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wi J) olive oii, or cold ley The stin^jj should be extracted, 

 if possible. Common salt, moistened, and applied to tlie 

 part, has been recommended from experience, and in 

 a case where a person had been stunii; on the inside of 

 the throat by a wasp, the alarming symptoms were in- 

 stantly relieved by swaliowins; repeated strong doses of 

 salt and water. In some cases of severe attack, a fever 

 was excited, attended with considerable swelling of the 

 part. In such the loss of a few ounces of blood vvili give 

 instant relief; then apply the oil. It has been recently said, 

 that chalk scraped on the part, \\ ill give immediate ease. 

 It is important to know that if a hive of bees should 

 settle on a person, there will be no danger of being 

 stung, if he can preserve so much presence of mind, as 

 to remain quiet for a short time, when the bees may be 

 gently brushed off, or taken off by one accustomed to 

 handle them, and put into a hive. 



The bites of spiders are often highly poisonous, and se- 

 veral cases have been mentioned of death being occasion- 

 ed by them. If the oil does not succeed, applv pounded 

 plantain leaf to the part, and take a few spoonsful of the 

 juice of the leaves. This remedy was announced a ^q\v 

 years since in a southern paper, as having succeeded in 

 a very serious case.*" 



JVoxious air of JVells, — The fatal effects of inspiring 

 the noxious air of wells, are so well known, that it would 

 seem almost unnecessary to notice them, but as a year 

 seldom passes without cases being in the nevvspapers of 

 deaths from this cause, it would be improper to omit a 

 caution on the subject. The deadly agent is carbonic 

 acid, formerly called fixed air. It is a constituent part 

 of the atmosphere, from which it separates and settles 



* See the Domestic Encyclopedia, article Plantain ; whether 

 the species used, was the one with broad leaves, or that with 

 narrow leaves, was not mentioned. Try the first species. 



