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tralize the acidity ot the stomach often arising after meals, water-brashp etc. 

 But if it should irritate, weaken one-half or more. 



3. Sore Tliroat— Heat Strong Tea as a Gargle for Speedy 

 Belief in. — It is well to know that sore throat can be speedily relieved by 

 using strong, hot tea as a gargle. It is a convenient remedy and rather a 

 pleasant one. 



Remarks. — Hot water has proved valuable in many diseases of late, as dys- 

 pepsia, consumption, etc., taken internally before meals, which see, for these 



4. Sore Throat and Catarrh— Gargle for.— Comp, spirits of 

 lavender. % o^., into a 4 oz. vial; put in also the carbonate of ammonia, 20 

 grs. ; fill with distilled, or rain water. 



Directions. — P*ut 1 teaspoonful of this to % cup of warm, soft water and 

 gargle with it two or three times daily ; and if any catarrh, or nasal inflamma- 

 tion, put into the hand, what it will hold, and snuff into the nostrils at each 

 time. After the gargling and snuffing, a little vaseline, or cosmoline, mutton 

 tallow, or some sweet oil, or sweet almond oil, should be introduced into each 

 nostril with the finger. 



Remarks. — Follow this course faithfully, and for a considerable time, in 

 catarrh, if any good is expected to result; also use occasionally some good 

 cathartic to act freely, together with an alterative and tonic course of medicine. 



5. Sore Throat, Common Gargle for.— For common case of sora 

 throat, a valuable gargle can generally be made at almost any dinner table. 



Directions. — Take % pt. tumbler, or common goblet, and put into it » 

 small salt cellar of salt (about 2 tea-spoonfuls), i^' tea-spoonful of black pepper, 

 and a little cayenne (3 or 4 little taps on the bottom of the cruet, or pepper-box 

 containing it, will be sufficient; a tea-spoonful or two of pepper-sauce, if on the 

 table, is better than the cayenne powder), then fill the tumbler with cider vine- 

 gar and water, equal parts, stir well, a few times, and gargle with it often. 



Remarks. — If you have alum and borax in the house, about J^ tea-spoon- 

 ful of each, pulverized, may be put in, or if only one of them, i^ tea-spoonful 

 will improve the gargle. (Other gargles will be found in connection with the 

 subject of diphtheria.) 



6. Sore Throat, Several Simple Remedies for. — The follow- 

 ing are some of the most common, or simple, remedies for sore throat, easily 

 obtained and often effectual: 



I Salt and water is used by many as a gargle; but a little alum and honey 

 dissolved in sage tea is better. 



II. Others, a few drops of camphor on loaf sugar, which very often 

 affords immediate relief. 



III. An application of cloths wrung out of hot water and applied to the 

 neck, changed as often as it begins to cool, has great potency In removing in- 

 flammation in recent cases. 



IV. Borax the size of a pea in the mouth relieves hoarseness quickly 

 (See also hoarseness, bronchitis, etc., for other remedies.) 



