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weakness of the stomach. The way to make ^e lime water ia simply to 

 procure a few lumps of unslaked lime, put the lime in a fruit can, atld. water 

 until it is slaked and of the consistency of thin cream; the lime settles, and 

 leaves the pure and clear Ume water at the top. A goblet of cow's milk may 

 have six or eight teaspoonfuls of lime water added with good effect. Great 

 care should be taken not to get the hme water too strong; pour off withont 

 disturbing the precipitated lime. Sickness of the stomach is promptly re- 

 Ueved by a teacupful of warm water with a tcaspoonful of soda dissolved lu 

 it. K it brings the offending matter up, all the better. 



(3) Dr. Nichols, who has made a series of dietetic experiments on him- 

 self, has anivedat the conclusion that, if the stomach is allowed to rest, any 

 case of dyspepsia may be cured; that the diet question was at the ro<jt of all 

 diseases; that pure blo'>d can only be made from pure fofjd, and that, if the 

 drink of a nation were pure and free from stimulating qualities, and the food 

 was also pure, the result would ^tc pure health. 



(4) In mild cases take one teaspoonful sweet oil, after eating, tliree times 

 a day. In severe forms take a dessertspoonful. This followed up has cured 

 cases where doctors have given them up. Ye who suffer from this dre&d 

 disease, don't fail to trj- it; surely it can't hurt you. 



(5) Bum alum until the moisture in it is evaporated, then take as much 

 as you can put on a dime, ab<iut half an hour before eating. Three or four 

 days probably will answer; but take it until cured. 



DyiMtnterjr. — (1) Dysentery, or inflammation of the great intestine, pre- 

 vails in the autumnal season more particularly, and in low-lying and marshy 

 districts. It occasionally occurs also as an epidemic in overcrowded insti- 

 tutions and unhi-althy localities. Treatment: Dysentery attacks those 8<K>n- 

 est whoso blood is impoverished and whoso vital powers arc generally de- 

 pressed from some cause — a fact which suggests a building-up plan of treat- 

 ment. Although dysentery commences in the great intestine, the liver soon 

 becomes secondarily affected, and it, therefore, behooves the patient to be 

 very cautious as to the amount of stimulation he subjects liimself to; malt 

 liquors and spirits are not ijemiissable. His food, to«i, niust bo of the light- 

 est kind. The following medicines ^ill bo found most useful: Castor-oil 

 mixture: Take of castor-oil, six drachms; compound powder of tragacanth, 

 one ounce; cinnamon water, six ounces. Take a sixth part three times a 

 day. The nitric acid mixture: Take of dilute nitric acid, two drachma; 

 spirit of chloroform, two drachms; tincture of opium, half a drachm; i)epper- 

 miut water, six ounces. Take two tablespoonfuls every four hours. With 

 either of the above mixtures a powder containing three grains of ipecacuanha 

 and six grains of sugar may bo taken every night and morning. Ipecacuanha 

 becomes an invaluable medicine in dysentery, by virtue of the specific power 

 it exerts on all mucous membranes in causing increased action of their mu- 

 cous follicles; aud thus it is that it gives so mnch relief to the dysenteric 

 patient, in whom the dry aud, perhaps, tilceratcd surface of the intestine is 

 soothed and lubricated by an increased flow of mucus. 



(2) The egg is considered one of the best of remedies for dysentery. 

 Beaten up slightly, with or without sugar, and swallowed at a pulp, it tends, 

 by its emollient qualities, to lessen the inflammation of the stomach and in- 

 testiao, and, by forming a transient coating on these organs, to enable nature 

 io resume her healthful sway over a diseased body. Two, or at most thre« 

 Cogs per day, would bo all that is required in ordinary cases, and since egg 

 J3 not merely medicine but food as well, the lighter the diet otherwis9 



