Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-09-24
fTDili tHe COIHfADnS E4ll4ulItf.l Every Soldier his own Physician.

Editor Ea9uirer: :-Horrifed at the rapiditv with which our soldiers die in camp, we are tempted to give them the following recipes, the result of some experience, in hopes that some may be saved by using remedies simple, safe, and generally sure cures:
 To PREVENT SlcKNEss.-Have jug of salt. ed vinegar, seasoned with pepper, and take a nouthul just before going to Bed, the salt and vinegar make near approach to the digestive gastric juice oi the stomach and are antidots to many oI the vegetable and miasmatlc poisonS.
 FoR PNEuMoNIA, CoI.Ds AND CAUGHs.-Take halfa cup less of the salted pepper vinegar, fill the cup nearly full of warm water, and then str in . raw well beaten egg slowly. Take $ mouthful every l5 or 70 minutes; in the intervals slowly suck on piece of alum. If the attack IS violent, dip "a cloth II hot salted pepper vinegar and apply it round the throat, cover with dry clothes to get up steam, and do the same to the chest.
 FOR CHlLLs. Put tablespoonful of 8alted pepper vinegar Ill a cup of warm water, go to bed and drink; in two hours drink Q cup ot strong water willow bark tea in two hours more anoth. CT tablespoonful oithe vinegar and warm water, and so On; alternating, until the fever is broken up. Alter sweating and before going into the out door air, the body ought always to be wiped
 
 will do if water-wiliow cannot be obtained.
 FoR MEAsLEs.-Put small piece of yeast in a tumbcr of warm sweetened water, let 1t draw, and drink mouthiul every l5 or 30 minutes, and drink planti!uily 0: cold or hot catnip, bal sam, hoarhound, or alder tea and use in place Of oil or salts, one tablespoonful molasses. one teaspoonful lard, and one teasponful salted pep per vinegar, melted together and taken warm. l-a t1a, ! loa ( .i,o wet and outdoor air.
 FoR pI4RRuG;A.-A teaspoonfnl of salted pep per vinegar every one or two hours. Take a tcaspoontu of the yellow pufs that grow rownd oak twigS, powdered fine; take twice a day in one tablespoonful of brandy, wine or cordial. If these yellow pufs cannot be found suck ire quently on piece of alum. The quantity of al um depends upon the severity of the attack; take slowly and little at time.
 FoR CAMP FGyEas.-One tablespoonful of salted pepper vinegar, slightly seasoned, and put into a cup of warm water-drius freely and often, from to 5 cppfals day, with fever CT without leyer Pour cupful more or less of the salted pepper vinegar into cold water; and keep the body particularly the stomach and head, well bahed with cloth dipped i'll 1t. Give enenus of cold water, and for oil use ta- blespooniul of molasses, ateaspoonful lard, and a teaspo0ntul pepper vinegar, melted together and taken warm. If the pepper Is to exciting for delicate patients, leave il out in the drinks and bathngs, and use simply the salt and vinegar i'll water, and very little salt,
 ANTIDOTE FOR DRUNKENNESS: FOR THE BENE FIT OF OFFICERs-One cup ot strong black Cot fee. without milk or sugar, and twenty drops Oi Laudanum. Repeat the dose Unnecessary. On take one teasp0ontul of TYncture LoheEa in 8 tumbler of milk; |. taken every ten or fifteen minutes t will act as an emetlc; taken ID longer intervals, say thirty minutes, II will act as ar autidote. The Yankees declared that poisoned liquor was put on the counters in Newborn tC polson their soldiers. Nobody doubts the liq. uor being poisoned, but it ,cas made of pGiSoa$ to sell 10 our otcR Southern boys; and 1t IS hori fvpg to think of the liquors now being made down in cellars, of ''sulphuric acid, stryehnine buckeye, tobacco leaves, coloring matter ant rain water For this poisoned hquor, the bes antidote is an emetic, say lobelia and warm sal and water, and then.drink freely of sugared win egar water.
 FOR SNAKE BlTEs-The best thing is one tea spoonful of Lobelia and ten drops of Ammonia taken every few minutes, and bottle filled witt Lobelia and Ammonia, stopped with the pain of the hand and warmed iu painful Of hot wa ter; then apply the bottle to .he bite, and It vii draw out and antdote the poison. Either 0 these, Lobelia or Ammonia, will answer withou the other. Tobacco, Nightshade, or kurtle Burr or Deer tongue, la roughl leated herb, in flower and appearance like to hog artchoke) slowed il milk; drink the milk, using the rest as poultice The last is an Indian remedy, and will cure il the agonies of death.
 1 FoR THE CHICKEN CHOLERA, NOW DEvAsTA 1 TING FowIDoM.-Put one or two Jimpston ol Jamestown weed leaves, properly called Stram' 1 onium, into the water trough every day-trest 1 leaves and fresh water, This is one of the tri umphs of Homeopathy, fer we were just from . perusal of ene of their works and finding tha the chickens died and made no signs ot sickness except holding the head down, we concluded the head must be the seat of the plague, and read ing that stramonium affected the head with man ia and stupor, we tried it, and have not lost . l chicken since the using.
 If other papers will copy these recipes, they will save many lives, now sacrificed to the neg hgence of salaried physicians. The Easterr monurch's plan ought to be adopted, to strike of a certain per cent of Doctors salary every time he looses patient-that would soon stoE the feast of Death. A. | HEADQUARTERS TRANS Nj IssIssIPPI DEPARTMENT't | / 5Yfle Roek 4ck Sept. 18th. 1862,