in
sweetened water every two hours.

FOR COUGHS, COLDS, ETC.--Syrup of Morphia, three ounces; Syrup of Tar,
three and a half ounces; Chloroform, one troy ounce; Glycerine, one troy
ounce. Mix them. Dose, a teaspoonful three or four times a day.

TO CURE HIVES.--Compound syrup of Squill, U. S., three ounces; Syrup of
Ipecac, U. S., one ounce. Mix them. Dose, a teaspoonful.

TO CURE SICK HEADACHE.--Gather sumach leaves in the summer, and spread them
in the sun a few days to dry. Then powder them fine, and smoke, morning and
evening for two weeks, also whenever there are symptoms of approaching
headache. Use a new clay pipe. If these directions are adhered to, this
medicine will surely effect a permanent cure.

WHOOPING COUGH.--Dissolve a scruple of salt of tartar in a gill of water;
add to it ten grains of cochineal; sweeten it with sugar. Give to an infant
a quarter teaspoonful four times a day; two years old, one-half
teaspoonful; from four years, a tablespoonful. Great care is required in
the administration of medicines to infants. We can assure paternal
inquirers that the foregoing may be depended upon.

CUT OR BRUISE.--Apply the moist surface of the inside coating or skin of
the shell of a raw egg. It will adhere of itself, leave no scar, and heal
without pain.

DISINFECTANT.--Chloride of lime should be scattered at least once a week
under sinks and wherever sewer gas is likely to penetrate.

[Illustration: THE YOUNG DOCTOR.]

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COSTIVENESS.--Common charcoal is highly recommended for costiveness. It may
be taken in tea- or tablespoonful, or even larger doses, according to the
exigencies of the case, mixed with molasses, repeating it as often as
necessary. Bathe the bowels with pepper and vinegar. Or take two ounces of
rhubarb, add one ounce of rust of iron, infuse in one quart of wine. Half a
wineglassful every morning. Or take pulverized blood root, one drachm,
pulverized rhubarb, one drachm, castile soap, two scruples. Mix. and roll
into thirty-two pills. Take one, morning and night. By following these
directions it may perhaps save you from a severe attack of the piles, or
some other kindred disease.

TO CURE DEAFNESS.--Obtain pure pickerel oil, and apply four drops morning
and evening to the ear. Great care should be taken to obtain oil that is
perfectly pure.

DEAFNESS.--Take three drops of sheep's gall, warm, and drop it into the ear
on going to bed. The ear must be syringed with warm soap an