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To remove stains, rub a slice of raw potato upon the stains; or wash the hands
in lemon-juice or steeped laurel-leaves.
To give a fine color to the nails, the hands and fingers must be well lathered
and washed with fine soap; then the nails must be rubbed with equal parts of
cinnebar and emery, followed by oil of bitter almonds. To take white spots from
the nails, melt equal parts of pitch and turpentine in a small cup; add to it
vinegar and powdered sulphur. Rub this on the nails, and the spots will soon
disappear.
TOILET SOAP.
One pound of washing soda, one pound of lard or clear tallow, half a pound of
unslaked lime, one tablespoonful of salt, three quarts of water. Put the soda
and lime in a large dish, and pour over the water, boiling hot; stir until
dissolved; let it stand until clear; then pour off the clear liquid, add the
grease and salt; boil four hours, then pour into pans to cool. If it should be
inclined to curdle or separate, indicating the lime to be too strong, pour in a
little more water, and boil again. Perfume as you please, and pour into molds or
a shallow dish, and, when cold, cut into bars to dry.
ANTIDOTES FOR POISONS.
The following list gives some of the more common poisons and the remedies most
likely to be on hand in case of need:
Acids:--These cause great heat and sensation of burning pain from the mouth down
to the stomach. The remedies are: Magnesia, soda, pearl ash, or soap dissolved
in water, every two minutes: then use the stomach pump, or an emetic.
Alkali:--Drink freely of water with vinegar or lemon-juice in it, made very
strong of the sour.
Ammonia:--Remedy is lemon-juice or vinegar.
Arsenic Remedies:--Give prompt emetic of mustard and salt, a tablespoonful of
each, in a coffee cup of warm water; then follow with sweet oil, butter made
warm, or milk. Also may use the white of an egg in half a cupful of milk or lime
water. Chalk and water is good, and the preparation of iron, ten drops in water
every half hour; hydrated magnesia.
Alcohol:--First cleanse out the stomach by an emetic, then dash cold water on
the head, and give ammonia (spirits of hartshorn).
Laudanum, Morphine, Opium:--First give a strong emetic of mustard and water,
then very strong coffee and acid drinks; dash cold water on the head, then keep
in motion.
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