If there be granulations on the lids, as an effect of inflam mation, take equal parts of table-salt and citric acid, say half a tea-spoonful of each, and mix them in the white of an egg. Bandage your eyes with this every night. Never use the same mixture twice. Make it fresh just before applying.

If there be much itching of the lids, use the water of turpentine, which may be obtained by pouring rain-water on crude gum taken from the pine tree; six ounces of gum or "pitch to half pint of warm water; let this tincture stand two or three days, then apply several times during twenty-four hours. Persons with sore eyes must not use salted food.

If there be temporary loss of vision, it will then be necessary to arouse the nerve-energy of the best eye by the use of hand-magnetism. Pouring cold water on the neck every morning is good, as a tonic, but is not likely to do what magnetism can. Do not delay the application of the proper means for your recovery.

There is a sort of rainbow in every eye-the colored membranes around the pupil-called the "iris." Watch it closely, when the light is in proper angle with the sight, and you will see a rainbow. What does it "promise"?

Nutritious Food for the Sick.

The Eclectic Journal says such food may consist of vegetable soup prepared by boiling pieces of turnips, potatoes, rice, or cracked wheat or rye, and adding small quantities of fresh dried beef, allowing the patient to take a wine-glass full, three, four, or five times a day, if required. Dropped egg, egg toast, bread toast, bread coffee, rye and wheat gruel, are also admissible, and many other kinds of farinaceous gruels and broths.

Pleasant Drink for the Sick.

We prescribe for the sick, everywhere, the following delicious beverage: To one and a half pounds of white sugar, two table-spoonfuls of brewers' yeast, put in one gallon of water. Let it stand in a warm place till it ferments. Then strain and bottle it. Keep it in a cold place. It should not be used until the day after it is put away in well-corked bottles.

Poultices for Wounds and Injuries.

These may be made of slippery elm, flax-seed, bread and milk, etc. A very convenient flax-seed poultice is made by taking flax-seed malt, and adding boiling water, until it assumes the consistency of a poultice. Slippery elm poultice may be made in the same manner. Bread and milk poultice may be made, by taking equal parts of each, and boiling them until they are in the form of mush. Potato and carrot poultices are made by boiling these articles, and mashing them fine. Poultices should be spread on small pieces of cloth, laid on to the part, and protected by a small piece of oiled silk.

Water Dressings for Wounds.

Many surgeons now-a-days are in the habit of applying water-dressings exclusively to wounds. These are made by taking several folds of linen or cotton, wrung out of cold or tepid water, and applying them to the part. Change as often as necessary to keep the parts moist. They should be covered with oiled silk, in the same manner as poultices.

Rapid Cure for Burns.

The Medical Gazette of France says, that, by an accident, charcoal has been discovered to be a cure for burns. By laying a piece of cold charcoal upon a burn, the pain subsides immedi

ately. By leaving the charcoal on one hour, the wound is healed, as has been demonstrated on several occasions. The most painful, but most sure and positive, remedy for a bad burn or scald, is the tincture of lobelia used as strong as the patient can bear it.

Treatment for Poisoned Wounds.

A disciple of Hahnemann says: The application of dry heat at a distance is an excellent remedy against the bites of venomous serpents, mad dogs, etc. This remedy is strongly recommended by Dr. Hering. A red-hot iron, incandescent coal, &c., ought to be placed as near the wound as possible; without, however, causing too sharp a pain; this should be continued until the patient begins to shiver and stretch himself. If this should take place a few minutes after the heat is first applied, the application may be continued for an hour, if the patient is able to bear it, or until the effects of the poison disappear.

Excellent Mixture for Burns.

According to good medical authority, two parts of collodion and one of castor-oil make an excellent mixture for burns. The mixture should be spread on with a camel's-hair pencil. It forms a covering that protects the parts from the air and other irritants, and is perfectly painless. It may be allowed to remain until suppuration begins, when a poultice of light bread and water will remove it. The healthy granulating surface may be dressed with simple means, and it readily heals. Should cracks occur in this artificial cuticle, a little more of the article will close them up. Two coats, put on the first and second day, will answer the purpose.

Remedy against Poisoning by Phosphorus.

Poisoning by phosphorus has become so frequent, in conse. quence of the universal introduction of chemical matches, that

it is highly important to make every one acquainted with the best means of counteracting the effects of that substance, in order that speedy relief may be afforded to those who may have had the misfortune to take some. The Medizinisch-Chirurgische Monatschrift, a German medical paper, proposes calcined magnesia as the best remedy for the purpose, stated to have been largely experimented on by Doctors Antonelli and Borsarelli. In cases of poisoning by phosphorus, or by any other. substance containing that metalloid, the administration of fatty substances should be avoided; because, far from attenuating the effects of the poison, they increase its energy and facilitate its diffusion. Calcined magnesia should be administered in large quantities, suspended in water that has been exposed to ebullition. In cases of dysuria occasioned by phosphorus, the best remedy is acetate of potash. All mucilaginous beverages administered to the patient should be prepared with water that has boiled, in order that they may contain as little atmospheric air as possible.

Antidote for Strychnine.

Tannin, which retains nicotine, unites also with nearly all the other alkaloids. Kursak recommends it as an antidote for strychnine, in doses of sixty grains of nut-gall to one of alkaloid. Nearly any astringent vegetable substance which happens to be at hand, may replace the tannin, such as the glands or bark of the oak and of the chestnut. The use of acids and alcohol should be avoided, as these agents dissolve the poison.

Results of a Useful Emetic.

A small child having got a cherry-stone lodged within its nose, and the efforts of a regular practitioner having failed, the services of the village barber, who likewise practiced the heal

ing art, were called in. He administered a powerful emetic, and at the moment when vomiting was about to commence, clapped a handkerchief tightly over the child's mouth. Either

from the violent expulsion of the contents of the stomach against the nares, or from the impulse given by the air expired, the stone dropped on the floor.

Swallowing Lizards, Frogs, and Toads.

Bertholin, the learned Swedish doctor, relates strange anecdotes of lizards, toads, and frogs; stating that a woman thirty years of age, being thirsty, drank plentifully of water at a pond. At the end of a few months, she experienced singular movements in her stomach, as if something was crawling up and down; and, alarmed by the sensation, consulted a medical man, who prescribed a dose of orvietan in a decoction of fumitory. Shortly afterwards, the irritation of the stomach increasing, she vomited three toads and two young lizards, after which she became more at ease. In the spring following, however, her irritation at the stomach was renewed, and aloes and bezoar being administered, she vomited three female frogs, followed the next day by their numerous progeny. In the month of January following, she vomited five more living frogs, and in the course of seven years ejected as many as eighty. Doctor Bertholin protests that he heard them croak in her stomach!

Poisoned by Saltpeter.

This poison produces violent symptoms, and acts like many other poisons, with fatal promptness. TREATMENT.-Any emetics which excite and irritate the stomach, are very dangerous. Vomiting, however, should be immediately induced by large and constant draughts of light mucilaginous drinks-flaxseed tea, gum water, skim milk, sweet oil, barley water, slippery