The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1879-02-07

TIE sIonE DOcroR.

ONE. Two. THREE, FOUR CAKE
One cup If butter, two cups of sugar,
three cups of -four, four eggs. well beaten
one tcaspoonfulof baking powder.
For BoIIs.-The skin of a boiled egg |
is the most efficacious remedy that can |
be applied to boil Peel it carefully,
wet and apply it to the part affected. 1t
will draw off the matter and relieve the
soreness in a few hours. Simple but
efFicacious.
ONroNs.-An exchange says it is not
generally known that raw onions sliced
and set about in saucers or plates absorb !
contagion in the air, and to eat plenti-
fully Of them before breathing infected
air is safeguard against it, They are
powerful but harmless in their antiseptic
+, properties. So simple remedy being
within everybody's reach; it would be
well il it could become generally known
- CovERINGFoR THE SIcK.-The House.
keepers Companion advises never TO use
anything but light blankets as bed>cov-
eEing for the sick. The heavy>cotton inn
pervious counterpane is bad, for the
very reason that It keeps in the emana-
items from the sick person, while the
blanket allows them to pass through.
Weak patients are invariably distressed
by a great weight of bed>clothes, which
often prevents their getting any sonnd
> sleep whStever.
A CURE FOR FEIoN.-A correspon-
dent of the Chicago Journal says the
following cure for felon has been tested
by wide:experience among mis- friends, and
is worthy of circulation: Roast or bake
thoroughly a large onion; mix the soft
inner pulp with two hesping tablespoons
fuls Of salt, and apply the mixture
to the affected sparts as poultice,
e- keeping the Darts we'll covered. Make
fresh applications at least twice a
day, morning and evening, and cure
willdollow in at least week.
SULPHUR FOR DIPTHERIA.-Mr Jno.
S. Wiles, surgeon Of Thorncombe
Dorset, writes to the London Times
that, after two eases OF malignant dip
2 iberia, out of some nine or ten he had
been called to attend, had proved fatal,
the mother OF sick child showed him
an extract from an American paper con-
earning a practitioner who used sulphur
to cure the. disease. Accordingly he
used milk of sulphur for infants and
-four of sulphur: for larger children and
adults, brought to a creamy eonsistence
with glycerine; dose teaspoonful Oh
more, according to age, three or foul
times day, swallowed slowly, and APP
r plieation of the same to the nostril
withs sponge. Result, be did not los'
single case there or elsewhere, and h
succeeded in saving life when the affec
ton had almost blocked the throat.
TAKING CoLD.-When a person be
gins to shiver, the blood is receding from
the surface CONGESTION, to greater o
less extent has taken place, and the pa
tient has already taken cold, to be fol
lowed by fever, Inflammation of tn
lungs, neuralgia, rheumatism, etc. Al
these evilss cam be avoided and the col,
expelled by walksng, or in some exercis
that will produce a prompt and decides
resction in the system. The exercis
should be sufficient to produce perspira
tom If you-are so situated that yol
can get glass of hot water to drink, +;
win materially aid the perspiration ant
in every way assist nature in her effort
to remove the cold. This course fol
lowed your cold is at end, and whateve
disease it would ultims tie in is avoided
p your sufeTingssre prevented and you
doctors bill saved.