of an hour. Or, take in for a quarter of an hour, morning and evening, the steam of white resin and bees’ wax boil- ing on a hot fire shovel. This has cured one who was in the third stage of a consumption. Or, take morning and evening a tea-spoonful of white ▼ resin powdered and mixed with honey. This cured one in less than a month, who was near death. Or, drink thrice a-day two spoonfuls of juice of water- cresses. This has cured a deep con- sumption. In the last stage, suck a CON 138 COR healthy woman daily. This has cured my father. For diet, use milk and apples, or water gruel made with fine flour. Drink cider-whey, barley water, sharpened with lemon-juice, or apple- water. So long as the tickling cough continues, chew well, and swallow a mouthful or two of a biscuit or crust of bread twice a day. If you cannot swallow it spit it out. This will always shorten the fit, and would often prevent a consumption. — John Wesley. CONSUMPTION, Useful Drink for. — Coltsfoot, two ounces; horehound, rue, of each one ounce ; and blood-root, three drachms. Boil in three quarts of water down to two quarts. Strain, and to the liquor, add of figs and sugar, of each four ounces, and boil fifteen minutes. Take a wine- glassful three or four times a day. CONVULSIONS, in Children. — They originate in some derangement or irritation of the bowels, stomach, brain, or from teething. Give an ape- rient, as magnesia and rhubarb, and a warm bath about 90°, and apply to the head linen dipped in the water. The following powder is useful : — Rhubarb in powder, 8 grains ; super-sulphate of potash, 12 grains. Mix. Give also a little syrup of poppies. If aperients cannot be taken, give a mild injection ; as a 'ittle epsom salts in barley gruel, with a little butter ; or a weak solution of salt and water, with a few drops of oil, or butter. Convulsions often arise from over- feeding ; this must be avoided. If in- digestible food has been taken, give an emetic, — the wine of ipecacuanha ; or if the patient cannot be sufficiently roused from sleep, so as to take the emetic, tickle the back part of the mouth with a feather to produce the effect. If the convulsions are obstinate, apply friction along the spine, when in the bath ; or out of it, rub the spine with an anodyne composed of 10 drops of laud- anum, 10 drops of oil, and 6 drops of tincture of cayenne. Mustard plasters may be applied a minute or two to the legs and feet. If convulsions are caused by teething, the gums must be lanced a little. COOKING. — Liebig the great chemist says, ‘ ‘ If the flesh be intro- duced into the boiler when the water is in a state of brisk ebullition, and if the boiling be kept up for a few minutes, and the pot then placed in a warm place, so that the temperature of the water is kept at 160°, we have the united conditions for giving the flesh the quali- ties which best fit it for being eaten." By plunging the meat into boiling water the albumen on the surface cannot es- cape, as it at once coagulates and seals it, and excludes the water. Meal placed in cold water loses its savoury ingre- dients. Fresh meat should never be soaked in water. Only salted and dried meats require it.

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of an hour. Or, take in for a quarter of an hour, morning and evening, the steam of white resin and bees’ wax boiling on a hot fire shovel. This has cured one who was in the third stage of a consumption. Or, take morning and evening a tea-spoonful of white ▼ resin powdered and mixed with honey. This cured one in less than a month, who was near death. Or, drink thrice a-day two spoonfuls of juice of watercresses. This has cured a deep consumption. In the last stage, suck a CON COR healthy woman daily. This has cured my father. For diet, use milk and apples, or water gruel made with fine flour. Drink cider-whey, barley water, sharpened with lemon-juice, or applewater. So long as the tickling cough continues, chew well, and swallow a mouthful or two of a biscuit or crust of bread twice a day. If you cannot swallow it spit it out. This will always shorten the fit, and would often prevent a consumption. — John Wesley. CONSUMPTION, Useful Drink for. — Coltsfoot, two ounces; horehound, rue, of each one ounce ; and blood-root, three drachms. Boil in three quarts of water down to two quarts. Strain, and to the liquor, add of figs and sugar, of each four ounces, and boil fifteen minutes. Take a wineglassful three or four times a day. CONVULSIONS, in Children. — They originate in some derangement or irritation of the bowels, stomach, brain, or from teething. Give an aperient, as magnesia and rhubarb, and a warm bath about 90°, and apply to the head linen dipped in the water. The following powder is useful : — Rhubarb in powder, 8 grains ; super-sulphate of potash, 12 grains. Mix. Give also a little syrup of poppies. If aperients cannot be taken, give a mild injection ; as a 'ittle epsom salts in barley gruel, with a little butter ; or a weak solution of salt and water, with a few drops of oil, or butter. Convulsions often arise from overfeeding ; this must be avoided. If indigestible food has been taken, give an emetic, — the wine of ipecacuanha ; or if the patient cannot be sufficiently roused from sleep, so as to take the emetic, tickle the back part of the mouth with a feather to produce the effect. If the convulsions are obstinate, apply friction along the spine, when in the bath ; or out of it, rub the spine with an anodyne composed of 10 drops of laudanum, 10 drops of oil, and 6 drops of tincture of cayenne. Mustard plasters may be applied a minute or two to the legs and feet. If convulsions are caused by teething, the gums must be lanced a little. COOKING. — Liebig the great chemist says, ‘ ‘ If the flesh be intro- duced into the boiler when the water is in a state of brisk ebullition, and if the boiling be kept up for a few minutes, and the pot then placed in a warm place, so that the temperature of the water is kept at 160°, we have the united conditions for giving the flesh the qualities which best fit it for being eaten." By plunging the meat into boiling water the albumen on the surface cannot escape, as it at once coagulates and seals it, and excludes the water. Meal placed in cold water loses its savoury ingredients. Fresh meat should never be soaked in water. Only salted and dried meats require it.

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