TO KEEP CLEAR OF BED-BUGS. Take the whites of four eggs and ten cents' worth of quicksilver. Put them into a bowl and beat them to a per- fect froth. Take a feather and dip into this preparation and apply to every part of the bedstead where bugs conceal themselves. Do this once a year, and you will never see a bed-bug in the house. CURE FOR LUMBAGO. Take a piece of oil-cloth, such as is used to cover tables, but of a soft, pliant kind, sufficiently large to cover the loins. Place it over a flannel shirt and bandage with a flannel bandage. -Profuse perspiration will ensue, and this wearisome complaint is speedily removed. A SIMPLE REMEDY FOR NEURALGIA. Grate horse-radish and mix in vinegar, the same as for table use, and apply to the temple when the face or head is affected, and to the wrist when the pain is in the shoulder or arm. CURE FOR CONSTIPATION. To six drachms of nitrate of soda add six drachms of cal- cined magnesia ground very fine. Mix with eight ounces of water. Dose: One table-spoonful three times a day. CURE FOR CROUP. Bind a towel or napkin wet with ice-water with a dry one over it around the throat, and give a good dose of sirup of ipecac. The cloths must be changed every five minutes. TO CURE DYSPEPSIA. On two table-spoonfuls of unslacked lime pour one quart of cold water. Let it stand a few minutes, then bottle and 372 The New Kentucky Home Cool: Booh cork. When clear, it is ready for use. Put three table- spoonfuls into one cupful of milk, and drink at any time, us- ually before meals, but between meals if the food sours or the stomach pains. CATARRH REMEDY. Equal parts gum arabic, gum myrrh, and blood-root, made into a powder and used as snuff, is an unfailing rein- ed)'. TO REMOVE WARTS. Take fiye cents' worth of oil of cinnamon, wet the warts thoroughly three times a day until they disappear. CURE FOR LOCKED-JAW. Apply pounded beet-roots, and remove them as often as they become dry. The result will be a complete cure. Such a remedy should be borne in mind. CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA. Take washed flour of sulphur and apply it directly to the membraneous growth in the throats of the children by means of a common clay pipe. The effect will be almost magical. Within two hours there will be complete relief, and the pa- tient will entirely recover in two days. CURE FOR EARACHE. Take a pinch of black pepper gathered up in a bit of cot- ton batting, wet in sweet-oil and insert in the ear. It will give immediate relief. CURE FOR TOOTHACHE. Take one ounce of chloroform and one drachm of tunic acid. Saturate a piece of cotton and fill the tooth. This is splendid. A GOOD HEALING SALVE. The yelk of an egg, a little turpentine, whisky, and hon- ey, all mixed in the egg-shell. The New Kentucky Home Cook Cook. 373 TO CURE A BURN WITHOUT A SCAR. Take one pound of butter, one large handful of sage (ei- ther dried or green) ; simmer in the butter until the sage be- comes crisp or hard ; add a small piece of beeswax, strain it and pour in one gill of the best rum, and stir until it cools. TO CURE IVY-POISONED HANDS. To quiet the burning, wet them with hot lime-water. This will be efficacious when nothing else will do any good. TO CURE INSECT STINGS.

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TO KEEP CLEAR OF BED-BUGS. Take the whites of four eggs and ten cents' worth of quicksilver. Put them into a bowl and beat them to a perfect froth. Take a feather and dip into this preparation and apply to every part of the bedstead where bugs conceal themselves. Do this once a year, and you will never see a bed-bug in the house. CURE FOR LUMBAGO. Take a piece of oil-cloth, such as is used to cover tables, but of a soft, pliant kind, sufficiently large to cover the loins. Place it over a flannel shirt and bandage with a flannel bandage. -Profuse perspiration will ensue, and this wearisome complaint is speedily removed. A SIMPLE REMEDY FOR NEURALGIA. Grate horse-radish and mix in vinegar, the same as for table use, and apply to the temple when the face or head is affected, and to the wrist when the pain is in the shoulder or arm. CURE FOR CONSTIPATION. To six drachms of nitrate of soda add six drachms of calcined magnesia ground very fine. Mix with eight ounces of water. Dose: One table-spoonful three times a day. CURE FOR CROUP. Bind a towel or napkin wet with ice-water with a dry one over it around the throat, and give a good dose of sirup of ipecac. The cloths must be changed every five minutes. TO CURE DYSPEPSIA. On two table-spoonfuls of unslacked lime pour one quart of cold water. Let it stand a few minutes, then bottle and 372 The New Kentucky Home Cook Book. cork. When clear, it is ready for use. Put three tablespoonfuls into one cupful of milk, and drink at any time, usually before meals, but between meals if the food sours or the stomach pains. CATARRH REMEDY. Equal parts gum arabic, gum myrrh, and blood-root, made into a powder and used as snuff, is an unfailing remedy.. TO REMOVE WARTS. Take fiye cents' worth of oil of cinnamon, wet the warts thoroughly three times a day until they disappear. CURE FOR LOCKED-JAW. Apply pounded beet-roots, and remove them as often as they become dry. The result will be a complete cure. Such a remedy should be borne in mind. CURE FOR DIPHTHERIA. Take washed flour of sulphur and apply it directly to the membraneous growth in the throats of the children by means of a common clay pipe. The effect will be almost magical. Within two hours there will be complete relief, and the patient will entirely recover in two days. CURE FOR EARACHE. Take a pinch of black pepper gathered up in a bit of cotton batting, wet in sweet-oil and insert in the ear. It will give immediate relief. CURE FOR TOOTHACHE. Take one ounce of chloroform and one drachm of tunic acid. Saturate a piece of cotton and fill the tooth. This is splendid. A GOOD HEALING SALVE. The yelk of an egg, a little turpentine, whisky, and honey, all mixed in the egg-shell. The New Kentucky Home Cook Cook. TO CURE A BURN WITHOUT A SCAR. Take one pound of butter, one large handful of sage (either dried or green) ; simmer in the butter until the sage becomes crisp or hard ; add a small piece of beeswax, strain it and pour in one gill of the best rum, and stir until it cools. TO CURE IVY-POISONED HANDS. To quiet the burning, wet them with hot lime-water. This will be efficacious when nothing else will do any good. TO CURE INSECT STINGS.

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