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foot, put some kind of a disinfectant as quickly as possible into a basin of 

 water just as hot as the child can stand and have him keep it there fifteen 

 minutes anyway. If you don't have bichloride of mercury or carbolic acid 

 or some other good one, put one teaspoonful of copperas into the water; then 

 take out of the water and dry off and drop turpentine into the place as long 

 as it will absorb any and bind it up. It will never give you any trouble. 

 Have your bottle of iodine to paint behind the baby's ear when he takes ear- 

 ache. A few drops of warm water and glycerine in the ear is good. One-half 

 teaspoonful of borax to one glass of water used as a gargle in sore throat 

 always relieves. Add to a five-cent bottle of vaseline one teaspoonful of 

 powdered borax for a dressing for burns. One teaspoonful of boracic acid 

 (this is the refined borax) added to one-half pint of water and brought to a 

 boil (then cooled and bottled) is one of the best eye washes at all. It will re- 

 lieve any burning or soreness of the eyes. This should always be used in an 

 infant's eyes at birth and every morning until the child is a few weeks old. 

 Many make a weak solution of this and swab out the mouth every morning 

 to prevent thrush. 



Note by T. B. Parker.— Bichloride of mercury is a valuable family medi- 

 cine; it is also a deadly poison and should be treated as such by keeping it 

 and all other poisons under lock and key where children can not get to them. 



Every poison should be labeled as such and have its name in big letters so 

 you may know just what it is, and kept entirely away from the ordinary 

 household remedies, so as to prevent mistakes that may cause death. 



Within the last year we have heard of several instances of bichloride of 

 mercury being taken for headache tablets, through mistake, with fatal re- 

 sults. We can not be too careful about poisons. Great sorrow and affliction 

 have come to many families on account of carelessness in this respect. Either 

 lock them up or throw them away where they can do no harm. It will be 

 well to have posted in a conspicuous place where poisons are kept a notice 

 like this (written by Dr. Harvey W. Wiley) (which I have copied from the 

 December number of Good Housekeeping) : 



FIRST AID IN POISONING. 



Paste this in your medicine chest. Number your poison bottles to corre- 

 spond to the numbers given here; then you can tell at a glance what anti- 

 dote to give or take. 



1. Arsenic (Fowler's solution, Arse- 1. Give a tablespoonful of mustard 



nic Trioxid, Cuprous Arsenite). and salt in a glass of warm 



water, or thirty grains of zinc 

 sulphate, or evacuate the stom- 

 ach with a pump. Afterward 

 give one tablespoonful of ferric 

 hydrate every fifteen minutes, 

 or same quantity of dialyzed 

 iron. Apply external heat and 

 stimulants. 



2. AcETANiLiD and Phenacetin 2. Symptoms, cyanosis (blue lips), 



(nearly all headache remedies). weak pulse, sweating. Lower 



head; apply heat to body; if 

 stimulants are required, give 

 whiskey, strychnin, or bella- 

 donna, and oxygen inhalations. 



3. Ammonia or Caustic Potash or 3. Give dilute acid (lemon juice in 



Soda. water or vinegar) . Afterward 



plenty of milk and eggs or olive 

 oil. 



