ed in cider is good to prevent sickness
at the stomach. Physicians frequently order it in cases of
cholera-morbus.

When a blister occasioned by a burn breaks, it is said to be a good
plan to put wheat flour upon the naked flesh.

The buds of the elder bush, gathered in early spring, and simmered
with new butter, or sweet lard, make a very healing and cooling
ointment.

Night sweats have been cured, when more powerful remedies had failed,
by fasting morning and night, and drinking cold sage tea constantly
and freely.

Lard, melted and cooled five or six times in succession, by being
poured each time into a fresh pail-full of water, then simmered with
sliced onions, and cooled, is said, by old nurses, to make a salve,
which is almost infallible in curing inflammations produced by taking
cold in wounds.

Vinegar curds, made by pouring vinegar into warm milk, put on warm,
and changed pretty frequently, are likewise excellent to subdue
inflammation.

Chalk wet with hartshorn is a remedy for the sting of bees; so is
likewise table-salt kept moist with water.

Boil castor-oil with an equal quantity of milk, sweeten it with a
little sugar, stir it well, and, when cold, give it to children for
drink. They will never suspect it is medicine; and will even love the
taste of it.

As molasses is often given to children as a gentle physic, it will be
useful to know that West India molasses is a gentle cathartic, while
sugar-baker's molasses is slightly astringent.

If a fellon or run-round appears to be coming on the finger, you can
do nothing better than to soak the finger thoroughly in hot lye. It
will be painful, but it will cure a disorder much more painful.

Whiskey, which has had Spanish-flies in soak, is said to be good for
ring-worms; but I never knew an instance of its being tried. Unless
too strong, or used in great quantities, it cannot, at least, do
any harm. Washing the hands frequently in warm vinegar, is good for
ring-worms.

When the toe nails have a tendency to turn in, so as to be painful,
the nail should always be kept scraped _very thin_, and as near the
flesh as possible. As soon as the corner of the nail can be raised up
out of the flesh, it should be kept from again entering, by putting a
tuft of fine lint under it.

As this book may fall into the hands of those who cannot speedily
obtain a physician, it is worth while to mention what is best to be
done for the bite of a rattlesnake:--Cut the