The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-01
HYGIENE Notes.

TooruACHE.-N Nearly everybody has a
cure for the toothache. Trythis recipe I:
Take equal parts of pulverized alum and
salt. Saturate piece of cotton with
hartshorn, cover with the mixture, and
mt in the tooth. Sometimes hartshorn
alone will give relief.
Cure FOR THE ITcH.-Dissolve one
quarter ounce carbonate potassa in a
gill of water, and apply to the parts af-
fected. Then anoint them slightly with
white precipitate, mixed with sweet oil
or lard. This remedy is harmless,
agreeable and effectiye.-New York
Tribune.
SOUND TEETH.-Dr. G.. T. Barker, in
his address to the graduates of the
Pennsylvania College of Dental Surge
nv, taid there has never been an artifi-
cial piece of work made, however excel
lent, that could equal moderately
sound natural set of teeth, and those
who neglect their teeth transmit to
their offspring an impaired den
tai organization, predisposed to early
loss.
RHEUMATISM REMEDY. One Samuel
Deaton, Christianburg, Ohio, who had
rheumatism nineteen years, says the
following is what cured him One
quart rye whisky, one ounce wild cher
ry bark (root), one ounce prickly ash
root, one ounce yellow dock root, one
ounce spikenard root, one ounce gentian
root, one ounce gum myrrh. If one
bottle don't cure you, try another.
Take three drinks a day. Two bottles
cured me. "-RuraL NeiO- Yorker.
BONE FELoN.-Of all the painful
things, can there be any so excrucat-
ingly painful as bone-felOn? We
know of none that flesh is heir to. As
this malady is quite frequent, and the
subject of much earnest consideration,
We give the last recipe for its cure, which
is given by the London Lancet : Assoon
as the disease is felt, put directly over
the spot fy-blister, about the size If
your thumb-nail, and let it remain for
six hours, at the expiration of which
time, directly under the surface of the
blister, may be seen the felon, which can
instantly be taken out with the point OF
a needle or a lancet.
INGRowING ToE-NAILs.-Take piece
Vi bNlODo AiluoIlu hOOuu ui ihCi Nldt,
and long enough to make two loops, by
sewing--one large enough to fit over
the great toe, and the other to fit over
the third toe, and bring them close to-
gether, letting the second toe rest above
the bandage. The second toe in this
position permits precisely the required
pressure that causes the disease. An
other remedy is to cut the nail to IA
curve in the center, and scrape it quite
thin in the same spot, with piece of
glass or sharp knife. The nail will
then grow from the sides to fill up the
curve made in the center.
OFFENSIVE BREATH. six to ten
drops of the concentrated solution of chic
ride of soda in wineglassful of pure
springwater, takenimme diately afterth
additions of the morning are completed,
will sweeten the breath by disinfecting
the stomach, which, far from being in
jured, will be benefited by the medicine.
If necessary, this may be repeated in the
middle of the day. In some cases the
odorfrom carious teeth is combined with
that of the stomach. If the mouth is
well rinsed with q teaspoonful of the So
luton OF the chloride in a tumbler of
water, the bad odor of the teeth will be
removed. A weak solution of the per-
manganate of potassa is also good.