Alum reduced to a powder, a teaspoonful of the powder and an equal
quantity of fine salt well mixed, applied to the gums by dipping your
moistened finger in the mixed powder ; put some also in the tooth, and
keep rubbing the gums with it; it scarcely ever fails to cure.
TO CURE A STING OF A BEE, OR WASP
Bind on common baking-soda, dampened with water. Or mix common
earth with water to about the consistency of mud.
TO CURE EARACHE.
Take a bit of cotton batting, put on it a pinch of black pepper, gather
it up and tie it, dip it in sweet oil, and insert it in the ear ; put a fiannel
bandage over the head to keep it warm ; it often gives immediate relief.
Tobacco smoke, puffed into the ear, has oftentimes been effectual.
Another remedy : Take equal parts of tincture of opium and glycerine.
Mix, and from a warm teaspoon drop two or three drops into the ear,
stop the ear tight with cotton, and repeat every hour or two. If matter
should form in the ear, make a suds with castile soap and warm water,
about 100° F., or a little more than milk warm, and have some person
inject it into the ear while you hold that side of the head the lowest. If
it does not heal in due time, inject a little carbolic acid and water in the
proportion of one drachm of the acid to one pint of warm water each time
after using the suds.
CROUP.
Croup, it is said, can be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply
alum and sugar. 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
instantaneous relief will follow. Turpentine is said to be an excellent
remedy for croup. Saturate a piece of flannel and apply it to the chest
and throat, and take inwardly three or four drops on a lump of sugar.
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Another Remedy. — Give a teaspoonful of ipecacuanha wine everj few
minutes, until free vomiting is excited.
Another recipe said to he most reliable : Take two ounces of the wine
of ipecac, hive syrup four ounces, tincture of bloodroot two ounces. Mix
it well.
Dose for a child one year old, five to ten drops ; two years, eight to
twelve drops; three years, twelve to fifteen drops; four years, fifteen
to twenty drops; five years, twenty to twenty-five drops, and older
children in proportion to age. Repeat as often as shall be necessary to
procure relief. If it is thought best to produce vomiting, repeat the dose
every ten or fifteen minutes for a few doses,
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Alum reduced to a powder, a teaspoonful of the powder and an equal quantity of fine salt well mixed, applied to the gums by dipping your moistened finger in the mixed powder ; put some also in the tooth, and keep rubbing the gums with it; it scarcely ever fails to cure.
TO CURE A STING OF A BEE, OR WASP
Bind on common baking-soda, dampened with water. Or mix common earth with water to about the consistency of mud.
TO CURE EARACHE.
Take a bit of cotton batting, put on it a pinch of black pepper, gather it up and tie it, dip it in sweet oil, and insert it in the ear ; put a flannel bandage over the head to keep it warm ; it often gives immediate relief.
Tobacco smoke, puffed into the ear, has oftentimes been effectual.
Another remedy : Take equal parts of tincture of opium and glycerine. Mix, and from a warm teaspoon drop two or three drops into the ear, stop the ear tight with cotton, and repeat every hour or two. If matter should form in the ear, make a suds with castile soap and warm water, about 100° F., or a little more than milk warm, and have some person inject it into the ear while you hold that side of the head the lowest. If it does not heal in due time, inject a little carbolic acid and water in the proportion of one drachm of the acid to one pint of warm water each time after using the suds.
CROUP.
Croup, it is said, can be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alum and sugar. 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 instantaneous relief will follow. Turpentine is said to be an excellent remedy for croup. Saturate a piece of flannel and apply it to the chest and throat, and take inwardly three or four drops on a lump of sugar.
HEALTH-SUGGESTIONS.
Another Remedy. — Give a teaspoonful of ipecacuanha wine everj few minutes, until free vomiting is excited.
Another recipe said to he most reliable : Take two ounces of the wine of ipecac, hive syrup four ounces, tincture of bloodroot two ounces. Mix it well.
Dose for a child one year old, five to ten drops ; two years, eight to twelve drops; three years, twelve to fifteen drops; four years, fifteen to twenty drops; five years, twenty to twenty-five drops, and older children in proportion to age. Repeat as often as shall be necessary to procure relief. If it is thought best to produce vomiting, repeat the dose every ten or fifteen minutes for a few doses,
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