Household. USEFUL REMEDIES.

Waikato Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1622, 25 November 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)

Household.

USEFUL REMEDIES.

Thk following remedies being both safe and efficacious will be found valuable when needed: —

Eabache.—'Closing the mouths of infants and children, and simply blowing into the nose, is often a very valuable method of rea severe earache.

lieving Poison Oak, Ivy, and Sumach.—For the disagreeable effects caused by coming in contact with these plants, dissolve bicarbonate of soda in water —as much as the water will take up—and bathe the poisoned places freely every two hours. Muriate of ammonia may be used in the same manner. ,

Choking.—As the sufferer may die .before the physician arrives, it is well enough to know that speedy relief- ■ sometimes follows getting upon all fours and coughing. Another procedure, often successful," is~for someone to blow the ear.

forcibly'into patient's 1 Foreign Substances in the Ear.—Children often get buttons, pebbles, etc., in, the ear. in such cases dip the end of a suitable stick in melted glue,''and carefully insert it in the ear until.it reaches'the substance. Then a gehtly withdraw the sticky and the button or .pebble, will come out attached to its end. Another, jjoqd plan is' to take *horse-hair. of length, double it int6 aj'loop; then, placing the patient on'his side, paBS the'loop intbVthe.'ear^siiEar as ifrvill go.Cturn'iKgently, Jind, at the,vfirst' or second v th'e ouVin the ~{ "\'

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