BITES OF MAD DOG - Apply caustic potash at once to the wound, and give enough whiskey to cause sleep.
BURNS - Make a paste of common baking soda and water, and apply it promptly to the burn. It will quickly check the pain and inflammation.
COLD ON CHEST - A flannel rag wrung out in boiing water and sprinkled with turpentine, laid on the chest, gives the greatest relief.
FOR COUGHS, COLDS, ETC. - Syrup of morphia, three ounces; syrup of tar, three and a half ounces; chloroform, one troy ounce; glycerine, one troy ounce. Mix them. Dose, a teaspoonful three or four times a day.
SPRAINED ANKLE OR WRIST - Wash the ankle very frequently with cold salt and water, which is far better than warm vinegar or decotions of herbs. Keep the foot as cool as possible to prevent inflammation, and sit with it elevated on a high cushion. Live on a low diet, and take every morning some cooling medicine, such as Epsom salts. It cures in a few days.
CHILBLAINS, SPRAINS, ETC. - One raw egg well beaten, half a pint of vinegar, one ounce spirits of turpentine, a quarter of an ounce spirit of wine, a quarter of an ounce of camphor. These ingredients to be beaten together, then put in a bottle and shaken for ten minutes, after which, to be corked down tightly to exclude air. In half an hour it is fit to use. To be well rubbed in, two, three, or four times a day. For rheumatism in the head (?), to be rubbed at the back of the neck and behind the ears. In chilblains this remedy is to be used before they are broken.
HOW TO REMOVE SUPERFLOUS HAIR - Sulpheret of Arsenic, one ounce; Qucklime, one ounce, Prepared Lard, one ounce; White Wax, one ounce. Melt the wax, add the lard. When nearly cold, stir in the other ingredients. Apply to the superflous hair, allowing it to remain on from five to ten minutes; use a table knife to shave off the hair, then wash with soap and warm water.
DYSPEPSIA CURE - (difficult or painful digestion) Powdered Rhubarb, two drachms; bicarbonate of sodium, six drachms; extract of gentain, three drachms; peppermint water, seven and a half ounces. Mix them. Dose, a teaspoonful half an hour before meals.
FOR NEURALGIA - Tincture of belladonna, one ounce; tincture of camphor, one ounce; tincture of armica, one ounce; tincture of opium, one ounce. Mix them. Apply over the seat of the pain, and give ten to twenty drops in sweetened water every two hours.
CUT OR BRUISE - Apply the moist surface of the inside coating or skin of the shell of a raw egg. It wil adhere of itself, leave no scar, and heal without pain.
DISINFECTANT - Chloride of lime should be scattered at least once a week under sinks and wherever sewer gas is likely to penetrate.
TO CURE DEAFNESS - Obtain pure pickerel oil, and then apply four drops morning and evening into the ear. Great care should be taken to obtain oil that is perfectly clear.
DEAFNESS - Take three drops of sheep's gall, warm, and drop it into the ear on going to bed. The ear must be syringed with warm soap and water in the morning. The gall must be applied for three successive nights. It is only effacious when the deafness is produced by cold. The most convenient way of warming the gall is by holding it in a silver spoon over the flame of the light. The above remedy has been frequently tried with perfect success.
GOUT - Half an ounce of nitre (saltpetre); half an ounce of sulphur, half an ounce of flour of mustard, half an ounce of turkey rhubarb, quarter of an ounce of powdered gualcum. Mix and take a teaspoonful every other night for three nights, and omit three nights, in a wineglassful of cold water which has been previously well boiled.
PILES - Hamamelis, both internally, or as an injection in rectum. Bathe the parts with cold water or with astringent-lotions, as alum water, especially in bleeding piles. Ointment of garlic acid and calomel is of repute. The best treatment of all is, suppositories of iodoform, ergotine, or tannic acid, which can be made at any drug store.
VOMITING - Ice dissolved in the mouth, often cures vomiting when all remedies fail. Much depends on the diet of persons liable to such attacks, this should be easily digestible food, taken often in small quantities. Vomiting can often be arrested by applying a mustard paste over the region of the stomach. It is not necessary to allow it to remain until all parts are blistered, but it may be removed when the part becomes thoroughly red, and reapplied if required after the redness has disappeared.
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