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ory nut of fresh made butter, or butter without salt. If agreeable, 

 eat with it plenty of molasses. Make a meal of this, and repeat if 

 necessary. 



FOR CATARRH, SORE THROAT, ETC. 



2 oz. borax; 2 oz. burnt alum; 4 oz. camphor; 4 oz. Talcum. 

 Use as snuff three or four times a day. Also good for headache 

 and neuralgia. Used with great success in sore throat and diph- 

 theria; taken as a gargle. Used by James Thompson, Chicago, for 

 20 years, for cure of catarrh and cold in head. 



FOR CONTROL OP NERVOUS IRRITABILITY, WANT OF SLEEP, ETC. 



Prescribed by Dr. Jewell, of Chicago. 



19 grains sulphate of morphia; 1 grain atrophia (belladonna); 

 180 grains sugar of milk. To be put in a mortar, and worked 

 thoroughly one hour. Dose for adult, 4 grains before going to bed, 

 or repeated when necessary once in four hours. 



EYE WASH. 



A remedy of great value for inflammation of the eyes or sores of any 

 kind. 



Crotus martes and white vitriol, equal parts ; dissolve in a half -pint of 

 snow-water or pure soft-water. Dissolve thoroughly, and when settled, pour 

 off and add half as much more water. If too sensitive, or much inflamma- 

 tion, reduce. 



This has cured fever sores when all other treatment failed. Alzerah 

 Williams, Mrs. Waite of Jamestown, N. Y., and John Woodford of West 

 Hickory, Pa. , were cured by it. 



To CUBE BOILS. 



Two parts cream tartar, one part sulphur, one pint whisky. (About 

 four cents' worth of each of the t^vo. ) 



Take one tablespoonf ul three mornings ; then skip three mornings, and 

 so on, for nine mornings. Obtained from an old man, and claimed to be an 



infallible cure. 



ASTHMA. How CUBED. 



Take smart-weed, carefully dried. Fill an earthen bowl with smart- 

 weed, pour in hot water, and cover until steeped Take half a glass three 

 times a day until cured. Given by James Garcelon of Lewiston, Me. Mr. 

 Garcelon for two years could not sleep, except by sitting hi a chair. Relief 

 was immediate, and a cure was effected in a year. 



Another Remedy. A lady of intelligence in Western New York told the 

 writer that her uncle was cured of asthma by taking a teaspoonful of salt hi 

 half a tumbler of water before going to bed at night, and in the morning ; 

 that he sat up to sleep for years ; that he had taken the salt and water for a 

 year. He was entirely relieved of the asthma, but he kept taking the salt 

 and water. 



