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fume of burning woolen cloth, wool, or sugar, for fifteen minutes, and the pain
will be taken out.
TAPE WORMS are said to be removed by refraining from supper and breakfast, and
at eight o'clock taking one-third part of two hundred minced pumpkin seeds, the
shells of which have been removed by hot water; at nine take another third, at
ten the remainder, and follow it at eleven with strong dose of castor oil.
TO PREVENT WEARING THROUGH THE SKIN WHEN BED-RIDDEN. --Apply to tender parts of
body with a feather, a mixture made by beating to a strong froth the white of an
egg, dropping in while beating two tea-spoonsful of spirits of wine. Bottle for
use.
CURE FOR STAMMERING.--If not caused by malformation of organs, reading aloud,
with the teeth closed, for at least two hours a day for three or four months
will work a cure.
TO PREVENT SEA SICKNESS.--Make a pad of wool or horse hair; and bind over the
stomach. Brandy and water, very weak, is the best remedy to allay the heat and
irritation.
TO PREVENT SKIN FROM DISCOLORING AFTER A BRUISE.--Apply immediately or as soon
as possible, a little dry starch or arrow-root, moistened with cold water, or
rub over with common table butter.
TO RELIEVE TOOTHACHE.--Apply powdered alum, or fill mouth with warm water, and
immediately after with cold; or saturate a piece of cotton with a strong
solution of ammonia, and apply to the tooth. For toothache and inflamed face
caused by it, apply a poultice of pounded slippery-elm bark and cold water.
ULCER IN THE EAR. --Children are often troubled with ulcers in the ears after
scarlet fever and other children's diseases. Roast onions in ashes until done,
wrap in a strong cloth, and squeeze out juice. To three parts juice, add one
part landanum and one part sweet oil, and bottle for use. Wash ear out with warm
water, shake bottle well, and drop a few drops into the ear.
EYE WASH. --Sulphate of zinc two grains, sulphate of morphine one-half grain,
distilled water one ounce; mix, and bottle. Drop in the eye (a drop or two at
once), then wink the eye several times, so that the wash may reach all the
parts; and keep quiet, and do not use the eyes for about an hour. This wash is
for blood-shot eyes, and when used it will produce quite a smarting
sensation.--Dr. D. W. Henderson.
FOR ITCHING SORE EYES. --Scorch a handful of pure salt, burn five cents worth
white vitriol (as you would alum). Boil the whites of three eggs in one pint
pure rain-water, or snow-water is better. Add ingredients in proportion of two
tea-spoons scorched salt to one of vitriol, until all the vitriol is used, then
add one-half tea-spoon each of burnt alum and sugar of lead; strain through a
cloth, squeezing it dry, let settle well, then pour off the top, and bottle for
use. Use at night by pouring a little in the palm of the hand, and wet the edges
of the eyelids. If the eyes are very sore, weaken what is in the hand by adding
a little rain-water.--Mrs. E. T. Carson.
HEALING SALVE FOR WOUNDS. --Pint olive oil, half ounce common resin, half ounce
beeswax; melt well together, and bring oil to boiling-heat; add gradually of
pulverized red lead--three eighths of a pound; (for summer use a trifle more
lead) in a short time after it is taken up by the oil, and the mixture becomes
brown or a shining black, remove from the fire, and when nearly cold add two
scruples pulverized camphor. It should remain on the fire until it attains a
proper consistence for spreading, which may be known by dipping a splint or
knife in the mixture from time to time, and allowing it
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