WARTS. — These may be cured by daily touching the top of the wart with the pure Tincture of the Rhus Toxicodendron , or Poison Oak, which grows in North America. It is sold by Che Homoeopathic Chemists. The ap- plication should be continued for a few weeks. Or touch them frequently with blue vitriol, or nitric acid, or chloride of zinc. — A bit of impure potass, moistened, should be applied to the warts, a few minutes, so a3 to leave a whitish paste upon them ; put over it a sticking plaster for a week. Repeat, if needed. WARTS. — Rub them daily with a radish. Or, with juice of marigold flowers : it will hardly fail Or, water in which sal-ammoniac is dissolved. Or, apply bruised purslain as a poultice, changing it twice a-day. It cures it in 7 or 8 days. Or, steep in vinegar and salt the rind of a iemon, and apply it to the wart, first the outer side, and then the inner ; keep on for 2 hours, and change. Or rub the wart now and then with elixir of vitriol ; apply with a bit of wood- WASH for Cleansing and Pre- venting the Hair from falling off. — Take 3 handfuls of rosemary leaves, a small lump of common soda, and 1% dr. of camphor. Put in a Jug, with a quart of boiling water, and cover closely, to keep the steam in. Let it stand for ra hours, then strain it, and add a wine- glassful of rum✪ Hair Cleansing Wash. This will keep good for 6 months in bottles well corked, and a piece of camphor in each. If the hair falls off much, the wash ought to be applied to the roots, with a piece of sponge, every other day. WASH for a Blotched Face. — Rose-water, 3 ozs. , sulphate of zinc, x dr. Mix. Wet the face with it, gently dry it, and then touch it over with cold cream, which also dry gently off. WASH, for the Arm-pits after Sweating. — One quart of spring water ; tincture of myrrh, z oz. ; sul- phate of zinc, % oz. Mix, and sponge. WASHING, made Easy. — One of the best bleaching and emolient agents in washing either the person or clothing, is common refined borax. Dissolve in hot water, % a lb. to 10 gallons ; a great saving in soap is effected by its use. The borax should be pulverized first. It may be procured in the form of cry- stals at any druggist's ; it will not in- jure the most delicate fabric ; and laces or other fine tissues may be washed in a solution of borax with advantage to colour, &c. See page 72. WASHING, Ready and Effec- tual Mode of. — Dissolve 1 lb. of soap in 3 quarts of boiling water, the night before washing. Beginning to wash, put the soap into the dolly tub, add 8 table-spoonfuls of spirits of turpentine, and 6 ditto of hartshorn. Pour upon the above 8 gallons of boiling water. Have the clothes ready assorted ; begin with the fine ones. Dolly each lot about 5 minutes, wasii them in hot water in another dolly-tub, if you have it, next in blue water. — When the water is getting cool, put it into the boiler to boil kitchen towels, or any greasy things. N.B. — The quicker the washing ti done the better. As *oon as one lot is taken out of the dolly tub, put another la whilst the others are being rinsed. A Uttle pipe-clay dissolved in the WAS 414 WAS water employed in washing linen cleans the dirtiest linen entirely, with about one half the labour, and saving full one half of soap.

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WARTS. — These may be cured by daily touching the top of the wart with the pure Tincture of the Rhus Toxicodendron , or Poison Oak, which grows in North America. It is sold by the Homoeopathic Chemists. The application should be continued for a few weeks. Or touch them frequently with blue vitriol, or nitric acid, or chloride of zinc. — A bit of impure potass, moistened, should be applied to the warts, a few minutes, so as to leave a whitish paste upon them ; put over it a sticking plaster for a week. Repeat, if needed. WARTS. — Rub them daily with a radish. Or, with juice of marigold flowers : it will hardly fail Or, water in which sal-ammoniac is dissolved. Or, apply bruised purslain as a poultice, changing it twice a-day. It cures it in 7 or 8 days. Or, steep in vinegar and salt the rind of a lemon, and apply it to the wart, first the outer side, and then the inner ; keep on for 2 hours, and change. Or rub the wart now and then with elixir of vitriol ; apply with a bit of wood- WASH for Cleansing and Preventing the Hair from falling off. — Take 3 handfuls of rosemary leaves, a small lump of common soda, and 1% dr. of camphor. Put in a jug, with a quart of boiling water, and cover closely, to keep the steam in. Let it stand for 12 hours, then strain it, and add a wineglassful of rum. This will keep good for 6 months in bottles well corked, and a piece of camphor in each. If the hair falls off much, the wash ought to be applied to the roots, with a piece of sponge, every other day. WASH for a Blotched Face. — Rose-water, 3 ozs. , sulphate of zinc, x dr. Mix. Wet the face with it, gently dry it, and then touch it over with cold cream, which also dry gently off. WASH, for the Arm-pits after Sweating. — One quart of spring water ; tincture of myrrh, z oz. ; sulphate of zinc, ½ oz. Mix, and sponge. WASHING, made Easy. — One of the best bleaching and emolient agents in washing either the person or clothing, is common refined borax. Dissolve in hot water, % a lb. to 10 gallons ; a great saving in soap is effected by its use. The borax should be pulverized first. It may be procured in the form of crystals at any druggist's ; it will not injure the most delicate fabric ; and laces or other fine tissues may be washed in a solution of borax with advantage to colour, &c. See page 72. WASHING, Ready and Effectual Mode of. — Dissolve 1 lb. of soap in 3 quarts of boiling water, the night before washing. Beginning to wash, put the soap into the dolly tub, add 8 table-spoonfuls of spirits of turpentine, and 6 ditto of hartshorn. Pour upon the above 8 gallons of boiling water. Have the clothes ready assorted ; begin with the fine ones. Dolly each lot about 5 minutes, wasii them in hot water in another dolly-tub, if you have it, next in blue water. — When the water is getting cool, put it into the boiler to boil kitchen towels, or any greasy things. N.B. — The quicker the washing is done the better. As soon as one lot is taken out of the dolly tub, put another la whilst the others are being rinsed. A Uttle pipe-clay dissolved in the WAS WAS water employed in washing linen cleans the dirtiest linen entirely, with about one half the labour, and saving full one half of soap.

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