The household (of the Detroit free press)

In the second class of cases, mustard, salt and warm water are the best emetics. Mix a tablespoonful of mustard with a tumbler of water and give half of it ; follow it immediately with a cup of warm water. Repeat every two minutes until vomiting occurs. If mustard is not at hand use common salt, as much as will dissolve in a cup of water. To be given in the same way. After vomiting has occurred, instead of white of eggs, give strong coffee. If there is a tendency to sleep pour a stream of cold water on the head and shoulders from a height of five or six feet. In all cases send for your physician the first thing, but continue active treatment until he arrives. Persons are sometimes poisoned from inhaling noxious gases, which escape from stoves into sleeping rooms. When such an accident occurs, open all the windows, pour cold water on the head from a height and apply hartshorn to the nose. If able to swallow give a stimulant — a few spoonfuls of whisky or brandy and water. The sting of a wasp or a bee is an irritant poison applied to the skin, and serious results may come from it. A prompt application of a little hartshorn to the wound and three drops diluted with half a tumbler of water and swallowed will afford speedy relief. If that is not at hand, a little wood ashes stirred in a cup of water will make a good substitute for the hartshorn. A disease in which emetics are often used is croup. This disease is alarming in its symptoms, and is dreaded more perhaps than any other. It is the result of cold, especially if connected with damp clothing and wet stockings. A child becomes overheated and stands in a draft or sits on a cold stone, the perspiration becomes suddenly checked and croup is apt to follow. It generally comes on at night after going to bed. The child will seem restless and feverish with a quickened respiration, and then suddenly comes the cough that is the direful forerunner of croup. Put the child's feet into a bath of hot water with red pepper in it, grease it on the abdomen, chest and throat and wrap up carefully in blankets. In severe cases goose grease and molasses a little warmed is given, a spoonful at a time, but not oftener than once an hour. BURNS, BRUISES AND SPRAINS. Among the more common accidents which are liable to occur in the household, and which often prove serious, are burns and scalds. Their severity and danger depend upon the extent of surface and depth of tissues involved. An unfailing remedy is, in most households, always on hand — common baking soda or bi-carbonate of soda. Make a thick paste with soda and a little water and apply to the injured spot; then BURNS, BRUISES AND SPRAINS. 261 dust the whole with the dry soda and cover v/ith a light bandage. It will act like magic, relieving the pain at once. Allow it to remain until it is ready to drop off — a few hours or days, as the case may be. When it is removed, dress the wound with cosmoline. Never put on to a burn or scald any molasses, starch, soap, flour, charcoal or glue. They have the inconvenience of being uncleanly, and some of them form crusts which it is difficult to remove.