of
new milk, and stir over the fire until it comes to a boil, when add a
pinch of salt and a tablespoonful of cold water and serve. This gruel
is excellent for children afflicted with summer complaint.

Or brown a tablespoonful of flour in the oven or on top of the stove
on a baking tin; feed a few pinches at a time to a child and it will
often check a diarrhoea. The tincture of "kino"--of which from ten to
thirty drops, mixed with a little sugar and water in a spoon, and
given every two or three hours, is very efficacious and harmless--can
be procured at almost any druggist's. Tablespoon doses of pure cider
vinegar and a pinch of salt, has cured when all else failed.

BLACKBERRY CORDIAL.

This recipe may be found under the head of COFFEE, TEA, BEVERAGES. It
will be found an excellent medicine for children teething, and summer
diseases.

ACID DRINKS.

1. Peel thirty large Malaga grapes, and pour half a pint of boiling
water upon them; cover them closely and let them steep until the water
is cold.

2. Pour half a pint of boiling water upon one tablespoonful of currant
jelly, and stir until the jelly is dissolved.

3. Cranberries and barberries may be used in the same way to make very
refreshing acid drinks for persons recovering from fevers.

DRAUGHTS FOR THE FEET.

Take a large leaf from the horse-radish plant, and cut out the hard
fibres that run through the leaf; place it on a hot shovel for a
moment to soften it, fold it, and fasten it closely in the hollow of
the foot by a cloth bandage.

Burdock leaves, cabbage leaves, and mullein leaves, are used in the
same manner, to alleviate pain and promote perspiration.

Garlics are also made for draughts by pounding them, placing them on a
hot tin plate for a moment to sweat them, and binding them closely to
the hollow of the foot by a cloth bandage.

Draughts of onions, for infants, are made by roasting onions in hot
ashes, and, when they are quite soft, peeling off the outside, mashing
them, and applying them on a cloth as usual.

POULTICES.

_A Bread and Milk Poultice._--Put a tablespoonful of the crumbs of
stale bread into a gill of milk, and give the whole one boil up. Or,
take stale bread crumbs, pour over them boiling water and boil till
soft, stirring well; take from the fire and gradually stir in a little
glycerine or sweet oil, so as to render the poultice pliable when
applied.

_A Hop Poultice._--Boil one handful of dried hops in hal