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A Vapor Bath. — A Tapor bath may eaailv be prepared at home. Place 

 a pail of hot water under a cane-bottomed chair, or if you have not one, put 

 a narrow piece of board across the pail: on this the patient should sit for 

 half an hour, covered by a blanket reaching to the floor, so aa to keep in the 

 steam. 



Ventilation. — The best way to admit pure air in the night (where win- 

 dows are the only mode of ventilation) is to open the sleeping-room into a 

 hall where there is an open ^vindow in order to avoid the draught. A win- 

 dow with a small opening at the top and bottom ventilates more than (me 

 with one opening only. 



A Cheap and Simple IVay to Disinfect a Room. — Heat a common 

 iron fire-shovel hot, but not quite red hot, and pour an ounce of carbolic 

 acid fluid on it. The fumes will penetrate the room everywhere and cleanse 

 the air of its impurities. This should be repeated daily so long as it is 

 necessary. 



Deafne^s.^Pnt a tablespoonful of bay-salt into nearly half a pint of cold 

 spring water; and after it has steeped therein for twenty-four hours, now 

 and then shaking the phial, pour a small teaspoonfnl in the ear most affected, 

 nightly, when in bed, for seven or eight successive nights. 



Tetter. — Procure some strawberry leaves, and lay the outside, or woolly 

 side of the leaf on the parts affected. They must be hiid on very thick, and 

 be changed occasionally. They will draw out inflammation, and cure the 

 disease. 



StiflTXeck. — Apply over the place affected a piece of black oil-cloth with 

 the right side to the skin, then tie up th« neck with a thick handkerchief. 

 In a short time the part will grow moist, and, by leaving thus twelve hoars, 

 the pain will be removed. 



Food for a Voan« ChUd.—If a very young child has to be fed, take 

 the top crust of good, sweet home-made bread; soak it in cold water half an 

 hour, and then boil twenty minutes; cover tight; then beat with a fork until 

 smooth and sweet. This will agree with the stomach better than anything else. 



Piles. — The ingredients are: Two tablespoonfuls of tar, eight tablespoon- 

 Inls of lard, not heaped. First wash the parts effected with castile soap and 

 water, and then apply the ointment. The ointment should be used once or 

 twice each day. 



Cramp, in Bathing. — For the cure of the cramp when swimming. Dr. 

 Franklin recommends a vigorous and violent shock to the part affected, by 

 suddenly and forcibly stretching out the leg, which should be darted out of 

 the water into the air if possible. 



Spasms. — To cure this distressing form of malady, take two pennyworth 



of camphor, and infuse it in one pint of brandy. Let it stand forty-eight 

 hours, and then it is fit for use. When the attack comes on, take one tea- 

 spoonful in a wineglass of water. 



Gam-Boil, or "Weakness of tlie Gnms. — Take of acetate of morphia, 

 two grains; tincture of myrrh, six drachms; tincture of krameria, one ooQce*, 

 Bpirita of lavender, three ounces and a half. Let a lotion be made. 



