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BREATH, Bad.— Bad or foul breath 

 will be removed by taking a teaspoonful 

 of the following mixture after each meal: 

 One ounce liquor of potassa, one ounce 

 chloride of soda, one and one-half 

 ounces phosphate of soda, and three 

 ounces of water. 



2. Chlorate of potash, three drachms; 

 rose-water, four ounces. Dose, a table- 

 spoonful four or five times daily. 



BUNION, Cure for.— A bunion is a 

 swelling on the ball of the great toe, and 

 is the result of pressure and irritation by 

 friction. The treatment for corns ap- 

 plies also to bunions ; but in consequence 

 of the greater extension of the disease, 

 the cure is more tedious. When a bun- 

 ion is forming it may be stopped by poul- 

 ticing and carefully opening it with a 

 lancet. 



BURNS, and Scalds, Cure for.— Take 

 half a pound of powdered alum, dissolve 

 it in a quart of water; bathe the burn or 

 scald with a linen rag, wetted with this 

 mixture, then bind the wet rag on it with 

 a strip of linen, and moisten the bandage 

 with the alum water frequently, without 

 removing it, during two or three days. 



BURNS, Tea Leaves for.— Dr. Searles, 

 of Warsaw, Wis., reports the immediate 

 relief from pain in severe burns and scalds 

 by the application of a poultice of tea 

 leaves. 



CANCER.— Boil down the inner bark 

 of red and white oak to the consistency 

 of molasses ; apply as a plaster, shifting 

 it once a week; or, burn red-oak bark to 

 ashes; sprinkle it on the sore till it is 

 eaten out; then apply a plaster of tar; 

 or, take garget berries and leaves of stra- 

 monium ; simmer them together in equal 

 parts of neatsfoot oil and the tops of 

 hemlock; mix well together, and apply it 

 to the parts affected ; at the same time 

 make a tea of winter-green (root and 

 branch); put a handful into two quarts 

 of water; add two ounces of sulphur and 

 drink of this tea freely during the day. 



CASTOR Oil Mixture.— Castor oil, one 

 dessert spoonful; magnesia, one dessert 

 spoonful. Rub together into a paste. 

 By this combination, the taste of the oil 

 is almost entirely concealed, and children 

 take it without opposition. 



CASTOR OH, to Disguise.— Rub up 

 two drops oil of cinnamon with an ounce 

 of glycerine and add an ounce of castor 

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oil. Children will take it as a luxury and 

 ask for more. 



CASTOR OIL Emulsions.— Take castor 

 oil and syrup, each one ounce ; the yolk 

 of an egg, and orange flower water, one- 

 half ounce. Mix. This makes a very 

 pleasant emulsion, which is readily taken 

 by adults as well as children. 



CATARRH.— Take the bark of sassa- 

 fras root, dry and pound it, use it as a 

 snuff, taking two or three pinches a day. 



CHILBLAINS.— Wash the parts in 

 strong alum water, apply as hot as can be 

 borne. 



COLD. — Take three cents' worth of 

 liquorice, three of rock candy, three of 

 gum arabic, and put them into a quart of 

 water; simmer them till thoroughly dis- 

 solved, then add three cents' worth pare- 

 goric, and a like quantity of antimonial 

 wine. 



CORNS. — Boil tobacco down to an ex- 

 tract, then mix with it a quantity of 

 white pine pitch, and apply it to the corn; 

 renew it once a week until the corn dis- 

 appears. 



COUGH Mixture. — Two ounces am- 

 monia mixture; five ounces camphor 

 mixture; one drachm tincture of digitalis 

 (foxglove) ; one-half ounce each of sweet 

 spirits of nitre and syrup of poppies; two- 

 drachms solution of sulphate of morphia. 

 A tablespoonful of this mixture is to be: 

 taken four times a day. 



2. Tincture of blood-root, one ounce ; 

 sulphate of morphia, one and a half 

 grains; tinctureof digitalis, one-half ounce; 

 wine of antimony, one-half ounce; oil of 

 winter-green, ten drops. Mix. Dose 

 from twenty to forty drops twice or three 

 times a day. Excellent for a hard, dry 

 cough. 



3. Common sweet cider, boiled down* 

 to one-half, makes a most excellent syrup 

 for colds or coughs for children, is pleas- 

 ant to the taste, and wil! keep for a year 

 in a cool cellar. In recovering from an 

 illness, the system has a craving for some 

 pleasant drink. This is found in cider, 

 which is placed on the fire as soon asf 

 made, and allowed to come to a boil, 

 then cooled, put in casks, and kept in a 

 cool cellar. 



4. Roast a large lemon very carefully 

 without burning; when it is thoroughly 

 hot, cut and squeeze into a cup upon 

 three ounces of sugar candy, finely pow- 



