Whenever I felt them getting down the bronchial tube, I drew breath gently when the sulphur was being blown into my throat. It almost choked me to death, but I persevered. For my nose I snuffed up sulphur, just as old ladies take snuff, until satisfied that every part was reached. When the spores came off I watched for new ones, and did not relax my attention for one moment for five days. When better, I made a gargle of honey, sage and water, to heal and remove the swelling in the throat. I afterward treated my husband successfully for the same disease, in the same way.” Diphtheria is a disease which springs from the growth of a real fungus on } some of the mucous surfaces of the system, more generally of the throat. It may spread by contact of the mucous surfaces of a diseased with those of a healthy person, as in kissing, and is, to a limited degree, epidemic. Ara From the local parts affected it spreads to the whole body, affecting the af muscular and nervous systems, vitiating the lymph and nutrient fluids, and pracucing paralysis. ~ As soon as the bacterium or fungus appears on the white patches on the throat, it should no more be neglected than a bleeding gash or a broken ar and there is almost as little need of a fatal termination of one incident as 0 the other. MorHer Kron’s Feton Satve.—Take two pounds of fat from the outside of ham or smoked meat, six onions✪ MorHer Kron’s Feton Satve, resin and beeswax, each the size of an egg (use the common dark resin and wax, and for summer use increase the a proportion of both). Fry ham fat until partly done, add onions sliced, fry 4 to a light brown, skim out onions, press through a colander, and add this to i lard in skillet; add resin and wax, heat and stir until thoroughly dissolved, and pour into a pan to cool. Like all salves, it must be kept closely covered or it will lose its strength, but if well covered will keep a year. A mother writes, “I never feel safe without a supply of it in the house, and haye found that my children seldom need any other medicine. I use it in croup, whooping cough, diphtheria, colds, scarlet fever, lung fever, asthma, felons, boils, bealings-of all kinds, burns, and sore and inflamed breasts. For the first seven, it is spread on a fine piece of Canton flannel and placed over the entire chest, and in severe cases over the back also, joining them on the shoulders and under the arms. It should be put on thick and covered with _ flannel or cotton batting. Keep on until it gives relief, or if it becomes uncomfortable or rough, remove, and apply a fresh poultice if necessary. It is cooling in its nature and very quieting. For burns and bealings it should be used in the form of a poultice, also for sore throat. My physicians have always encouraged its use for the above complaints. For breasts, cut a pice of cloth round with a hole in the center for the infant, then cover the reast entirely over with the cloth on which the salve has been spread. % fay coe FLORAL. as » To Kirti Eartu-worms.—Ten drops of carbolic acid in a pint of water, poured over earth in flower-pots will kill all earth-worms. SurE SHor For Rosg Stues.—Make a tea of tobacco-stems and a soap-suds of whale-oil or carbolic soap, mix, and apply. to the bush with a sprinkler, turning the bush so as. to wet the under as well as the upper part of the leaves; apply before the sun is up three or four times. Ivies.—A successful cultivator of ivies feeds them with iron and cod-liver oil; the iron in form of rusty nails, mixed into the earth. Another pro- duced a luxurious growth by watering once a week with tobacco-water ; making a tea of refuse tobacco-leaves and stems, or of coarse tobacco. The water from the washing of fresh beef is also of great benefit to ivies. Moisten the leaves with a sponge wet in tea, or put tea-leaves around the plant. .

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Whenever I felt them getting down the bronchial tube, I drew breath gently when the sulphur was being blown into my throat. It almost choked me to death, but I persevered. For my nose I snuffed up sulphur, just as old ladies take snuff, until satisfied that every part was reached. When the spores came off I watched for new ones, and did not relax my attention for one moment for five days. When better, I made a gargle of honey, sage and water, to heal and remove the swelling in the throat. I afterward treated my husband successfully for the same disease, in the same way.” Diphtheria is a disease which springs from the growth of a real fungus on } some of the mucous surfaces of the system, more generally of the throat. It may spread by contact of the mucous surfaces of a diseased with those of a healthy person, as in kissing, and is, to a limited degree, epidemic. From the local parts affected it spreads to the whole body, affecting the the muscularm, and nervous systems, vitiating the lymph and nutrient fluids, and producing paralysis. ~ As soon as the bacterium or fungus appears on the white patches on the throat, it should no more be neglected than a bleeding gash or a broken ar and there is almost as little need of a fatal termination of one incident as of the other. Mother Kron's Fetid Salve.—Take two pounds of fat from the outside of ham or smoked meat, six onions, resin and beeswax, each the size of an egg (use the common dark resin and wax, and for summer use increase the a proportion of both). Fry ham fat until partly done, add onions sliced, fry 4 to a light brown, skim out onions, press through a colander, and add this to i lard in skillet; add resin and wax, heat and stir until thoroughly dissolved, and pour into a pan to cool. Like all salves, it must be kept closely covered or it will lose its strength, but if well covered will keep a year. A mother writes, “I never feel safe without a supply of it in the house, and have found that my children seldom need any other medicine. I use it in croup, whooping cough, diphtheria, colds, scarlet fever, lung fever, asthma, felons, boils, healings of all kinds, burns, and sore and inflamed breasts. For the first seven, it is spread on a fine piece of Canton flannel and placed over the entire chest, and in severe cases over the back also, joining them on the shoulders and under the arms. It should be put on thick and covered with _ flannel or cotton batting. Keep on until it gives relief, or if it becomes uncomfortable or rough, remove, and apply a fresh poultice if necessary. It is cooling in its nature and very quieting. For burns and healings it should be used in the form of a poultice, also for sore throat. My physicians have always encouraged its use for the above complaints. For breasts, cut a piece of cloth round with a hole in the center for the infant, then cover the breast entirely over with the cloth on which the salve has been spread. % FLORAL. as » To Kill Earth-worms.—Ten drops of carbolic acid in a pint of water, poured over earth in flower-pots will kill all earth-worms. Sure Shot For Rose Slugs.—Make a tea of tobacco-stems and a soap-suds of whale-oil or carbolic soap, mix, and apply. to the bush with a sprinkler, turning the bush so as. to wet the under as well as the upper part of the leaves; apply before the sun is up three or four times. Ivies.—A successful cultivator of ivies feeds them with iron and cod-liver oil; the iron in form of rusty nails, mixed into the earth. Another produced a luxurious growth by watering once a week with tobacco-water ; making a tea of refuse tobacco-leaves and stems, or of coarse tobacco. The water from the washing of fresh beef is also of great benefit to ivies. Moisten the leaves with a sponge wet in tea, or put tea-leaves around the plant. .

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