Encyclopedia of Practical Receipts and Processes

How to silver a mirror, brew ginger beer, kill moths, make fireworks, tan a hide, bronze iron, cure a ham and clean a straw hat: William B. Dick's numbered encyclopedia answered the questions a nineteenth-century household actually had.

Home › Medical Receipts › Remedy for Neuralgia

Remedy for Neuralgia

A remedy said to be efficacious consists in applying bruised horse radish to the wrist on the side of the body where the pain is. poultice of powdered hops is very effectual to relieve pain. Apply the black salve (see No. 4971), to heal it. Attend to the general health, by giving aperients, tonics, and nutritious cooling diet.

Read next

← Remedy for a Weak BackSimple Cure for a Felon →