Recipes, Hints and Cures
How to Cure a Burn
I see in your valuable paper so many people having been burned one way or another.
I send this receipt which is worth remembering for burns of any kind or scalds:
Alum - Take a lump the size of a bird's egg,
dissolve in a teacup of water,
wet a cloth in this and wrap the burn or sore;
keep wet say six or eight hours until all the redness is gone.
You will have no more trouble.
A Subscriber
This clipping from an old newspaper, possibly 1900s - 1920s, is presented for entertainment purposes only.
Note: Below is the definition for Alum from The American Heritage Dictionary
al·um ( ²l"…m) n. 1. Any of various double sulfates of a trivalent metal such as aluminum, chromium, or iron and a univalent metal such as potassium or sodium, especially aluminum potassium sulfate, AlK(SO 4 ) 2 ·12H 2 O, widely used in industry as clarifiers, hardeners, and purifiers and medicinally as topical astringents and styptics
