The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-04-11
THINGS WoRYH kN0WING.

For BURNs.-For burns or scalds apply
Immediately a soft linen rag or lint Satu-
rated with strong spirits of camphor and
keen it wet for an hour You will be sur
prised at the relief it affords.
To CURE FELoN ON THE HAND
Take sassafras baIk-the inside bark
drv. and CRATE ii fine, and wet in teacup
with cold water, for a poultice. Apply to
the felon. and wet once in five minutes in
cold water This, followed up, will draw
it to head in twenty-four hours, without
any pain and without any injury to the
hand. Use the bark Of the root
To MAKE \ WHITE FooT, OR A STAR
IN A UORsE's FoREHEAD.-Take picked
mackerel and cOhfine it on, i'll any shape
Won please, three or four days repeating,
and it will produce white foot, or white
sDot. Rub the white saddle spot on j
horse back few times daily in the spring
of the wear, before the coat is shed, with
bacon grease, and it viii restore the natu
raj color.
CURE THE BABY's COLD.-When your
little baby or child is suffering with n cold,
and can scarcely breathe, do not dose 1T
with all sorts of medicines, but try this
simpIe remedy-the best we ever knew
Take a raw carrot, cut the top off smooth,
and with a knife dig or scrape ont the
pith or light cOlOred centre, making hole
in the carrot large enough TO take in your
I largest finger. Fill the hole with white
sumar. then suspend or stand the carrot up
! in a cool place. In about twelve hours
the sugar viii be dissolved, and the cavity
in the carrot will be filed with a pure,
I goldcn-cOlored syrup. Give the child from
six to twelve drops of this, from four to
six times a day, according to the age of
! the child and the severity of the cold
/ We have seen this pleasant remedy which
| children readily take, because it is pure
and sweet. cure cases of colds after other
remedies have been given for weeks IN
vain. 1t is comparatively new remedy,
| but so efficaciOus it seems 4 duty to the
! public to make it known. If tile syrup be
kept in 4 warm room it Will sour i'll few
days, when it should not be used, but new
made from another carrot.
SMALI-Pox-A REMEDY.-Nr. Editor
I roIIcc by late issue of your valuable
,aper thai smallpox is prevailing in many
i.ai+s of the 1untry. The following rem
~ i S,.I,r,itte,- if deemed worthy of pub
Iication. for the LNneiit OF those afflicted.
1t has, firmly belle =. been the means OF
saving the life of my fath,r. lie was taken
i'll with the disease on the ia OF January
1873, and suffered in great agony for 4
week. His head, neck and shoul ielS were
swollen TO double their usual size, a. = GOV,
cred with peck marks; his hands N''l
drawn crooked with pain, together with tn.
severe sickness attending the disease his
. tongue was swollen so that he could scarce
ly speak or swallow. The physicians gave
no encouragement, and he had given up
almost all hope of ever recovering. At this
stage of the disease he asked for butter
milk, that he might put his hands into it.
1t was furnished, and no sooner bad Inc put
them in than it gave instant relief He
kept them in it for three hours and went
to sleep. not having closed his eyes in sleep
for three days and three nights previous.
Upon awakiug, his aches, pains and fever
had left, and he immediately began to rC-
cover. We then bathed Inn with butter
milk, letting it dry i'll, and then rubbed
the skin with sweet oil. We also gave him
the milk inwardly, and in Il short time he
was able to leave his room. The butter
milk appeared to allay the disease at once.
Another member of the family took the
disease after his recovery, and the butter
milk was again used with the same success.
! - West Chester JcGerS0lejaR. p.