Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1916-02-10
WHAT TO DO TILL
The DOCTOR COMES
How to Relieve a Few Of the
Commonest Ailments In Order
to slave Of the Doctors Bill
Just This Side Of Fatalities.

~O often the doctor may be many
~ miles away, and if mother
~ knew a simple remedy for some
Of the minor ills which con-
stantly develop in the home it would
not be necessary to call him. Here
are a few which have been proved:
If the throat feels raw, but there
is no coughing, use an hourly gargle
of hot salt water. For loss of voice
whip the white Of an egg to a froth
and add the juice of half a lemon and
a teaspoonful Of sugar. A splendid
help for an annoying tickling in the
throat is to heat glycerin very hot, rub
on the throat and chest and cover with
warm flannel. Very often plain milk
heated to the boiling point and slipped
slowly will stop the inclination to
cough. There is nothing better for a
garsle than salt and baking soda. half
Il t%caspoonful each in a glass Of water.
This latter used AS n nasal douche will
help catarrh.
Children will enjoy this strip: 10 IL
cupful of tlaNseed, soaked overnight in
water to cover, add two quarts of wa
ter, an ounce and a half Of licorice root
DoWdered) and Il quarter of a pound
Of chopped raisins and boil one hour;
then add half a pound of sugar and
boil another hour, strain, cool and bot
tie and take in tablespoonful doses.
A quick mustard plaster nay be
made by trimming the crust from a
thin slice of bread and sprinkling it
thickly with ground mustard. Spread
over it a thin cloth and dampen with
vinegar or water. Vinegar prevents a
blister.
An old fashioned hut very good lini-
ment for rheumatism is made Of the
whites of two eggs. hale a pint of vine
gar and half Il pint Of turpentine.
Erostbitten feet should be immersed in
cold water at once. The treatment is
severe. but unless the frost is drawn
out chilblains will recur wear after
year.
For Il slight burn nothing is better
than to cover the place with damp car
Donate Of soda. If it is an acid burn it
should be washed first with water in
which a pinch Of soda has bcen dis
solved and then covered with oil.
Equal parts OF linseed Oil and limewa-
ter should be kept on hand in every
home. 1t is an excellent remedy for
burns.
Earache may be relieved by dropping
warmed alcohol in the ear.
If q living insect is in the ear turn
the head to the opposite side and fill
the ear with tepid water. Oil or slycerin
and it will soon come to the surface.
A bright light thrown into the ear also
will often succeed in bringing it out.
y child often puts small particles up
his nose, which can readily be re-
moved by tickling the nose with Il
feather, causing repeated sneeZing.
Dirt in the eye may be washed out by
squeezing from Il sponge Il small
stream of tepid water. To wash lime
from the eye use tepid water in which
a little vinegar has been stirred. Me-
by the use Of Il magnet.
Wounds from rusty nails or other
metallic points should be treated with
frequent applications of peroxide. Cuts,
too. should be treated in this way. En-
ternal applications of turpentine (hot
cloths saturated With it, is Il very old
remedy for internal pain and irritation.
as Of the bowels. stomach. liver or
chest. the penetrating properties of tur-
pentinc causing the trouble often to
s,lhSide very quickly.