246 MISCELLANEOUS RECEIPTS. 



Four parts each of carraway powder and bruised raisins, and two 

 each of ginger and palm oil, beaten into a mass. This is harmless, and 

 is one of the very best. 



A TONIC BALL. 



Good for Chronic Debility after Sickness or Overwork. 

 Gentian, 4 drs. ; chamomile, 2 drs. ; carbonate of iron, I dr. ; 

 ginger, I dr. 



DIGESTIVE FOR HEALING RECENT OR OLD WOUNDS. 



They act as mild stimulants to produce a healthy granulating action 

 to heal. 



The best digestive or healing preparation is that given first, under 

 the head of CUTS. A weak solution of blue vitriol, in the proportion of 

 two drachms to a pint of water, is also a good preparation. 



A very good healing ointment is one composed of three parts of 

 calamine ointment and one of common turpentine. Sponge the cut or 

 wound with warm water and castile soap, and dress with the prepara- 

 tion once a day no oftener. 



ASTHMA. HOW CURED. 



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 in 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 in half a tum- 

 bler 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. 



HOW TO GIVE RELIEF IN OBSTINATE CONSTIPATION. 



Cyrus W. King, of Brunswick, Me., was relieved by this remedy after 

 taking pills, &c., and failing to get a passage of the bowels for seventeen 

 days. Put a table-spoonful of coarse Indian meal into a cup, and wet 

 thoroughly with common molasses, and take it all. An old lady who 

 happened to hear of the case said she could relieve the man in a few 

 hours, and advised this. It was taken at night, and there was perfect 

 relief by morning. 



TO CURE COLIC IN MAN. 



Take at once a tumblerful of hot molasses. A sailor who was de- 

 lirious from colic, and nearly dead from it, was relieved in five minutes. 

 Calling my attention to it, and claiming it would cure every case, I was 

 induced to make a note of it. The sailor said he took cold molasses 

 with the same effect. 



