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is jnst aa certain. If one application of the arnica does not effect a cure, it 

 will be necessary to repeat it, it may be, several times. 



(2) Pereous will find relief for earache by putting in a spoon two or three 

 drops of sweet oil, or, better still, almond oil, the same of molasses and 

 landannm, wanning it altogether. Absorb some of the mixture in cotton 

 wool; put it in the ear, witli a piece of wool outside to keep out the cold air, 

 repeating the thing if necessary. A roast onion heart dipped in this and 

 surrounded with the cotton is also often very efficacious. 



(3) The most effectual remedy has been a small clove of garlic, steeped 

 for a few minutes in warm salad oil, and put into the ear rolled up in muslin 

 or thin linen. In some time the garUc is reduced to a pulp, and having ac- 

 complished its object should be replaced with cotton to prevent the patient 

 getting cold. 



(4) To cure earache take a bit of cotton batting, put upon it a pinch of 

 black pepper, gather it up and tie it, dip in sweet oil and insert into the ear. 

 Put a flannel bandage over the head and keep it warm. It will give imme- 

 diate relief. 



(5) Dissolve assafoctida in water; warm a few drojis and drop in the ear, 

 then cork the ear ^vith cotton. 



AVorm*. — Some members of the profession still cling with bull-dog ten- 

 acity to the opinion that worms do not affect the health of children, and that 

 they are natural to them. The latter may or may not be true, but when 

 they accumulate in the intestines, they produce the same disturbance that 

 any foreign, indigestible substance would do. Wo find the picking of tli 

 nose, swollen lower eye-lids, restlessness in sleep, groaning, gritting tee 

 starting, and lastly, spasms. 



Worms kill more children than teething; and when you find the above 

 symptoms with a strawberry tongue and a fever, which will attack several 

 times daily, going off as frequently in cold sweats, you can swear that \o\m 

 have a case of worms, and had as well prepare and attack them. 



Now as to the best means of getting rid of them. I use the fluid extract 

 of senna and spigelia in teaspoonful doses fur patients of eight or ten years 

 of age, and less in proportion, night and morning, for three nights and days, 

 following this up each morning with a good dose of castor oil, provided the 

 scima and spigelia does not act Then wait three days, and again instituta 

 the same proceedings, and for the same length of time. 



Tliia treatment is for the Inmbric oid. For the oxyuris, or "thread 

 worm," I use any bitter infusion by enema, sulph. quinine, followed by an 

 enema of common salt and milk — warm water half an hour afterward, whicl> 

 will destroy and expel them. 



The symptoms of the presence of the worm are the same as the former, 

 with the exception that in the latter you will find the sufferer scratching the 

 anus. K every practitioner will use these he will be gratified by the restora- 

 tion to immediate health of many a little sufferer, who would otherwiso 

 linger in sickness for many months and perhaps eventually die. 



^Varts. — (1) A much safer remedy for warts than nitrate of silver is sal- 

 ammoniac. Get a piece about tlie size of a walnut; moisten the warts, and 

 rub the sal-ammoniac well on tliem every night and morning, and in about 

 a fortnight they will probably disapp<'ar. If not, do not despair, but <5ob- 

 tinue the process till they are gone. 



(2) The best treatment of warts is to pare the dry and hard skin frem 





