Spiders web, placed on an open wound.
Senna Pods. for constipation.
Friars Balsam. put into a bowl of hot water, place a towel over your head and inhale. (Menthol Crystal, can be used as and alternative) - helpful for colds and sinus troubles.
Bates's Salve(imported), heated over a flame and applied to stubborn splinters.
Breathing and inhaling tar whilst workmen. were repairing roads - good for whooping cough.
Black Stick (like sealing wax ) heated over aflame then dab on septic sores or splinters.
Drink cabbage water for a healthy skin.
A cure for chilblains. - immerse your feet in a chamber pot early morning. (Preferably one foot at a time to avoid soaking lino or carpet.)
Wet a matchstick and rub on warts.
Make a jacket from soft brown paper, coat with wax from a tallow candle - helpful with bronchitis.
Brown paper soaked in vinegar. for a temperature.
Goose grease for a bad chest. Alternatively, camphor bag placed round the neck on a string.
Olive oil and raspberry vinegar for coughs.
Brimstone and treacle for natural motions.
Sugar and soap poultice, for drawing boils etc..
'Composition' for stomach pains.
Cloth dipped in vinegar, for headaches.
Dog oil, for aches and pains.
Dock leaf, for sprains.
Comfrey, for sprains.
Aloe plant, from the sap of this plant dab on burns.
Epsom salts, for drawing pain from aching feet and bones.
Bicarbonate of soda for ulcerated mouth and cleaning teeth.
Syrup of Tallu for whooping cough.
Rub a gold ring on a stye.
Mustard baths for colds.
Worm cakes.
Steam kettles for bronchitis.
(For Many of the above remedies separate beds are advisable)
Oil of Sassafras.
Cecil Woods healing powders.
Sal Volatile.
Gerupline.
Bile Beans.
Scotts emulsion.
Sanderson Specific.
Fennings cooling powders.
Beechams Pills. (Worth a guinea a box.)