The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1879-02-06
FARM AND HOME
TUE HONE DGCrOR.

ONE, Two, THREE, Four CAKE
One cup Uf butter, two cups OF sugar,
three cups OF -four, four eggs, well beaten,
one teaspOonful of baking powder.
For BoILs.-The skin of 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 few hours. Simple but
eficacious.
ONIoNs.-An exchange Gays 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 IL q afeguard against it. They are
powerful but harmless in their antiseptic
properties. So simple q remedy being
within everybody's reach, it would he
we'll If it could become generally known
COVERING FOR THE SIcK.-The House.
keepers Companion advises never to use
anything but light blankets as bed-cov-
ering for the sick. The heavy>cOSton inn
Pervious counterpart is bad, for the
very reason that it keeps in the emana.
tions from the sick person, while the
blanket allows them to pass through.
Weak patients are invariably distressed
by great weight of bed-clothes, which
o'ten prevents their getting any sound
sleep whatever.
nr1@ Err
dent of the Chicago Journal says the
following cure for felOn has been tested
by wide experience among his friends, and
is worthy OF calculations Roast or bake
thoroughly large onion; mix the soft
inner pulp with two heaping Tablespoons
to the affected Sparts as a poultice,
keeping the parts well covered. Make
fresh applications at least twice &
day, morning and evening, and cure
Will follow in at least a week.
SULPHUR FOR DIPTHERIA.-Mr Jno
S. Wiles, a surgeon of Tkorncombe
Dorset, writes to the London Times
that, after two cases of malignant dip,
iberia, out of some nine or ten he had
been called to attend, had proved fatal
the mother OF a sick child showed hin
an extract from an American paper con,
earning a practitioner who used sulphur
TO cure the disease. Accordingly bt
l'sed milk Of sulphur for infants anC
flour of sulphur for larger children anc
adults, brought to a creamy consistenc,
with glycerine dose a teaspoonfuI o.
more, according to age, three or fou
times day, swallowed slowly, and ap
rlicstion of the same to the nostril
with a sponge. r suit, he did not les
single case there or elsewhere, and b.
succeeded in saving life when the affec
tiOn had almost blocked the throat
TAKING COLD.-When a person be
gins to shiver, the blood is receding iron
The surface; CONGESTION, to a greater o
less extent has taken place, and the ps
Jient has already taken cold, to be 10
lowed by fever, inflammation of tn
lungs, neuralgia, rheumatism, etc. q
these evils can, be avoided and the CO.!
expelled by walksng, or in some exercis
that will produce prompt and decide
reaction in the system. The exercis
should be sufficient to produce perspir.
tion. If you are so situated that 20
can get glass of hot water to drink,
will materially aid the perspiration an
in every way assist nature in her effor
to remove the cold. This course 70
lowed your cold is at end, and whatev,
disease it would ultimate in is avoided
your suflerings are prevented and you
doctors bill saved.