Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-04-20
THE HOME DOCTOR.
ENLARGED NECK.

To cure enlarged neck, take two table
spoonfuls of salt, two of borax and two
OF alum, dissolve in two of water and
apply three times day for three weeks.
TO CHECK BLEEDING.
For bleeding at cavity of extracted
tooth, pack the alveolus fully and firmly
with cotton wet with alum water.
For bleeding, take linen OF other
rags, burn to charcoal and put it in the
wound, and no more blood will come.
scURF ON THE HEAD
A lump of fresh quicklime the size of
walnut dropped into pint of water and
allowed to stand all night, the water be-
ing then poured off from the sediment
and mixed with pint of the best vinegar,
forms the best wash for scurf on the
head. 1t is to be applied to the roots of
the hair.
FEVER AND AGUE.
The following is said to be remedy
for fever and ague: Twenty-four grains
OF quinine, two drains elixir vitriol.
twenty-five large tablespoonful of rain
water. Dose, take each half hour
through the day until taken up.
HoARsENEss.
Miss Parloa gives this cure for hoarse-
ness: Bake lemon or sour orange for
twenty minutes in moderate oven, then
open it at one end and dig cut the inside,
which sweeten with sugar or molasses.
and eat This will cure hoarseness and
remove the pressure from the lungs.
SPRAINS.
The white Of an egg into which piece
of alum about the size of a walnut has
been stewed until it forms a jelly, is a
capital remedy for sprains. It should
be laid over the sprain upon a piece of
lint and be changed as it becomes dry.
MEDICAL USES OF FIGS.
Prof. Bouchut mentions some expert
ments he has made, going to show that
the milky juice of the fig tree possesses
digestive power. He also observed
that when some of this preparation was
mixed with animal tissue, it preserved
it from decay for long time. The Med
icaL Press refers to this fact, in connec-
ton with Prof Billroth's case of cancer
of the breast, which was so excessively
foul smelling that all his deodorizers
failed, but on applying poultice made
of dried figs cooked in milk, the previ-
ously unbearable odor was entirely done
away with. Certainly the remedy is
worth trying.
MALARIA, WHISKY AND NERv1NE.
In some parts of the west and the
south it is customary to mix whisky with
the water to destroy the poison, but
those who do it simply take two poisons
instead of one, and they do not counter
act each other. The whisky rather helps
the malarial poison along. It has been
question whether quinine has power to
combat malaria. It has the power of
averting the generation of malarial poi
son for time, but it will not cure. 1t
is, however, the only thing that can
combat malarial poison, and hence, I'm
an advocate of quinine. You can do
harm with it, but it will be hard work.
I don't believe in constantly taking
quinine, even if you dwell in an affected
district. Take dose whenever you
need relief. It will relieve you for
time. Ii you have neuralgia and head
ache and sometimes get bilious, and have
numbness that makes you apprehen-
sive of approaching paralysis, you are
very likely in chronic condition of
malarial affection. Quinine will relieve
you temporarily, and if you go to the
seaside or to the mountains you will be
freed.-Prof. Alfred L. Loonais.