Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-21

simple Remedies for Common All.
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siDple ReneAies for Common All.
A knovledee of simple remedies for
common ailments IL essential for house
wives Who would drive pain from their
houses, prevent ruipous doctors bills.
and above all keep the system from fire.
quent drugging. i will give few rem
edies that Say prove of use:
For acute pain in the stomach or bow
els, try strong saltpeter water. Wiring
a good sized piece of flannel from this
solution and apply hot to the part af-
fected, laying over i: another piece of
flannel; cover the patient well in bed
and lay hot brick at the feet
A tea made by sleeping swigs from a
peach tree is excellent for worms.
Butter and sugar. about three parts of
the latter thoroughly mixed with one of
the former, are excellent TO check a
cough when caused by a tickling in the
throat IL this does not avail, melt the
mixture and add little vinegar. Many
hnd relief by eating little rock salt, or.
II this il impossible to obtain, table salt
will answer the same purpose, though
the frat is much the better. One troubled
with backing cough should never be
found without a bit Of aorehound candy
or few kernals Of rock salt in their
socket, with which 20 check An attack
while at church or during calls.
The white OF an egg, into which a
small teaspoonful of sugar has been
stirred, il an excellent remedy for
or Jup. Give this at the first symptom,
and IL the hoarse cough Is not sooil
checked, a second is needed, and in rare
cases third. The whites Of three eggs
and sometimes the whites of two, will
act as an emetic. The little patien,
should have a teaspoonful of castor oil
at the beginning, and then little goose
oil or hens oil occasionally, until the
cough is looser, and the throat and chest
should be Amounted withithe same.
Melt half an ounce of camphor gun
half an ounce of Riycerine, and one
pound Of m7ttOn taliow, and apply to
the hands every night. Ii will whiteu
them nicely. For home made camphor.
ice, melt half a teacupful of mutton tai.
low, put into il piece of camphor gum
about the size OF large hickory nut
and add teacupful of olive oil. Pour
into a mould to harden. Puiverized
borax ia excellent to drop into the water
to soften the skin. II your hands are
rough when you wash them, dip yo1i
| fingers in the borax and rub your hands
thoroughly together.
One of a set Of small drawers in my
pantry ia called the salve box. In one
end is small compartment like ths
till of an old fashioned chest, and in
this are kept salves of various kinds. In
the drawer there is always to be found
an abundance If old soft cotton and
linen cloths, with few strong strips fol
bandages, a ball Of soft yarn (which
being flexible, il much better than Irvine
for tying up infiamed fingers), fluffy
bits Of cotton batting and pieces of old
kid gloves for spreading save upon
Something very adhesive, like baIsam
| FIR salve, il a necessity, as a very little
here and there along the bandage for a
| sore finger will make string unneces
sary, beside keeping the cleth in place
much better than il tied on.
A salve excellent for drawing and
suitable for use in case of 4. lon or any
lesser sore of the kind, is made in the
following manner: Take the yolk of one
egg and stir it into half a teaspoonfu
of finely powdered camphor gum, one
teaspo0nful of fine salt, and one tea
spoonful Of spirits of turpentine. Thii
will make the mixture thick and salvy
and easily spread on old linen. If the
case is very urgent indeed, twice ths
| quantity of oampbor gum can be used
and in few cases, when the individual
| cannot bear the touch of turpentine
only few drops need be added. This
is ~ be laid over the felon for an houl
or two, or AS long rs the patient can en-.
dure, then replaced by cooling poul
tice. II applied in the first stages, the
sore will be drawn rapidly to head
and weeks Of pain avoided. If very
painful put a little laudnum on the
poultice, and il that does not relieve
battle the hand with chloroform.
After the fslon has broken, OF ut any
stage when il il advisable to apply 3
soft poultice, there can be nothing bet
ter than haxseed meal. Pour boiling
water slowly over a teaspoonful of the
meal until 9 soft poultics IL made-nol
soft enough to run, or dry enough t.
become easily hard. A little experience
will enable one to get it just right. In
cases OF pneumonia, physicians order
this rather than Indian meal poultices
AZ it is not 80 heavy for the patient's
chest, remains moist longer, and. is more
easily prepared. MASH" poultices
must be sewed inside . fat bag, or the
meal will scatter as soon as slightly
dry; bus this is 80 adhesive that the
cloth only needs to be folded together
with the edges pressed down. It is nee.
essary that the meal be kept in glass
tin, or stone ware, as the oil Tone of the
essential properties) must not be lost.
o. A. q.
We think the application advised
By our correspondent for Group
needs to have An addition of turpentins
In order to set up counter irritation;
and care should be taken TO keep it vel
up about the wind pipe-tbis, rather
than the chest, being the seat Of the
trouble. though, of course, the chest
should not be- neglected. But if there
Is fever or continued hoarseness, or il
the harsh cough does not speedily yield
70 the treatment. y ia risky to treat
the case without professional advice
IL may turn out to be true (membran-
| eous) Group; and II. unfortunately,
such is the case, no amateur doctor
ing" will have the slightest chance OF
success. Country Gentleman.
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