An excellent way to cure a sore throat is to bind the neck with a
towel soaked in ice or very cold water, and then outside of this place
a dry towel. Wear this during the night, and in the morning the
throat will be much better.
Hot Lemonade is one of the best remedies in the world for a cold.
It acts promptly and effectively, and has no unpleasant effects. One
lemon properly squeezed, cut in slices, put with sugar and covered
with half a pint of boiling water✪ Hot Lemonade. Drink just before going to bed.
THE PHYSICIAN IN THE HOME. 211
and do not expose yourself on the following day. This remedy will
ward off an attack of the chills and fever if used promptly.
To Prevent Choking. — Break an egg into a cup and give it to the
person choking to swallow. The white of the egg seems to catch
around the obstacle and remove it. If one egg does not answer the
purpose try another. The white is all that is necessary.
To Remove Proud Flesh. — Pulverize loaf sugar very fine and
apply it to the part afflicted. This is a new and easy remedy, and is
said to remove it without pain ; or burnt alum pulverized and applied
is an old and reliable remedy.
Stings and Bites. — Carbonate of soda wet and applied externally
to the bite of a spider, or any venomous creature, will neutralize the
poisonous effect almost instantly. It acts like a charm in the case
of snake bite.
Lean Fresh Meat will remove the pain of a wasp-sting almost
instantly, and has been recommended for the cure of rattlesnake-
bites. It is said to have a marked benefit in cases of erysipelas.
Common Salt, mixed in cold water (tolerably strong), and used as a
gargle night and morning, is found to harden the throat and keep
off bronchial attacks.
How TO Remove Stiffness and Aching of the Limbs after a
VERY LONG RiDE, Walk, Row, OR Day ON THE IcE. — Sponge all over
with water, as hot as you can bear it, just before going to bed ; and
if you have had any bad bruises, use plenty of hot fomentations with
tincture of arnica, in the proportion of one part of arnica to twelve
of water. Then put bright, clear, hot cinders into a warming-pan,
and upon them, just before proceeding to warm the bed, throw a
large handful of the commonest, coarsest brown sugar you can get.
Warm the bed thoroughly with the pan, so that it is filled with the
hot steam and vapor from the sugar; slip in neatly and cleverly, so
as to allow as little as possible of the steam to escape. Get some
one to tuck you in tight, all round, go to sleep warm and cosy in
your sugar-vapor bath, and the chances are that you will awake next
morning light and limber, without an ache or twinge.
212 THE hearthstone; OR, LIFE AT HOME.
Swelled Neck. — Wash the part with brine, and drink it also
twice a day until cured.
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An excellent way to cure a sore throat is to bind the neck with a towel soaked in ice or very cold water, and then outside of this place a dry towel. Wear this during the night, and in the morning the throat will be much better.
Hot Lemonade is one of the best remedies in the world for a cold. It acts promptly and effectively, and has no unpleasant effects. One lemon properly squeezed, cut in slices, put with sugar and covered with half a pint of boiling water. Drink just before going to bed.
and do not expose yourself on the following day. This remedy will ward off an attack of the chills and fever if used promptly.
To Prevent Choking. — Break an egg into a cup and give it to the person choking to swallow. The white of the egg seems to catch around the obstacle and remove it. If one egg does not answer the purpose try another. The white is all that is necessary.
To Remove Proud Flesh. — Pulverize loaf sugar very fine and apply it to the part afflicted. This is a new and easy remedy, and is said to remove it without pain ; or burnt alum pulverized and applied is an old and reliable remedy.
Stings and Bites. — Carbonate of soda wet and applied externally to the bite of a spider, or any venomous creature, will neutralize the poisonous effect almost instantly. It acts like a charm in the case of snake bite.
Lean Fresh Meat will remove the pain of a wasp-sting almost instantly, and has been recommended for the cure of rattlesnakebites. It is said to have a marked benefit in cases of erysipelas.
Common Salt, mixed in cold water (tolerably strong), and used as a gargle night and morning, is found to harden the throat and keep off bronchial attacks.
How TO Remove Stiffness and Aching of the Limbs after a VERY LONG RiDE, Walk, Row, OR Day ON THE IcE. — Sponge all over with water, as hot as you can bear it, just before going to bed ; and if you have had any bad bruises, use plenty of hot fomentations with tincture of arnica, in the proportion of one part of arnica to twelve of water. Then put bright, clear, hot cinders into a warming-pan, and upon them, just before proceeding to warm the bed, throw a large handful of the commonest, coarsest brown sugar you can get. Warm the bed thoroughly with the pan, so that it is filled with the hot steam and vapor from the sugar; slip in neatly and cleverly, so as to allow as little as possible of the steam to escape. Get some one to tuck you in tight, all round, go to sleep warm and cosy in your sugar-vapor bath, and the chances are that you will awake next morning light and limber, without an ache or twinge.
212 THE hearthstone; OR, LIFE AT HOME.
Swelled Neck. — Wash the part with brine, and drink it also twice a day until cured.
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