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BURNS AND SCALDS.
A piece of cotton wadding, spread with butter or sweet oil, and bound on the
burn instantly, will draw out the pain without leaving a scar; also a handful of
flour, bound on instantly, will prevent blistering. The object is to entirely
exclude the air from the part affected. Some use common baking-soda, dry or wet,
often giving instant relief, withdrawing the heat and pain. Another valuable
remedy is to beat the yellow of an egg into linseed oil, and apply it with a
feather on the injured part frequently. It will afford ready relief, and heals
with great rapidity. Some recommend the white part of the egg, which is very
cooling and soothing, and soon allays the smarting pain. It is the exposure of
the part coming in contact with the air that gives the extreme discomfort
experienced from ordinary afflictions of this kind, and anything which excludes
air and prevents inflammation is the thing to be at once applied.
TO STOP THE FLOW OF BLOOD.
For a slight cut there is nothing better to control the hemorrhage than common
unglazed brown wrapping paper, such as is used by marketmen and grocers; a piece
to be bound over the wound. A handful of flour bound on the cut. Cobwebs and
brown sugar, pressed on like lint. When the blood ceases to flow, apply arnica
or laudanum.
When an artery is cut the red blood spurts out at each pulsation. press the
thumb firmly over the artery near the wound, and on the side towards the heart.
press hard enough to stop the bleeding, and wait till a physician comes. The
wounded person is often able to do this himself, if he has the requisite
knowledge.
GRAVEL.
Into a pint of water put two ounces of bicarbonate of soda. Take two
tablespoonfuls in the early forenoon, and the same towards night; also drink
freely of water through the day. Inflammation of the kidneys has been
successfully treated with large doses of lime-water.
Persons troubled with kidney difficulties should abstain from sugar and things
that are converted into sugar in digestion, such as starchy food and sweet
vegetables.
SORE THROAT.
Everybody has a cure for this trouble, but simple remedies appear to be most
effectual. Salt and water is used by many as a gargle, but a little alum and
honey dissolved in sage tea is better. An application of cloths wrung out of hot
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