Piles. — Sulphur, a small teaspoon every morning ; or equal parts of sulphur, cream of tartar, and treacle, a large teaspoon every morning. For local application use gall ointment. No. 10. Poisoning by Narcotics, such as Opium, Datura, &c.— Empty the stomach with the first emetic at hand— salt and water, if there is nothing else to be had ; give strong coffee, some stimulant, and rouse the patient with smelling salts, cold water, and flicking the legs and body with wet towels. If possible, give a decoction of galls {inuiphuC) made with two ounces of galls to a pint of water. Four or five tablespoons every ten minutes for one hour. Poisoning by Acids. — Give milk, soap and water, whites of ^■'ly kind of sweet oil, rice-water, and any kind of mucila- ginous drinks at once. Poisoning by Minerals, such as Arsenic, Copper.— Give an emetic, then treat as for acids. Sugar is worth a trial ; but copious draughts of any mucilaginous mixture that will protect the coats of the stomach from tlie irritant poison is what is required. 1 82 The Complete Indian Prickly Heat. — Try lemon-juice or sandal-wood dust, or coal tar soap ; a very weak solution of carbolic and water, apj)lied with a sponge. Rheumatism. — Use liniment No. 11. Drink lime-juice, and hike small doses of quinine. Salicylate of soda three times a day, in 13 grain doses. Sunstroke. — Cold water to the head by pouring cold water in a small stream from a ghurra over head, spine, and chest from a height of three feet. Hold the patient in a sitting posture. Put mustard plasters on the calves. The object is to lower the tem- perature of the body, so use ice, evaporating lotions, and get the room as cool as possible. If insensibility continues, try artificial respiration. Spleen. — Give sulphate of iron two grains, black pepper three grains, made into a jiill. Take one twice a day, and avoid all acids. Take a kdla ddna purgative once a week, and rub the spleen or ague cake with turjientine or capsicum water till the skin is red ; or try iodine painted over the spleen. Swallowing Foreign Substances. — Children will sometimes swallow buttons, &c., when playing with them. Beat the whites of three eggs with a little water and give it at once; it may he sweetened and flavoured ; five minutes after give a full dose of ipecacuanha. The white of egg coagulates in the stomach, and will often close round the foreign matter and bring it away en masse. Sprains. — Hot fomentations at once. Then rub with embroca- tion No. 11, and bandage. Toothache. — Forty drops carbolic acid, si.xty drops eau-de- cologne, a tiny piece of gum mastic (rnustiga). Dissolve. One drop on cotton-wool to the hollow. Eau-de-Suez used regularly certainly prevents teeth from aching. Wounds. — Dress with boiled water or carbolic oil. No. 12. The following is a list of prescriptions mentioned in the above, or otherwise useful : — 1. K&la Dina Mixture. — Powdered kdla ddna seeds, one ounce; cream of tartar, two ounces; powdered ginger, two drachms✪ K&la Dina Mixture. Mix and sift tlirough muslin. Put away in a wide-mouthed stop- pered bottle. Dose. — Thirty to sixty grains. 2. Sarsaparilla Infusion. — Hemidesmus root or jungli cham- beli ; two ounces of the bruised roots in half a pint of boiling water✪ Sarsaparilla Infusion. Housekeeper and Cook 1S3 Let stand for an hour, tlien strain. Dose.— Two tablespoonsful three times a clay. Useful in all skin diseases, also in debility.

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Piles. — Sulphur, a small teaspoon every morning ; or equal parts of sulphur, cream of tartar, and treacle, a large teaspoon every morning. For local application use gall ointment. No. 10. Poisoning by Narcotics, such as Opium, Datura, &c.— Empty the stomach with the first emetic at hand— salt and water, if there is nothing else to be had ; give strong coffee, some stimulant, and rouse the patient with smelling salts, cold water, and flicking the legs and body with wet towels. If possible, give a decoction of galls (muiphuC) made with two ounces of galls to a pint of water. Four or five tablespoons every ten minutes for one hour. Poisoning by Acids. — Give milk, soap and water, whites of eggs, any kind of sweet oil, rice-water, and any kind of mucilaginous drinks at once. Poisoning by Minerals, such as Arsenic, Copper.— Give an emetic, then treat as for acids. Sugar is worth a trial ; but copious draughts of any mucilaginous mixture that will protect the coats of the stomach from tlie irritant poison is what is required. 1 82 The Complete Indian Prickly Heat. — Try lemon-juice or sandal-wood dust, or coal tar soap ; a very weak solution of carbolic and water, apj)lied with a sponge. Rheumatism. — Use liniment No. 11. Drink lime-juice, and take small doses of quinine. Salicylate of soda three times a day, in 13 grain doses. Sunstroke. — Cold water to the head by pouring cold water in a small stream from a ghurra over head, spine, and chest from a height of three feet. Hold the patient in a sitting posture. Put mustard plasters on the calves. The object is to lower the temperature of the body, so use ice, evaporating lotions, and get the room as cool as possible. If insensibility continues, try artificial respiration. Spleen. — Give sulphate of iron two grains, black pepper three grains, made into a pill. Take one twice a day, and avoid all acids. Take a kdla ddna purgative once a week, and rub the spleen or ague cake with turjientine or capsicum water till the skin is red ; or try iodine painted over the spleen. Swallowing Foreign Substances. — Children will sometimes swallow buttons, &c., when playing with them. Beat the whites of three eggs with a little water and give it at once; it may he sweetened and flavoured ; five minutes after give a full dose of ipecacuanha. The white of egg coagulates in the stomach, and will often close round the foreign matter and bring it away en masse. Sprains. — Hot fomentations at once. Then rub with embrocation No. 11, and bandage. Toothache. — Forty drops carbolic acid, sixty drops eau-decologne, a tiny piece of gum mastic (mustiga). Dissolve. One drop on cotton-wool to the hollow. Eau-de-Suez used regularly certainly prevents teeth from aching. Wounds. — Dress with boiled water or carbolic oil. No. 12. The following is a list of prescriptions mentioned in the above, or otherwise useful : — 1. K&la Dina Mixture. — Powdered kdla ddna seeds, one ounce; cream of tartar, two ounces; powdered ginger, two drachms. Mix and sift tlirough muslin. Put away in a wide-mouthed stoppered bottle. Dose. — Thirty to sixty grains. 2. Sarsaparilla Infusion. — Hemidesmus root or jungli chambeli ; two ounces of the bruised roots in half a pint of boiling water. Housekeeper and Cook 1S3 Let stand for an hour, tlien strain. Dose.— Two tablespoonsful three times a clay. Useful in all skin diseases, also in debility.

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