From the The Universal Household Assistant or What Every One Should Know (1884):

Things to try. — Try popcorn for nausea.    Try cranberries for malaria.    Try a sun-bath for rheumatism.    Try ginger ale for stomach cramps.    Try clam broth for a weak stomach.    Try cranberry poultice for erysipelas.    Try a wet towel to the back of the neck when sleepless.    Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach.    Try eating fresh radishes and yellow turnips for gravel.    Try eating onions and horseradish to relieve dropsical swellings.    Try buttermilk for removal of freckles, tan, and butternut stains.    Try taking your cod liver oil in tomato catsup, if you want to make it palatable.    Try hard cider -- a wine-glass three times a day -- for ague and rheumatism.    Try taking a nap in the afternoon if you are going to be out late in the evening.    Try breathing the fumes of turpentine or carbolic acid to remove whooping cough.    Try a cloth wrung out from cold water put about the neck at night for sore throat.    Try snuffing powdered borax up the nostrils for catarrhal "cold in the head."    Try walking with your hands behind you if you find yourself becoming bent forward.    Try a silk handkerchief over the face when obliged to go against a cold piercing wind.    Try planting sunflowers in your garden if compelled to live in a malarial district.

From the The Universal Household Assistant or What Every One Should Know (1884):

Uterine Hemorrhage — unfailing cure. — sugar of lead, ten grains; ergot, ten grains; opium, three grains; ipecac, one grain; all pulverized, and well mixed. Dose, ten to twelve grains; given in a little honey or syrup.    In very bad cases after childbirth, it might be repeated in thirty minutes, or the dose increased to fifteen or eighteen grains; but in cases of rather profuse wasting, repeat it once at the end of three hours, or as the urgency of the case may require.    In every case of female debility make liberal use of iron, as the want of iron in the system is often the cause of the trouble. Mix fine iron filings with as much ground ginger. Dose, half a teaspoon three times daily in a little honey or molasses, increasing or lessening the dose to produce a blackness of the stools. Continue this course until well.

Do not try this at home.

Went to the Great Meadow with grrldan and merryperseis. It was beautiful and the sun trickled through the trees onto our smiling faces. We crossed the stepping stones and sat down in the first clearing we came to.

Our picnic lunch consisted of Fred & Ginger Trail Mix, green olive tapenade on mini toasts, marinated portobella mushrooms with roasted peppers, and orange-carrot juice. While we were enjoying our picnic in the bright sunlight, a dark cloud placed itself over our heads and proceeded to rain on us. It was sunny in every direction, with the exception of the gray rain cloud directly above. It hovered over our heads for a good ten minutes or so, before deigning to move on.

On the walk back, one of merryperseis's feet slipped off a stepping stone and into the stinky bog. Luckily it was not at a deep point along the stones, but it did thoughoutly soak her shoe. However, the shoe dried quickly on the way home in the bright sun.