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ing and death. The time for sleep is also important, from nine to 

 live being, for adults m health, the most desirable. Whatever time 

 IS set for retiring, none but the most ur<rent considerations shouM 

 prevent your retiring when that time\arrives. Make it a rule 

 never to be up after ten o'clock, except upon most important busi- 

 ness. Never sleep on the first floor if you can conveniently arran^re 

 so as to sleep m the second story. During dry days, whether 

 cold or warm, allow your chamber to be open a good share of 

 the day, and the bed clothes to lie over a chair. Some housekeepers, 

 in their anxiety to have the work done up, make the beds early 

 in the morning, before they havv. time to air properly. Use 

 every means to keep the air of your room pure at all times, day 

 and night, if you would have sound, healthy, refreshing sleep. 



(Dr. King's) Prescriptions No. 1. Compound Syrlp of Rhu- 

 barb AND ToTASSA. Rhubarb two ounces. Bicarbonate of pot- 

 tassa, two ounces; cinnamon, one ounce ; golden seal, one ounce. 

 Best fourth proof brandy one quart. Let stand two days. Press 

 out the juice, and add to it one half drachm oil of peppermint dis- 

 solved in a little alchohol. fo the residue or cake from wliifli the 

 juice was pressed, add warm water until the strength is exhausted, 

 evaporate this to one quart, and while hot dissolve in it one and 

 a half pounds of refined sugar ; mix the tincture with it. This is 

 useful in all diarrahosa and bowel complaints. Dose — a table- 

 spoonful for an adult, a teaspoonful for a child, and half a tea- 

 spoonful for an infant. To be taken every half hour in severe 

 cases, every hour in ordinary cases, and once in two hours for the 

 first s^'inptoms. 



No. 2. (Dr. King's) Compound Tincture of Lobelia. Lobelia, 

 blood root, skunk cabbage, wild ginger, and pleuri-sy root, each 

 coarsely powdered, one ounce. Cover with one pint boiling water. 

 Cover tightly, and when cold add three pints of alcohol. Let stand 

 two weeks, press out the tincture and filter it. Tliis is an excellent 

 emetic in croup, whooping cough, scarlet fever, convulsions, and 

 wherever an emetic is required. Dose — half a teaspuonful lor infants, 

 teaspoonful from one to three years old, tablespoouful from three 

 to six years old. Mix in a little molasses and water and give a 

 dose every ten minutes until vomiting is produced. It is i)ficn 

 supposed that the emetic is only to throw off the contents of the 

 stomach, but this is not its main purpose. It rouses the system to 

 action in throwing oflf disease. The above tincture, in small (io.->.'s. 

 taken in an infusion of slippery elm, will serve as an ex])ectoraiit 

 in Asthma, Pleurisy, etc. We advise every family to keep a bottle 

 of it on hand tightly corked or sealed. 



No. 3. Compound Poivder of Jalap. Senna half an ounce. 

 Jalap two drachms. Ginger half a drachm. A valuable purgative. 



No. 4. Sulphate of quinia and Prussiate of iron each three 

 grains, mix for a dose. Fever and ague remedy to be taken be- 

 tween the sweat and chill. 



