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HOME DOCTOR. 



dered; take a spoonful whenever your 

 cough troubles you. It is as good as it 

 is pleasant. 



DEAFNESS. — Take ant's eggs and 

 onion juice. Mix and drop them into 

 the ear. Drop into the ear, at night, six 

 or eight drops of hot sweet oil. 



DIARRHOEA, Remedies for.— i. Take 

 one teaspoonful of salt, the same of good 

 vinegar, and a tablespoonful of water; 

 mix and drink. It acts like a charm on 

 the system, and even one dose will gen- 

 erally cure obstinate cases of diarrhoea or 

 the first stages of cholera. If the first 

 does not bring complete relief, repeat the 

 dose, as it is quite harmless. 2. The 

 best rhubarb root, pulverized, 1 ounce ; 

 peppermint leaf, 1 ounce ; capsicum, }& 

 ounce; cover with boiling water and 

 steep thoroughly, strain, and add bi-car- 

 bonate of potash and essence of cinnamon, 

 of each, y^ ounce; with brandy (or good 

 whisky), equal in amount to the whole, 

 and loaf sugar, 4 ounces. Dose — For 

 an adult, 1 or 2 tablespoons ; for a child, 

 1 to 2 teaspoons, from 3 to 6 times per 

 day, until relief is obtained. 3. To half 

 a bushel of blackberries, well mashed, 

 add a quarter of a pound of allspice, 2 

 ounces of cinnamon, 2 ounces of cloves; 

 pulverize well, mix and boil slowly until 

 properly done ; then strain or squeeze the 

 juice through home-spun or flannel, and 

 add to each pint of the juice 1 pound of 

 loaf sugar, boil again for some time, take 

 it off, and, while cooling, add half a 

 gallon of the best Cognac brandy. 



DIARRH(EA, Chronic— Rayer recom- 

 mends the association of cinchona, char- 

 coal and bismuth in the treatment of 

 chronic diarrhoea, in the fnllowing pro- 

 portions: Subnitrate of bismuth, one 

 drachm; cinchona, yellow, powdered, 

 one-half drachm; charcoal, vegetable, one 

 drachm. Make twenty powders and take 

 two or three a day during the intervals 

 between meals. 



DYSENTERY, Cures for.— Tincture of 

 rhubarb, tincture of capsicum, tincture of 

 camphor, essence of ginger and lauda- 

 num, equal parts. Mix; shake well and 

 take from ten to twenty drops every thir- 

 ty minutes until relief is obtained. This 

 is a dose for an adult. Half the amount 

 for a child under twelve years of age. 2. 

 Take some butter off the churn, immedi- 

 ately after being churned, just as it is, 



without being salted or washed ; clarify it 

 over the fire like honey. Skim off all the 

 milky particles when melted over a clear 

 fire. Let the patient (if an adult) take 

 two tablespoonfuls of the clarified remain- 

 der, twice or thrice within the day. This 

 has never failed to effect a cure, and in 

 many cases it has been almost instantane- 

 ous. 3. In diseases of this kind the In- 

 dians use the roots and leaves of the 

 blackberry bush — a decoction of which 

 in hot water, well boiled down, is taken 

 in doses of a gill before each meal, and 

 before retiring to bed. It is an almost 

 infallable cure. 4. Beat one egg in a tea- 

 cup ; add one tablespoonful of loaf sugar 

 and half a teaspoonful of ground spice ; 

 fill the cup with sweet milk. Give the 

 patient one tablespoonful once in ten 

 minutes until relieved. 5. Take one 

 tablespoonful of common salt, and mix 

 it with two tablespoonsful of vinegar and 

 pour upon it a half-pint of water, either 

 hot or cold (only let it be taken cool.) 

 A wine-glass full of this mixture in the 

 above proportions, taken every half-hour, 

 will be found quite efficacious in curing 

 dysentery. If the stomach be nauseated, 

 a wine-glass full taken every hour will 

 suffice. For a child, the quantity should 

 be a teaspoonful of salt and one of vin- 

 egar in a teacupful of water. 



DROPSY.— Take the leaves of a cur- 

 rant bush and make into a tea. 



DRUNKENNESS, Cure for.— The fol- 

 lowing singular means of curing habitual 

 drunkenness is employed by a Russian 

 physician, Dr. Schreiber, of Brzese Litew- 

 ski : It consists in confining the drunk- 

 ard in a room, and in furnishing him at 

 discretion with his favorite spirit diluted 

 with two-thirds of water; as much wine, 

 beer and coffee as he desires, but contain- 

 ing one-third of spirit ; all the food — the 

 bread meat and the legumes are steeped 

 in spirit and water. The poor devil is 

 continually drunk and dort. On the fifth 

 day of this regime he has an extreme 

 disgust for spirit; he earnestly requests 

 other diet; but his desire must not be 

 yielded to, until the poor wretch no longer 

 desires to eat or drink ; he is then cer- 

 tainly cured of his penchant for drunken- 

 ness. He acquires such a disgust for 

 brandy or other spirits that he is ready 

 to vomit at the very sight of it. 



DYSPEPSIA.— 1. Take bark of white 



