170 RECIPES. 
FOR INABILITY TO SLEEP. 
Apply a cloth of four or five thicknesses to the forehead 
wet in cold water. This is good in cases when a woman is 
lying-in. Or use the cold bath—it cures in desperate cases. 
Or apply to the head the leaves of water lillies ; or a poul- 
tice of henbane and poppy seed beaten together ; or use small 
_ doses of camphor gum in warm water. Put together equal 
parts of Health Bitters and port wine, and take a ee tea- 
spoonful as you retire. 
s WHITE SWELLING ON THE JOINT. 
Hold the part half an hour every morning under cold, fall- 
ing water; or pour on it daily a stream of warm water two 
hours; or put on a poultice of roasted onions—renew it as 
often as it begins to get hot and dry ; or hold it when it first 
starts one-half hour in hot, weak lye; or apply a poultice of © 
‘southern wood. and’ mae peat fried in hog’s lard or n frees 
- baste or mution tallow. 
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TO PREV. ENT THE TOOTH-ACHE, 
Wash the mouth every morning with cold water; or rub 
the teeth often with tobacco ashes, 
ene 3 FOR A SWELLED THROAT, 
- Gargle with the decoction of mcg or of prim-rose. 
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TO CLEAN TEETH. 
Rub the teeth with ashes of burnt bread. 
RICKETS—TO CURE OR PREVENT. 
Wash the child every morning in cold water. 
