Dr. M'Millan's formulas and domestic guide

Place a tea-spoonful of arrowroot in a porcelain vessel, with as much cold water as will make it a fine dough. Then a cupful of boiling milk or of beef tea. Stir the mixture and allow it to boil a little until the whole acquires the consistence of fine jelly. All these preparations are to be fed to the patient as required. PROF. LEIBIG'S SOUP is made as follows, and is an excellent food for children, sick or well : Take a heaping table-spoonful of wheat flour, a table-spoonful of malt meal, and y}4; grains of bicarbonate of potash. The potash may be obtained from the druggists, put up in 7)^ -grain packages each, ready for use. Mix all well together, then add two table-spoonfuls of water and mix well ; then add ten table-spoonfuls of milk; place the whole upon a slow fire and stir until it begins to get thick. At this point remove from the fire and stir for five minutes ; heat again until it gets thick ; then remove and stir until it gets quite thin; and finally heat it until it boils. Now, when cool, pass it through a fine sieve or fine linen cloth, and it is fit for use. PROF. TROUSSEAU'S MEAT DIET. Lean beef or mutton is finely hashed, and then pounded in a mortar until a pulp, and then passed through a fine sieve. The thick, concentrated juice thus obtained is highly nutritious and easily digested, and when salted or otherwise seasoned, is quite acceptable. Give one or two table-spoonfuls in fractional doses the first day. If well borne, increase the quantity day by day until i or 2 quarts are taken in the 24 hours. ACID SPONGE BATH. Muriatic acid 3 ounces. Nitric acid 2 ounces. Water 5 ounces Mix and add y^ of this to 2 gallons of water for a sponge bath. Make the whole a comfortable warmth by first heating the water. Place both feet into the water and sponge the legs and inside of the thighs, inside of the arms and over the liver. This should be practiced for 10 or 15 minutes morning and evening. An earthen-ware or wooden vessel must be used, as the acid would corrode one of metal. ACID FOOT BATH. Nitric acid 4 ounces. Muriatic acid i ounce. Warm water 4 gallons. Mix — To be used in a wooden or an earthen vessel. An admirable foot bath in dyspepsia, with derangement of the liver and constipation of the bowels. Should be used every evening at bed-time. To bathe the abdomen is also a good plan in those cases. The sitz bath in case of piles and the hip bath in sciatica is often attended with very beneficial results if persisted in. ALKALINE BATH. Carbonate of soda i pound. Warm water 30 gallons. Mix — Useful in all scabby diseases and rheumatism, wandering gout and gouty habits of body ; also in gravel and kidney and bladder diseases. NO. 2. Carbonate of potash 4 ounces. Warm water 30 gallons. Mix — Use as a bath daily in cases as above, viz: skin diseases, rheumatism and gouty affections, gravel and kidney troubles, or bladder difficulties. These baths should in all cases be persisted in for a length of time. BORAX BATH. Borax 4 ounces. Glycerine 5 ounces. Warm water 30 gallons. Mix — Useful in scaly and other irritable diseases of the skin. COMPOUND SULPHUR BATH. Sulphuret of potassium 4 ounces. Hyposulphite of soda i ounce. Sulphuric acid I dram. Warm water 30 gallons.