SLEEPLESSNESS.— Avoid previous mental excitement by listening to startling accounts, reading romances, putting yourself in passion, &c. — Avoid heavy suppers. To sleep well all night — let your supper be light. — Go to bed early. — It is a good thing when a person is sleepless, to rise and apply friction to the limbs with a flesh brush, or a coarse towel. SLIPPERY ELM BARK.— This tree, ulmus fulva, is a native of America. The powdered bark is now extensively sold and used in that coun- try. It is used as an article of diet for invalids, on account of its soothing and nutritious prop>erties. Milk thickened with it makes excellent food for infants, for dyspeptic and consumptive patients : SLU 363 SMA. It subdues inflammation, and agreeably calms the system. According to the celebrated Dr. Beach, it is “demulcent, pectoral, diuretic, deobstruent, emollient, and refrigerant, useful in all bowel com- plaints, in scurvy, cutaneous eruptions, &c. In the form of a poultice, it is an admirable remedy (far exceeding any other known production in the world) for ulcers, tumours, swellings, wounds, chilblains, bums, scalds, skin diseases, erysipelas, obstinate ulcers, scabs, &c. ; and in sore mouth, or thrash, &c., used as a wash.” It quickly allays inflam- mation, promotes resolution and supu- rution. The tea is much used by the Indian women to procure easy labour. In point of utility, it is of far more value than its weight in gold. It has rapidly come into use as an invaluable medical agent. As an ingredient in injections, it is most valuable, healing, soothing, and preventing any painful sensations. It may be obtained at the vendors of botanic medicines. SLUGS and SNAILS, to pro- tect trees from. — If the trees are planted against a wall, brush over the wall gas tar. Or, mix common tar and pitch, horse hair, an abundance of salt, and apply it to the wall in a band about 3 to 5 inches wide ; and draw a circle round each tree of the same mixture. Small Investments in Government Stocks. — See page 317. SMALL POX.— This dreadful disease is very infectious, attended with inflammatory fever, assuming sometimes a typhoid character, attended with nausea and vomiting, and upon the pressure of the stomach, with much pain. The constitution that has been once really under its influence is rarely liable to a second attack. When the pustules are separate from each other, it is termed distinct; and when they ran together, it is denominated con- fluent. The first symptoms are shivering pains in the head, back, and loins, red- ness of the eyes, fever, thirst, nausea, loss of appetite ; and in some cases, a few hours before the eruption, children are affected with convulsions. The eruption appears about the fourth day of the fever, first on the face, and

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SLEEPLESSNESS.— Avoid previous mental excitement by listening to startling accounts, reading romances, putting yourself in passion, &c. — Avoid heavy suppers. To sleep well all night — let your supper be light. — Go to bed early. — It is a good thing when a person is sleepless, to rise and apply friction to the limbs with a flesh brush, or a coarse towel. SLIPPERY ELM BARK.— This tree, ulmus fulva, is a native of America. The powdered bark is now extensively sold and used in that country. It is used as an article of diet for invalids, on account of its soothing and nutritious properties. Milk thickened with it makes excellent food for infants, for dyspeptic and consumptive patients : SLU SMA. It subdues inflammation, and agreeably calms the system. According to the celebrated Dr. Beach, it is “demulcent, pectoral, diuretic, deobstruent, emollient, and refrigerant, useful in all bowel complaints, in scurvy, cutaneous eruptions, &c. In the form of a poultice, it is an admirable remedy (far exceeding any other known production in the world) for ulcers, tumours, swellings, wounds, chilblains, bums, scalds, skin diseases, erysipelas, obstinate ulcers, scabs, &c. ; and in sore mouth, or thrash, &c., used as a wash.” It quickly allays inflammation, promotes resolution and supurution. The tea is much used by the Indian women to procure easy labour. In point of utility, it is of far more value than its weight in gold. It has rapidly come into use as an invaluable medical agent. As an ingredient in injections, it is most valuable, healing, soothing, and preventing any painful sensations. It may be obtained at the vendors of botanic medicines. SLUGS and SNAILS, to protect trees from. — If the trees are planted against a wall, brush over the wall gas tar. Or, mix common tar and pitch, horse hair, an abundance of salt, and apply it to the wall in a band about 3 to 5 inches wide ; and draw a circle round each tree of the same mixture. Small Investments in Government Stocks. — See page 317. SMALL POX.— This dreadful disease is very infectious, attended with inflammatory fever, assuming sometimes a typhoid character, attended with nausea and vomiting, and upon the pressure of the stomach, with much pain. The constitution that has been once really under its influence is rarely liable to a second attack. When the pustules are separate from each other, it is termed distinct; and when they ran together, it is denominated confluent. The first symptoms are shivering pains in the head, back, and loins, redness of the eyes, fever, thirst, nausea, loss of appetite ; and in some cases, a few hours before the eruption, children are affected with convulsions. The eruption appears about the fourth day of the fever, first on the face, and

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