s bear's oil.

Equal parts of camphor, spirits of wine, and hartshorn, well mixed,
and rubbed upon the throat, is said to be good for the croup.

Cotton wool and oil are the best things for a burn. A poultice
of wheat bran, or rye bran, and vinegar, very soon takes down the
inflammation occasioned by a sprain. Brown paper, wet, is healing to a
bruise. Dipped in molasses, it is said to take down inflammation.

In case of any scratch, or wound, from which the lockjaw is
apprehended, bathe the injured part freely with lye or pearl-ash and
water.

A rind of pork bound upon a wound occasioned by a needle, pin, or
nail, prevents the lock-jaw. It should be always applied. Spirits of
turpentine is good to prevent the lock-jaw. Strong soft-soap, mixed
with pulverized chalk, about as thick as batter, put, in a thin cloth
or bag, upon the wound, is said to be a preventive to this dangerous
disorder. The chalk should be kept moist, till the wound begins to
discharge itself; when the patient will find relief.

If you happen to cut yourself slightly while cooking, bind on some
fine salt: molasses is likewise good.

Flour boiled thoroughly in milk, so as to make quite a thick porridge,
is good in cases of dysentery. A tablespoonful of W.I. rum, a
table-spoonful of sugar-baker's molasses, and the same quantity of
sweet oil, well simmered together, is likewise good for this disorder;
the oil softens the harshness of the other ingredients.

Black or green tea, steeped in boiling milk, seasoned with nutmeg,
and best of loaf sugar, is excellent for the dysentery. Cork burnt
to charcoal, about as big as a hazel-nut, macerated, and put in a
tea-spoonful of brandy, with a little loaf sugar and nutmeg, is very
efficacious in cases of dysentery and cholera-morbus. If nutmeg
be wanting, peppermint-water may be used. Flannel wet with brandy,
powdered with Cayenne pepper, and laid upon the bowels, affords great
relief in cases of extreme distress.

Dissolve as much table-salt in keen vinegar, as will ferment and work
clear. When the foam is discharged, cork it up in a bottle, and put it
away for use. A large spoonful of this, in a gill of boiling water, is
very efficacious in cases of dysentery and colic.[3]

[Footnote 3: Among the numerous medicines for this disease, perhaps
none, after all, is better, particularly where the bowels are
inflamed, than the old-fashioned one of English-mallows steeped
in milk, and drank freely. Everybody