The Dixie Cook-Book

“The best is none too good.” Southern family receipts gathered across generations and printed in Atlanta in 1883 — and, in the same volume, everything else a household was expected to know: the laundry, the sick-room, dressmaking, babies, and a year's bill of fare.

Accidents And Sudden Sickness

3 receipts in this part of The Dixie Cook-Book.

Antidotes to Poisons (First thing to do is to cause)

The first thing to do is to cause their rejection by vomiting, to do which place mustard mixed with salt on the tongue, or give large…

Antidotes

Alkalies-Soap and milk, chalk, soda, lime-water. Send for the doctor and his stomach pump.

Bite of Serpent

Apply fire in some form to the wound, thoroughly and immediately. Same as for mad dog, followed by whisky to intoxication. The foregoing…

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