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TO PREVENT TAKING COLD.--If out in cold weather with insufficient clothing or
wrappings, fold a newspaper and spread across the chest. Persons having weak
lungs can in this way make for themselves a very cheap and perfect lung
protector. Large papers spread between quilts at night, add much to the warmth.
FOR A COLD. --Cayenne pepper-tea for a cold. Put a quarter of a tea-spoon of
cayenne pepper in a tea-cup; pour over hot water and sweeten with sugar.
Or, steep horseradish in a gill of vinegar, add a gill of honey, and take a
tea-spoon every twenty minutes.
CURE FOR FELON.--When a felon first makes its appearance, take the inside skin
of an egg-shell, and wrap it around the part affected. When the pressure becomes
too painful wet it with water, and keep it on twelve hours.--Mrs. Jane M. Woods,
Milford Center, Ohio.
TO PREVENT A CHILD COUGHING AT NIGHT. --Boil the strength out of ten cents worth
of "seneca snake-root" in one quart of soft water; strain through a cloth, boil
down to a pint, add one cup powdered sugar made into a thick molasses. Give one
tea-spoonful on going to bed.
FOR THE STIFF JOINTS.--Oil made by trying up common angle worms, is excellent to
apply to sinews drawn up by sprains or disease.
FOR THE LUNGS. --A quart (or less if too strong) of tar, stirred six minutes in
a gallon of water, and one-fourth or a tumbler taken four times a day, an hour
or two after meals, is said to clear the lungs, and give greater ease in public
speaking.
FOR RHEUMATISM. --To one pint alcohol, add one table-spoon pulverized potash,
and a lump of gum-camphor, the size of a walnut. Use as a liniment.
NEURALGIA. --One-half drachm sal-ammonia in one ounce of camphor-water. Take a
tea-spoonful several times, five minutes apart, until relieved.
Another simple remedy is horseradish. Grate, and mix it in vinegar, the same as
for table purposes, and apply to the temple when the face or head is affected,
or the wrist, when the pain is in the arm or shoulder.
FOR IVY POISONING.--A simple and effectual remedy for ivy poisoning, is said to
be sweet spirits of niter. Bathe the affected parts two or three times during
the day, and the next morning scarcely any trace of the poison will remain.
FOR BURNS OR BRUISES.--Apply peach-tree leaves, the smooth side next the skin,
and bind them on. For burns, when there is danger of mortification or even if it
has already set in, bind on strips of cloth dipped in clean tar.
FOR SORE MOUTH IN NURSING BABIES. --A tea-spoon each of pulverized alum and
borax, half a salt-spoon of pulverized nut-galls, a table-spoon of honey; mix,
and pour on it half a tea-cup boiling water; let settle, and with a clean linen
rag wash the mouth four or five times a day, using a fresh piece of linen every
day.
CHEROKEE LINIMENT. --One ounce gum-camphor, dissolved in alcohol, one ounce each
of spirits turpentine, sweet oil, hemlock oil, origanum oil, and cedar oil, two
ounces spirits hartshorn. Use externally. Shake well before using.
BAD BREATH.--Bad breath from catarrh, foul stomach, or bad teeth, may be
temporarily relieved by diluting a little bromo chloralum with eight or ten
parts of water, and using it as a gargle, and swallowing a few drops just before
going out. A pint of bromo chloralum costs fifty cents, but a small vial full
will last a long time.
WOUND FROM RUSTY NAIL.--Smoke this or any inflamed wound over the
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