To Purify Rooms after Sickness. — Wash the furniture, wood-
work, floor, and walls (scraping off the paper) with the carbolic solu-
tion and soap. Then shut up tightly, and burn in it a pound of
sulphur for every hundred cubic feet of space✪ To Purify Rooms after Sickness it contains, and allow
the fumes to remain in the closed room for twenty-four hours.
Lastly, open the doors and windows so as to ventilate freely for a
week, at the end of which time disinfection may generally be con-
sidered complete.
To Make Pepsin. — Cut up v(try fine half a dozen pigs' stomachs
»3
194 THE hearthstone; or, life at home.
and macerate for ten or twelve hours in a menstruum composed of
one part of muriatic acid and thirty-two parts of water; decant and
macerate a second time; pour the two products together, and add
common salt until no further pepsin is formed✪ To Make Pepsin. The pepsin will
float on the top. Collect it on a muslin strainer and press out
the adhering moisture. This is the pepsin so much valued in cases
of great debility, and which costs so much at the druggist's. A test
of its strength can be made by mixing a small quantity with milk
and suiiar, and determining how much albumen it will dissolve.
A powerful antidote to strychnine poison is found in chloral hy-
drate, which is given in very large doses with gratifying success.
Strychnia itself is now considered, by a sort of medical consensus, to
be the most important remedy for diphtheria.
How TO Treat a Cold. — When you get chilly all over and away
into your bones, and begin to sniffle and almost struggle for your
breath, just begin in time and your tribulations need not last very
long. Get some powdered borax and snuff the dry powder up your
nostrils. Get your camphor-bottle and smell it frequently ; pour
some on your handkerchief, and wipe your nose with it whenever
needed. Your nose will not get sore, and you will soon wonder
what has become of your cold. Begin this treatment in the forenoon
and keep on at intervals until you go to bed, and you will sleep as
well as ever you did.
The free use of lemon-juice and sugar will always relieve a cough.
Sick Stomach. — A wine-glassful of water drank as hot as it can
be borne will frequently arrest a very distressing vomiting, but it
should be /to/, not warm. Good strong vinegar sipped at pleasure is
another prompt and safe remedy.
The TOMATO is a powerful aperient, and is a wonderfully effective
curative agent for liver and kidney affections. It is also a thorough
remedy for dyspepsia.
Soda for Burns. — All kinds of burns, including scalds and sun-
burns, are almost immediately relieved by the application of a solu-
tion of soda to the burnt surface. It must be remembered that dry
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To Purify Rooms after Sickness. — Wash the furniture, wood-
work, floor, and walls (scraping off the paper) with the carbolic solu-
tion and soap. Then shut up tightly, and burn in it a pound of
sulphur for every hundred cubic feet of space it contains, and allow
the fumes to remain in the closed room for twenty-four hours.
Lastly, open the doors and windows so as to ventilate freely for a
week, at the end of which time disinfection may generally be con-
sidered complete.
To Make Pepsin. — Cut up v(try fine half a dozen pigs' stomachs
»3
194 THE hearthstone; or, life at home.
and macerate for ten or twelve hours in a menstruum composed of
one part of muriatic acid and thirty-two parts of water; decant and
macerate a second time; pour the two products together, and add
common salt until no further pepsin is formed. The pepsin will
float on the top. Collect it on a muslin strainer and press out
the adhering moisture. This is the pepsin so much valued in cases
of great debility, and which costs so much at the druggist's. A test
of its strength can be made by mixing a small quantity with milk
and suiiar, and determining how much albumen it will dissolve.
A powerful antidote to strychnine poison is found in chloral hy-
drate, which is given in very large doses with gratifying success.
Strychnia itself is now considered, by a sort of medical consensus, to
be the most important remedy for diphtheria.
How TO Treat a Cold. — When you get chilly all over and away
into your bones, and begin to sniffle and almost struggle for your
breath, just begin in time and your tribulations need not last very
long. Get some powdered borax and snuff the dry powder up your
nostrils. Get your camphor-bottle and smell it frequently ; pour
some on your handkerchief, and wipe your nose with it whenever
needed. Your nose will not get sore, and you will soon wonder
what has become of your cold. Begin this treatment in the forenoon
and keep on at intervals until you go to bed, and you will sleep as
well as ever you did.
The free use of lemon-juice and sugar will always relieve a cough.
Sick Stomach. — A wine-glassful of water drank as hot as it can
be borne will frequently arrest a very distressing vomiting, but it
should be /to/, not warm. Good strong vinegar sipped at pleasure is
another prompt and safe remedy.
The TOMATO is a powerful aperient, and is a wonderfully effective
curative agent for liver and kidney affections. It is also a thorough
remedy for dyspepsia.
Soda for Burns. — All kinds of burns, including scalds and sun-
burns, are almost immediately relieved by the application of a solu-
tion of soda to the burnt surface. It must be remembered that dry
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