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Sherbet

Take one pound of best powdered sugar, two ounces of carbonate of soda and three ounces of tartaric acid. Mix all thoroughly and keep in a bottle corked tight. When wanted for use, put a teaspoonful of the powder in a tumbler, add a drop of essence of lemon, fill with ice-water, stir and drink. XVII. Simple Remedies for the Sick.

EVERY family should know something of simple remedies, especially those who live far from physicians. Often some simple remedy given in time will cure, or, at least, carry the patient until permanent relief can be obtained. For this reason we give a variety of recipes collected from the best authorities, with appropriate doses, the doses given being for adults. For children's doses, see table of proportionate doses in the next section. The most of them are simple and easily procured. Castor oil is now much less used than formerly, but is too valuable in certain cases to omit.