Wash the hands in cold water every three hours, and lather well with Windsor soap. When the hands are nearly dried with the towel, pour a little eau-de-Cologne, or milk of roses, into the palm of one hand, and rub it over the whole of both.

A leech is a useful remedy to unload the overcharged blood-vessels; or the part may be pricked with a needle, or punctured with a lancet; in such cases a soft bread-and-water poultice should be kept on during the night, applied warm, so as to encourage the flow of blood.

Household Remedies For Chilblains

The following are among the most approved of the domestic remedies, or palliatives:-

Take half an ounce of white wax, ox marrow one ounce, hog's lard two ounces; melt these ingredients slowly over a fire in a pipkin, and mix them well together; then strain through a linen cloth. Before going to bed, spread the ointment upon the parts affected, feet or hands, taking care to wrap them well up. The application should be made as soon as the first attacks are felt.

Lemon juice rubbed on the inflamed parts is said to stop the itching. A sliced onion dipped in salt has the same effect, but makes the feet tender.

Strong white mustard, pounded and mixed with water to the consistence of thick cream, rubbed on every night, letting it dry on the chilblain, and washing it off in the morning with rain water.

Encourage children to use the skipping rope regularly during cold weather. This is a capital prevention, together with regularly washing and rubbing the feet.

Aperient For Children

Gingerbread made with oatmeal instead of flour is a very useful aperient for children.

Spring Aperients; for children, nothing is better than:-1. Brimstone and molasses; to each teacupful of this when mixed, add a teaspoonful of cream of tartar. As this sometimes produces sickness, the following may be used:-2. Take of tartrate of soda one drachm and a half, powdered jalap and powdered rhubarb each fifteen grains, ginger two grains. Mix. Dose for a child above five years, one small teaspoonful; above ten years, a large teaspoonful; above fifteen, two; and for a person above twenty, three teaspoonfuls, or the whole.

Aperient Pills

To some adults all liquid medicines produce such nausea that pills are the only form in which laxative medicines can be exhibited; the following is a usual formula:- Take of compound rhubarb pill, a drachm and one scruple; of powdered ipecacuanha, six grains, and of extract of hyoscyamus one scruple. Mix and beat into a mass, and divide into twenty-four pills. Take one, or two, or if of a very costive habit, three at bed-time.

Infants' Aperient

Take of rhubarb five grains, magnesia three grains, white sugar a scruple, manna five grains; mix. Dose, varying from a piece half the size of a sweet-pea to a piece the size of an ordinary pea.

For Weak Eyes

Two grains acetate of zinc, in two ounces of rosewater; filter the liquor carefully, and wash the eyes night and morning.

A Simple Vapor Bath

It is not generally known that the settlers in the remote parts of the West make use of the following simple mode of procuring a vapor bath: The patient is enveloped in blankets, which are closely fastened about the neck, leaving the head exposed. The patient sits on a chair; under the chair is placed a basin or deep dish, with half a pint of alcohol, whiskey or gin which is ignited. The blankets lap over each other, enveloping the whole and are closed to the floor by other blankets, etc, as much as possible. In a very few minutes the patient is in a profuse perspiration; he is then immediately put to bed between warm blankets.

Ear Ache

Sometimes ear-ache is connected with chronic ulceration in the internal and external part of the ear, when injections of warm water and soap are advisable. In this case there is sometimes a constant foetid discharge, for which the following mixture has been recommended:- Take of ox-gall, three drachms; balsam of Peru, one drachm.

Mix. A drop or two put into the ear with a little cotton.

Pains After Exertion

It is not generally known to pedestrians that the pains in the knees and legs, which usually follow after a long excursion, and which continue with some persons for two or three days after, may be prevented or considerably lessened, by bathing the parts affected in cold spring water, immediately before going to bed. Care should be taken if the feet be dipped in the water, to afterwards dry them thoroughly with a rough towel.

For A Cough

Quarter of a pound of linseed; quarter of a pound of raisins; two ounces of stick liquorice; two quarts of soft water, to be boiled until reduced to half the quantity. When strained, add a quarter of a pound of brown candy, pounded; one table-spoonful of good old rum, one table-spoonful of lemon juice, or vinegar. A cupful to be taken on going to bed, and more frequently if required. To be warmed.

Nipple Liniment, by Br. Sigerbundi. - Aqueous extract of opium, one grain; Fresh limewater, three drachms; oil sweet almonds, fresh and cold pressed, three drachms.

Mix the whole, and preserve in a covered pot. The label should direct the application of this liniment by means or very fine lint, and that the nipples be covered with a piece of skin spread with wax, a hole being left open in the centre to permit the free passage of the milk.

Pomade (for healing slight tumors.)-White pitch, pure, one pound; resin, one pound; yellow wax, one pound; gum ammoniac, twelve ounces; oil of hemlock, four ounces.

Spread upon sheepskin, and apply the plaster to the sore.

Pomade Souveraine, by Laforet (for the Cure of Corns.) - Take one ounce black pitch, half an ounce galbanum, and one scruple of sal ammoniac, dissolved in vinegar; add one and a half drachm diachylon. Take only sufficient to cover the corn, and spread it upon a piece of sheepskin. After some days remove the plaster, and the corn comes with it.