ic spirits of ammonia, two drachms; Peppermint water, four
ounces. Dose: Take a teaspoonful every four hours.

DIARRHOEA.--The following prescription is generally all that will be
necessary: acetate of lead, eight grains; gum arabic, two drachms; acetate
of morphia, one grain; and cinnamon water, eight ounces. Take a teaspoonful
every three hours.

Be careful not to eat too much food. Some consider, the best treatment is
to fast, and it is a good suggestion. Patients should keep quiet and have
the room of a warm and even temperature.

VOMITING.--Ice dissolved in the mouth, often cures vomiting when all
remedies fail. Much depends on the diet of persons liable to such attacks;
this should be easily digestible food, taken often and in small quantities.
Vomiting can often be arrested by applying a mustard paste over the region
of the stomach. It is not necessary to allow it to remain until the parts
are blistered, but it may be removed when the part becomes thoroughly red,
and reapplied if required after the redness has disappeared. One of the
secrets to relieve vomiting is to give the stomach perfect rest, not
allowing the patient even a glass of water, as long as the tendency remains
to throw it up again.

NERVOUS HEADACHE.--Extract hyoscymus five grains, pulverized camphor five
grains. Mix. Make four pills, one to be taken when the pain is most severe
in nervous headache. Or three drops tincture nux vomica in a spoonful of
water, two or three times a day. {364}

BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE,--from whatever cause--may generally be stopped by
putting a plug of lint into the nostril; if this does not do, apply a cold
lotion to the forehead; raise the head and place both arms over the head,
so that it will rest on both hands; dip the lint plug, slightly moistened,
in some powdered gum arabic, and plug the nostrils again; or dip the plug
into equal parts of gum arabic and alum. An easier and simpler method is to
place a piece of writing paper on the gums of the upper jaw, under the
upper lip, and let it remain there for a few minutes.

BOILS.--These should be brought to a head by warm poultices of camomile
flowers, or boiled white lily root, or onion root, by fermentation with hot
water, or by stimulating plasters. When ripe they should be destroyed by a
needle or lancet. But this should not be attempted until they are
thoroughly proved.

BUNIONS may be checked in their early development by binding the joint with
adhesive p