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  2. USEFUL RECIPES. CAOUTCHOUC, A REMEDY FOR TOOTHACHE.

    Caoutchouc, becoming very viscuous and smooth by the action of fire, has been proposed by Dr. Rolffs, as an excellent remedy for filling hollow teeth and alleviating the tooth ache proceeding from ...

    Article : 125 words
  3. TO DESTROY THE CATERPILLAR.

    To destroy the green worm, as also the small orange-coloured aphides, which often injure the bushes and destroy the fruit, sprinkle the plants with salt and water early in the spring, before the leaves ...

    Article : 104 words
  4. SPEEDY WAY OF RAISING A BLISTER.

    Take a watch-glass of the size of the proposed blister; drop into into it from eight to ten drops of the liquid ammoniae. Have ready a piece of fine linen rather smaller than the watch-glass; lay it ...

    Article : 86 words
  5. CURE FOR CHOLERA.

    When the labourers employed in the salt-pits of Salzburg were attacked with cholera, they were restored by being plunged into hot salt-water baths. The dark skin became red again; the pulse, heat of ...

    Article : 58 words
  6. TO DESTROY WASPS' NESTS.

    Professor Henslow has discovered that turpentine, placed at the entrance of the nest, was fatal to these insects. The best mode of applying it is to put the turpentine in a bottle (as much as will merely wet ...

    Article : 147 words
  7. LOCKED JAW CURED BY ELECTRICITY.

    The following account of the efficacy of this extraordinary remedy we should do wrong in withholding, though it should never again prove effective. We have the account from some friends who chanced ...

    Article : 220 words
  8. TO CLEANSE A TEA-KETTLE FROM THE FUR.

    Heat the tea-kettle rapidly over a fire of shavings, having previously made it quite dry. The expansion will separate the fur from the metal, and it may then be easily removed. ...

    Article : 40 words
  9. SUBSTITUTE FOR CREAM IN COFFEE.

    Beat the white of an egg to a froth. Put to it a small lump of butter, and turn the coffee to it gradually, to that it may not curdle. It is difficult to distinguish the taste from fresh cream. ...

    Article : 46 words
  10. TO CLEAN SILKS.

    A quarter of a-pound of soft soap, a teaspoonful of brandy, a pint of gin: mix all well together. With a sponge or flannel spread the mixture on each side of the silk without creasing it; wash it in ...

    Article : 59 words
  11. ADULTERATION OF OLIVE OIL WITH LARD.

    The American papers notice some experiments made there, with a view to detect the frauds practised by the adulteration of olive oil with lard. A professor made a chemical analysis of lard and olive ...

    Article : 198 words
  12. EFFECTUAL METHOD OF PRESERVING FURS FROM THE RAVAGES OF MOTHS.

    Wash the fur on both sides with a mixture of twelve grains of corrosive sublimate, dissolved in half a-pint of spirits of wine. To make it dissolve more readily, the corrosive sublimate should be ...

    Article : 116 words
  13. CURE FOR LOCKED JAW IN HORSES.

    It is said that pouring water along the back from a watering pot, for a considerable time without intermission, will effect a cure. ...

    Article : 30 words
  14. TO PRODUCE ICE IN A RED-HOT CRUCIBLE.

    Place a platina crucible over a spirit lamp, and keep it at a red-heat; pour in some sulphurous acid, which, though the most volatile of bodies at a common temperature, will be found to become ...

    Article : 152 words
  15. SIMPLE MODE OF PURIFYING WATER.

    It is not so generally know as it ought to be, that pounded alum possesses the property of purifying water. A tablespoonful of pulverised alum sprinkled into a hogshead of water (the water stirred at the ...

    Article : 94 words
  16. ANTIDOTE AND TESTS FOR OXALIC ACID.

    Chalk in tepid water is indisputably a complete remedy, and ought to be prescribed in abundance. Chalk itself is harmless, and there ought to be a sufficiency to neutralize the corrosive and viralent ...

    Article : 237 words
  17. TO BANISH MOSQUITOES.

    To get rid of these tormentors, take a few hot coals on a shovel or chafingdish, and burn upon them some brown sugar in your bed-rooms and parlours, and you effectually banish or destroy, every ...

    Article : 44 words
  18. TO TAKE RABBITS ALIVE.

    These are easily taken alive, by soaking their favourite food, parsley, in strong rum or brandy. A similar method is employed in catching small birds with steeped seed. They, like rabbits, are so ...

    Article : 56 words
  19. TO PRESERVE APPLES.

    According to Brand's Journal, apples may be kept the whole year round by being immersed in corn, which receives no injury from the contact. ...

    Article : 27 words
  20. HOW TO DESTROY RABBITS.

    Sow the headlands of the fields adjoining the woods, and any odd corner in the neighbourhood, or plant the banks of hedge-rows and sides of ditches with rape; every young one that eats of it will ...

    Article : 249 words
  21. A CURE FOR THE DISTEMPER IN CATTLE.

    In a letter to the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, the Earl of Essex says he has found the spirit of turpentine, about half-a-pint at a dose, with one pint of linseed oil, repeating the oil in 24 hours, ...

    Article : 84 words
  22. HYDROPHOBIA.

    The Frankfort Gazette ssys: —"A gentleman of Sarator has discovered that the most efficacious remedy for the bite of rabid animals is the insect called tetania aurata, reduced to powder, and given ...

    Article : 47 words
  23. COOKING SHELL FISH.

    The custom of boiling lobsters alive to improve their flavour is found to be as erroneous as it is cruel. The best method is, before boiling, to deprive the lobster of life by putting it into fresh ...

    Article : 92 words
  24. TO REMOVE STAINS FROM BOOKS.

    Nearly all the acids remove spots of ink from paper, but it is important to use such as attack its texture the least. Spirits of salts, diluted into five or six times the quantity of water, may be applied ...

    Article : 221 words
  25. TO PICKLE EGGS.

    When eggs ate plentiful, boil some four dozen or six dozen in a capacious saucepan until they become quite hard. After moving the shells, lay them carefully in large-mouthed jars, and pour over them ...

    Article : 122 words
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