els must be
attended to, and the doses repeated accordingly. No other medicine to
be taken, except an emetic, at first, if desirable. Except in the case
of an infant, a milk diet is to be avoided.

DIARRHOEA.

Take tincture of Jamaica ginger one ounce, tincture of rhubarb one
ounce, tincture of opium half ounce, tincture of cardamom one and
one-half ounces, tincture of kino one ounce. Mix. Dose for an adult,
half to one teaspoonful, repeated every two to four hours; and for
children one year old, five drops; two years old, five to ten drops;
three years old, ten to twelve drops, and older children in proportion
to age.

FOR CONSTIPATION.

One or two figs eaten fasting is sufficient for some, and they are
especially good in the case of children, as there is no trouble in
getting them to take them. A spoonful of wheaten bran in a glass of
water is a simple remedy, and quite effective, taken half an hour
before breakfast; fruit eaten raw; partake largely of laxative food;
exercise in the open air; drink freely of cold water during the day,
etc. It is impossible to give many of the numerous treatments in so
short a space, suffice it to say that the general character of our
diet and experience is such as to assure us that at least one-quarter
of the food that we swallow is intended by nature to be evacuated from
the system; and if it is not, it is again absorbed into the system,
poisoning the blood and producing much suffering and permanent
disease. The evacuation of the bowels _daily_, and above all,
_regularity_, is therefore all important to aid this form of disorder.

RELIEF FROM ASTHMA.

Sufferers from asthma should get a muskrat skin and wear it over their
lungs with the fur side next to the body. It will bring certain
relief.

Or soak blotting paper in saltpetre water, then dry, burning at night
in the patient's bedroom.

Another excellent recipe: Take powdered liquorice root, powdered
elecampane root, powdered anise-seed, each one drachm, powdered ipecac
ten grains, powdered lobelia ten grains; add sufficient amount of tar
to form into pills of ordinary size. Take three or four pills on going
to bed. An excellent remedy for asthma or shortness of breath.

RECIPES FOR FELONS.

Take common rock salt, as used for salting down pork or beef, dry in
an oven, then pound it fine and mix with spirits of turpentine in
equal parts; put it in a rag and wrap it around the parts affected; as
it gets dry put