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SIMPLE REMEDIES.
Cotton wool, wet with sweet oil and paregoric, relieves the ear-ache
very soon.
A good quantity of old cheese is the best thing to eat, when
distressed by eating too much fruit, or oppressed with any kind of
food. Physicians have given it in cases of extreme danger.
Honey and milk is very good for worms; so is strong salt water;
likewise powdered sage and molasses taken freely.
For a sudden attack of quincy or croup, bathe the neck with bear's
grease, and pour it down the throat. A linen rag soaked in sweet oil,
butter, or lard, and sprinkled with yellow Scotch snuff, is said to
have performed wonderful cures in cases of croup: it should be placed
where the distress is greatest. Goose-grease, or any kind of oily
grease, is as good as bear's oil.
Equal parts of camphor, spirits of wine, and hartshorn, well mixed,
and rubbed upon the throat, is said to be good for the croup.
Cotton wool and oil are the best things for a burn. A poultice
of wheat bran, or rye bran, and vinegar, very soon takes down the
inflammation occasioned by a sprain.
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