Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1870-01-20
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restore it if lost. It is not pre-
tended that all diseases are cured
in this way but it is very certain
that quite a number of ordinary
ailments may be removed by the
juiicious employment of the con-
tents of 8 well.furnished larder-i
and with this great advantage the
cures are more permanent and less
liable to return--accomplishing1
their object without any shock to
the system, and without the dan
ger of lulling the patient by mis-
taking the quantity, or quality, or
name of the dose.
Ripe fruits and berries, slightly
acid, will remove the ordinary
diarrheas Of early summer
Common rice, parched brown
like coffee, and then boiled and ca
ten in the ordinary way, without
:, any other food, is, with perfect
: 'quietude of body, one of the most
effective remedies for troublesome
looseness Of bowels.
Some of the severest forms of
that distressing ailment called
dysentery, that is, when the bow
els pass blood, with constant de-
cire, yet vain efforts to stool, are
sometimes entirely cured by the
patient eating aheaping tablespoon
full at q time of raw beef, cut up
very fine, and repeated at inter
walls of four hours, until cured,
eating and drinking nothing else
in the meanwhile.
rE If any person swallows any
poison whatever, or has fallen
into commissions from having over
loaded the stomach, an instan-
taneous remedy, more efficient and
applicable in larger number Of
cases than any half dozen med
icines we can now think of, is a
heaping teaspoon Of common salt
and as much ground mustard,
q stirred rapidly in q teacup of wa
ter, warm or cold, and swallowed
instantly. 1t is scarcely down be-
fore it begins to come up, bringing
with it the remaining contents of
the stomach, and lest there be any
remnant of poison, however
small, let The white of an egg or
I teacup of strong coffee, be swal-
!, lowed as soon as the stomach is
quiet; because these very COM
mon articles nulliiy a larger num-
Der of virulent poisons than any.
medicines in the shops.
In case of scalding or burning
= the body, immersing the part in
cold water gives entire relief, as
s simultaneously as lightning.-I
z Meanwhile get some common dry
-four, and apply it an inch or two
thick on the injured part, the mo-
ment it emerges from the water,
and keep sprinkling on the -four
+ through anything like pepper
box cover, SO as to put it on even.
II ly. Do nothing else, drink moth
ing but water, eat nothing, until
g improvement commences, except
!, some dry bread softened in very
? weak tea of some kind. Cures Of
frightful burnings have been per-
s, formed in this way, as wonderful
as they are painless.
Erysipelas, a disease often COM
y ing without premonition, and end
2 ing fatally in three or four days, is
, sometimes promptly cured by aP-
plying poultice of raw cranber-
ries pounded, and placed on the
part over night. |
Insect bites, and even that of a |
rattlesnake, have passed harmless
/. by stirring enough of common
salt in the yolk of coed egg to
make it sufficiently thin for plas-
: ter, TO be kept on the bitten parts.
Neuralgia and toothache are
sometimes speedily relieved by APP
plying to the wrist quantity of
bruised cr grated hcrseradish.