iMn/{ Ly-s I /> I' /" SIX HUNDRED RECEIPTS, WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD, INCLUDING RECEIPTS FOE COOKING, MAKING PRESERVES, PERFUMERY, CORDIALS, ICE CREAMS, INKS, PAINTS, DYES OF ALL KINDS, CIDER, VINEGAR, WINES, SPIRITS, WHISKEY, BRANDY, GIN, ETC., AND HOW TO MAKE IMITATIONS OF ALL KINDS OF LIQUORS. f 0gctkr toitl] DaluaWe Gauging f aijks, Tho Collections, Testing, and Improvements on the Receipts extending ov« a period of Thirty Years. By JOHN MARQUART, OF liEBANON, PA. PHILADELPHIA: JOHN E. POTTER AND COMPANY, No. 617 Sansom Street. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by JOHN E. POTTER AND COMPANY, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for Eastern District of Pennsylvania. INDEX. Receipt Battery, Galvanic — To construct, for Gilding and Silver plating 488 Bedbug-Poison 536 Brandy — Blackberry, how to make. No. 1 311 Blackberry, " •* No. 2 316 Bordeaux, to imitate 303 Cherry, how to make. No. 1 304 Cherry, " " No. 2 312 Cherry, " '* No. 3 314 Cognac, to imitate. No. 1 293 Cognac," " No. 2 294 Cognac, " " No. 3 .' 295 Cognac," " No. 4 296 Cognac," " No. 5 301 Common, how to make 305 Domestic, " " 306 French, how to imitate. No. 1 297 French, " " No. 2 298 French, " " No. 3 307 French, " " No. 4 308 French, " " No. 5 309 Ginger, how to make 319 Lavender, ** " 318 Peach, " " 310 Raspberry," " 313 Rochelle, how to imitate. No. 1 300 Rochelle, " " No. 2 302 Rochelle, " " No. 3 317 Rose, how to make 315 7 8 " INDEX. Receipt Beverages — Cottage Beer, how to make 86 Cream Beer, liow to make 92 Gas, " " " 91 Ginger pleasant, how to make 94 Ginger Powder, *' " 95 Ginger Imperial, '* *' , 89 Ginger Beer, •* '* 88 Ginger Pop, " «' 96 Mead 93 Mead, Sassafras 98 Spruce Beer 87 Spruce White 90 Pineapple-ade 99 Silver top 97 Blacking — Harness, &c., how to make 560 Jet, for harness and boots 590 Japan, for leather 589 Liquid, how to make. No. 1 247 Liquid, " " No. 2 248 Oil paste, " " No. 1 50 Oil paste, " " No. 2 251 Brass — Polish for 72 Burning-Fluid, how to make 540 Butter — Bad, to improve 512 Eancid, to cure 511 To cure, that it will keep for years 513 Cakes and Pies — Bread-cheese, how to bake 126 Buns, how to bake 135 Biscuits, " " 109 Cider, " " Ill Cream, " " 130 Cup, " " 113 Custard, without eggs 116 Frosting, how to 101 Ginger, how to bake 114 Green corn Omelet 522 Lemon, how to bake. No. 1 102 Lemon, " " No. 2 129 Lemon, white, how to bake 105 Lemon pies, " " 110 INDEX. 9 Recmpt Cakes and Pies — Mock mince pies 108 Muffins 131 Pound cake, plain, how to bake 127 Queen " " " 103 Rice " " " 128 Rusks, " " No. 1 107 Rusks, " " No. 2 132 Sponge cake, " " 104 Strasbourg " " " 106 Sugar " " " 112 Cider — General Rules to make 266 How to make 262 How to manage 263 Observations on 265 Raisin, how to make 264 Rule for making good 267 To keep good for years 268 To keep good 269 Cements — Crockery 508 Hard, for seams 509 Liquid 507 Water and fire proof 510 Which will get as hard as a stone 506 Cordials — Aniseed 253 Citron 254 Cinnamon 256 Cloves 258 Orange 257 Peppermint. No. 1 255 Peppermint. No. 2 261 Rose 260 Strawberry 259 Spirits, for beverage, to manufacture 252 Cow-DisEASES — Cure for distemper in cattle 465 Flesh-wounds in cattle, tincture for 559 Frenzy, or inflammation of the brain 482 Garget in cows 447 Hoven or blown in cattle, cure for 479 Hoven in cattle, Mr. Gowen's simple remedy 432} Method to cure the frenzy 483 10 INDEX. Beceipt CoTT-DisEASEs — Paunching 484 Pleura Pneumonia in cattle, cure for 556 Purging drink 480 Red-water in cattle, to cure 468 Scouring, in cattle, ** " 469 Scouring 558 Swelled cattle with green food, cure for 470 Tar-water for cattle 466 Worms or bots in cattle or horses 557 Yellows or jaundice in cattle, cure for 481 Diseases in Human Beings, Cures for — Balsam-de-Malda, how to make 6 Balsam Locatellis, how to make 35 Bitters, German, " " 36 Blood-spitting, cure for 553 Burning and scalding, cure for 15 Burns and scalds, *' *' No. 1 19 Burns and scalds, " " No. 2 20 Burns, liniment for 34 Cancer, cure for. No. 1 69 Cancer, " " No. 2 70 Cancer, " " No. 3 71 Cerate, simple, how to make 30 Chilblain, frost-bitten, cure for 14 Colds, cure for 75 Consumption, cure for 59 Corns, certain cure for 535 Corns, cure for 9 Cough, " " 45 Cough-drops 41 Cough-drops, Dr. Monroe's 43 Cough-Mixture. No. 1 42 Cough-Syrup 545 Cough-drops. No. 2 550 Cramp in the stomach, cure for 40 Croup, cure for 66 Diarrhoea, " " 64 Dyspepsia, ** " ... 44 Dropsy, " " ., 51 Dysentery, " " No. 1 68 INDEX. 11 Receipt Diseases in Human Bodies, Cure for — Dysentery. No. 2., 52(3 Dysentery, cure for. No. 3 527 Dysentery and bloody flux ; 528 Epilepsy, cure for 580 Erysipelas, " \' 5% Eye-water, how to make 55 Eye-water or Collyrium 5G Eye-water or Vitriolic Collyrium 57 Felon, certain cure for C7 Giddiness, cure for. 31 Godfrey's Cordial, how to make 32 Gravel, Turkish cure 525 Headache, bilious or sick, cure for 587 Hooping-cough, Dr. Barton's remedy 571 Liver-complaint, cure for 58 Lip-salve 85 Lockjaw, cure for 495 Life Tincture (a German medicine) 33 Liniment, children's sore throat 26 Mad dog bite, Dr. Stoy's cure 1 Mother-drops, Dr. Stoy's 4 Mother-drops, simple 5 Mortification powders. Dr. Stoy's 2 Nails on toes, ingrowing 76 Nipples, sore, ointment for 531 No. G Medicine, how to make 7 Ointment to draw splinter out of the flesh 47 Paregoric elixir, how to make 61 Peppermint-essence, how to make 8 Piles, certain cure for 549 Piles, a mild aperient for 567 Piles, a cure for 532 Piles, liniment 28 Piles, ointment for. No. 1 29 Piles, ointment " No. 2 498 Piles, ointment " No. 3 530 Piles, simple cure 12 Purifying the blood 60 Quinsy, cure for 552 Rheumatism, cure for. No. 1 52 12 INDEX. Diseases ix Human Bodies, Cure for — Receipt Kheumatism, cure for. No. 2 53 Rheumatism, " '•' No. 3 73 Eheumatism, ** " No. 4 496 Rheumatic Gout, cure for. No. 1 497 Rheumatic Gout, " '♦ No. 2....! 529 Rheumatism, inflammatory, remedy for 534 Rheumatism, liniment 561 Rheumatism, simple cure 562 Salt Rheum or Scurvy, cure for 544 Scabby heads on children, cure for 16 Scarlet Fever, cure for 62 Salt, medical use of. 65 Sleepless, how to make a tea for 17 Smallpox, cure for 63 Smallpox, " " 533 Sun-stroke, " " 551 Summer-complaint, cure for 37 Summer-complaint, Blackberry Syrup for 39 Swelling from bruises, to prevent 27 Swinney, cure for. No. 1 24 Swinney, " " No. 2 25 Tetter, " ** No. 1 21 Tetter, '* " No. 2 22 Tetter, Ringworm, Swinney, and Rheumatism 23 Toothache-drops 546 Toothache-preventive 600 Vermifuge, Hamilton's celebrated 54 White Swelling, cure for 74 Whitlow.... 554 Worms, Dr. 3toy's simple cure for 2 Di'EiNG — Aluming 160 Black, on silk 167 Black, inclining to purple, on wool and silk 185 Black, inclining to brown, " " 186 Black jet, on woollen 187 Black, on cotton 208 Blue-black, on silk 168 Blue, Prussian, on woollen 188 Blue vat, for silk and woollen 214 INDEX. 13 Receipt Dyeing — Blue, on silk IGG Brown, on silk 1G3 Brown, on silk dress 175 Brown, on woollen cloth, or cloth of any description 181 Brown, on the red cast 182 Brown, inclining to snuff. 184 Buff, on cotton 201 Brown, on cotton 204 Crimson, on silk 179 Dove, on silk 177 Drab, on cotton 205 Drab, on silk 176 Drab, on wool 191 Dye-liquors, preparing 161 Fancy dyeing, on cotton, various shades 198 Flesh, on silk 180 General remarks 159 Gloss on silk, a fine 209 Gloss on silk 201 Gray, on silk 171 Green, on silk 164 Green, on wool 189 Green, on cotton 200 Indigo, Sulphate, how to make 165 Indigo, vat for cotton, how to set 213 Lilac, on wool 190 Maroon, on silk 169 Olive, on silk 173 Olive-brown 183 Orange, on silk 170 Orange, on wool 197 Orange, annetto on cotton 202 Pink, on silk 162 Purple, on cotton 207 Red, on cotton 203 Red, on wool 192 Slate, on cotton 206 Slate, on silk 172 Slate, on woollen 195 Stone, on silk 174 2 14 INDEX. Beceipt Dyeing — Tin Liquor, No. 1, liow to make 193 Tin Liquor, No. 2, '' " 194 Tin Liquor, for pinks, scarlet, crimson, &c 211 Tin Liquor, for scarlet and crimson, on silk 212 Yellow, Turmeric , 199 Yellow, on silk 178 Yellow, on woollen 196 Black, on leather 222 Blue, " 221 Purple, " 224 Eed, Turkey, on leather 217 Eed, on leather 218 Shades, dififcrent, on leather 223 Yellow, on leather 219 Yellow, on leather 220 Blue, on s^raw 216 Red, " 215 Eggs — Preserving, to keep. No. 1 514 Preserving, " No. 2 515 Preserving, " No. 3 516 Extract — Vanilla 539 Foul Smell — To destroy 504 Fish — Fresh, how to keep 523 Gilding — Edges of paper 491 Gin — Holland, how to imitate. No. 1 277 Holland, " " No. 2 278 Holland, " " No. 3 279 Holland, " " No. 4 280 Holland, " " No. 5 281 Country, how to make 282 Gloves— French Kid, how to clean 591 How to clean 592 Grease — Spots to remove, a liquid for 10 Spots to remove from woollen cloth 11 Horse-Diseases — Abscess, cure for 361 Adhesive Plaster, and sewing 354 Alterative Balls, for surfeit, mange, &c 435 Anbury, or wart 362 Anodyne medicine .* 449 Appetite, loss of. 364 INDEX. 15 Receipt Horse-Diseases — Astringent drink, after looseness 427 Astringent balls, for profuse staling 436 Bandage 355 Bladder, Inflamed 365 Bleeding, to stop 353 Bleeding in general 420 Bleeding, to stop, a paste for 461 Blood-Spavin 366 Blue water, for wounds, how to make 48 Bone-Spavin 368 Bots 369 Bowels, inflammation of. 372 Broken knees 376 Broken wind 374 Burns and Scalds ..4 377 Canker 378 Canker, liniment for 379 Canker in the mouth, mixture for 464 Capped Hocks 380 Cold 381 Composition, for sand-cracks 41Q Convulsions 382 Convulsions, clyster for 443 Cough 383 Cough-drink, for horses 428 Corns 384 Curb 385 Cracked Heels 386 Diabetes 389 Diabetes, balls for 390 Drink, to check over-purging 426 Drink, for an inflammatory fever 431 Drink, for worms 439 Eyes 391 Eye-Water, No. 1 392 Eye-Water, No. 2 457 Farcy 394 Farcy, cure for 395 Fever-Balls 429 Film, or cataract 393 16 INDEX. Receipt OoRSE-DisEASEs — Food and Regimen 360 Fulness of blood 421 Foundered Feet 397 Grease 396 Gripes 387 Gripes, draught for. No. 1 388 Gripes, " No. 2 445 Gripes, cure for 444 Gripes, further treatment 446 Gripes, white ball for.; 447 Hoof-bound 398 Horse-Powder, how to make 13 Horse, how to make him drink freely 487 Inflammation of the lungs 458 Lameness....^ 453 Lampass 399 Laudanum draught 448 Laxity 400 Laxative and diaphoretic powder 422 Lungs, inflammation of. 401 Mallenders 402 Mange 403 Mange, liniment for 456 Mange, ointment for 455 Mercurial ball, for worms 438 Molten Grease 404 Ointment 357 Ointment, Blistering 367 Ointment, Green 358 Paste-balls, for broken wind 375 Pectoral balls, for broken wind 434 Physic 424 Poll-Evil 405 Powerful mixture, for fever 430 Purging 423 Purgative balls 425 Purging-balls, for jaundice 432 Purging-balls, for worms 440 Quitter , 470 Restorative balls after jaundice 433 INDEX. 17 Rficeipt Horse-Diseases — Restorative, for profuse staling 437 Ringbone 408 Sullenders 412 Salve, how to make for wounds 49 Sand-crack 409 Scratched Heels, ointment for 402 Sitfasts 411 Sores and Bruises , 356 Sore Backs, cure for 485 Sprains, bracing mixture for 400 Sprains, embrocation for 459 Sprains, &c., lotion lor 486 Staggers 363 Staggers, balls for 442 Strains 413 Strains in different parts, an astringent embrocation for 403 Stomach -drink after expulsion of the worms i41 Strangury 414 Strangles 415 Surfeit, or bad coat 451 Suppurating poultice 406 Treatment 373 Thrush 410 Thrush in feet, cure for 454 Treatment according to appearance of the part 359 Urine-balls 452 Vives 417 When on a journey 450 Wind-gall 418 Worms 370 Worms, remedy for 371 Wounds 419 Wounds, ointment for 40 Wounds in cattle, farrier's cure 352 Hams — To cure, without pickle 519 Ice-Cream — How to make 134 Inks — Black "rriting, how to make , "'SO Black writing, cheap 137 Blue " No. 1 38 Blue " No. 2 143 U 18 INDEX. Kecelpl Inks — Green writing 570 Indelible, how to make 139 Japan black writing 135 Red writing. No. 1 141 Red writing. No. 2 142 L.vRD Candles — How to make 505 Lime-Water — How to make 18 Milk — How to preserve any length of time 115 How to preserve 568 Mildew — How to take out of linen 577 Painters — Colours, how to make different shades 225 Colours used, different names for 226 Linseed-oil, how to prepare, for boiling varnish .^.. 228 Linseed-oil, how to boil, for painting 229 Oils, different kinds used in painting....- 227 Paint, outside, cheap 575 Perfumery, &c. — Black Teeth, remedy for 83 Cologne, how to make -. 82 Cologne, superior article 541 Cologne 537 Gums and Teeth, how to clean 84 Hair-Oil 574 Hair-Oil, common 78 Hair-Oil, excellent 79 Hair-Grease, or ox-marrow imitated 80 Hair-Oil, how to make 77 Hair-restorative 543 Lotion for Freckles 547 Otto of Roses, how to make 588 Pomatum, ox-marrow 542 Pomade against baldness 564 Preventing hair falling out 538 Soap, Shaving, how to make 572 Soap, " best invented 573 Tooth-Powder, rose 81 Tooth-Powder 548 Pickle — To cure Hams, Pork, and Beef. 517 T. B. Hamilton's receipt •. 518 Printers' Ink — How to make 138 Printing-ink, excellent 597 INDEX. 19 Receipt Preserves &c. — Barberries, how to make 123 Black oerry- Jam 520 Cherries, how to preserve 124 Cucumber-Catsup, how to make 503 Curraftts, how to preserve 125 Fruit, how to keep fresh 500 Fruit and Vegetables, how to preserve 501 llow to keep 117 Peaches, how to preserve 119 Plums, elegant green 118 Plums, magnum-bonum 120 Quinces, how to preserve 121 Kaspberry-Jam 122 Tomato-Catsup, how-to make. No. 1 499 Tomato-Catsup, " " No. 2 502 Razor-Strop-Powder 578 Rats — Poison, how to make 586 Rectifying — Raw whiskey, stand, how to put up 270 Rum — Jamaica, how to imitate. No. 1 283 Jamaica, " " No. 2 284 Jamaica, ** ** No. 3 292 New England, " " No. 1 287 New England, " " No. 2 288 St. Croix, " " No. 1 289 St. Croix, " " No. 2 290 Sealixg-Wax — Red, how to make 593 Black, '♦ " No. 1 594 Black, " " No. 2.... 595 Sheep — Foot-rot, cure for. No. 1 473 Foot-rot, " No. 2 474 Foot-rot, " No. 3 475 Foot-rot, prevention and cure 476 Maggots in 478 Scab, cure for 477 Sugar-Colouring — How to boil...i 343 How to clarify 100 Silk — Stained by corrosive or sharp liquors, how to clean 598 Silver — How to write in 599 Articles, how to clean 576 Copper, how to 5G3 20 INDEX. Receipt Silver — German, No. 1 581 German. No. 2 582 German. No. 3 583 German. No. 4.. 584 German. No. 5 585 By heat..... 492 Plating fluid, galvanism simplified , 489 Silvering of metal 565 Solution, for plating copper, brass, &c 490 Soldering — Iron or any other metal without fire 56G Spirits — Jamaica, how to imitate 286 Pure, how to make 345 Pure, how to make by distillation 346 Swine — Cholera, how to cure with alum 569 Common diseases, how to cure 579 Measles, how to cure 471 Rupture in 472 Syrup — Simple, how to make 344 Tinctures — Allspice, how to make 323 Cardamom-seed ., , 321 Catechu 201 Cinnamon 320 Cloves 326 Japonica 299 Kino 285 Red Sanders 325 Rhatany 322 Saffron 323 Varnishes-— Amber 236 Copal, how to boih No. 1 230 Copal, " " No. 2 231 Copal, gold colour 232 Copal, to dissolve, in fixed oil 235 Harness, how to make for 240 Tron and Steel, how to make for 524 Leather, how to make for 241 Leather, how to boil 243 Linseed-Oil 237 Seed-lac 233 Shellac 234 INDEX. 21 Receipt Varnishes — Sheet Iron 250 Straw and Chip Hats 249 Turpentine 238 Wliite, hard 239 Vinegar — Cider, how to make 154 Common, " *' 146 Currant, " " 151 Elderberry, " " 156 Gooseberry, " " 150 German, " " 157 How to make. No. 1 143^ How to make. No. 2 144 How to make. No. 3 145 How to make. No 4 147 Primrose, how to make 152 Eaisin 153 Raspberry 350 Sugar 149 Wine 148 How to strengthen 155 How to sharpen, or increase sharpness 158 Venice Turpentine — How to make 242 Washing — Occupying one hour 493 Another receipt 404 Water-Proof — Leather, how to make 245 Leather preservative 246 Shoes and Boots, how to make 244 Whitewash — Brilliant 555 Wines — Apple, how to make 342 Blackberry, " " 521 British Champagne 351 Bottling 338 Cider 340 Claret, how to imitate 333 Currant 339 Cypress 341 Fining 337 Lisbon, how to imitate 331 Madeira, " " No. 1 329 Madeira, " " No. 2 330 22 INDEX. Receipt Wines — Malaga, how to imitate 332 Port, " " No.l 327 Port, " " No. 2 328 Racking 336 Sherry, how to imitate 334 Teneriffe, " " 335 Whiskey — Apple, how to imitate 273 Bourbon, " " 274 Irish, " " 275 Monongahela, how to make. No.l 271 Monongahela, " " No. 2 27U Scotch, how to imitate 276 Wheat " " 272 Ybast — Distillers' and Brewers', how to make, with hops.. 347 How to make another 348 Beer, how to make, with 349 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No.l. Doctor Stoy's Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog. Take 1 ounce of red chicken-weed, (gathered and dried in the shade during the month of June,) put it into 1 quart of strong (or brewers') beer, boil it down to 1 pint. Strain the tea through a clean linen cloth, then stir into the tea 1 ounce theriac so that it will be well mixed. The theriac is not to be boiled. Dose. — For a man with a strong constitution, one half-pint taken in the morning, sober, and the next morning the other half-pint, also sober. The patient ought to fast three hours after he has taken the medicine ; then he can eat bread and but- ter, or bread and molasses, for at least a week or ten days; he must not eat any pork, nor any fish or water-fowls, and must not drink any water. He can drink any kind of tea, and he must not get angry or overheat himself for two weeks. For a person of a weak constitution, make 3 doses out of the aboYC-prepared quantity, and also for children in proportion. 3 doses will be sufficient for a cure. For animals, the medicine must be doubled ; and its food, water and wheat bran, to be given warm. 24 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 2. Doctor Stoy's Simple Cure for Worrns, Take J pound fresh butter, unsalted. 2 ounces of garlic, cut fine. Put the garlic into a pint of warm water, thee strain it into the butter ; put it on hot coals, and mix it well through. No. 3. Doctor Stop's Mortification- Powder, to prevent Lockjaw Take J pound gunpowder. i pound brimstone. I pound alum. 1 ounce charcoal. Pulverize the above ingredients in a mortar, and mix thoroughly. Dose. — For a strong constitution, take as much as will lie on a ten-cent piece, in a small teaspoonful of strong vinegar. N.B. — The charcoal is only used in case of wounds, to dry them up. No. 4. Doctor Sto7/*s celebrated Mother-Drops Take 1 ounce opium. 1 ounce castor. 1 ounce saffron. 1 ounce maple-seed. 1 quart Lisbon wine. Mix all the above ingredients, and distil in the sun or a warm stove for three weeks. Dose, — ^For adults, from 20 to 30 drops, twice a 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 25 day, and for children from 5 to 10 drops, twice a day. No. 5. Simple Valuable Mother-Drops. Take J ounce ether. J ounce laudanum. ^ ounce essence of peppermint. Mix the above ingredients in a vial, and shake it well, when it will be ready for use. Dose, — One teaspoonful, or 60 drops, for adults. Lf one dose does not allay the pains in half an hour, take another. To children, give in proportion to their age. No. 6. Hoio to make good Balsam-de-Malda, Take 3 ounces powdered benzoin. 2 ounces balsam of Peru. J ounce hepatic aloes in powder. 1 quart rectified spirits of wine. Put all the above ingredients into a bottle, ana ligest them in the sun or near a stove for a week or two; then strain the balsam. Or you may use it by taking the clear from the top as. you want. This balsam, or rather tincture, is applied exter- nally to heal recent wounds and bruises. It is like- wise employed internally to remove coughs, asthmas, and other complaints of the breast. It is said to ease the colic, cleanse the kidneys, and to heal internal ulcers, &c. Dose,—YoY adults, from 20 to 60 drops; for chil- dren in proportion. 2o €00 xMISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 7. B.GW to make No. 6. Thompsonian Medicine, Take 1 ounce Cayenne pepper. J ounce cloves, bruised. I ounce Russian castor. J ounce mace, bruised. 1 quart brandy. Put all into a bottle, and distil in the sun or near a warm stove tor two weeks, when it will be ready j you can strain it, if you think proper, or pour the clear off as you use it. Dose. — One teaspoonful, in 1 gill or half teacup- ful of warm water sweetened with sugar, for adults. For children, mix more water, and give in propor- tion. No. 8. To make good Essence of Peppermint, Take 1 pint spirits of wine, (alcohol.) J ounce oil of mint. Mix and shake it well ; let it stand a day, and, if not clear, filter it through paper. Add a little tur- meric, to colour. * No. 9. yL^ A cure for Corns, Take nightshade-berries ; boil them in hog's lard, and anoint the corn with the salve. It will not fail to cure. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 27 No. 10. To make a liquid to remove Grease-spots out of Woollen Cloth. Take 1 quart spirits of wine, (alcohol.) 12 drops winter-green. 1 gill beef-gall. 6 cents' worth lavender. And a little alkanet, to colour, if you wish. Mix. No. 11. Another, to clean Woollen Cloth. Take equal parts spirits of hartshorn and ether. Or ox-gall mixed with it makes it better. No. 12. A certain and simple cure for Piles. Take 3 cigars ; rub them fine. 1 handful the inner bark of elder. 1 gill hog's lard. Boil all the above ingredients together, and, after it becomes cool, anoint the part a few times a dav. No. 13. How to make Horse-Powder. Take J pound foenugreek-seed in powder J pound flour of sulphur. I pound antimony, powdered. J pound cream of tartar. I pound saltpetre, powdered. Mix all the above ingredients thoroughly. Dose. — 1 tablespoonful three times a week, mixed with their feed; and if the animal is sick, give every day. 28 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE KECEIPTS. No. 14. A simple cure for Chilblain^ {Frost-bitten.) Take alum, and dissolve in warm water, and apply it to the affected part. No. 15. A cure for Burning or Scalding. Take sweet oil, mix into it pulverized red chalk and white lead. Then take a feather and anoint the affected part. With children you must be careful that they do not scratch at the sore, or else it will leave a mark. No. 16. A cure for Scabby Heads on Children. Take 1 pound pickled pork. 1 pound cabbage. J3oil the above the same as you would for eating; then skim it off, and wash the head with the liquid. No. 17. How to make a Tea for a Sleepless person to Sleep. Make a tea of Jerusalem oak, which grows in the woods, and drink it, as you would any other tea, before going to bed. No. 18. How to make Lime - Water. •Take -J pound of unslaked lime ; put it in an earthen pot; pour 2 or 3 quarts of pure water on it; cover the pot; let it stand one da}^ ; skim off the top, and take the clear water for use. To keep it any length of time, put it in bottles and seal them. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 29 No. 19. A cure for Burns and Scalds. No, 1. Mix in a bottle 3 ounces of olive-oil and 4 ounces of lime-water. Apply the mixture to the part burned five or six times a day, with a feather. Linseed-oil ivS equally as good. No. 20. • Another cure for Burns and Scalds, No. 2. Spread clarified honey upon a linen rag, and apply it to the burn immediately, and it will relieve the pain instantly and heal the sore in a very short time. No. 21. A cure for Tdier, No. 1. Take as much mustard as will make into a salve mixed with honey ; spread it on a rag, and lay it on the sore for 24 hours. If the sore is not dead, make new salve, and lay it on 3 or 4 hours longer. Then take the inside of elder-bark and stew it in lard ; put in beeswax enough to make a salve ; set It by until it gets cold. This is to heal the sore. Don't let the sore get wet. Then take mullein and boil it in water, and wash with after the wound is healed. This is to harden the tender skin again. No. 22. Another cure for Tetter. No, 2. Take one ounce of sulphuret of potash. Obtain it from a druggist. Put the sulphuret into a large glass bottle, and pour on it a quart of cold water, 8^ 30 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. (soft ;) stop it tightly, and leave it to dissolve. Care must be taken to keep it closely corked. To use it, pour a little into a cup, and, dipping in it a soft sponge, bathe the eruption with it five or six times a day. Persist, and in most cases it will soon effect a cure. Should the tetter reappear in cold weather, immediately apply the solution. No. 23. A never-failing Salve for the cure of Tetter, Ringworm, Swinney, and Hheumatism, Take 3 fresh eggs. J pound fresh butter, unsalted. J gill oil of spike. J gill oil of stone. Take the eggs and break them in an earthen pot, and whip them up with a pine- wood shovel ; melt the butter on coal ; don't let it boil ; then pour the butter on the eggs ; stir them ; then mix it with the oil of stone and spike ; mix it well ; then it is ready for use. Make it the third day after new moon, and it must be the first time used. Rub the diseased part with the salve at a warm stove, or in the sun in summer. For horses, take double portions to prepare the salve. For children of 12 years of age, take 2 eggs and half the quantity of the other articles. No. 24. A cure for the Swinney, No. 1. Take 1 pint spirits of turpentine. 1 tablespoonful cream of tartar, pulverized 1 large teaspoouful pulverized frankincense. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 51 Mix all the ingredients together in a bottle, and let it stand in the sun four or ^ve days, and shako it well ; then ready. Take a feather ind grease the liseased part. No. 25. Another cure for the Swinney. No. 2. ^ake 1 ounce oil of spike. 1 ounce oil of stone. 1 ounce oil of jumper. Mix all the above oils together; take a feather and anoint the diseased part. No. 26. A Liniment for Children's Sore Throat, Mix two parts of sweet oil and one part of spirits of hartshorn. No. 27. To prevent Swelling from Bruises. Apply at once a cloth five or six folds in thickness, dipped in cold water, and when it grows warm renew the wetting. No. 28. A Liniment for Piles. Take 2 ounces emollient ointment. J ounce laudanum. Mix these ingredients with the yolk of an eggy and work them well together, and then anoint the diseased part or sore. 32 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 29. Ointment for Piles. No. 1. Take 1 scruple powdered opium. 2 scruples flour of sulphur. 1 ounce simple cerate. Keep the affected part well anointed ; be prudent in your diet; don't eat too much; keep in pure air; have abundance of exercise, &c. With strict regard to these directions, the dreadfui complaint we have alluded to will depart and give you no more affliction. No. 30. To make Simple Cerate. Take 1 pound white wax. 4 pounds lard or mutton-suet. Melt them with a gentle heat, and stir it well until cool. l!T.B. — Yellow wax will answer the same purpose. No. 31. A cure for G-iddiness. Take 2 ounces Epsom salts. 1 ounce senna. 1 pint wine. Distil in the sun or a warm stove a few days. (Ready.) Dose. — Take as much as will physic you tho- roughly the tirst day, and after that take as much as will physic you once a day: take it in the morn- ing, sober. This cured a case of seven years' stand- 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE KECKIPTS. 33 No. 32. To make Godfrey's Cordial. Dissolve \ ounce opium and one draclira oil of sassafras in two ounces spirits of wine, (alcohol.) Now mix 4 pounds of molasses with 1 gallon of boiling water ; when cold, mix the other ingredients with it. (Ready.) It will soothe the pains in children. No. 33. To make Life Tincture. {A German Medicine.) Take 1 quart good whiskey. 9 drachms aloes. 1 drachm zedora-root, bruised. 1 drachm agaric, bruised. 1 drachm saffron. 1 drachm gentian-root, bruised. 1 drachm myrrh. 1 drachm nutmeg, bruised. 2 drachms rhubarb. Distil in the sun or a warm stove a few days, tnen 't is fit for use. Dose. — For adults, 1 teaspoonful (or 60 drops) in sugar. No. 34. Liniment for Burns. Take equal parts of Florence oil, or fresh-drawn linseed-oil, and lime-water ; shake them well to- gether in a wide-mouthed bottle so as to form a liniment. This is found to be an exceedingly proper appli- V 84 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. cation for recent scalds or burns. It may either be spread upon a cloth, or the parts affected may be anointed with it two or three times a day. No. 35. LocatelUs Balsam, Take 1 pint olive-oil. J pound Strasbourg turpentine. J pound yellow wax. 6 drachms red saunders, pulv. Melt the wax with part of the oil over a gentle fire ; then add the remaining part of the oil and the turpentine ; afterward mix in the saunders, and keep stirring them together till the balsam is cold. This balsam is recommended in erosions of the intestines, dysentery, haemorrhages, internal bruises, and in complaints of the breast. The dose when taken internally is from 2 scruples to 2 drachms foi adults. No. 36. To make German Bitters. Take J pound gentian-root. 2 ounces bitter orange-peel. ^ ounce chamomile-flowers. cinnamon and cloves as much as you wish 1 quart whiskey. 2 ounces red saunders. Put all together in a bottle, and distil in the sun or near a warm stove for one week. Dese. — 1 table- spoonful in the evening before going to bed ; take 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 35 it clear, or in water. It strengthens the stomach and gives vigor to the system, and is an excellent remedy for dyspeptic people. I received the above recipe thirty years ago. No. 37. A cure for Summer Complaint. Take f teaspoonful pulverized rhubarb. 1 teaspoonful magnesia. Put it into a teacupful of boiling water; let it stand until it is cold ; stir it well. Then add 2 tea- spoonfuls of good brandy, and sweeten it with loaf sugar. Dose. — For a child 1 to 3 years old, 1 teaspoonful five or six times a day. How to prepare food : Take a handful of flour ; tie it into a clean cloth ; boil it three hours ; after it is cold, take off the crust, and take the hard white substance and pulverize it; put into it a sufficient quantity of milk to make it thin ; let it boil one or two minutes ; stir it well with a piece of cinnamou- etick, and sweeten it with sugar. No. 38. To make Blue Ink. No. 1. Take 1 ounce best Prussian blue. • If ounce oxalic acid. 1 pint water. Let it dissolve, when it will be ready for ase. 36 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 39. To make Blackberry-Syrup^ for Summer Complaint. Take 2 quarts blackberiy -juice. 1 pound loaf sugar. J ounce nutmeg, grated. J ounce ground cinnamon. J ounce cloves, ground. J ounce allspice, ground. Boil the above ingredients together; when cold, add 1 pint fourth-proof brandy. Dose. — From 1 tea- spoonful to 1 wineglassful, according to the age of the patient, as often as will be necessary to effect a cure. No. 40. A cure for Cramp in the Stomach. Warm water, sweetened with molasses or brown sugar, taken freely, will in many cases remove cramp in the stomach when opium and other remedies have failed. No. 41. Cough-Drops. Take tincture of bloodroot, syrup of ipecacuanha, syrup of squill, tincture of balsam of Tolu, and pare- goric, of each 1 ounce. Mix. This is used in all severe coughs from colds. It is a valuable mixture. Dose.-* } to 1 drachm, whenever the cough is severe. No. 42. No. 1 Cough-Mixture, Take J ounce paregoric. 1 ounce syrup of squill. 2 drachms antimonial wine. 6 ounces water. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 37 J)osc. — 2 teaspooufuls every 15 minutes until the cough abates. No. 43. Dr. 3Ionroe's Cough-Drops, Take 4 drachms paregoric, 2 drachms sulphuric ether, 2 drachms tincture of Tolu. Mix. Take a ^7^ teaspoonful night and morning, or when the cough is troublesome. No. 44. A cure for the Dyspepsia, Take 1 ounce pulverized rhubarb. 1 ounce caraway-seed. 1 tablespoonful grated orange-peel. Put these into a decanter with 1 pint of best brandy, shake it well together, and keep in a warm place. Dose, — 1 tablespoonful in the morning, fast- ing, and at night going to bed. Shake the mixture well before takins: it. No. 45. A cure for Cough, Take J pint honey. 3 tablespoonfuls elecampane-root, pulv. 3 tablespoonfuls ginger. 1 pint vinegar. -t'ut all the above in a jug, and make a paste (f flour or chop-stuff, and shut the jug close up wit- this paste ; and then, when you put your bread in the oven, put this jug in also, and leave it in the oven until you take the bread out; then it is ready 38 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. for use. Dose. — 1 teaspoon ful two or three times a day, and as you can stand it. No. 46. To make an Ointment to heal Wounds in Horses. Put into a well-glazed earthen vessel 2 ounces beeswax and 2 ounces rosin. When this is melted, put in I pound hog's lard ; to this put 4 ounces tur- pentine ; keep stirring all the time with a clean stick. "When all is well mixed, stir in 1 ounce of pulverized verdigris ; be careful that it don't boil over : it ought to be a coal fire. Strain it through a coarse cloth, and preserve it in a gallipot. This ointment is very good for old and recent wounds, whether in flesh or hoof; also galled backs, cracked heels, mallender, sallenders, bites, broken heels, &c. No. 47. To make a Drawing Ointment. Take elder-root and the seed of Jamestown-weed and fry it in lard. It will draw any splinters out of the flesh, or any thing else in man. No. 48. How to make Blue Water, to cure Wounds in Horses. Take 1} pounds unslaked lime; put it into an earthen pot, (glazed ;) pour 2 quarts warm water on it ; let it stand 3 days : stir it 3 or 4 times a day ; after it is settled, pour off the pure water; add 2 ounces sal ammoniac and 3 grains camphor; dis- solve the sal ammoniac and camphor in alcohol ; let 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 39 it stand 12 hours; put it iii a copper vessel and miy well. No. 49. Another excellent Simple Salve for Wounds in Horses. Take lime-water as much as you will ; pour into it linseed-oil, and stir it well all the time until it is the consistency of salve, and anoint the wound with it; 11 a short time the wound or scald will be healed. No. 50. To make Oil-Paste Shoe- Blacking, No, 1. TaT^e 8 pounds ivory-black. 1 gallon molasses, (the cheapest you can get.) 1 pint fish-oil. 2 pounds oil of vitriol. Mix the molasses, ivory-black, and the fish-oil thoroughly, and then pour on the oil of vitriol in small quantities at a time, and keep stirring until the boiling is over; then put it in boxes while it is warm. N.B. — The oil of vitriol .will cause the boiling. You will have to use a stone or earthen pot. No. 51. A Cure for the Dropsy, Take a stone jug and put in 1 gallon good cider, 2 handfuls parsley, with the root cut fine, 1 handful grated horseradish, 2 tablespoonfuls bruised mustard- seed, J ounce squill, 1 ounce juniper-berries. Mix all together, and let it remain 24 hours near the firo, shaking it often; then strain it. Dose, — J gill 3 40 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. times a day, on an empty stomach. Don't eat 1 pound butter in an earthen pan until it is like a line thick cream ; then beat in 9 whole eggs till quite light. Put in a glass of brandy, a little lemon-peel shred fine ; work in \ pound flour ; put it into the hoop or pan, and bake it for an hour. A pound plum-cake is made the same with putting IJ p»)unds clean washed currants, and | pound candied lemon-peel. 70 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 128. Rice-Cakes, Beat the yolks of 15 eggs for nearly half an hour with a whisk ; mix well with them 10 ounces of fine sifted loaf sugar, put in I pound of ground rice, a little orange-water or brandy, and the rinds of 2 lemons grated; then add the whites of 7 eggs well beaten, and stir the whole together for a quarter of an hour. Put them into a hoop, and set them in a quick oven for half an hour, when they will be pro- perly done. No. 129. Lemon- Cakes. No. 2. Take 1 pound of sugar, f pound of flour, 14 eggs, 2 tablespoonfuls of rose-water, the raspings and juice of four lemons ; when the yolks are well beaten up and separated, add the powdered sugar, the lemon-rasping, the juice, and the rose-water; beat them well together in a pan with a round bottom, till it becomes quite light, for half an hour. Put the paste to the whites, previously well whiskea about, and mix it very light. "When well mixed, sift in the biscuits, and bake them in small oval tins, with six sheets of paper under them, in a moderate heat. Butter the tins well, or it will prove difficult to take out the biscuits, which will be exceedingly nice if well made. Ice them previous to baking, but very lightly and even. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 71 No. 130. Qxam- Cakes. * Beat the whites of 9 eggs to a stiff froth ; stir it gently with a spoon, lest the froth should fall ; and to every white of an egg grate the rinds of 2 lemons, shake in gently a spoonful of double-refined sugar sifted fine ; lay a wet sheet of paper on a tin, and with a spoon drop the froth in. little lumps on it near each other ; sift a good quantity of sugar over them, set them in an oven after the bread is out, and close up the mouth of it, which will occasion the froth to rise. As soon as they are coloured they will be sufficiently baked ; lay them by two bottoms to- gether on a sieve, and dry them in a cool oven. No. 131. How to make Muffins. Mix a gill of fine flour. If pints of w^arm milk and water, with I pint of good yeast, and a little salt, stir them together for a quarter of an hour, then strain the liquor into a quarter of a peck of fine flour; mix the dough well, and set it to'i-se for an hour, then roll it up and pull it into small pieces; make them up in the hand like balls, and lay flan- nel over them while rolling to keep them warm. The dough should be closely covered up the whole time ; when the whole is rolled into balls, the first that are made will be ready for baking. When they are spread out in the right form for muffins, lay theni on tins and bake them, and as the bottom be- gins to change colour turn them on the other side. No. 132. How to hake Rusks, No. 2. Beat up 7 eggs, mix them with i pint of wai-ra new milk, in which i pound of butter has been melted, add { pint of yeast, and 3 ounces of sugar, put them gradually into as much flour as will make a light paste nearly as thin as batter ; let it rise before the fire an hour, add more flour to make it a little stifier, w^ork it well, and divide it into small loaves or cakes about five or six inches wide, and flatten them. "When baked and cold, put them into the oven to brown a little. These cakes when first baked are very good buttered for tea ; if they are made with caraway-seeds, they eat very nice cold. No. 133. How to make common Buns. Kub 4 ounces of butter into 2 pounds of flour, a little salt, 4 ounces of sugar, a dessert-spoonful of carawaj'-seeds, and a spoonful of ginger; put some warm milk or cream to 4 tablespoonfuls of yeast; mix all together into a paste, but not too stift*; cover it over and set it before the tire an hour to rise ; then make into buns, put them on a tin, set them before the fire for a quarter of an hour, cover over with flannel, then brush them with ver}' fine warm milk, and bake them of a nice brown iu a moderate oven. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 73 No. 134. How to make tee- Cream. Take of new milk and cream each 2 quarts, 2 pounds pulverized sugar, and 12 eggs; dissolve the sugar in the miik, beat the eggs to a froth, and add to the whole ; strain, and bring to a scald, but be ^careful not to burn it; when cool, flavor with ex- tract of vanilla or oil of lemon. Pack the tin freezer in a deep tub, with broken ice and salt, whirl the freezer, and occasionally scrape down from the side what gathers on. The proportions are one quart of salt to everv pail of ice. No. 135. How to make Japan Black Writing-ink. In 6 quarts of water boil 4 ounces of logwood in chips cut very thin across the grain. The boiling may be continued for nearly an hour, adding, from time to time, a little boiling water to compensate for waste by evaporation. Strain the liquor while hot, suifer it to cool, and make up the quantity equal to five quarts by the further addition of cold water. To this decoction put 1 pound of blue galls coarsely bruised, or 1| pounds of the best galls, in sorts, 4 ounces of sulphate of iron calcined to whiteness, \ ounce of acetate of copper, previously mixed with the decoction till it forms a smooth paste, 3 ounces of coarse sugar, and 6 ounces of gum Senegal or arable. These several ingredients may be intro- duced one after another, contrary to the advice of scmie, who recommend the gum, &c. to be added when the ink is nearly made. The composition 74 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. produces the ink usuallj^ called Japan ink, from the high gloss which it exhibits when written with, and a small vial of it has been sold for 12 cents. The above ink, though possessing the full proportion of every ingredient known to contribute to the per- fection of ink, will not cost more to those who pre- pare it for themselves than the common ink which can be bought by retail. When gum is very dear, or when no very high gloss is required, 4 ounces will be sufficient, with If ounces of sugar. By using only f pound of galls to 4 ounces sulphate of iron, uncalcined, omitting the logwood, and acetate of copper, and the sugar, and using only 3 ounces gum, a good and cheap common ink will be obtained. . No. 136. How to m.ake Black Ink, Take 1 pound logwood, and 1 gallon of water ; boil slightly or simmer in an iron vessel one hour ; dissolve in a little hot water 24 grains bichromate of potash, 12 grains prussiate of potash, and stir into the liquid while over the fire ; take it off and strain it through a fine cloth, l^o other ink will stand the test of oxalic acid, and it is so indelible that oxalic acid will not remove it from paper. 600 MTSCELLi\NEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 75 No. 137. Another cheap Black Ink. Take 1 dracbm prussiate of potash. 1 drachm bichromate of potash. 1 ounce extract of logwood. 1 gallon water. Mix all together and shake it well ; when dissolved, it is fit for use. No. 138. How to make Black Printers' Ink, Printers' ink is a real black paint, composed of lampblack and linseed-oil, which has undergone a degree of heat superior to that of common drying oils. The manner of preparing it is extremely sim- ple. Boil linseed-oil in a large iron pot for 8 hours, adding to it bits of toasted bread for the purpose of* absorbing the w^ater contained in the oil ; let it rest till the following morning, and then expose it to the same degree of heat for 8 hours more, or till it has acquired the consistence required ; then add lamp- black worked up with a mixture of oil of turpentine and turpentine. The consistence depends on the degree of heat given to the oil, and the quantity of lampblack mixed up with it; and this consistence is regulated by the strength of the paper for which the ink is intended. The preparation of printers' ink should take place in the open air, to prevent the bad effects arising from the vapour of the burnt oil, and, in particular, to guard against accident by fire. 76 600 MISCELLAKEOUS VALUABLE EECEIPTS. No. 189. How to make Indelible Ink. Take 1| ounces of nitrate of silver, 5^ ounces liquor ammonite fortis ; dissolve the nitrate of silver in the liquor ammonise • fortis ; f ounces archil for colouring ; and gum mucilage, 12 ounces ; when ready for use, put up in drachm vials. No. 140. How to make another Indelible Ink. Take 1 inch of stick nitrate of silver and dissolve it in a little water, and then stir it into a gallon of water, which will make a first-rate ink for cloth. No. 141. How to make Bed Ink for writing. No, 1. Boil over a slow fire 4 ounces Brazil-wood, in small raspings or chipped, in 1 quart of water, till a third part of the water is evaporated. Add during the boiling two drachms of alum in powder. When the ink is cold, strain it through a fine clean cloth. I:s".B. — Vinegar or stale urine is often used instead of water. In case of using water, I presume a very small quantity of sal-ammoniac would improve this ink. No. 142. Another Bed Writing-ink, No. 2. Take best carmine, 2 grains ; rain-water, | ounce ; water of ammonia, 20 drops ; add a little gum arabic. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 77 , No. 143. IIoiD to make Blue Ink for writing. No. 2. Take soft Prussian blue and oxalic acid, equal Darts, powder them finely, and then add soft water to bring it to a thin paste. Let it stand for a few days, then add soft water to make the desired shade of colour, adding a little gum arable to prevent its spreading. No. 143i How to make Vinegar. No. 1. Vinegar is used principally as a sauce and to pre- serve vegetable substances; but it is employed ex- ternally when an overdose of strong wine, spirit, opium, or other narcotic poison has been taken. A false strength is given to it by adding oil of .vitriol or some acrid vegetable, as pellitory of Spain, capsi- cum, &c. It is rendered colourless by adding fresh- burned bone-black, 6 ounces to a gallon, and letting it stand for 2 or 3 days to clear. Mix cider and honey, in the proportion of 1 pound of honey to a gallon of cider, and let it stand in a vessel for some months, and vinegar will be produced so powerful that water must be mixed with it for common use. No. 144. Another Vinegar. No. 2. Scheie, a celebrated chemist, has recommended the following recipe : — Take 6 spoonfuls of good spirits of wine, to this add 3 pints of milk, and 7* 78 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. put the mixture into a vessel to be corked close. Vent must be given from time to time to the gas of fermentation. In the course of a month this will produce very good vinegar. No. 145. Another Vinegar. No. 3. Put into a barrel of sufficient dimensions a mix- ture composed of 41 pints of water, and about 4 quarts of whiskey, and 1 quart of yeast, and 2 pounds of charcoal, and place it in a proper situa- tion for fermentation. At the end of 4 months a ver}^ good vinegar will be formed, as clear and as white as water. No. 146. Common Vinegar. This is made from weak liquor brewed for the pur- pose : its various strength is, in England, denoted by numbers, from 18 to 24. No. 147. Another Vinegar. No. 4. To every gallon of water put 1 pound of bugar ; let the mixture be boiled and skimmed as long- as any scum arises. Then let it be poured into proper vessels ; and when it is as cool as beer when w^orked, let a toast rubbed over with yeast be put to it. Let it work about 24 hours, and then put it into an iron-hooped cask, fixed either near a constant fire or where the summer sun shines the greater part of the day ; in this situation it should be closely stopped 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE llECEIPTS. 79 up ; but a tile or brick, or something similar, should be laid on the bunghole, to keep out the dust and insects. At the end of about 3 months (or some- times less) it will be clear and fit for use, and may be bottled off. The longer it is kept after it is bot- tled the better it will be. If the vessel containing the liquor is to be exposed to the sun's heat, the best time to begin making it is in the month of April. No. 148. Wine Vinegar. Take any sort of wine that has gone through fer- mentation and put it into a cask that has had vinegar in it. Then take some of the fruit or stalks of which the wine has been made, and put them, wet, into an open-headed cask, in the sun, with a coarse cloth over it, for 6 days; after which, put them into the vinegar and stir it well about. Then put it in a warm place, if in winter, or, if in summei', put it in a yard, in the sun, with a slate over the bung-hole. "When the vinegar is sour enough and fine, rack it off into a clean sour cask and bung it up; then put it in the cellar for use. Those wines that contain the most mucilage are fittest for the purpose. The lees of pricked wine are also a very proper ingredient in vinegar. No. 149. Sugar Vinegar. To each gallon of water add 2 pounds of brown sugar and a little yeast. Leave it exposed to the sun for 6 months, in a vessel slightly stopped. 80 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 150. Gooseberry Vinegar. Bruise the gooseberries when ripe, and to every quart put 3 quarts of water. Stir them well to- gether, and let the whole stand for 24 hours; then strain it through a cloth bag. To every gallon of liquor add 1 pound brown sugar, and stir them well together before they are put into the cask. Proceed in all other respects as before. This vinegar pos- sesses a pleasant taste and smell; but raspberry vinegar, which may be made on the same plan, is far superior in these respects. The raspberries are not required to be of the best sort: still, they should be ripe and well-flavoured. No. 151. Currant Vinegar, This is made in the same way as that from goose- berry : only pick off the currants from the stalks. No. 152. Primrose Vinegar, To 15 quarts of water put 6 pounds of brown sugar ; let it boil 10 minutes, and take off the scum ; pour on it half a peck of primroses ; before it is quite cold, put in a little fresh yeast, and let it work in a warm place all night ; put it in a barrel in the kitchen, and, when done working, close the barrel, still keep- ing it in a warm place. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 81 No. 153. Raisin Vinegar. ■ After making raisin wine, la}^ the pressed raisins in a heap to heat ; then to each 56 pounds put 5 gal- lons of water and a little yeast. No. 154. Cider Vinegar, The poorest sort of cider will serve for vinegar, in managing which, proceed thus : — First draw off the cider into a cask that has had vinegar in it before; then put some of the apples that have been pressed into it; set the whole in the sun, and in a week or 9 days draw it off into another cask. This is a good table vinegar. No. 155. How to Strengthen Vinegar. Suffer it to be repeatedly frozen, and separate the upper cake of ice or water from it. All vinegars owe their principal strength to the acetic acid they contain ; but the vinegar of wine contains also a tartar, a small proportion of malic acid, alcohol, and coh^uring-matter ; that of cider contains merely the malic acid, little or no alcohol, and a yellowish colourinff-matter. ■& No. 156. How to make Vinegar from Elder-Flowers. Gillifiowers, Musk-Roses^ and Tarragon. Dry an ounce of either of the above flowers for Y 82 60Q MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. two days in the sun ; then put them into a bottle, pour on them a pint of vinegar, closely stop the bottle, and infuse for 15 days in moderate heat, of the sun. No. 157. How to make German Vinegar. Take 15 gallons soft water, 4 pounds brown sugar, J pound cream of tartar, 2 gallons whiskey. Mix, and keep it lightly covered, in a warm temperature. No. 158. How to increase the Sharpness and Strength of Vinegar, Boil 2 quarts of good vinegar till reduced to 1 ; then put it in a vessel and set it in the sun for a week. ITow mix the vinegar with six times its quantity of bad vinegar in a small cask: it will not only mend it, but make it strong and agreeable. No. 159. General Remarks on Dyeing. Cleanliness in dyeing is very essential. The vessel and the articles to be dyed must be rid of grease and dirt, as grease resists the colouring-par- ticles and dirt leaves a stain. Soft water should always be used for dyeing. Vessels used for dyeing small articles should generally be wash-basins, small copper and tinned pans, and sufficiently large that the dyeing-liquor be not spilled by dipping the articles in and out when dyeing. The quantity of liquor generally necessary for dyeing a dress of mus- 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 8b iin, crape, sarcenet, cambric, &c., is about three quarts ; for a larger dress, a proportionate quantity. The dyeing-utensils are simple, being composed of tubs, kettles, horse, or a couple of lathed benches, for the purpose of placing the goods upon when they come from the dye. The horse may be in form of a carpenter's stool. A doll, which is used for beating blankets, counterpanes, &c. in the tub, in order to clean them. For this doll some use an article similar to a pavior's mall, but of smaller dimensions : others have a circular pi^ce of wood, two inches thick, in which four legs are fastened on the under side, and in the centre a pretty long handle, with a cross-piece put through it to work it with. Against the wall or a post fasten a hook or a pin to put on your skeins, and with a small stick wring them out. In fancy- dyeing the various shades of cambric, a winch is put in frequent use. The liquor should always be stirred with a spoon, rod, or any thing that is clean, previous to the article being dipped in it, to cause the colouring-particles to be equally diffused, so that the article to be dyed receives its colour uniformly; and it ife also necessary that the article be moved in and out quickly, and opened to receive the colour more evenly. Colours generally look much darker when wet, therefore allowance should generally be made for drying, which should always be done in a warm room, pinned or stretched to a line. No. 160. Aluming. Is a preparation necessary for some colours in order to receive the colouring-particles, such as crimson 84 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. scarlet, purple, and some other colours. If any article is directed to be alumed, be careful to rid it well of the soap-suds, as alum turns soap to grease. When the article is put in the alum-liquor, it is to be well dipped in and out and opened, to receive this preparation more equally', for an hour, or all night, if circumstances admit; and, when alumed, it must be well wrung out and rinsed in two waters, and then djed, the sooner the better, before getting dry. Note. — The aluming of silks ought to be done cold, or it will be deprived of its lustre. No. 161. Preparing of the Dye-Liquors, or Scalding the Wood. Having something like the end of a tub, about one foot deep, with a copper bottom, bored full of holes about a quarter of an inch in diameter, lay a piece of rather coarse sheeting on this ; lay it all together on another tub ; fill it with the wood to be scalded. Then, having a copper boiler full of boiling water, fill the tub which contains the wood with boiling water; stir it during the time it is going through; fill it up again, and so repeat the operation till you have got all the strength from the wood. The criterion by which to know when the strength is gone from the wood is the paleness of the liquor as it runs through. This operation is considered superior to boiling the wood in a copper boiler, especially for the ground wood : but either v/ay will answer. The method of rendering the liquor stronger of course is by evaporation, in a copper vessel, with a constant fire under it. The chips of dyewood are 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 85 generally superior to the ground wood, as they are not so likely to be adulterated. No. 162. Pink on Silk, After aluming, (see receipt 'No. 160,) handle the goods to be dyed in peach-wood liquor till of the colour desired ; then take out, and put in a little alum-liquor; handle the goods a little longer, take out, rinse in water, and finish. Note, — In most cases where the shade is not dark enough, the operation must be repeated. No. 163. Brown on Silk. Alum your silk, (see No. 160.) Then take 1 part of fustic-liquor and 3 parts of peach-wood liquor; handle in these till it becomes a good brown; (a little logwood-liquor will darken your shade, if required ;) hedge out, and put in a little alum-water ; again put in your goods, handle a little longer, then take out, drain, rinse well, and finish. Note. — By varying the peach-wood and fustic, 7arious shades may be obtained. No. 164. Green on Silk. Take green ebony, boil it in water, and let it settle. Take the clean liquor, as hot as you can bear your hands in it, and handle in it your goods till of a bright yellow. Then take water, and put 8 86^ 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. in a little sulphate of indigo ; handle your goods in this till of the shade wanted. Note. — The ebony may previously be boiled in a bag, to prevent it from sticking to the silk. No. 165. Sulphate of Indigo. Take 3 pounds of vitriol and 1 pound of ground indigo ; put in a little at a time, and keep stirring till all dissolved. Let stand for 24 hours, and theu it is ready for use. No. 166. Blue on Silk. Indigo, same as for green ; you will have a blue. Note. — The silk ought to be boiled in white soap and water and made quite white, and then rinsed in lukewarm water. No. 167. Black on Silk. Take 1 ounce of bluestone of vitriol, 2 ounces of copperas, and J- ounce of nitrate of iron. Mix all together with as much water as will do one piece ; have the water a little warm. Hedge in this 6 times, backward and forward ; take out, and rinse in water. Take another tub, and put in it as much logwood-liquor that has in it 1 pound of logwood and 1 ounce of fustic-liquor; hedge in this liquor with a sufficient quantity of water till black ; wash out, and finish. (500 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 87 Note. — In both processes, let them have a chance to air in drying. No. 168. Blue Black on Silk. First run through a mordant of nitrate of iron and water; then run through pearlash-water ; then through nitrate of iron again ; then put them through logwood-liquor, with a little bluestone of vitriol dis- solved in it. If not dark enough, repeat the ope- ration. No. 169. Maroon on Silk. To 3 pounds silk take J pound cudbear; put it in water, and let it boil ; then put in your silk, and let it boil a few minutes. Keep your silk well handled ; take out, and you will have a good handsome colour. To change the shade, put in 2 pounds common salt, and operate as before : this will vary the shade. To vary it still further, take the silk, after boiling it the first time without the salt, and handle it in pearl- ash-water, or in cream of tartar, and you will have a handsome blue. No. 170. Orange on Silk or Cotton. Take 1 pound silk, 1 ounce annotto, 2 ounces pearlash, and boil them well together. Turn in your goods ; when boiled 10 minutes, take out, wash, and finish. If this orange is dark, handle the goods al; hand-heat. Note. — These goods must be well washed out in 88 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. Boap, and in aluming them you may use a little sugar of lead. No. 171. Gray on Silk. For a silk dress : Take 4 or 6 ounces of fine pow- dered galls, and pour on them boiling water ; handle your silk in this for 20 or 30 minutes. In another form, dissolve a piece of green copperas about the size of a nut. Handle your silk through this, and it will be a gray, more or less dark, according to the quantity of drugs. No. 172. Slate on Silk, To make a slate, take another pan of warm water and about a teacupful of logwood-liquor, pretty strong, and a piece of pearlash of the size of a nut. Take the above gray-coloured goods and handle a little in this liquor, and it is finished. Note. — If too much logwood is used, the colour will be too dark. No. 173. Olive on Silk. By adding a little fustic-liquor to the above siate, it will form an olive : it may be necessary to run them through a weak pearlash- water to saddeu them. Wash in two waters for the above three colours. They vdll keep their colour very well. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 89 No. 174. Stone on Silk. Take the coloured gray, (see Receipt 'No. 171.) Add a sufficient quantity of purple archil to the gray liquor. To give them a red sandy cast, add a little red archil. Simmer the silk in this a few minutes. Rinse in one or two cold waters. Dry in the air. The red archil is made from purple archil, by adding a small quantity of vitriol and water, which will redden it. No. 175. To dye a Silk Dress Brown. Take 8 ounces sumach, 4 ounces logwood, 8 ounces camwood or madder; boil these drugs in water, then cool down your liquor; wet out your silks ; then enter them ; handle well ; wash out as usual. For a mulberry cast, add as much purple archil as may be necessary. No. 176. Drab on Silk. For a silk dress : Take 4 ounces archil, 1 ounce niadder; enter and handle the goods. This may be saddened by taking out your goods and dissolving m the liquor a piece of green copperas, the size of a nut; again handle in this liquor. Or, what is slill better, instead of copperas, use a little pearlash to sadden with. 8* 90 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 177. Dove on Silk. Take Brazil logwood and sumach ; vary the quantities as you want your shade; boil them in water, then enter your goods, handle well, and sad- den with green copperas. No. 178. Yelloio on Silk. Boil quercitron-bark in a copper pan for 20 minutes, any quantity yoa please. Dip a suificient quantity to cover your silk in another copper pan, or tinned vessel, to which add a small quantity of muriate of tin; pass your silks first through warm water, and wring them out ; then put them into this pan of dye-water, and handle them with a clean stick till cold ; when cold, take out, throw out your liquor, take from the first pan as much liquor as before ; handle in this 10 minutes, then add muriate of tin according to shade wanted. Rinse out in its own liquor, and dry in a warm room. Annotto affords an orange yellow with equal quantities of pearlash, and gives out its colour to silk in warm water. Turmeric gives out its colour in a similar manner. The roots of barberry afford a yellow of themselves when boiled in water. No. 179. Crimson on Silk. Take cudbear, boil it in water; then just rinse or handle your silks in it for a few minutes, you have 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 91 the shade wanted. Chamber-lye or any ftlkaline solution will change the colour. No. 180. Flesh-Colour on Silk. Having first thoroughly cleaned your .silk in the usual manner, rinse in warm water; then handle them in a very slight water of alum and tartar, — so slight that you could hardly taste it. Then, if you have been dyeing pinks, (Receipt [N'o. 162,) take some of the old liquor, handle in it till of the shade wanted. The liquor must not be too strong, or the shade will be too heavy. No. 181. Brown on Woollen Cloth, or Cloths of any description. The quantity of woods to be regulated according to the quantity of goods to be dyed. For instance, a pair of men's pantaloons, being first well cleaned from all grease : take 1 pound red-wood, hypernick, or peach-wood, 1 pound fustic, put them in a copper kettle, boil them, then cool down so as to bear in it your hand ; then put in a small quantity of cream of tartar; agitate the water; then enter your goods, handle them till they come to a boil, 5 or 10 minutes ; take out the goods, put in a strong solution made of 4 ounces copperas, again cool down, re-enter the goods, again bring them to a boil; take out; rinse well in water. (Finished.) This process makes a good substantial brown, and might be varied in the shade by varying the quanti- 92 600 MISCELLAXSOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. ties of- woods in their proportion, — also by adding j little alum in the saddening. This is somewhat of an olive. No. 182. A Broicn on the Red Cast. Take 2 pounds red- wood, 1 pound fustic ; proceed in every respect as in Receipt i^o. 181 : the desired shade will be obtained. The quantity of dye-woods may be regulated according to the quantity of goods to be dyed; in Xo. 181 also, the copperas and tartar (On woollen, of course.) No. 183. Olive-Brown. For a pair of pantaloons, providing they weigh 3 pounds, take 2 pounds fustic, 1 ounce logwood, 4 ounces common madder, 2 ounces peach-wood ; boil them up; then cool down your liquor; enter your pantaloons ; bring the liquor to a boil ; let it boil half an hour, occasionally turning over ; take out ; cool down your liquor; put in 2 ounces dissolved copperas; handle until deep enough. (For wool.) Any quantity of yarn may be dyed on .the same principle. No. 184. ' A Bi^oivn inclining to Snvff. Take any quantity of woollen goods ; use for every pound IJ or 2 pounds logwood. First put youi logwood into the copper vessel ; bring it to a boil ; cool down ; then enter your goods ; briug them to a boil, half an hour, or longer if a large quantity; 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 93 take out, wash, and finish. Put, however, a little bumach, — ahoiit 2 ounc.-s to the pound of logwood. This will be a good ^hade of brov/n. To alter this shade, put into jour li(jnor a proportionally small quantity of alum-liquor, again enter the goods: you will have a good haudsome shade on silklas well as woollen. -No. 185. A Black inclining to Purple, on Wool and Silk. Take 4 pounds logwood, 1 pound sumach; boil them in a sufficient quantity of water; cool down with water enough to dye 4 or 5 pounds of silk or wool ; enter the goods ; bring them to a boil, for 10 minutes ; take out, partly cool down ; put in about 1 pound copperas; again enter your goods, bring them to a boil, take out, wash, and finish. (Chiefly intended for wool.) N.B. — A pair of pantaloons, or any other article which is old, would not need to be so particular in quantity of dye-stuiis or length of time. It will also answer for cotton, and that without sumach, if the sumach is not at hand. (This is intended chiefly for woollen.) No. 186. A Black inclining to Brown, on Silk and Woollen. Take 1 part sumach, 1 logwood, 1 h}^ernick or peach-wood; boil the dye-stuffs; cool down; put in the silk or woollen according to the quantity of your dye-woods, bring them to a boil, for 10 minutes, take out the goods, cool down ; having put in a Buflicient quantity of dissolved copperas, again enter 94 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. the goods, bring to a boil, take out, wash well, ana ^ finish. To mix the copperas with alum would materially^ i alter the shade, if a variety was wanted. (This is chiefly intended for wool.) No. 187. A Jet Black on Wool or Woollen Cloth. For 7 pounds wool or woollen cloth, take 3 J pounds logwood, f pound sumach, f pound fustic ; boil these drugs in a sufficient quantity of water for 20 minutes ; cool down, put in your goods, bring to a boil half an hour, then take out ; cool down your liquor; add copperas, dissolved in water, IJ pounds, bluestone of vitriol, 2 ounces ; again enter your goods, bring to a boil, 15 minutes, take out, wash well in cold water, and finish. No. 188. Blue Prussian on Woollen. Take an}^ quantity of calcined copperas, dissolve it in warm water, strong, put in your goods, keep them well handled till the water comes nearly to a boil; still handle 15 minutes; then rinse the goods in cold water; get up another kettle of 1 of urine to 3 of water; bring the water to hand-heat; put in your goods, handle half an hour ; again rinse in cold water; get up another kettle of water, hand-heat, and for each pound of goods, 3 ounces prussiate of potash ; put some oil of vitriol in the kettle ; handle the goods half an hour. If the colour looks greeu, 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 95 add a little more vitriol, handle half an hour longer, take out, wash in cold water, and finish. No. 189. Green on Wool. For 6 pounds yarn, worsted, or cloth, take 3 pounds fustic, | pound alum ; boil them in a kettle 10 minutes, partly cool down ; then put in a small teacupful sulphate of indigo, rake it well up, enter your goods well handled, let boil 20 minutes, (if a larger quantity, boil longer in proportion ;) take out, and, if not blue enough, add a httle more sulphate of indigo ; handle until deep enough. Rinse in cold water, and finish. This shade may be altered in a variety of ways, by adding a little camwood, or logwood, in the first boiling. No. 190. Lilac on Wool. Boil up any quantity of archil, according to the quantity of goods you want to dye ; cool the liquor a little, enter the goods, handle carefully, until the shade is deep enough, without boiling the liquor, take out, wash, and finish. One pound of archil will dye 4 J pounds of goods. Silk may be dyed in. the same way. The shades may be altered by soda, pearlash, wine, or common salt, adding a little, and re-entering the goods before washing, and handling a little while longer. 96 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUAILE KECEIPTS. No. 191. Drab on Woollen. For about fifteen pounds of woollen goods, take } pounds weld, 9 ounces madder, 4 ounces logwood, 3 ounces archil ; put them in water, bring them to a boil for 10 or 15 minutes, cool down; enter the goods, boil 15 minutes, wind up; put in 1 ounce alum, IJ ounce copperas, ground ; boil a few minutes longer, during which time handle well ; take out, wash, and finish. The above receipt may serve as a standard of procedure for all the drab shades (which may be altered at pleasure) that can be pro- duced, only varying the quantities of drugs, in some cases adding archil, and in others a little sulphate of indigo. Red tartar and. camwood may also be used. The copperas and alum may be varied in quantity, or increased, or the alum left out, thus varying the whole round. No. 192. Red on Woollen. For 10 pounds of woollen goods, take 2 pounds alum, h pound red tartar; boil the goods in this 1 hour, (if a larger quantity of goods, boil longer;) then boil up 4J pounds peachwood in clean water, cool down to a scald, put in 2 ounces ^o. 1 tin-liquor, enter the goods, handle until dark enough, and finish. The goods must not be washed between the first and Becond operations. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 97 No. 193. How to make JSlo. 1 Tin-Liquor. Take 2 quarts muriatic acid, killed with 24 ounces granulated tin. This will answer for woollen or cotton. No. 194. How to make No. 2 Tin-Liquor, for Yellow on Woollen, About 4 parts muriatic acid to 1 part sulphuric acid, killed with granulated tin. This will answer for yellow on cotton, also. No. 195. Slate on Woollen. For 10 pounds of woollen goods, take 10 pounds sumach, boil it up 10 minutes, cool down, put in your goods, bring them to a boil a few minutes, take out; put in 4 pounds copperas, dissolve, cool down ; re-enter the goods, bring them to a boil, take out, wash, and finish. A quantity of iron-liquor, such as the calico-printers use, would be preferable to copperas. This slate may be varied by varying the proportion of copperas and sumach ; also, by adding a little peachwood, or any other red wood ; in this case, less copperas might be used. No. 196. Yellow on Wool. For 10 pounds of wool, bring a kettle of water to a scald, or to 180 degrees of heat; put in 4 pounds z 98 GOO MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. quercitron-bark, (do not allow it to boil, as tbat would bring out the tannin and dull the yellow,) 1 pound alum, S ounces cream of tartar, nearly ^ pint 'No. 1 tin-liquor; stir up the liquor well, allow it to settle 15 minutes, enter the goods, keep in until dark enough. No. 197. Orange on WooL First dye the pattern to a full yellow. Then take a clean kettle of water ; when a little warm, put in for the above goods 2 pounds madder, peachwood, mun- jeet, or hypernick ; munjeet does very well ; put in your goods, keep them well handled, bring the goods to a boil, let boil till dark enough, wash, and finish. VARIOUS SHADES OF FANCY DYEING ON COTTON No. 198. For any qiiantity of Thread in Mack, First take thread and boil it in sumach and water ; then let it be immersed in lime-water, cold; then in weak copperas-water, cold ; then in lime-water again, cold ; then in logwood-liquor, warm ; take out, put some copperas-liquor into your logwood-liquor, again put in your goods, handle, and finish. This makes a first-rate black. No. 199. Turmeric YellovL Take about 3 pounds of turmeric, put in a small tub for the purpose ; pour on it a 'umbler of oil of 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 99 Vitriol, stir it well up ; then pour on it hot water, about 2 gallons, stir this well up ; then, having half a tubful of water boiling hot from the boiler, pour on it the contents of the small tub ; enter 3 pieces, 30 yards each, give them 6 or 8 ends, as the work- men term it, fold up. The next process is to have another tub of water, put in it half a pailful of alum- liquor, give the pieces 3 or 4 ends in this, take out, and finish. Renew with the same quantity for the next 3 pieces, and proceed. Note, — By ends is meant rinsing the pieces backward and forward over the wince in the tub. Half a hogshead will answer the purpose. It will be understood that these cotton colours are intended for linings or cambrics. It will also be understood that the liquors must be prepared as in Receipt No. 161, or by boiling in a copper cistern ; the former is most 'generally adopted for this kind of dyeing. It will be necessary to have a number of tubs for the different liquors^ and in dyeing various shades to have the liquors prepared in readiness. No. 200. Green on Cotton, ♦Take as much hot fustic-liquor as will cover f^ pieces, in which is put a very little lime-liquor, put it in a tub, enter your goods, give them 5 ends, hedge them out ; take another tub, half full of water, (cold,) put into it a sufficient quantity of blue-stone of vitrio^ liquor to set the tub, about 2 quarts; enter your goods in this, give them 5 ends, hedge out; then take a couple of pailfuls of the fustic-liquor, renew the first 100 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. tub, enter 3 pieces more, and so proceed as at first; then renew your blue vitriol tub with half the quantity of liquor, not taking any out, and pro- ceed as at first. In this way do as many the first and second time as you can finish that day ; then commence to finish them. Take half a tubful of old fustic-liquor, that has been used once, and put to it IJ pailfuls of logwood-liquor ; enter your pieces 3 at the time, give them 5 ends, and finish. Renew with a little more logwood-hquor, enough to make them dark enough, having first thrown away a couple of pailfuls from the tub, and renew with the same from the old tub, and so proceed in finishing. No. 201. Buff on Cotton. Take as much hot fustic-liquor and water as will lialf fill atub, enter 3 pieces, give them 5 ends, hedge out ; take another tub of lime-water cold, enter the same pieces, and give them 5 ends in this; take out, and in a short time they will be bufif. Renew your first and second tub, and proceed as at first. This is all required for bufif. No. 202. Annotto- Orange on Cotton. Having prepared your annotto-liquor by boiling it iu a copper vessel for 20 minutes, take out your liquor, put it in a tub, partly fill your boiler with water, bring it to a boil ; having kept in the boiler the sediment of the annotto, make it strong enough t\00 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 101 ^i%a rfnnoticr-liquor to the shade you want to dye; enter 3 pieces when boiling, give them 3 ends, take out; enter them into cold alum-water, give them 4 ciidsj take out, and finish. Renew your annotto- hoiler with a ^utlHcient quantity of annotto-liquor, and proceed as before; then renew your alum-tub, proceed as before in the second process. This finishes them. The -liquor that is Itil in the boiler at night will do to boil the annotto in the next da}^, so that nothing is lost. No. 1.^03. Hed en CoUon, Take 3 pieces, enter them into a tub with hot redwood or peachwood liquor, give them 5 ends, then run them into your wince; Yitive another tub, called the spirit-tub, close by, half full of cold water, put into it about 3 tumblerfuls of spitits ; then run the pieces from the other wince over the wince of the spirit-tub, give them 5 ends in the spirit-tub, then wind'them on the wince of the spirit-tub, then back again to the red-tub ; give them 5 ends without having renewed the tub, they are finished. Throw away the red-tub liquor, put in fresh liquor, and proceed as before ; but the spirit-tub must be renewed always ; even at night it may be left in a tub, and renewed the next day. No. 204. Brown on Cotton. Tlie first process is to give them 5 ends in hoi sumach-liquor, or let them lie all night in the large 9* 102 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. tub. same as for blacks ; then give them 5 ends iu copperas, hedge out, give them 5 ends in lime-tub ; then hedge out, lay them one side till you get enough to finish that day. You next renew your tubs, and repeat the operation as before. Then comes the finishing part. Make up a tub of hot redwood-liquor, enter 3 pieces, give them 5 ends, put the pieces one side the tub, put in some alum-liquor, stir up, give them 5 ends more, hedge out, and finish. No. 205. • Drab on Cotton. Take half a tub of hot sumach and fustic liquor; more fustic than sumach, according to shade wanted; enter 3 pieces, give them 5 ends, hedge out; give them 5 ends in the copperas-tub, and finish. Renew your tubs, and proceed as before. The copperas-tub is a half tub of water, with a couple of pailfuls of copperas-liquor to set in the first place ; renewed each time. No. 206. Slate on Cotton. Make up a tub of about 2 of logwood to 1 of fustic liquor, — both hot; enter 3 pieces; give them 5 ends ; hedge out ; give them 5 ends in copperas- liquor; have it stronger or weaker, according to shade wanted. This finishes them. Renew your tubs, and proceed as before. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 103 * No. 207. , Purple on Cotton, Get up a tub of hot logwood-liquor, enter 3 pieces, give tliem 5 ends, hedge out ; enter them into a clean alum-tub, give them 5 ends, hedge out; get up another tub of logwood-liquor, enter, give them 5 ends, hedge out ; renew your alum-tub, give them 5 ends in that, and finish. No. 208. Black on Cotton. First take your pieces and boil them in sumach- liquor, in a large copper vessel, if you have it, that will hold 60 or 70 pieces, in which you put about a bushel and a half of sumach ; let them stay all night, if it is convenient ; take out, and enter them into- the lime-tub, 3 at a time ; give them 4 ends, hedge out ; enter them into the copperas-tub, give them 5 ends, hedge out; enter them into the lime again, give them 4 ends, hedge out ; enter them into another tub with tolerably strong logwood-liquor, give them 5 ends; put them to one side of the tub; put in enough copperas-liquor to blacken them, (about a. couple of quarts,) then give them a few more ends, and they are finished. With this process it ia the same as with the greens. After sumaching, liming, copperasiug, and second liming is repeated,, till you get as many as will answer you to finish that day, the tubs being renewed after each 3 pieces,, then comes the finishing; after each 3 pieces, the logwood and copperas liquor is thrown away, because 104 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. tlie copperas kills the logwood, and so renders it un- fit for the next pieces. It is frequently the case that, instead of the first process of sumach-boiling, they collect the old sumach, and fustic, and logwood- liquor, that has no copperas or lime in it, into a large tub, and all the pieces that are spoiled in the other colours they throw^ into this tub, and let them lie a few days till they are ready to dye blacks, and this answers instead of the sumaching. For the foregoing cotton shades, the pieces are first taken and boiled in a wood or copper cistern, as circumstances may be, in order to take out the sizing, and prepare them to receive the dye. No. 209. HoiD to 2^ut a fine Gloss on Silk. Take a fair white potato, cut it in very thin slices, pour on it boiling water, let stand till rather cool, take out the slices of potato, run your silk through this water, squeeze out, smooth while damp, and you will have a very superior gloss. It was tried on black silk, and it was found to answer well. If it should not answer on lighter colours, try the follow- ing one. If a quantity of silk, of course propor- tion your potatoes. No. 210. Anotjier way to put a Gloss on Silk. Instead of a potato, use a small quantity of isin- glass; dissolve in water. Use it the same as the above in every particular. 1 ounce of isinglass will answer for 1 pound of silk. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 105 No. 211. Tin-Liquor for Finks, Scarlets, Crimson, ^c. Take 1 part muriatic acid, and 1 part nitric acid, and kill with tin. No. 212. Tin- Liquor for Scarlets, Crimson, ^c. on Silks. Take 1 pound nitric and 1 pound muriatic acid, and about 1 J ounces sal-ammoniac ; kill with granu- lated tin. No. 213. How to set an Indigo- Vat for Cotton. Having a sufficiently large vat, nearly fill it with water; put in 30 pounds ground indigo, 50 pounds copperas, 50 pounds slaked lime ; occasionally^ stir it up, for 2 days. When perfectly settled, it is ready for use. When the vat is exhausted, renew with 4 pounds pearlash, 4 pounds lime, and 12 pounds copperas. No. 214. A Blue- Vat for Silk and Woollen. Take 8 pounds indigo, and about 2 gallons vinegar, work it well in the mill till fine ; if this is not convenient, put them on a slow fire for 24 hours till dissolved ; put in 1 pound madder ; mix these well, and put them into a vat containing 100 gallons urine ; stir well twice a day for one week. It may be then worked, always previously stirring it. This 10(5 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. vat continues to be good till exhausted. Mazarine blues, and deep purples, may be managed with this vat and archil-dye ; take care to rinse it well from one to the other. Archil forms a dye of itself with- out mordant, on silk and woollen, when boiled in water. No. 215. How to dye Straws Red. Boil ground Brazil-wood in a lye of potash, and boil your straw in it. No. 216. Blue on Straw, Take a sufficient quantity of potash-lye, 1 poi.R- No. 251. Another Oil-Paste Blacking. No. 2. Take \ pound oil of ^dtriol, 10 ounces tanners' oil, 4 pounds ivory-black, 10 ounces molasses ; mix the oil of vitriol and the tanners' oil together, and let it stand one day, then add the ivory-black and molasses, and the white of 2 eggs, and stir it well together to a thick paste. This is an excellent blacking, and will not injure the leather. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 127 No. 252. How Compound Spirits of Cordials for beverage is manufactured. The perfection of this grand branch of manufac- turing depends upon the observation of the follow- ing general rules, which are easy to be observed and practised. First, The manufacturer must always be careful to use a well-cleansed spirit, or one freed from its own essential oils. For, as a compound cordial is nothing more than a spirit impregnated with the essential oil of the ingredients, it is neces- sary that the spirit should have deposited its own. Second, Let the time of previous digestion be pro- portioned to the tenacity of the ingredients, or the ponderosity of the oil. Third, Have a due propor- tion of spirits, the grosser and less fragrant parts of the oil not giving the spirit so agreeable a flavour, and at the same time rendering it thick and un- sightly. This may, in a great measure, be effected by leaving out the feints, and making up to proof with fine soft water in their stead. It is sometimes necessary to filter cordials. This may be done by letting it run through some proper cloth. If fining should be necessary, it may be done by adding from 5 to 7 eggs to the barrel. A syrup is made by taking the best white sugar. Take 8 pounds loaf sugar, 2 quarts water. Dissolve the sugar in the water on a gentle fire, and remove the scum as it rises ; as soon as it commences boiling, take it from the fire, and strain it irnmediately. This is called by the art simple syrup, and is used in the manufacture of many kinds of liquors. 128 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 253. How to manufacture Anniseed- Cordial, Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 5 drachma oil of anoiseed cut in alcohol, 20 gallons good clear soft water, 8 gallons of the above syrup ; mix all to- gether, and let it lie from 10 to 12 days, when it will be good to use. « No. 254. IToiv to make Citron- Cordial Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, and add 10 pounds rind of lemons, 5 pounds orange-peel, 5 ounces broken nutmeg, and let it lie for 12 or 14 days ; then add again 15 gallons water, and 8 gallons of the mentioned syrup ; and in a few days you may draw it off". (Ready for use.) No. 255. How to make Pepper mint- Cordial. Ko. 1. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey ; cut up in alcohol 5 drachms oil of peppermint in 1 quart alcohol, and let it stand 1 or 2 days, then add it to the whiskey ; after this, add 30 gallons water, and 10 gallons simple syrup. Mix all well together, and, if not clear, fine it by dissolving 1| pounds alum in 2| quarts water, and add to the cordial ; stir it for 5 or 10 minutes, then let it stand for 10 days. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 129 No. 256. How to make Cinnamon- Cordial. Take 6 gallons rectified whiskey, 2 drachms oil of cinnamon cut in alcohol, 3 gallons water, If gal- lons syrup ; mix, and proceed as before. No. 257. How to make Orange- CordiaL Take 5 gallons pure proof rectified whiskey, add \ pound fresh lemon-peel, 2 pounds dried orange- peel, and 3 pounds fresh orange-peel ; let it stand for 10 or 14 days, then draw it ofl*, and add 3 gallons soft water, 1| gallons syrup, and proceed as before. No. 258. How to make Clove- Cordial. Take 6 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 1 drachm oil of cloves cut in alcohol, 3 gallons water, 2 gal- lons syrup ; mix, and let stand as before. No. 259. How to make Strawberry- Cordial. Take 5 gallons pure rectified whiskey, to w^hicn add 8 quarts strawberries, and let it stand 10 or 12 days ; then draw it off, and add 3 gallons water and 2 gallons syrup, and manage as before. 2B 130 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 260. How to make Hose- Cordial. Take 6 gallons pure proof rectified whiskey, from 40 to 60 drops oil of roses cut in 1 pint alcohol, 4 gallons soft water, and 7 quarts syrup, and mix all together ; manage as before. No. 261. Another Peppermint- Cordial. No. 2. Boil 4 gallons or 24 pounds common brown sugar in 4 gallons water and 3 ounces alum, and scum it as long as any scum will rise. Then add 1 ounce oil of peppermint, 10 gallons pure spirits, 14 gallons clear rain-w^ater, and stir all well ; and in 24 hours it will be clear and fit for use. N.B; — Any other flavour can be given by adding other essential oils : such as oil of cinnamon, oil of roses, oil of cloves, oil of lemon, oil of anniseed, oil of wintergreen, &c. If it should not be clear, add the white of eggs, or a little alum, alone, or a little car- bonate of soda or potassa dissolved in water; in from 10 days to 2 weeks it will be clear. If the quantity is too much or too little in the foregoing receipts, you can make any quantity by taking the ingredients proportionate to the quantity you wish to make. No. 262. How to make Cider. After the apples are gathered from the trees, they are ground into what is called pomace, or pulp, either by means of a common preSbUig-stone, with a 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE EECEIPTS. 131 circular trough, or by a cider-mill, which is either driven by hand or by horse power. When the pulp is thus reduced to a great degree of fineness, it is conveyed to the cider-press, where it is formed by pressure into a kind of cake, which is called the cheese. This is effected by placing clean sweet straw or hair-cloth between the layers of pomace or pulp, till there is a pile of 8 or 10 to 12 layers. This pile is then subjected to different degrees of pressure in succession, till all the must or juice is squeezed from the pomace. This juice, after being strained in a coarse hair sieve, is then put either into open vats or close casks, and the pressed pulp is either thrown away or made to yield a weak liquor, called washings, or, as we call it, water-cider. After the liquor has undergone the proper fer- mentation in these close vessels, which may be best effected in a temperature of from 40 to 60 degrees of Fahrenheit, and which may be known by its appear- ing tolerably clear, and having a vinous sharpness upon the tongue, any further fermentation must be stopped by racking off the pure part into open vessels exposed for a day or two in a cool situation. After this, the liquor must again be put into casks, and kept in a cool place during winter. The proper time for racking may always be best known by the brightness of the liquor, the discharge of the fixed air, and the appearance of a thick crust formed of fragments of the reduced pulp. The liquor should always be racked ofi' anew as often as a hissing noise is heard, or as it extinguishes a candle held to the bung-hole. 132 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. "When a favourable vinous fermentation has been obtained, nothing more is required than to fill up the vessels every 2 or 3 weeks, to supply the waste by fermentation. In the beginning of March the liquor will be bright and pure, and fit for final racking, which should be done in fair weather. When the bottles are filled they should be set by uncorked till morning, when the corks must be driven in tightl}^ secured by wire or twine and melted rosin, or any similar substance. No. 263. How to manage Cider. To 6.ne and improve the flavour of 1 hogshead, take a gallon good French brandy, with | ounce cochineal, 1 pound alum, and 3 pounds rock-candy ; bruise them all well in a mortar, and infuse them in the brandy for a day or two ; then mix the whole with the cider, and stop it close for 5 or 6 months. After which, if fine, bottle it ofi*. Cider, when bottled in hot weather, should be left a day or two uncorked, that it may get flat ; but if too flat in the cask, and soon wanted for use, put into each bottle a small lump or two of rock-candy, 4 or 5 raisins of the sun, or a small piece of raw beef; an}' of which will much improve the liquor, and make it brisker. Cider should be well corked and waxed, and packed upright in a cool place. A few bottles may be kept in a warmer place, to ripen and be ready for use. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 133 No. 264. To make cheap Cider from Raisins. Take 14 pounds raisins, with the stalks ; wash them out in four or five waters, till the wate. remains clear; then put them into a clean cask with the head out, and put 6 gallons of good water upon them ; after wdiich cover it well up, and let it stand 10 days. Then rack it off into another clear, cask, which has a brass cock in it, and in 4 or 5 days' time it w^ill be fit for bottling. When it has been in the bottles 7 or 8 days, it will be fit for use. A little col'^uring should be added when putting into the cask the second time. The raisins may afterwards be used for vinegar. No. 265. Observations on Cider. From the great diversity of soil and climate in the United States of America, and the almost endless variety of its apples, it follows that much diversity of taste and flavour will necessarily be found in tho cider that is made from them. To make good cider, the following general, but important, rules should be attended to. They de- mand a little more trouble than the ordinary mode of collecting and mashing apples of all sorts, rotten and sound, sweet and sour, dirty and clean, from tlie tree and the soil, and the rest of the slovenly process usually employed ; but in return they produce you a wholesome, high-flavoured, sound, and palatable aquor, that always commands an adequate price, 12 134 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. instead of a solution of "villanous compounds," in H poir>onous and acid wash, that no man in his senses will drink. The finest cider was made of an equal portion of ripe, sound pippin and crab apples, pared, cored, and pressed, etc., with the ^utmost nicety. It was equal in flavour to any champagne that ever was made. No. 266. General Rules for making Cider, 1. Always choose perfectly ripe and sound apples. 2. Pick the apples by hand. An active boy, with a bag slung over his shoulders, will soon clear a tree. Apples that have lain any time on the soil contract an earth}' taste, which will always be found in the cider. 3. After sweating, and before being ground, wipe them dry, and if any of them are found bruised or rotten, put them in a heap by themselves, for an inferior cider to make vinegar. 4. Always use hair cloth, instead of straw, to place between the layers of pomace. The straw when heated gives a dis- as^reeable taste to the cider. 5. As the cider runs from the press, let it pass through a hair sieve into a large open vessel, that will hold as much juice as can be expressed in one day. In a day, and some- times less, the pomace will rise to the top, and in a short time grow very thick; when little white bubbles break through it, draw off the liquor by a spigot, l)laced about three inches from the bottom, so that the lees may be left quietly behind. 6. The cider must be drawn off into very clean casks, and closely watched. The moment the white bubbles before mentioned are perceived rising at the bung-hole, 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 135 rack it ao:ain. When the fermentation is com- pletelj at an end, fill up the cask with cider in all respects like that already contained in it, and bung it up tight ; previous to which a tumblerful of sweet oil may be poured into the bung-hole. Sound, well- made cider, that has been produced as described, and without any foreign mixtures, excepting always mat of good cognac brandy, (which, added to it in the proportion of 1 gallon to every 30, greatly im- proves it,) is a pleasant, cooling drink, and useful beverage. Cider prepared as above is generally used to imi- tate the diifereut kinds of wine. No. 267. Another Rule for making good Cider. In grinding the apples, reduce the whole fruit to a uniform pomace. Allow the pulp to remain from 2 to 6 or 8 days ; if warm weather, for a shorter time, and if cold, a longer time, according to the state of the weather, stirring it every day, until put to the press. If there should be any wanting of the sac- charine matter, add sugar before fermentation takes place, and after fermentation add spirits of wine. After the liquor has remained a few days, (after its having been strained through a sieve,) taking off the scum as it rises, then draw it off into casks, and place in a cool cellar; or let it be, a short time after the pressing, placed in a cool place, put into strong, light casks, and after the pomace has all overflown, drive the bung close, and bore with a gimlet a hole through the bung, and put in a spile to draw, when the cask appears to be in danger of bursting. 136 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 268. How to keep common Cider good for years. Take the cider when you think it will suit your taste, put it into a kettle, and boil it very little. Make a bag and put into it \ pound of hops, then put the bag with hops into the kettle with the cider, and tie it fast to the handle so that the bag with hops will not touch the bottom of the kettle ; scum oiF the cider whiie you have it on the fire, and after it has boiled a short time take it off the fire, and let it cool down lukewarm ; put it into a good sweet barrel, and add 1 pint good fresh brandy, bung it up, and it will keep the same as you put it into your barrel for years. No. 269. Another vjay to keep Cider. Take cider after it is taken from the press, or when it suits your taste, and put it into a good, strong, tight, sweet barrel, and add 3 gallons apple whiskey, and 6 cents' worth mustard-seed, and bung it up tight, and let it ferment in the barrel ; bore a gimlet-hole through the bung, and put a spile into it, so that you can let some of the gas out, to prevent the cask from bursting. AVhen the fermentation is subsided, draw it off clear, and clean out your barrel, and put the cider in again, and bung it up close. K.B. — This cider will also be good to imitate all Kinds of wines; that is, if the cider is clear. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 137 No. 270. How to put up a simjAe Stand for Redifijing Raw Whiskey. Purifying spirituous liquors consists in passing the liquor through prepared charcoal, sand, or gravel, or fine-broken brick, (washed very clean,) flannel, blanket, and charcoal, particularly prepared for this purpose. Take a good, common, tight barrel for a stand, and bore one of the heads full of J inch holes, J inch apart, so that it appears like a sieve, or riddle ; when this is done, take the perforated bottom out, and sink down into the barrel within 2 inches of the lower bottom ; first nail 3 or 4 strips of wood, 2 inches thick, to answer for legs, (so that there will be an empty space of 2 inches between the two bottoms,) to rest the second bottom on, between which you will have to bore a hole through the side, to put in a brass or wooden spigot, between the empty space of the two bottoms, to draw out the rectified liquor, which, if the rectifier is good, should not run out faster than the thickness of a middle- sized knitting-needle, or still less ; and after you have the perforated bottom at its proper place, put a layer of flannel or blanket over this bottom, so that it will come all round up the sides a little ; now take some fine, clean sand, and put from 4 to 6 inches on the flannel or blanket ; now put another layer of flannel on the sand, and on the top of this put from 12 to 15 inches of the prepared charcoal, and on the top of this piut another layer of blanket or flannel ; on the top of this flannel lay 4 or 6 bricks, to keep the flannel down, or else if you pour in your 12* - 138 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. liquor it would rise on the top of the liquor ; now jour stand is ready to receive the liquor jou wish to purify. This stand is capable to rectify 10 barrels of strong whiskey, when the coal will be worn out ; and when the coals are worn out, renew them, the same as before. Observe, there will be left a great deal of strength in the coal after it stops running; to get that strength out, pour water on and let water through, until no strength of the liquor remains in it. To ascertain this, a hydrometer is indispensably necessary to try the liquor ; by this mode you can find how many degrees of spirits you have in the water. These spirits can be used for liquor that is over proof, to bring it down to proof. You may put up as many stands as you wish, of the same size, or make them as large as you please. Some rectifiers put up two, one above the other, and let the whiskey through them both ; and if you want your spirits very fine, 3^0 u can let it run through 3 or 4 times ; the oftener, the finer your spirits gets. Keep your rectifier always in use, or the coal will become mouldy and unfit for use. The charcoal ought to be prepared from sugar maple wood. Some rectifiers use raw cotton, or straw, instead of flannel, and put between the sand and charcoal, malt, or lime, according to fancy. Recajpitulation of Directions in jputiing up a Bedifyiny Stand. 1. Take a good, tight barrel, or any other good cask. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 139 2. Bore holes through one of the heads, aa scribed. 3. Take out the head and sink it down within 2 .'hes of the bottom. i. Cover with a layer of flannel this perforated oottom. 5. Put 4 to 6 inches washed sand on the top of the flannel. 6. Put another layer of flannel on the top of the sand. 7. Put 12 or 15 inches of charcoal on the top of the flannel. 8. Put another la3'er of flannel on the coal. 9. Put 4 or 6 bricks on the flannel, to keep it from rising up to the top. 10. Keep the stand, after you have poured liquor on, well covered. The spirituous liquor which is rectified thus is called pure spirits or sweet liquors, and is flavoured for wines, brandies, spirits, rum, Monongahela whis- key, cordials, etc., and should be clear of all foreign matter. No. 271. How to make 3Ionongahela Whiskey, No. 1. Take 36 gallons pure spirits, and add i pound young hyson tea, 6 pounds dried peaches, baked brown, not burned, 4 pounds lonf sugar, 4 ounces cloves, 4 ounces cinnamon. Mix them all together, and stir them well for 3 or 4 days, and in a few weeks it will be good. N.B. — You can put double or triple the quantity 140 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE EECEIPTS. of flavouring in, and then take 3, 4, 5, or 6 gallons of it and pour it into a barrel of pure rectified whis- key, and add 2 pounds loaf sugar to each barrel. The longer your flavouring will lie, the better. No. 271i. Another way to make Moiiongahela Whiskey, No. 2. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey ; add 12 ounces burned barley, ground or bruised, 6 drachms Bweet spirits of nitre, 4 pounds dried peaches, 4 pounds iN'ew Orleans sugar, 3 ounces allspice, 2 ounces cinnamon; mix them all together, and let stand from 6 to 12 days, and stir them every day. Draw off". No. 272. How to make Wheat Whiskey. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, proof; add 1 ounce spirits nitre dulc, J ounce tincture of rhatany, 1 pint simple syrup, 4J gallons pure wheat whiskey, 2 ounces tincture of cinnamon; mix them all together, and colour it with sugar-colouring if you wish. No. 273. How to make good Apple Whiskey. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, from 5 to 10 degrees above proof; add 4 J gallons pure apple whiskey, IJ pints simple syrup, 2 good pineapples, (the juice of them oidy.) Mix thoroughly, and let etand for 2 weeks. Then ready for use. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 141 No. 274. How to imitate Old Bourbon Whiskey, Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 6 gallona pure Bourbon whiskey, 3 half-pints simple syrup, IJ ounces sweet spirits of nitre; mix them all to- gether, and colour with sugar-colouring. No. 275. How to imitate Irish Whiskey, Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, proof, 6 gallons pure Irish whiskey, 6 drachms acetic acid, 1 drachm acetic ether, 75 drops kreosote cut in 3 half- pints alcohol, 3 half-pints simple syrup, and manage as before. No. 276. How to imitate Scotch Whiskey. Take 30 gallons pure proof rectified whiskey, 6 gallons pure Scotch whiskey, IJ ounces acetic acid, 3 pints simple syrup; mix, and add 45 drops kreosote cut in 1 pint alcohol ; let stand a few days, when it will be ready for use ; stir it well. No. 277. How to imitate Holland Gin. No. 1. Take 30 gallons pure spirits, add 2 gallons pure imported Holland gin highly flavoured, 4 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 1 ounce pure oil of juniper, 2 drachms oil of caraway. Cut the oil of juniper and oil of caraway in 1 pint alcohol, and mix all together, when it will be ready for use. The older, the better. 142 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 278. Another imitation of Holland Gin. No. 2. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 1 gallon pure imported Holland gin, 1 ounce pure oil of juniper, 2 drachms oil of caraway, (cut the oil of juniper and caraway in 1 pint alcohol,) 1 ounce sal-ammoniac. Mix them all together, and in a short time it will be good for use. No. 279. Holland Gin. No. 3. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 4 gallons pure Holland gin, 1 ounce oil of juniper cut in alcohol, 1 pound coriander-seed. Mix. them all together, let it stand, and stir it well for 3 or 4 days ; then draw off and strain. No. 280. Holland Gin. No. 4. Take 10 gallons pure rectified whiskey, IJ gallons pure Holland gin, 1 drachm oil of juniper cut in alcohol, J drachm fennel-seed, J drachm caraway-seed. Infuse the fennel and carawa}^ seed in 2 quarts rectified whiskey for 8 or 10 days, then mix. No. 281. Holland Gin. No, 5. ' Take 5 gallons pure spirits, and add 1 gallon pure imported Holland gin. Good. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 143 No. 282. Hoio to mak& Country Gin. Take 32 gallons pure rectified whiskey. Infuse 4 pounds juniper-berries in 4 gallons of the pure rectified whiskey for 8 or 10 days; separate the juice from the berries, and add it to the rest of your liquor. N.B. — The pure rectified whiskey, or pure spirits, ought to be from 3 to 5 degrees above proof, for good gin. No. 283. How to imitate Jamaica Rum. No. 1. Take 28 gallons pure spirits, 3 gallons pure Ja- maica rum, 3 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 1 ounce tincture of kino. Mix them all together. No. 284. Jamaica Rum. No. 2. Take 32 gallons pure spirits. Then boil in 2 gal- lons of pure spirits 4 pounds foreign locks, 4 pounds bitter orange-peel, 4 ounces anise-seed, until the flavoui is drawn out, and strain it while hot ; add it to the rest of your liquor. No. 285. How to make Tincture of Kino. Take If ounces powdered kino, and macerate it in 1 pint alcohol for 2 weeks ; then filter it through paper. 144 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 286. How to make Jamaica Spirits. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 6 gallons pure Jamaica rum, 1 ounce tincture of kino, 1^ pints syrup. If ounces butyric acid cut in 2 quarts alcohol. Mix well, and colour. No. 287. New England Bum. No. 1. Take. 28 gallons pure spirits, 2 gallons St. Croix rum, 4 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 1 ounce sal-ammo niac, 50 drops nitric acid. Mix all together. No. 288. Another Hum. No. 2. Take 29 gallons pure spirits, 1 gallon rum, 2 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 3 ounces tinture of argol, 2 ounces spirits of hartshorn ; mix well. No. 289. St. Oroix Bum,. No. 1. Take 32 gallons pure spirits, and boil 6 pounds liquorice-sticks, 2 pounds winter-bark, J pound anise- seed, until the flavour is drawn out; strain it while hot, and add it to your pure spirits ; bung it tight, and in 3 days it will be good. No. 290. Another St. Croix Bum. No. 2. Take 5 gallons pure spirits, 1| gallons St. Croix 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 145 rum, ^ pint syrup, | ounce tincture of catechu, | ounce butyric acid ; cut, mix, and let stand 5 days. Calour with sugar-colouring. No. 291. How to make Tincture of Catechu. Take 3 ounces catechu, and macerate it in 1 quart diluted alcohol for 2 weeks, and filter through paper or strain through cloth. No. 292. Another Jamaica Bum. No. 3. Take 32 gallons pure spirits; add 5 gallons pure imported Jamaica rum from the custom-house. No. 293. Cognac Brandy. No. 1. • Take 31 gallons pure spirits, 4 pounds peach-pits, 1 pound winter-bark, 4 pounds bitter orange-peel; steep the peach-pits, winter-bark, and the orange- peel in a few gallons of pure spirits, until the flavour is drawn out; then pour it off, and put it into your pure spirits, and add as much pure imported cognac brandy as you wish. No. 294. Another Cocjnac Brandy. No. 2. Take 31 gallons rectified whiskey ; set the barre' on the head. Then take of this whiskey 2 gallons and boil 4 pounds peach-pits, 1 pound winter- 2C 146 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. bark, aod 4 pounds bitter orange-peel, the wLv,le broken together until the flavour is drawn out, and while hot strain it into other liquor, and stop tight 2 hours. Then add | pound sweet oil cut up clear in alcohol, and pour it into your barrel, and draw and pour back until well mixed, and in 3 days it will he fit for use. Colour. No. 295. Another Cognac Brandy. No. 3. Take 35 gallons pure rectified whiskey, from 10 to 15 degrees above proof, and add 7^ gallons pure oognac brandy, 1| drachms cognac-oil cut in alcohol, 1| ounce oenanthic acid, 1^ ounce acetic acid, 2J ounces tincture of kino, 3 half-pints syrup, and mix it thoroughly, and colour it to your fancy. No. 296. Another Cognac Brandy. No. 4. Take 5 gallons pure sweet liquor, \ gallon pure cognac brandy imported, 2i pounds bruised raisins, \ ounce acetic acid, 2 pounds loaf sugar, 1 ounce tincture of catechu, and mix. Manage as before. No. 297. Imitation of French Brandy. No. 1. Take 32 gallons pure spirits. Then take \ gal- lon dried peaches hoiked brown, (not burned,) beat them to powder, and put them to your pure spirits in the barrel. Then take f pound crude or red tartar, 600 xMISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE KKCKIPTS. 147 hull it in 4 gallons water until it is reduced to 2 gallons, then strain the liquor through a fine cloth, and when cold put them into the cask and stir them well together ; then add to it 8 gallons pure French brandy, fourth proof, allowing the pure spirits to be first proof; or cider brandy is the best. The above will make 42 gallons of first-rate French brandy in 6 months, and scarcely distinguishable from French brandy by the best of judges. No. 298. Another imitation of French Brandy. No. 2. Take 30 gallons pure spirits, 10 to 15 degrees above proof; then take some of the pure spirits and mix with it 3 ounces tincture of japonica and 9 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, and, when this is well incor- porated, pour it into the barrel with your spirits. Mix it thoroughly. (Ready.) The older, the better. No. 299. How to prepare Tincture Japonica. Take of the best saffron, and dissolve, 1 ounce; mace, bruised, 1 ounce ; infuse them into a pint of brandy till the whole tincture of the saffron is ex- tracted, which will be in 7 or 8 days : then strain it through a linen cloth, and to the strained liquor add 2 ounces tartar japonica powdered fine ; let it infuse till "the tincture is wholly impregnated. No. 300. Eochelle Brandy. No. 1. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 5 degrees above proof, 3 gallons pure Rochelle brandy, 6 148 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. pounds raisins, 6 ounces tincture of kino, 1 pound loaf sugar, 1 ounce acetic ether; mix, and colour. No. 301. Cognac Brandy, No. 5. Take 30 gallons pure sweet liquor, 3 ounces acetic ether, 3 ounces acetic acid, 5 ounces tincture of kino, 7| pounds raisins, 3 pints simple syrup ; mix, and let it stand 2 weeks, then draw it off clear. No. 302. Rochelle Brandy. No. 2. Take 30 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 7J gallons pure imported Rochelle brandy, 2J drachms oil of cognac, 2 ounces cenanthic acid, IJ- ounces acetic ether, j ounce acetic acid, 6 ounces tincture of kino; mix, and colour with sugar-colouring. No. 303. Bordeaux Brandy. Take 30 gallons sweet liquor, 15 degrees above proof, TJ gallons pure Bordeaux brand}^, J ounce oil of cognac, 2 ounces cenanthic acid, 4| ounces acetic ether, 3 ounces tincture of kino, IJ quarts simple syrup. Mix and colour. No. 304. Cherry Brandy. No. 1. Take 10 gallons pure rectified whiskey, proof, 2 gallons water, 9 pounds sugar, J pound bruised bit- ter almonds, J ounce tincture of cardamom-seed, J 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 149 ounce tartaric acid, 1 drachm orange-flower-water. Let it stand 20 days, draw off, and colour dark. No. 305. Common Brandy. Take 28 gallons rectified whiskey, add 3 gallons brandy, 1 ounce spirits of nitre dulc, 1 ounce tinc- ture of kino : mix, and let stand 24 hours. Good. No. 306. Domestic Brandy. Take 28 gallons rectified whiskey, pure, 2 gallons fourth-proof brandy, high-flavoured, 4 ounces tincture of kino, 2 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 100 drops nitric acid, and a few pounds burnt raisins ; mix all together, and let it stand a few weeks, and draw off". (Eeady for use.) No. 307. French Brandy. No. 3. Take 35 gallons pure spirits, 15 degrees above proof, 1 pound stone-lime, \ pound pulverized alum, 3 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 2 pounds liquorice- sticks, 1 pound winter-bark. Put them all into your cask together, stir, and mix them well ; let them stand 24 hours, then draw it off; take good care that you draw it off very clear. Put into a clean bar- rel. Then add 6 gallons fourth-proof French brandy, 2 pounds burnt raisins, IJ ounces mace, 1 ounce nut- meg, 1 quart peach-pits, 2 quarts red-oak sawdust : it will be good in a few days, but the older the better. 13* 150 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 308. Another French Brandy. No. 4. Take 10 gallons pure spirits, J pint tincture of bitter almonds, 2J gallons good brandy; mix, and colour with sugar-colouring. No* 309. Another Brandy. No. 5. Take 29 gallons pure spirits, 1 gallon pure brandy, 2 ounces sweet spirits of nitre, 4 ounces tincture of kino, 100 drops nitric acid. Mix. No. 310. Peach Brandy. Take 20 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 6 gallons good peach brandy, 4 pounds loaf sugar, j- drachm oil of bitter almonds cut in alcohol, J pint orange- flower-water ; mix, colour, and let stand 6 or 8 days, and it is ready. No. 311. Blackberry Brandy. No. 1 Take 10 gallons pure proof rectified whiskey, 2J gallons raspberry brandy, 2 gallons water, 5 pounds sugar, J ounce tincture of cinnamon, J ounce tinc- ture of cardamom ; colour, and let stand 10 days ; draw oflf, and it is fit for use. No. 312. Another Cherry Brandy. No. 2. Take sweet black cherries J bushel, put them in a clean barrel, pour on them good rectified whiskey to 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 151 cover them well, then let it lie until you get good cider, which you have to boil and skim off clean ; then fill up the barrel which contains the cherries and whiskey with the cider, and let it lie, and in a few months it will be good. No. 313. Hasp berry Brandy. Take 10 gallons pure spirits, proof, 13 quarts rasp- berries, 2 gallons water, 6 pounds loaf sugar, J ounce, unground cloves, ^ ounce cinnamon ; mix, and let stand 25 days; draw off", and fine if necessary. No. 314. Another Cherry Brandy. No. 3. Take 10 gallons pure rectified whiskey, 13 quarts wild cherries, bruised ; let stand 8 days ; strain it, and add 6 pounds loaf sugar, and 2 gallons water. No. 315. Rose Brandy. Take 10 gallons pure sweet liquor, 2J gallons water, 10 pounds sugar, 15 drops oil of roses cut in alcohol, 2 drachms tartaric acid ; colour, and let stand a few days, when it will be good. No. 316. Blackberry Brandy. No. 2. Take 10 gallons rectified whiskey, 12 quarts black- berries, 4 gallons soft water, 6 pounds loaf sugar, 2 152 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. drachms uuground cloves, |- ounce cinnamon, bruised , mix, and let stand 2 or 3 weeks ; draw off, strain and fine if necessary. No. 317. Bothelle Brandy. No, 3. Take 15 gallons pure spirits, 9 pounds bruised raisins, 3 ounces acetic ether, IJ ounces acetic acid, 3 ounces ground cinnamon, 3 pounds loaf sugar, 3 ounces tincture of kino, 3 ounces tincture of catechu ; mix, and manage as the last. Colour. No. 318. Lavender Brandy. Take 5 gallons pure spirits, proof, J drachm oil of lavender dissolved in alcohol for 10 or 12 hours, then add it to your pure spirits ; also add IJ gallons soft water, 2 drachms tincture of cinnamon, 1 quart simple syrup. Colour with sugar-colouring. No. 319. Ginger Brandy. Take 10 gallons pure sweet liquor, add J ounce tincture of cardamom-seed; then take i pound ground ginger-root, infuse in 1 quart alcohol for 6 or 8 days ; filter, and add to your liquor ; mix thoroughly. Then add 2J gallons soft water, and 2 quarts simple syrup. No. 320. How to male Tincture of Cinnamon. Take 4| ounces ground cinnamon, alcohol, diluted, 3 pints; infuse for 2 weeks. ^wBeady.) GOO MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 153 No. 321. Hoio to make Tincture of Cardamom- Seed. Take 2 ounces cardamom-seed, bruised, and 1 pint alcohol, dilated; macerate it for 2 weeks, and filter. No. 322. Hoio to make Tincture of Rhatany. Take 6 ounces rhatany, 1 quart diluted alcohol: macerate for 2 weeks, and filter. No. 323. How to make Tincture of Allspice. Take 4 ounces allspice, 2 quarts alcohol, and in- fuse for 2 weeks ; filter. No. 324. How to make Tincture of Saffron. Take 1 ounce safi'ron, 1 pint rectified whiskey, pure first-proof, and infuse for 2 weeks; filter. No. 325. How to make Tincture of Bed Sanders. Take J pound ground red sanders, 1 quart alcohol ; mac'crate for 2 weeks ; express and filter. No. 326. How to make Tincture of Cloves. Take 2 ounces ground cloves, infuse it in alcohol for 2 weeks, and filter. 154 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 327. Hov) to imitate Port Wine. No. 1. Take 6 gallons good prepared cider, IJ gallons good imported Port wine, IJ gallons juice of elder- berries, 3 quarts good brandy, IJ ounces cochineal. This will produce 9 J gallons. I^ow pulverize the cochineal very fine, put it with the brandy into a stone jug, let it remain at least 2 weeks, shake it every day, and at the end of 2 weeks have your cider ready ; put 5 gallons of the cider into a 10- gallon cask, add to this the elder-juice and Port wine and the brandy and cochineal ; take the re- maining 5 gallons of cider, with part of which clean out your jug that contained the brand}^, and pour the whole into your cask, bung it tight, and in 6 weeks it will be ready for use. No. 328. Another Imitation of Port Wine. No. 2. Take 10 gallons prepared cider, 2 gallons guod pure imported Port wine, 3 quarts good sweet liquor, 2 quarts good brandy, 1 pound bruised raisins, 1 ounce tincture of kino, J ounce extract of rhatany, 1 pint simple syrup. Colour, if necessary, with tinc- ture of red Sanders; let it stand 2 weeks ; rack and tine until perfectly clear and transparent; keep cool. No. 329. How to imitate Madeira Wine. No. 1. Take of white Havana sugar 30 pounds, water 10 gallons, white tartar 6 ounces ; boil the whole half 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 155 an hour, and skim it well ; let it stand until cool ; then add 8 gallons strong beer-wort from the vat while working ; stir it well together, and let it stand until next day ; then put it into a sweet cask ; then add to it 6 pounds bruised raisins, 1 quart French brandy, J pound brown rock-candy, 2 ounces isin- glass. After the wine is put into the cask, put a piece of muslin over the bung-hole ; and when it has done working, which will be in about 6 weeks, then add 2 green citrons ; let them remain until the wine is bottled; it. will be ready for bottling in about 6 months. No. 330. Another Imitation of Madeira Wine. No. 2. Take 10 gallons prepa^-ed cider, IJ gallons pure imported Madeira wine, 3 quarts sweet liquor, 1 ounce tartaric acid, J drachm oil of bitter almonds cut in alcohol, 2 pounds bruised raisins, 2 quarts brandy ; let stand 10 days; then rack and fine until clear. No. 331. ' HoiD to imitate Lisbon Wine. Take 10 gallons prepared cider, 2i gallons pure imported Lisbon wiue, 2} pounds grapes in cluster, J ounce tincture of rhatany, | ounce tincture of kino, 1 gallon sweet liquor, IJ pounds loaf sugar; let stand 10 days, and manage as before. No. 332. Hoio to imitate Malaga Wine. Take 10 gallons good cider, 2 gallons imported 156 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. Malaga wine, 1 ounce cream of tartar, 2 pounds raisins, 1 pint good brandy, J ounce tincture of kino, 1 pint syrup. Colour with sugar-colouring, and manage as before. No. 333. How to imitate Claret Wine. Take 5 gallons cider prepared, 3 quarts good im ported claret wine, 24 drachms cream of tartai, J drachm citric acid, J pound raisins, 1 gill hon^^y, J ounce tincture of red sanders, 1 quart water. Manage as before. No. 334. How to imitate Sherry Wine. Take 12 gallons prepared cider, 9 quarts imported pure sherry wine, 6 quarts native wine, f drachm oil of bitter almonds dissolved in alcohol, 9 pints rectified whiskey, IJ pounds loaf sugar, IJ ounces tincture of saftron. Mix, and manage as before. No. 335. # How to imitate Teneriffe Wine. Take 10 gallons cider, 2J gallons pure imported Teneriife wine, 3 quarts sweet liquor, 2 drachms citric acid, J pint simple syrup. Mix, and let stand for 6 or 8 days, then draw off. No. 336. Hoic Racking Wine is performed. This is an operation highly requisite to the keep- 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 157 ing of wine good, — to its purification, strength, colour, brilliancy, richness, and flavour, — and is per- formed by drawing oft' the wine and leaving the sediment in the cask. A siphon should be used ; but, if not, the cask should be tapped 2 or 3 days previously. It may be racked off into another cask again, after it has been well cleaned; and, if re- quisite, the cask may be slightly fumigated, imme- diately before the wine is returned into it. If the wine, on being tasted, is found weak, a little spirits to be given to it, the cask filled up, and bunged tight. The racking off ought to be performed in temperate weather; and, as soon as the wines appear clear, a second racking will make them per- fectly brilliant ; and, if so, they will want no fining. No. 337. How to fine or clear Wine. One of the best finings is as follow^s : Take 1 pound fresh marshmallow-roots, washed clean, and cut into small pieces ; macerate them in 2 quarts of soft water for 24 hours, then gently boil the liquor down to 3 half-pints, strain it, and, when cold, mix with I ounce pipe-clay or chalk in powder; then pour the mucilage into the cask, and stir up the wine, so as not to disturb the sediment or lees, and leave the vent-peg out for some days after. Or, take boiled rice, 2 tablespoonfuls, the white of 1 new Qgg^ and \ ounce burnt alum in powder. Mix with a pint or more of the wine, then pour the mucilage into the cask, and stir the wine with a stout stick, but not to agitate the sediment or lees. Or, dissolve, in a gentle heat, \ ounce isinglass in 14 158 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. a pint or more of the wine ; then mix with it J ounce chalk in powder. "When the two are well incorporated, pour it into the cask, and stir the wine, so as not to disturb the sediment or lees. As soon as the wines are clear and bright, after being fined down, they ought to be racked into a sweet and clean cask, — the cask to be filled up and bunged tight. No. 338. Hoio the Bottling of Wine is performed. Fine clear weather is best for bottling all sorts of wines ; and much cleanliness is required. The first consideration in bottling wines is to examine and see if the wines are in a proper state. The wines should be fine and brilliant, or they will never brighten after. White wines, before being bottled, must go through the process of fining. For 1 hogs- head, (or any quantity in proportion, more or less,) take 2 ounces isinglass, and dissolve it in 1 quart water, and mix with 2 quarts of the wine. Red wines are fined by beating to a froth the white of 7 eggs, and mixing them with 3 times the bulk of water ; then, adding 2 quarts of the wine, mix well, and pour it into 1 barrel of your wine. The bottles must be all sound, clean, and dr;y, with plenty of good, sound corks. The cork is to be put in with the hand, and driven well in with a flat wooden mallet, the weight of which ought to be li pounds, but, however, not to exceed li pounds ; for, if the mallet be too light or too heavy, it will not drive the cork in properly, and may break the bottle. The corks must so com- 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 159 pletely fill up the neck of each bottle as to render them air-tight, but leave a space of an inch between the wine and the cork. When all the wine is bottled, it is to be stored in a cool cellar, and on no account on the bottles' bottoms, but on their sides, and in sawdust. No. 339. HoiD to make Currant Wine. To every quart of currant-juice, add 3 pounds sugar and 3 quarts water. Put all together into your cask, (be careful to take such a cask that you can fill up to the bung-hole. Should it not quite fill up your cask, add a little water until it is full.) When your cask is full, leave the bung out, and lay thin gauze or bobinet over the bung-hole, to keep the flies out; let it ferment until it stops. After fermentation, draw it off, and clean out your cask very clean ; return the liquor, bung your cask up tight, and it will be fit for use in 3 or 4 months. If you wish, you can add 1 quart brandy to every 10 gallons before you bung it up tight. J^.B. — The following wines can all be made on the above principle: Morelle jerries, sour jerries, blackberries, elderberries, raspberries, strawberries, and grap^ of every kind. No. 340. How to make Cider Wine. Take 25 gallons good cider, add 1 gallon good French brandy, 4 gallons good wine, \ pound crude tartar, 1 pint new milk. 160 GOO MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 341. How to make Cypress Wine. To 10 gallons soft water, add 5 quarts juice of elderberries. The berries are to be slightly pressed: each quart of the liquid will contain 6 ounces juice: and to the whole quantity add 2 ounces ginger and 1 ounce cloves. Boil the whole for an hour. Skim the liquid, and pour it into a vessel whicli should contain the whole, throwing in IJ pounds bruised grapes, which leave in the liquor until the wine is of a tine colour. No. 342. HoiD to make Ajjple Wine. To every gallon of cider, immediately as it comes from the press, add 2 pounds loaf sugar. Boil it as long as any scum arises, then strain it through a sieve, and let it cool ; add some good yeast, mix it well ; let it work in the tub 2 or 3 weeks, then skim off the head ; draw it off close and tun it; let stand 1 year, tlien rack it off, and add 2 ounces isinglass to the barrel ; then add J pint spirits of wine to every 8 gallons. No. 343. How to boil Sugar- Colouring. Take 3 or 4 pounds brown sugar, boil it well, and burn it so that it tastes very bitter; thin it with water while on the tire ; pour in very little at a time, and keep stirring all the time you are pouring water on it. If you pour too much in at a time, it will ex- plode, and may burn you badly. As soon as the 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE nECEIPTS. IGl sugar commences to boil, you must commence stir- ring, and continue all the time, else it will boil over for you. Very much care is required to make good sugar-colouring. After you have thinned it down to its proper consistency, strain it while warm. No. 344. HoiD to make Simple Syrup. Take 1 pint water to every 2 pounds loaf sugar ; dissolve it over the fire ; remove the scum that will arise ; as soon as it commences to boil, remove It from the fire ; and, while hot, strain it. No. 345. S^ow to make Pure Spirits. Take 38 gallons rectified whiskey, as pure as you can rectify it, 5 degrees above proof, add 1 pound stone-lime, i pound sweet spirits of nitre, 1 pound alum. Put the lime, nitre, and alum into the w^his- key; stir them well together, let stand 24 hours; then add 1 pound liquorice-stick, and | pound winter- bark ; let them stand 36 hours, then draw it off as pure as possible. No. 346. How to make Pure Spirits hy Distillation. Prepare a work as a, copper-still. Take good rec- tified whiskey, for every barrel add 1 bushel fine- pulverized charcoal, 1 pound rock-salt, and 1 pound orris-root; put the whole together in the still with your liquor, and run it ofl'by a slow fire. 2D 162 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 347. How to make Yeast for Distillers, Brewers, with Hops, Take 6 quarts soft water, and 2 handfuls wheat or barle}^ meal ; stir the latter in the water before the mixture is placed over the fire, where it must boil till two-thirds are evaporated. When this de- coction becomes cool, incorporate with it, by means of a whisk, 2 drachms salt of tartar, and 1 drachm cream of tartar, previously mixed. The whole should be kept in a warm place. For bread, it ought to be diluted with pure water, and passed through a sieve, before it is kneaded with the dough, in order to deprive it of its alkaline taste. No. 348. Another Yeast Boil 1 pound good flour, { pound brown sugar, and a little salt, in 2 gallons water for 1 hour; when milk-warm, bottle it and cork it close : it will be fit for use in 24 hours. One pint of this yeast will make 18 pounds of bread. No. 349. How to make a Beer to make Yeast, Take ' 9 gallons boiling water, and let it stand antil it is 170 degrees ; then add 1 peck malt, put it in by degrees ; then let it stand 3 hours until it is settled, then pour it off and add i pound hops ; then boil down to half, which must be strained through a tin strainer, and squeeze the hops out well. This will make about 4 gallons juice, well 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 163 squeezed out ; then let it stand until 90 degrees ; then put into this juice 1 quart good yeast ; let it stand and work for a few days until the foam will fall back ; put the beer into a stone jug, and it will be good for months. N.B. — This is very valuable for distillers and brewers. No. 350. How to make French Haspberry Vinegar, Take a sufficiency of the ripe raspberries, put them into a deep earthen pan, and mash them with a wooden beetle in a large linen bag, and squeeze and press out the liquor into a vessel beneath.- Measure it, and to each quart of the raspberry -juice allow a pound of powdered white sugar and a pint of the best cider vinegar. First mix together the juice and the vinegar, and give them a boil in a preserving-kettle. When it has boiled well, add gradually the sugar, and boil and skim it till the scum ceases to rise. When done, put it into clean bottles, and cork them tightly. It is a very pleasant and cooling beverage in warm weather, and for in- valids who are feverish. To use it, pour out half a tumbler of raspberry vinegar, and fill it up with ice or fresh cool spring- water. No. 351. Sow to make British Champagne. Take gooseberries before they are ripe, crush them with a mallet in a wooden bowl, and to every gallon of fruit put a gallon of water ; let it stand 2 164 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE EECEIPTS. days, stirring it well ; squeeze the mixture well with the hands through a hop-sieve ; then measure the liquor, and to every gallon put 3i pounds loaf sugar ; mix it well in the tub, and let it stand 1 day; put a quart good brandy into the cask, and leave it open 5 or 6 weeks, taking off the scum as it rises ; then make it up, and let it stand 1 year in the barrel before it is bottled. The proportion of brandy to be used for this liquor is 1 pint to 7 gallons. FARRIERY. No. 352. To cure Wounds in Cattle. When horses, cattle, or any of our domestic animals are wounded, the treatment may be very simple, and much the same as with the human race. It is extremely improper to follow a practice that is common in many parts of the country among far- riers, cow-doctors, and even shepherds, — that of ap- plying to the wound, or putting into the sore part, common salt, powder of blue vitriol, or tar, or cloths dipped in spirits, as brandy, rum, &c., or turpentine, or any other stimulant articles ; for all such very much increase the pain, and by irritating the sore may increase the inflammation even to the length of inducing mortification. Though the treatment may be varied according to circumstances, yet, in most cases, it may be sufficient to take notice of the following particulars : — It will be proper to wash away any foulness or dirt about the part, and to examine particularly its condition. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 165 No. 353. To stop the Bleeding, Should an}^ large blood-vessel be cut, and dis- charging copiously, it will be right to stop it, by some lint or sponge, with moderate compression, or bandaging, at the same time, and not taking it off for 2 or 3 days. Should the pressure fail of effect, caustic applications, such as lunar-caustic, or even the actual cautery, the point of a thick wire sufficiently heated, may be tried ; or, if a surgeon be at hand, the vessel may be taken up by a crooked needle, with waxed thread, and then tied. No. 354. Adhesive Plaster and Sewing. When there is no danger of excessive bleeding, and a mere division of the parts, or a deep gash or cut, it will be right to adjust the parts, and keep them together by a strip of any common adhesive plaster; or, when this will not do by itself, the lips of the wound, especially if it be a clean cut, maybe closed by one or more stitches with a moderately coarse needle and thread, which, in each stitch, may be tied, and the ends left of a moderate length, so that they can be afterwards removed when the parts adhere.- It is advisable to tie the threads, because sometimes the wounded part swells so much that it is difficult to get them cut and drawn out without giving pain and doing some mischief. 166 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 355. Bandages, If the part will allow a roller or bandage to be used to keep the lips of it together, this may like- wise be employed ; for, by supporting the sides of the wound, it would lessen any pain which the stitches occasion. With this treatment the wound heals often in a short time, or in a few days, rarely exceeding 5 or 6, and sooner in the young and health}" than in the old and relaxed, and sooner in the quiet and motionless than in the restless and active. Should the wound be large, and inflammation, with the discharge of matter, likely to take place, it may still be proper, by gentle means, to bring the divided parts near to each other, and to retain them in their natural situation by means of a bandage. This should not be made too tight, but merely to support the part. In this way, and by avoiding stimulant applications, the wound will heal more readily than otherwise, and the chance of any blemish following will be diminished. Washes of spirits, brandy, and the like, "Friar's balsam," spirits of wine and camphor, turpentine, or any other irritating applications, are highly improper, and sometimes make a fresh clean wound (that would readily heal almost of itself) inflame and perhaps mortify, or become a bad sore. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 167 No. 356. Sores and Bruises. Over the whole sore, or where the part is bruised, or where there is a teiicleiicj to suppuration, a poul- tice should be applied and kept on by suitable band- ages. The poultice may be made of any kind of meal, fine bran, bruised linseed, or of mashed turnips, carrots, &c. The following has been found useful as a common poultice. " Fine bran, 1 quart ; pour on it a sufficient quantity of boiling water to make a thin paste ; to this add linseed-powder enough to give it a proper consistence." The poultice may be kept on for a week or 10 days, or even longer, if necessary, charvging it once or twice a day ; and clean the wound when the poultice is removed, by washing it by means of a soft rag or linen cloth with water not more than blood-warm, (some sponges are too rough for this purpose ;) or, where the wound is deep, the water may be injected into it by a syringe, in order to clean it from the bottom. No. 357. Ointment In the course of a few days, when the wound, by care and proper management with the poultices, begins to put on a healthy appearance, and seems to be clean and of a reddish colour, not black or bloody, then there may be applied an ointment made of tallow, linseed-oil, beeswax, and hog's lard, in such proportion as to make it of a consistence somewhat firmer than butter. The ointment should be spread on some soft clean tow ; and when applied 168 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. to the sore, it ouglit never to be tied hard upon it, (which is done too frequently, and very improperly,) but only fixed by a bandage of a proper length, (for a mere cord is often improper,) so close and se- curely as to keep it from slipping off. This appli- cation may be changed once a day ; or, when nearly -veil, and discharging but little, once in 2 days. No. 358. Green Ointment for Wounds, Put into a well-glazed earthen vessel 2 ounces beeswax; melt it over a clear fire, and add 2 ounces rosin ; when that is melted, put in J pound hog's lard; to this put 4 ounces turpentine; keep stirring it all the time with a clean stick or wooden spatula. When all is well mixed, stir in 1 ounce finely-powdered verdigris. Be careful that it does not boil over ; strain it through a coarse cloth, and preserve it in a gallipot. This ointment is very good for old and recent wounds, whether in flesh or hoof, — also galled backs, cracked heels, mallender, sallenders, bites, broken knees, &c. No. 359. Treatment, according to apiuarance of the j^art. When the wounded part begins to discharge a whitish, thick matter, and is observed to fill up, the general treatment and dressings to the sore, now mentioned, sliould be continued ; and, in the course of the cure, the animal, when free of fever, may be allowed better provision, and may take gentle exer- cise. If the animal be feeble from the loss of blood 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 169 originally, or from the long continuance of a feverish state produced by the inflammation attending the wound, or from weakness arising from confinement, or connected with its constitution naturally, and if the wound appear to be in a stationary state, very pale and flabby on its edges, with a tliin dis- charge, then better food may be given to it ; and, if still no change should be observed along with the bettor food, the wound may be treated somewhat differently from what has been already advised. The ointment may be made more stimulant, by adding to it some rosin and less beeswax, — or, what would be more stimulant still, some common turpentine ; but it is only in very rare cases that oi- of turpentine can be requisite. The effects of an alteration in the mode of treatment should be par- ticularly remarked, and stimulants should be laid aside, continued, or increased according as may be judged proper. Before changing the dressings ap- plied to the wound, or before rendering them more stimulant and active by using heating applications, the effect of closer bandaging may be tried; for, sometimes, by keeping the parts a little more firmly together the cure is promoted. No. 360. Food and Regimen, In case of severe wounds, attention should be paid to the condition of the animal in other re- spects. There being always in such cases a ten- dency to violent inflammation and fever that may end fatally, means should be employed to moderate 15 170 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. both. The apartment should be cool and airy, and so quiet that the animal should not be disturbed ; the drink should not be warm, but rather cold, and given freely, though not in too large quantities at a time ; the food should be sparingly given, and of a poorer quality than usual, and should be ratlier succulent and laxative than dry or apt to produce costiveness. Bleeding may be employed, either generally from a vein, or in some cases, when it can be done, by cupping from the hurt part, as in the case of a bruise, (though this last will seldom be requisite,) if found convenient ; and it may be done more than once or twice, as may seem proper. Laxative medicines also ought to be given and re- peated as there may be occasion. No. 361. Abscess. These are swellings containing matter, that make their appearance in different parts of the body. The remedies are, first, to bleed, then to wash the swollen part with a quart of vinegar, in which are dissolved 2 ounces sal-ammoniac, and i ounce sugar of lead. If the swelling does not abate in 2 or 3 t days, apply the suppurating poultice. When the a tumour becomes soft and points, open it with a » lancet, and let out the matter. Then dress it with basilicon ointment. No. 362. Anbury or Wart Tie a strong silk, or 2 or 3 horse-hairs, round the 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 171 neck of the wart, tightening it gradually till it falls away. Then dip a piece of tow in alum-water and oind it on the spot for a whole day. Heal the sore with the green ointment. No. 363. The Staggers. Bleed the animal copiously, (the disease is a true apoplexy,) 2J quarts at once ; then give him \ pint linseed-oil, the same of castor-oil, 40 grains calomel, 60 grains jalap, and 2 ounces tincture of aloes. Give him twice a day warm bran mashes. No. 364. For Loss of Appetite. Take 1 quart blood from the neck, and give him a purging ball, made as follows : aloes, 1 ounce ; jalap, 1 drachm; rhubarb, 1 drachm; make into a ball with castor-oil and J drachm ginger. No. 365. Inflamed Bladder. Make the animal drink largely of flaxseed tea, barley or rice water, or any mucilaginous liquid, and inject a portion of the same frequently. Bleed- ing, and a dose of castor-oil, are never to be omitted. After the oil has operated, give the fol- lowing ball every six hours : powdered nitre, J ounce; camphor, 1 drachm; liquorice-powder, 3 drachms ; honey suflicient to form the ball. Should 172 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. these means not relieve the animal, omit the ball, and give 1 drachm opium twice a day. No. 366. Blood Spavin, Clip off the hair from the swelling, and rub all round outside of the swelling with a piece of hard brown soap ; then apply to the swelling a blistei made of the following No. 367. Blistering Ointment Take hog's lard, | ounce ; beeswax, 3 drachms ; sublimate, in fine powder, J drachm; Spanish flies, 2 drachms. Mix them all well, and spread it on white leather, and apply it to the spavin. No. 368. Bone Spavin. This may be treated like the former: it is, how ever, generally incurable. The operation of firing, (which should be done by a professed farrier,) and turning to grass, aftbrd the only reasonable chances of relief. No. 369. Bats. Three kinds of worms infest the bowels of horses, called by the English farriers hots, truncheons, and maw-worms. The hot infests the great gut near 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 173 the anus : it is a small worm with a large head, and may be frequently observed in the dung. The truncheon is short and thick, with a blacldsh head, and is found in the maw, where, if suffered to remain, it sometimes pierces through, and thus is many a fine horse destroyed. The maw-worm is of a pale-red colour, resembling an earth-worm, from 2 to 3 inches long, occupying also the maw. No. 370. Symptoms of Worms in Horses. {Stamping forcibly on the ground with either of his forefeet, and frequently striking at his belly with his hind ones; belly projecting; and hard looking frequently behind him, and groaning as if in great pain. No. 371. Remedies for Worms. Keep the horse from all kinds of food for one day ; at night give him a small quantity of warm bran mash, made as usual, and, directly after, a ball made of 1 scruple calomel, 1 scruple turpeth mineral, and as much crumb of bread and honey as will form the mass, ^ext evening give him a pint of castor and ^ pint of linseed oil. The animal is then to be fed as usual for 2 or 3 days, and the same plan again to be employed. No. 372. Inflammation of the Bowels. This not very common — but, when it does occur, 16* 174 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. dangerous — disorder is of two kinds. The first, or peritoneal, inflammation, begins with an appearance of dulness and uneasiness in the animal; appetite diminished or totally gone ; constant pawing with the forefeet, frequently trying to kick the belly ; he lies down, rises suddenly, looks round to his flanks, — countenance strongly expressive of pain; urine small, high-coloured, and voided with great pain ; pulse quick and small ; legs and ears cold ; profuse sweats ; mortification and death. The second species of the disorder is when the inflammation attacks the internal coat of the intes- tines, and is generally accompanied by a violent purging and some fever. The symptoms of the latter, however, are much less violent ; nor does the animal appear to be in so much pain. No. 373. Treatment. In the first, or peritoneal, inflammation, the only dependence is on early and large bleedings. In addition to this, rub the whole belly well with the mustard embrocation, clothe the animal warmly, (with fresh sheepskins if possible,) insert several rowels about the chest and belly, — putting into them the blistering ointment. As the horse is generally costive, give hi«n a pint of castor-oil, and inject clysters of warm flaxseed tea ; give him warm water, or thin gruel, or flaxseed tea, to drink ; rub his legs with the hands well, and see that he has plenty of clean fresh litter. If in six hours the disease is not relieved, bleed him again ; and should the costive- ness continue, repeat the oil and clysters. If, after 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 175 giving all these remedies a faithful and continued trial, the pain should continue, recourse may be had to the anodyne clyster. In the second species of this disorder, bleeding need not be resorted to unless the febrile symptoms run high. Clothe the horse warmly, use the mus- tard embrocation freely, and omit the oil. Give him frequently, by means of a bottle, (if he will not drink it,) quantities of very thin gruel or flaxseed tea. If in spite of this the disease continues, use the anodyne clyster; if that fail, the astringent draught. The pain occasioned by physicking is to be re- lieved by large clysters of thin gruel of flaxseed, which produce copious evacuations and relief. No. 374. Broken Wind, This is an incurable disease ; all that can be done is to relieve the animal for a time, so as to enable him to perform a day's work. To do this, make the following No. 375.' Pasie-Ball for Broken- Winded Horses. Assafoetida 2 ounces, elecampane 2 ounces, flowers of colt's-foot 2 ounces, powdered squills 2 drachms, linseed powder 1 ounce, honey as much as will make the mass. Divide it into 4 balls, and give 1 morning and evening. Much benefit may result from bleeding in this disorder, at an early period of the complaint. His food should be carrots or 176 600 MISCELLAXEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. turnips. The hay, oats, or whatever is given, should be in small quantities at a time, and always sprinkled with clean, soft water. No, 376. Broken Knees. Apply a poultice of bread and milk, or bread and warm water, to reduce the inflammation; then dress the wound with basilicon. No 377. Burns and Scalds. If slight, apply cold lead-water; if extensive, a liniment made of equal parts of linseed-oil and lime- water. If there is much f'^ver, bleed. No. 378. Canker. Cut away freely all the diseased parts, and if necessary draw the frog; ther apply the following liniment. No. 379. Liniment for Qankc^. "Warm 6 ounces tar, mix with it, drop by drop, 1 ounce, by measure, oil of vitriol; then add 1 ounce oil of turpentine. Bind this ilrmly on the part, destroying all the diseased protubsranoeci with lunar-caustic. When the wound looks liCi?.?!}^;^ ^r^was it with the green ointment. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 177 No. 380. Capped Hocks. If the swelling proceed from a bruise or a blow, bathe it three or four times a day with salt and vinegar, made warm. If it proceed from natural cause, apply the suppurating poultice, and when matter is formed, let it out; then use the green ointment. No. 381. Cold. Take a quart of blood from the neck, then give warm mashes, with a scruple of nitre in them. Purge Avith castor and linseed oil, and keep the stable warm. No. 382. Coiwulsions. Symptoins. — ^The horse raises his head higher than usual, and pricks up his ears ; neck stiff and im- movable, skin tight. He stands in a straddling posture, pants, and breathes with difficulty. Cure. — Bleed him, if his strength will permit it, and his pulse is high, eyes red, etc. ; otherwise not. If you observe bots, or any other kind of worms, pursue the treatment recommended for them. No. 383. Cough. Take 1 quart of blood from the neck, and give the following ball for cough : — Take J ounce Venice 2E 178 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. soap, J- ounce nitre, 10 grains tartar-emetic, and 10 grains opium. Make these into a ball with hone}', and give one every other night. Keep the horse warm, and remedy costiveness by castor-oil. No. 384. Cor7is, Let the farrier cut them out with a sharp knife. Should they show a disposition to grow again, touch them with oil of vitriol, or caustic, and dress them with green ointment. Be careful, in shoeing, not to let the shoe press on the corn. No. 385. Curb. Cauterize the curb in a line down its middle, and then apply the blistering ointment. No. 386. Cracked Heels, Poultice the parts with carrots, or turnips, boiled soft, three or four times; then anoint them with yellow basilicon, mixed with a little green ointment. No. 387. The Gripes. As soon as the disease is observed, give the drauglit oelow^, and a clyster composed of warm water. If there is great pain, with quick pulse, take away 8 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 179 quarts of blood. The belly should be well rubbed with the mustard or other stimulating enibrocation. If no relief is obtained in 2 hours, repeat the draught and embrocation, and should even this fail, give him a pint of castor-oil, with IJ ounces laudanum. If castor-oil cannot be had, IJ pints linseed oil may h*i used. No. 388. Draught for Gripes. No. 1. Take balsam copaiva 1 ounce, oil of juniper 1 drachm, spirits of nitrous ether J ounce, mint-water 1 pint. Mix for 1 dose. No. 389. Diabetes. This disorder, which consists in an involuntary discharge of the urine, which is pale and thin, fre- quently proves fatal. To cure it, take a quart of blood from the neck, and give the following ball:- • No. 390. Ball for Diabetes. Take 4 ounces Peruvian bark, 1 drachm ginger; *f costive after it, give a pint of castor-oil. Repeat, if necessary. No. 391. Eyes. Inflammation of the eyes is often cured by scari- fying with a lancet the inside of the upper and lower 180 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. brow, and the distended vessels of the eye itself. It is to be remembered that in treating an inflam- mation of this important organ we should proceed precisely as if treating a human being k\bouring under the same complaint, and keep the animal ou short allowance, prevent costive ness, keep the stable cool and dark. Soreness or weakness of the eyes is cured by bleeding from the neck and using the following eye-water : — No. 392. IJi/e- Water, JS'o. 1. lit To 1 quart water put 3 drachms sugar of lead, 'and 2 drachms white vitriol. When dissolved, let it settle, and pour oiF the clear liquor for use. A drop may be put into each eye, 3 times a day, with a feather. No. 393. Film, or Cataract. There is no remedy for this but an experienced farrier. There are a variety of washes, etc., recom- mended by various authors, but they are useless. No. 394. Farcy. This disease commences in small, hard knots, which soon become soft and ulcerous, generally situated on the veins and extending upwards. It is a contagious disorder, and not unfrequently ends in the glanders. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 181 No. 395. Cvjre for Farcy, Open the ulcers, and touch the inside of the edges shghtly with powdered verdigris, by means of a caniel's-hair pencil. At the same time give the fol- lowing ball: White arsenic 8 grains, and corrosive sublimate 6 grains, powdered and mixed with flour or bread, or any other vehicle that will form a ball with molasses. Keep the animal warm, mix chopped carrots with his mashes. Intermit one day, and give a similar ball ; if it purge, add 10 grains opium to it. Attend constantly to the ulcers; wash them with warm soap-suds, and keep the animal by him- self; if the disease gains the nostrils and head, and becomes glanders, shoot him at once. There is no remedy. No. 396. Grease. Wash the part well with warm soap-suds twice a day, and if the swelling is great apply a poultice to it ; when the so-res are cleansed, touch them with a rag or feather dipped in the vulnerary-water. No. 397. Foundered Feet. This is known by the contraction of the hoot, which will appear considerably smaller than the sound one. The horse just touches the ground with the toe of the foundered foot, on account of pain, 16 182 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. and stands in such a tottering way that you may shove him over with your hand. Cure. — Take oiF the shoe, bleed freely from the thigh-vein, and purge 2 or 3 times. Keep the hair close-trimmed and the parts clean. No. 398. Hoof-Bound, Cut several lines from the coronet down to the toe, all round the hoof, and fill the cuts with tallow and soap mixed. Take off the shoes and (if you can spare him) turn the animal into a wet meadow, where his feet will be kept moist. ITever remove the sole nor burn the lines down, as this increases the evil. No. 399. Lampass. This consists in a swelling of the first bar of the upper palate. It is cured by rubbing the swelling two or three times a day with half an ounce of alum and the same quantity of double-refined sugar mixed with a little honey. No. 400. Laxity, Never attempt to stop the discharge too suddenly or too soon ; this conmion but erroneous practice has killed many fine horses. To begin the cure, give the following Mild purgative-ball : Rhubarb, in powder, 1 ounce; magnesia, J ounce j calomel, 1 scruple ; oil of anise- 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 183 seed, 1 drachm. Make up a ball with honey and liquorice-powder. 'Next day give the horse 1 fluid- ounce liquid laudanum, with 20 grains tartar-emetic, in a pint of water. On the third day, repeat the purge, then the drench, until the animal is well. No. 401. Inflammation of the Lungs. Bleed the animal copiously as soon as the com- plaint is perceived, and repeat in six hours if the fever, quickness of breathing, &;c. do not abate. Blister his sides, rowel the chest, and give the follow- ing ball, which is to be taken, morning and evening, until the stallino; is considerably increased : one day will then be sufficient. Grass or bran mashes should be the food. The ball : Powdered nitre, 6 drachms ; camphor, 1 drachm ; as much syrup and linseed-meal as will form the ball. No. 402. Mallenders. "Wash the cracks well with warm soap-siids and a sponge, and then with the vulnerary-water, twice every day. Wipe the parts dry, and apply the green ointment. No. 403. Mange. "Wash with soap-suds and vulnerary-water, and purge with castor-oil. Feed the horse well, and work him moderately. 184 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 404. 3folten Grease. Bleed and purge moderately, and feed regularlj* on a diminished allowance. No. 405. Poll-EviL Bring the swelling to a head, as any other tumour, by the suppurating poultice, w^hich is made as fol- lows : — No. 406. Suioimrating Fouliice, Take four handfuls of bran and three middling- sized turnips ; boil them till soft, and beat them well together; then boil them again in milk to a thick poultice, adding to it 2 ounces linseed and J pound hog's lard. No. 407. Quitter, Make an opening for the matter to descend from all the neighbouring sinuses. Keep the parts well cleaned with warm soap-suds; then inject the vul- nerary-water into the sinuses. If there is a core, touch it with caustic; w^hen this is discharged; dress with the green ointment. No. 408. Ringbone. If recent, blister the part; if an old aliectioc, recourse must be had to firing. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 185 No. 409. Sand' Crack, Eemove the shoe, and ascertain carefully the extent of the injary. If the crack is superficial, fill it with the composition below, and keep the foot cool and moist. If the crack has extended to the sensitive parts, and you can see any fungus flesh, with a sn\all drawing-knife remove the edges of the ciacked horn that press upon it. Touch the fungus with caustic, dip a roll of tow or linen in tar, and bind it firmly over it. The whole foot is to be kept in a bran poultice for a few days, or until the lameness is removed. A shoe may tlien be put on so as not to press on the diseased part. The pledget of tow may now be removed, the crack filled with the compo- sition, and the animal turned into some soft meadow. No. 410. Comjposition for Sand- Crack. Take 4 ounces beeswax, 2 ounces yellow rosin, 1 ounce turpentine, and J ounce tallow or suet: to be melted together. • No. 411. Siifasts Are horny substances on the back, under the saddle. Take hold of them with a pair of pincers and cut them out radically. Leave no part behind, or they will grow again. Dress the wound with green oint- ment. 16» 186 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 412. Sallenders Require the same treatment as mallenders, which see. No. 413. Strains. In whatever part of the body this accident occurs, the treatment should be perfect rest, moderate bleed- ing, and purging till the inflammation is reduced, when any stimulating embrocation may be used. No. 414. Strangury. Take away 1 quart of blood, and throw up a laxa- tive clyster; then give 1 ounce saltpetre and 1 fluid- ounce sweet spirits of nitre in a pint of water. No. 415. Strangles. This is known by a swelling between the jaw-bone and the root of the tongue. If a large tumour appear under the jaw, apply the suppurating poultice. When it is ripe, open it, squeeze out the matter, and re- apply a warm poultice. In a few days it will run oflf. Give warm bran mashes and s:entle exercise. &' No. 416. Thrush. 9 Kemove the shoe, and pare oflTall the ragged parts 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE R^GEIPTS. 187 SO as to expose the diseased parts. After cleaning the frog nicely, apply a solution of blue vitriol, and shortly after pour some melted tar-ointment into the cleft of the frog and cover its whole surface with tow soaked in the same ; and place on the tow a flat piece of wood, about the width of the frog, one of its ends passing under the toe of the shoe, the other extending to the back part of the frog, and oound down by cross-pieces of wood, the ends of which are placed under the shoe. Eepeat the dressing every dav. No. 417. Vives. This is a disease most common to young horses, and consists in a long swelling of the parotid gland, beginning at the roots of the ears and descending downward. If it is painful and inflamed, apply the poultice; if it suppurates, open the lump, let out the matter, and dress with the green ointment. If it is hard and indolent, apply strong mercurial oint- ment, to disperse it, and bleed moderately. No. 418. t Wind- Galls. These swellings appear on each side of the back sinew, above the fetlock. It is dangerous to punc- ture them, as is sometimes done, as it may produce an incurable lameness. Tio^ht bandasres and moist- ening the parts frequently with a strong solution of sal-ammoniac in vinegar may do some good. 188 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 419. Wounds. All the rules laid down in this book for the treat- ment of wounds in the human subject apply strictly to horses. As in simple cuts, however, sticking- plaster cannot be used, the edges of the wound should be neatly stitched together. Much can be done also by the judicious application of bandages. Farriers generally are in the habit of pursuing such absurd, cruel, and fatal practices in these cases, either by cutting off a part that appears to be partly torn from its connection, or by using stimulating applications, that it becomes necessary to repeat again that all the rules laid down for the treatment of wounds in this work as applicable to man are equally so to the noble animal of which we are speaking. Read over these rules, substitute the word "horse" for "patient," and you will be at no loss how to proceed. No. 420. Bleeding in General. Bleeding is often the most useful and efficacious means of curing diseases in horses. In inflamma- tory affections, it is generally the first remedy re- sorted to; and its immediate salutary effects are often surprising. When it is necessary to lessen the whole quantity of blood in the system, open the jngular or neck vein. If the inflammation is local, bleed, where it can be conveniently done, either from the part afiected 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 189 or in its vicinity, as by opening the plate vein, super- ficial vein of the thigh, or temporal arteries. In fevers of all kinds, and when inflammation at- tacks any important organ, as the brain, eyes, lungs, stomach, intestines, liver, kidney's, bladder, &c., bleeding is of the greatest use. It diminishes the quantity of blood in the body, and by this means prevents the bad consequences of inflammation. The quantity of blood to be taken varies according to the age, size, condition, and constitution of the horse, and the urgency of the symptoms. From a large, strong horse, 4 or 6 quarts will generally be requisite; and this may be repeated in smaller quantities if the symptoms demand it. The blood, in these diseases, must flow from a large orifice made in the vein. A horse should never be suffered to bleed upon the ground, but into a measure, in order that the proper quantity may be taken. Horses have sometimes much constitutional irrita- tion, which bleeding relieves. But in these affections it is very rarely necessary to bleed to the same ex- tent as in fevers, &c. ; 2 or 3 quarts generally suffi 3 TO be taken away. No, 421. Fulness of Blood. Moderate bleeding, as from 2 to 4 quarts, is also used to remove fulness of habit, or plethora, attended with slight inflammatory symptoms. In this case the eyes appear heavy, dull, red, or inflamed, frequently closed as if asleep; the pulse small and oppressed; the heat of the body somewhat increased ; the legs 190 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. swell, the hair also rubs off. Horses that are re- moved from grass to a warm stable, full fed on hay and corn, and not sufficiently exercised, are very subject to one or more of these symptoms. Regulating the quantity of food given to him, proper exercise, and occasional laxatives, as the following powder, will be commonly found sufficient after the tirst bleeding, and operation of an aloetlc purge. In slight affections of this kind, a brisk purge will often alone be sufficient. No. 422. Laxative and Diaphoretic Powder. Take of crocus of antimony, finely levigated, nitre, cream of tartar, and flour of sulphur, each 4 ounces. Powder and mix them well together for use. One tablespoonful of this mixture may be given every night and morning, in as much scalded bran, or a feed of corn m'oistened with water, that the powder may adhere thereto. This powder will be found excellent for such horses as are kept on dry food, whether they be in the stable or travel on the road; also for stallions in the spring of the year, as they not only keep the body cool and open, but cause him to cast his coat, and make his skin appear as bright as silk. No. 423. Purging. In obstinate grease and swellings of the legs, ac- companied with lameness of the joints, dry coughs, 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 191 worms, diseases of the skin, farcy, apoplexy or stag- gers, affections of the liver, and several other diseases treated of in this book, mercurial purges are of the greatest service. The purges destroy worms, gene- rally increase the flow of urine, operate upon the skin, liver, and other viscera in a peculiar manner, cause a healthful action in these parts, and remove many chronic complaints incident to the horse. Great caution is necessary during their operation, lest the horse take cold. The water given him must be warm, and when exercised he should be properly clothed. Horses that are kept on dry food, and are full fed, with little or no exercise, require regular purging every six months, with 2 or 3 doses each time, allowing proper intervals between each; and those horses which run in stage-coaches, (whose labour is often more than their natural strength is able to bear,) and those whose legs are inclined to swell, all require purgative medicines, the use of which w^ould be a means of preventing many .of the diseases that attack this useful animal. No. 424. To prepare Horses for Physic. After violent exercise, horses are liable to lose their appetite, and to have their stomach loaded with ?,rudities and undigested matter, the non- removal of which by the use of proper physic is the chief cause why so many die daily. Previous to administering a purge, the body should be prepared. The proper method of prep»rmg a horse" for 192 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. ph3'8ic is to give him 2 or 3 mashes of scaldec^ bran and oats, and warm water, for 3 or 4 daya together. This will soften the faeces and promote the operation of the medicine. But if a strong purge be given to a horse of costive habit with- out preparation, it will probably occasion a violent inflammation. No. 425. Furgative Balls for Horses. Take of Barbadoes aloes 7^ ounces, Castile soap 1| ounces, powdered ginger 1\ ounces, oil of anise- seed 2 drachms, syrup a sufficient quantity to make 6 balls, each of which is a dose. No. 428. Brink to check Orer-Purglng. Take of prepared chalk, ginger, and anise-seed, m powder, each 1 ounce, essential oil of peppermint 15 drops, rectified spirits of wine \ ounce. Mix the whole in a pint and a half of warm linseed gruel, and give it. Another. — Take of prepared chalk 2 ounces, anise- seed and caraway-seed, prepared, each 1 ounce, opium \ drachm. Mix, and give it in a pint of linseed gruel. No. 427. Astringent Drink after Looseness. If the looseness continues after the above drink has been administered for 2 or 3 days, the following may be given: — 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RL:CEIPTS. 193 Take of pomegranate-shell, in powder, and pre- pared testaceous powder, each 1 onnce, Dover's powders, and ginger pow^dered, each 2 drachms. Mix, and give in a pint of warm gruel, and repeat twice a day. No. 428. Cough Drink. Take of Barbadoes tar, anisated balsam of sul- phur, each 1 ounce. Incorporate them with the yolk of an Qgg', then add nitre 1 ounce, ginger \ ounce, tincture of opium 1 ounce. Mix them to- gether. Let this drink be gradually mixed in a pint of warm ale or linseed tea, and give it in the morning, fasting; let the horse stand without food for 2 hours after, then give him a mash of scalded bran and oats and warm water. Repeat every othei morning, three or four times. No. 429. Fever-Balls for Horses. Take of antimonial powder, tartarized antimony, and camphor, each 1 drachm, nitre, and Castile soap, each 2 drachms, Barbadoes aloes 2 drachms. Mix, and beat them into a ball with syrup of buckthorn. Let this ball be given to the horse about 2 hours after bleeding, and in 6 hours after giving him the ball, let him have the folio wiuir Purgative drink. — Take of Epsom salts 4 ounces, niire \ ounce, coarse sugar 2 tablespoonfuls. Dissolve them' in a quart of gruel, then add 10 2P 194 600 MISCEiLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. ounces castor-oil. Mix it while new-milk-warm. After the first ball given, the aloes may be left out, and then the ball and drink may be given once a day (one in the morning and the other in the evening,) until a proper passage be obtained. No. 430. Powerful llixiure for Fevers. If the fev«er still continues to increase, it will be proper to take a little more blood from him, and then to have recourse to the following fever-powder. Take of emetic tartar 1 ounce, calcined antimony 2 ounces, calcined hartshorn 1 ounce. Mix, and grind them in a mortar to a fine powder; then put them in a bottle for use. 2 drachms of these powders are a proper dose for a horse. A dose of this powder, with an ounce of nitre, may be given twice or three times a day, in a pint of warm gruel, or to be made into a ball with con- serve of roses. If the fever be violent, and the horse in a raging state, | ounce tincture of opium may be added to each dose of powders. No. 431. Drink for an Inflammatory/ Fever, Take of tartar-emetic 1 drachm, prepared kali I ounce, camphor 1 drachm, rubbed into powder, with a few drops spirits of wine. This drink is excellent for all kinds of inflammatory fevers, especially such as are attended with im 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 195 minent danger. It may be given every 4 hours, or 3 times a day, in a pint of water-gruel. No. 432. Purging-Ball for Jaundice, Take of Barbadoes aloes from 4 to 5 draclims, white antimonial powder, and Castile soap, each 2 drachms, calomel 1 drachm. Mix, and beat them into a ball with a sufficient quantity of syrup of buckthorn. The horse should have a couple of mashes the day before this ball is given, by way of preparation, and the ball should be given fasting the morning follow- ing; let him. fast for 2 hours after, then give him a mash of scalded bran and oats, with warm water, and treat him in the same manner as for other physic. No. 432i. Hove or Hoven in Cattle. — Mr. Gowen's simple Eemedy, He says, Let a straw or hay rope, made of two strands of thumb rope laid or twisted together, be introduced between the jaws of the animal bridle- wise, drawing it back by both ends, and tying it tightly around the roots of the horns at the back of the head, till the jaws are fully opened and gagged. If this is done in the stall and the animal is able to stand or walk, it should be turned out at once and kept moving about, when in a few minutes the dis- tension will subside and all will be well again. 196 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 433. Restorative Balls after Jaundice. Take of gentian and carawaj-seeds, in powder, •each 8 ounces, powdered ginger, and precipitated sulphur of antimony, each 6 drachms, Castile soap, ' 1^ ounces, and honey sufficient to form into 6 balls. One of these balls should be given every other day for some time. No. 434. Pectoral Balls for Broken Wind, Take of Barbadoes tar, Venice turpentine, and Castile soap, each 2 ounces, squills in powder, 1 ounce ; then add nitre 2 ounces, anise-seed and caraway-seeds, fresh powdered, each 1 ounce ; beat them into a mass with honey and liquorice-powder, and divide into 10 balls. No. 435. Alterative Balls for Surfeit^ Mange^ ^"C. Take of precipitated sulphur of antimony and gentian-root, and Socotrine aloes, each 1 ounce, in fine powder, nitre 2 ounces, calomel and can- tharides, in powder, each 2 drachms. Mix, and make them into a mass of balls with honey or molasses. Each ball to weigh 1^ ounces. This ball will be found very useful in many dis- eases, such as surfeit, hide-bound, mange, grease or swelled legs, lameness of the joints, molten grease, Inflammation of the eyes, and, indeed, in all linger- ing and obstinate diseases. One ball may be given every other morning for 2 or 3 weeks. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 197 No. 436. Astringent Ball for Profuse Staling, Take of galls and alum, in fine powder, each 2 aiv>chms ; Peruvian bark, I ounce. Make into a ball with honey or molasses. ](: will be proper to repeat this ball every morn- ing, and, if the disease is obstinate, every night and uiortJng, and continue until the urine is diminished to abvUt its natural quantity. No. 437. Restorative Balls for Profuse Staling. TaLv. of gentian-root, in powder, \ ounce, ginger, powderea, 2 drachms, alum 1 drachm, molasses sufficient iv:> make into a ball. No. 438. Ifercurial Balls for Worms, Take of c:silorael and Castile soap, each, 1 drachm^ wormseed, in powder, | ounce. Beat them into & ball with syrup of buckthorn. This ball should be given at night, and the follow- ing drink or purgitig-ball the next morning : — No. 439. DrcJik for Worms. Take of Barbadoes aloes from 3 to 6 drachms, (ac- cording to their size and strength,) wormseed and gentian in powder, each, -| ounce, caraway-seed, in powder, 1 ounce; mix, and give in a pint of strong decoction of wormwood, and repeat in about 4 or 5 17» 198 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. da^'s ; but omit giviug the mercurial ball after the first time. No. 440. Piirging-Ball for Worms. Take of Barbadoes aloes 8 drachms, ginger, Cas- tile soap, and oil of savin, each, 2 drachms, syrup of buckthorn sufficient to make them into a ball. This purge is calculated for a strong horse ; but it may be made weaker by lessening the quantity of aloes to 6 or 7 drachms, which is in general suffi- cient after a mercurial ball. The horse should have mashes, warm water, and proper exercise. No. 441. Stomach-Drink after the Expulsion of the Worms. Take of compound spirit of ammonia, and sweet spirits of nitre, each 1 ounce, gentian-root, in powder, \\ ounces, Peruvian bark and hicra-picra, in powder, each, I ounce, horse-spice 2 ounces. Mix the whole in .3 pints of ale, and divide into 3 parts, and give one part every morning, fiisting. Two hours after, give him a mash and warm water. The virtues of this drink deserve the highest recom- mendation in restoring horses which have been much reduced by some long-continued disease, as in lowness ot spirits, debility, and relaxation of the solids, a loss of appetite, and for such also as are over-ridden either in the field or on the road. No. 442. Balls for the Staggers. Take of James's powder 2 drachms, turmeric and cream of tartar, each, \ ounce. Make them into a \ 600 MISCELLAXEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 199 ball, with conserve of roses or honey a sufficient quantity. No. 443. Clyster for Convulsions. Take of linseed and valerian-root, each, 4 ounces; boii them in 3 quarts of water to 4 pints; add Epsom salts 4 ounces, assafcetida | ounce, opium 2 drachms. Dissolve the whole in the above while hot, and apply it new-milk-warra. This is a most powerful clyster in all disorders of the intestines that are attended with pain and con- vulsions or spasms in those parts, such as a violent attack of the colic proceeding from an obstruction of the urinary passage. No. 444. To cure Gripes in Horses, This (li^^order goes by different names in different districts of the country ; as fret, — from the uneasiness attending it; bots, — from its being thought to arise from these animals or worms, &c. The animal looks dull and rejects his food ; becomes restless and un- easy, frequently pawing; voids his excrements in small quantities, and often tries to stale ; looks round, as if toward his own flank or the seat of complaint ; soon appears to get worse, often lying down, and sometimes suddenly rising up, or at times trying to roll, even in the stable, &c. As the dis- order goes on, the pain becomes more violent ; he appears more restless still, kicks at his belly, groans, rolls often, or tumbles about, with other marks of great agitation ; becomes feverish, and has a cold 200 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. moisture at the roots of his ears and about hia flanks, and, when he lies at rest a little while, begins to perspire strongly, and to get covered with sweat more or less profuse. In most cases of ordinary gripes, signs of flatu- lence, or of the presence of air confined in the bowels, occur, and constitute a part of the disease, or increase it. The removal of it is, therefore, an object to which the attention of most grooms has been in a chief degree directed ; and as it can frequently be got rid of, and the disease cured, by exciting the powerful action of the intestines, cordial and stimu- lating medicines are had recourse to, and no doubt in many have afforded relief. Some farriers, indeed, without much care in distinguishing cases, almost exclusively rely upon such, and employ them too freely. This, however, should not be done ; for it sometimes happens that disorders not unlike flatu- lent colic or gripes occur when there is neither pent-up air present, nor any relaxation or want of energy and action in the intestines themselves ; and stimulating medicines might then do no good, but often much mischief. When the disorder is early discovered, or has newly come on, it will be proper to lose no time to get ready a clyster, and likewise a medicinal draught for removing the wind and abating the pain. After removing with the hand any excrement in the great gut that can be reached by it, a clyster, made of 5 or 6 quarts of water or water-gruel, blood-warm, and 6 or 8 ounces of common salt, may be ijijected ; and one or the other of the following draughts may be o-iven before, or about the same time: — I 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 201 No. 445. Draught for the same. No. 2. Take of Venice turpentine 1 ounce, beat it up with the yolk of an Qgg, and then add of pepper- mint-water, or even of common water, if the other is not at hand, li pints and 2 ounces of whiskey or gin. This will serve for one dose. Another. — Take of table-beer, a little warmed, 1| pints, common pepper, or powdered ginger, 1 tea- spoonful ; gin, whiskey or rum, from 2 to 4 ounces or from 1 to 2 glassfuls : these mix together for one dose. Another. — Oil of turpentine 1 ounce, and water- gruel 1| pints, mixed, tor a dose. These and the like preparations may be given, either out of a bottle or drench-horn, one or two persons raising and keeping properly up the horse's head, while another, who administers the medicine, pulls out, and a little aside, the tongue, with his left hand, and with the other pours in the draught. No. 446. Further Treatment. Cordial drenches of the kinds recommended, with the clyster, will have the effect, in ordinary cases, to relieve the disorder. But should this not be the case, after waiting an hour or two, (longer or shorter ac- cording to the severity of the ailment, or the period since its commencement,) then the medicine should be repeated, but in a less dose than at first, — perhaps one-half or two-thirds of the former quantity. The horse should be occasionally walked out, properly 202 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. covered with cloths, lest the chill air bring on shi- vering and give rise to feverishness; and his belly should be now and then rubbed a considerable tiniQ at once, 5 or 10 minutes, but with intervals of rest, so that it may have time to stale or dung. If the disorder does not yield to these remedies, then others must be employed of a more active nature. Some persons recommend castor-oil, in the propor- tion of half a pint to a pint, with an ounce or two of laudanum or tincture of opium, mixed with water-gruel in the quantity of a pint or rather less. In case the horse has lain down, and continued so for some time, and is covered with sweat, when he rises, two or more persons should be employed to rub him dry; and he should also be kept well clothed. The stable should be airy, moderately cool, and his place in it roomy and well littered, to keep him from hurting himself should he roll about. No. 447. Wliite's Ball for Gripes. Draughts of liquid medicine operate more speedily than any other form ; but, as the disorder may attack a horse during a journey, where such cannot readily be procured, Mr. White has given a receipt for a ball for the convenience of those who travel ; and if it be wrapped up closely in a piece of bladder, it may be kept a considerable time without losing its power. The ball is composed of the following ingredients, viz. : Castile soap, 3 drachms ; camphor, 2 drachms ; ginger, li drachms ; and Venice turpentine, 6 drachms : to be made into a ball for one do^e. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 203 No. 448. Laudanum Draught. Laudanum may be used in cases of urgency, es- pecially in the wet or lax gripes. Take a quart of beer, and make it a very little warmer than blood- heat ; then put a tablespoonful of powdered ginger into it, and a small wineglassful of laudanum, just before it is given to the horse. This, in most cases, will give ease in a short time; but, if the complaint is exceedingly violent, give about half the above quantity again in 15 or 20 minutes. As soon as the pain seems to be abated, if the belly is costive, giv.e the horse a purgative. In case of looseness, no pur- gative must be given: the laudanum, which is of a binding nature, will correct it. When pain is occasioned by inflammation, it is seldom proper to employ opium, or any medicine of that kind ; but when it depends upon spasm or irri- tation, no medicines are so beneficial. In inflamma- tion of the bowels, for example, opium would cer- tainly do much injury; but in flatulent or spasmodic colic, or gripes, it seldom fails of success. No. 449. Another Anodyne Medicine. When horses are affected with colic, or where tlic use of anodynes is requisite, the following prepu::- tion may be given, namely : opium, 1 drachm, or GO grains; Castile soap, 2 drachms ; and powdered anise- seed, 1 ounce, or 4 drachms : to be made into a ball with syrup for one dose. 204 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. In speaking of the medicines for gripes, or the flatulent colic, sometimes termed fret, Mr. White mentions, '' Domestic remedies may be employed when proper medicines cannot be procured in time. For this purpose a draught may be readily made up of a pint of strong peppermint-water, with about 4 ounces of gin, and any kind of spice." Another. — A pint of Port wine, with spice or ginger. Another. — Half a pint of gin diluted with 4 ounces water, and a little ginger. Another. — Take of Epsom salts, 6 ounces ; Castile soap, sliced, 2 ounces. Dissolve them in IJ pints warm gruel ; then add tincture of opium, J ounce ; oil of juniper, 2 drachms. Mix, and give them new- milk- warm. This drink may be repeated every 4 or 5 hours, till the symptoms begin to abate. No. 450. The same ichen on a Journey, Take tincture of opium, and oil of jumper, each, 2 drachms ; sweet spirits of nitre, tincture of benzoin, and aromatic spirit of ammonia, each \ ounce. Mix them together in a bottle for one drink, and give it in a pint of warm gruel. For the colic, flatulency, and colicky pains of the intestines, this drink will be found a valuable cordial. Another. — The complaint may . oe removed by warm beer and ginger, or a cordia. ball mixed with warm beer. It is necessary to repeat the caution given respect- 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS 205 *iig the necessity of distinguishing the flatulent, or windy, or spasmodic colic, from the inflammatory one, and from that which depends on^ costiveness. It is always necessary to empty the bowels by means of clysters ; and, should the horse have ap- peared dull and heavy previous to the attack, it wih be advisable to bleed. If costiveness attends it, give a laxative drench after the paroxysm, which will prevent its return. No. 451. To cure Surfeit or bad Coat in Horses. Take crocus metallorum, or liver of antimony, 1 ounce ; sprinkle it with water, or mix it with moist bran. This may be given to horses subject to this disorder once a day, among their oats : it relieves the appetite, destroys worms, sweetens the blood, against all obstructions opens the passage, and im proves tired and lean horses in a great degree ; it is also of great service in coughs and shortness of breath. It may be given daily from 2 to 4 weeks, and will soon produce a fine coat. The horse may be worked while he is taking the medicine, care being taken not to expose him to wet or cold. No. 452. Urine-Balls for Horses. Mix together 1 ^unce oil of juniper, 1 ounce bai sam of sulphur, 2 ounces Venice turpentine, 4 ounces sal-prunella, and 1 pound black rosin. Melt all together gently, over a slow fire, in an la 206 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. iron pot, and make up into balls of the size of a nutmeg. Another. — Take nitre, 3 pounds ; rosin, 3 pounds ; soap, li pounds; juniper-berries, 1 pound; oil of juniper, li ounces. To be made up into balls, of the common size, with spirits of turpentine. No. 453. Bemedy for Lameness in Horses, Mr. Sewell, of the Veterinary College, stated ms having discovered a method of curing horses which are lame in the forefeet. It occurred to him that this lameness might originate in the nerves of the foot, near the hoof; and in consequence he imme- diately amputated about an inch of the diseased nerve, — taking the usual precaution of guarding the arteries and passing ligatures, &c. By this means the animal was instantly relieved from pain, and the lameness perfectly cured. No. 454. To Cure the Thrush in Horses' Feet. Simmer over the fire, till it turns brown, equal parts of honey, vinegar, and verdigris, and apply it with a feather or brush occasionally to the feet. The horse at the same time should stand hard, and all soft dung and straw be removed. No. 455. Ointment for llange. Take common turpentine, 1 pound ; quicksilver, 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 207 4 ounces; hog's lard, J pound; flour of sulphur, 4 ounces ; train-oil, J- pint. Grind the quicksilver with the turpentine, in a marble mortar, for 5 or 6 hours, until it completely disappears ; and add a little oil of turpentine to make it rub easier ; then add the remainder, and work them all well together till united. This ointment must be well rubbed on every part affected, in the open air, if the sun shine and the weather be warm ; but, if it be winter, take the horse to a blacksmith's shop, where a large bar of iron must be heated, and held at a proper distance over him, to w^arm the ointment. No. 456. Liniment for the Mange. Take white precipitate, 2 ounces; strong mer cnrial ointment, 2 ounces ; sulphur of vivum, 1 pound ; flour of sulphur, J pound ; rape-oil, 2 quarts. First grind the white precipitate in a little oil; afterwards add the remainder, taking care that thej are well mixed. This liniment must be well rubbed in with a hard brush, in the open air, provided the day be fine and the weather warm. If the horse draws in a team, the inside of the collar must be washed, or the in- side of the saddle, if a saddle-horse ; for the disease is highly contagious. No. 457. Eye- Water. No. 2. Take camphor, 2 drachms, dissolved in 2 ounces 208 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. rectified spirits of wine ; Gould's extract, 1 ounce ; rose-water, 1 quart. Shake all together in a bottle for use. Let the eye and the eyelids be well bathed 3 or 4 times a day with a clean linen rag dipped in the eye-water. No. 458. For Iiiflammation of the Lungs, Take white antimonial powder, 2 drachms; pre- pared kah, I ounce ; Castile soap, 2 drachms ; aro- matic confection, \ ounce. Beat them into a ball. This ball must be given to the horse as soon as it can be prepared, after he has been bled ; and con tinue it 2 or 3 times a day as long as the inflamma- tion continues. About six hours after, give him a purging drink, and repeat it every night and morn ing until a passage is obtained, or the bowels are sufficiently opened. No. 459. Embrocation for Sprains. Take of soap-liniment and camphorated spirits of wine, of each 8 ounces, and oil of turpentine, J ounce. Mix, and shake when used. This evaporating and discutient embrocation is well calculated to remove pain and inflammation, which is generally effected in the course of a fort- night or three weeks. During that time the horse should not be allowed to go out of the stable or farm-yard. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 209 No. 460. Bracing Mixture for Sprains. After the above embrocation the following bracing n^ixture must be rubbed on the part once a day. Take of Egyptiacum, 2 ounces; oil of turpentine, 1 ounce. Shake well together; then add cam- phorated spirits of wine and compound tincture of benzoin, each 1 ounce, and vinegar, 11 ounces. Mix, and shake well together every time it is used. No. 461. jPasie to stop Bleeding. Take of fresh nettles, 1 handful, and bruise them in a mortar. Add blue vitriol, in powder, 4 ounces; wheat flour, 2 ounces ; wine vinegar, J ounce ; oil of vitriol, J ounce. Beat them all together into a paste. Let the wound be filled up with this paste, and a proper pledget of tow laid over the mouth, in order to prevent it from falling out, and then bandage it on with a strong roller. This dressiiig must remain on the wound 10 or 12 hours. No. 462. Ointment for Scratched Heels. Take of hog's lard, 1 pound ; white lead, 4 ounces • alum, in fine powder, 2 ounces ; white vitriol, 1 ounce; «ugar of lead, | ounce; olive-oil, 3 ounces. Grind all the pow|lers in a marble mortar with the oil, or on a marble slab ; then add the lard, and work the whole together till united. This is a neat composition, and very proj^er to 2G 210 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE REOEIPTS. keep in the stable during the winter. It will not only be found useful for greasy and scratched heels, but also for stubs and treads of every description. A small quantity must be rubbed on the part affected every night and morning, in slight cases; out in treads, or wounds upon the heels, it will be best to spread the ointment on pledgets of tow and secure them with bandages. No. 463. Astringent Embrocation for Strains in different parts. Take of camphor, 2 drachms, dissolved in J ounce strong rectified spirits of wine; nitre, 1 ounce, dis- solved in J pint wine vinegar; spirits of turpentine, 4 ounces ; white lead, or Armenian bole, in powder, J ounce ; aqua-fortis, 1 ounce. Mix, and shake them all together in a bottle for use. No. 464. Ifixture for Canker in the Mouth. Take of wine vinegar, J pint; burnt alum and common salt, each 1 ounce ; Armenian bole, J ounce. Mix, and shake them together in a bottle for use. It will be proper to dress the horse's mouth with tliis mixture, every morning and evening, in the fol- lowing manner: — Take a small cane, or a piece of whalebone, half a yard long, and tie a linen rag, or a little tow, round one end; then dip it into the i^iixture, pass it up liis mouth, and gentlj' remove it to all the affected partd. Let him chanp it well about in his mouth; after which let him fast an hour, then give food as usual. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 211 No. 465. Distemper among Cattle, Examine your cow's mouth, though she appears very well; and if you find any pimple in it, or on the tongue, or if you perceive any within the skin ready to come out, immediately house her, keep her warm, and give her warm tar-water. To a large beast give 1 gallon ; to a small one, 3 quarts. Give it four times every day, but not every time the quan- tity you first gave. Lessen the dose by degrees, but never give less than 2 quarts to a large beast, nor less than 3 pints to a small one ; and house her every night for some time, and give her warm gruel a id malt mash. No. 466. To make Tar - Water for Cows. Take 1 quart tar, put to it 4 quarts water, and stir it very well 10 or 12 minutes ; let it stand a little while, and then pour it off for use. You must not put water to the same tar more than twice. Let the first dose be made of fresh tar. Continue to give it till the beast is well. Don't let her go too soon abroad. No. 467. For the Garget in Cows. This disorder is very frequent in cows after ceasing to be milked ; it afi:ects the glands of the udder with hard swellings, and often arises from the animal not being clean milked. It may be removed by anoint- ing the part three times a day with a little ointment composed of camphor and blue ointment. Half a 212 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. drachm or more of calomel may be given in warm beer, from a horn or bottle, for three or four morn- ings, if the disorder is violent. No. 468. To cure the Red Water in Cattle. Take 1 ounce Armenian bole, | ounce dragon's blood, 2 ounces Castile soap, and 1 drachm rock- alum. Dissolve these in a quart of hot ale or beer, and let it stand until it is blood-warm. Give this as one dose, and, if it should have the desired eftect, give the same quantity in about 12 hours after. This is an excellent medicine for changing the water, and acts as a purgative. Every farmer that keeps any number of cattle should always have doses of it by him. No. 469. 2b cure the Scouring in Cattle. The following composition has been found to suc- ceed in many cases ^hich were apparently drawing to a fatal termination : — Take of powdered rhubarb, 2 drachms ; castor-oil, 1 ounce ; kali, prepared, 1 teaspoonful. Mix well together in a pint of warm milk. If the first dose does not answer, repeat it in 36 hours. If the calf will suck, it will be proper to allow him to do it. No. 470. Cure for Cattle Swelled with Green Food. When any of your cattle happen to get swelled with an overfeed of clover, frosty turnips, or such 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 213 like, instead of the usual method of stabbing in the side, apply a dose of train-oil, which, after repeated trials, has been found to prove successful. The quantity of oil must vary according to the age or size of the animal. For a grown-up beast, of an ordinary size, the quantity recommended is about an English pint, which must be administered to the animal with a bottle, taking care at the same time to rub the stomach well, in order to make it go down. After receiving this medicine, it must be made to walk about until such time as the swelling begins to sub- side. No. 471. To cure Measles in Swine. It sometimes happens, though seldom, that swine have the measles. While they are in this state their liesh is very unwholesome food. This disorder is not easily discovered while the animal is alive, and can only be known by its not ^thriving or fattening as others. After the animal is killed and cut up, its fat is full of little kernels, about the size of the roe or eggs of a salmon. When this is the case, put into the food of each hog, once or t\yice a week, as much crude pounded antimony as will lie on a shil- ling. This is very proper for any feeding swine, even though they have no disorder. A small quan- tity of the flour of brimstone, also, may be given among their food when they are not thriving, which will be found of great service to them. But the best method of preventing disorders in swine is to keep their sties perfectly clean and dry, and allow them air, exercise, and plenty of clean straw. 214 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 472. Rupture in Swine. "Where a number of swine are bred, it \rill fre quently happen that some of the pigs will have what is called a "rupture," — i.e. a hole broken in the rim of the belly, where part of the guts comes out and lodges betwixt the rim of the belly and the skin, having an appearance similar to swelling in the tes- ticles. The male pigs are more liable to this dis- order than the females. It is cured by the following means : — Geld the pig aftected, and cause it to be held up with its head downward. Flay back the skin from the swollen place, and, from the situation in which the pig is held, the guts will naturally return to their proper place. Sew up the hole with a needle, which must have a square point, and also a bend in it, as the disease often happens between the hind-legs, w^here a straight needle cannot be used. After this is done, replace the skin that w^as flayed back, and sew it up, when the operation is finished. The pig should not have much food for a few^ da3's after the operation, until the wound begins to heal. No. 473. Cure for the Foot-Rot in Sheep. No. 1. Take a piece of alum, a piece of green vitriol, and some w^hite mercury, — the alum must be -in the largest proportion ; dissolve them in water, and after the hoof is pared anoint it with a feather, and bind on a rag over all the foot. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 215 No. 474. Another Cure for Foot-Rot in Sheep. No. 2. Poancl some green vitriol fine, and apply a little of it to the part of the foot affected, binding a rag over the foot, as above. Let .the sheep be kept in the house a few hours after this is done, and then turn them out to a dry pasture. This is the most common way of curing the foot-rot. No. 475. Another Cure for Foot-Hot in Sheep. No. 3. Some anoint the part with a feather dipped in aqua- .fortis or weak nitrous acid, which dries it at once. Many drovers that take sheep to market carry a little bottle of this with them, which, by applying to the foot with a feather, helps a lame sheep by hardening its hoof, and enabling it to travel better Some may think aqua-fortis of too hot a nature , but such a desperate disorder requires an active cure, which, no doubt, is alwaj^s to be used cautiously. Another. — Spread some slaked quick-lime over a House-floor pretty thick, pare the sheep's feet well, and then turn them into this house, where they may remain for a few hours ; after which, turn them into a dry pasture. This treatment may be repeated 2 or 3 times, always observing to keep the house clean, and adding a little more quick-lime before putting them in. The* feet must be often dressed, and the sheep kept as much as possible on dry land. Those animals that are diseased, should be kept separate from the flock, as the disorder is very infectious. 216 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE KECEIPTS. No. 476. Prevention and Cure of the Foot-JRot in Sheep. On suspected ground, constant and careful ex- amination ought to take place ; and when any fis- sures or cracks, attended with heat, make their ap- pearance, apply oil of turpentine and common brandy. This in general produces a very beneficial eftect ; but where the disease has been long seated, and becomes in a manner confirmed, after cleaning the foot and paring away the infected parts, recourse is had to caustics, of w^hich the best seems to be sul- phuric acid and the nitrate of mercury. After this, pledgets are applied, the foot bound up, and the animal kept in a clean dry situation until its re- covery is eftected. But it often happens, where the malady is in- veterate, that the disease refuses to yield to any oi all of the above prescriptions. The following mode of treatment, however, if carefully attended to, may be depended upon as a certain cure. Whenever the disease makes its appearance, let the foot be carefully examined, and the diseased part well washed, and pared as nigh as possible not to make it bleed ; and let the floor of the house where the sheep are confined be strewn 3 or 4 inches thick with quick-lime hot from the kiln ; and the sheep, after having their feet dressed in the manner above described, to stand in it during the space of 6 or 7 hours. In all cases, it is of great importance that the animal be afterwards exposed only to a moderate 600 MISCELLAIS'EOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 217 temperature, be invigorated with proper food, and kept in clean, easy, dry pasture ; and the disease will be efiectually remedied in the course of a few days. No. 477. To cure the Scab in Shcej). Take 1 pound quicksilver, \ pound Venice tur- pentine, 2 pounds hog's lard, and \ pound oil or spirits of turpentine. A greater or less quantity than this may be mixed np, in the same proportion, according to the number of sheep affected. Put the quicksilver and Venice turpen-tine into a mortar or small pan, and beat together until not a particle of the quicksilver can be discerned ; put in the oil, or spirits of turpentine, with the hog's lard, and work them well together until made into an ointment. The parts of the sheep affected must be rubbed with a piece of this salve, about the size of a nnt, or rather less. When the whole flock is affected, the shep herd must be careful in noticing those that show any symptoms of the disorder, by looking back and offering to bite or scratch the spot ; and if affected, lie must immediately apply the ointment, as it is only by paying early and particular attention that a flock can be cured. No. 478. To destroy Maggots in Sheep. Mix with 1 quart spring-water a tablespoonfnl spirits of turpentine, and as much of the sublimate powder as will lie upon a shilling. Shake them well 19 218 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. together, and cork it np in a bottle, with a quill through the cork, so that the liquid may come out of the bottle in small quantities at once. The bottle must always be well shaken when it is to be used. When the spot is observed where the maggots are, do not disturb them, but pour a little of the mixture upon the spot, as much as will wet the wool and the maggots. In a few minutes after the liquor is ap- plied, the maggots will all creep to the top of the wool, and in a short time drop oft' dead. The sheep must, however, be inspected next day, and if any of the maggots remain undestroyed, shake them oft*, or touch them with a little more of the mixture. No. 479. To cure Hoven or Blown J?i Cattle. Thi» complaint is in general occasioned by the animal feeding for a considerable time upon rich, succulent food, so that the stomach becomes over- charged, and they, through their greediness to eat, forget to lie down to ruminate or chew their cud. Thus the paunch, or first stomach, is rendered inca- pable of expelling its contents; a concoction and fermentation take place in the stomach, by which a large quantity of confined air is formed in the part that extends nearly to the anus, and, for want of vent at that part, causes the animal to swell even to a state of suffocation, or a rupture of some part of the stomach or intestines ensues. As sudden death is the consequence of this, the greatest caution is necessary i^n turning cattle into a fresh pasture, if the bite of f/aas be considerable ; nor should they 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 219 oe suffered to stop too long at a time in sucli pas- ture before they are removed into a fold-yard, or some close where there is but little to eat, in order that the organs of rumination and digestion may have time to discharge their functions. If this be attended to several times, it will take away that greediness of disposition, and prevent this distressing complaint. Treatment. — As soon as the beast is discovered to be either hoven or blown, by eating too great a quantity of succulent grasses, let a purging-drink be given : this will, for the most part, check fermenta- tion in the stomach, and in a very short time force a passage through the intestines. No. 480. Pur gill g-Drin ks. Take of Glauber's salts, 1 pound; ginger, in pow der, 2 ounces ; molasses, 4 ounces. Put all the in- gredients into a pitcher, and pour 3 pints of boiling water upon them. "When new-milk-warm, give the whole for one dose. Another. — Take (5f Epsom salts, 1 pound; anise- seed and ginger, in powder, each, 2 ounces ; molasses, 4 ounces. Let this be given ii? the same manner as the preceding. In most case? these drinks will be sufficient to purge a full-grown animal of this kind. By strict attention to the above method of application, a fever may be prevented, and the animal speedily restored. If the fever continues after the intestines have been evacuated, (which is seldom the case,) it will be 220 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. proper to take some blood from the animal; and the quantity must be regulated according to the disease and habit of body. No. 481. To cure the Yellows^ or Jaundice^ in Neat Cattle. As soon as this disease makes its first appearance, it may, for the most part, be removed by adminis tering the following drinks. lieduce to powder cumin-seeds, anise-seed, and turmeric-root, each, 2 ounces; grains of paradise and salt of tartar, each, 1 ounce. Now slice 1 ounce Castile soap, and mix it w^ith 2 ounces molasses ; put the whole into a pitcher ; then pour a quart of boiling ale upon the ingredients, and cover them down till new-milk-warm ; then give the drink. It will often be proper to repeat this 2 or 3 times Qwerw other day, or oftener, if required. If the beast be in good condition, take away from 2 to 3 quarts of blood ; but the animal should not be turned out after bleeding that day, not at night, but the morning following it may go to its pasture as usual. After this has had the desired effect, let the following be given. Take of balsam copaiva, 1 ounce ; salt of tartar, 1 ounce ; Castile soap, 2 ounces. Beat them togethei in a marble mortar ; and add valerian-root, in pow- der, 2 ounces ; ginger-root and Peruvian bark, in powder, each, 1 ounce ; molasses, 2 ounces. Mix, foi 1 drink. Let this drink be given in a quart of warm gruel, and repeated, if necessar^^, every other day. It W'ill be proper to keep the body sufiicieutly 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 221 Open through everj' stage of the disease; for, if cos- tiveness be permitted, the fever will increase ; and, if not timely removed, the disorder will terminate fatally. No. 482. Frenzy, or Inflammation of the Brain, Is sometimes occasioned by wounds or contusions in the head, that are attended with violent inflamma- tions of the vessels, and, if not speedily relieved, may terminate in a gangrene or a mortitication, which is very often the case, and that in a few days. No. 483. lleihod of Care. In the cure of this disease, the following method must be attended to. First, lessen the quantity of blood by frequent bleeding, which may be repeated daily, if required, and by which the great efflux of blood upon the temporal arteries will be lessened and much retarded. The following purgative drink will be found suitable for this disease, and like\vise for most fevers of an inflammatory nature. Take of Glauber's salts, 1 pound; tartarized anti- mony, 1 drachm; camphor, 2 drachms; molasses, 4 ounces. Mix, and put the whole into a pitcher, and pour 3 pints of boiling water upon them. When new- milk-warm, add laudanum, J ounce, and give it all for one dose. This drink will in general operate briskly in the space of 20 or 30 hours; if not, let 222 600 MISCELLAXEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. one-half of the quantity be given to ".he beast every nio^ht and niornins:, until the desired effect be ob- tained. No. 484. Faunching. This is a method frequently resorted to in dan- gerous cases. The operation is performed in the following manner: — Take a sharp penknife and gently introduce it into the paunch between the haunch-bone and the last rib on the left side. This will instantly give vent to a large quantity of fetid air; a small tube of a sufficient length may then be introduced into the wound, and remain until the air is sufficiently evacuated ; afterward take out the tube and lay a pitch-plaster over the orifice. Wounds of this kind are seldom attended with danger ; where it has arisen, it has been occasioned by the injudicious operator introducing his knife into a wrong part. After the wind is expelled and tne body has been reduced to its natural state, give the following: — Cordial Drink. — Take anise-seed, diapente, and ele- campane, in powder, each 2 ounces; tincture of rhu- barb, 2 ounces; sweet spirits of nitre, 1 ounce; treacle, 4 tablespoonfuls. Mix, and give it in a quart of warm ale or gruel. This drink may be repeated every other day for two or three times. Another.— T'dkQ anise-seed, grains of paradise, and cumin-seed, each 2 ounces, in powder; spirits of turpentine, 2 tablespoonfuls ; sweet spirits of nitre, 1 ounce ; treacle, 2 tablespoonfuls. Mix, and give them in a quart of warm ale or gruel. This may be repeated once a day for two or three times. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE BECEIPTS. 223 No. 485. Cure for Sore Backs of Horses. The best method of caring sore backs is to dis- soh^e half an ounce of blue vitriol in a pint of water, and daub the injured parts with it four or five times a day. No. 486. An 1} fallible Lotion for Blows, Bruises, and Sprains in Horses. Take of spirits of wine, 8 ounces ; dissolve 1 ounce of camphor first in the spirits of wine; then add 1 ounce oil of turpentine, 1 ounce spirit of sal-ammo- niac, I ounce oil of origanum, and 1 large table- spoonful of liquid laudanum. It must be well rubbed in with the hand, for full a quarter of an hour, every time it is used, which must be four times a day. You will be astonished at its efficacy when you try it. No. 487. To make a Horse drink freely. A horse has a very sweet tooth when he is unwell and will not drink freely. Mix molasses and coarse brown sugar in the water : he will then drink freely. No. 488. How to construct a Battery for Gilding and Silver- Plating. 1st. Make five copper cylinders or cups, 4 inches in diameter and 4 inches high, with copper sockets soldered to the top, to receive the conducting-wires. 224 GOO MISCELLANEOUS VzVLUABLE RECEIPTS. 2d. Construct 5 sheepskin cups, of tlie same liei^'lit as the copper ones and 3J inches in diameter. Set them inside the copper cups. od. Make 5 zinc cylinders, 4J inches high and 2J Indies in diameter, o[)en at each end, and place them inside the sheepskin cups, with copper sockets at- tached to them, as with the copper Ciips. 4th. After placing the cups thus formed in a con- venient position, connect them together with copper wires, as follows: — The first copper cylinder with the second zinc; the second copper with the third zinc; the third copper with the fourth zinc; and the fourth cop[)er w^ith the fifth zinc; observing always to con nect the copper with the zinc. How to charge the Baticvri. — Fill the cups within about haif an inch of the to [> with watery then put 1 tcaspoonful of Glaul.er's salts intt) eacli of the sheep- skin cups, between the zinc and slieepskin ; then put 1 teaspoonful of blue vitriol into each of the copper cu[)S, which, wdien dissolved, will charge the battery for some days. Introduce tlie conducting- wires, and it is ready for action. To prepare the Gold Solution. — Dissolve the gold in tw^o parts of muriatic acid with one of nitric acid. Then evaporate it to dryness, and redissolve the powder in the proportion of 1 gill of pure water to 1 pennyweight of gold. Boil it a few minutes, and then add -J ounce prussiate of potash : boil it 5 or 10 minutes. Let it cool and settle; then pour it ofi", and it is ready for use. N".B. — Dissolve silver in nitric acid, and pursue the same process as Avith the gold. Prepare a solution by dissolving 1 ounce prussiate of potash in 1 quart water. Put a sufficient quantity of it in a 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. L'25 bowl or other earthen vessel, and add to it tlie gold solution. Bend the conducting wires so that the two poles will be immersed in the solution. Attach a small piece of gold or platina to the positive pole or con ducting- wire which is attached to the copper cups, and place the pieces to be gilted on the nega- tive or the one proceeding from the zinc cup. No. 489. Galvanism Simplified. — Silver- Plating Fluid, Dissolve 1 ounce nitrate of silver, in crj^stal, in 12 ounces soft water. Then dissolve in the water 2 ounces cyanuret of potash. Shake the whole to- gether, and let it stand till it becomes clear. Have ready some half-ounce vials, and fill them half full of Paris white, or fine whiting ; then fill up the bottles with the liquid, and it is ready for use. The wdiiting does not increase the coating-powder; it only helps to clean the articles, and to save the silver-fluid by the bottles. No. 490. Silver Solution for Plating Cojjper, Brass, and Gerinan Silver. Cut into small pieces a twenty-five-cent-piece, and put it into an earthen vessel with | ounce of nitric acid. Put the vessel into warm water, uncovered. until it dissolves. Add J gill of water and 1 tea- suoonful of fine salt: let it settle. Drain ofi* and re|)eat, adding water to the sediment until the acid ta>tc is all out of tbe water. Add, finally, about a pijit of water to the sediment and 4 scruples cyanide 2H 226 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. of potassa, and all is ready. Put in bottom of so lotion a piece of zinc about 2 inches long, 1 wide, and J in thickness. After cleaning, imraerse the article to be plated in the solution about half a minute, letting it rest on the zinc. Wipe off with a dry cloth and repeat once. Polish wath buckskin. Thickness of plate can be increased by repeating No. 491. Gilding the Edges of Paper, The edges of the leaves of books and letter-paper are gilded while in a horizontal position in the book- binder's press, by first applying a composition formed of four parts of Armenian bole and one of candied sugar, ground together with water to a proper con- sistence, and laid on by a brush with the white of an Qgg. This coating, when nearly dry, is smoothed by the burnisher. It is then slightly moistened by a sponge dipped in clean water and squeezed in the hand. The gold-leaf is now taken up on a piece of cotton from the leather cushion' and applied on the moistened surface. When dry, it is to be burnished, by rubbing the burnisher over it repeatedly from end to end, taking care not to wound the surface by the point. No. 492. To Silver by Heat, Dissolve I ounce pure silver in aqua-fortis, and precipitate it with common salt; to which add J pound sal-ammoniac, sandever, and white vitriol, and ^ ounce sublimate. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 227 Or dissolve 1 ounce pure silver in aqua-fortis and precipitate it with common salt ; and add, after wash- ing, 6 ounces common salt, 3 ounces each of san- dever and white vitriol, and J ounce of sublimate. These are to be ground into a paste, upon a fine stone, with a muller. The substance to be silvered must be rubbed over with a sufficient quantity of the paste and exposed to a proper degree of heat. When the silver runs, it is taken from the fire and dipped into weak spirits of salts, to clean it. No. 493. A method of Washing occupying one hour. Have a preparation made from 2 tablespoonfuls alcohol, 2 tablespoonfuls turpentine, J pound brown soap, cut fine and mixed in 1 quart hot water. Pour the same into a large tub of boiling water, and allow the clothes to soak for 20 minutes. Then take them out and put them in a tub of clean cold water for 20 minutes. Afterward boil them in a like quantity of the above preparation for 20 minutes, and rinse in cold water. K.B. — In using the above method of washing, all fine clothes should be gone through with first, as coloured, very dirty, or greasy clothes ought not to be boiled with those of finer fabric and containing less dirt, as the water in which they afre boiled must of course partake more or less of its contents. The same water that has been used for the finer clothes will likewise do for the coarse and coloured. Should the wristbands of the shirts be very dirty, a little soap may be previously rubbed on. The above is a very excellent receipt, and may be confided in as particularly efi:ective in labour-saving. 228 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 494. Another Washing-ReceijpL Take 1 pint alcohol, 1 pint spirits of turpentine, and 2 quarts strong soda-water. Manage the clothes as above directed. Another very good Receipt. — Take 1 pound hard soap, (for 4 dozen clothes,) 7 teaspoonfuls spirits of turpentine, 5 teaspoonfuls hartshorn, and 5 teaspoon- fuls vinegar. Directions. — Dissolve the soap in hot water ; mix the ingredients. Then divide the mixture in two parts ; put half in the water with the clothes over- night; next morning wring them out. Put them to boil in 5 or 6 gallons of water, and add the rest of the mixture ; boil 80 minutes, and rinse out thoroughly in cold w^ater ; blue them, and hang out to dry. This receipt has been found to answer a very valuable purpose, and is w^orthy of trial. No. 495. How to cure the Lockjaw. The "INTew^ York Observer" says: — A 3'oung lady ran a rusty nail into her foot recently. The injury produced lockjaw of such a malignant character that her physicians pronounced her recovery hopeless. An old nurse took her in hand, and applied pounded beet-roots to her foot, removing them as often as they became dry. The result was a most complete and astounding cure. Such a simple remedy should be borne in mind. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 229 No. 496. A Remedy for Wieumatism, ^c. No. 4. Take 1 raw egg well beaten, | pint vinegar, 1 ounce spirits of turpentine, J ounce camphor. These ingTeclients to be beaten well together, then [)nt in a bottle and shaken for 10 minutes, after which, to be corked down tightly to exclude the air. In half an hour it is fit for use. Directions.— To be well rubbed in, 2, 3, or 4 times a day. For rheumatism in the head, to be rubbed at the back of the neck and behind the ears. No. 497. Cure for Bheuraatic Gout. No. 1. Take J ounce nitre, J ouuce sulphur, J ounce flour of mustard, J- ounce Turkey rhubarb, and 2 drachms powdered gum guaiacum. Mix. A tea- spoonful to be taken every other night for three nights, and omit three nights, in a wineglassful of cold water, — water which has been well boiled. No. 498. Ointment for Files. No. 2. Take of hog's lard, 4 ounces ; camphor, 2 drachms ; powdered galls, 1 ounce ; laudanum, J ounce. Mix. and make an ointment. To be applied every night, at bedtime. No. 499. How to make Tomato Catsup. No. 1. Take 1 bushel tomatoes, and boil them until they 20 230 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. are soft; squeeze them through a fine wire sieve, and add J gallon vinegar, 1| pints salt, 2 ounces cloves, i pound allspice, 3 ounces cayenne pepper, 3 table- spoonfuls black pepper, and 5 heads garlic, skinned and separated. Mix together, and boil about 3 hours, or until reduced to about one-half; then bottle without straining. No. 500. How to preserve Fruit. A number of persons who have been putting up fruit in "air-tight cans" have stated to us that they are losing large quantities of it by fermentation, and inquire of us the cause of the difficulty. This we cannot easily explain without first seeing the cans. The cause may be in the imperfect manner of scalding and putting up the fruit; or it may arise from the defective form in which the cans are made. If the cans are properly constructed, it only remains to scald the fruit sufiiciently, and to fill the cans so near the top as to leave the least possible amount of air in them, taking care that the moisture does not rise into the channel formed for the sealing- material, and to close the cans while scalding hot. To do this, as we before stated, the most expeditious and sure method is to first scald the fruit in a kettle, fill the cans, and set them into a vessel of boiling water, there to ^mam until the sealing is com- pleted. — Louisville Journal. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 231 No. 501. Anather metJiod of preserviyig Fruits and Vegetables. A great deal of mystery has been made of this simple matter, and it is generally supposed that the process is known only to the initiated. With a good air-tight can, the simple agent in tlie work is heat; and it is only necessary to know what degree of heat is required, and how to apply it. TIjc common mode is to fill the can with the fruit, and set it in a vessel of boiling water, letting it remain until the fruit is thoroughly heated through, — say from a half to three-quarters of an hour, and then seal up. This mode is objectionable, on ac- count of the time required and shrinkage of the fruit, leaving the can but about two-thirds full, by which the use of one-third (or four cans of every dozen) is lost. The most convenient, certain, and expeditious method is to prepare fruit, either with or without sugar, as if for immediate use, put it in a preserving- kettle or open vessel, (with a small quantity of water when necessary to prevent scorching,) and let it remain over the fire until it comes to the boiling- point ; then fill the can, and seal it up immediately. Direction for sealing. — Fill one can at a time with the boiling fruit, put on the cap, press it to its place, until you fill the groove around it with the melted composition ; pour a little cold water on the top of the can to chill the w^ax; then set the can in cold water, and let it remain until cool:' when taken out, hold it to the ear, and, if there be any imperfection in the can, the air will be heard forcing itself in. 232 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 502. Another way to make Tomato Catsup. No. 2. To ^ bushel skinned tomatoes, add 1 quart good vinegar, 1 pound salt, J pound black pepper, 2 ounces African cayenne, J pound allspice, 6 onions, 1 ounce cloves, and 2 pounds brown sugar. Boil this mass for 3 hours, constantly stirring, it to keep it from burning. When cool, strain it through a line sieve or coarse cloth, and bottle it for use. Many persons omit the vinegar in this preparation No. 503. Hoiv to make Cucumber Catsup. Take 3 dozens full-grown cucumbers and 8 white onions. Peel the onions and cucumbers, and then chop them as line as possible. Sprinkle on j pint line salt; put the whole in a sieve, and let it drain 12 hours ; then take a teacupful of mustard- seed, j- teacupful ground black pepper, and mix them well wi^th the cucumbers and onions. Put the whole into a stone jar with the strongest vine- gar; close it up tightly for 3 days, and it is fit for use. It will keep for years. No. 504. How to destroy a Foul Smell. Dissolve 1 pound copperas (green) in 1 quart water, and pour down a privy, will effectually con- centrate and destroy the foulest smells. For water- closets aboard ships and steamboats, about hotels and other public places, there is nothing so nice to 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 233 cleanse places as simple gveen copperas dissolved, under the bed, in any thing that vill hold water, and thus render a hospital, or other places for the sick, free from unpleasant smells. For butchers' stalls, fish-markets, slaughter-houses, sinks, and wherever there are offensive putrid gases, dissolve copperas and sprinkle it about, and in a few days the smell will pass away. If a cat, rat, or mouse dies about the house, and sends forth an offensive gas, place some dissolved copperas in an open vessel near the place where the nuisance is, and it will soon purify the atmosphere. No. 505. Directions for making good Caiidlesfrom Lard. For 12 pounds lard, take 1 pound saltpetre, and 1 pound alum ; rAix and pulverize them ; dissolve the saltpetre and alum in a gill of boiling water; pour the compound into the lard before it is quite all melted ; stir the whole until it boils ; skim oft' what rises ; let it simmer until the water is boiled out, or until it ceases to throw off steam ; pour off the lard as soon as it is done, and clean the boiler while it is hot. If the candles are to be run, you may com- mence immediately ; if to be dipped, let the lard cool to a cake, and then treat it as you would tallow. No. 506. [low to make a Cement luhich will get, gradually/, as hard as a stone. Take 20 parts by weight clean sharp sand, 2 parts litharge, and 1 part whiting ; mix, and make them 20« 234 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. into tliin putty with linseed-oil. For seams in roofs, a cement maybe made of white or red lead, thinned with boiling linseed-oil, into which some sharp, dry white sand is stirred. For the joints of water and gas pipes, white lead cement is the best. No. 507. Liquid Cement. Cut gum-shel-lac in 70 per cent, alcohol ; put it in vials, and it is ready for use. Apply it to the edge of the broken dish with a feather, and hold it in a spirit-lamp as long as the cement will simmer ; then join together evenly, and, when cold, the dish will break in another place first, and is as strong as new. No. 508. Crockery Cement which is transparent Take 1 pound white shel-lac, pulverized, 2 ounces clean gum mastic ; put them into a bottle, and then add J pound pure sulphuric ether. Let it stand half an hour, and then add J gallon 90 per cent, alcohol : shake occasionally till it is dissolved. ■Heat the edges of the article to be mended, and apply the cement with a pencil brush ; hold the article firmly together till the cement cools. No. 509. Hard Cemeyit for Scams. Take equal quantities of white lead and white sand, and as much oil as will make it into the con- sistence of putty. Apply this to the seams in the 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 235 roofs of houses, &c. It will in a few weeks become aa hard as a stone. No. 510. Water-Proof .and Fire-Proof Cement for Roofs of Houses. Slake stone-lime in a large tub or barrel with boiling water, covering the tub or barrel to keep in the steam. When thus slaked, pass 6 quarts through a fine sieve : it will then be in a state of fine flour. To this add 1 quart rock-salt, and 1 gallon water. Boil the mixture, add 1 pound alum and \ pound copperas; by slow degrees add j pound potash, and 4 quarts fine sand or wood-ashes, sifted. Both of the above will admit of an)^ colouring you please. It looks better than paint, and is as durable as slate. No. 511. To cure Rancid BatUr. A writer in the "Journal of Industrial Progress" recommends that butter should be kneaded with fresh milk, and then with pure w^ater. He states that by this treatment the butter is rendered as fresh and pure in flavour as wdien recently made. He ascribes this result to the fact that butyric acid, to w^hich the rancid taste and odour are owing, ia readily soluble in fresh milk, and thus removed. No. 512. How to improve had Butter. Bad butter may be improv^ed greatly by dissolving It thoroughly in hot water ; let it cool, then skim it 236 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. oiF, and churn agaii% adding a little salt and sugar. A small quantity can be tried and approved before doing a larger one. The water should be merely hot enough to melt the butter — or it will become oily. No. 513. How to cure Butter that loill keep for Years. Take 2 parts good common salt, 1 part sugar, and 1 part saltpetre ; beat them up and blend tho whole together. Take 1 ounce of this composition for every pound of butter; work it well into the mass, and close it up for use. Butter cured in this ^^ay appears of a rich, marrowy consistence and fine colour, and never acquires a brittle hardness nor tastes salt. It will likewise keep good 3 years, — only observing that it must stand 3 weeks or a month before it is used. It ought to be packed in wooden vessels, or in jars vitrified throughout, which do not require glazing, because during the decom- position of the salts they corrode the glazing, and the butter becomes rancid. No. 514. Hoio to preserve Eggs. No. 1. Apply with a brush a solution of gum-arabic to the shells, or immerse the eggs therein; let them dry, and afterward pack them in dry charcoal-dust. This prevents their being affected by any alternations of temperature. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 237 No. 515. Another metliod to preserve Eggs. No. 2. Mix together, in a tub or vessel, 1 bushel quick- lime, 2 pounds salt, \ pound cream of tartar, with as much water as will reduce the composition to a sufficient consistence to float an Qgg. Then put and keep the eggs therein, — which will preserve them perfectly sound for 2 years at least. No. 516. Another method to preserve Eggs. No. 3. Take a half-inch board of any convenient length or breadth, and pierce it as full of holes (each 1^ inches in diameter) as you can, without risking the breaking of one hole into another. Then take 4 strips of the same board, 2 inches broad, and nail them together edgewise into a rectangular frame of the same size as your board ; nail the board upon the frame, and the work is done. Put your eggs in this board as they come in from the poultry-house, the small end down, and they will keep good for 6 months, if you take the following precautions : — Take care that the eggs do not get wet, either in the nest or afterward. If 2 boards are kept, one can be filling and the other emptying at the same time. No. 517. A Fickle to cure Hams, Pork, and Beef. To each gallon of water add 1\ pounds salt, | pound sugar, \ ounce saltpetre ; boil all together and skim it ofi:', then rub the meat with salt, and pack it down ; pour on your pickle when milk-warm. 238 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 518. T. E. Hamilton's Receipt for Pickling Meat or Hams, To every 100 pounds of pork take 8 pounds ground alum-salt, 2 ounces saltpetre, 2 pounds brown sugar, 11 ounces potash, and 4 gallons water. Mix them all together, and pour the brine over the meat after it has lain in the tub some 2 days. Let the hams re- main 6 wee*ks in the brine, and then be dried several days before smoking. He says he has had the meat rubbed with fine salt when it is packed down. The meat should be perfectly cool before packing. No. 519. How to cure Fork and Hams dry without Brine. First rub your hams and pork on the ilesh-side with brown sugar thoroughly, and take care that as much sugar will lie on it as you possibly can. Having it covered all over, (from 1 to 2 pounds of sugar to each hog is sufficient,) you can either lay the meat on a table or any kind of vessel that will not hold any pickle ; then, when you have one layer laid, cover it all over with fine salt, (ef course, the flesh- side,) and squeeze it on with your hand as tight as you can, and so on with each layer. Then leave it so for 8 or 10 days. By this time the salt will nearly all be dissolved, when you have to take it out and pack it again, and cover it all over* with fine salt the same as at first. Then let it stand for 3 or 4 weekc' longer, according to the size of the hogs, then hang it in Bmoke. This method is excellent for dried beef. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 239 No. 520. Blackberry Jam. Gather the fruit in dry weather; allow half a pound of good brown sugar to every pound of fruit; boil the whole together gently for an hour, or till the blackberries are soft, stirring and mashing them well. Preserve it like any other jam. It wull be found very useful in families, particularly for children, regulating their bowels, and enabling you to dispense with cathartics. It may be spread on bread or on puddings, instead of butter ; and, even when the blackberries are bought, it is cheaper than butter. No. 521. Blackherry Wine. G-ather when ripe, on a dry day. Put into a vessel »vith the head out, and a tap fitted near the bottom ; pour on them boiling water to cover them. Mash the berries with your hands, and let them stand covered till the pulp rises to the top and forms a crust, in 3 or 4 days. Then draw off the fluid into another vessel, and to every gallon add 1 pound sugar ; mix well, and put into a cask to work, for 1 week or 10 days, and throw off any remaining lees, keeping the cask well filled, particularly at the com- mencement. When the working has ceased, bung it down. After 6 to 12 months, it may be bottled. No. 522. Green- Corn Omelet. The following receipt for this delicacy is said to 240 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. be excellent : — Grate the corn from 12 ears of corn boiled, beat up 5 eggs, stir tliem with the corn, sea- son with pepper and salt, and fry the mixture brown, browning the top with a hot shovel. If fried in small cakes, with a little flour and milk stirred in for a batter, it is very nice. No. 523. How to keep fresh Fish. In order to keep fresh fish, draw the fish and re- move the gills ; then insert a piece of charcoal in their mouths, and 2 or 3 pieces in their bellies. If they are to be conveyed any distance, wrap each fish separately in paper and place them in a box. Fish thus preserved will keep fresh several days. No. 524. To varnish Articles of Iron and Steel. Dissolve 10 parts clear grains of mastic, 5 parts camphor, 15 grains sandarac, and 5 parts elemi, in a sufiicient quantity of alcohol, and apply this var- nish without heat. The articles will not only be preserved from rust, but the varnish will retain its transparency, and the metallic brilliancy of the articles will not be impaired. No. 525. A Turkish Care for the Gravel. Take equal parts of small pebble-stones, pulve> rized very fine, nettle-seed, and honey; mix them 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 241 well together. Dose. — 1 teaspoonfal morninaj and evening. ft No. 526. A Cure for Dysentery. No. 2. Take 1 tablespoonful common salt, mix it with 2 tablespoonfuls of vinegar, and pour upon it a half-pint of water, either hot or cold, (only let it be taken cold.) A wineglassfuli of this mixture in the above proportions, taken every half-hour, will be found quite efficacious in curing dysentery. If the stomach be nauseated, a wineglassful taken every hour will suffice. For children, the quantity should be a teaspoonful of salt and one of vinegar, in a teacupful of water. No. 527. Another for Dysentery. No. 3. Take new-churned butter, before it is washed or salted, clarify over the fire and skim off all the milky particles, add brandy to preserve it, and loaf sugar to sweeten : let the patient (an adult) take 2 table- spoonfuls twice a day. ■» No. 528. A Cure for Dysentery and Bloody Flux. Take 2 tablespoonfuls elixir salutis, 1 tablespoon- ful castor-oil, and 1 tablespoonful loaf sugar ; add to these 4 tablespoonfuls boiling water. Skim, and drink hot. 21 242 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. The above is a dose for an adult ; for a child 6 to 7 years old, half the quantity ; 1 year old, one-quarter the quantity. When this is manufacture^ for sale, the water is added when used. No. 529. A Cure for Rheumatic Gout or Acute Rheumatism. No. 2. Take J ounce saltpetre, J ounce sulphur, J ounce flour of mustard, J ounce Turkey rhubarb, and \ ounce powdered gum guaiacum. Mix. A tea- spoonful to be taken every other night for three nights, and omit three nights, in a wineglassful of cold water, — water which has been well boiled. No. 530. Ointment for Piles. No. 3. Take of hog's lard, 4 ounces ; camphor, 2 drachms ; powdered galls, 1 ounce; laudanum, J ounce. Mix. Make an ointment, to be applied every night at bed- time. No. 531. Ointment for Sore Nipples. Take of tincture of Tolu, 2 drachms ; spermaceti- ointment, J ounce ; powdered gum, 2 drachms. Mix. Make an ointment. The white of an egg mixed with brandy is the best application for sore nipples. The person should at the saiLe time use a nipple-shield. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 243 No. 532. Another Cure for Piles. Take flour of sulphur, 1 ounce ; rosin, 3 ounces ; pulverize, and mix well together. Dose. — What will lie on a five-cent-piece, night and morning, washing the parts freely in cold water once or twice a day. This is a remedy of great value. No. 533. A Cure for Smalljoox. Take 1 grain each of powdered foxglove (digitalis) and sulphate of zinc. Kub together thoroughly in a mortar with 5 or 6 drops of water ; this done, add 4 or 5 ounces of water, and sweeten with loaf sugar. Dose. — A tablespoonful for an adult, and 1 or 2 tea- spoonfuls for a child, every 2 or 3 hours, until symp- toms of disease vanish. No. 534. A sure Remedy for Inflammatory Rheumatism. Take 1 ounce pulverized saltpetre and put it into a pint of sweet oil. Bathe the parts affected, and a sound cure will speedily be made. No. 535. A certain Cure for Corns. One teaspoonful tar, 1 teaspoonful coarse brown sugar, and 1 teaspoonful saltpetre; the whole to be warmed together. Spread it on kip leather the size of the corns, and in two days they will be drawn out. 244 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIl>TS. No. 536. Bedbug- Poison. Take 1 pint spirits of wine, 2 ounces sal-ammoniac, 1 pint spirits of turpentine, 2 ounces corrosive sub- limate, and 2 ounces gum camphor; dissolve the camphor in the alcohol ; then pulverize the corrosive sublimate and sal-ammoniac, and add to it ; after which put in the spirits of turpentine and shake well together. No. 537. Cologne. Take 1 gallon spirits of wine, and add of the oii of lemon, orange, and bergamot each a spoonful ; add also extract of vanilla, 40 drops. Shake until the oils are cut, then add a pint and a half of soft water. No. 538. To prevent Hair falling off. Take J pint French brandy, 1 tablespoonful fine salt, and 1 teaspoonful powdered alum. Let these be mixed and well shaken until they are dissolved ; then filter, and it is ready for use. If used every day,^.it may be diluted with soft water. No. 539. How to make Extract of Vanilla. This is made by taking 1 quart pure French brandy, and cutting up tine 1 ounce vanilla beans and 2 ounces Tonqua, bruised. Add these to the 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 245 brandy, and let it digest for two weeks, frequently shaking ; then filter carefully, and it is ready for use. This is excellent for flavouring pies, cakes, and pud- dings. No. 540. How to make Burning-Fluid. Take 8 gallons 95 per cent, alcohol, and add 2 gallons camphene, 10 grains camphor, and 10 to 15 grains nitre. No. 541. A superior article of Cologne. Take 1 gallon 90 per cent, alcohol, and add to it 1 ounce oil of bergamot, 1 ounce oil of orange, 2 drachms oil of cedrat, 1 drachm oil of Nevoli, and 1 drachm oil of rosemary. Mix well, and it is fit for use. No. 542. Ox-3Iarrow Pomatum. Take 2 ounces yellow wax and 12 ounces beef- marrow. Melt all together, and, when sufiiciently cool, perfume it with the essential oil of almonds. This is an excellent article. No. 543. Hair-Restorative. Take 1 drachm lac-sulphur, 1 drachm sugar of lead, and 4 ounces rose-water. Mix, and shake the vial on using the mixture. Bathe the hair twice a 21* 246 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS day for a week. This preparation does not dye the hair, but restores its original colour. No. 544. A Cure for Salt Rheum or Scurvy, Take of the pokeweed, any time in summer; pound it, press out the juice, and strain it into a pewter di^h. Set it in the sun till it becomes a salve, then put it into an earthen mug. Add to it fresh water and beeswax sufficient to make an oint- ment of common consistence. Simmer the whole over a fire till thoroughly mixed. When cold, rub the parts affected. The patient will almost imme- diately experience its good effects, and the most obstinate cases will be cured in three or four months. ^.B. — The juice of the ripe berries may be pre- pared in the same way. No. 545. Cough-Syrup. Put 1 quart of hoarhound to 1 quart of water, and boil it down to a pint ; add 2 or 3 sticks of liquorice and a tablespoonful of essence of lemon. Dose. — Take a tablespoonful of the syrup three times a day, or as often as the cough may be trouble- some. No. 546. Toothache-Drops. Two or three drops of essential oil of cloves, put upon a small piece of lint or cotton-wool and placed 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 247 in the hollow of the tooth, will be found to have the active power of curing the toothache without destroy- ing the tooth or injuring the gums. No. 547. Freckle- Lotion. Take muriate of ammonia, | drachm ; lavender- water, 2 drachms ; distilled water, J pint. Applied with a sponge 2 or 3, times a day. No. 548. Tooth- Poioder. Take rose-pink, 2 drachms ; precipitated chalk, 12 drachms ; carbonate of magnesia, 1 drachm ; sulphate of quinine, 6 grains. All to be mixed together. No. 549. A certain Cure for the Piles. Mix 1 ounce ung. gallac, 3 drachms powdered gallac, 1 drachm laudanum, and J drachm extract of lead. To be used externally, night and morning. Then mix 2 ounces confection of senna and 20 grains powdered saltpetre. To be used internally. Dose. — The size of a hazel-nut to the size of a hickory-nut. No. 550. Cougli-Drops. No. 2. Mix 2 ounces syrup of squill, 2 ounces paregoric, ^ ounce antimonial wine, ^ ounce spirits of nitre, 248 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. and 1 ounce tinct. benzoin comp. Shake well -^lien two ingredients are in. Dose. — A teaspoonful an hour before each meal, and 2 teaspoonfuls at going to bed. No. 551. How to cure San-Stroke. Immediately bruise horseradish and apply it to the stomach, and give him gin to drink. Never-failing. No. 552. Cure for the Quinsy, Simmer hops in vinegar until their strength is extracted. Strain the Hquid, sweeten it with sugar, and give it frequently to the patient until relieved. This is an almost infallible remedy. No. 553. Spitting of Blood. Take 2 spoonfuls of the juice of nettles, at night, or take 3 spoonfuls of sage-juice in a little honey. This presently stops either spitting or vomiting blood. Or give 20 grains of alum, in water, every 2 hours. No. 554. To cure the Whitlow. Steep in distilled vinegar, hot as you can bear it, 4 or 5 times a da}', for 2 days successively; then moisten a leaf of tobacco in the vinegar, bind it round the part affected, and a cure follows. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 249 No. 555. Brilliant White- WasL Many have heard of the brilliant stucco white- wash on the east end of the President's house at Washington. The following is a receipt for it: it is gleaned from the "iTational Intelligencer." Take J- bushel nice unslaked lime, slake it with boiling water, cover it during the process to keep in the steam. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve or strainer, and add to it a peck of salt, previously well dissolved in warm water, 3 pounds ground rice, boiled to a thin paste, and stirred in boiling hot, J pound powdered Spanish whiting, and a pound of clean glue, which has been previously dissolved by soaking it well, and then hanging it over a slow fire, in a small kettle within a large one filled with water. Add 5 gallons hot water to the mixture, stir it well, and let it stand a few days, covered from the dirt. It should be put on right hot : for this pur- pose, it can be kept in a kettle on a portable furnace. It iri said that about a pint of this mixture will cover a square yard upon the outside of a house, if properly applied. Brushes more or less small may be used, according to the neatness of the job required. It answers as well as oil-paint for wood, brick, or stone, and is cheaper. It retains its brilliancy for many years. There is nothing of the kind that will com- pare with it, either for inside or outside walls. Colouring-matter may be put in, and made of avy shade you like. Spanish brown .stirred in will make red pink, more or less deep, according to the quantity. A delicate tinge of this is very pretty for inside 250 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. walls. Finely pulverized common clay, well mixed with Spanish brown, makes a reddish stone colour. Yollow ochre stirred in makes yellow wash; but crome goes further, and makes a colour generally esteemed prettier. In all these cases the darkness of the shades of course is determined by the quantity of colouring used. It is difficult to make rules, because tastes are different : it would be best to try experiments on a shingle, and let it dry. Green must not be mixed with lime : it destroys the colour, and the colour has an effect on the white-wash which makes it crack and peel. When walls have been badly smoked, and you wish to have them a clean white, it is well to squeeze indigo plentifully through a bag into the water you use, before it is stirred in the whole mixture. If a larger quantity than 5 gallons be wanted, the same proportion should be observed. No. 556. An English Care for Pleuro- Pneumonia in Cattle. The only chances in this disease are the adoption of very prompt measures, — bleeding early, and repeat if necessary. Then give a drench, composed of 1 pound Epsom salts, 1 ounce powdered saltpetre, J drachm tartar-emetic. Give it in 2 pints gruel, and repeat in 6 or 8 hours. No. 557. Worms or Bots in Cattle or Horses. Give J pound Epsom salts, with 2 ounces coriander- Beed bruised ii a quart of water. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 251 No. 558. Scouring. Give I ounce powdered catechu, and 10 grains powdered opium, in a little gruel. No. 559. Flesh- Wounds in Cattle, a Tincture for. Take Socotrine or Barbadoes aloes, in powder, 4 ounces, m3^rrh, coarsely powdered, 1 ounce, recti- fied spirits of wine 1 pint, water 2 pints. Let them etand 14 days, occasionally shaking ; then jS.t for use. Wounds are best without sewing. Cleanse fi'om dirt or gravel. If much inflamed, apply a poultice. If unhealthy fungous granulation arises, wash the part with the following mild caustic wash, previous to appl3ung the tincture: — Blue vitriol (sul- phate of copper) 1 ounce, water 1 pint ; dissolve. No. 560. Blacking for Harness, ^c. Melt 4 ounces mutton-suet with 12 ounces bees- wax ; add 12 ounces sugar-candy, 4 ounces soft-soap dissolved in water, and 2 ounces indigo, finely pow- dered. When melted and well mixed, add ^ pint turpentine. Lay it on the harness with a sponge, and polish off with a brush. 252 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 561. LinimeM for RhewTiatism. Take 1 ounce soap liniment, \ ounce tincture of opium, 2 drachms oil of cajeput, 2 drachms hartshorn. Mix, and rub the parts affected night and morning. Flannel, or chamois leather, should be worn in winter. No. 562. A Simple Cure for Rheumatism. Take 1 drachm hydriodate of potash, distilled water 2 ounces; mix, and give a teaspoonful in a wineglass of water, morning, noon, and night. This seldom fails to afford relief. No. 563. To Silver Co-pper. Take a small quantity of pure silver, and pour over it twice its weight of nitric acid, and twice as much water as acid. The silver will be quickly dis- solved. The solution, if the metal and acid be both pure, will be transparent and colourless. Then pre- cipitate the silver by the immersion of polished plates of copper. Take of the silver 20 grains, cream of tartar 2 drachms, 2 drachms common salt, and ^ drachm alum ; mix the whole together. Take then the article -to be silvered, clean it well, and rub some of the mixture, previously a little moistened, upon its surface. The silvered surface may be polished with a piece of soft leather. The dial- plates of clocks, scales of barometers, etc. are all plated thus. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 253 No. 564. A new Pomade against Baldness. Take of extract of yellow Peruvian bark 15 grains, extract of rhatany-root 8 grains, extract of burclock- root, and oil of nutmegs, (fixed,) of each 2 drachms, camphor (dissolved with spirits of wine) 15 grains, beef-marrow 2 ounces, best olive-oil 1 ounce, '^dtron- juice \ drachm, aromatic essential oil as much as sufhcient to render it fragrant. Mix, and make into an ointment. 2 drachms bergamot and a few drops otto of roses would suffice. This is considered a valuable preparation. No. 565. Silvering of Metals. Cold Silvering. — Mix 1 part chloride of , silver with 3 parts pearlash, IJ parts common salt, and 1 part whiting, and well rub the mixture on the surface of brass or copper, (previously well cleaned,) by means of a piece of soft leather, or a cork moistened with water and dipped into the powder. 1 part precipi- tate silver powder, mixed with 2 parts each cream of tartar and common salt, may also be used in the same wa3\ When properly silvered, the metal should be well washed in hot water slightly alka- lized, and then wiped dry. No. 566. To solder Irm or any other Metal loithout Fire. Take 1 ounce of sal-ammoniac, and 1 ounce of 22 254 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. common salt, and an equal quantity of calcined tartar, and as much of bell-metal, with 3 ounces of antimony. Pound well all together, and sift it. Put this into a piece of linen, and enclose it well all round with fullers' earth about an inch thick. Let it drj^, then put it between two crucibles over a slow fire, to get heat by degrees. Push on the fire till the lump becomes red-hot, and melted all together ; let the whole cool gradually, and pound it into powder. "When you want to solder any thing, put the two pieces you want to join on a table, approach- ing their extremities as near as you can to one another, making a crust of fullers' earth, so that holding to each piece and passing under the joint, it should open over it on the top ; then throw some of your powder between and over the joint. Have some borax, which put into hot spirits of wine till it is consumed, and with a feather rub your powder at the joint: you will see it immediately boil. As soon as the boiling stops, the consolidation is made. If there be any roughness, grind it ofi:'on a stone. No. 567. Mild Ajyerieni for Files. Take of precipitated sulphur 15 grains, magnesia 1 scruple. Mix. To be taken daily at bedtime, in a glass of milk or of water. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 255 No. 568. Milk, to Preserve, When milk contained in wire-corked bottles ig heated to the boiling-point in a water-bath, the oxygen of the included small portion of air under the cork seems to be carbonated, and the milk will afterwards keep fresh, — it is said, for a year or two. No. 569. Alum for the Hog Cholera, A writer says, — " Last May my hogs were attacked with hog cholera; and, upon mentioning it to a friend, he spoke of a suggestion published in the Cincinnati papers, advising the use of alum. I pro- cured some, made a strong solution, (all the water would bear,) and drenched all I found with the disease upon them, and gave to the lot (about 100 head) a pound of pulverized alum in some mill-feed each day for two weeks, by which time all remain- ing seemed healthy. Out of twenty-two drenched with one pint of the solution to each, administered with the assistance of a rope behind the tusks, and a horn with the small end sawed off', I lost five head, and, with the exception of two, the remaining seventeen appear to have entirely recovered to a healthy, thrifty condition. Some of those which have recovered were in the last stage, vomiting, with red blotches on the skin, and bleeding at the nose, which I have always considered the last stage of the disease. The above is but little cost, and, if it is as successful as with me, is well worth the trial." 256 600 xMISCELLANECFS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 570. Green Wriiing-lnk. Take 1 ounce verdigris, and, having powdered it, put to it 1 quart vinegar. After it lias stood 2 or 3 days, strain oft' the liquid. Or, instead of this, use the crystals of verdigris dissolved in water; then dissolve in 1 pint water either of the solutions, 5 drachms gum-arahic, and 2 drachma white sugar. No. 571. Hoojmig- Cough. — Dr. Barton's Remedy. Take of powdered cantharides, powdered cam- phor, of each 1 scruple, extract of bark 3 drachms. Kub them well together, and divide into powders of 8 grains each. Dose. — One every 3 or 4 hours. To be used only in advanced stages of the disease. No. 572. How to make Shaving-Soap. Take 2 ponnds best white bar soap, and | pound good common bar soap; cut them up fine, so tha^ they will dissolve readily. Put the soap into a copper kettle, with 1 quart of soft w^ater: let it stand over the fire, and, when it is dissolved by boil- ing, add 1 pint alcohol, 1 gill beef's gall, i gill spirits of turpentine; boil all these together for five minutes, stir while boiling; while it is cooling, flavour it with oil of sassafras to suit, and colour it with fine vermilion. This soap makes a rich lather, «ioftens the face, and can be made cheap. I 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 257 No. 573. Shaving-Soap, — Best ever Invented. Take 4i pouuds white bar soap, 1 quart rain- water, 1 gill beef's gall, and 1 gill spirits of turpen- tine; cut the soap thin, and boil five minutes, stir while boiling, and colour with i ounce vermilion. Scent with oil of rose or ahnond. No. 574. Hair- Oil. Take 1 gallon alcohol 95 per cent., 1 pint castor-oil, or as much as the alcohol will dissolve: add 1 ounce oil of cinnamon, or as much as will bring to the desired flavour. No. 575. Cheap Outside Paint. Take 2 parts (in bulk) of water-lime ground fine, 1 part (in bulk) of white lead ground in oil. Mix them thoroughly, by adding best boiled linseed-oil enough to prepare it to pass through a paint-mill, after which temper with oil till it can be applied v/ith a common paint-brush. Make any colour to suit. It will last three times as long as lead paint, and cost not one-fourth as much. It is superior. No. 576. How to cleaii Silver Articles. The best way to clean silver articles is to wash them first with ^^arm water and soap, and afterwards 2K 258 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. polish them with pure London whiting and a piece of leather. As pure whiting, free of grits, cannot always be had, except in London, you may sub stitute hartshorn-powder for it. No. 577. To take Mildew out of Linen, Wet the linen which contains the mildew with soft water, rub it well with white soap, then scrape some fine chalk to powder and rub it well into the linen, lay it out on the grass in the sunshine, watch- ing to keep it damp with soft water. Repeat the process the next day, and in a few hours the mildew will entirely disappear. No. 578. An excellent Powder for Razor-Strops. Ignite together in a crucible equal parts of well- dried copperas and sea-salt. The heat must be slowly raised and well regulated: otherwise the materials will boil over in a pasty state, and the product will be in a great measure lost. When w^ell made, out of contact with air, it has the brilliant aspect of plumbago. It requires to be ground and elutriated, after which it affords, on drying, an im- palpable powder, that may be either rubbed on a strap of smooth buff leather or mixed up with hog's lard or tallow into a stiff cerate. No. 579. Cure for Common Diseases of Pigs or Hogs, For common diseases of pig^^, the following re- 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 259 ceipt may be employed; I pound sulphur, | pound madder, \ pound saltpetre, 2 ounces black antimony ; mix these together, and give a table^ spoonful night and morning in the food. No. 580. Dr, CuUen's treatment of Epilejpsy^ or Falling Fits. Take of ammoniate of copper 20 grains, bread: crumbs and mucilage of gum-arabic a sufficient quantity to form it into a mass, which is to be divided into 40 pills. In the beginning, one of these is to be taken three times a day, and gradually in- creased to 2 or 3 pills, thrice a day. No. 581. German Silver. No. 1. The following are the different receipts for the manufacture of German silver which are adopted by one of the first manufacturers in London ; pre- mising that the metals should be as pure as possible. Common German Silver. — Copper, 8 ; nickel, 2 ; zinc, 3i. This is the commonest that can be mtide with any regard to the quality of the article pro- duced. It might do for common purposes. If the quantity of nickel be reduced much below this, the alloy will be little better than pale brass, and will tarnish rapidly. No. 582. German Silver. No. 2. Good German Silver. — Copper, 8 ; nickel, 3 ; zinc, 8j. This is a very beautiful compound. It has tho 260 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. appearance of silver a little below standard ; by some persons it is even preferred to the more expensive compound. We strongly recommend manufacturers not to use a metal inferior to this. No. 583. Gerraayi Silver. No. 3. Electrum. — Copper, 8 ; nickel, 4 ; zinc, 3i. This IS a compound which, for ease of working and beauty of appearance, is to be preferred to all others by the manufacturer, and is generally preferred by the pub- lic. It has a shade of blue like very highly-polished silver ; it tarnishes less easily than silver. No. 584. German Silver. JVo. 4. Copper, 8 ; nickel, 6 ; zinc, 3|. This is the richest in nickel that can be made without injuring the mechanical properties of the metal. It is a very beautiful compound, but requires a higher heat for fusion than the preceding, and will be found rather more difficult to work. No. 585. German Silver. No. 5. Tutenag. — Copper, 8 ; nickel, 3 ; zinc, 4|. These proportions were obtained by the analysis of a piece of Chinese tutenag of the best ordinary quality ; but some of the specimens of Chinese tutenag are equal 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 261 to the electrum, 'No. 3 ; but these are very rare. This alloy is very fusible, but very hard, and not easily rolled : it is the best adapted for casting. No. 586. - Hoio to Poison Rats. Mix 2 pounds carbonate of barytes with 1 pound hird, and lay it in their way. It is tasteless, odour- less, and impalpable, produces great thirst, and death immediately after drinking. Another way is to mix arsenic and lard together, and spread it on bread, and push a piece in every rat-hole ; or some small pieces of sponge may be fried in drippings or honey, and strewed about for them to eat. The sponge will distend their intestines, and will cause their death. Or 1 pint plaster of Paris, mixed with oat-meal, 1 pint, will prove equally fatal to them. No. 587. Bilious or Sick Headache. Headache is in general a symptom of indigestion or deranged general health, or the consequence of a confined state of the bowels. The following altera- tive pill will be found a valuable medicine. Take of calomel, 10 grains ; emetic tartar, 2, 3, or 4 grains; precipitated sulphuret of antimony, 1 scru- ple ; guaiacum, in powder, 1 drachm. Rub them well together in a mortar for 10 minutes; then, with a little conserve of hips, make them into a mass, and divide it into 20 pihs. Dose. — One pill is given every night, or every other night, for several weeks in succession. 262 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. No. 588. How to make Otto of Hoses, Gather the flowers of the hundred-leaved rose, (rosa cgptifoHa,) put them in a large jar or cask, with just sufficient water to cover them ; then put the vessel to stand in the sun, and in about a week after- ward the otto (a butyraceous oil) will form a scum on the surface, which should be removed by the aid of a piece of cotton. No. 589. Japan for Leather . 1. Boiled linseed-oil, 1 gallon ; burnt umber, & ounces ; asphaltum, 3 ounces ; boil, and add oil of turpentine to dilute to a proper consistence. 2. Boiled oil, 1 gallon ; the black of Prussian blue to colour. Prussian blue, when heated, turns of a black colour ; thus the black japanned cloth used for table-covers is prepared by painting the cloth with Prussian blue and boiled oil, and then drying it by the heat of a stove ; when, in the drying, it takes its intense colour. No. 590. Jet for Harness and Boots. Three sticks of the best black sealing-wax dissolved in J pint spirits of wine ; to be kept in a glass bottle, and well shaken previous to use. Applied with a soft sponge. 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 263 No. 591. To clean French Kid Gloves. Put the srloves on vour hands and wash them, as if you were washing your hands, in some spirits of tur- pentine, until quite clean ; then hang them up in a warm place, or where there is a current of air, and all smell of the turpentine will be removed. N.B. — This method is practised in Paris, and, since its introduction into this country, thousands of pounds have been saved or gained by it. No. 592. How to clean Gloves. Wash, them with soap and water, then stretch them on wooden hands, or pull them into shape without wringing them; next rub them with pipe-clay, or yellow ochre, or a mixture of the two in any re- quired shade, made into a paste with beer; let them dry gradually, and, when about half dry, rub them well, so as to smooth them and&put them into shape ; then dry them, brush out the superfluous colour, cover them with paper, and smooth them with a warm iron. Other colours may be employed to mix the pipe-clay besides yellow ochre. No. 593. Hed Sealing- Wax. Shel-lac, (very pale,) 4 ounces, cautiously melt in a bright copper pan over a clear charcoal fire, and, when fused, add Venice turpentine, J ounce ; mix, and further add vermilion, 3 ounces; remove the 264 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. pan from tlie fire, cool a little, weigh it in pieces, and roll them into circular sticks on a warm stone slab by means of a polished wooden block; or it may be poured into moulds wdiile in a state of fusion. No. 594. Black Sealing- Wax. No. 1. Purchase best black rosin, 3 pounds ; beeswax, J pound ; and finely -powdered ivory-black, 1 pound. Melt the whole together over a slow fire, and pour into sticks. If J pound Venice turpentine is added, it will be fit for letter-use. No. 595. Black Sealing- Wax. No. 2. Take 30 ounces shel-lac, 15 ounces ivory-black, m an impalpable powder, and 10 ounces Venice tur- pentine. For mode of procedure, see Receipt No. 593. 4 No. 596. A Cure for Erysipelas^ and all high Inflammation of tlm Skin. A simple poultice of cranberries pounded fine, and applied in a raw state. No. 597. An excellent Printing-ink. Balsam of copaiva, (or Canada balsam,) 9 ounces ; lampblack, 3 ounces ; indigo and Prussian blue, each 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. 265 5 drachms ; Indian red, f ounce ; yellow soap, (dry,) 3 ounces. Grind it to an impalpable smoothness. Mix with old linseed-oil. No. 598. How to clean Silk stained by corrosive or sharp Liquor. We often lind that lemon-juice, vinegar, oil of vitriol, and other sharp corrosives, stain dyed gar- ments. Sometimes by adding a little pearlash to a soap-lather, and passing the silks through these, the faded colour will be restored. Pearlash and warm water will sometimes do alone ; but it is the most efficacious to use the soap-lather and pearlash together. No. 599. Bow to Write in Silver. Mix 1 ounce the finest pewter or block tin, and 2 ounces quicksilver, together, till both become fluid ; then grind it with gum-water, and write with it. The writing will look as if done with silver. No. 600. Toothache Preventive. A correspondent of the "Monthly Magazine" says : — " Although I am unacquainted with any thing which gives immediate ease in that severe pain, yet I can inform you how the toothache may be prevented. I was much tortured with it about twenty years ago. Since that time, however, by 23 266 600 MISCELLANEOUS VALUABLE RECEIPTS. using flour of sulphur as a tooth-powder, I have been wholly free from it. Rub the teeth and gums with a rather hard tooth-brush, using the sulphur every night; if done after dinner, too, all the better. It preserves the teeth, and does not communicate any smisU whatever to the mouth. I GAUGING SIMPLIFIED; OR, (trn^ '^^mlimi hk mn ^mpt. GAUGING REGULAR SHAPED LYING CASKS. EXPLANATION OF TABLES. The chief design in this invention has been to enable any person to ascertain in one minute what number of gallons are contained in a lying cask, regular shaped, of different dimen- sions, when full or partly full. RULE I.— For Table No. 1. Take the rod with inches and tenths of inches marKed on it, put it into the cask diagonally, from the bung-hole to each head, to get the exact centre. Then look at Table No. 1 : the first column will show the diagonal inches from centre of bung to each head of cask, and the second column the con- tents of cask. RULE IL— For Table No. 2. To get the number of gallons when a cask is not full, take the bung diameter and wet inches on rod, and look at Ullage Table No. 2 for full contents of cask. The 1st column shows the number of gallons in a fall cask. " 2d " " the bung diameter. " 8d " '' wet or dry inches on rod. " 4th " ^' what remains, if part be out. Suppose a cask to contain 135 gallons, and the bung dh- meter to be 34 inches, and 10 inches wet on the rod, tlie right-hand, or 4th column will show 80* gallons remaining. vShould the wet inches come above the centre, and only 10 inches be dry, there would be 30^ gallons out, leaving 104^ gallons in. 268 269 Table No. 1. WHOLE CONTENTS OF CASKS. .n Is . o 2 .11 Is . 6^ -5 . Jo 1i 7.1 1 1 21.8 28 27.3 55 31.1 82 34.2 109 9.0 2 22.0 29 27.4 56 31.2 83 34.3 110 10.3 3 22.3 30 27.6 57 31.4 84 34.4 111 11.3 4 22.5 31 27.7 58 31.5 85 34.5 112 12.2 5| 22.7 32 27.9 59 31.6 86 34.6 113 13.0 6 23.0 33 28.0 60 31.7 87 34.7 114 13.7 7 23.2 34 28.2 61 31.8 88 34.8 115 14.3 8 23.4 35 28.4 62 31.9 89 34.9 116 14.9 9 23.7 36 28.5 63 32.1 90 35.0 117 15.4 10 24.0 37 28.7 64 32.2 91 35.1 118 15.9 11 24.1 38 28.8 65 32.3 92 35.2 119 16.4 12 24.3 39 29.0 66 32.4 93 35.3 120 16.8 13 24.5 40 29.1 61 32.6 94 35.4 121 17.2 14 24.7 41 29.2 68 32.7 95 35.5 122 17.6 15 24.9 42 29.4 69 32.8 96 35.6 123 18.0 16 25.1 43 29.5 70 32.9 97 35.7 124 18.4 17 i 25.3 44 29.6 71 33.0 98 35.8 125 18.8 18 ; 25.5 45 29.8 72 33.2 99 35.9 126 19.1 19 i 25.7 46 29.9 73 33.3 100 36.0 127 19.4 20 25.9 47 30.1 74 33.4 101 36.1 128 19.7 21 26.0 48 30.2 75 33.5 102 36.2 129 20.1 22 26.2 49 30.3 76 33.6 103 36.3 130 20.4 23 126.4 50 30.5 77 33.7 104 36.4 131 20.7 24 26.6 51 30.6 78 33.8 105 36.5 132 21.0 25 26.7 52 30.7 79 33.9 106 36.6 133 21.2 26 26.9 53 30.8 80 34.0 107 36.7 134 21.5 27 27.1 54 31.0 81 34.1 108 36.8 135 23^ 270 Diagonal inches. Contents of cask. o 2 eg Diagonal -2^ 167 '3 . II 11 Jo "3 . .ri 5-M li |o 36.9 137 i38.3 153 40.5 181 41.5 195 37.0 138 138.4 154 j39.5 168 40.6 182 41.6 196 37.1 139 |38.5 155 1 39.6 169 40.6 183 41.7 197 37.2 140 38.5 156 39.7 170 40.7 184 41.7 198 37.3 141 38.6 157 39.8 171 40.8 185 41.8 199 37.4 142 38.7 158 39.8 172 40.9 186 41.9 200 37.5 143 38.8 159 39.9 173 i 40.9 187 i 42.0 202 37.6 145 38.8 160 40.0 174 1 41.0 188 42.1 204 37.7 146 38.9 161 40.1 175, 41.1 189 42.2 205 37.8 147 39.0 162 40.1 176 41.2 190 42.3 206 37.9 148 39.1 163 40.2 177 41.2 191 42.4 208 38.0 149 39.2 164 40.3 178! 41.3 192 42.5 210 38.1 150 39.3 165 40.3 179 i 41.4 193 42.7 213 38.2 152 39.4 166 40.4 180 1 41.5 194 271 Ullage Table, No. 2. -2 n o o 'o 1 to o „ ^1 II galls. o o 'o si galls. 1 o 'o a ll gi galls. 18 16 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Ti 8 3i 4f H 9i 5 6 7 8 9 4} 6 I* ^* 9i 19 17 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8i 1 If 3 4i 5i ^ 9i 20 20 16 17 2 3 3J 4 4J 5 5i 6 61 7^ 7J 8 1 2 2f 3J 4i 5 5} 6J 7i 8i 9 10 18 17 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8i 1 If 2| 4 5i 19 18 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 I* 1 If 2f 3f 6 ^ 8 8f 9J 18 18 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 * If 2i 8f 5i 6f 7i 2 3 4 4J 5 ? 1 If 2i 8f 4i 5t 6 6} 7J 19 19 2 8 4 f J* 2i 19 16 2 3 1 2 272 02 1 ^1 S o| 00 i o| S "S o rt o "S o rt a> % 05 fl a >^ ^'3 C a £■ . ^•3 "S a ^ . ^•3 o o -3 :2 a o . .2 11 ;=; a p 2 o u f3 "1 :^ a -^ ^ galls. 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