A Physician finds a preparation of oatmeal and beef-tea useful in
giving strength to weak patients. To make it, take two tablespoon-
fuls of fine oatmeal and make it perfectly smooth in two spoonfuls
of cold water ; pour into this a pint of strong beef-tea✪ Oatmeal and Beef Tea Preparation ; boil it eight
minutes ; keep stirring all the time ; it should be very smooth ; if
lumpy pass through a sieve.
In a room heated by a grate fire, and in fact in all rooms heated by
artificial means, a glass or basin full of water will absorb the impure
air arising from the gas in the coal, and keep the air pure. Birds or
fish which are confined in stove-heated rooms often die from the
impure air, and flowers and plants also.
A Certain Remedy for Corns. — Dissolve four pearl buttons in
the juice of one lemon. Add a little water, put in a bottle, shake
well, and use night and morning. After a few days the mixture will
have to be renewed. If persistently used, it will destroy corns.
Catarrh Remedy. — Take a pint of soft water, and put in a table-
spoonful of fine salt — as much salt may be used as will dissolve well.
Take two teaspoonfuls before going to bed.
214 THE hearthstone; or, life at home.
To Remove Warts. — Tincture of cantharides, with some drops of
tincture of iodine ; apply to warts with a small brush or little stick
three or four times a.day. In a few days the warts will disappear.
Cautions in Visiting the Sick. — Do not visit the sick when you
are fatigued, or when in a state of perspiration, or when the stomach
is empty, for, in such conditions, you are liable to take the infection.
To Disguise Castor-Oil. — Rub two drops of oil of cinnamon
with an ounce of glycerine and an ounce of castor-oil. •Children will
take without hesitation.
Coughing can be stopped by pressing on the nerves of the lip in
the neighborhood of the nose. A pressure there may prevent a
cough when it is beginning. Sneezing may be stopped by the same
mechanism. Pressing, also, in the neighborhood of the ear, right in
front of the ear, may stop coughing. It is so also of hiccough, but
much less so than 'for sneezing or coughing.
Croup can be quickly cured with alum and sugar. Shave or grate
off about a teaspoonful of alum, then mix it with twice its quantity
of sugar (to make it palatable) and administer as promptly as pos-
sible. If it is shaved off instead of grated, care should be taken to
have it cut in small particles.
Flannel should, in almost all instances, be worn by women and
children, next to the skin, in winter. The same garment should not
be used at night that is worn during the day. Cleanliness demands
a change, and comfort would be increased by wearing a lighter article
at night.
To make a mustard plaster that will draw well, but not blister,
mix with the white of an egg instead of water or vinegar✪ Mustard Plaster.
The White of an Egg is a most efficacious remedy for burns.
Seven or eight successive applications of this substance soothe pain,
and effectually exclude the air from the burn.
Opening the Eves and submerging them in clean salt-water has
been found beneficial to those whose eyesight is impaired by weak-
ness or soreness. Bathing the eyes in salt-water is the best of pre-
scriptions for strengthening and healing them.
THE PHYSICIAN IN THE HOME. 2I5 ✪ Application for Burns
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
A Physician finds a preparation of oatmeal and beef-tea useful in giving strength to weak patients. To make it, take two tablespoonfuls of fine oatmeal and make it perfectly smooth in two spoonfuls of cold water ; pour into this a pint of strong beef-tea ; boil it eight minutes ; keep stirring all the time ; it should be very smooth ; if lumpy pass through a sieve.
In a room heated by a grate fire, and in fact in all rooms heated by artificial means, a glass or basin full of water will absorb the impure air arising from the gas in the coal, and keep the air pure. Birds or fish which are confined in stove-heated rooms often die from the impure air, and flowers and plants also.
A Certain Remedy for Corns. — Dissolve four pearl buttons in the juice of one lemon. Add a little water, put in a bottle, shake well, and use night and morning. After a few days the mixture will have to be renewed. If persistently used, it will destroy corns.
Catarrh Remedy. — Take a pint of soft water, and put in a tablespoonful of fine salt — as much salt may be used as will dissolve well. Take two teaspoonfuls before going to bed.
214 THE hearthstone; or, life at home.
To Remove Warts. — Tincture of cantharides, with some drops of tincture of iodine ; apply to warts with a small brush or little stick three or four times a day. In a few days the warts will disappear.
Cautions in Visiting the Sick. — Do not visit the sick when you are fatigued, or when in a state of perspiration, or when the stomach is empty, for, in such conditions, you are liable to take the infection.
To Disguise Castor-Oil. — Rub two drops of oil of cinnamon with an ounce of glycerine and an ounce of castor-oil. •Children will take without hesitation.
Coughing can be stopped by pressing on the nerves of the lip in the neighborhood of the nose. A pressure there may prevent a cough when it is beginning. Sneezing may be stopped by the same mechanism. Pressing, also, in the neighborhood of the ear, right in front of the ear, may stop coughing. It is so also of hiccough, but much less so than 'for sneezing or coughing.
Croup can be quickly cured with alum and sugar. Shave or grate off about a teaspoonful of alum, then mix it with twice its quantity of sugar (to make it palatable) and administer as promptly as possible. If it is shaved off instead of grated, care should be taken to have it cut in small particles.
Flannel should, in almost all instances, be worn by women and children, next to the skin, in winter. The same garment should not be used at night that is worn during the day. Cleanliness demands a change, and comfort would be increased by wearing a lighter article at night.
To make a mustard plaster that will draw well, but not blister, mix with the white of an egg instead of water or vinegar.
The White of an Egg is a most efficacious remedy for burns. Seven or eight successive applications of this substance soothe pain, and effectually exclude the air from the burn.
Opening the Eves and submerging them in clean salt-water has been found beneficial to those whose eyesight is impaired by weakness or soreness. Bathing the eyes in salt-water is the best of prescriptions for strengthening and healing them.
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