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ALLOPATHIC TREATMENT OF DIPHTHERIA. - One of the most successful physicians in treating this dreaded disease gives the following directions for dealing with it. Mothers should accustom themselves and their children when young to examine the throat for indications of diphtheria, and for this purpose a "tongue depresser," represented in accompanying cut is much more convenient than a spoon, especially in the case of babies who are apt to resist having any thing thrust into their mouths. With this the tongue is easily drawn down, and does not slip from under it as it does from a spoon. It may be had from any druggist or dealer in surgical implements. The first yellowish white patches that indicate diphtheria appear on the tonsils on either side of palate, and mean danger and demand immediate and unremitted attention. If within reach send for a physician. The attack is almost as varied as is the temperament and constitution of the patient. Sometimes a slight feeling of illness is prevalent for a few days before the most serious attack. During this period drowsiness and chilliness appear, followed by feverishness, sometimes headache and aching of the limbs; at other times the attack comes on with a sudden faintness or an almost absolute prostration; while an almost universal symptom, and a very characteristic one, is a slightly swollen and tender condition of the glands at the angle of the lower jaw. The tonsils, one or both, are red and swollen; sometimes they are swollen but are not red. In younger children an almost unmistakable sign, which is very general, is that the redness is of a rose color, while in older children or adults the color is a deep crimson or bright scarlet, over the whole throat as seen by opening the mouth, the throat being attacked with inflammation so that it shows it. These symptoms may be more or less general, or to a great extent mixed or variable, according to the physical condition and temperament of the patient. After the appearance of this peculiar redness there is more or less swelling of the tonsils, at which time the false membrane first forms, and is semi-transparent. It can readily be seen by careful observation. As the disease wears on, this membrane, which is at first visible and semi-transparent, changes its color and becomes partially opaque, finally becomes thick, dark, and if blood is drawn into it turns almost black. When the change from a darkened opaque membrane commences to turn black it is one of the first symptoms of a putrid stage of the disease, and when this change takes place there is little or no help and decomposition ensues. At this stage even all hope must not be abandoned, because sometimes bloody matter is vomited, which to a great extent influences the color of the membrane. According to the strength of the patient this membrane is sooner or later thrown off. This exfoliation or peeling off of the membrane sometimes takes place in every forty-eight to seventy-two hours, or about three days. At other times the progress of the disease is impeded by proper treatment. The life of the membrane is lengthy, and it may be from five to fifteen, and it has been known not to peel off under twenty days. Sometimes the membrane peels off in a few hours, forms again, each time going deeper into the tissues. In mild cases the disease shows itself in the fauces alone. Whatever may be the cause of diphtheria, most medical men agree upon an important point: That it comes from a poison in the blood; and that thorough cleanliness will not propagate it-we don't mean in the use of soap or water-but of proper diet, so that the stomach as well as the skin of the body shall be clean. The time to begin fighting this disease is as soon as its nature is recognized. When the patches of false membrane first make their appearance on the tonsils, give as a cathartic, to a child of one year, a tea-spoon of Epsom salts; for five or six years old, double above quantity. Next, mix thoroughly One dram chlorate of potash, One and a half ounces of lime water, and One ounce of distilled water, and rub in a mortar until the chlorate of potash is perfectly dissolved; then add half an ounce pure glycerine. Give to a child one year old one tea-spoonful every hour in a little sweetened water. For a child five or six years old, or an adult, use two and a half ounces of lime water, and omit the distilled water, and give as a dose a teaspoonful and a half for the child and two tea-spoonfuls for an adult. Do not wait for the cathartic to act before beginning with this remedy, but when it acts give the following every hour, also alternating with the above (with intervals of half an hour between doses of one or the other): One dram chloride ferri (iron), One and a half ounces distilled water, One and a half ounces pure glycerine.

Mix thoroughly and give in sweetened water, and give as a dose the same quantity as of the first prescription, keeping up the treatment for two days. During the night, if the case is severe, the patient should be wakened to administer the medicine, particularly if the sleep is at all restless or unnatural. For the first two days the disease may show no signs of abatement, but under this treatment, at the end of thirty-six hours, there ought to be improvement. The tendency of the fever is to return on the third day, and if the disease is not checked and the fever returns, it will be a fight for life, but if at the end of thirty-six hours there is evident improvement, give the medicines every two hours (alternately giving one or the other every hour) for several days. For a child old enough to use it, or for an adult, gargle well, before taking medicine or nourishment, with the following, well mixed: Fifteen drops carbolic acid, Six ounces lime water.

These remedies may be made up, corked securely, and kept in a dark place, ready for use, in cases where a family lives remote from a drug store, as time is an important element in treating this disease. For an outward application apply a mixture made of A tablespoonful of camphor, A half spoonful of turpentine, A half spoonful of coal-oil. (For a child add a tablespoon of sweet-oil.) Apply this to the throat, high up under the ears and down to the chest; cover with dry flannels for a few minutes; remove, and if not red, apply mixture again, and repeat until the skin is well reddened. Then apply slices of fat salt pork (sewed on a piece of cloth), letting them cover well the front part of neck and extend up under the ears. The glycerine arrests putrefaction, while the lime-water dissolves the false membrane. HOT WATER AS MEDICINE. -Consumptives and dyspeptics find great relief in drinking, or rather slowly sipping, hot water an hour before eating. It should be as hot as it can be taken. Sips of hot water are also good where the stomach is weak, as in convalescence after illness. In a severe case of dyspepsia, the patient began by taking six teaspoons of hot water three times a day, and has gradually increased the amount with the greatest benefit. Hot water is also excellent in cases of sick stomach, and may be taken when no nourishment of any kind can be retained in the stomach. MULLEIN FOR CONSUMPTION. - The leaves and flowers of the common mullein have cured consumption. Make a strong tea of the fresh or dried leaves (best when gathered from plants in blossom) and drink freely. Continue from three to six months, according to the severity of the disease. This remedy is "good for the blood" also, building up the system, making good blood, and taking away the inflammation from the lungs. FOR A COUGH. - Simmer together one ounce pressed mullein and one-half ounce hoarhound in a quart soft water till strength is extracted (add more water if necessary); strain and add one pint Orleans molasses. Dose-one tablespoonful three times a day.

SOFT WATER AND CHOLERA. - A distinguished physician gives it as his opinion that the habitual use of pure soft water, or from wells in a locality where the rocks are freestone, will prevent the cholera. He states that cholera has always prevailed in a limestone region, among families using hard water, while those using soft water in same neighborhoods escaped, and those living in freestone regions only a few miles away were also exempt from attacks. Soft water from cisterns should be filtered before using.

CLOVER TEA. - Gather the blossoms of red clover, when beginning to bloom, and dry for use, putting away in tight paper sacks. A tea made from these blossoms is excellent for "hives," cancer, or any disease of a scrofulous nature. The essence of clover is sometimes used instead of the tea, and is kept at drug stores. It is also good for sickness at the stomach. The tea may be made of the fresh blossoms also. For cancer the tea is given in large quantities, some patients drinking a gallon a day every day for a year before feeling certain of cure. This is largely prescribed by physicians.

TAPER LIGHTS. - The best light for a sick room is furnished by the tapers which come in boxes (bought at any drug-store) in a vase or a tumbler of lard-oil. The taper is simply a small wick set in a tiny piece of wood. In the box of tapers is a float-a three-cornered frame of tin with a bit of cork on each corner. This is placed on the surface of the oil, and the taper set on it, the bottom of the wood resting in the oil. It may then be lighted, and produces an agreeable light, without smoke or smell, and sufficient for the purposes of the sick-room or nursery, and yet not so glaring as to be disagreeable. All persons accustomed to light in the sleeping-room will find this much better than a lamp turned low. The tumbler may be half full of water, with oil on top.

TO PROMOTE OR RESTORE MENSTRUATION. - Put a small teacup of logwood chips into a pint of soft water, simmer for fifteen minutes, then add one half pint of whisky. Dose, one tablespoon half an hour before each meal, and just before going to bed.

Another excellent prescription for the same purpose is made as follows: Two drams of prepared citrate of iron and quinine, one pint cherry wine, one-half ounce chamomile flowers.

RAW LINSEED OIL is one of the best applications for burns, wounds, or cuts. It excludes the air and heals rapidly. Dip a cloth in it, and apply, covering with a second cloth. For flux or diarrhea in children, give a teaspoonful three times a day until the disease has abated. Be careful not to use boiled linseed oil as a remedy in cases of men or animals. When boiled it is only used for painting.

CURE FOR COUGH OR HOARSENESS. - One of the best remedies for coughs, colds, and particularly for hoarseness, is made as follows; Wet a piece of cotton-batting on the inside, wrap it around a lemon, and cover with ashes and coals to roast as you would roast a potato; let it roast from fifteen to twenty minutes; take out, clip off one end, squeeze out the juice, and strain it through a thin cloth to remove any seeds or particles of pulp. There will be from four to five teaspoonfuls of juice, which mix with an equal quantity of strained honey (to strain warm and strain through a thin cloth); or, instead of honey, add three teaspoons of granulated sugar, place the cup in a pan of hot water, set on stove until sugar is dissolved. Take one or two teaspoonfuls every hour, or after a spell of coughing. For a child add a larger proportion of honey and sugar, and give a quarter teaspoonful every two hours. BRIGHT'S DISEASE. - Dr. Arthur Scott Dorkin extols a skim-milk diet in this disease. "The first appreciable action," he says, "of skim-milk taken to the extent of six or seven pints daily, is that of a most energetic diuretic, a profuse flow of urine being rapidly produced. The effect of this in Bright's disease, is to flush the uriniferous tubules, and to dislodge and wash out the concrete casts of diseased epithelial cells by which they are blocked up and distended. The emptying of the tubules relieves their pressure on the surrounding secondary capillaries, the blood begins to flow more freely through them, the distension of the primary malpighian capillaries is relieved; less and less albumen escapes through their walls, until the renal circulation is gradually restored, when it finally disappears from the urine. While this beneficial change is progressing, healthy epithelium is developed in the tubules, and the urinary excrement is withdrawn from the blood. In short, a healthy nutrition becomes re-established in the kidneys through the agency of milk, which, above all other substances, seems to exercise a controlling influence over this process. INHALATION OF TAR FOR CONSUMPTION: -Mix together sixteen ounces of liquid tar and one fluid ounce liquor of potassa, boil them for a few minutes in the open air, then let it simmer in an iron vessel over a spirit or other lamp in the chamber of the patient. This may at first excite a disposition to cough, but in a short time it allays it, and removes any tendency to it.

FRENCH REMEDY FOR CHRONIC RHEUMATISM. - Dr. Bonnet, of Graulbet, France, states, in a letter to the "Abeille Medicale," that he has been long in the habit of prescribing "the essential oil of turpentine by friction for rheumatism; and that he has used it himself with perfect success, having almost instantaneously got rid of rheumatic pains in both knees and in the left shoulder."

MAGNETIC OINTMENT EQUAL TO TRASK'S.-Hard raisins cut in pieces, and fine-cut tobacco, equal weights; simmer well together, then strain, and press out all from the dregs. This is excellent for external applications, for cold in the head, applying it to the temples, outside and inside of nose, and forehead. Applied inside of nose it clears the head by sneezing. It is also good for croup if applied first to the throat and afterward to the chest.

WENS.-Dissolve copperas in water to make it very strong; now take a pin, needle, or sharp knife, and prick or cut the wen in about a dozen places, just sufficient to cause it to bleed; then wet it well with the copperas water, once daily. TO CURE A COLD.-A bad cold should be "nipped in the bud." To de this no medicine is required. A person who finds he has taken cold should bundle up unusually warm in bed with a bottle of hot water at his feet. The object is to create a mild perspiration the entire night. Before dressing in the morning take a sponge bath in cool water and apply friction to the skin until it is in a glow. The cold, probably will then have disappeared, but if not follow the same course another night. But this remedy must be applied promptly after noting the first indications-such as sneezing or/ running at the noze; if left a day or two, the cold will be sure to run its course. Often toasting the feet the whole evening by the fire will answer the purpose.

SLEEPLESSNESS. -The loss of power to cast off the burden of the day, and find rest at night, is one of the greatest of personal afflictions; yet, it is safe to say that wakefulness at night is an acquired habit, which can be overcome, like other bad habits, if not too long indulged. Let any adult person awake, say at midnight, and "get to thinking" for an hour or two; do this the following three or four nights; he will find that it will then require a powerful effort of the will to resist doing the same thing for several nights thereafter. A person should never give way to the dangerous habit of lying awake at nights; for that is exactly what it is, a dangerous habit, and nothing else.

TRICHINE.-Don't eat raw hog meat of any sort. It may contain trichinæ, and if it does, the undertaker may as well be sent for. LIME IN THE EYE. -When lime, soda, potash, or ammonia, gets in the eye, wash out with water containing a little vinegar.

LIGHT SUPPERS. - Give the whole family light suppers and send the children early to bed, CURE FOR LOCK-JAW, SAID TO BE POSITIVE, -Let any one who has an attack of lock-jaw take a small quantity of spirits of turpentine, warm it, and pour it on the wound-no matter where the wound is, or what its nature is-and relief will follow in less than a minute. Turpentine is also a sovereign remedy for croup. Saturate a piece of flannel with it, and place the flannel on the throat and chest-and in very severe cases three to five drops on a lump of sugar may be taken internally.

REMEDY FOR CONSUMPTION. - The following is said to be an effectual remedy, and will in time completely cure the disorder. Live temperately, avoid spirituous liquors, wear flannel next the skin, and take, every morning, half a pint of new milk, mixed with a wine glassful of the expressed juice of green hoarhound. One who has tried it, says, "Four weeks' use of the hoarhound and milk relieved the pains of my breast, gave me ability to breathe deep, long and free, strengthened and harmonized my voice and restored me to a better state of health than I had enjoyed for years." CHAPPED HANDS. - When the hands show signs of cracking wash them clean with mild soap and soft warm water. Rinse in borax water and thoroughly dry them. Then anoint them with vaseline or petroleum jelly, which can be procured at any drug store. Dry it by the fire and a cure is sure to follow. This vaseline never fails. With it the skin can be kept soft and velvety all the time.

RELIEF FOR BURNING FEET. - To relieve burning feet, first discard tight boots; then take one pint of bran and one ounce of bicarbonate of soda, put in a foot-bath, add one gallon of hot water; when cool enough, soak your feet in this mixture for fifteen minutes. The relief is instantaneous. This must be repeated every night for a week or perhaps more. The bran and bicarbonate should be made fresh after a week's use. Bicarbonate of soda can be purchased for a small price per pound from wholesale druggists. The burning sensation is produced by the pores of the skin being closed, so that the feet do not perspire.

CROUP can be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alum and molasses. The way to accomplish the deed is to take a knife or grate and shave off in small particles about a teaspoonful of alum; then mix it with twice its quantity of molasses, to make it palatable, and administer it as quick as possible. Almost instantaneous relief will follow by vomiting. CURE OF CROUP. - A lady writer of professed experience gives the following advice to mothers whose children have the croup: First get a piece of chamois skin, make a little bib, cut out the neck and sew on tapes to tie it on; then melt together some tallow and pine tar; rub some of this in the chamois and let the child wear it all the time. My baby had the croup whenever she took cold, and since I put on the chamois I have had no more trouble. Renew with tar occasionally. TO CURE A FELON. - Take a pint of common soft soap and stir in airslacked lime till it is of the consistency of glazier's putty. Make a leather thimble, fill it with this composition and insert the finger therein, and the cure is certain.

POISON BY IVY, - An infallible remedy for poisoning by ivy, poison oak and other poison vines and plants, is good rich butter milk in which you have beaten some green tansy leaves until the milk is thoroughly tinctured. Bathe the parts often (indeed, you could not do it too often,) until relieved. Weta cloth with the mixture at night, and lay on, wetting as often as it feels dry.

ALGER LINIMENT. - Alcohol, one gallon; cagiput oil, one ounce; monard oil, one ounce; thymes oil, one ounce; peppermint oil, half ounce; camphor gum, one ounce. Shake well and let stand twenty-four nours. It is good for rheumatism and for any purpose for which liniment is used for man or beast. This is a very valuable recipe and has been sold at a very high price. WATER TREATMENT AT HOME. -The following methods of treatment with water, etc., have been tested, and we know whereof we speak when we say they work like a charm. A thermometer is needed to test the temperature, as the terms hot, cold, warm and tepid are so indefinite; what is hot to one person is cold to another, in the morbid states through which sick people pass, and the sensations of healthy persons are so variable that they can not be relied upon to temper baths by the touch, for those with whom a slight change is of consequence. Generally 70° Fahrenheit would be considered a cold bath, 85° tepid, 95° warm, and 105° hot. The time of taking baths is from an hour to two hours after, and never within half an hour before, eating; and those who are taking treatment for chronic ailments, or for cleanliness, should not bathe when tired; but when one is suffering from acute diseases, and becomes restless and nervous, a sponge-bath or, if able to bear it, a pack or a sitz or foot-bath will greatly refresh and soothe. From ten to twelve in the morning generally finds the body at its highest point of vigor, and as treatments are most beneficial then, this proves the best time; but if this can not be, take just before retiring. In all baths a cold wet cloth should be kept on head and jug of hot water, with rubber cork, at feet (except in foot-baths), keeping head cool and feet warm. When baths are to be reduced, add cold water till right temperature is reached; but after foot-baths the better way is to have a pail of cold water and take what is called a foot-plunge, immersing the feet one at a time, for a moment, in this pail; or the cold water may be poured right over the feet. The theory is this: wherever water is applied to any part or the whole of the body, at so high a temperature as to relax the coats of the capillaries and distend them with blood, it must be followed by an application at so low a temperature as to constringe the vessels and restore their tone. When bath is completed wrap at once in a dry sheet and rub vigorously with a crash towel, as the patient must not have any chilly sensations, and the skin should be left all aglow. A strong person may now take any exercise wished, so as to establish thorough and permanent reaction, but delicate persons had better rest for an hour or two. THE SITZ-BATH. - This is a very pleasant remedy for a great many ills. To take, have a sitz-bath tub, which is either of tin or wood, something the shape of a chair, the seat being the tub, and the back is hollowed out to fit the back of person; or one can be improvised by taking a large wash-tub and placing something under at back, so as to incline it. Patient undresses and sits in tub, with water enough to nearly fill it when he sits down, with a foot-tub of water for his feet; place blanket around him from the front, so as to well cover him, and tuck in carefully at the back; place a cold wet cloth on head. The general temperature for a sitz is 92° for ten minutes; 88°, five minutes; and for foot water 100°. Now have a pail of cold water, and plunge feet one at a time in it, then throw a dry sheet around him, and rub dry quickly and vigorously with a crash towel. These sitz-baths are good for colds, diarrhea, piles, female weakness, urinary trouble, bilious colic, and, in fact, almost every ill that flesh is heir to.

For colds-a sitz-bath as warm as can be borne (106° is good), adding hot water as it cools, so as to keep it at that temperature for fifteen minutes; with foot-bath hot, hotter, hottest. Keep well wrapped up, a cold wet cloth on head, rub thoroughly dry, and go right to bed. Or some follow with a dripping sheet; and others who are robust, and wish to break up a severe cold, take this hot sitz, then a pack at about 85°, then a dripping sheet, and diet carefully for two or three days, remaining in bed if possible. Where it is only a slight cold a hot foot-bath, as described elsewhere, suffices; and this is also better for children under six or seven years of age; as you can not easily give them a sitz.

The temperature of a sitz-bath, in different diseases, is about as follows: Colds-hot as can be borne. Diarrhea-cool, about 90° for ten minutes, and 84°, five minutes. Piles-96°, ten minutes; 90°, five minutes. Female weakness-94°, ten minutes; 88°, ten minutes. Profuse menstruation-84°-five minutes; 78°, five minutes, and 72°, five minutes. Urinary troubles-92°, ten minutes, and 88°, five minutes. Bilious colic and for all acute pains- 102°, rapidly raised to as hot as can be borne, but take out patient before perspiring. Chronic pains-104°, three minutes; 90°, five minutes, and 86°, five minutes. For malaria-104° at first, adding hot water till the person perspires. For retention of urine, with a desire to urinate-a sitz-bath at 100°, ten minutes, and 90°, five minutes, with foot-bath as hot as can be borne, with cold plunge and a vigorous rubbing with damp salt, repeated for two or three days, will give perfect relief.

The sitz-bath is of great importance in drawing the blood from the brain, and also relieves congestion of the abdominal structures. The usual length is from fifteen to thirty minutes, according to strength of patient, if an invalid, or as it feels comfortable. THE FOOT-BATH. -This good old remedy for colds, etc., as given, was always attended with the risk of taking more cold. This is easily overcome by the very simple adjunct of a pail of cold water in which to plunge the feet, and give bath in this way for a cold: At night have a foot-tub of hot water-110°, or hotter if patient will bear it; and he can be dressed or undressed, but must, in either case, be well wrapped with a blanket, a cold wet cloth on head, and as water cools add hot. In ten or fifteen minutes take out feet and plunge for a moment in pail of cold water, then wipe dry and rub to a glow, retire at once, and in the morning all traces of the cold, such as head stopped up, sore throat, etc., will have disappeared. For a little child, where he can not take the plunge, wet a towel in cold water, and take his feet on your lap and rub with the wet towel, and then wipe dry. The plunge or cooling of the water ought to follow all foot-baths, whether for colds, a tired feeling, headache, cleanliness, etc. Where one has had a hard day's work nothing is more restful than a foot-bath as hot as can be borne. The usual foot-bath is 104°, and hot water added to keep it at this point for ten or fifteen minutes; but where it is given with sitz, no more hot water is added. For chronic cold feet have water as hot as can be borne one minute, then plunge feet in cold, then in the hot a minute, and repeat this from six to a dozen times, ending with the cold plunge, and then rub vigorously. For a child, need not make so many changes. Take this three times a week. For a sprain, this treatment is one of the best; or a spray of hot a minute, and then a cold spray, then hot, and so on for half a dozen times.

What is called by some a deep leg-bath is only an "extension foot-bath," and is of prime importance in congestion of the brain, catarrh, and, in fact, any head trouble, as it is purely a derivative bath. It is given best in a tub twenty-eight inches high, top diameter twenty inches, and bottom seventeen inches. Have patient stand in this with water to his hips, of the temperature of 108° or 110°, for ten minutes, cold wet cloth on his head, and a sheet wrapped around him; step out and spray the legs, or even the whole body, with water of the temperature of 85°, and gradually reduced to as cool as can be borne; or a bucket of water 85° can be thrown over legs, and then one at 75°. Where there is severe congestion of the brain, have two pails of water, same temperature as tub, placed on each side, high enough to come up even with top of tub, and have patient immerse his arms in these. The deep leg-bath can not be taken till two hours after eating, but the ordinary foot-bath in an hour or an hour and a half. A foot-bath may be given in bed by placing a rubber cloth under the foot-tub, and it gives great relief ofttimes.

FOMENTATIONS. -The method of giving this treatment is very simple, and yet very few give them correctly. First, have flannel cloths, made of four thicknesses white shaker-flannel (or pieces of a blanket), sewed across the center from corner to corner, and also all around the edges. Different sizes are needed: one, 10 by 13 inches, for across small of back; one, 12 by 17 inches, for over chest, stomach and bowels; and one, 5 by 18 inches, for down the spine; then one for the throat. And of course one can make any shapes wished; and, where there are children, many different sizes must be in readiness in the bath-room cupboard. Fomentations are good for all pains, aches, inflammations, inactivity of stomach and liver, and are always a success, giving relief to pain at once. Where the case is acute they should be given daily, and in severe cases oftener - if necessary, continuing for two hours at a time. (Have known them to be given for five consecutive hours.) The usual length of time is twenty or twenty-five minutes, giving four or five changes of five minutes each. For a child, if rather weak, give only two or three changes, and repeat oftener, if for pain, whenever it returns. The manner of treatment is this: Place on a bed or cot a comforter and blanket. Let patient undress entirely, as he does for a pack, and lie upon the blanket, with a jug of hot water at his feet; then wring the flannel out of boiling water-and there are different ways of doing this-as, to be efficacious, the cloth must be very hot-as hot as patient can bear, and he can bear it a great deal hotter than he thinks. Of course, for children, the one who gives treatment must be the judge. One rule is, what you can bear to your face; or some put one thickness of dry flannel next skin, and then the hot fomentation; or wring flannel with your hands, or have water at 150°. But, for adults, the best way is to immerse flannel in boiling water and wring with a wringer-a small one, fastened to a wooden pail, being very convenient; or, if one has a bath-room, have a sink in that, and fasten wringer to it; or a small tub can be arranged with feet, so it can be moved into any room necessary. The next best way is to place in a foot-tub a cloth of two thicknesses of heavy muslin (flour sack will do), extending over the ends of tub; place flannel folded in center of it, and have two square sticks (two feet long and inch and a half square) ready to place at each end, resting on top of flannel; pour on the boiling water, put in sticks, and let one person take hold of each, turning sticks, bringing up the muslin around it, and then wring in opposite directions; or, if only one person prepares cloths, have another dry muslin cloth, and, after boiling water is poured on flannel, lift all into this dry cloth, and then wring. This is rather severe on the hands, but can be done. Now put flannel on part to be fomented, and bring up one side of blanket, then the other, and then comforter, placing a cold wet cloth on head. (If patient is sick in bed, a piece of dry flannel can be placed under him, if back is to be fomented or if the upper part of body, over the fomentation cloths, and then, in either case, tuck bed clothes well around him.) Let flannel remain five minutes, wring again; or, if you have two cloths, have second one ready, and let it remain on five minutes, and so on for twenty or thirty minutes. In chronic diseases repeat this three or four times a week, and it will prove to be one of the best treatments to reduce chronic inflammation and congestion of the stomach, liver, bowels, spleen, and kidneys. After the fomentations, sponge off part fomented with tepid water, rub dry with a towel, and oil with sweet or cocoanut oil; and if for pain or soreness, use sweet oil and ammonia, prepared by dropping ammonia into sweet oil till it becomes white (to a two-ounce bottle of oil, three or four drops). This rubbing with oil prevents taking cold. In pneumonia nothing is better than hot fomentations given as described. In rheumatic fever, add cooking-soda to the water, in proportion of table-spoon to a quart of water, and foment right over the heart. In rheumatism, neuralgia, bilious colic, etc., etc., fomentations avail much, giving instantaneous relief sometimes. Sickness at the stomach, a dizzy, heavy feeling, and severe pain in head, will all be relieved at once by fomenting the stomach. For a babe who has severe colic, when fomentations are applied with two thicknesses of flannel next skin, and with care, they are just the thing. In any bronchial or lung trouble, these given over the lungs, chest and throat, extending half way around neck, have been known to in time effect a cure where the voice had been almost lost. The effect of fomentations is to bring the blood to the surface, and thus prevent inflammation and congestion. They can be taken any time, except half an before or an hour and a half after eating. FEMALE WEAKNESSES. - One of the best treatments for leucorrhea, ulceration, and, in fact, any female weakness, is the hot vaginal enema. The best syringe to use is one that has only side openings in the metal tube, and this is an easy way to give it: Place a blanket in the long bath-tub, letting it. reach down to the hips when you lie down on your back. The temperature most often used is 110° for ten minutes, and 100° for five minutes; but it can be as hot as can be borne, as what is unpleasant to the surface is hardly felt in the interior; and by placing a folded blanket under the hips, so as to raise them quite high, and closing the opening around the tube of the syringe when inserted, a pint of water may be retained for several minutes, acting as a fomentation to the inner surface; then eject this and inject more, and so continue for ten to twenty minutes. Repeat this three times a week, and wear all the time, day and night, a compress made of three thicknesses of linen, long enough to pass well around the abdomen, wet in tepid water, with a dry flannel (about two thicknesses) over it; re-wet the compress whenever it becomes dry. Then there are the fomentations and sitz-baths, described elsewhere, which are invaluable. Another special treatment is the pelvic compress: Take two or three thicknesses of linen, about 12 by 10 inches, and have bed or cot arranged as for a pack; have patient lie down upon the blanket, with jug of hot water at feet, and cool cloth on head; then wet compress in water at 80° and place over abdomen, extending well over the affected parts; bring up blanket and comforter, and in five minutes wet cloth in water at 74°, in three minutes 70°, in five minutes 64°, in three minutes 60°, in five minutes cold, and after five minutes take towel and rub dry. This, repeated three times a week, is very strengthening. In pregnancy, tepid sitz-baths, the wearing of the compress around abdomen, and a diet of fruit, grains and vegetables, with oil-baths occasionally, if one is not fleshy, keep the system in a healthy state.

COMPRESSES.-The use of compresses is good for so many ailments that one should know how to apply them. Compress cloths are made of two or three thicknesses of old linen (crash toweling is good), and can be of whatever shapes wished. The difference between compresses and fomentations are, the first is wet, and wrung so it will not drip, in tepid or cold water, -hence linen is best; while the latter is wet in hot water. A dry flannel of two thicknesses, a little wider and longer, is put on over the linen compress, which is re-wet three times a day in chronic cases, or when it feels uncomfortable. The throat compress, for chronic trouble, is wet in tepid water, and is worn day-time in summer, and at night in winter; and when taken off, the throat is bathed in cold water and rubbed till red with a crash towel. The chest compress, in acute cases-such as pneumonia-should be re-wet every three hours in water at 90°; for chronic lung trouble, re-wet whenever it feels unpleasant. The abdominal compress is one of great value in fevers, kidney trouble, indigestion, weak back (for this, use salt in water), female weaknesses, and is always a relief when one is tired and restless. For acute or chronic cases, wear till the disease is conquered. The spinal compress is used where there is pain in the spine, with sense of heat, and is given like a fomentation, only with the linen compress: 70° for five minutes; 64°, five minutes; 60°, five minutes; 54°, five minutes; 50°, five minutes; and sometimes the last changes are ice-cold. For weak back caused by a sore place, use a hot flannel compress five minutes across small of back, then a cold linen one, then hot, and so on for half an hour, with cold last, rubbing dry with crash towel. Another remedy for simply a weak back, is to first sponge with hot water one minute, then cold one minute, for two or three times, rubbing dry, and then use oil and ammonia. Compresses are very much used after giving fomentations, and, in that case, no sponging off in cool water or oiling is necessary, but immediately put on the wet girdle and cover with dry flannel.

PACKS. First, it is much more convenient if you can have what is called a "packing cot" made. A good proportion for the frame-work is thirty inches wide, twenty-five inches high, with the slats placed on a slight elevation, about three and a half inches, at head. Then a mattress, made to fit (it can be of straw or whatever you wish); on that place an oilcloth, then a comforter, then a blanket, stripes at side, and a jug of hot water, with a rubber cork, at foot. Now have the patient undress. Take a sheet, and with one hand pleat up the side of it, and with the other double it at middle seam and dip it in a pail of water of the temperature of 96° or 100 ° (you must allow five or six degrees for cooling off in wringing out sheet), wring and spread over the blanket. Have patient lie on his back in center, with hands over head; bring one side of sheet over the body, tucking it under the near shoulder and up close to the neck, and then between the legs; put arms down at side of body, and bring other side of sheet over the patient and tuck in closely under the side of the body down to the feet, then one side of blanket, then the other, then comforter in same way. In folding the blanket and comforter around neck bring it with one hand, in shape of a V, over the breast, and then fold corner up to the shoulder and tuck in. This saves SO much bulk saves so much bulk close up to the neck. Now fold a dry sheet across the middle and put over the patient, tucking it in well around the neck, SO that no air can get in. The reason of using this extra sheet is, it is SO much easier tucked closely around the neck and less bungling than the comforter. It is of great importance that all air be excluded and the work done quickly. Place a cloth wet in cold water on the head, extending over the eyes. If the patient does not warm up quickly, put an extra comforter or blankets over him, and, if necessary, jugs of hot water at the side; for unless he becomes warm soon, the pack will do no good. and he should be taken out. The usual length of a pack is from forty minutes to an hour, for an adult; for a child, from ten minutes to half an hour-according to age and strength. There must be perfect quiet in the room, for much better results are obtained if the patient will sleep: he certainly must not talk. In taking him out unloose comforters and blankets, and pull the wet sheet out quickly and throw over the dry sheet, or, in winter, bring up the blanket. There are several different treatments that follow a pack. If convenient to a bath-room, one can slip in and take a wash-off, or a spray, or a pail-pour. The latter is given by having four pails of water-two of one temperature, 90°, poured over first, and then two of 80°; then wrap around him a dry sheet and take a crash towel and wipe dry, taking, in rotation, arms, breast, back, and legs. Or a dripping sheet can be given right in the room by putting an oil-cloth on the carpet; on that put a foot-tub of water at 104°; the patient stands in this, and a sheet is dipped in a pail half full of water at 90°, or less, taken up by two corners, squeezed slightly, and put around him from the front, lapping behind, and then rub him (over the sheet) vigorously for a minute; re-dip the sheet (water will be cooler, or some cold may be added to make it about 6° or 8° less than at first), and put it around from behind, and rub again; then remove, and cover with a dry sheet and rub vigorous.y. This bath is a good treatment taken alone as well as after a pack. It acts as a tonic, and a well person can take it himself. Or, if an oil-bath, sponge or dry rub is given, let him remain on the cot, and, for an oil-bath, rub an arm dry with a crash towel, then rub with oil, and so on; for a sponge-bath, take a sponge (or a towel) and tepid water, and sponge off, rubbing dry with a crash towel; for a dry rub, simply rub dry with a crash towel, rubbing hard to create good circulation. The temperature of the room should be about 75°; and when the patient is taken out of the pack, let no cold air come on him. The temperature of the water in which sheet is dipped, for adults generally, is not SO important. as within two or three minutes it becomes of the same temperature as the body; from 90° to 100° is a good range, but for children and delicate persons it should be from 100° to 110°, SO as not to shock them. Packs are of great value in reducing fever, in breaking up a cold, in malarial diseases, such as fever and ague, etc.; and also in poor circulation and where the system is weakened and run down it acts as a tonic. In the spring, when the system needs building up, just try a few packs instead of the sulphur and molasses of old times.

OIL-RUBS.-This treatment is one that gives perfect satisfaction to all who try it; indeed, too much praise can not be given to it. To see the effects of it; indeed, too much praise can not be given to it. To see the effects of oil-rubs, one would say as did the Queen of Sheba, "The half has not been told." To give it, have the patient undressed, with a sheet or blanket around him, sitting up or lying down; take either cocoanut, pure olive, or sweet purest; pour some in palm of hand, rub hands together, then take an arm and rub in the oil thoroughly, rubbing up and down, using more oil if necessary ( as much as skin will absorb); cover this arm; take more oil and rub the other arm, then breast, back and legs; cover each part when finished . Repeat from three to six times a week, as the case may demand. One who is greatly reduced can take with benefit six a week. Once a week take a wash-off, or an acid sponge, by putting a scant tea-cup vinegar in a gallon of warm water, and using a sponge or towel, then rubbing dry. This is especially good for consumptives, dyspeptics, and persons who, from any cause , have been reduced in flesh and strength. It acts as a tonic, -thus it is of twofold value where one is recovering from sickness, as it is also nutritive to them, and to those who are cold-blooded it warms up the system. So for children it is especially good in winter, as an oil-rub at night will assist in keeping them warm; so in the day-time, if going on a long drive, or to be exposed to the cold for awhile, it is a good "send-off ." For colds it works to a charm, for young or old, acting as a preventive, as it builds up the system, and renders it less liable to disease. Or, when a cold is taken, it is easily broken up by a pack, followed immediately by an oil-rub, and the next two nights simply oil-rubs, a hot foot-bath, 108°, then cooled down, and followed by a complete oil-rub. Where adults or children are delicate, the oil-rub gives good, healthy flesh ; and where it is given as described, the result is perfect. For constipation it is invaluable, working a perfect cure after a month or two. It can be given at any time, without reference to eating, as it is a nutritive bath The following description-given by Dr.

Home on the Hillside," at Dansville, N. Y., where these rubs have been used for many years-tells in forcible language their use and value: "Oil-baths are given by rubbing the body all over with some kind of oil. It is not necessary to use more than two or three table-spoonfuls at . It is not necessary to use more than two or three table-spoonfuls at one bath, but it should be rubbed in thoroughly, especially over the abdomen, inside the arms and thighs, where it can be absorbed to the best advantage. They may be taken at any time during the day. It is as well, perhaps, to take them before going to bed as at any other time. They may be given to meet any one of three conditions: "1st. To supply waste of tissue and to introduce a very important element of nutrition into the body. Many persons will absorb oil to advanof nutrition into the body. Many persons will absorb oil to advantage nutritively, who can neither take it nor fats by the stomach without great distress or disturbance. "2d. To improve the functions of the skin, which has become dry and hard, and lacks proper circulation in its capillaries. , and lacks proper circulation in its capillaries. "3d. To allay nervous irritation and reduce fever. Persons in paroxysms of fever, in typhoid, measles and scarlatina especially, may be freely of fever, in typhoid, measles and scarlatina especially, may be freely anointed with oil to great advantage. In my practice I have often seen the temperature of the body, when in a febrile state, reduced from one to three degrees by the administration of an oil-bath. "I like the cocoanut oil better than the olive, as it is more likely to be genuine; it penetrates better, it does not turn rancid on the body, and I ; it penetrates better, it does not turn rancid on the body, and I think it furnishes more nutriment to the body. Olive oils, as a general thing, are impure."

From the above you can see it is "multum in parvo," as it can really be depended upon for use in almost every thing the flesh is heir to; and depended upon for use in almost every thing the flesh is heir to; and the great beauty of it is, any one can give it without feeling fear as to the results. It can not do harm unless the patient is very fleshy; then it is not needed. It is SO easily given that a child can give it to younger children. Its use in reducing fever is of untold value. A lady, who had had extended experience in using it, says: I have known an oil-bath given a patient, in scarlet fever, with fever raging, and in a little while the temperature was reduced, and he was quietly sleeping ."

For little babies it is really a blessing, as it nourishes and strengthens them; and given every other day, with a sponge-off in warm water the intervening day, an infant will do much better than when bathed daily. It is also a great help in supplying nourishment where the mother has not sufficient nurse, and aids, too, in preventing the little colds, snuffles, colic, etc., that hover around the little one the first two or three months, needing our most watchful care to ward them off. Then, where there is any constipation, it is a perfect panacea -so much better than physic or enemas. It acts as a preventive to croup; and when a child is weakened by that dread disease, cholera infantum, nothing SO helps to give tone to infantum, nothing so helps to give tone to the system as the oil-rub. It certainly is the best of baby medicines, and a baby can "grow up" without any other remedy.

DIPHTHERIA.- This dreaded disease needs all the knowledge one can possibly obtain, SO we give below the hygienic treatment as prescribed by Dr. J. H. Jackson, of Our Home," Dansville, N. Y. First, he says, to tell a genuine case, make a swab and apply to the patches on throat; common ulcers will rub off, but diphtheritic patches will not. A good gargle is to make a solution, as strong as will dissolve, of chlorate of potassa, and bottle for use. When needed, take in proportion of one-half solution and one-half pure soft water, and one-half grain permanganate of potash to ounce of mixture. For a still stronger gargle, take two-thirds. . solution to one-third water, and one-half grain permanganate of potash to ounce of mixture. In a case of diphtheria, keep the room at 80°, and have boiler of water on stove, or hang wet sheets in room, in order to keep the room saturated with warm vapor, and also have fresh air in the room. His treatment is as follows : "When the person is attacked, in cases where the epidemic is present in the vicinity, with a sore throat, pain in the head, in limbs, in backin other words, the symptoms being very much like those of a hard cold- I begin by putting the person at once into a hot bath, covering him up and giving him warm water to drink, SO as to produce a thorough sweating, the object being to fight febrile conditions and establish and aid processes for throwing. off the disease by means of the skin, bowels, etc. This sweating is all the more necessary, in most cases, because of the inattention which is usually given to keeping the pores of the skin open, and it will relieve the fever, if not at once, as a secondary result. After the person has been in a state of perspiration for some time, I take him immediately from the hot bath and give him a thorough washing with a sheet wet in water at 80 degrees, in a warm room, and after wiping see that he is sent to bed with a cool cloth upon the head, and in many cases an abdominal compress wet in cool water, which shall cover entirely the abdomen, with a dry flannel cloth over it. In all febrile conditions of the body this application of the cool abdominal compress is of great value, because it is in the abdomen that the vital processes are carried on to large extent, the amount of blood existing there being much larger in proportion to the surface of the body than in any other portion of the frame except the brain. In order to keep the temperature of the body down below fever heat, that the fermentative processes may not go on, or be held in check as far as possible, it is necessary to use with caution all the best means for the purpose, and among them I certainly esteem the abdominal compress as of great use. After this, and in addition to it, the febrile conditions may be met by means of wet sheet packing or sponging as frequently as may be necessary, to keep the temperature to its normal standard. Of course, if the fever is not high, it will not be necessary to make strenuous efforts in this respect; but if it is, it should be fought sharply. The great need is to make the applications early and vigorously in the outset of the disease, because the effects to be produced are needed then more than at any other time, and because in the later days or stages of the disease attention must be directed to measures which support the strength of the body rather than those which, while reducing fever, tax its vitality to some degree. At any rate watch the temperature carefully, and keep it down. Great attention should be paid to nourishing the patient, and the best article for this purpose, both for adults and children, is milk, taken cool or warm, as the patient may fancy, and at as frequent times and in as large quantities as can be borne. To this may be added, later in the disease, nutritious soups or the juice of meats; but under no circumstances, except toward the very last stages and in the septic form, are alcoholic stimulants admissible, in my judgment. The bowels should be kept open and the kidneys active, and for this purpose enemas should be given to effect the former if sluggish, and sitz-baths occasionally-perhaps one each day-for fifteen minutes, at a temperature of 85 or 90 degrees, to stimulate the latter. The feet must always be kept warm and the head cool, and in case there is any tendency to collapse or lowering of the temperature below the normal standard, heat must be applied to the body by means of warm blankets and hot water bags and jugs. "In addition to this general treatment, treat the throat direct with moist heat, as that is the great promoter of suppuration. Hence, as soon as the , as that is the great promoter of suppuration. Hence, as soon as the membranes are formed, or as soon as it is known that the disease is diphtheria, the patient should be put upon the inhalation of steam as hot as can be borne, and as often as may be wise, considering the strength of the patient and the severity of the disease. The inhalations ordinarily should be pursued for the first twenty-four or forty-eight hours, as often as once in each half hour, and continued for fifteen minutes, and the patient should be allowed only three to four hours of sleep each day during this period, because the constant presence of the vapor is necessary to hurry up the suppurative process, and the earlier this can be produced the sooner the case will recover. These inhalations, may be made by means of the all dealers in surgical and medical instruments, and which may be used without filling the medicine cup ordinarily, the steam being taken direct from the boiler through the mouthpiece. If this is not convenient, a tea-kettle with a long conducting spout, which shall carry the steam to the mouth of the patient, or any apparatus which shall answer this same purpose, can be used. The air of the room may be saturated with warm vapor by dropping hot stones in a pail of water or of lime water. Care must be taken in any event to see that the steam is not too hot, and at the same time that the heat is as great as can be well borne. This process may be aided by application of warm poultices to the neck. A long, narrow bag may be filled with any substance which will retain moisture and heat well, and the neck enveloped in it, a dry flannel being put over it, and this changed as often as is necessary in order to maintain the warmth. Thus moist heat on the inside and moist heat on the outside, aids to establish the necessary process of suppuration. This constant inhalation should be kept up until the membranes cease to spread, and those which are formed become well marked in outline, and grow yellowish or a dirty gray in color, and seem to be shriveled or wrinkled, after which, generally about the third day, the inhalations may be decreased in frequency, but still should be kept up as often as every hour in the daytime, the patient being allowed six or eight hours' sleep at night, until the membranes are thrown off and the secretion of pus upon the mucous membrane of the mouth entirely stopped. The constant inhalation of steam through the atomizer, which generates it with some force, furnishes a means of washing the parts pretty thoroughly."

THE VAPOR-BATH is one of the most efficacious remedies if taken when a cold is first realized. It is given by seating the patient, undressed, in a flag or cane seat chair under which is a saucer of alcohol burning, both chair and patient being perfectly enveloped in a blanket reaching to the floor. In a few minin a blanket reaching to the floor. In a few minutes profuse perspiration sets in, which should be kept up ten or fifteen minsets in, which should be kept up ten or fifteen minutes. After rubbing dry, the patient, still wrapped in the blanket, gets into dry, the patient, still wrapped in the blanket , gets into bed, and remains there for an hour or two at least. It is better to take the there for an hour or two at least. It is better to take the bath just before retiring. This remedy is better than all drugs, nostrums, etc., . This remedy is better than all drugs , nostrums, etc., for a cold, but should be taken at the outset, to do the most good. .

FOR DIARRHEA. - Stir lightly into a tea-cupful cold water the white of one egg, not beaten. This forms a coating on the stomach, and is also nourishing, and is good in any disease where patient can not eat. Another delicate disease where patient can not eat. Another delicate preparation for a weak stomach is slippery-elm gruel: Mix fine slippery-elm stomach is slippery-elm gruel: Mix fine slippery-elm flour with cold water, then stir into boiling till thickness of gruel. Charcoal then stir into boiling till thickness of gruel. Charcoal crackers are of great value in assisting digestion.

In this disease, the most important item is absolute quiet on a bed. Bits of ice may be eaten and swallowed at will, but drink little liquid of any kind. If compelled to be on the feet, bind a strong piece of woolen flannel tightly the feet, bind a strong piece of woolen flannel tightly around the abdomen, having it doubled in front. For diet, use rice parched having it doubled in front. For diet, use rice parched like coffee, boiled and eaten with a little salt and butter. Some advise makand eaten with a little salt and butter. Some advise making a tea of it, and also using boiled milk and mutton broth, with crisped using boiled milk and mutton broth , with crisped white crackers, for children.

FOR DYSENTERY AND DIARRHEA. - Use ice-cold enemas after each movement of the bowels-a tea-spoon for a babe, increasing in that proportion till, for an adult, a bulbful is given.

FOR SORE THROAT. - Rub on the outside, and wet cloth in Pond's Extract, and gargle with it also, taking from one to ten drops four times a day. Another excellent remedy is camphor diluted with water till it can be used as a is camphor diluted with water till it can be used as a gargle. 1 Another remedy for sore throat is to put on a strip of flannel thin slices of fat pork, and sprinkle very thick with black pepper and place around throat; or chop fat pork and onions together, about half and half, and put in sack and onions together, about half and half, and put in sack and put on; or bathe throat with coal oil. And some have advised taking throat with coal oil. And some have advised taking some of the latter internally in cases of diphtheria; also, in diphtheria, some in cases of diphtheria; also, in diphtheria, some have used with benefit bits of ice kept constantly in the mouth for as long bits of ice kept constantly in the mouth for as long as seven hours; or gargle with lemon-juice, occasionally swallowing some. gargle with lemon-juice, occasionally swallowing some.

WHOOPING-COUGH. - Children do not "whoop" for two or three weeks after taking this disease. The most reliable symptoms are, eyes red and watery when they cough, and the cough clinging to the patient with a firm grasp. It and the cough clinging to the patient with a firm grasp. It lasts from six weeks to three months, according to season when taken, and can three months, according to season when taken, and can be given during the first two months. It is not carried in clothes, but when two months. It is not carried in clothes , but when a child gets the breath of a whooping-cough patient then he will take it. of a whooping-cough patient then he will take it .

Some of the remedies are, to give drinks of water as hot as they can be taken, , to give drinks of water as hot as they can be taken, in the evening and with first symptoms of a coughing spell-this makes the with first symptoms of a coughing spell-this makes the cough easier; another is, to take scant tea-cup whole flax-seed, wash it thoris, to take scant tea-cup whole flax-seed , wash it thoroughly, add one lemon sliced and quart of water, simmer gently two hours, sliced and quart of water, simmer gently two hours, add two table-spoons of honey, then strain when hot. It should be like thick of honey, then strain when hot. It should be like thick molasses; if too thick, add water. Give one table-spoonful four times a day, , add water. Give one table-spoonful four times a day, and one after each severe fit of coughing. (This is also good for an ordisevere fit of coughing. (This is also good for an ordinary cold and cough.) The system of the patient needs to be built up, and The system of the patient needs to be built up, and for that purpose give two oil-baths a week; also good, nourishing food, such two oil-baths a week; also good, nourishing food, such as Graham or oatmeal mush, coarse bread, milk, etc.; and keep child outmush, coarse bread, milk, etc.; and keep child outdoors as much as possible, using great care no cold is taken. Some, when possible, using great care no cold is taken.

Some, when the breathing is very bad, put a hot mustard and oatmeal poultice on the bad, put a hot mustard and oatmeal poultice on the chest. In cities, a daily visit to the gas works has been said to abate the viovisit to the gas works has been said to abate the violence of the disease.

FOR CROUP. To one-half cup N. O. molasses add a tea-spoon soda, beat to a white froth, and give a tea-spoon every few minutes till relieved by vomiting; or one part pulverized alum to two parts white sugar, and give in same way; or grease a cloth (made in the shape of a bib) thoroughly and dust thickly with nutmeg, and put on over throat and chest, keeping it on for several days after the child is well, and when taken off put on a flannel cloth for a few days, and then some morning take this off and bathe well in cold water and rub dry; or take four or five hollyhock blossoms, boil, and apply wet around the throat; or apply hot fomentations to the throat and chest, sponge off with tepid water, rub dry, and apply oil and ammonia; or some apply cold wet cloths over throat and chest, covering well with flannel, changing often, until inflammation is subdued. From two years to eight is the croupy period; and when a cold assumes croupy symptoms great care should be taken to keep the child indoors, in a warm, well-ventilated room, giving light food, no meats, hot bread, or berries. (Raw or cooked onions are good as a preventive to either worms or croup.) A remedy, said to give relief where other means fail, is to let a healthy person fill his lungs with pure air, then slowly breathe upon the patient's throat and chest, commencing at the point of the chin and moving slowly down to bottom of windpipe. FOR WEAK EYES. -Bathe in hot water, never using cold; and neither children nor adults should use water below 50° temperature in washing, as cold water is very injurious to the eyes.

FOR SORENESS AND PAINS. -Bathe with hot alcohol; and salt is often added. The use of alcohol sponge-baths after confinement is almost a necessity. TO HARDEN NIPPLES. - Bathe with a preparation of one-half ounce liquid tannin and two ounces glycerine, for three or four months before confinement, once or twice a day. FOR SORE NIPPLES. - Bathe in Pond's Extract. The nipple need not be washed off before nursing. Or to the well-beaten white of an egg add a few drops of tannin, mix thoroughly, and bathe. Make fresh every day or two. FOR VARICOSE VEINS. - Wear a silk elastic stocking.

FOR COLD IN THE HEAD.-Dilute camphor with water one-half and snuff it up the nose.

FOR CHILBLAINS. -Heat lard till it boils, pour it on ice (it turns yellow), then rub it on the feet and heat it in. Another for broken chilblains: Melt together one ounce resin, one and a half ounces beeswax, and three ounces sweet oil; take off, and stir in gradually one-half ounce prepared carbonate of lead till it cools.

FOR TOOTHACHE OR NEURALGIA. - Thicken the yolk of an egg with common salt and apply as a poultice; or slice raw onions, and scatter shaved hard soap over them and apply.

CHAPPED HANDS AND LIPS.- Four parts glycerine to one part simple tincture of benzoin. The latter is very healing. SURE CURE FOR CORNS.-Take one-fourth cup of strong vinegar, crumb finely into it some bread. Let stand half an hour, or until it softens into a softens into a good poultice. Then apply, on retiring at night. In the morning the sore- obsoreness will be gone, and the corn can be picked out. If the corn is a very obstinate one, it may require two or more applications to effect a cure.

ITCH OINTMENT. - Two table-spoons lard, one of black pepper, one of ground mustard; boil all together, and when taken off and nearly cold add one tablespoon sulphur. Anoint with this three evenings successively just before going to bed. Do not change bed clothes or wearing clothes during the time. After this, wash with castile soap suds, and change all the clothing that has been worn or touched.

CHOLERA MIXTURE. -Take one ounce each of the following ingredients: tincture opium, capsicum or red pepper, rhubarb, peppermint and camphor; put in large bottle, with a pint best brandy. Dose is ten to twenty drops in twenty drops in two or three tea-spoons water. Good in any case of diarrhea. CONSTIPATION. - Two ounces of senna, simmer the strength out in one quart of water, strain the tea; one pound of prunes, cooked soft, with half tea-cup of white sugar. Several times a day take, first, one table-spoon of the senna tea, then eat one prune, fasting as much as possible. SURE CURE FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM. - One ounce pulverized rhubarb, one ounce peppermint herb, one ounce soda. Pour one pint of boiling water on these three and let stand on the hearth two hours. Strain, and add one pint best brandy, one-half pound best white sugar, and one ounce paregoric. Dose-one tea-spoon every half hour until the discharge shows the color of the medicine; then only every three or four hours. Good also for adults, in diarrhea. This is the allopathic treatment.

GOLDEN OINTMENT. - One pound lard, eight ounces beeswax, one ounce camphor gum in five ounces alcohol, one ounce origanum, one ounce laudanum; let all dissolve while melting the lard and beeswax, then stir together until cold, or the camphor will go off in a steam. Do not mix too hot. This will cure pain in the side by applying as a plaster. For enlarged neck or goitre, dilute with one-fourth iodine. For salt-rheum, apply externally, and take cathartics to cleanse the blood. For scald-head, rub together one ounce golden ointment and three drachms of red precipitate; remove the hair and rub with this twice a day, each day washing with castile soap suds. For catarrh, rub the ointment up in the nose profusely, and let it remain all night. In the morning draw cold water up the nose and throw it back two or three times to clean the tubernated bones. Also bathe the face and ears with cold water. CHRONIC INFLAMMATION OF THE STOMACH. - This is known by a pain in the stomach, increased by the presence of food, by belching up gas, by vomiting, fickle appetite, seasons of thirst, tongue white in the center and red at tip, or sometimes red and smooth-is a disease which soon ends in ulceration of stomach, and death. Counter-irritants over the stomach, such as mustard draughts, followed by hot fomentations of hops; frequent warm or cool baths, according to patient's constitution; a tepid compress worn over the stomach at night; and the most careful diet, consisting mostly of gum water, rice water, slippery-elm water and gruel, arrowroot gruel, toast without butter, gluten mush, etc., and in two or three weeks the disease will yield under this persistent starving and cooling system.

BLISTERED FEET. -To cure blistered feet from long walking, rub the feet, at going to bed, with spirits mixed with tallow.

FROSTED FEET. - To relieve the intense itching of frosted feet, dissolve a lump of alum in a little water and bathe the part with it, warming it before the fire. One or two applications are sure to give relief. FOR A FELON.- Take equal parts of gum camphor, opium, castile soap, brown sugar; wet to a paste with spirits of turpentine, and apply like a salve. Those who have tried it say it is an invaluable remedy. Or take common rock-salt, such as is used in salting down beef or pork, and mix with spirits of turpentine in equal parts, and as it gets dry put on more, and in twenty-four hours you are cured. Or, when you fear a felon is coming, put a pint tin of boiling water on the stove; then add to that a tea-spoonful of saleratus and a wineglass of vinegar; heat this every little while, say from half an hour to an hour, and hold your finger in it till the pain subsides; repeat this till you see all the matter drawn to one place; then have it opened, and your finger will heal. After a felon has been lanced, apply a poultice of equal parts of flaxseed and slippery-elm flour to take out inflammation. FEVER AND AGUE. - This, the true intermittent fever, comes on with an ague-fit, which has three stages-the cold, the hot, and the sweating. In the first stage, the patient yawns, stretches, feels weak, has no appetite, and does not wish to move. The face and extremities become pale, the skin shrinks, and is covered with goose-flesh; the patient shakes, and his teeth chatter. Then, after a time, these symptoms decline, and the patient's fever comes on very violently, and with various uncomfortable sensations. As the fever passes off, the sweating stage comes on, when the perspiration is generally profuse; the body returns to its natural temperature, the pains and aches vanish, and a feeling of health comes back, and generally a voracious appetite. There is not much regularity in the time of coming on or going off of the ague-fits, though usually they are a little later each day in appearing. In this disease the spleen is very much oppressed with plood driven in from the surface, and often becomes so much enlarged as to be plainly felt by the hand. This is a malarious disease. The bowels may be opened with a gentle physic, such as salts and senna. In the cold stage, give hot and stimulating drinks, use foot-baths, hot bottles, etc., and try every expedient to promote warmth. In the hot stage, give cooling drinks, and administer quinine mixture, as the following: quinine, one scruple; alcohol, four ounces; sulphuric acid, five drops. Mix. Give a tea-spoonful every half hour during the fever, at the same time giving five-drop doses of veratrum veride every hour. When the sweating stage comes on, stop the veratrum, and rub the patient with dry towels. In the intermission give quinine. In mild cases, other tonics than quinine often effect a cure. The nursing of the patient, and bathing, sweating and rubbing are the most important part of the treatment, in this, as in most other diseases. In ague districts, the hot sun and evening air are to be avoided.

Or take two ounces of gum camphor and inclose it in a flannel bag about four or five inches square. Suspend the bag over the pit of the stomach by the means of a cord around the neck, and a speedy cure will be effected. When the camphor is dissolved the ague is gone. German physicians, as appears from medical journals, have found a tincture of the leaves of the Eucalyptus globulus, or Australian gum-tree, to be a remedy for intermittent fever, Dr. Lorimer gave it to fifty-three patients, of whom forty-three were completely cured. The ordinary sunflower, if planted around a house, will free the atmosphere from the animal and vegetable germs supposed to contain the miasma productive of fever and ague.

BILIOUS REMITTENT FEVER. - This makes its attack in a sudden and marked manner. There are no premonitory symptoms except, perhaps, a little languor and debility, slight headache, and a bad taste in the mouth, sometimes some pain in the joints. Its commencement is with a chill, sometimes slight, sometimes severe and prolonged. The chill may begin in the feet, or shoulders, or back, running thence like streams of cold water. There is seldom more than this one chill, the fever coming on afterward without the cold stage. At certain periods of the day there is greater intensity of the symptoms, and possibly the chill, though probably not. Between these periods of increased fever the disease seems to decrease, though there is still some fever. Unlike fever and ague, it does not go entirely off. During the hot stage the pulse is up to 120, or still higher, and there are pains in the head, back and limbs, of the most distressing kind. The tongue is covered with a yellowish fur, and, in bad cases, is parched, brown or almost black in the center, and red at the edges. The appetite is gone, and there is generally nausea and vomiting, and pain or tenderness in the upper part of the bowels. At first there is costiveness, but afterward the bowels become loose, and the evacuations are dark and offensive. This disease is produced by malaria, and prevails in hot climates, and in our summer and autumn. In the very beginning the disease may be arrested by an emetic of lobelia or ipecac, followed by a mild cathartic. But if the disease is fully developed, sponge the body all over several times a day with water, and give cooling drinks, ks, such as cream tartar, two scruples, in a quart of water, lemonade, etc. To allay the fever, give tincture of veratrum viride in ten-drop doses. Cold water and ice may be given the patient, if desired. Cool the head, when it aches, with cold applications, and put a mustard poultice on the stomach if tender. During the remissions between the fever, quinine and other tonics must be given, as in fever and ague.

CONGESTIVE FEVER. - Another form of malarious fever is the congestive. It may be either remittent that is, abating considerably; or intermittentthat is, having intervals of entire freedom from fever. It may have intervals of twenty-four or of forty-eight hours. The first attack does not differ from that of a simple intermittent, and may excite but little attention; but the second is always severe, producing great coldness, and a death-like hue of the face and extremities. The advancement of the disease brings dry, husky, parched, and pungently hot skin, followed after a time by a cold, clammy sensation. The eyes are dull, watery, and sometimes glassy; the countenance dull, sleepy, distressed; the tongue, at first white, changes to brown or black, and is usually tremulous; the breathing is hurried and difficult. Pressure over the liver, stomach or bowels, produces pain. The mind is often disturbed, and falls into lethargy and stupor, or is delirious. The treatment should be nearly the same as in bilious remittent. While convalescing, the diet must be light and nutritious at first, increasing in quantity as the strength returns. Use a mild tonic if the patient is weak. Exercise out of doors must not be neglected.

HAY FEVER (OR ASTHMA). -This very peculiar disease appears generally as a severe attack of catarrh, with asthmatic symptoms superadded. The lining membrane of the eyes, nose, throat and lungs is all more or less affected. The patient suffers from headache, sometimes severe, sneezing, irritation of the nose and throat, with a dry, harassing cough. The asthmatic attacks come on generally towards evening, and last from one to three hours, causing great distress. Hay fever is not a very common complaint, and only attacks those persons who, from some peculiarity of constitution, are susceptible to the causes producing it. It is supposed to be caused by the inhalation of the pungent aroma of spring grass and hay; but the inhalation of the powder of ipecacuanha will also produce it in certain individuals. In the United States, where the rose is largely cultivated, similar attacks sometimes occur; it is then called rose fever or rose catarrh. The best treatment is change of airto the sea-side, if possible. During the attacks antispasmodics, such as sal volatile, ether, or an emetic if the patient is able to bear it, inhalations of hot steam medicated with creosote, carbolic acid, or turpentine, will be found useful. When the attack passes off, the general health should be improved by tonics, diet, etc.

TYPHOID FEVER. -Typhoid fever is generally preceded by several days of languor, low spirits, and indisposition to exertion. There is also, usually, some pain in the back and head, loss of appetite, and drowsiness, though not rest. The disease shows itself by a chill. During the first week there is increased heat of the surface, frequent pulse, furred tongue, restlessness and sleeplessness, headache and pain in the back; sometimes diarrhea and swelling of the belly, and sometimes nausea and vomiting. 'The second week is often distinguished by small, rose-colored spots on the belly, and a crop of little watery pimples on the he neck and chest, having the appearance of minute drops of sweat; the tongue is dry and black, or red and sore; the teeth are foul; there may be delirium and dullness of hearing; and the symptoms every way are more serious than during the first week. Occasionally the bowels are at this period perforated or ate through by ulceration, and the patient suddenly sinks. If the disease proceeds unfavorably into the third week, there is low, muttering delirium, great exhaustion, sliding down of the patient toward the foot of the bed, twitching of the muscles, bleeding from the bowels, and red or purple spots upon the skin. If, on the other hand, the patient improves, the countenance brightens up, the pulse moderates, the tongue cleans, and the discharges look healthy. Give the patient good air, and frequent spongings with water, cold or tepid, as most agreeable. Keep the bowels in order, and be more afraid of diarrhea than costiveness. Diarrhea should be restrained by injection of cold water. For costiveness, give mild injections, made slightly loosening by castor oil or common molasses. To keep down the fever and produce perspiration, give tincture of veratrum viride, ten drops every hour. If the bowels are swelled, relieve them by hot fomentation of hops and vinegar. If the pain in the head is very severe and constant, let the hair be cut short and the head bathed frequently with cold water. Give light nourishment, such as milk etc.; and if the debility is great, broth will be needed. Cleanse the mouth with very weak tea-old hyson. If the fever runs a low course, and the patient is very weak, quinine may be given from the beginning. Constant care and good nursing are very important.

Typhus fever is distinguished from typhoid by there being no marked disease of the bowels in typhus. The patient must be placed in a large, wellventilated room, where drafts may be avoided; he should have his bed so situated that the light from a window will not fall upon his face, as this is annoying; all curtains, carpets, and bed-hangings should be at once removed; the bed should not be too soft, and a mackintosh or india-rubber sheet should be placed under the patient. He should not be allowed to exert himself in any way, as it is absolutely necessary that he husband all his strength. The greatest cleanliness must be observed, and all excreta removed at once, and carbolic acid or chloride of lime should be mixed with them; soiled linen should be put into a tub containing some carbolic acid. Bed-sores are very liable to form on the back, and so the nurse must always be on the lookout and try to prevent them by smoothing the sheets, drying the patient, and rubbing brandy and balsam of Peru over the part; better still to have a water cushion or water bed. The skin may be sponged down with tepid water, one part being sponged at a time, so as to prevent any undue chill of the surface from exposure; this relieves the patient and partly counteracts that disagreeable smell which the skin gives off in typhus cases. None but the nurse and doctor should see the patient; all noises must be stopped, and perfect quiet enjoined; at night there may be a small light in the room, but so placed as not to disturb the patient. Milk must be the chief article of diet, and is best given cold; an egg or two may be beaten up in it, and three or four pints of milk may be given in the twenty-four hours; this must be done at regular intervals of two hours, in equal quantities, special care being taken that it is given at night and in the early morning, when prostration is greatest. Beef-tea and broths, jellies, extract of beef, custards, etc., may be given if the patient can take them and wants them. For drinks in the early stage, lemonade, cold tea, or soda-water may be given, but do not let him have too much effervescent drinks; in bad cases the nurse will have plenty to do to get the milk down. Stimulants are very useful, but the quantity must vary with each case, and be left to the doctor's judgment. Brandy is the best stimulant, and may be given with iced milk; too much must not be given at first, as it causes oppression and inability to take nutrient food; but afterwards, in the stage of great prostration, its proper and careful administration may save the patient's life.

YELLOW FEVER. - This disease is most prevalent in hot climates, and southern cities of our country. It comes in the latter part of summer, and lasts till frosty weather. The disease begins with a chill, generally not very severe. Following the chill, there is moderate fever, and some heat of the surface; but this rarely rises to any great height, and only continues to the second or third day, when, in fatal cases, it gives place to coldness of surface, etc. In many cases there is sweating. The pulse is peculiar, not often over a hundred, but feeling like a bubble under the finger, which breaks and vanishes before it can be fairly felt. The tongue is moist and white in the first and second days; but red, smooth, shining and dry as the disease advances toward the close, having a dry, black streak in the middle. The most striking symptoms are nausea and vomiting, which, in fatal cases, is very persistent; and toward the last a yellowish or greenish matter is thrown up, followed by a discharge of thin black fluid, which is called the black vomit. The bowels are generally costive, with tenderness in the upper bowels or stomach. There is generally severe headache, and a peculiar expression of face, in which the lips smile, while the rest of the face is fixed and sad, sometimes wild. The patient continues wakeful night and day. There are discharges of blood, often from the nose, the gums, the ears, the stomach, the bowels, and the urinary passages. First move the bowels with some mild physic, such as sweet tincture of rhubarb, four ounces; bicarbonate of soda, two drachms. Mix. Give a table-spoonful once in three hours until it operates. During the chill, use all the usual means of warming the body-by hot bottles, mustard foot-bath, warm drinks, draughts, etc. A warm poultice on the stomach is useful-some would advise cupping. During the second, or calm stage, give gentle stimulants, warm drinks, and five-drop doses of veratrum viride, also quinine. In the third stage, brandy, quinine, and all stimulants freely. To quiet the vomiting, give of this preparation: creosote, twenty drops; spirits of mindererus, six ounces; and alcohol enough to dissolve the creosote. Dose-half an ounce, every two hours. Temperance, cleanliness, and all good habits, do much to prevent this disease. A French physician asserts that liability to yellow fever is prevented by drinking only boiled water. He believes that the fever is the exclusive result of using corrupted water, and that, if one is attacked by it, he may be cured in a few hours by drinking large quantities of boiled water. Many of our best authorities believe that infusoria is the cause of the disease.

FOOD FOR BABIES. - Mix a babe's food milk with its due proportion of sugar, and place the pitcher holding it in a deep plate-a soup-plate or pie-dish will do-and fill the plate with cold water. Take a piece of thin muslin, large enough to cover the whole pitcher and reach down all sides into the water. Have no cover on the pitcher, wet the cloth and cover the pitcher with it; put its ends into the water, and set the whole into a place where a draft of air will pass over it. A mother tried the plan, and during an exceedingly hot summer, through the most sultry days and nights of a long season, the milk never turned at all. The rationale of the thing is easy. The milk is not confined in a close vessel, or in danger of being tainted by nearness to other, perhaps not wholesome food; the thin gauze protects it, yet leaves it open; the draft of air keeps the temperature down by the constant evaporation, while the water is constantly sucked up by the cloth, acting like a wick in a lamp, to supply the moisture.

HEADACHES.-Headaches are always symptoms of some derangement of the system in some of its parts, and should not be neglected. In children, they generally indicate the approach of some disease. In adults, they are occasioned frequently by a bad circulation, impaired digestion, and by affections of the nerves. For the first, active exercise and a slight physic are only necessary; for the second, light diet, with exercise and a dose of some bitter alkali after meals; and for the third, the same treatment as for neuralgia, being careful about the diet. Sometimes a patient is subject to rheumatic headache, which may be treated with warm fomentations, stimulating liniment, and a gentle physic. The patient should dress warmly, and avoid exposure to cold and wet feet. A doctor in Paris has published a new remedy for headaches. He uses a mixture of ice and salt, in proportion of one to one-half, as a cold mixture, and this he applies by means of a little purse of silk gauze, with a rim of gutta percha, to limited spots on the head when rheumatie headaches are felt. It gives instantaneous relief. The skin is subjected to the process from half a minute to one and a half minutes, and is rendered hard and white by the application.-2. Put a handful of salt into a quart of water, add one ounce of spirits of hartshorn and half an ounce of camphorated spirits of wine. Put them quickly into a bottle, and cork tightly to prevent the escape of the spirit. Soak a piece of rag with the mixture, and apply it to the head; wet the rag afresh as soon as it gets heated.-3. It is stated that two tea-spoons of finely-powdered charcoal, drank in half a tumbler of water, will, in less than fifteen minutes, give relief to the sick headache when caused, as in most cases it is, by superabundance of acid on the stomach. We have tried this remedy time and again, and its efficacy in every instance has been signally satisfactory.

PALPITATION OF HEART. - Palpitation and irregular action of the heart are often experienced in persons between the ages of sixteen and twenty years; they are, or have generally been, growing rapidly, are of delicate appearance, and frequently are addicted to some vicious habits. In such persons the blood is thin and poor, and the heart and nerves fail to perform their proper function for want of support. Derangement of the stomach often gives rise to these symptoms, and they may persist for a long period from this cause. A lady who for years suffered from violent paroxysms of palpitation, which many physicians attributed to organic disease of the heart, happened on one occasion to take some medicine which induced vomiting, and this act was followed by immediate recovery. Subsequently, whenever she had the symptoms of an approaching attack of palpitation, she resorted to an emetic, which not only gave relief to the paroxysm, but finally relieved her altogether. In another case, a patient entered a hospital, suffering severely from violent action of the heart; he was bled and blistered and purged, without benefit; having taken a large dose of medicine, vomiting ensued, with immediate and permanent relief.

Tea, and especially green tea, is very liable to disturb the heart's action when used by susceptible persons. And there is no doubt that an immense number of persons in every community suffer from minor forms of heart derangement, due to the use of tea.

Tobacco, either smoked or chewed, invariably affects the heart's action, and produces irregularity and palpitation.

JAUNDICE.--A disease characterized by yellowness of the skin and eyes and urine, the discharges from the bowels being of a whitish or clay color. It is caused by the excretion of bile being prevented and retained in the blood, or reabsorbed and diffused through the system. It depends upon various and different internal causes. Pregnant women frequently suffer from it. Any kind of pressure upon the excretory ducts, such as by tumors, etc., or the ducts being filled up with mucus, inspissated bile, or biliary calculus will occasion it. It may also occur as a symptom of chronic or acute inflammation of the liver. Fits of anger, fear or alarm have sometimes been directly followed by an attack of jaundice. And, lastly, certain forms of it are produced occasionally by long-continued hot weather. An attack of the jaundice is usually preceded by symptoms of a disordered state of the liver and digestive organs, loss of appetite, irregular or constipated bowels, colic, nausea, headache, languor, etc. Sooner or later the yellow color begins to appear, usually first in the eye, then in the face, then on the chest, and finally covering the whole body. Sometimes the yellowness is the first symptom; and again , as soon as the yellow stage is reached many of the preliminary symptoms diminish. The shades of yellowness are various-from a light yellow to a deep orange hue, and, in some cases, of a greenish or even a blackish color. In the latter cases it is known as black jaundice." The greenish or darkish varieties are considered most dangerous.

Some kinds of jaundice are absolutely irremediable, while others will pass off without any treatment. If the patient be young, and the disease complicated with no other malady, it is seldom dangerous; but in old people, where it continues long, returns frequently, or is complicated with dropsy or other diseases, the condition upon which it depends generally leads to a fatal result. In general, the obvious treatment is to promote secretion of the bile and to favor its removal. In ordinary cases, a strong infusion of rhubarb root taken freely, so as to keep up a laxative action, without active purging or vomiting; a cool, light, and laxative diet (such as ripe fruits, mild vegetables, chicken and veal broth, new eggs, stewed prunes, and buttermilk ); free ventilation, and hot fomentations twice a day, for half an hour , over the liver, in case of torpor and obstruction; or cold cloths, in case of excessive production of bile, will usually effect a cure. Some prescribed an infusion of thoroughwort, drank freely every day. Cold water should be the only drink; no coffee, tea, etc. As much exercise should be taken as the patient can stand; and if there be any spasmodic pain in the right side, the patient should sit frequently in a warm bath up to his shoulders. Any attack of jaundice may turn out seriously, and therefore as soon as the symptoms develop themselves a physician should be sent for. Persons subject to jaundice ought to take as much active exercise as possible, and should avoid all exhausting food and stimulating drinks.

DIET IN DISEASE AND HEALTH. -Of the grains for mushes, rye is most fleshmaking, oatmeal second, and Graham third. For laxativeness-rye first, Graham second, oatmeal third. Graham builds up nerves, bones, and sinews; dark gluten the same; light gluten is more fattening than the dark. CHANGING CLOTHING. - People often take cold by removing heavy underclothing too early in the spring. This should never be done until weather is settled. When about to make the change, take a cold hand-bath or spongebath and rub briskly, in the morning, and there is no danger of taking cold. CUTTING THE HAIR. - Many children and men take cold after having the hair cut. This may be prevented by a quick dash of cold water on the head immediately after cutting, and before going out, and a brisk rubbing afterward. A SIMPLE REMEDY FOR CATARRH. - Place alum on the stove and let it melt and burn until it becomes a dry powder. Then use it as snuff. CHANGE OF CLIMATE. -A change of climate is nearly always beneficial to health for a time, and sometimes effects a complete cure in disease. It is still more likely to do good if a change of habits and diet goes es with it. CHILDREN'S BEDS. -No two children should sleep in the same bed. They will have better health and thrive better to sleep by themselves. FOR IVY POISON. - Apply sweet-oil.