Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1881-07-18
WORTH KNOWING.


A poultice Of fresh tea leaves moist
ened with water will cure stye on the
eye lid.
For earache, dissolve assafetida in
water; warm a few drops and drop in
the ear, then cork the ear with WOOL
The true physiological way of treat
ing burns or scalds is to at once exclude
the ar with cotton batting, flour, scraped
potatoes, or anything that is handiest.
Uee fresh water. Water that has
stood in an open dish over night should
not be used for cooking or drinking, as
it will have absorbed many foul gases.
Mix little carbonate Of soda with
the water in which flowers are immersed
and it will preserve them for fortnight.
Common saltpetre is also a very good
preservative.
Take new fower-pot, wash it clean,
wrap in wet cloth and set over butter,
will keep it as hard as if on ice. Milk,
if put into an earthen can, or even tin
one, will keep sweet for long time. if
well wrapped in wet cloth.
Common soda is excellent for scour-
ing tin, as it will not scratch the tin
and will make 1t look like new. Apply
with piece of moistened newspaper and
polish with dry piece. Wood ashes
are good substitute.
TO cure bunions, use pulverized salt
petre and sweet oil. Obtain at drug
store five or six cents worth of saltpe-
tire; put it into bottle with sufficient
olive oil to dissolve it. shake up we'll.
and rub the inhamed joints night and
morning, and more frequently if painful.
Red ants may be banished from a
pantry or store-room by strewing the
shelves with small quantity of cloves,
either whole or ground. We use the
former. as not being SO likely to get into
food placed upon the shelves. The
cloves should be renewed occasionally.
as after time they lose their strength
and efficacy.
A thoroughly qualified medical man
has recently, in the course of his prac-
tice, come upon what he believes and
uses as specific remedy for smallpox.
The remedy is bitartrate of potash, the
common cream of tartar of the drug.
store; two ounces dissolved in boiling
water, with the juice of lemon and su-
gar added. Let the patient drink as
much as he likes, but not less than a
wine-glassful every hour. In some of
his cases this medicine has exhibited the
most remarkable curative effects. 1t
will purge, but as it is perfectly harm
less this will not matter. and it does
not appear to be the cause of cure, the
remedy acting specifically on the virus.
the pustules collapsing. leaving no pits,
and perfect cure following in a short
time.
All kinds of burns, scalds, and sun
burns, are almost Immediately relieved
by an application of solution of soda
to the burnt surface. 1t must be re-
membered that dry soda will not do un-
less it is surrounded with cloth moist
enough to dissolve it. This method of
sprinkling it on and covering with a wet
cloth is often the very best. But it is
sufficient that the wound be washed re-
peatedlY with a strong solution. 1t
would be we'll to keep bottle of 1T al
ways on hand, made so strong that more
or less settles on the bottom. This is
what is called saturated solution. and
really such solution as this is formed
when the dry soda is sprinkled on and
covered with moistened cloth. It is
thought by some that the pain of burn
is caused by the hardening of the albu
men and relieves the pressure, while 9th
ers think that the burn generates an &C
rid acid, which the soda neutralizes.