Roast or bake thoroughly a large onion; mix the soft inner pulp with twa MEDICAL. é 505 heaping table-spoons of table salt, and apply the mixture to the affected part as a poultice, keeping the parts well covered. Make fresh applications at sia twice a day, morning and evening, and a cure will follow in at least a week. ' Or, one tea-spoon of scorched salt, one tea-spoon of corn meal, one tea- spoon of scraped hard soap, one tea-spoon of beet leaves pounded up, twelve drops of turpentine, and the yolk of one egg. Mix all ingredients together in the form of a poultice, in which bind closely the swollen finger. Or, procure five or six lemons, cut off the end of one, thrust the sore finger into the lemon, and let it stay till the lemon is warm; proceed in the same way till all the six are used. Or, puta piece of Spanish-fly plaster over the spot affected, and that will draw the trouble to the surface; or, on the first appearance, apply a poultice of the common Fleur de Lis root well mashed. It will cure in a short time. For ConsTipation.—The same remedies will not affect all persons. One or two figs eaten fasting is sufficient for some, and they are especially good in the case of children, as there is no trouble in getting them to take them. A spoon of wheaten bran in a glass of water is a simple remedy and quite effective. One or two tumblers of hot water will move almost every one, but is difficult to take. In chronic cases a faithful manipulation and moy- ing of bowels and limbs with gentle rotary movement with the open palm, and giving all natural motions to the parts, with proper diet, will almost invariably secure the desired result. It has been known to cure a case of life-long habit, where inherited, too, and although it involves patience and perseverance, it is certainly better than to suffer the ills that result from so many patent medicines and quack nostrums. ‘‘ An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” and regularity of habit in this matter is the great thing to be impressed on people generally. Or, three tea-cups each of coarse, clean wheat-bran and sifted flour, one heaping measure each of Horsford’s bread preparation (soda and acid), seven teaspoons good butter and one of salt. Mix with cold sweet milk✪ Wheat-Bran and Flour Biscuits; roll | third of an inch thick, cut with a biscuit cutter and bake thoroughly in a moderate oven ; or, pour hot water on one table-spoon flax seed, pour off and at once add three or four table-spoons of cold water, and drink. This is per- fectly harmless and may be taken once, twice, or thrice a day if necessary; or, a teaspoon blaclkx mustard-seed taken every morning; or a glass of cold water taken at night and first thing in the morning. ScARLET FEveER, oR SCARLATINA.—When to the feeling of general illness which accompanies all fevers is added a very rapid pulse, 120-130, and a tem- perature of 100°-104°-105°, and there is a dry, hot feeling in the throat, with ‘ tonsils red and swollen, and distress on trying to swallow, it is safe to suspect an infectious disease, and probably scarlet fever. The sick person should be isolated at once in a room as much apart from the other members as possible, the higher up in the house the better, and a good physician sent for. The rash generally appears about the second day, beginning on the neck and chest, and extending over the whole body, the deepest color being on the neck, the outer side of the limbs, the joints, hands and feet. The cheeks are a bright, deep red. The case having been declared to be scarlet fever, all pre- cautions given for infections diseases, as regards isolation and disinfection, must be observed.

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Roast or bake thoroughly a large onion; mix the soft inner pulp with two MEDICAL. é 505 heaping table-spoons of table salt, and apply the mixture to the affected part as a poultice, keeping the parts well covered. Make fresh applications at six twice a day, morning and evening, and a cure will follow in at least a week. ' Or, one tea-spoon of scorched salt, one tea-spoon of corn meal, one teaspoon of scraped hard soap, one tea-spoon of beet leaves pounded up, twelve drops of turpentine, and the yolk of one egg. Mix all ingredients together in the form of a poultice, in which bind closely the swollen finger. Or, procure five or six lemons, cut off the end of one, thrust the sore finger into the lemon, and let it stay till the lemon is warm; proceed in the same way till all the six are used. Or, puta piece of Spanish-fly plaster over the spot affected, and that will draw the trouble to the surface; or, on the first appearance, apply a poultice of the common Fleur de Lis root well mashed. It will cure in a short time. For Constipation.—The same remedies will not affect all persons. One or two figs eaten fasting is sufficient for some, and they are especially good in the case of children, as there is no trouble in getting them to take them. A spoon of wheaten bran in a glass of water is a simple remedy and quite effective. One or two tumblers of hot water will move almost every one, but is difficult to take. In chronic cases a faithful manipulation and moying of bowels and limbs with gentle rotary movement with the open palm, and giving all natural motions to the parts, with proper diet, will almost invariably secure the desired result. It has been known to cure a case of life-long habit, where inherited, too, and although it involves patience and perseverance, it is certainly better than to suffer the ills that result from so many patent medicines and quack nostrums. ‘‘ An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” and regularity of habit in this matter is the great thing to be impressed on people generally. Or, three tea-cups each of coarse, clean wheat-bran and sifted flour, one heaping measure each of Horsford’s bread preparation (soda and acid), seven teaspoons good butter and one of salt. Mix with cold sweet milk; roll | third of an inch thick, cut with a biscuit cutter and bake thoroughly in a moderate oven ; or, pour hot water on one table-spoon flax seed, pour off and at once add three or four table-spoons of cold water, and drink. This is perfectly harmless and may be taken once, twice, or thrice a day if necessary; or, a teaspoon black mustard-seed taken every morning; or a glass of cold water taken at night and first thing in the morning. Scarlet Fever, or Scarlatina.—When to the feeling of general illness which accompanies all fevers is added a very rapid pulse, 120-130, and a temperature of 100°-104°-105°, and there is a dry, hot feeling in the throat, with ‘ tonsils red and swollen, and distress on trying to swallow, it is safe to suspect an infectious disease, and probably scarlet fever. The sick person should be isolated at once in a room as much apart from the other members as possible, the higher up in the house the better, and a good physician sent for. The rash generally appears about the second day, beginning on the neck and chest, and extending over the whole body, the deepest color being on the neck, the outer side of the limbs, the joints, hands and feet. The cheeks are a bright, deep red. The case having been declared to be scarlet fever, all precautions given for infections diseases, as regards isolation and disinfection, must be observed.

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