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(4) Put one tablespoonfol of iode-bromide of calcinm comp. into a tea- 

 enpful of warm water. SnnfF it up the nose night and morning. It is very 

 cleansing and healing. 



(5) Bum a piece of alum on the stove until it becomes a whit© powder, 

 and use it as a snuff, and it will cure catarrh and is a good remedy for cold 

 in the head. 



(6) Take one pint of whiskey, and add two ounces of sulphur; shake it 

 up and take a tableapoonful three mornings, then miss three; so proceed 

 until taken up. 



S<>arlet Pever — (1) Mr. Robert Christie, a San Francisco journalist, 

 suggests a remedy for the scarlet fever which he avenj has invarialtly proved 

 successful. It is very simple, and hes within the reach of thtwse whoee 

 limited means preclude them from employing the services of a physician. It 

 is this: Take an onion, and cut it in halv<es; cut out a portion of the center, 

 and into the cavity put a spoonful of saflron; put the pieces together, then 

 wrap in cloth and bake in an oven until the onion is cooked so that the juice 

 will run freely, then squeeze out all the juice, and give the patient.a tea- 

 spoonful, at the same time rubbing the chest and throat with gooee grease or 

 rancid bacon, if there is any cough or soreness in the throat In a abort 

 time the fever will break out in an eruption all over the body. All that is 

 then necessary is to keep the patient warm, and protected from draught, and 

 recovery is certain. Mr. Christie says he has been employing this remedy 

 for many years, and never knew it to fail, when proper care was taken of the 

 patient after its application. One family, in which there were five childrtn 

 down with the disease at one time, recently, used thia simple remedy upon 

 his telling them of it, and every one of the little ones recovered in a short 

 time. 



(2) An eminent physician says he cures ninety-nine out of every hundred 

 cases of scarlet fever, by ginng the patient warm lemonade with gum arable 

 dissolved in it A cloth wrung out in hot water and laid upon the stomach, 

 should be removed as rapidly as it becomes cooL 



Ivy Poisoning.^ (1) Dr. Benjamin Edson, of Brooklyn, has had much 

 experience with cases of poisoning by poison ivy, lUntif Tortcotleniiron. He 

 is familiar with alkali and other washes usually employed in their treat- 

 ment and considers them of little, if any, value. He has treated voxae severe 

 cases, he states in the Medical Record, with fluid extract of gelsemium with 

 uniformly the best results. Afl most of otir readers know, gelsemium is the 

 yellow jessamine of the South. The extract was employed in a waah made 

 by mixing together a half drachm of carbohc acid, two drachms of the fluid 

 extract of gelsemium, one-half ounce of glycerine and four ounces of water. 

 With this cloths were kept moistened and applied to the parts afl"ected. Two 

 drops of the fluid extract of gelsemium was also given internally every 

 three hours. Some cases were also treated with the same mixture with 

 the carbolic acid omitted, and these yielded no less promptly than the 

 otliers. 



(2) Bathe the parts affected with sweet spirits of niter. If the blisters are 

 broken so that the niter be allowed to penetrate the cuticle, more than a 

 single appUcation is rarely necessary, and even where it ia only applied to 

 the surface of the skin three or four times a day, there is rarely a trace of 

 the poiaon left next morning. 



(3} A wash made from the spotted alder is recommended for ivy poisou- 



