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fill the room. Inhaling the emokc heals the inflammation, and sleep is often 

 produced when one could not sleep before for much coughing. Presevere 

 until a cure is effected. A change for the better should be felt within a 

 week. 



(8) For colds, coughs, croup, or lung fever, take lard or sweet oil, two 

 parts; coal oil, two parts; spirits of camphor, one part; spirits of tui-pentine, 

 one part; saturate flannel and apply to the throat and chest warm. 



Cold in the Head. — (1) This may sometimes be cured by inhaling 

 through the nose the emanations of ammonia contained in a smelling bottle. 

 If the sense of the smell is completely obliterated, the bottle should be kept 

 under the nose until the pungency of the volatile alkali is felt. The bottle 

 is then removed, but only to be reapplied after a minute; the second appli- 

 cation, however, should not be long, that the patient may bear it. This easy 

 operation being repeated seven or eight times in the course of five minutes, 

 but always veiy rapidly, except the first time, the nostrils become free, the 

 sense of smell is restored, and the secretion of the irritating mucous 

 is stopped. This remedy is said to be peculiarly advantageous to 

 singers. 



(2) A cold in the head can be cured at once, if taken care of at the very 

 beginning. Dissolve a tablespoonful of borax in a pint of hot water; let it 

 stand until it becomes tepid; snuff some up the nostrils two or three times 

 during the day, or use the dry, powdered borax like snuff", taking a pinch as 

 often as required. At night have a handkerchief saturated with spirits of 

 camphor, place it near the nostrils so as to inhale the fumes while 

 sleeping. 



(3) A hot lemonade is one of the best remedies in the world for a cold. 

 It acts promptly and effectually, and has no unpleasant after effects. One 

 lemon properly squeezed, cut in slices, put witli sugar, and covered with half 

 a pint of boiling water. Drink just before going to bed, .ind do not expose 

 yourself on the following day. This remedy will ward off' an attack of chills 

 and fever if used properly. 



(4) AATaen one has a bad cold and the nose is closed up so that he cannot 

 breathe through it, relief may be found instantly by putting a little camphor 

 and water in the center of the hand and snuffing it up the nose. It is a great 

 relief. 



Ca(an-li. — (1) Ordinary cases of catarrh can be cured by sunffiug up the 

 nose a little table salt three or four times a day; but many cases of this 

 troublesome complaint are caused by inability of the liver to perform its 

 function properly. In such cases there is often a too alkaline condition of 

 the blood. If persons thus atfficted will squeeze the juice of a good-sized 

 lemon into a half- tumbler of water, and drink it witliout sugar just before 

 dinner, they will, if they live abstemiously, be surprised to sec how soon 

 the catarrhal difficulty will diminish. When it fails to do so, it may bo con- 

 sidered as due to other causes. 



(2) The catarrh, writes a correspondent, can be cured by a daily use of 

 raw onions as an article of food; at the same time use a snuff' made of white 

 sugar, laundry stai-ch, and burned alum, pulverized and mixed in equal 

 quantities — to be used the same as other snufi". 



(3) A most unfailing remedy for catarrh is to smoke crushed cubeb ber- 

 ries in a clay pipe and swallow the smoke, They can be procured at any 

 drug store, at a Riydoratv co^t, Try it, 



