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From Dr. Danelson's counselor with recipes (1880).
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From Dr. Danelson's counselor with recipes (1880), printed page 407, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/63570040R.nlm.nih.gov
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From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.
- Additives or old utensils. The text names something no longer considered safe in food or for cooking in, such as lead, alum, borax, bitter almonds or copper pans. Don't use it.
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Ingredients
- a cupful of boiling water
- a cup of warm w
- one pint of Holland gin
Method
- In a cupful of boiling water.
- Sweeten and strain, or let cool and settle.
- For the mouth dissolve a dram of borax in a cup of warm w.iter and brush the mouth every three hours with a soft swab made of old cotton cloth tied to a stick.
- A harsh rough swab does more harm than good.
- In adults the patches may be touched by a camel's hair brush with the tincture of chloride of iron.
- Another recipe, good in all cases, is to take oak and hickory aslics, recently burned, and steep in boiling water for twenty-four hours.
- Strain or filter through paper.
- Dissolve in one pint, one pound of pure maple sugar by bringing to a boil.
- Cool and add one pint of Holland gin.
- U.^^e as a gargle or with a swab.
- Do not swallow in gargling.
- As a dose ten or twenty drops may be given iu water.