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• Poultices

• A Few Rules to be Observed in Cooking for Invalids
       from The Book of Household Management (1861)
• Adhesive Plaster
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Antidote for Laudanum
       from Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840)
• Bad Breath
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Balsam Apple in Spirits
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Bathing
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Black Currant Jelly, a Remedy for Sore Throat
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Bleeding at the Nose
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Blister Ointment
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Brown Mixture for a Cough
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Burns and Scalds
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Caring for Invalids
       from Public School Domestic Science (1898)
• Chilblains
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Cold Weather
       from Hand-Book of Practical Cookery (1884)
• Colds and Hoarseness
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Cough Syrup
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Cure For Cold on the Head
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• Cure for Bites
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Cure for Burns or Scalds
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• Cure for Chilblains
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• Cure for Cholera Morbus
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Cure for Hiccough
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Cure for Pimples
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Cure for Ringworms
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Cure for Sprains
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• Cure for Tetter
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Cure for Toothache
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• Cure for a Hard Dry Cough
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• Cure for the Sting of Wasps or Bees
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• Cuts or Wounds, etc
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Deafness, Remarks, etc.
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Deshler's Salve for Gatherings or Sores
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Diarrhoea
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Diet to Reduce Weight
       from Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book (1920)
• Diphtheria
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Do Not Allow a Child to Eat Fresh Snow
       from Things Mother Used to Make (1914)
• Draughts for the Feet
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Drinking
       from Hand-Book of Practical Cookery (1884)
• Elder Ointment for Burns, etc.
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Elderberry Jam for Colds, etc.
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Elecampane and Hoarhound Syrup
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Erysipelas
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Fainting (Syncope)
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Falls
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Food
       from Hand-Book of Practical Cookery (1884)
• For Affection of the Kidneys
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Ague
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Bilious Colic and Indigestion
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Bruises
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Chapped Lips
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Chilblains
       from Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840)
• For Children Teething
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• For Colic
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Constipation
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• For Corns
       from Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840)
• For Cramp
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Cramp in the Stomach
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Dropsy
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Dropsy, Another Remedy
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Dysentery and Diarrhoea
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Felons
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Filtering Water on a Larger Scale
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Morphew, or Freckles, and to Clear the Skin
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• For Rheumatism
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Scalds and Burns
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Scurvy of the Gums
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Severe Sprains
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• For Sore Throat
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Tetter, Warts, etc.
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Tooth-ache
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Toothache
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• For Whooping Cough
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Whooping Cough, Another Remedy
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For Worms
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For a Burn
       from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896)
• For a Consumption
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• For a Consumption
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• For a Consumption
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• For a Consumption
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• For a Consumption, an excellent Medicine
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• For a Cough
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For a Cough of the Lungs
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• For a Cough of the Lungs, or any Cough coming of Cold, approved by many
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• For a Gathering on a Finger
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For a Sprained Ankle
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For a Sprained Limb
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For an Infant's Sore Mouth
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For the Bite of a Spider
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For the Croup
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• For the Griping in the Guts
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• For the Ptisick
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• For the Sick
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• For the Sting of a Bee
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Ginger Tea, With Remarks on its Use, etc.
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Grandmother's Cough Syrup
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Grandmother's Eye-Wash
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Grandmother's Family Spring Bitters
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Grandmother's Universal Liniment
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Gravel
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Growing Pains Cured
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Hints in Regard to Health
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Hop Ointment
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Hot Weather
       from Hand-Book of Practical Cookery (1884)
• How Colds are Caught
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• How to Cure Sore Throat
       from The Prairie Farmer (1884)
• How to Keep Well
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• How to Make Iceland-Moss Jelly
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• How to Make Sick-Diet Jelly
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• How to Make a Cordial for Colds
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• How to Make a Soothing Drink for Coughs
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• How to Make a Stringent Gargle
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• How to Prepare Sago for Invalids
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• How to Use Hot Water
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Hunter's Pills
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Huxham's Bark Tincture
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Iceland-Moss Jelly
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• Indigestion
       from Hand-Book of Practical Cookery (1884)
• Infants' Colic, etc.
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Invalid Cookery
       from The Skilful Cook (1905)
• Lavender Compound
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Leanness
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Lemon Mixture for a Cough
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Lily Ointment
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Liniment for Chilblains
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Liverwort Syrup
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Lockjaw
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Magnesia, Charcoal and Salts
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Medicinal Food
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Mixture of Lemon Juice and Honey
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Molasses Posset
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Molasses Posset for a Cold
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Musquito Bites
       from Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840)
• Mustard Bath for the Feet, Soap Stones, etc.
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Mustard Whey
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Never Leave a Glass of Water or Medicine, Uncovered in a Room
       from Things Mother Used to Make (1914)
• Oil of Butter, a Remedy for Dysentery, etc.
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Ointment for Mortification
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Poisons, Accidents, etc.
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Powders for Children
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Precipitate Ointment, etc.
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Recipes Especially Prepared for the Sick
       from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896)
• Recipes for Felons
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Red Mixture
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Refreshing Drink for Sore Throat Attended with Fever
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• Regulation in Diet
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Relief From Asthma
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Remarks on Preparing Food for the Sick
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Remarks upon a Deeply Seated Cough
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Remedies for the Dysentery and Cholera Morbus
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Remedy for Boils
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Remedy for Lockjaw
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Remedy for Sick Head-ache
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Remedy for a Burn
       from Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840)
• Remedy for the Ear-ache
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Removing Tartar From the Teeth
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Ring-Worms
       from Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840)
• Salve for Corns, or Bunions
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Simple Remedy Against Wind on the Stomach
       from A Plain Cookery Book for the Working Classes (1852)
• Sore Throat
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Spice Wood Berries
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Spiced Rhubarb
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• St. Johnswort Ointment, and its Uses
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Stings of Poisonous Insects
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Summer Diseases
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Sunstroke
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Swaim's Vermifuge
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Syrrop of Ale, good for weak People to take inwardly, or to heal old Sores, applied thereto
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• Syrup for a Cold
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• Syrup for any Cough
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• Syrup of Turneps for a Consumption
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• Tar Ointment for the "Milk Crust"
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• The Sun's Cholera Mixture
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• To Clean Teeth, With Remarks on Fixing the Habit, etc.
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• To Cure Earache
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• To Cure a Sting of a Bee or Wasp
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• To Increase the Hair in the Brows
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• To Keep Water Cool in Summer, when you have not Ice
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• To Make a Rare Medicine for the Chine-Cough
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• To Remove Discoloration from Bruises
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• To Remove Warts
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• To Stop Blood
       from Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840)
• To Stop the Flow of Blood
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• To Take Away the Signs of the Small Pox
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• To Take Cinders From the Eye
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• To get away the Signs of the Small Pox
       from The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet (1672)
• Valuable Salve for Burns and other Sores
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Warner's Cordial for Gout in the Stomach
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Warts
       from Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches (1840)
• Wash for Sore Ears
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Weak Eyes
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers
• Whooping Cough
       from The White House Cookbook (1887)
• Wine Bitters for Debility, etc.
       from Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers