Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — What THE DOCTORS SAY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

What THE DOCTORS SAY.

A hot bath is a simple and sometimes very effective remedy for Insomnia. For night sweats one may find a good remedy in the aromatic sulphuric acid. Take ten drops In water at bedtime. Bathe weak eyes with salt water night and morning. Use one teaspoonful of pure salt to a pint of salt water. For dry and scaly eczema try a mixture consisting of equal parts of zinc ointment and tar ointment. Apply It twice a day. To make camphorated oil, take one ounce of gum camphor and dissolve It In four ounces of ’warm cottonseed oil or sweet oil. Phenacetlne and sulol are usually beneficial in cases of neuralgia nud muscular rheumatism. Take five grains of each drug every two hours. In case of a poor condition of the blood take a pill composed of one-thir-tleth of a grain of arsenious acid and one grain of reduced iron nftdt each meal Pure sulphate of soda is usually very beneficial .1 cases of costiveness. Take one teaspoouful in a gobletful of hot water oue hour before breakfast every morning. An ointment composed of one-half dram of pure carbolic acid, one-half dram of lodine and two ounces of simple cerate. Applied twice a day Is good for chilblains. , ls; , . , For a cold In the head the following remedy: Menthol, ten grains; eucalyptol, ten grains; liquid albolene, two ounces. Use It with a nasal atomizer ©very hour or oftener If necessary. You can make a very good tooth powder by mixing one-half ounce of powdered castile soap, one ounce of precipitated chalk, one ounce of powdered orris root and ten drops of oil of wintergreen. For a cough that is dry and hard get a mixture consisting of two drams of muriate of ammonia, two drams of fluid extract of cubebs, two ounces of bfewn mixture and enough syrup of wild cherry bark to make four ounces. Take one teaspoonful every three hours.