Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1849-10-10
Useful Information for All.

CEMENT FOR MEND1SG BoILERs.-Mix two
parts of finely powdered litharge with one part
of very fine sand and one part of quick lime,
which has been allowed to slack spontaneously
by exposure to the air. This mixture may be
kept for any length of time without injury. In
using it Il portion is mixed into 4 paste with lin
seed oil, or still better boiled linseed oil. In
this state it must he quickly applied, as it soon
becomes hard.
To TAKE QUISISE.-Tis medicine so much
used in the west, for fever and ague, is bitter
and not easily taken. The most ~palatable way
is, to take 3 grains of it in half 4 cup-tull OF
cold coffee well swcetened.
To MAKE PYNADA OF BREAD JELLY.-Cut a
wheaton roll or loaf into slices, toast them on
both sides, and boil in a quart Of water until the
whole forms a jelly, adding more water if re-
ouired: then strain, and flavor with one pound of
white sugar. four ounces of red wine, and one
ounce OF cinnamon. Very nutritious. 1t may
also he made with broth from which the fat
has been skinned instead of water.
THE EYE.-When substances get into the
eve, draw aside the eye lid and remove the
substance with a piece OF molstened paper,
should inflammation follow it, then battle with
warm water several times a day. If lime gets
into the eye, wash repeatedly with a mixture Of
Il table spoonful of mhite vinegar to a tumbler
of water.
Or else cover the eye lash inside Of the
other and rub the outside gently. Inflammation
in the eyes, common with some, can be cured
in a short time, by washing the eye with a weak
| solution Of the s~ulpfate of zinc. 1t should be
dropped into the eye with a quill, it is alittle
painful, but is soon over.
Poisonous .BITEs.--Te a bandage tightly
around the limb, a little way above the point OF
injury, and only so tightly that it shall favor but
mol step the bleeding. Wash with warm water,
and place one end of a large quill oven the
wound and keep sucking at the other, which
will produce a vacuum, and act as a cupping glass.
Do this until the surgeon arrives, and you have
| probably saved a life.
Few people however can do this, and snake
bites cannot be treated in this way. They should
be treated as above directed by tieing the limb,
then a piece of tobacco chewed and laid on the
wound is always on hand with most people, or
some strong whiskey. For poisonous bites,
there have been a great number of reme-
dies suggested: one thing should at once be done,
tie the limb above the wound as fast as possible,
and squeeze out the wound.
Observation-Disclosures inflammation may be
known by the presence of a pain, heat, redness,
swelling, throbing, or the formation of matter;
at the commencement of these symptoms, es-
pecially injuries, use cold water corporations by
means of a wet rag, for the first fhirty-six
hours, hot water lamentations, hot water baths
and p~oultices are best adapted.
WouNDs-In a cut artery, put the fin
ger on the wound and press it, then send at once
for the doctor. Ifthe wound is in the limb, tie
a handkerchief twice around it above the cut,
and twist it so firm that the blood cannot flow;
or, fold a piece of soft rag saveral times, and
put it quickly over the aperture, and secure it
in its proper place by a piece of broad tape or
rag. People should never go to sleep if they
have leech bites bleeding. Bleeding sometimes
occur profusely from the nose, mouth, throat,
lungs, stomach, etc. Put the patient in bed,
with the head raised slightly, keep the room
cool, enjoy absolute quiet-give a table spoon
full of vinegar in sugar and water every half
hour, until a surgeon arrives. When a person
receives a simple cut, though severe, it should
be treated calmly. Carefully clean the wound
from dirt or rather matter, and dab with sponge
or rag dipped in cold water, until all bleeding
stops. Then bring the edges of the new wound
together and secure them with a bandage.
MARINE GLUE.-Dissolve 4 parts of India
rubber in "a parts of coal tar Notwithstanding
the solution with heat and agitation. The So
luton is then tick as cream, and it should be
added to "a parts of powdered shelac, which
must be heated in the mixture till all is dis
solved. . While the mixture is hot, it is poured
on plates of metal in sheets like leather. 1t can
be kept in that state, and when it is required to
be used it is put into a pot and heated till it is
oft, and then applied with a brush to the sur
face to be joined. Two pieces of wood joined
with this cement can scarcely be sundered-it
is about as easy to break the wood as the
joint.
B1scuIr JELLY-Take of white biscuit, crush
ed beneath the rolling pin, 4 ounces, cold wa
ter, two quarts, soak for some hours, boil to
one half, evaporate to one pint, and favor as
above. Given in weakness of the stomach, dy-
sentery, and diarrh9a.