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Clioking. — To prevent choking, break an egg into a cup and give it to 

 the person choking, to swallow. The white of the egg seems to catch around 

 the obstacle and remove it. If one egg does not answer the purpose, try an- 

 other. The white is all that is necessary. 



Sci-ofulou i Sore Eyes. — Take blue violets, which are growing wild in 

 most places, dig them up, top and root, wash clean, dry them and make a 

 tea; drink several times a day, wetting the eyes each time, and it will soon 

 cure. 



Wealt Ankles. — Bathing them in wine-loes will strengthen them; fre- 

 quent batliing in salt and water — four ounces of salt to one quart of water- 

 is also beneficial. Skating moderately indulged in, mil be attended by good 

 results. 



Hot Milk as a Stimulant. — If any one is fatigued, the best restorative 

 is hot milk, a tumbler of the beverage as hot as can be sipped. This is far 

 more of a restorative than any alcoholic drink. 



Cold Feet. — Cold feet are the precursors of consumption. To escape 

 them, wann your feet well in the morning, and covering the sole with a 

 piece of common paper, carefully draw on the sock, and then the boot or 

 shoe. 



Drink in Cases of Fever. — There is no more refreshing drink in cases 

 of fever than weak gi-een tea, with lemon juice added instead of milk. It 

 may be taken either cold or hot, but the latter is preferable. 



Frozen Limbs. — Dissolve from one quarter to half a poiind of alum in 

 a gallon of warm water, and immerse the feet or hands in it when frozen, for 

 ten or fifteen minutes, and a cure Avill be effected. 



Foreign Bodies in theTliroat. — " Foreign bodies lodged in the throat 

 can be removed," says Dr. Beveridge, a British naval surgeon, " by forcibly 

 blowing into the ear." The plan is so easily tried and so harmless that we 

 suggest its use. 



Hiccongk. — Hiccough effects some persons very persistently, and where 

 a simpler remedy does not check it, a half teaspoonful of nitre in a half 

 tumbler of water is recommended as an mstantaneous remedy. 



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Cankers. — Those whitish-looking specks which appear on the inside of 

 the cheeks and lips, may be easily removed by touching them with burnt 

 alum. 



Enlarged IVeck. — To cure enlarged neck, take two tablespoonfuls of 

 salt, two of borax and two of alum, dissolve in two of water and apply three 

 times a day for three weeks. 



A Prompt Emetic — The ingredients are: Tartar emetic, one grain; 

 powdered ipecac, twenty grains. Take the above in a wineglassful of 

 sweetened water. 



Swelled Feet. — For swelled feet a good remedy will be found in bathing 

 them in vinegar and watar- 



