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Here are some interesting home remedies from the Slater Notebook. Some of the terms are unfamiliar to me, so I may have misspelled some of them. This information is provided only to show possible home remedies for common ailments in use during the 19th century, very possibly in England. Please do not attempt any of these remedies on your own. And if anyone can help with the transcription of these pages, by all means send me an e-mail. As you can see, there are several words I am having trouble with.

Page 1:

Plasters

1 - oz of sweet oil
1/2 oz venous terpentine
1/2 do dragons blood
1/2 lb. of rozen

Ointment

1 gill of sweet oil
2 oz of Bees wax
1/2 do of red persipit (??)
1/2 of the plaster mixture

Cough Mixture

1 gill of white wine
1 pound of black trecle (??)
1/2 oz of Hicapica (??) wine
1 penny worth of Lodnum

Page 2:

Baking Powder

2 oz tartacidasid (??)
2 oz Carbonated soda
2 oz ground rice
2 oz flour

Blood Mixture

2 oz Sarsaparilla
2 oz ???? chips
2 oz sasspras chips
1/2 oz Megeriar (??) chips
2 oz Spanish juse

Page 3:

Bronchitis

1/2 oz of Bitter har**und
1/2 oz of rack ginger
1/2 lb. of sugar
Boiled from a pint to a gill in water

Infants Preservative

one tea spoon full of Magnesia a pinch of ginger one penny worth of oile of Annyseeds boiled and sweetened in half a gill of water

Page 4:

For Colds and Coughs

Essence of Camphor    1 o
Essence of Mint            1 o
Essence of padagoric    1 o
Essence of Cainne        1 o
Tincture of Rubarb        1 o

For Lead Colick

2 Drops of Elixit of vitacoile (??) in one gill of water

For Sore Eyes

1 o penny worth of sulpher of zinc in a pint of water

Pages 5 and 6:

For Sore Eyes

1 o sugar of Lead
3 Peices of Lump sugar
1 Pint of water

Mother Siegels syrup

1 oz of Hiera Preid
1 oz of sugar candy
1 oz Ground Ginger
2 oz Peruvier Bark
1 Stick of Best Spanish

To be boiled in three pints of water down to a quart then add a gill of best whiskey

For Perspiring and Sore Feet

5 or 6 Drops of Oil of Tar (??) Smeared over each foot, Not ????. Place same socks back on to save staining other things

Pages 7 and 8:

Calfs Feet Jelly

Boil ??? feet in five pints of water till the feet are broken and the water is half wasted. Strain it and when cold take of the fat, and remove the Jelly from the sediment. put it into a sauce-pan, with sugar. raisin wine, lemon juice and lemon peel to your taste, then put in the whites of five eggs well beaten and their shells broken in. Do not stir the Jelly after it begins to warm let boil twenty minutes after it rises to a head. then let it stand half an hour to clear then pour it through a flannel Jelly Bag and put into moulds to form. Calfs feet should be only scalded to take off the hair.

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