Buckeye cookery

the advice of the most transparent quacks when it comes to disease and | medicine. A little reflection will convince any reasonable person that no single medicine will cure all diseases, indeed no medicine will cure the same disease in different persons, and in different stages, Any candid | physician will admit that the ‘use of medicines by the most skillful and experienced practitioner, is, to a great extent, an experiment. What one man's meat is another's poison, and even the best physician needs to know man’s meat is another’s poison, the constitution of the patient, and to study the symptoms of disease before he can prescribe safely, to say nothing of curing the disease. And yet there are intelligent men and women who*buy patent nostrums, and pour them down their throats, knowing nothing of the disease, or of the prob. able effect of the alleged remedy. For instance, a child has a cough and a “cough remedy’’ is purchased and dealt out. Now, there are many kinds of coughs. The cough may be ‘‘dry,” or it may be ‘loose;’’ the symptoms may differ in various ways, and yet the ‘‘cough remedy ”’ given for a “‘ dry’* ‘cough may be intended for a “‘loose’’ one, and so all the symptoms may be aggravated, perhaps, with a fatal result. The physician’s advice and ex. perience is chiefly valuable to tell us what the disease is and the best pos- Reet : Q : ae sible treatment for it. It is dangerous in the extreme to administer any powerful.remedy, or any medicine the nature and effect of which are not known, without the advice. of some one who knows the disease and its probable effect, The household medicine chest should contain only simple remedies, the effect of which, at worst, can not be very injurious; and in all dangerous ‘or violent diseases a physician should be promptly called. ’ For Cough, drink hot pennyroyal tea. ‘GLYCERINE is excellent to rub on chafes, burns, or chapped hands or sun scalds. For Burns.—Lime-water, olive-oil, and glycerine, equal parts; applied — on lint. Liniment.—Three ounces each of tincture of opium, camphorated oil, and soap liniment. For Jaunpice.—The yolk of an egg, raw or. slightly cooked, is cool food in jaundice. Relief, even in severe cases. Liniment.—The common May-weed blossoms put in alcohol are much ‘superior to arnica for the same use. To Check Vomiting— Give a tea-spoon of whole black mustard seed. A _ table-spoon may be given in severe cases fi) For Quinsy, gargle with water as hot as can be borne. This gives great — For Sick Headache.—Whenever the symptoms are felt coming on, drink a cupful of thoroughwort or boneset-tea. For Stiff Joints.—Oil made by trying up common angle worms, is excellent to apply to sinews drawn up by sprains or disease. Pleurisy.—Oiled silk placed over the chest of those suffering from pneumonia or pleurisy, will give great relief and hasten recovery. For RHEUMATISM.—To one pint alcohol; add one. table-spoon pulverized. potash, and a lump of gum-camphor the size of a walnut. Use as a liniment. Chronic Diarrhea is cured by drinking orange-peel tea; sweeten with loaf-sugar, and use as a common drink for twenty-four to thirty-six hours. To Stop BLEEDING. —Apply wet tea-leaves, or scrapings of sole-leather to. a fresh cut and it will stop the bleeding, or apply a paste of flour and vinegar. To Stop Bleeding at the Nose.—Bathe the feet in very hot water, drinking at the same time a pint of cayenne pepper tea, or hold both arms above the head. For Dressing Cuts, Wounds or Sores.—Surgeon's solution of carbolic acid and pure glycerine mixed in equal parts, and applied on soft lint or linen cloth. Dirt in the Eye.—To remove specks of dirt from the eye, immerse the eye in cool water, then wink and roll the eyeball until the desired result is accomplished.