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drops of carbolic acid, if there is offensive odor, as a relief measure.

Sleeping in a poorly ventilated room is said to be one cause of catarrh.

_Hay Fever_ is a form of catarrh. The vapor bath is recommended as very
helpful in this trouble. _Nature Cure_ says that two vapor baths and a
two or three days' fast will cure any case of hay fever. The use of pork
and other clogging foods should be avoided by those afflicted with this
trouble. The bowels should be kept in good condition. If constipated,
the use of prunes, figs, grapes, apples and other such fruits will be
very beneficial; walking, and massage of the bowels, being added if the
fruits are not sufficient. No one able to walk should depend upon drugs
to relieve a constipated condition.

COLDS:--"If the bowels are constipated, the skin over-burdened
and clogged with bilious matter, and the lungs weak, it is as
easy to take cold as to roll off a log. If, on the contrary, the
lungs are well developed, and the respiratory power large,
providing abundant oxygen to keep bright the internal fires, the
colon clean, the skin daily washed, and the system hardened by
the cold bath, taking cold is next to impossible.

"The first remedial agent for a cold should be a copious enema.
Then open the pores of the skin by a hot bath; take a glass of
hot lemonade and go to bed."--_The New Hygiene._

CHILLS:--For chill, take a hot foot and hand bath, with mustard in the
water, 1/4 pound to a gallon; then go to bed in a well ventilated room.
Drink freely of hot lemonade or hot water. Catarrh, colds and hay fever
may all be effectually relieved by hot baths. Relief may be gained also
from inhaling the vapor from pine needles or hemlock leaves. Put them in
a bowl, pour boiling water over them, hold the face down over the bowl,
the head being covered, and inhale the vapor well up into the nostrils
and head. A few drops of hemlock oil in the hot water will do as well.

COUGHS AND HOARSENESS:--Boil flaxseed in 1 pint water, strain, add two
teaspoons honey, 1 ounce rock candy, and juice 3 lemons. Drink hot.
Also; roast a lemon till hot, cut, and squeeze on 3 ounces powdered
sugar.

COLIC:--This may arise from cold, or from error in diet. If the latter
it is desirable to induce vomiting. For the pain, apply hot flannels or
fomentations; drink hot water. In severe cases, sprinkle a little
turpentine on flannel, wrung from hot water, and apply