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for cuts and burns is glue or mucilage. This closes up a cut nicely, and one 

 will experience no inconvenience thereafter. Cuts and burns are shorn of their 

 terrors when the glue or mucilage is handy and ready for use. Let our lady 

 readers bear this in mind. The good right-hand which penned these lines was 

 caught under a stick while replenishing the fire in the kitchen stove, and pressed 

 closely against the hot iron plate so that one finger was quite roasted. We 

 released it and almost fainted before we could reach the cool, thick mucilage on 

 our writing-desk, when, lo! all pain, and smart, and annoyance were gone, and 

 the hand was ready for duty just as soon as the transparent covering could dry. 

 How many useful things there are, the value of which we know almost nothing 

 of." 



Remarks.. — I was aware that carriage varnish was good for slight cuts, 

 bums and bruises, when the skin is more or less abraded, or scraped (from 

 the Latin abro/dere, to scrape off), anfl I have no doubt a good liquid glue or the 

 common mucilage, made with giim arabic, 5 ozs., to water, 3^ pt., will do just 

 as well. I should prefer the mucilage in place of the glue. 



2. Cute, An Excellent Remedy for. — " It is not generally known," 

 says a writer, " that the leaves of the common geranium are an excellent remedy 

 for cut«, or where the skia is rubbed off, and other wounds of that kind. One 

 or 2 leaves, bruised and applied to the parts, and the wounds will be cicatrized 

 (healed) in a short time." (See Burns, Scalds, etc., for the use of the new 

 remedy — bi-carbonate of soda.) 



3. Cute, "Wounde, Felons and Other Inflammations, Hot 

 Water Poultice for.— A paper called the Rome Health says that a hot water 

 poultice is the most healing application for cuts, bruises, wounds, sores, felons 

 and other inflammations, that can be used. The poultice is made by dipping 

 cotton in hot water and applying, changing often. A convenient way is, in 

 case of felons or other painful abscess, to hold the hand for hours in water as 

 hot as can be comfortably borne. 



Remarks. — This is undoubtedly valuable. I have for some time past used 

 hot applications to an inflamed eye, while most physicians apply cold. It is 

 good for internal use, as seen by the use of the hot water cures for dyspepsia, 

 consumption, etc., in this book, which see; why not good for external applica- 

 lions? I believe it will be found so, if a wound or other sore manifests the least 

 tendency to inflame and become tedious in healing. 



1. CATARRH, NASAL — Common-Sense Treatment for.— 

 Notwithstanding Dr. Dio Lewis has sometimes appeared, at least, to run the 

 "diet " question into the ground, as we often hear said, yet his remarks upon it 

 in connection with nasal catarrh are perfectly sound. He says: 



"For nasal catarrh, eat only a piece of beefsteak (broiled is best) half as 

 large as your hand, one baked potato and one slice of bread for your breakfast; 

 a piece of roast beef as large as your hand, with one boiled potato and one 

 slice of bread, for dinner; take nothing for supper, and go to bed at 8:30 

 o'clock. Sleep, if possible, half an hour before dinner. Drink nothing with 

 your meals, nor within two hours after. Drink as much cold water on rising 



