TREATMENT OF BOILS.
Apply hot dressings; incise if necessary. The application of pure alcohol dressings and a plug of cotton saturated in the same solution and inserted in the wound promotes rapid healing.
TO DISLODGE AN INSECT
FROM THE EAR.
Saturate a piece of cotton-wool in salt and vinegar. Fill the ear with it. Have patient lie on the ear and give firm pressure with the hand. The insect may be found on the cotton when the plug is taken out. Oil may be used as a substitute.[B]
[B] Foreign bodies in the ear usually cause far less trouble and harm than does the attempt to remove them by anyone not expert.
RELIEF FOR EARACHE.
Make a small funnel of paper, and saturate a ball of cotton with chloroform; drop it into the funnel. Place the funnel in the ear, draw a long breath and then blow the breath into the large end of the funnel; the fumes of the chloroform are thus carried into the ear, and all pain ceases at once. No doubt, heat is the best remedy of all.
RELIEF FROM FLIES AND MOSQUITOES.
Pour into an atomizer half a teaspoonful of lavender oil. Add to this as much alcohol as will make a saturated solution. Use as a spray. Sweet clover hung about the room will banish flies and mosquitoes. The drier the clover becomes the more effectual it is.