The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-12
The Home Doctor.

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To CURE erysipelas and all high in
flammation of the skin, apply simple
poultice of cranberries pounded fine,
and applied in raw state.
CoLDs are often caught by standing
in an omen hall or doorway during
cold weather. The transition of the
cold and warm currents causes the
trouble
THE best absorbing substance for
easing the pain of blessings is fresh
lean meat. This will relieve the pam
of a wasp-sting almost instantly, and
has been recommended for the cure OF
rattlesnake- bites. II is also used with
marked effect in erysipelas.
To cure felon prevention is better
than cure. When soreness is felt I'M
merse the finger in basin of ashes and
cold water; set it on the stove while
cold. and stir it continually without
taking il out till the I've is so hot that it
cannot be borne any longer. If the
soreness is not gone in half an hour, re-
peat 1t.
The easiest and simplest remedy for
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kitchen closet, and is nothing more
than common starch. Reduce it to an
impalpable powder, put it i'll a muslin
bag, and keep ii in the table-drawer.
Whenever you take your hands out of
dish-water or suds, wipe them dry with
a soft towel, and while yet damp, shake
the starch bag all over them and rub it
III. The effect is most agreeable.
For an adhesive plaster, take resin, one
pound beeswax, one-quarter pound /;
Burgundy pitch, one-quarter pound !;
um-turpentine, two ounces gum
camphor, one ounce. Put the first four
articles into a vessel and melt; then
put in the camphor in small pieces; stir
until dissolved ; then pour into cold
water and work as wax then roll into
suitable sticks for use. This is to
spread on muslin, canvas or leather, by
heat.
REMEDY FOR SORE THROAT. Take
one large red pepper, such as are grown
for family use; steep in pint of water,
after which strain III quart OF molas-
ses, adding a little vinegar boil all to-
gether to thin sirup use it whenever
the throat feels dry or disagreeable if
it be dead of night it will soothe the
throat (and not irrltate) and warm it up
well. If sharper than can be borne in
the mouth, put it back near the palate
with a spoon, and swallow apply out
wardly thin slice of salt pork, warm
ing it up well in vinegar and pepper
apply as hot as can be borne on the
throat. -Medicdi Journal.
CARBoLIc ACID.-Carbolic acid in
fluid form is a cheap article. To disin-
feet an apartment two or three tea
spoonfuls may be put in bucket of
water and scattered about with whisk-
broom. Or the same or even a smaller
quantity may be placed in a dish and
mixed with sand. The evaporation
from this will disinfect the air. If the
air should become too strongly charged
the evaporation may be checked by COW
ering the dish more or less. This at
mosphere, containing carbolic acid, is
healthy, and soon becomes quite agree
able, especially when associated with
its power as destroyer of infection.
The bedclothes, blankets, etc, and the
clothes worn by persons having disease
or coming in contact with such, may be
washed with soap now manufactured,
containing carbolic acid, or common
soap may be used, with two or three
teaspoonfuls of carbolic acid added to
the suds. Thus may complete disinfec-
ton be produced in bedclothes or body
clothes of patients subjected to small
pox or any infectious disease.