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poplar root, boil it thick and add a little 

 spirit, and then lay it on the stomach. 



2. Take wintergreen and black cherry- 

 tree bark and yellow dock ; put into two 

 quarts of water; boil down to three 

 pints; take two or three glasses a day. 



Here are two remedies for dyspepsia, 

 said by those who " have tried them " to 

 be infallable. 1. Eat onions. 2. Take 

 two parts of well-dried and pounded pods 

 of red pepper, mixed with one part of 

 ground .mustard, and sift it over every- 

 thing you eat or drink. 



EAKACHE, Cure for.— Take a small 

 piece cf cotton batting or cotton wool, 

 make a depression in the center with the 

 finger, and then fill it up with as much 

 ground pepper as will rest on a five cent 

 piece ; gather it into a ball and tie it up ; 

 dip the ball into sweet oil and insert it in 

 the ear, covering the latter with cotton 

 wool, and use a bandage or cap to retain 

 it in its place. Almost instant relief will 

 be experienced ; and the application is so 

 gentle that an infant will not get in- 

 jured by it, but experience relief as well 

 as adults. Roast a piece of lean mutton, 

 squeeze out the juice and drop it into the 

 ear as hot as it can be borne. Roast an 

 onion and put into the ear as hot as it 

 can be borne. 



ERYSIPELAS.— Dissolve five ounces 

 of salt in one pint of good brandy and 

 take two table-spoonfuls three times a 

 d ay. 



EYES, Inflamed. — Pour boiling water 

 on alder flowers, and steep them like tea ; 

 when cold, put three or four drops of 

 laudanum into a small glass of the alder- 

 tea, and let the mixture run into the eyes 

 two or three times a day, and the eyes 

 will become perfectly strong in the course 

 of a week. 



EYES, Weeping. — Wash the eyes in 

 chamomile tea night and morning. 



EYES, Inflammation, Granular. — A 

 prominent oculist says that the contagious 

 Egyptian or granular inflammation of the 

 eyes is spreading throughout the country, 

 and that he has been able in many, and 

 indeed in a majority of cases, to trace 

 the disease to what are commonly called 

 rolling towels. Towels of this kind are 

 generally found in country hotels and the 

 dwellings of the working classes, and, be- 

 ing thus used by nearly every one, are 

 made the carriers of one of the most 



troublesome diseases of the eye. This 

 being the case, it is urgently recommend- 

 ed that the use of these rolling towels be 

 discarded, and thus one of the special ve- 

 hicles for the spread of a most dangerous 

 disorder of the eyes — one by which thou- 

 sands of workingmen are annually de- 

 prived of their means of support — will no 

 longer exist. 



EYE, Cure for Stye in. — Bathe fre- 

 quently with warm water. When the 

 stye bursts, use an ointment composed of 

 one part of citron ointment, and four of 

 spermaceti, well rubbed together, and 

 smear along the edge of the eye-lid. 



FELONS, to Cure. — 1. Stir one-half 

 teaspoonful of water into an ounce of 

 Venice turpentine until the mixture ap- 

 pears like granulated honey. Wrap a 

 good coating of it around the finger with 

 a cloth. If the felon is only recent, the 

 pain will be removed in six hours. 



2. As soon as the part begins to swell 

 wrap it with a cloth saturated thoroughly 

 with the tincture of lobelia. An old phy- 

 sician says, that he has known this to cure 

 scores of cases, and that it never fails 

 if applied in season. 



FEVER AND AGUE.— Take of cloves 

 and cream of tartar each one-half ounce, 

 and one ounce of Peruvian bark. Mix 

 in a small quantity of tea, and take it on 

 well days, in such quantities as the 

 stomach will bear. 



FEVER SORES.— Take of hoarhound, 

 balm, sarsaparilla, loaf sugar, aloes, 

 gum camphor, honey, spikenard, spirits 

 of turpentine, each two ounces. Dose, 

 one table-spoonful, three mornings, miss- 

 ing three ; and tor a wash, make a strong 

 tea of sumach, washing the affected 

 parts frequently, and keeping the ban- 

 d age w ell wet. 



FITS.— Take of tincture of fox-glove, 

 ten drops at each time twice a day, and 

 increase one drop at each time as long as 

 the stomach will bear it, or it causes a 

 nauseous feeling. 



GLEETS. — Make of turpentine a four- 

 grain pill, a nd ta ke three a day. 



GLYCERINE, CREAM.— Receipt for 

 chapped lips : Take of spermaceti, four 

 drachms; white wax, one drachm; oil 

 of almonds, two troy ounces; glycerine, 

 one troy ounce. Melt the spermaceti, 

 wax, and oil together, and when cooling 

 stir in the glycerine and perfume. 



