The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-11
Home Doctor.

Drink cayenne pepper tea for 6
cold.
May weed blossoms, put into al
cohol, make superior iniment.
In cases of Ivy poisoning, battle
the parts in sweet spirits Of inter.
Rub sprains, bruises or lameness
with paste made of salt and the
white of an egg.
For burns, bind on moistened
baking soda. 1t will give prompt
and permanent relief.
Ivy poisoning. A decoction
of the fresh bark of witch hazel
| { Hamsanaelis Virginiana), applied as
hot as it can be borne, never fails
to cure in two or three applications.
2. Take the common smart weed
which grows around farm houses
and make strong tea of it; drink it
freely, and also battle the parts af-
ficted with this tea. 3. One-half
ounce of salts of tartar, dissolved
in two ounces of water and applied
to the affected parts several times
daily will affect cure.
Esmarch's Treatment of Cancer.
Give Fowler's solution, one drop
three times a day for three days,
then increase the dose by one drop
every three days till intolerance of
the remedy follows. Apply the fol-
lowing locally: Arsenious acid and
muriate morphia, each $50 gramme;
calomel 200 grammes; powdered
gum Arabic, 1900 grammes; mix.
At first sprinkle only a little upon
the ulcer, gradually increasing to a
teaspoonful. This overcomes the
odor, causes a hard eschar to form,
and heavy granulation takes place.
Mastication and Digestion.-All
know that lump of Ice in glass
of water meits very slowly; but, if
divided into pea-size pieces and
stirred round, it is melted with
many times greater rapidity, each
piece being dissolved from without
inwards, and the surface exposed to
the water being multifold greater.
So it is with the food in the stom
ache, the juices of which develop
for the purpose of reducing it to
liquid form, to prepare 1t for yield
ing its nourishment to the system;
the more numerous the pieces, and
the smaller, the greater will be the
amount of surface exposure, and
the more rapidly will it be dis
solved; hence the reas for chew
ing the food well.
Liniment Recipes.-1. For fam
lily liniment for general use in all
cases where liniment is desired,
sprains, boils, ore throat, headache,
earche, &C., &c, take chloroform,
iodine, oil of origanum, spirits of
ammonia and tineture of opium,
equal parts; cork tight and shake
well. 2. One ounce oil sassafras;
one ounce oil hemlock, one ounce
oil cedar; one ounce camphor gum;
two ounces cayenne pepper; one
ounce laudanum; three quarts alco-
hol. To be used where any lini-
ment may be applied. Dose, one
to two teaspoonfuls in half tumbler
water. 3. Alcohol, one ounce; spir-
its turpentine, sulphuric ether, chic
reform, laudanum and gum cam
phor, of each half an ounce; oil of
cloves, one-fourth ounce. This lin
iment is also good for internal
pains, as collie, pain in the stomach,
etc. Take from ten to thirty drops
in sweetened water, and repeat every
twenty to thirty minutes unsl re-
lieved. 4. One egg beaten light,
half pint spirits turpentine, half
pint good apple vinegar. Shake
well before using.
Ague Cure.-A never failing rem
edy for ague in the breast is to
wear a very small bag filled with
alum. 1t must be worn continually
while nursing a child. A neighbor
has practiced it for the period of
twenty years, and is now nursing
the sixth child. After the birth of
this last child, she did not at first
think of using the alum until re-
minded of it by her husband one
Uay, WHEN Sue luIn culaISAy uau
bag made, holding about large
thimbleful of the alum, and at
tached it to string, suspended it
about her neck, slipping it down
next the skin between the breasts.
She now washes in cold water and
does all manner of imprudeDt
things, such as hanging up clothes.
bareheaded, barearmed, hut has had
no return of ague. A number Of
others TO our knowledge have used
it with the same good results. This
simple remedy is indeed worth be
ing known by the masses of the
people, when we con slider how much
some women suffer with this dis
tressing and sickening complaint.