Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-19
THE HOME DOCTOR.
FOR CURING ERYsIPELAs,

FOR CURING ERYsIPELAs.
One pint of sweet milk and handful
of pokeberry roots. This is a sure cure.
A REMEDY FOR CANCER.
Take the blossoms of red clover and
make tea of them, and drink freely. It
will cure cancer in the stomach as well
as on the surface.
a LOTION.
For the cure of burns, cuts, sores and
boils: Take of jimpson-weed flowers,
mullen flowers and bark of the common
elder, about a handful of each. Boil
these together; strain, then add four
ounces beesWax and four ounces mutton
tallOw. Boil it down. Then take off,
and when nearly cool add one ounce
gum camphor, and one tablespoonful
spirits turpentine.
ANTIDOTE AGAINST INFECTION.
1t is terrible to read of infectious dis
eases with with which we are still trou-
bled. There are whole districs now trem-
bling for fear that smallpox will invade
them or spread within them; towns are
dread1ng the coming Of malarial fever;
others are already suffering nnder diph-
liberia, while scarlet fever, measles, ETC.,
are not even mentioned.
We think that certain class of anti
dotes have never become sufficiently ap-
preciated IN these cases. There Is one
especially which we would wish to men
tlon-the fumes of boiling malt vinegar.
Iney dlspel infectious particles rapidly,
and kill their virulence, particularly if
used in time. Where these fumes are
used, windows and doors should be
closed and not opened for about twenty
minutes. After this time the fresh air
can be freely admitted. When these
fumes are used repeatedly, diseases will
assuredly be kept off.
This is also an excellent preventive
among cattle and sheep against infec-
ton, and even acurative In certain cas- 9s.
The great power of acids to dispeI and
kill malarial particles is not sufficiently
appreciated, and any one can make a
trial in the simplest form, by allowing
the fumes of boiling vinegar to spread
about.
HOW TO CURE COLD.
A medical journal tells how one man
was cured of cold: |" He boiled little
NORWOOD and horehound together, and
drank freely of the tea before going to
bed. The next day he took five pills,
put one kind of plaster on his breast,
another under his arms, and still an
other on his back. Under advice from
an experienced old lady, he took all
these off with an oyster knife in the af-
ternOon, and slapped on mustard pIas-
ter instead. Then he put some hot
bricks to his feet and went to bed. Next
morning, another old lady came in with
bottle of goose oil, and gave him a
dose of it on quill, and an aunt ar
rived about the same time with bundle
of sweet fern, which she made into
tea, and gave him every half hour until
noon, when Le took big dose of salts.
After dinner his wife, who had seen a
fine old lady of great experience in doc
toring, IN High Street, gave him two
pills of her own make, about the size of
walnut and of similar shape, and two
teaspOOnfuls of homemade balsam to
keep them down. Then he took q half
pint of hot rum, at the suggestion of an
old sea captain visiting in the next
house, and steamed his legs with an al
cohoic bath. At this crisis two of his
reighbors arrived, who saw at once that
his blood was out of order, and gave him
a half-gallon of spearmint tea and big
dose of castor oil. Before going to bed
he took eight of new kind of pills,
wrapped about HE neck flannel soaked
IN hot vinegar and salt, and feathers
burned on a shovel in his room. He is
now cured and full of gratitude"