Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1882 — THE FAMILY DOCTOR. [ARTICLE]

THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

Simple Remedies for Common Ailment*. A pinch of common table salt disolved in water will relieve a bee-sting. Pains in the side are most promptly relieved by the application of mustard. To cure sneezing plug the nostrils with cotton wool. The effect is instantaneous. BitoKF.k limbs should be placed in a natural position and the patient kept quiet until help arrives. If an artery is severed, tie a small cord or handkerchief tightly above it until a physician arrives. or eight successive applications of the white of an egg will prove a most efficacious remedy for a burn. A good powder of snuff which will cure catarrh is made of equal parts of gum arabic, gum myrrh and blood root. Burns and scalds are immediately relieved by an application of dry soda covered with a wet cloth, moist enough to dissolve it. To cure earache, take a pinch of black pepper, put it on a piece of cotton batting dipped in sweet oil, and place in the ear and tie a bandage around the head, and it will give almost instant relief. If your hands are badly chapped, wet them in warm water, and rub them all over with Indian meal; do this several times, and then in the water used to wash off the meal put a teaspoonful of pure glycerine. An excellent liniment for toothache or neuralgia is made of half an ounce each of oil of sqpsafras and oil of origanum, one and a half ounce of tincture of capsicum, and half a pint of alcohol. Apply to the face on a flannel cloth. One of the simplest and best remedies to be given to children troubled ' with worms is poplar bark. Physicians use it with marked success. It can be bought at any drug store. Take a little pinch of the bark—as much as you can hold on the point of a penknife—and give it before breakfast. It has a clean bitter taste and any child will take it. Croup, it is said, can be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alum and sugar. The way to accomplish the deed is take a knife or grater, and shave off in small particles about a teaspoonful of alum; then mix it with twice its amount of sugar, to make it palatable, and administer it as quickly as possible. Almost instataneous relief will follow. Treat flesh wounds in the following manner: Close the lips of the wound with the hands, hold them firmly together to check the flow of blood up til several stitches can be taken and a bandage applied; then bathe the wound for a long time in cold water. Should it be painful take a panful of burning coals and sprinkle upon them common brown sugar and hold the wounded part in the smoke. Milk qnd lime water is.said to prove beneficial in dyspepsia and weakness of the stomach. The way to make the lime water is simply to procure a few lumps of unslacked lime, put the lime in a fruit car., add water until it is slacked, and of about the consistency of thin cream; the lime settles and leaves tbe pure and clear lime water at the top A goblet of cow’s milk may have six or eight teaspoonfuls of lime water added with good effect. Great care should be taken not to'get the lime water too Strong; pour off without disturbing the precipitated lime. Sickness of the stomach is promptly relieved by drinking a teacupful of warm water with a teaspoonful of soda dissolved in it. If it brings the offending matter up all the better.