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HOME DOCTOR. 



BLOOD, How to Stop.— Take the fine 

 ■dust of tea, or the scrapings of the inside 

 •of tanned leather. Bind it upon the 

 wound closely, and blood will soon cease 

 to flow. 



BOLLS. — Make a poultice of ginger and 

 flour, and lay it on the boil. This will 

 soon draw it to a head. 



BOWELS, Swelled, in Children.— Bathe 

 the stomach of the child with catnip 

 steeped, mixed with fresh butter and 

 sugar. 



CHILBLAINS. — Mr. Fergus recom- 

 mends sulphurous acid in this affection. 

 It should be applied with a camel's hair 

 brush, or by means of a spray producer. 

 One application of this usually effects a 

 «ure. The acid should be used pure. A 

 good wash for hands or feet affected with 

 chilblains is sulphurous acid, three parts ; 

 glycerine, one part ; and water, one part. 

 The acid will be found particularly useful 

 in the irritating, tormenting stage of chil- 

 blains. 



CHILBLAINS AND CHAFFED HANDS. 

 — When chilblains manifest themselves, 

 the best remedy not only for preventing 

 their ulcerating, but overcoming the ting- 

 ling, itching pain, and stimulating the cir- 

 culation of the part to healthy action, is 

 the liniment of belladonna, two drachms; 

 the liniment of aconite, one drachm ; car- 

 bolic acid, ten drops; collodion flexile, 

 one ounce; painted with a camel's hair 

 pencil over their surface. When the chil- 

 blains vesicate, ulcerate or slough, it is 

 better to omit the aconite and apply the 

 other components of the liniment without 

 it. The collodion flexile forms a coating 

 or protecting film, which excludes the air, 

 whilst the sedative liniments allay the 

 irritation, generally of no trivial nature. 

 For chapped hands we advise the free 

 use of glycerine and good olive oil, in the 

 proportion of two parts of the former to 

 four of the latter; after this has been well 

 rubbed into the hands and allowed to re- 

 main for a little time, and the hands sub- 

 sequently washed with Castile soap and 

 water, we recommend the belladonna and 

 collodion flexile to be painted on, and the 

 protective film allowed to remain perma- 

 nently. These complaints not unfre- 

 quently invade persons of languid circu- 

 lation and relaxed habit, who should be 

 put on a generous regimen, and treated 

 with ferruginous tonics. Obstinate cases 



are occasionally met with which no local 

 application will remedy, unless some dis- 

 ordered state of the system is removed, or 

 the general condition of the patient's 

 health improved. Chapped lips are also 

 benefited by the stimulating form of ap- 

 plication we advocate, but the aconite 

 must not be allowed to get on the lips, 

 or a disagreeable tingling results. 



CHILBLAIN BALM. — Boil together 

 ten fluid ounces olive oil, two fluid ounces 

 Venice turpentine, and one ounce yellow 

 wax; strain, and while still warm add, 

 constantly stirring, two and a half drachms 

 balsam of Peru, and ten grains camphor. 



CHILBLAIN, Cure for.— Make a strong 

 lye by boiling wood ashes in water. Put 

 your feet in a small tub and cover them 

 with the lye as hot as you can bear it. 

 Gradually add more lye hotter and hotter. 

 Keep them in half an hour, bathing and 

 rubbing them continually, and being very 

 careful to keep the lye hot. 



CHILBLAIN LOTION.— Dissolve one 

 ounce muriate of ammonia in one-half 

 pint cider vinegar, and apply frequently. 

 One-half pint alcohol may be added to 

 this lotion with good effects. 



CHILBLAIN OINTMENT.— Take mut- 

 ton tallow and lard, of each three-fourths of 

 a pound avoirdupois ; melt in an iron ves- 

 sel, and add hydrated oxide of iron, two 

 ounces, stirring continually with an iron 

 spoon until the mass is of a uniform black 

 color; when nearly cool add Venice tur- 

 pentine, two ounces ; Armenian bole, one 

 ounce; oil of bergamot, one drachm; 

 rub up the bole with a little olive oil be- 

 fore putting it in. Apply several times 

 daily by putting it upon lint or linen. It 

 heals the worst cases in a few days. 



CHILBLAINS, Russian Remedy for.— 

 Slices of the rind of fully ripe cucumbers, 

 dried with the soft parts attached. Pre- 

 vious to use they are softened by soaking 

 them in warm water, and are then bound 

 on the sore parts with the inner side next 

 them, and left on all night. This treat- 

 ment is said to be adopted for both 

 broken and unbroken chilblains. 



CHILBLAINS, Itching, Lotion for. — 

 Take hydrochloric acid, one part, and 

 water, eight parts ; mix. Apply on going 

 to bed. This must not be used if the 

 skin is broken. 



Sal ammoniac, two ounces ; rum, one 

 pint; camphor, two drachms. The af- 



