Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-02-11
WHAT TO Do TILL
The DOCTOR COMES
How to Relieve a Few of the
Commonest Ailments In Order
to Stave Off the Doctors Bill
Just This Side Of Fatalities.

~ often h doctor may be many
miles away. and if mother
knew Il 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
n 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
gargle than salt and baking soda, half
a t~easpoonful each in a glass of water.
This latter used as a nasal douche will
help catarrh.
Children will enjoy this strip: To a
cupful of flaXseed. soaked overnight in
water to cover, add two quarts of wa
ter, an ounce and a half of ~licorice root
powdered, and a quarter of a pound
of chopped raisins and boil one hour;
then add half a pound of sugar and
boil another hour, strain. coo and bot
tie and take in tablespoonful doses.
A quick mustard plaster may be
made by trimming the crust from a
thin slice of bread and sprinkling it
thickly with ground mustard. Spread
over 1t a thin cloth and dampen with
vinegar or water. Vinegar prevents a
blister.
An old fashioned but very good lini-
ment for rheumatism is made of the
whites of two eggs. half a pint of vine
gar and half a pint of %turpentine.
Frostbitten feet should be immersed in
cold water at once. The treatment is
severe, but unless the frost is drawn
out chilblains will recur year after
year.
For a 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 been dis
solved and her 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 a living insect is in the ear turn
the head to the opposite side and fill
the ear with tepid water, oil or glycerin
and it will SOC come to the surface.
A bright light thrown into the ear also
will often succeed in bringing it out.
A child often puts small particles up
his nose. which can readily be re-
moved by tickling the nose with a
feather. causing repeated sneeZing.
Dirt in the eye may be washed out by
squeezing from Il sponge a small
stream of tepid water. To wash lime
from the eye use tepid water in which
a little vinegar has been stirred. Me-
tallic particles may he removed often
by the use of a 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. ES-
ternal applications of turpentiue fhot
cloths saturated with it, is Il very old
remedy for internal pain ana irritation,
as of the bowels. stomach. liver or
chest, the penetrating properties of tur-
pentine causing the trouble often to
subside very quickly.