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stirring the mixture until it is cold, and then retire to a warmed bed. In 

 obstinate cases the treatment should be repeated for three evenings. 



Honey Croup Remedy — This is the best known to the medical profes- 

 sion, and is an infallible remedy in all cases of mucus and spasmodic 

 croup: Raw linseed oil, 2 oz. ; tincture of blood root, 2 drs. ; tincture of 

 lobelia, 2 drs. ; tincture of aconite, 1,4 dr. ; honey, 4 oz. Mix. Dose, yi to 

 1 teaspoonful every 15 to 20 minutes, according to the urgency of the 

 case. It is also excellent in all throat and lung troubles originating from 

 a cold. This is an excellent remedy in lung trouble: Make a strong de- 

 coction of hoarhound herb and sweeten with honey. Take a tablespoonful 

 4 or 5 times a day. 



Honey on Frost-Bites — If your ears, fingers, or toes become frozen 

 nothing will take the frost out of them sooner than if wrapped up in 

 honey. The swelling is rapidly reduced, and no danger occurs. 



Honey and Cream for Freckles — Have you tried a mixture of honey 

 and cream — half and half — for freckles? Well, it's a good thing. If on 

 the hands, wear gloves on going to bed. 



Dr. Kneipp's HoNEY-SALVE-^This is recommended as an excellent 

 dressing for sores and boils. Take equal parts honey and flour, add a little 

 water, and stir thoroughly. Don't make too thin. Then apply as usual. 



Summer Honey-Drink — 1 spoonful of fruit-juice and 1 spoonful 

 honey in J^ glass water; stir in as much soda as will lie on a silver dime, 

 and then stir in half as much tartaric acid, and drink at once. 



Dr. Peiro's Honey-Salve — for boils and other diseases of a similar 

 character — is made by thoroughly incorporating flour with honey until a 

 proper consistency to spread on cloth. Applied over the boil it hastens 

 suppuration, and the early termination of the painful lesion. 



Honey as a Laxative — In olden time the good effects of honey as a 

 remedial agent were well known, but of late little use is made thereof. A 

 great mistake, surely. Notably is honey valuable in constipation. Not as 

 an immediate cure, like some medicines which momentarily give relief only 

 to leave the case worse than ever afterward, but by its persistent use 

 daily, bringing about a healthy condition of the bowels, enabling them 

 properly to perform their functions. Many suffer daily irom an irritable 

 condition, calling themselves nervous, and all that sort of thing, not 

 realizing that constipation is at the root of the matter, and that a faithful 

 daily use of honey fairly persisted in would restore cheerfulness of mind 

 and a healthy body. — Le Progres Apicole. 



Coughs, Colds,, Whooping Cough, Etc. — Fill a bell-metal kettle with 

 hoarhound leaves and soft water, letting it boil until the liquor becomes 

 strong — then strain through a muslin cloth, adding as much honey as de- 

 sired — then cook it in the same kettle until the water evaporates, when the 

 candj' may be pourcl into shallow vessels and remain until needed, or 

 pulled like molasses candy until white. 



