Go to a dentist and have it cleaned and filled. If
not near a dentist, saturate a piece of cotton with cam-
phor or peppermint and put it in the cavity, and bathe
the side of the face with it.
•"•^'*^
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Washes for Inflamed Eyes.
Wash frequently in as hot rain water as you can
bear, then lay the warm wet cloth on. If that does
not cure, wash them in green tea. If neither of these
cure, take sulph. zinc, two grains; wine of opium, ten
drops; distilled water, one ounce; mix. Lie flat on
the back and drop two or three drops in the outer
corner of the eye three times a day.
Consumption.
Dr. Marshall Hall, an eminent physician, says, " If
I were seriously ill of consumption, I would live out of
doors, except in rainy weather or mid- winter.** Lift
the windows more or less every night according to
weather, wearing something over the head, but have
plenty of fresh air to breathe every breath. An ex-
cellent thing to ease a cough is to drink plentifully
of slippery-elm and flaxseed teas, mixed with loaf sugar
and lemon juice. Use wild cherry cough syrup.
Indigestion.
It is said that Voltaire was once troubled for nearly
a year with decay of the stomach and the difficulty of
finding any kind of food it could bear. Voltaire said
he was cured by taking no other food than the follow-
ing prescription recommended by Sir John Sinclair:
Beat up an egg and then add six tablespoons of cold
water, mixing well together; then add two tablespoons
of farina of potatoes; mix it well in the egg; then pour
in as much boiling water only as will convert the
whole into a jelly, stirring well. It may be taken
alone or with the addition of a little milk in case of
stomachic debility from consumptive disorders.
Scientific American,
36oi The Quan Cook Book
Catarrh.
A twenty-year sufferer was cured of this disease by
smoking dried muUen leaves, three times a day, two
or three pipes full at a time. Close the mouth and
draw the smoke through the nostrils. It is some six or
seven years since the cure. Received some benefit
after one week; would advise smoking one or two
years till cured.
A Catarrh Snuff.
Rad Senika 3i Chlorate potass. 3ii
Pulverise very fine; mix. Snuff a pinch at & time.
Dr. Wm. Smith.
Sore Nipples.
Bathe with a strong decoction of best Japan tea;
make it fresh every day. Bathe and let dry and put
on a plaster of Dalley's pain extractor or ointment.
Repeat this every -eight hours, after nursing. Do not
nurse the child but once in four hours, giving rest to
each side eight hours. Wash off before nursing. A
sure cure, if rightly used.
A Remedy for Croup.
Let a healthy person fill his lungs with pure air;
then slowly breathe upon the patient's throat and
chest, commencing at the point of the chin and mov-
ing slowly down to the bottom of the windpipe. Re-
peat for a few minutes and it will give relief in cases
where all other means fail. My boy was always sub-
ject to. croup; came near dying with the rattling noisy
kind at about eleven months old, I saved him with
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fomentations of warm water (as hot as they can bear).
When three years old I let him play in the brook one
warm, rainy day and he took a severe cold and had
the still kind of croup. In spite of all I could do he
grew constantly worse until he could only gasp and
breathe with his head thrown back.) I applied the
breathing remedy for a minute. When I stopped he
looked up and said " Do so again, Mother, do/' though
he could not speak when I began. You may be assured*
I did so again, and I believe it saved his life.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Go to a dentist and have it cleaned and filled. If not near a dentist, saturate a piece of cotton with camphor or peppermint and put it in the cavity, and bathe the side of the face with it.
•"•^'*^
The Queen Cook Book 359
Washes for Inflamed Eyes.
Wash frequently in as hot rain water as you can bear, then lay the warm wet cloth on. If that does not cure, wash them in green tea. If neither of these cure, take sulph. zinc, two grains; wine of opium, ten drops; distilled water, one ounce; mix. Lie flat on the back and drop two or three drops in the outer corner of the eye three times a day.
Consumption.
Dr. Marshall Hall, an eminent physician, says, " If I were seriously ill of consumption, I would live out of doors, except in rainy weather or mid- winter.** Lift the windows more or less every night according to weather, wearing something over the head, but have plenty of fresh air to breathe every breath. An excellent thing to ease a cough is to drink plentifully of slippery-elm and flaxseed teas, mixed with loaf sugar and lemon juice. Use wild cherry cough syrup.
Indigestion.
It is said that Voltaire was once troubled for nearly a year with decay of the stomach and the difficulty of finding any kind of food it could bear. Voltaire said he was cured by taking no other food than the following prescription recommended by Sir John Sinclair: Beat up an egg and then add six tablespoons of cold water, mixing well together; then add two tablespoons of farina of potatoes; mix it well in the egg; then pour in as much boiling water only as will convert the whole into a jelly, stirring well. It may be taken alone or with the addition of a little milk in case of stomachic debility from consumptive disorders.
Scientific American,
360 The Queen Cook Book
Catarrh.
A twenty-year sufferer was cured of this disease by smoking dried mullen leaves, three times a day, two or three pipes full at a time. Close the mouth and draw the smoke through the nostrils. It is some six or seven years since the cure. Received some benefit after one week; would advise smoking one or two years till cured.
A Catarrh Snuff.
Rad. Senica 3i Chlorate potass. 3ii
Pulverise very fine; mix. Snuff a pinch at & time.
Dr. Wm. Smith.
Sore Nipples.
Bathe with a strong decoction of best Japan tea; make it fresh every day. Bathe and let dry and put on a plaster of Dalley's pain extractor or ointment. Repeat this every eight hours, after nursing. Do not nurse the child but once in four hours, giving rest to each side eight hours. Wash off before nursing. A sure cure, if rightly used.
A Remedy for Croup.
Let a healthy person fill his lungs with pure air; then slowly breathe upon the patient's throat and chest, commencing at the point of the chin and moving slowly down to the bottom of the windpipe. Repeat for a few minutes and it will give relief in cases where all other means fail. My boy was always subject to croup; came near dying with the rattling noisy
kind at about eleven months old, I saved him with
The Queen Cook Booh J6l
fomentations of warm water (as hot as they can bear). When three years old I let him play in the brook one warm, rainy day and he took a severe cold and had the still kind of croup. In spite of all I could do he grew constantly worse until he could only gasp and breathe with his head thrown back.) I applied the breathing remedy for a minute. When I stopped he looked up and said " Do so again, Mother, do/' though he could not speak when I began. You may be assured I did so again, and I believe it saved his life.
Home Messenger.