The Russellville Democrat., 1881-03-24

other metals have not. But this aftini- i ty can be overcome by coating the inner surface of the vessel with a compound of i tannic acid and iron, which is soluble l in water and will not precipitate lime 1 This is easily done. Take a new tea 1 kettle and put handful of oak bark l into it, fill it with water and keep it 1 boiling for three or four hours, filling it up from time to time as the water boils 1 away. The iron will get a jet black coat of tannate of iron and will be proof 1 against lime. Care must be taken that 1 the kettle does not boil dry and become l heated to redness. A heat a little below that point will destroy the coating. If the lime can be fully removed from an old teakettle it can be coated in the same manner as new one, but will require longer time, and perhaps it will be nec- essary to repeat the boiling two or three l times.
 TIE second of these recipes, lately published in the New York Tribune, ap- pears to be new one: Place one or more oyster-shells in the bottom of the tea kettle, having first removed all the rust that will come off conveniently. When after few months the shells become coated with rust, remove and supply fresh ones. Since trying this remedy 1 have no trouble with rusty teakettle.
 AN infallible remedy for a rusty tea kettle is to brown coffee in it. A thor ough washing with soap and water will remove all the odor and smoke of the coffee, and leave the kettle smooth and free from rust
 To protect from rust sheet iron stove that is standing unused through the summer, rub it over with rag moistened with kerosene.
 REMEDIES FOR HEADACHE.
 ARSENIC, as nerve tonic, stands next in value to zinc. Dose, drops of Fowler's solution three times a day, after meals.
 THE following recipes and suggestions for the treatment of different forms of headache are collected from variety of trustworthy sources:
 SOAKING the feet in very warm water. in which spoonful of mustard has been stirred, is also beneficial in drawing the blood from the head.
 Two teaspoonfuls of powdered char ! coal, well stirred in half glass of water, and drank at once, is valuable remedy III oith bSotidtDt iIpDl SOuI StOIildtll, fiatulence, etc.
 NUx vomica is preferable to stryehnia The dose is grain after meals. If the l patient be chlorotic, it is well to combine grain of reduced iron and half grain of sulphate of quinine.
 l GALvANIsM is sometimes valuable, but | by no means specific. The constant current should always be used, being careful to avoid too great intensity lest amaurosis be produced.
 l BIsMuTH, in the form of subcarbonate, will often take the place of oxide of zinc. Dose, two grains, after each meal Bismuth probably aids digestion more than any mineral tonic, and is of use when there is gastric disturbance.
 IN nervous headache, Dr. W. A. Ham, mond states the value of various drugs as follows: Oxide of zinc is of great 1 value. Ordinary dose, two grains three times day, after meals; maximum dose 1 five grains. It is best given in form of pills.
 | PHOSPHORUS is very useful in most forms of nervous headache. The best | results are obtained from dilute phos- | phoric acid, in doses of 30 drops, largely diluted, three times day, after eating or phosphide of zinc, one-tenth grain, ] in pill, three times day.
 TINcTURE of nux vomica is recommend 1 ed by Ringer as possessed of real curative powers when given in drop doses, repeat ed every five or ten minutes for eight or 1 ten doses, and then continued at long in- ] tervals, for sick headache, accompanied with acute gastric catarrh, whether due to error in diet, constipation or no ap- parent cause.- Boston Journal of Chem istIy.
 IN headache due to determination of blood to the head, and in fever, the fol- lowing simple treatment is to be com mended: Put handful of salt into a quart of water, add an ounce of spirits of hartshorn and half an ounce of spirits of camphor Cork the bottle tightly to prevent the escape of the spirit. Soak a piece of soft cloth with the mixture and apply it to the head; wet the rag fresh as soon as it gets heated.
 DR. T. LAUDER BRUNToN, editor of the London Practitioner says; The admin istration of brisk purgative or small doses of Epsom salts, three times a day, is most effectual remedy for frontal headache when associated with consti- patton; but if the bowels be regular, the morbid processes on which it depends seem to be checked, and the headache removed even more effectually by nitro muriatic acid, diluted, 10 drops in a wine glass of water, or biearb. soda, 10 grains in water, before meals. If the headache be immediately above the eye-brows,the acid is best: but if it be little higher up, just where the hair begins, the soda ap- pears to be the most efiectual. At the same time that the headache is removed which frequently leads the patients to complain that they rise up more tired than they lie down, generally disap- pears.
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