elm tea, either of which may be used to induce vomiting, and thus save the patient's life. After the removal of any poison, it is best to eat and drink only small quantities of the simplest preparations. Poisoned by Ash-Leachings. Vinegar and ley, by uniting chemically, form the acetate of potash. Oil and ley, united, form soap. Therefore, should a person, by mistake, drink ash-leachings, the natural antidote, to save life, would be a large draught of either sweet oil or vinegar, immediately administered. During the twenty-four hours succeeding, give the patient an abundance of flax-seed tea; almost no food of any kind; and lay cold compresses on the stomach and abdomen. Bee or Serpent Poison. For the bite of any venomous creature, reptile, spider, bee, or locust Mix gunpowder and sweet-oil together (just enough oil or lard to make the grains of the powder adhere,) and apply immediately; do not fear; the result will be favorable. Change the poultice several times during the day. Persons Stricken by Lightning. Never use the magnetic current upon persons stricken down by lightning. Open their clothing at once, giving free scope to lungs and blood, and drench them with frequent buckets of cold water. Try artificial respiration also-i. e., breathe into the patient's mouth, pressing the breast immediately after inflating the lungs and apply vigorous friction to the hands and feet. Cure for Foul Air. When an unpleasant odor (tobacco excepted,) is found in the sick room or elsewhere, if a few grains of coffee are scorched or roasted (not burned) in such places, the disagreeable odor will soon depart. Casks, or other vessels, also clothing, can likewise be cleansed in this manner. Those who have not tried it, will be surprised to witness its quick and positive effect. Removal of Superfluous Hair. It sometimes happens that the conditions for the production of hair exist in parts of the face or body where Mother Nature did not design to fix them. In such cases, the tuft of extra growth is many times a source of annoyance. It should be understood that each hair, in growing through the skin, carries with it a transparent sheath. Each hair, in fact, consists of several hairs; among them, there is a passage for the growing fluid to flow out and in. The true way to obliterate hair, therefore, is: To eradicate the minute canals which convey the nutrient liquids to the visible stems. This can hardly be done without injury to the skin. The simplest remedy within our knowledge, in this country, is the active principle of Colchicum, (get the alkaloid extract); moisten with weak vinegar, apply it to the parts after shaving the hair down, and cover the medicine with court-plaster, Renew the remedy a few times; keeping the air from the parts under treatment. You should put great faith in Time— "Time, the beautifier of the dead, Adorner of the ruin, comforter And only healer when the heart hath bled- Restoration of the Hair. Tincture of cantharides, one drachm; orange-flower water, eight ounces; sugar of lead, half a drachm; sulphur, three quarters of an ounce. Shake this mixture thoroughly on using it. We can assure every lady, unless her bodily state is very low and feverish, that the foregoing is the surest remedy for diseased or itching scalp, falling hair, and premature turning of color. The hair must be first combed carefully with a leaden comb; then saturated with the above restorative at bed time; next morning the head may be washed with a little soap and much water. Patients troubled with headache after dressing long hair, should remove the extra length with the scissors. The premature loss of hair is sometimes attributable to an alkaline deposit, which can be removed by frequently washing the scalp with weak sulphuric acid. Only ten drops to half a pint of rain-water. A Genuine Hair Tonic. The following formula, having been fully tested by our "Angel of the House," and pronounced "good" by the authority of her experience, is hereby recommended to the million: Take one ounce sugar of lead; one ounce lac. sulphur; half ounce oil of bergamot; one gill of bay rum; one tea-spoonful of salt. First dissolve the oil of bergamot in half a gill of alcohol; then add all the ingredients to one gallon of rain-water, bottle it up tight, and it will be ready for use. Use it once a day, rubbing the scalp thoroughly. How to Wash your Mouth. Cleanse all parts of your tongue and teeth, punctually before breakfast and directly after supper. This simple act of devotion will silently sweeten your whole body. You should remember that man's dental organism is not subject to climatic influences. If your Causality be developed, we advise you, first of all, to look for the causes of defective teeth in the nervous American's ill-ventilated lungs; next, in the gallons of malarious ethers that emanate from ill-digested food in the diseased duodenum. It will be seen that bad breathing is a great cause of bad teeth. Origin of Bitter and Sweet. Dr. W. Herschel has discovered that the mixing of nitrate of silver (lunar caustic) with hypo-sulphate of soda, both remarkably bitter substances, produces the sweetest substance known; a proof how much we are in the dark as to the manner in which things affect our organ of taste. So, bitter and sweet, as well as sour, appear not to be an essential quality in the matter itself, but to depend upon the proportion of the mixtures which compose it. Thin Shoes and Wet Feet. It is useless to amplify and moralize upon this fertile source of female suffering. Thousands pass from girlhood into the grave-but many times not before they have injured the world by the bestowal of one sickly child-solely in consequence of habitually wearing soleless shoes. REMEDY.-Get wisdom, take exercise, breathe plentifully of pure air, add a pair of easy, thick-soled shoes, and improve the style of your dress. Onions and Cider as Medicines. The popular roots (called onions,) are filled with medical properties. The magnetic power of the compass-needle will be entirely changed or destroyed by the touch of onion-juice. Human instinct first used them in poultices. We do not deem apple-wine or cider good as a beverage; at times it is both anti-bilious and cathartic; in general, it is the reverse in effect. See preceding pages for our doctrines regarding Foods and Drinks. Origin of the Human Spine. The spinal cord is an extension of the mammalial world into the human organization. Spines pre-existed in the organic sphere for ages; the brain was an after development. Say, rather, that the brain is composed of a multitude of spinal cords. A Palm Blister as a Remedy for Disease. We proclaim another mode of treating disease (says the Scientific American,)—a treatment that casts homeopathy, hydropathy, steam doctoring, the movement cure, and the science of therapeutics itself, entirely into the shade. It is well known that all these systems, though they make a loud noise in the world, really accomplish very little; nearly all patients who recover under the treatment of physicians of any school, would have recovered without the aid of the physician, and it is very seldom indeed that fatal diseases are diverted from their course by putting drugs into the stomach. But our system is effectual; it will cure many of the worst diseases to which mankind are subject, and it will prevent them all. It is as simple as it is powerful; it is nothing more than raising a blister in the palm of the hand. The blister must not be raised by cantharides or other poisonous irritants, but must be produced by friction, accompanied with an alternate contraction and extension of the muscles. If the operation acts as a sudorific, inducing a sensible perspiration between the clavicles and above the eyebrows, it is all the more efficacious. Almost any solid substance may be employed for administering the friction, though it has been discovered that the best substance for the purpose is the handle of some tool, such as a hammer, saw, or plane ; the very best of all being the handle of a plow or hoe. This treatment produces the good effects of all the articles |