Sialogogues

These are spit producers, that is, medicines or articles of any kind that when taken in the mouth, produce a free flow of saliva or spit. Candy is a good one for children.

Antacids

Antacids are agents that naturalize or counteract vinegar or acids of any kind. Common baking soda is a certain antacid.

Emollients

These are simply poultices used to soften the skin and inflamed and hardened surfaces. Bread and milk is one of the best in use, but there are many others just as good. They fill a very important place in the field of medicine.

Antilithics

Antilithics are medicines that dissolve gravel or stone in the bladder, and should only be handled by doctors.

Anthelmintics

These medicines are simply worm killers. Santonin, pink and senna are good ones.

Errhines or Stenutatories

These are agents that produce sneezing when taken in the nose. Scotch Snuff is a very good one.

Demulcents

These remedies act as soothers to inflamed surfaces. White of an egg, comfrey root, and slippery elm are classical demulcents.

Diluents

Diluents are diluters or thinners of the blood. When a man works hard in the harvest field he sweats profusely and freely, his blood then gets thicker, and he becomes very thirsty, and replaces the loss by quenching his thirst with water, which is soaked up by the stomach into the blood and fills the place of the sweat that is lost, so you may well know that water is the finest diluent in the world.

Antidotes

These are remedies that counteract the effects of poisons on the human system, and every one should have the knowledge of a few that are in their immediate reach, such as I have spoken of in this work. Powerful antidotes and powerful medicines should only be used by physicians, so I have not mentioned them, but simply those that are safe, harmless, and in the house of every one.