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  2. USEFUL RECIPES. FLEAS.

    The following is a good method of extirpating fleas from dogs:—To four ounces of foxglove leaves (Digitalis), pour two quarts of boiling water; and with this, when it has become cold, wash the dog. ...

    Article : 59 words
  3. TOOTH-POWDER.

    Equal weights of Carbonate of soda and calcined magnesia, well mixed together, and applied twice or thrice a-week. This makes the purest, cleanest, and most efficacious tooth-powder, having been long ...

    Article : 38 words
  4. SEAL BREAKING AND THE BEST METHODS TO PREVENT LETTERS BEING OPENED.

    By the process adopted at the Post-office, a score of spurious seals can be produced in a fear minutes, and with the utmost precision and certainty. The spurious seal by which it is intended to reseat the ...

    Article : 914 words
  5. CHOLERA MORBUS.

    The following remedy for this disease and the bilious cholic has stood the test of experience: take a common velvet cork: burn it through; pour upon it a teaspoonful of brandy, and add a little ...

    Article : 66 words
  6. A NATURAL DENTIFRICE.

    The common strawberry is a natural dentifrice, and its juice, without any preparation, dissolves the tartarous incrustations on the teeth, and makes the breath sweet and agreeable. ...

    Article : 31 words
  7. TIC-DOLOREUX.

    Mr Mortimer states that two grains of extract of belladonna were given by mistake in a case of ticdoloreux. The patient was alarmingly ill for a week, but never suffered from the disease again, ...

    Article : 44 words
  8. ANTIDOTE FOR THE BITE OF ADDERS.

    A respectable and experienced farmer, who has been accustomed from his youth to keep sheep on warm soils at this time of year, was in the constant habit of losing valuable sheep-dogs, by their being ...

    Article : 189 words
  9. ASTHMA.

    We copy the following from a provincial contemporary:—"It has long been known that there is no cure for asthma, nevertheless there is great relief to be had, and that too in the following simple recipe ...

    Article : 130 words
  10. ANTIDOTE TO PRUSSIC ACID.

    We feel much pleasure in announcing recent experiments made by Messrs T. & H. Smith, of Duke-street, Edinburgh, with is view to discover an antidote for prussic acid, have been brought to a ...

    Article : 215 words
  11. REMEDY IN CASE OF POISON.

    Instantly administer two teaspoonsful of made mustard, mixed in warm water. It acts as an emetic. This is a certain remedy, if instantly administered, and may (under Providence) save a ...

    Article : 42 words
  12. TO MAKE EWES OWN THEIR LAMBS.

    Sprinkle a little fine salt over the disowned lambs; this will usually attract the mothers, and when ones the operation of licking has been performed, there is seldom any danger of desertion. ...

    Article : 38 words
  13. BURNS.

    It is stated by the Medical Times, that a Mr Peppercorn has cured several cases of severe burns of the hand, by the application of a single layer of lint, soaked in a saturated solution of carbonate of ...

    Article : 112 words
  14. EASY AND CHEAP METHOD OF BRUISING BONES.

    As every farmer ought to preserve all the bones about his establishment for manure, it may be useful to know the readiest plan of bruising them, so as to be fit for the land. Strew them on a hard road, ...

    Article : 138 words
  15. CURE FOR THE HOOPING COUGH

    Take carbonate of potass, one drachm; cochineal, one scruple; boiling water, eight ounces. The dose is a teaspoonful, three times a-day.— ...

    Article : 29 words
  16. RATS.

    If they are troublesome, sprinkle unslacked lime in their holes and about where they congregate, and they will depart without fail. This is more simple than a trap. ...

    Article : 29 words
  17. RECIPE FOR INVALIDS.

    One pint of port wine or sherry, one ounce of isinglass, half an ounce of gumarabic, two ounces of brown sugarcandy, half a nutmeg grated. Add Jemon-peel and cloves to flavour it. Simmer by the ...

    Article : 69 words
  18. TO PREVENT THE ENCROACHMENTS OF ANTS.

    In a country like the one we inhabit, so infested with the ant, any remedy will be adopted to guard against the consequence of their attacks. It has been proposed to draw a broad line with a piece ef ...

    Article : 102 words
  19. ANTI-FERMENT, FOR CIDER, BEER, WINE, &c.

    Sulphate of lime, 1 part; powdered mustard seed, 2 parts. Mix. This is infallible, if properly used. ...

    Article : 23 words
  20. MOULDY CASKS.

    M. Huenerwadel recommends sulphutic acid as the best means for purifying casks from mould and mouldy smell. So much is poured into the vessel that the acid, on rolling the cask, is sufficient to ...

    Article : 61 words
  21. PREVENTION OF INFECTION FROM TYPHUS FEVER.

    Dr J. G. Smith obtained £5000 from Parliament for the following recipe:—Take six drachms of powdered nitre (saltpetre) and six drachms of sulphurie acid (oil of vitriol), mix them in a teacup. ...

    Article : 172 words
  22. TO RENDER FOUL WATER CLEAR.

    The vegetable or animalcular impurities of water deposited in casks or cisterns may be separated and precipitated by stirring in about a quart of water, in which an ounce or two of finely powdered alum has ...

    Article : 116 words
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