Mother, Nurse and Infant / A Manual Especially Adapted for the Guidance of Mothers and Monthly Nurses, Comprising Full Instruction in Regard To Pregnancy, Preparation for Child-birth, and the Care of Mother and Child, and Designed to Impart so Much Knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology, Midwifery, and the Proper Use of Medicines as Will Serve Intelligently to Direct the Wife, Mother and Nurse in All Emergencies.

by S. P. Sackett

OTHER REMEDIES, REGIMEN, &C.

For STRANGURY use bee tea made by pouring a pint of boiling water on fifteen or twenty honey bees.

For ERYSIPELAS apply cranberries locally, either cooked or uncooked. Another good local application for erysipelas is ELDERFLOWER TEA. Linen cloths wet with the cold infusion should be applied, and before they are dry should be wrung out of clean water, then dipped in the infusion and reapplied. The patient should also drink some of the elder flower tea. (F. 177.)

For BEE and WASP STINGS apply the tincture of arnica, or sweet oil.

Lean fresh meat is the best absorbant substance to apply to relieve the pain of a WASP STING.

“To give relief to a child that has the EARACHE close the mouth and blow into the nose.”

Children suffering from whooping cough should inhale the vapor of turpentine. Place this on plates and allow these to stand in the room.

Where there are suppurative DISCHARGES FROM THE EAR, the dry dressing with ABSORBENT COTTON, after dry cleansing with the same, protects the wound from the air, and attracts the discharge from the middle ear. It is mildly stimulant and conduces to healing.

For SOFT CORNS wear loose shoes, and every morning place a little ABSORBANT COTTON between the toes.

For mosquito bites apply a mixture of carbolic acid and glycerine in the proportion of one of the former to twenty of the latter.