The Home Doctor

Foiï Boils. - Tlie skin of a boiled 1 egg is the most effieacioiis remedy tliat can be applied lo a boil. Pool it , fully, wet and apply it to the part affected. It will draw off the matter and relieve the soreness in a few hours. I Simple but efficacious. Onions. - An exchange says it is not ' generally known that raw onions sliced andset about in saucera or platesabsorb contagión in the air, and to out plentifnlly of them before breathing infected air is a safeguard against it. They are powerful but liarmless in their antiseptic jiroperties. So simple a remedy being within everybody's reach, it would be well if it could become generally known. Covering fob the Sick. - The Honsekeejier'ti Companion advises never to use anything but light blankets as bod-covering for the sick. The heavy-cotton impervious counterpane is bad, for the very reason that it keeps in the emanations from the sick person, while the blanket allows them to pass through. Weak patiënte are invariably distressed by a great weight of bedclothes, which often prnvents their getting any sound sleep whatever. A correspondent of the Chicago Journal says the following cure for a felón has been tested by wide experience among his friends, and is worthy of circulation : Roast or bake thoroughly a large onion ; mix the soft in nor pulp with two heaping table-spoonfuls of table salt, and apply the mixture to the affected part as a poultice, ing the parts well covered. Make fresh applications at least twice a day, morning and evening, and a cure will follow in at least a week. Sulphur foiï Diphtheria. - Mr. John I S. Wiles, a surgeon of Thorucombe, Dorset, writes to the London Timen that, after two cases of malignant diphtheria out of some nine or ten hé had been called to attend had proved fatal, the mother of a sick child showed him ! an extract from an American paper concerning a practitioner who use.d sulphur to cure the disease. Accordingly he used milk of sulphur for infants and flowers of sulphur for older children and adults, brought to a creamy consistence with glyceriue; dose, a teaspoonful or more, according to age, three or four times a day, swallowed slowly, and application of the same tothe nostrils with a sponge. Result, he (lid not lose a case there or elsewhere, and he succeeded in saving life when the affection had almost blocked the throat. Taking Cold. - When a person begins to shiver, the blood is receding 1 froni the surface; congestión, to a greater or less extent, has taken place, and the patiënt has already taken cold, to be followed by fever, inflammation of I the lungs, neuralgia, rheumatism, etc. ! All these evils eau be avoided and the ! cold expelled by walking, or in some : oxeroise that will produce a prompt and decided reaction in the system.' The exercise should be sufficient to produce perspiration. If you are so situated that yon can get a glass of hot water to drink, it will materially aid the perspiration and in every way assist nature in her efforts to remove the cold. This course followed your cold ds at an end, and whatever disease it would ultimate in is avoided ; your sufferings are prevented and your doctor's bilí saved.