consumption, etc., taken internally before meals, which see, for these

diseases.

4.

Sore Throat and

Catarrh— Gargle for.— Comp.

lavender. 3^ oz., into a 4 oz. vial; put in also the carbonate of

grs. ;

fill

spirits

of

ammonia, 20

with distilled, or rain water.

—

%

Directions. Put 1 teaspoonful of this to

cup of warm, soft water and

gargle vdth it two or three times daily and if any catarrh, or nasal inflammation, put into the hand, what it will hold, and snuff into the nostrils at each

time.

After the gargling and snuffing, a little vaseline, or cosmoline, mutton

tallow, or some sweet oil, or sweet almond oil, should be introduced into each

nostril with the finger.

Remarks. Follow this course faithfully, and for a considerable time, in

catarrh, if any good is expected to result; also use occasionally some good

cathartic to act freely, together with an alterative and tonic course of medicine.

;

—

5.

Sore Throat, Common Gargle for.— For common case of sore

throat, a valuable gargle can generally be made at almost any dinner table.

Directions.

— Take %

pt.

tumbler, or common goblet, and put into it a

small salt cellar of salt (about 2 tea-spoonfuls), Vi tea-spoonful of black pepper,

and a little cayenne (3 or 4 little taps on the bottom of the cruet, or pepper-box

containing it, will be sufficient; a tea-spoonful or two of pepper-sauce, if on the

table, is better than the cayenne powder),

then fill the tumbler with cider vinegar and water, equal parts, stir well, a few times, and gargle with it often.

Remarks. If you have alum and borax in the house, about J^ tea-spoonful of each, pulverized, may be put in, or if only one of them, 3^ tea-spoonful

(Other gargles will be found in connection with the

will improve the gargle.

—

subject of diphtheria.)

6.

Sore Throat, Several Simple Remedies for.

— The follow-

ing are some of the most common, or simple, remedies for sore throat, easily

obtained and often effectual:

I

Salt and water is used by many as a gargle; but a little alum and honey

dissolved in sage tea is better.

II.

Others,

a few drops of

camphor on loaf sugar, which very often

affords immediate relief.

III.

An application of cloths wrung out of hot water and applied to the

neck, changed as often as it begins to cool, has great potency in removing in-

flammation in recent cases.

IV

Borax the size of a pea in the mouth relieves hoarseness quickly

(See also hoarseness, bronchitis, etc., for other remedies.)

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SORE ITOSE — Akin to Erysipelas — Certain Cure.— I had a

case of sore nose, a very bad case, which nothing in the ordinary line of trea^

ment would benefit at all, except for a very short time. The sufferer would

" Cannot something be done to relieve this intolerable suffering,"

Directions I prepared a little stick, 3 or 4 inches in length, and wound

it vdth 3 or 4 thicknesses of cotton cloth, wrapped with thread, and dipped this

Into the full strength muriated tincture of iron, and held it firmly, for J^ mininflamed nose, and to the inner edges,

ute, or so, to each spot, and over the

where it was sorest. The first moment or two it smarted like fire, but I held

it the more firmly and said never mind that, it won't be so bad next time.

cry out:

—

etc.

So night and morning, for 3 or 4 days, then once daily as much longer, made

a perfect cure

— now over 6 months, without the least return and no sign of

apply for a month or more, if negave him also internally 5 drops of the same tincOf course he had an iron-colored nose, but

ture 3 times daily in a little water.

a piece of lemon rubbed on a few times soon removed that ornamental shade

soreness remaining.

I should continue to

cssary, or until cured.

I

and left him all right again, the same as it will remove recent iron rust spots

from clothing.

Sore Fingers of Printers, etc., to Cure and Blood Blisters

to Prevent. I. Generally a compositor's (type-setter's) sore fingers result

from lye, low cases, splinters, scratches in handling brass rule, paper cuts, type

poison, etc., and often occasion loss of time, expensive doctoring and great

pain.

For these sores a correspondent writes: " I have never lost an hour from

Plentiful and frequent

business, nor been put to more than a trifling expense.

application of laudanum has been my panacea (cure all). It also cleanses, removes the soreness and rapidly heals old sores."

Blood blisters may be prevented from forming by immediately rubII.

bing the bruise briskly with any non-poisonous hard substance. London Pho-

—

netic Journal.

Rtmarks.

—The fact here given as to the curative action of laudanum upon

8ore fingers, and old sores, is that

laudanum alone would be valuable upon all

ordinary chaps, or cracks upon the hands, lips, etc. no matter from what cause

,

they may have arisen, as the opium relieves the pain, and the alcohol in it stimulates the parts to heal.

CARBUNCLE— Treatment Which Saves Pain and Soreness

— Also Applicable to Boils. — Having just passed through a three weeks,

tell others how I saved

myself much pain, soreness and suffering, although it is bad enough when all

has been done that can be done for relief.

"What it might have proved without my mitigating treatment, I do not

siege with a six hole carbuncle, I feel competent to

know; it was the agony that compelled me to adopt some plan of relief; hence

I took:

I.

A mild liniment, Mrs. Chase's, given in this book (any mild liniment

•will do),

2 ozs.

;

chloroform, 1 oz. ; laudanum, 1 oz.

used, and applied every hour or two, night

;

and day.

Shaken, when

There were only short

mixed.

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catches of sleep for about two weeks;

59

hour or two was occa'

after which, an

Bionally obtained.

After applying the above mixture freely at each time, I then applied the

following anodyne, emollient, or softening mixture:

Sweet oil, 7 drs. laudanum, 1 dr. mix. The application of the fore11.

going mixtures would relieve very much of the agonizing pain, even before I

would be done applying the first; and the second kept the surface soft, as well

(The same thing will be just as effectual for

as to help keep down the pain.

boils, I have not a doubt.)

The situation was such that no poulticing could

have been done, if desired, to hasten it; and even if it could, I have never

known one under the poulticing process to subside in less than 5 or 6 weeks,

;

;

while by the above process nearly all the pain and soreness subsided in 3 weeks.

At one time I thought it was going to repeat itself: but by the application

of the permanganate of potash, 1 dr. to 1 oz. of water, applied by rolling up a

strip of cotton cloth, and tieing a bit of cord around it in the centre, the size of

the roll being just to fill the

mouth of the vial, by which means I could wet

one end of the roll of cloth without spilling it upon the clothing (permanganate

colors the clothes), and apply to the swelling, it was driven back, or scattered,

and by taking an active cathartic dose of crab-orchard salts (any active cathartic

will do the same) it was carried out of the system.

Carbuncle, Specific for.

—

R. H. Johnson, in the Medical Beview,

found tannin a specific for carbuncle. He sprinkles the tannin

upon the openings as long as it will dissolve; and 24 hours after washes off with

castile soap, and sprinkles it again.

He claims it to soon heal up with but little

pain.

It is worthy of trial, as it can do no harm.

2.

Bays, he has

BOILS.— Remedy Against

der, in his

use

is

their Continuance.— Prof. Scudwork on Specific Medication, speaking of lime, says: Its specific

and other inflammations of the cellular

immediately under the skin) terminating in suppuraWhy it has this specific influence I do not propose to say, but I have

in cases of furunculus (boil),

tissue (the cell-like tissue

tion.

proven it in scores of cases. Taken in a case in which boils are continually

developed, the use of lime water will effect a radical cure.

[The proper

strength for lime water to be used in these cases, in fact, in all cases, is: stone

lime, 4 ozs.; distilled water, 1 gal., or in these proportions.

Slack the lime

with a little of the water, then pour the rest of the water over it and stir; cover

the bowl and set aside for three hours; then bottle and keep the liquor upon the

lime, well corked, and use only the clear liquid as wanted.] See " Milk Diet for

Infants and Adults.".

Dose— It is given in doses of a wine-glassful, 3 or 4 times

a day. If too alkaline use additional water.

This lime water is often very properly used with the milk fed to infants

which have to be raised upon the bottle; a tea-spoonful to a bottle of milk, or sufand it is also valuable in Dyspepsia in

ficient to prevent acidity of the stomach;

adults when there are acid eructations of gas, or, as commonly called, belching or

rifting of

wind from the stomach, after eating.

— For adults in these

Dose

dyspepsia cases, 3 or 4 table-spoonfuls to a bowl of milk

,

suflicient

only is

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needed to keep down the acidity. See " Dyspepsia, Milk and Lime Water,

Cure for." Lime water can often be borne by patients who cannot take the.

salts of soda, or potash.

This also proves its value and adaptation to the human

system,

2.

Boils—To Relieve the Pain of and to Scatter.—The pain of

can be relieved very much by frequently applying castor-oil on

boils, it is said,

the parts.

Painting a boil with tincture of iodine, it is also claimed, scatters tnem;

but I prefer to scatter them by frequently applying a strong liniment. I have

recently scattered two from my own neck in this way. I used Dr. Chase's

golden oil, or strong camphor liniment; I think I applied it at least fifteen different times in the day, rubbing over the boil hard and long at each application,

which scattered it, and is doing so again, at this writing, so that I see they are

in the system, and I have therefore made 1 qt. of the lime water (1 oz. stone

1 qt.), and am going to use it, expecting I shall thus cleanse the blood

and eradicate them the boils from the system or blood. It did do it, as I have

not had any more, or any indications of them, now over four months, after

lime to

—

writing the above.

—

3. Boils, Alterative Syrup for. Blue flag and black cohosh root,

each 1 oz. yellow dock root and the bark of the root of bitter-sweet, Peruvian

bark, the bark of the root of sassafras and prickly ash berries, each J^ oz.

pyrophosphate of iron, 2% drs. whiskey, J^ pt. glycerine, 6 ozs. water, 12

ozs.

Directions. The barks, roots and berries are to be coarsely ground, or

bruised, then steeped in water in a covered dish, to leave, when strained, 1 pt,;

then add the glycerine, whiskey and pyrophosphate of iron. Dose A teaspoonful 4 times daily, at meals and at bed-time.

Remarks. This is not only a valuable alterative in boils, but to follow the

treatment of inflammations, after the acute stages have been overcome by cooling purgatives, such as salts, seidlitz powder or cream of tartar, attention to the

;

;

;

;

—

—

—

skin, etc., especially so if there is a scrofulous tendency, or considerable debility,

shown by the loss of strength, flesh, etc.

1. MILK IN DIARRHEA, DYSENTERY, INCIPIENT

CHOLERA, TYPHOID FEVER, ETC.— Considerable has lately been

said in medical journals concerning the value of milk as a remedial agent in

An interesting article upon this subject lately appeared in the

London MUk Journal, in which it is stated, on the authority of Dr. Benjamin

certain diseases.

Clark, that in the East Indies warm milk is used to a great extent as a specific

for Diarrhea.

I.

For DiarrJiea.

—A pint every 4 hours will check the most violent

di-

The milk should never

be boiled, but only heated sufficient to be agreeably warm, not too hot to drink.

arrhea, stomach-ache, incipient cholera and dysentery.

[The author would say 140" Fah. is as hot as one can take it comfortably with

Milk which has been boiled is unfit for use. He continues: It

has never failed in curing in from 6 to 12 hours, and I have tried it, I should

th ink , fifty times.

I have alao given it to a dying man who had been subject

a tea-spoon.]

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to dysentery 8 months, latterly

61

accompanied by one continual diarrhea, and ft

In 2 days his diarrhea was gone, in 3 weeks he be-

acted on him lilie a charm.

came a hale, fat man, and now nothing that may hereafter occur will ever shake

his faith in hot milk.

II.

For Typhoid Fever.

—Another writer also communicates to the Med'

ical Times and Gazette a statement of the value of

fever, in every one of

milk in 26 cases of typhoid

which its great value was apparent, checking diarrhea,

nourishing and cooling the body.

For Debilitating

III.

Diseases.

—People suffering from disease require

food quite as much as those in health, and much more so in certain diseases,

where there is rapid waste of the system. Frequently all ordinary food, in

some diseases, is rejected by the stomach, and even loathed by the patient; but

nature, even in all disease, is beneficient, and has furnished a food that is beneficial

in some, directly curative.

Such a food is milk. The writer, Dr. Alexander Yale, after giving particular observations upon the points above mentioned, viz.: Its action in checking diarrhea, its nourishing properties and its

action in cooling the body says: " We believe that milk nourishes in fever, pro-

—

motes sleep, wards off delirium, soothes the intestines, and in fine is the sine

qua non (an indispensable just the thing) in typhoid fever."

IV. For Scarlet Fever. The writer goes on to say he has lately tested the

value of milk in scarlet fever, and learns that it is now recommended by the

medical faculty in all cases of this often very distressing disease of children.

—

—

He says:

Give all the milk the patient will take, even during the period of greatest

it keeps up the strength of the patient, acts well upon the stomach, and

fever;

is in every

way a blessed thing in this sickness.

Parents, remember it, and do

not fear to give it if your dear ones are afflicted with this disease.

2.

Milk as a Medicine. — Under the head of "Milk as a Medicine,"

the American Journal of Medicine, of

St.

Louis, says that this article, once

looked upon with distrust, has now become a valuable agent in treatment of

disease, and is, on all hands, recommended by practitioners of medicine as

being a safe and reliable article in the

list

of curables.

Given warm it is

declared to be almost a specific (positive cure) in diarrhea, stomach-ache, incipient cholera and dysentery.

It is also pronounced invaluable in typhoid

fever.

II.

The Journal then quotes the sentence of Dr. Yale, given in III above,

and closes by saying that he also agrees with the opinion of Dr, Benjamin

Clark, in the London Milk Journal, given in I.

— I understand that the milk

is not to be boiled, that it is to be

being drank without scalding the mouth or throat.

There can be no doubt of its efficacy with such an amount of testimony from

the medical profession in India, England and America.

See also " Treatment

Remarks.

heated only to allow

its

of Scarlet Fever with Sulphur," wherein I have recommended the milk to be

also used.

3. Milk Diet, with Lime Water—For Infants ana Adults

who have "Weak Digestive Powers.— Dr. H. N. Ch^man says that

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milk and lime water is not only food and medicine at an early period of life,

but also later, when, as in the case of infants, the functions of digestion

and assimilation have been seriously impaired.

stomach taxed by gluttony,

irritated by improper food, inflamed by alcohol, enfeebled by disease, or other-

A

wise unfitted for its duties, as is shown by the various symptoms attendant upon

indigestion, dyspepsia, diarrhea, dysentery and fever, will resume its work, and

do it energetically, on an exclusive diet of lime water and milk. A goblet of

cow's milk to which 4 table-spoonfuls of lime water has been added, will agree

with any person, however objectionable the plain article may be, will be friendly

to the stomach when other food is apprehensive, and will be digested when all

else fails to afford nourishment.

Of this statement I have had positive proof in

very many cases.

The blood being thin, the nerves weak, the nutrition poor,

the secretions defective, the excretions insufficient, the physician has at hand a

remedy as common as the air, and as common, almost as water.

In it all the

elements of nutrition are so prepared by nature as to be^ readily adapted to the

infant or the adult stomach, and so freighted with healing virtues as to work a

cure where drugs are worse than useless.

Remarks.

—

It

certainly needs no further remarks to

that milk is now held in.

show the estimation

Let it be used accordingly, with the lime water, and

you will also be satisfied.

—

4. Milk an Antidote and Preventive to Lead Poison.

The

Journal de Medicine states, upon authority, that milk has been found to be an

antidote and preventive to lead poisoning by those working in its manufacture.

(Why not, then, for painters?)

A quart a day was furnished to each man, after which no colic nor other

harm to health occurred.

The remedy is simple, easily obtained, and no doubt effectual. Used as a

drink during the day would be the manner of taking it. See also its vise in

"Accidental Poisoning."

—

5. Milk as an Aliment or Food.

So much has been said on the

use of milk as a medicine in diseased conditions of the system, it is but proper

to say it ought to enter into our daily food to a very much greater extent than

it does.

It is believed to be good for children; but I beg leave to say it is as

good for adults as it is for children and if every family would adopt the old

plan of corn-meal mush and milk for supper for everyone in the family, as we

used to do in an earlier day, the general health of the people would be better

than it is. If it produces costiveness, in any case, put in a little lime water, or

a little baking soda; but with the mush there is no danger of this,

;

6.

Milk, Hot, as a Restorative after Fatigue.

milk, when one

is

— A glass of hot

fatigued, is so refreshing and strengthening it will astonish

the one who takes it.

A

supper, made with a couple slices of toasted bread in

a bowl of hot milk, is very satisfactory in the absence of the mush mentioned

above.

1.

SCARLET FEVER— Successful Treatment of.—Dr. Henry

Pigeon writes to the London Lancet as follows:

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" The marvellous success which has attended my treatment of scarlet fever

by sulphur induces me to let my