sional use.

It is the preparation absurdly called by the common people _stewed
quaker_.

Half a pint of strained honey mixed cold with the juice of a lemon and
a tablespoonful of sweet oil, is another remedy for a cold; a
teaspoonful or two to be taken whenever the cough is troublesome.

COUGH SYRUP.

Syrup of squills four ounces, syrup of tolu four ounces, tincture of
bloodroot one and one-half ounces, camphorated tincture of opium four
ounces. Mix. Dose for an adult, one teaspoonful repeated every two to
four hours, or as often as necessary.

LEANNESS.

Is caused generally by lack of power in the digestive organs to digest
and assimilate the fat-producing elements of food. First restore
digestion, take plenty of sleep, drink all the water the stomach will
bear in the morning on rising, take moderate exercise in the open air,
eat oatmeal, cracked wheat, graham mush, baked sweet apples, roasted
and broiled beef, cultivate jolly people, and bathe daily.

FOR TOOTHACHE.

The worst toothache, or neuralgia, coming from the teeth may be
speedily and delightfully ended by the application of a bit of clean
cotton saturated in a solution of ammonia to the defective tooth.
Sometimes the late sufferer is prompted to momentary laughter by the
application, but the pain will disappear.

Alum reduced to a powder, a teaspoonful of the powder and an equal
quantity of fine salt well mixed, applied to the gums by dipping your
moistened finger in the mixed powder; put some also in the tooth, and
keep rubbing the gums with it; it scarcely ever fails to cure.

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 often 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,
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 deg. F., or a little more than milk warm, and have some
person inject it into the ear while you hold that side of your head