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TO CURE A STING OF A BEE OR WASP.
Bind on common baking-soda, dampened with water. Or mix common earth with water
to about the consistency of mud.
TO CURE EARACHE.
Take a bit of cotton batting, put on it a pinch of black pepper, gather it up
and tie it, dip it in sweet oil, and insert it in the ear; put a flannel bandage
over the head to keep it warm; it often gives immediate relief.
Tobacco smoke, puffed into the ear, has oftentimes been effectual.
Another remedy: Take equal parts of tincture of opium and glycerine. Mix, and
from a warm teaspoon drop two or three drops into the ear, and stop the ear
tight with cotton, and repeat every hour or two. If matter should form in the
ear, make a suds with castile soap and warm water about 100° F., or a little
more than milk warm, and have some person inject it into the ear while you hold
that side of the head the lowest. If it does not heal in due time, inject a
little carbolic acid and water in the proportion of one drachm of the acid to
one pint of warm water each time after using the suds.
CROUP.
Croup, it is said, can be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alum and
sugar. Take a knife or grater, and shave off in small particles about a
teaspoonful of alum; then mix it with twice its amount of sugar, to make it
palatable, and administer it as quickly as possible. Almost instantaneous relief
will follow. Turpentine is said to be an excellent remedy for croup. Saturate a
piece of flannel, and apply it to the chest and throat, and take inwardly three
or four drops on a lump of sugar.
Another remedy.--Give a teaspoonful of ipecacuanha wine every few minutes, until
free vomiting is excited.
Another recipe said to be most reliable: Take two ounces of the wine of ipecac,
hive syrup four ounces, tincture of bloodroot two ounces. Mix it well.
Dose, for a child one year old, five to ten drops; two years, eight to twelve
drops; three years, twelve to fifteen drops; four years old, fifteen to twenty
drops; five years old twenty to twenty-five drops, and older children in
proportion to age. Repeat as often as shall be necessary to procure relief. If
it is thought best to produce vomiting, repeat the dose every ten or fifteen
minutes for a few doses.
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