oil of Cummin on your hand and approach the horse on
the windward side, so that he can smell the Cummin. The horse will
then let you come up to him without trouble. Rub your hand gently
on the horse’s nose, getting a little oil on it. He will then follow you.
Give him a little of the Castor on a piece of Loaf Sugar or Apple; get
a few drops of the Rhodium on his tongue, and he is your servant.
He will follow you like a pet dog.
CURE FOR SPAVIN AND RINGBONE.—Cantharides one ounce,
Mercurial Ointment half ounce, Corrosive Sublimate a half drachm,
Turpentine one and a half ounces, Tincture Iodine one ounce, Gum
Euphorbium four ounces. Mix well with one pound of Lard. For
spavin or ringbone, cut the hair away and grease the part well with
the ointment, rubbing it in well. In two days grease the parts with
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Lard; wash it off in two days more, and again apply the ointment. So
continue until a cure is effected, which will be in a short time. For
bog Spavin, wind gall, curb or splint, apply the ointment every six
days.
JOCKEY TRICKS.—How to make a horse appear as though he was
badly foundered.—Take a fine wire and fasten it tightly around the
fetlock, between the foot and the heel, and smooth the hair over it. In
twenty minutes the horse will show lameness. Do not leave it on
over nine hours. To make a horse lame.—Take a single hair from its
tail, put it through the eye of a needle, then lift the front leg and
press the skin between the outer and middle tendon or cord, and
shove the needle through, cut off the hair each side and let down the
foot. The horse will go lame in twenty minutes. How to make a horse
stand by his food and not take it.—Grease the front teeth and the
roof of the mouth with common beef tallow, and he will not eat until
you wash it out. This, in conjunction with the above, will
consummate a complete founder. How to cure a horse from the crib
or sucking wind.—Saw between the upper teeth to the gums. How
to put a young countenance on a horse.—Make a small incision in
the sunken place over the eye, insert the point of a goose quill and
blow it up; close the external wound with a thread, and it is done. To
cover up the heaves.—Drench the horse with one-fourth pound of
common bird-shot, and he will not heave until they pass through
him. To make a horse appear as if he had the glanders.—Melt four
ounces fresh Butter and pour into his ear. To distinguish between
glanders and distemper.—The discharge from the nose in glanders
will sink in water; in distemper it floats. How to make a true pulling
horse balk.—Take Tincture of Cantharides one ounce, and Corrosive
Sublimate one drachm; mix and bathe his shoulder at night. How to
serve a horse that is lame.—Make a small incision about half way
from the knee to the joint on the outside of the leg, and at the back
part of the shin bone you will find a small, white tendon or cord; cut
it off and close the external wound with a stitch, and he will walk off
on the hardest pavement and not limp a particle.
HOW TO TELL THE AGE OF A HORSE.—The safest way of
determining the age of a horse is by the appearance of the teeth,
which undergo certain changes in the course of years.
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Eight to fourteen days after birth, the first middle nippers of the set
of milk teeth are cut; four to six weeks afterwards the pair next to
them, and finally, after six or eight months, the last.
All these milk teeth have a well defined body and neck, and a
slender fang, and on their front surface grooves or furrows, which
disappear from the middle nippers at the end of one year, from the
next pair in two years, and from the incisive teeth (cutters) in three
years.
At the age of two the nippers become loose and fall out, in their
places appear two permanent teeth, with deep, black cavities, and
full, sharp edges.
At the age of three, the next pair fall out.
At four years old, the corner teeth fall out.
At five years old, the horse has his permanent set of teeth.
The teeth grow in length as the horse advances in years, but at the
same time his teeth are worn away by use about one-twelfth of an
inch every year, so that the black cavities of the center nippers below
disappear in the sixth year, those of the next pair in the seventh year,
and those of the corner teeth in the eighth year. Also the outer corner
of upper and lower jaw just meet at eight years of age.
At nine years old, cups leave the two center nippers above, and each
of the two upper corner teeth has a little sharp protrusion at the
extreme outer corner.
At the age of ten the cups disappear from the adjoining teeth.
At the age of eleven, the cups disappear from the corner teeth above,
and are only indicated by brownish spots.
The oval form becomes broader, and changes, from the twelfth to the
sixteenth year, more and more into a triangular form, and the teeth
lose, finally, with the twentieth year, all regularity. There is nothing
remaining in the teeth that can afterwards clearly show the age of the
horse, or justify the most experienced examiner in giving a positive
opinion.
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The tushes, or canine teeth, conical in shape, with a sharp point, and
curved, are cut between the third and fourth year, their points
become more and more rounded until the ninth year, and after that,
more and more dull in the course of years, and lose, finally, all
regular shape. Mares seldom have tusks; if any, they are very faintly
indicated.
Frequent reference to the chart for telling the horse’s age will
thoroughly acquaint one with this valuable bit of knowledge.
AGE OF SHEEP AND GOATS.—At one year old they have eight
front teeth of uniform size. At two years the two middle ones are
supplanted by two large ones. At three a small tooth appears on each
side. At four there are six large teeth. At five all the front teeth are
large, and at six all begin to get worn.
AGE OF CATTLE.—A cow’s horn is supposed to furnish a correct
indication of the age of the animal, but this is not always true. For
ordinary purposes, however, the following will be found
approximately correct: At two years of age a circle of thicker matter
begins to form on the animal’s horns, which becomes clearly defined
at three years of age, when another circle begins to form, and an
additional circle every year thereafter. The cow’s age then can be
determined by adding two to the number of circles. The rings on a
bull’s horns do not show themselves until he is five years old—so in
the case of a bull five must be added to the number of rings. Unless
the rings are clear and distinct these rules will not apply. Besides,
dishonest dealers sometimes file off some of the rings of old cattle.
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CHAPTER VI.
HOG DEPARTMENT.
THE DISPOSITION AND CHARACTER OF THE HOG.
In all histories of animals, the hog stands a natural phenomenon, and
alone in relation to his appetite and physical constitution. The hog is
the only kind of animal known to man that can feed on any kind of
food. The stomach of the hog is adapted both to flesh and grass,
which is not the case with any other animal in all the history of
animals. Another peculiarity of his nature is his great ferociousness;
perhaps the hog is more valiant than any animal known. The
ferocious and warlike disposition (perhaps) is one among the
reasons of this animal’s great health. There are very few diseases
among animals that the hog is subject to; in fact, it (the Cholera) is
the only disease to be greatly feared among that order of animals;
and as this great and valuable remedy is found and demonstrated
beyond the shadow of a doubt, the farmer may go on raising and
feeding his hogs with the full assurance that his labors will not be
lost. He can improve his hogs with confidence and assurance that
health and prosperity will be the rich reward of his labors.
There is more money made in the culture and growing of hogs than
any animal in the known world; notwithstanding the great loss by
Cholera, there is no one but what will say amen to this fact. Even
Boone County loses $100,000.00 worth of hogs with the Cholera,
annually. There are 114 counties in the State of Missouri. Now make
the calculation of the great saving of money by this invaluable
discovery for the prevention and cure of the above disease. We see
that if all farmers and traders in hogs had this book, and carried out
its instructions, it would save $11,400,000.00 for the State of Missouri,
which amount would soon enable Missouri or any other State that
observes this book’s instructions to be the richest State in the Union.
There is no farmer but that will become wealthy if he uses economy,
industry and has the Stephen’s Remedy for Hog Cholera.
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SYMPTOMS OF THE DISEASE, HOG CHOLERA.
1st. Gentleness and sluggishness.
2d. You will see the hog moving around with his nose close to the
ground, with a kind of a forced cough, hair looking dead and kind of
a reddish color; then they quit eating and soon die. These symptoms
are generally of a slow progress, but certain death if Stephen’s
Cholera Remedy is not used. These symptoms are set forth both in
dry and purging Hog Cholera. On the first appearance, this disease
is more fatal, from the fact that nature teaches the brute, by
unlearned laws, natural medical aid; but this disease is so powerful
and destructive there is something more necessary than the animal
can generally get at.
We now propose to give the cause and the whole cause of the fearful
disease caused Hog Cholera: The system of both man and brute is
made up and composed of a living animalcule so small that it cannot
be discovered with the eye, it being so delicate; but, by the use of the
microscope, it can be readily seen and realized. In good health, with
this animal, this animalcule is the life and spirit of the hog, causing
the functions throughout the whole system to perform nature’s
intended designs—regular digestion, and a perfect circulation
throughout the whole animal nature; but when this valuable animal
is ranging in certain localities where he has no resort to certain
material, the system becomes of an impure character, and this
delicate animalcule commanding a rapid growth, feeds upon the
nutriment of the body of the hogs and consequently destroys life
without a counteracting remedy of speedy effect. The liver is the seat
of worms or animalcule; it is also the king or main spring of
digestion of both man and beast; when the hog begins to droop, the
worm is rapidly growing; and, without something to destroy this
worm, the hog will die. In certain localities the hog never has this
disease.
Now, this is full and ample evidence that it is the locality in relation
to feed that keeps this fearful disease from the hog. In my travels I
have observed, the localities and health of this valuable animal
depends on what range or food he gets. The Author, having traveled
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through different countries and localities, observing at the same time
the health of this animal, gave rise to this great discovery as a perfect
remedy for health. This remedy will both prevent and cure this
disease, when the disease has not too strong a hold, and the liver and
blood fevered too much by the worm. The liver, being the seat of
digestion, must not be disturbed; if its digestion is disturbed,
secretions are located—the system depending on the liver as the
clock or watch depends on its mainspring for time; therefore,
knowing the disease and remedy, end experiencing the facts, the
Author is fully satisfied that his remedy, both as a preventative and
cure, is all that it claims to be, and is undoubtedly the most valuable
discovery for the health of the swine that has ever been known or
found out.
The reasons and cause of Hog Cholera having been explained, the
Author now proposes to give the
PREVENTION AND CURE OF HOG CHOLERA.
We are aware of the fact that the talent, ingenuity and skill of man
has been employed in searching out some remedy as a preventative
and cure for this lamentable disease; and there have been some
preventions used that have been valuable in that direction. For
instance, the simple article called ashes is a healthy article for stock,
which many people use, but it never cured one case of Cholera. I
have no doubt but it has been beneficial for the general health of
hogs. Of all remedies, simple ones when they will cure are the best;
and this remedy is as simple and as easily used as it is possible in the
use of any remedy.
The effective remedy is simply old lime and sand, with arsenic.
Now, I am aware that the nature of man is to look for some great and
unknown article as a remedy for such a great curse as Hog Cholera;
but, considering the cause of the disease being the animalcule,
reader, you see that it requires something to prevent the excess, or
destroy the increase of this minute animal. Now, we see readily that
the Old Lime, Sand and Arsenic does the work without a doubt, and
the hog is healthy and clear of disease.
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Now, reader, you have the remedy; the next thing is how to use it.
In the first place drive your wagon to some sandbar and haul a
wagon load of sand; throw it out where you feed your hogs; to one
wagon load of sand, put one bushel of old slacked lime; throw your
feed on that for your hogs, and about every three months replenish
with the same. If your hogs have the Cholera, separate the sick from
the well ones, and have a trough, and put some of the sand and lime
in it, with about one-half of a thimbleful of arsenic to the hog; then
pour some rich slop on this preparation so that the hogs will eat it;
milk would be preferable if you have it. This preparation once every
other day will soon have your hogs healthy and sound; it destroys
the worms, then the hog is all right. To your healthy hogs give onehalf
thimbleful of arsenic in slop to every hog, once per month. This
is all the arsenic you must use; you must not mix the arsenic with the
lime and sand, or the hog may not get it.
After using this remedy, your hogs that are not yet complaining with
Cholera will never take it; you may rely on it. I have tried this
valuable remedy until I am perfectly satisfied; where the Cholera
was killing out the gang every day, it put a stop to it at once; and not
only for myself, but many others under my notice. I have never seen
Cholera bother hogs, where this Stephen’s Remedy was used as
above stated. You will ask, what is to be done where pigs have it? In
answer to that, reader, just get a trough and put in the remedy, and
pour the slop to their mother, and the milk will be just as effective to
the pigs as the remedy is with the sow.
This Stephen’s Remedy for Hog Cholera, if studied and observed,
will be worth from $100.00 to $1,000.00 to every farmer or hog trader,
where Cholera has ever been; and there is no trouble or expense to
have the benefit of it. This very little book is worth its weight in gold.
The countries where they have no Hog Cholera are rocky and hilly,
sandy and limy, where the hog can get this remedy, and Providence
has so taught the animal that nature dictates to him the remedy. See
the dog, when he is sick, he knows how to take an emetic, vomit, and
get well; so it is with the hog, if he can find this remedy he hardly
ever takes Cholera.
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In addition to those cures as a prevention of the disease, use
Asafetida, as follows: Cut in small pieces about one ounce; melt it in
water or grease, pour it in rich slop. Feed it to about ten hogs, once
per week in Hog Cholera season, more or less according to number
of hogs. If you will keep up these remedies your swine will keep
healthy. Keep the sick ones and well ones separate. If you have
clover keep the sick ones on it, it is healthy for hogs.
ON TREATMENT.
A little further advice concerning the treatment of hogs when
penned for fattening; hogs should be penned on rolling ground if
possible; they fatten better and consume less corn; they should be
salted twice a week. The way to salt is as follows: If there is no
decaying stump in the pen, haul a rotten log and pour salt on it, and
the hogs will use all the salt and waste none; and the demands of
nature will have them use just enough and no more; this preparation
will save 2½ bushels of corn to every hog, which is $1.00—quite an
item where you have a large pen of hogs. Salt your stock hogs in the
same way. When you have used Stephen’s Remedies one year, you
would not be without this knowledge for any small amount, for your
hogs will be healthy and prosperous. If the reader has only one hog
per year, it will pay him to buy this book in relation to the breed of
hogs. I don’t know that I could enlighten you on this subject, for the
world’s attention is directed to that information, and perhaps,
reader, you are as well posted on that subject as your humble writer.
For the western country, as a hardy and profitable stock of thrifty
hogs, the Berkshire mixed or crossed with the Poland China, would
be my choice, but every man has his own notions concerning the
breed of his stock. The main point is to keep them healthy. Please
fathom these instructions, which will cost you no more hard labor.
Now, reader, the Author has endeavored, in his plain and simple
manner, and in as few words as possible, to explain the cause of Hog
Cholera, its effects, symptoms, and its cure and prevention, which
have been demonstrated by the Author, and not only by him but by
divers others under his instruction.
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Before the Author wrote this book, he sold these receipts at from
$10.00 to $50.00; but seeing the great loss of labor and perplexity in
relation to Hog Cholera, and the pressing necessity throughout our
land, alone induced the Author of this work to write a book and set
such a low price on it as to enable every poor widow, that has even a
pet pig, to be in possession of one as a security for its health.
ADVICE TO THE YOUNG MAN.
When the young man leaves his father’s home to plan out his course
as a farmer it is very necessary for him to observe two grand points:
1st. To so live, act and speak, as the Apostle Paul says, “void of
offense both to God and man;” and in these words there is a world of
thought. This constitutes our noblest characters in this life and the
life to come.
2nd. In relation to finance, or making and saving of money. Purchase
a good farm, just as much land as you can cultivate well, and no
more; don’t have one surplus acre; don’t do like some people, raise
every kind of stock and never have anything for market; but when
you raise hogs, raise nothing else for market but hogs; and raise all
you can fatten—that is, all you can raise corn to make fat; and by this
rule to have one or two car loads for sale every fall; you will become
wealthy if you live to be old.
In relation to managing your fields, be sure not to exhaust your soil;
if you are in timber land, sow wheat every other year on your cornfields;
this will keep your land constantly improving from ordinary
land to rich land. If you live in prairie country where your wheat
will not pay, never sow oats unless you let your hogs take them
before cutting. Always have one clover field for your hogs to run on
in the hard months of summer and fall.
Now, reader, in conclusion, I will give you certificates of the most
prominent men in our vicinity, who tried and experienced the
Stephen’s Hog Cholera Remedy, and became convinced of its great
value and benefit to man; and that all men may have confidence and
rely on this remedy as a fact, these men have gone before the Justice
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of the Peace and sworn to the facts as they exist. You will see their
certificates on the following pages.
Now, reader, hoping we may both be greatly benefited by this little
work, I bid you God speed. Good-bye.
HOG CHOLERA.
This is to certify that I bought one of Dr. J. H. Stephen’s Hog
Cholera books in 1880, when my hogs were dying with that
disease. I went home and followed the directions of the book. I
cured my hogs and prevented the rest from having the
disease. I here state I have followed Dr. Stephen’s book’s
directions for fifteen years, feeding and raising hogs, with
Cholera around me, and have kept my hogs healthy ever
since. You need not be afraid of Hog Cholera if you have one
of the books. The remedy will not cost more than one dollar a
year for one hundred hogs. No one that has hogs can afford to
do without it. I was living in Monroe county when I bought
the book. I am now living in Brunswick, Chariton county, Mo.,
with Hog Cholera all around me. I am not afraid of it. If you
doubt this, write to me.