SUMMER COMPLAINT OR DIARRHOEA.—In early stages unless alarming symptoms appear, give the child or patient a generous dose of castor oil and keep patient on a light diet for a day or two or refrain from eating at all for twelve hours. If passages are green and full of mucous membrane call a physician immediately as delay may be fatal. Whites of two eggs mixed with a little water sipped frequently is often healing also to stomach and bowels.

GOOD WAY TO GIVE CASTOR OIL.—Put a tablespoon of orange juice into a small tumbler, pour in the required amount of oil, and more orange juice on top. The oil forms a ball in the middle of the juice and is swallowed without coming in contact with the tongue. Wine may be used instead of orange juice.

BURNS.—Grated raw peeled potatoes spread on bandages and bound on a badly burned arm, shoulder and hand brought immediate relief to one of my children once when I was on a farm and could not get a doctor. I kept the bandages moist by binding fresh new, wet ones over the old ones until pain ceased but did not remove the dressing at all until wound was healed. It healed perfectly without leaving any scar. Do not know the merits of this remedy from a physician's standpoint but it was used successfully in a bad hotel fire in a village where no physicians resided and the patients all recovered from severe burns and there were no scars left on their bodies.—Mrs. Whitehead.

LOCK UP POISONS.—All poisons should be labeled and kept in a compartment by themselves. Such household remedies as laudenum, chloroform, arsenic, aconite belladona, cough medicine, carbolic acid, headache pellets or powders, linaments, opiates, fly poison, etc., should be kept in a locked box or in a covered can labeled "poison" placed out of the reach of children. They should always be kept separate from all other medicine. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Many deaths are caused by carelessness in placing poisonous remedies within the reach of children. Unless poison can be kept in a safe place, it is wiser always to throw it in the fire or to bury it—and buy a new supply when needed than to run the risk of poisoning a member of the family. Always look at the label on a bottle before taking any medicine.

TOOTH ACHE.—Chloroform and clove oil applied with a piece of absorbent cotton to the cavity of an aching tooth brings immediate relief.

CROUP.—Lard or goose grease and turpentine applied freely to the throat and chest. Hot steam inhaled from a sponge dipped in boiling water makes breathing easier. In serious cases an antiseptic should be given to produce vomiting immediately until the physician arrives. Give castor oil to a child showing symptoms of a croupy cough.

General Index

Bread and Rolls [ 57]
Biscuits, Jems, Pancakes and Fritters [ 61]
Beverages [ 159]
Cakes [ 101]
Cookies, Drop Cakes and Doughnuts [ 115]
Doughnuts [ 121]
Cheese [ 155]
Candies [ 173]
Canned Fruit, Preserves, Jelly and Wines [ 177]
Wines [ 183]
Chafing Dish Recipes [ 195]
Eggs [ 167]
Fish, Oysters and Shell Fish [ 21]
Fancy Desserts [ 131]
Game [ 29]
German Cookery [ 43]
Home Remedies for Simple Ailments [ 203]
Ice Cream, Sherbets, Ices, and Frozen Dainties [ 139]
Cold Desserts [ 141]
Fruit, Ices and Sherbet [ 141]
Kookery Kinks [ 197]
Measuring Hints [ 197]
Notes [ 198]
Left Overs [ 171]
Left Overs Roll Call Responses [ 171]
Laundry Work [ 199]
Laundry References [ 199]
Meat [ 39]
Poultry [ 33]
Pickles, Condiments and Spiced Fruits [ 91]
Pastry, Pies and Tarts [ 123]
Puddings and Pudding Sauces [ 147]
Proper Vegetables and Sauces to Serve with Meats [ 189]
Beef [ 190]
Refreshing Beverages for Convalescents [ 165]
Soups [ 15]
Sauces for Meat, Fish, Fowl and Game [ 51]
Sandwiches [ 67]
Salads [ 75]
A Group of Salad Dressings [ 75]
Salads [ 184]
Serving Dinner [ 187]
Vegetables [ 83]

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