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CHOLERA REMEDY.-Mix in a small bottle equal parts of tincture of opium (laudanum), rhubarb, capsicum (red pepper, double strength), camphor, and spirits of nitre, essence of pepermint double strength. Shake well, and cork tight. Dose : From five to thirty drops every fifteen minutes. Dose for children, from two to ten drops.-MRS. GARDNER.

FIG PASTE FOR CONSTIPATION. -One-half pound of good figs chopped fine, one-half pint of molasses, two ounces powdered senna leaves, one drachm fine powdered ander seed, one drachm of fine powdered cardamom Put the molasses on the stove and let it come to a boil, then stir in all the rest and bring to a boil again. A teaspoonful once in a while is a dose. It will keep, when covered, for a year. - MRS. GARDNER.

CURE FOR BOILS. - ISAIAH Xxxviii. 21. - Go thou and do likewise.

FOR CANKER SORE MOUTH. - Burn a corn cob and apply the ashes two or three times a day.

CURE FOR CORNS. - The strongest acetic acid, applied night and morning, will cure hard or soft corns in a week. RING WORM.-Put a penny into a tablespoon of vinegar; let it remain until it becomes green, and wash the ring worm with this two or three times a day.

CURE FOR CHILBLAINS. -Place red hot coals in a vessel, and throw upon them a handful of corn meal ; hold the feet in the dense smoke, renewing the coals and meal, till the pain is relieved. This has been known to make very marked cures when all other remedies have failed.

CURE FOR RHEUMATISM AND BILIOUS HEADACHE. - Finest turkey rhubarb, half an ounce, carbonate magnesia, one ounce; mix intimately; keep well corked in glass bottle. Dose: One teaspoonful, in milk and sugar, the first thing in the morning; repeat till cured. Tried with success.-F. A. K.

TOOTHACHE.-At a meeting of the London Medical Society, Dr. Blake, a distinguished physician, said he was able to cure the most desperate case of toc unless the disease was connected with rheumatism, by the application of the following remedy: Alum reduced to an impalpable powder, two drachms; nitrous spirits of ether, seven drachms; mix and apply to the tooth. Tried with success.

GREASE FROM CLOTH. - Grease can be removed from cloth by a paste of Fuller's earth and turpentine. This should be rubbed on the fabric until the turpentine has evaporated and a white powder produced. The latter can be brushed off, and the grease will have disappeared. TO MEND CHINA. - Take a very thick solution of gum arabic in water, and stir into it plaster of Paris until the mixture becomes of a proper consistency. Apply it with a brush to the fractured edges of the china, and stick them together. In three days the articles cannot be broken in the same place. The whiteness of the cement renders it doubly valuable.

HOW TO CURE A BONE FELON. - Of all painful things can there be any so excruciatingly painful as a bone felon? We know of none that the flesh is heir to, and, as this malady is quite frequent and the subject of much earnest consideration, we give the latest recipe for its cure, which is given by that high authority, the London Lancet :-" As soon as the pulsation which indicates the disease is felt, put directly over the spot a fly blister, about the size of your thumb nail, and let it remain for six hours, at the expiration of which time, directly under he surface of the blister, may be seen the felon, which ustantly taken out with the point of a needle or How TO GET RID OF FLIES.-A clergyman, writing from Ireland says:-" For three years I have lived in town. and during that time my sitting room has been free from flies, three or four only walking about my breakfast table, while all my neighbours' rooms were crowded. I often congratulated myself on my escape, but never knew the reason of it until two days ago. I then had occassion to move my goods to another house, while I remained on for two days longer. Among other things moved were two boxes of geraniums and calceolarias, which stood in my window, the latter always being open to its full extent top and bottom. The boxes were not gone half an hour before my room was as full of flies as those around me. This, to me, is a new discovery, and perhaps it may serve to encourage others in that which is always a source of pleasure, and which now proves also to be a source of comfort, viz., window gardening."

SMALLPOX REMEDY. -The following remedy a friend tried in Ohio in a case of confluent smallpox, when the doctor had little hope of saving the patient, and it saved the woman's life. The remedy is sure in scarlet fever. "I herewith append a recipe which has been used to my own knowledge in a hundred cases. It will prevent or cure the smallpox, even though the pittings are filling. When Jenner discovered cow-pox in England, the world of science hurled an avalanche of fame upon his head, and when the most scientific school of medicine in the world (that of Paris), published this panac for the smallpox it passed unheeded. It is as fate, and conquers in every instance. It is harmless when taken by a well person. It will also cure scarlet fever. Take sulphate of zinc, one grain; fox glove (digitalis), one grain; half a teaspoon of water. When thoroughly mixed, add four ounces water. Take a spoonful every hour, and either disease will disappear in twelve hours. For a child, smaller doses, according to age."

FOR HYDROPHOBIA. - Franklin Dyer, a highly respectable farmer of Galena, Kent County, Md., gives the following as a sure cure for the bite of a mad dog. He has tested it with most gratifying results: Elecampane is a plant well known and found in many gardens. Immediately after being bitten, take one and a-half ounces of the root of the plant, the green root is preferable. The dried, to be found in drug stores, will answer; bruise it, put it in a pint of fresh milk, boil down to half a pint, strain, and when cold drink it, fasting at least six hours afterwards. The next morning repeat the dose, fasting, using two ounces of the root. On the third morning, take another dose prepared as the last, and this will be sufficient. After each dose, nothing to be eaten for at least six hours. I had a son who was bitten by a mad dog eighteen years ago, and four other children in the neighbourhood were also bitten. They / took the above, and are now alive and well. I have known many who were cured. It is supposed that the root contains a principle, which, being taken up by the bed in its circulation, counteracts or neutralizes the effect of the virus of hydrophobia. I feel so much confidence in this simple remedy that I am willing you should give my name in connection with this statement.

FOR FELON.--Take common rock salt, as used for salting down pork or beef, dry in an oven, then pound it fine and mix with spirits of turpentine in equal parts; put it in a rag and wrap it around the parts affected; as it gets dry put on more, and in twenty-four hours you are cured. The felon will be dead. No harm to try it, as I have with success.

CURE FOR NEURALGIA. -A friend who suffered horrible pains from neuralgia, hearing of a noted physician in Germany who invariably cured the disease, went to him, and was permanently cured after a short sojourn. The doctor gave him the remedy, which was nothing but a poultice and tea made from our common field thistle. The leaves are macerated and used as a poultice on the parts affected, while a small quantity of the same is boiled down to the proportion of a quart to a pint, and a small wine glass of the decoction drank before each meal. Our friend says he has never known it to fail in giving relief, while in almost every case it has effected a cure. God gave herbs for the healing of the nations.

TINCTURE OF IODINE ON CORNS.-Dr. Bajis states that corns may be rapidly cured by the application of the Tincture of Iodine; the corn disappearing in the course of a few days, if touched with the Tincture several times a day. If the corn be situated between the toes, it should be covered with a piece of linen steeped in a mixt the Tincture and Glycerine. - MRS. C. PATTERSON FLANNELS FOR FOMENTATION. - Fold the flannel the size to fit over a pot of boiling water, and cover with a lid; in a few minutes it will be hotter than if wrung out of boiling water and yet dry at the corners; roll it up covered, and convey quickly to the patient.-J. K.