Norwich bulletin., 1918-03-23
SIMPLE REMEDIES.

Dear Soeial Corner Sisters The fol lowing are simple remedies: Catarrh: An inflammation of mucous:4 membrane, especially of the air pas sages of the head and the throat, with. an exudation on its free surface
 Treatment: Take one ounce each of fine salt pulverized berax and baking. soda, and mix thoroughly together and dissolve in one-half pint of water. To. use take one tablespoon of the solu-1 tion to two or three of warm water, and snuff up the head at bedtime The salt stimulates, the borax cleans. es and heals and the soda soothes; use soft water.
 An Excellent Cough Syrup: Take five cents worth each of sweet spirits of nitre, paregoric, syrup of sauills and sweet oil; put all in a pint of molasses. Dose. a teaspoon several times day.
 To Abort a Felen; Apply the fol-, lowing with cloth until pain ceases, Take of tincture of iodine, three idraellms, tinetufe Of aeonite, or arni Araehms. mix, and apply. Another method is the following: Take a tea spoon of common salt, roasted on a hot stove until all the chlorine gas is I,tflreWn off or is dry as cen be made. Also a teaspoon of powdered castle. soap Add a teaspoon of Venice tur- pentine; mix them into a. poultice. and apply to the felon. Renew the peul- tiee twice a day.
 lnsrowine Nail--A very common and troublesome affeetion, which most usually occurs by the side of the great toe, due to constant pressure from the use of tight shoes. The objects for its 1 treatment are to remove the irritation icaused by the nail, and reduce the swelling of the soft parts. In most cases, if the nail, having been well softened by soaking in warm water, is shaved as thin as possible with a 1 bit of glass, the pain and irritation may easily be allayed by rest for day or two, with lamentations and poul- l tices.
 l A good way to remove the nail is to wedge some cotton under the free margin of the nail, placing over it a piece of adhesive plaster with a hole cut in it the size and shape Of the nail to be removed, then moisten the end of a pencil of lunar caustic and apply it to the part to be removed
 taking care not to touch any other portion. The next day the nail will
 have assumed a black or brown ap- pearance Upon raising the nail, il will be found to have become separat- ed from the subjacent tissue, and al there is required to complete the cure lis to clip off the dead portion.
 Teokhache is sometimes purely neu.
 ralsic. More often it results from ex- posture of the nerve by the decay of g f1 tooth. Again, it may attend inflam Ii nation of the jaw. or absoess as the
 root of the tooth affected. For tooth.
 ache from exposed nerve, creosotes i. Il 2 certain remedy. Insert carefully in, to the hollow a plug of cotton, wrap ped over the end of a knitting nee
 dle, and dipped in pure creosote I
 the rattle runs out into the mouti
 (which should be avoided if possible
 rinse it at once with cold water.
 Oil of cloves. oil of cajeput .anl laudanum Introduced into the hoIlo5 of the tooth will also generally giv
 relief.
 Cough Troches One ounce powder ed shcorice root, one ounce of powdere
 gum arabic. one ounce of powdere !, cubebs, mix all together with on
 pound of pulverizad sugar add enoug : tG make a stiff paste like bread dough Troll out thin and cut in shape wit
 an open top tl1imble; arrange upo
 sheets of foolscap, and set away t dry. These troches will be found ex
 cellent.