Genealogy Chat

LOL Ellen......You have automatically halved the sale of purple hair dye in one swift move!! Here's another: A Medicine to increase Milk in Nurses. Take Earth-worms, wash them well, freeing them carefully from their Excrements, and from all adhering Earth and Filth. Then dry them so as they may not stink, and yet be pulverable. Of these, reduc'd to Pouder, give half a Dram or two Scruples for a Dose, in Wine or any other proper Vehicle. My ancestor has written underneath, ''Wash them carefully form their Excrement'' Heavily underlined!!!! .....Are we saying one of my ancestors was brought up by a mother who was taking THIS mixture for a milk deficiency??? We must have strong genes then?????!! Merry

Merry - Anything for a cold! A bit lame I know, but did'nt want to loose this 'most interesting thread'. Justine (who is know Penelope) x

Lesley....here we are: For a Recent Strain. Take a pint or more of Claret Wine, and boyl in it for a little while, in a close Vessel, about a handful of Red Rose leaves, till the Liquor be strong of the Plant. In this well heated, dip a piece of Linnen or Flannel, and wringing out the moisture, double it, and apply it hot to the Part affected, using a Fillet, or some such thing, to keep it on. And Penelope (you would do well not to keep getting tied to the railway line.....all that cold and damp can't be good for you, even if you are rescued in the end.....!!) Anyway (take off the pink leather outfit first!!): A Vulgar but often Approv'd Medicine for a Cold, especially that affects the Breast. Take a sheet, or half sheet ''pro re nata'' of brown Paper, of as even a Texture as you can get and anoint it over evenly and very well with the eldest Tallow, or Candle-grease you can procure, so that the Paper may be throwly penetrated by it. Then cover it thinly with Nutmeg, as you were to rub the Spice upon a Toast, and clap it warm to the Pit of the Stomach, that it may reach a good way both above and beneath it. hope you feel better soon!! Dr Monty is going off duty now until this evening....Please phone NHS Direct if you cannot wait until later!! Happy Hunting Merry

Actually - I'm not wearing my pink leather outfit at present - have not been up long so I am in my Pink silk PJ's ! Thank you for the remedy - think I shall stick to the vick and the lemonade, honey and brandy concoction. (the drink and the vick are NOT to be added together !) See ya later> Pen x

Lyla....of course my remedies work!! Esp the hanged mans leg cure! Merry

An uncommon, but not unuseful Remedy for the Tooth-ach. Let the Patient lye on the Ear that is opposite to the Part affected, and into the other Ear drop two or three drops of the freshly exprest Juice of Rue a little warm, and stop the Ear lightly with fine black Wool or Cotton. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Remedy against the Bitings of Vipers, and other venomous Creatures. As soon as ever one is bitten (for if the Poyson be diffus'd through the Mass of Blood, the Experiment may not succees) a hot Iron may be held as near the Wound as the Patient can possibly endure, till it has, as they speak, drawn out all the Poyson, which will sometimes adhere like a yellowish Spot to the surface of the iron. Ugh!! Merry