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relief. Pain in the eyeballs is also relieved, by gently rubbing the finger and
thumb over the lids towards the nose. This was published some years since, and I
have known it give relief and strengthen the eyes.
For Worms.
Equal parts of salt and sugar, taken while fasting, are good for worms; a
tea-spoonful is sufficient for a child two years old;
to take half a cup of chamomile, rue, or wormwood tea, with a little sugar, two
hours before breakfast, is also good. Give a dose of senna after they have been
taking this three days.
It is very important to bruise garlic and rue, to apply to the stomach; put it
in a bag, and wet it with spirits every day. The garlic and rue is said to keep
the worms out of the stomach.
Wormseed oil, a few drops at a time, has given relief, but should be used
cautiously.
Old cheese grated and given to a child, has been known to afford relief: it is
also beneficial when a child is seized with sudden illness from having eaten too
many cherries.
For Tooth-ache.
Reduce two drachms of alum to a very fine powder, and mix with it seven drachms
of nitrous spirits of ether; apply it to the tooth.
Alum burnt on a hot shovel, and powdered, is sometimes good; also half a drop of
the oil of cinnamon, on a piece of cotton or lint, where the tooth is hollow.
Cayenne pepper on cotton, and moistened with spirits of camphor, has been known
to afford relief.
A poultice of hops applied to the cheek, or a piece of raw cotton with red
pepper dusted on it, or a mustard plaster, will relieve a swelling which
proceeds from tooth-ache.
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