The Home Doctor

Two teaspoonfuls of iinely powderccl charcoal, drank in half a tumbler of water, will oftcn givo relief to the lieadache, when caused, as in most cases it is, by a superabundance of acid in the Rt.OTÏiaiill. BURNS AND HCALDS. For burns and scálds take the white of aii cgg and apply irnmediatcly as a piaster, and the pain will ceaso almost instantly. Tlüs receipt ia nearly always on hand in most families, and nothing can be found botter. TO BREAK UP HIIiLS. Takc gum camphor, ono ounce, fill a mail flannel sack, aud wear it on the brcast. It may be pinnod to the underclothing and worn uext to the skin. The camphor soon evaporates, when the sack should be rcfllled, if necessary. 1 have cured chills with this when all aguo remedies would have no effect. TO flUBE WHITE SWELIING OU SCBOPÜLA. Scrape common eider bark, bitter swcct, miüloin leaves- equal parts. Boil together iu a littlc water; then put in a little golden seal. Stew all in frcsh butter and mutton tallow, equal parts, uutil well done. Then strain and put back in pot, and put in bceswax and pine tar. Stow thcm all together. For use, spread on a cloth and apply as a poulticc. SWEET OJi I'OK POWON. A farmer writes to the College Cou rant t It is now over twenty ycars since I heard that ewect oil would eure the bito of a rattlesnake, not knowing that x would euro other kinds of poison. Prac tice and espcrieneo have taught me tlia it will cure poison of any kiud, both on man and beast. The patiënt must take a süoonful of it internally, and batlie tho wouud for a cure. To curo a horsc, it takts eight times as mucli as for a man. One of the most extreme cases of snake bite occurred eleven years ago. It had been of thirty days' standing, and the patiënt had been given up by his physicians. I gave hini a spoonful of the oil, which eilected a cure. It will cure bloat in cattle caused by fresh clover. It will cure the stings of bees, spi-ïërs, or other iusects, and persons who have been poisoned by a low running vine called ivy. BABIBS' BATHS. A physician says : "For the 'wind in the stomach' children are thought to havo, for their tiresome crying, and. for their restlessness and worrying at night with which they are afllicted, if the warm bath were resorted to aftener iñstead of using soothing Byrups and worse nostrums, it would be far botter for tho children." In preparing warm baths lor ïnnints, great. care snouiu uo taken not to have the water too hot. A lady romarbs on this subject: "When my child was sick oue night the doctor ordered the hot bath. The lady who was with me got the water ready, aud said it was all right. Jnst as she was going to put the child in I said, ' Put your clbow into the water first.' She did so and found it altogether too hot. In washiiig my babies I often find the water that is agreeable to my hands not so to my flesh that is kept covered with clothing, which loads me to think oftentimes babies are torturad, and oven injurcd, by giving them a bath in water that is too hot. " THE TREATMENT OF DIAKRHCEA. In a paper in Virchow's Archiv, Dr. Hartsen observes that diarrhoea of al] sorta goes along with an irritable state of the intestinal canal, and any increase of this irritability is to be carefully avoided. He considera that the more usual astringente are, in addition, irritants ; and he instaBces among them the salts of load, zinc, and bismuth. In al] cases soothiug meaus should first be adopted ; and of these, warm applications to the abdo?joen, in tho form of bread poultices, or fomentations, are perhaps the best. The chief medicine recommended is opium, which soothes, but, in largo doses, interferes with digestión. Il' the diarrheea be so violent as to hinder tho absorption of opium introduced iuto the stomach, then morphia should be injected subcutaneously. Of equal iniportance is the diet. If the person be strong, everything, boih solid and Huid, should bc withheld : but, %vhere this cauuot be done, the food should be of the lightest and simplest. Tho author espccially refers to rico aiul arrowroot as simple vegetable diets, whilo any auiinal food given shoukl be free from fat. Milk should not be too much uscd, and in auy case should be boilcd.