Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-07-09
FAMILY REMEDIES.

| ~ G0hE \yOhNSA- Apply ulUEu-
Ing and everinc one drnn ri soIu-
ton Of per chloride of iron.
To REMOVE ASTHMA Soak
blotting or tissue paper In strong
saltpetre water. Dry and burn
AT night in the bedroom.
To CURE WARTS. Cut a slice
from raw potato and rub the
hand each night; let the water
dry on the hand. Lit will need but
few applications.
To CURE CoLIC. For the vio-
lent internal agony termed collie,
take q teaspoonful of salt in a pint
of cold water, drink 1t and 20 to
bed. 1t Is one OF the speediest
remedies known. The same will
revive a person who seems almost
dead from a heavy fall.
GROUP A towel or flannel
cloth wrung out of hot vinegar in
which little salt has been mixed
and placed upon the chest and
throat-changing every ten min
utes-wlth dry towel thorough
ly covering 1t, often materially
assists la relieving an attack of
Group.
To PREvENTCMoKING. Break
an egg intoa cup and give 1t to
the person choking to swallow.
The white Of the egg seems to
catch round the obstacle and re-
move 1t. If one egg does not an
swer the purpose try another.
The white Is all that Is necessary.
To CURE A FELoN. AS soon
as the part begins to swell, get the
iincture of lohelia and wrap the
part affected with cloth; saturate
1t thoroughly with the tincture
and the felon will soon die--pois-
oned instead Of hung rs felons
ought TO be. This never falls Ii
tried in season.
MUSTARD BY using
syrup or molasses for mustard
plasters, they viii keep soft and
Fl xible, and not dry up and be-
come hard, "a when mixed with
water. A thin paper. or fine cloth
should come betwee the plaster
and The skin. The strength Of the
plaster is varied by the addition
OF more or less -four.
To Stop BLEEDING AT THE
NOSE A French surgeon says
simple elevation of a persons arm
will stop bleeding at the nose.
He explains the fact Psychologist
ally, aud declares 1t a positive
remedy. 1t Is certainly easy of
trial. Or, a strong sol ton of al
UNI water, snutfed up the nostril
will cure In most cases without
anything further.
DIPHTHERIA. - Dissolve one ia
blespoonful of sulphur In a glass
of cold water; gargle the throat
six or eight times day. Cook
salt pork In vinegar and bind on
the throat; when the paroxysms
come on soak the hands and feet
In just as hot water as the patient
will bear, with tablespoonful of
baking powder thrown in. Rub
bling the limbs and body will
greatly assist In throwing off the
disease. The simple sulphur rem
edy Is very effectual In common
sore throat.
For THE SICK. - Frequently
we find sick people whose stom-
aches reject all kinds of nourish-
ment, until condition follow that
are sometimes fatal. / have new
er known the simple saucer of
parched corn pudding refused.
The corn is roasted brown precise
ly as we roast coffee, ground as
fine as meal In coffee mill, and
made either into mush. Cruel or
thin cakes, baked lightly brown
given either warm or cold, clear,
or whatever dressing the stomach
will retain. Parched corn and
meal boiled In milk, and fed fire.
quently to the children suffering
from summer diarrhea, will al
most always cure, as II will dy-
sentary in adults.
STIcKING-PLAsTER.--An excel
lent sticking-plaster for severe
fresh cuts and bruised hands, is
made of three pounds of rosin, a
quarter of q pound of beeswax, a
quarter of pound of mutton tall
low. When well melted and dis
solved together, remove from the
fire and keep stirring till II Is as
cool as 1t will pour; then add one
tablespoonful Of spirits Of turpen-
tine; then pour the whole into
pail OF cold water, and when cool
enough take it out and work 1t as
a shoemaker does his wax.
When sufficiently worked, roll 1t
out in small sticks. This is equal
n anv nloetor nvnr h0uUht. Keen