The household (of the Detroit free press)

fresh cut or bruise will save much pain and soreness. The tobacco should be kept moist by occasionally wetting the bandage with warm water. Fresh tobacco should be applied every day till the soreness is gone ; then remove it and put a piece of court plaster over the wound, so as to exclude the air, and it will soon heal without further trouble. Colds — Take two teaspoonfuls of water, one of molasses and one of pain killer ; sip down and cover warmly. It is well to bathe the chest also with the pain killer. A very bad cold may be broken up directly with this careful treatment. Gargle for Sore Throat. — Take one teaspoonful of cayenne pepper, one teaspoonful of salt, one pint of water, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar ; sweeten to taste with honey or loaf sugar. Mix together and bottle. Cure for Hoarseness — Take the whites of two eggs and beat them with two teaspoonfuls of white sugar, grate in a little nutmeg, then add a pint of lukewarm water ; stir well, drink often and it will cure the most obstinate case of hoarseness in a short time. Or, at night, before going to bed, have ready a pint bowl into which you have squeezed the juice of half a lemon, add to this one teaspoonful of glycerine and one or two tablespoonfuls of good whisky or best brandy, pour over boiling water, sweeten well with loaf sugar, and drink very hot. Diphtheria — Dissolve one tablespoonful of sulphur in a glass of cold water ; gargle the throat six or eight times a day. Cook salt pork in vinegar and bind on the throat ; when the paroxysms come on soak the hands and feet in just as hot water as the patient will bear, with a tablespoonful of baking soda thrown in. Rubbing the limbs and body will assist greatly in throwing off the disease. The simple sulphur remedy is very effectual in common sore throat. Asthma — Take pulverized stramonium leaves one ounce, add one drachm pulverized nitre ; divide this mass into eight parts, to be used as follows, only when symptoms of asthma appear, viz : Heat a shovel, or any flat piece of iron that will hold heat, for ten minutes ; sprinkle one of the eight parts on the hot iron and inhale as much of the smoke as possible. Then bathe the chest thoroughly, with the flat of the hand, with one part each of best olive oil and Jamaica rum (which is a black rum) ; none other is good for an embrocation. Lockjaw — If any person is threatened or taken with lockjaw from injuries of the arm, hands, legs or feet, do not wait for a doctor, but put the part injured in the following preparation : Put hot wood ashes into water as warm as can be borne ; if the injured part cannot be put into water, then wet thick folded cloths in the water, and apply them to the part as soon as possible, and at the same time bathe the backbone from the neck down with some laxative stimulant — say cayenne pepper and water, or mustard and water (good vinegar is better than water) ; it should be as hot as the patient can bear it. Don't hesitate; go at work and do it, and don't stop until the jaws will come open. No person need die of lockjaw if these directions are followed.