THE REPUBLICAN

1880’s

 

LEMON AS MEDICINE.

 

Many a Cure is Effected by These Simple and Palatable Remedies.

 

            Lemon juice sweetened with loaf or crushed sugar will relieve a cough.

            For feverishness and an unnatural thirst soften a lemon by rolling on a hard surface, cut off the top, add sugar and work it down into the lemon with a fork, then suck it slowly.

            During the warm months a sense of coolness, comfort and invigoration can be produced by a free use of lemonade.  For six large glasses of lemonade use six large, juicy lemons. Roll on a hard surface so that the juice can be easily extracted.  Peel and slice.  Add sufficient sugar to sweeten and stir it well into the juice before adding the water.

            Hot lemonade will break up a cold if taken at the start.  Make it the same as cold lemonade, only use boiling water instead of cold water and use about one-half as much sugar.

            A piece of lemon, or stale bread moistened with lemon juice, bound n a corn will cure it. Renew night and morning. The first application will produce soreness but if treatment is persisted in for a reasonable length of time a cure will be effected.

            The discomfort caused by sore and tender feet may be lessened, if not entirely cured, by applying slices of lemons on the feet.

            Lemon juice will relieve roughness and vegetable stains on the hands.  After having the hands in hot soapsuds rub them with a piece of lemon.  This will prevent chapping and make the hands soft and white.

 

                                                                                    - Philadelphia Times.