The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-05-30
USEFUL RECEIPTS.

good way to clean black kid gloves is to
take q teaspoonful of salad oil, drop few
drops Of ink in it, and rub it over the gloves
with the tip Of a feather; then let them dry in
the sun.
Rubbing warts, night and morning, with
moistened piece of muriate of ammonia, is
said to cause their disappearance without
pain or scar resulting.
The following method is used il Germany
for the preservation of wood: Mix 40 parts
chalk, SO rosin, linseed oil, melting them
together in an iron pot; then add one part OF
native oxide of copper and afterward part
Of Dlphuric acid. Apply with brush.
When dry. this varnish is as hard as stone
To clean and restore the elasticity of cane
chair bottoms: Turn the chair bottom up
ward, and with hot water and q sponge wash
the cane; work we'll, SO that it is well soaked;
should it be dirty, use soap, let it dry in the
air, and it will be as tight and firm as new,
provided nor Q of the canes are broken.
The removal of foreign substances from
the ear may be often accomplished by doub-
ling horse hair in the form of loop, and,
placing the patient upon the side, passing
the loop into the ear as far as it will go. then
turning it gently. The substance will gen.
orally come out in the loop after one or two
Withdrawals. The application will 90 10
damage If the hair be carefully used.
An easy method of breaking glass to any
required form is by making small notch, by
means of q file, on the edge OF piece OF
glass: then make the end of tobacco pipe,
or q rod of iron about the same size, red hot
in the fire, apply the hot iron to the notch,
and draw it slowly along the surface OF the
glass, in any direction you please; q crack
will be made in the glass and will follow the
direction of the iron. Round glass bottles
| a ho ont in ho mil n.
ping round them worsted thread dipped in
spirits of turpentine, and setting it on fire
when fastened on the glass;
Guns and rifles may be easily cleaned from
lead by the following: If muzzle-loader,
stop up the nipple or communication hole
with little wax. or if breech-osder insert
a cork in the breech rather tightly; next pour
some quicksilver into the barrel, and put
another cork in the muzzle, then proceed to
roll it up and down the barrel, shaking 1t
about for few minutes. The mercury and
the lead will form an amalgam, and leave the
barrel as clean and free from lead as the first
day it came out of the shop. The same
quicksilver can be used repeatedly by strain
j ing it through wash-leather; for the lead will
| be left behind in the leather, and the quick
silver will be again fit for use.
An IMPROVED PoULTICE. recent meet
ing of the Academic de Medicine, Paris, M. LIE
Fort read his report on a substitute Tor the
ordinary linseed meal poultice, invented by
NJ Lelievre. It lis prepared by saturating two
superimposed layers Of wadding with q solu-
ton of f,tcus crispus, or Carragheen lchen,
and drying them in q stove after they had
been submitted to strong pressure. IN this
way q sheet of the consstence of card board
is produced portion of which is cut OH
when wanted, and soaked in hot water foT
. fifteen or twenty minutes this swells 1t out
and fills its tissue with mucilaginous fluid.
It has been tried in several of the hospitals.
to the great satisfaction Of both patients and
attendants.
It can be prepared in large quantities be.
forehand, and will keep for long time with
out undergoing any alteration. NM D5mar-
QUAY. Gosseln and Verneuil pronounce it to
lbe far superior to the inseed poultice; 1t
keeps moist for more than sixteen or eighteen
hours; it does not slip, is inodorous, does not
readily ferment, nor does it soil the linen OF
bed Of the patient. The new poultice is
destined to render great service IN hospitals
and ambulances and above all, on board ship,
where it is difficult to keep the linseed in a
good state of preservation.
simple and usually successful mode OF
extracting needle or any piece OF steel OF
iron broke off in the flesh is accomplished by
the application of a simple pocket magnet.
An acquaintance of ours had q little daughter
who recently broke needle OH IN her hand.
A surgeon was called, who made several eff
forts to find the needle by probing and incl
sion, but without success. After the surgeon
had left, the mother conceived the idea OF
trying magnet; one was procured, and after
one or two applications of it the broken frag-
ment of needle was discovered attached to the
magnet This idea will be of special utility
to workers in iron. Machine shop surgery
is not the most delicate nor least painful,
though men heroically undergo it rather
than stand the loss Of time due to an infamed
eye or festered finger. Iron filings have q
way of Embedding themselves in the eye
which defes almost every ordinary means for
their extraction. For their removal, small,
blunt, pointed bar of sleel well magnetized,
will be found excellent, and we should
recommend that workmen liable to such inju-
ries should keep such an instrument about
them. It would be a good plan to insert
such bar in penknife, in manner similar
to blade.
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