Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-05-23
Farm. Garden and Household.
Domestic Health Notes.

longer and does not chill the patient
when cold.
FELoNs AND RUSTY NA1Ls.-For the
past ten years, writes a physician, l
have treated felons with hot water, and
with unerring success. No cutting, no
blistering, no anything, but immersing
the finger, hand, or even the whole arm
if necessary, in water as hot as can be
borne, until the pain is gone and the
core is loosened and drawn from the
bone. When rusty nails have produced
wounds, the same course has been pur-
sued. If on the hand or foot, keep it
in hot water.
CoRNs.-A French medical journal
reports the cure of the most refractory
corns by the morning and evening APP
plication, with brush, of drop of a
solution of the perchloride of iron. 1t
states that, after fortnight's continu-
ed application, without pain, a patient
who had suffered martyrdom for nearly
forty years from a most painful corn on
the inner side of each little toe, was
entirely relieved pressure was no long
er painful, and the cure seemed to be
radical. Other and similar cases are
reported as equally successful under
this treatment.
Household Notes.
CITRATE OF MAGNrs1A. = Take of
magnesia, 120 grains; of citric acid,
450 grains bicarbonate of potassa, 40
grains dissolve the citric acid in four
fluid ounces of water, and having added
the magnesia, stir it until it is dissolv-
ed. Filter the solution into strong
twelve-ounce bottle, into which has been
poured two fluid ounces of strip of
citric acid. Then add the bicarbonate
of potassa, and enough water almost to
fill the bottle, which must be closed
with cork, and this secured with
twine. Shake moderately till all is dis
solved.
ARRowRooT JE1LY.-This is a very
soothing and nour1shing diet for inva-
lids, particularly when the stomach is
weak from sickness. With cold water
make tablespoonful OF arrow root in
to smooth jelly, and add rather more
than half pint of boiling water; then
pour into a saucepan and boil for one
minute |; add tablespoonful of good
to taste. When little stronger dietof
the same kind can be well digested, use
milk instead of water, and the yelk of
an egg; add also a pl Oh of salt.
GIVE THEM''CoID WATER.-It is very
doubtful if there is single possible
disease in which the patient should not
have cold water od Iibitune. o, how
babies often suffer for cold water A
nursing baby is given, no matter how
thirsty, nothing but milk. The little
lips are dry and cracked, and the little
tongue so parched it can scarcely nurse,
and yet it has nothing but milk to as
suage it's craving thirst. Try it your
self, mother, when you have a fever,
and ever after, when your darling is dy-
ing with thirst, the teaspoon and tum-
bier of cold water will be in constant
use.
SPREADING SAUCE FOR PUDDING
Butter, four ounces sugar, six ounces
one nutmeg. Crate the nutmeg and
rub all together; these are about the
proper proportions /; more or less Can
be made, as desired, and more or less
nutmeg can also be used or any other
favoring in it's place. This sauce is
nice on baked buildings, hot or cold
and to tell it all, it is not bad on bread
TubercIe PrOpagated by MILK.
M. Chauveaux has communicated Il
the French Academy what he terms {
demonstration of the transmission o.
tuberculosis by the digestive organs
He remarked that his numerous obser
vations enabled him to state that if tn,
healthy young of animals susceptible,
of tuberculosis were fed with food will
which the matter of tubercle was mix
ed, they would all exhibit tuberculosis
in various organs. In anticipation o
the meeting of the Academy, he ha,
purchased some healthy calves, and
having had them fed as described, o.
Strengthening them the sixtieth day afte
the first ingestion, the Emphatic sys
tenn was found extensively tuberculized
while Gaseous deposits existed in th
lungs. This thesis he demonstrate
most conclusively, and he is supporte
In his differences by an apparently indie
pendent series of experiments carrie
on by DIR. Klebs in Germany.
Salt for Hogs.
The unrestrained appetite of swim
will often lead them to consume thing
that are highly injurious to them. Case
of poisoning by partaking of excessiy
quantities of salt often occur amen
hogs at this season when beef and por
barrels are emptied of the old bril-
and refuse salt. A case in which seve
al hogs were thus lost in England, WI
recently noted. Hogs require certai
amount of salt, as do other animals, bl
it should be given to them with Cal
ton, and either evenly mixed in the
feed or scattered very thinly about the
troughs, 80 that one more greedy tbs
another cannot take more than its pro
er share.
Hay Tea for Calves.
A farmer who had calf of value al
no milk to give it was advised to 81,
it hay tea. He did so and the calf
reported as doing finely, though it b
neither received hay nor meal since
got it. He cuts the best and finest b.
he has, about two inches long, ar
pours boiling water over it 4; let's
stand until cooled to about the heat
milk from the cow, when the tea
given to- the calf and the hay to ii
COW. Both calf and COW thrive on Il
feed. We have fed great deal of b
tea to calves, with good results.
Bandages.
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