3823. Bilious Disorders.—If a person is bilious, it is generally owing to errors in regimen. Let these be reformed, and the complaints will cease. But if a person would be always bilious, let him be often taking calomel, or blue pill, or active purges. Lee's antibilious, &c., and he will certainly succeed: the soundest liver will not be proof against such remedies for bile.
3824. Remedy for Bile.—The yolks of eggs taken fasting. If required, beat up the egg with a little sugar and lemon-juice.
3825. Household Hints, etc.—(See page [210].)
3826. Hard Water.—When water is hard, and will not readily unite with soap, it will always be proper to boil it before use.—(See pages [42], [43]; also "General Washing," pages [46], [47].)
3827. Materials for Washing.—The meal of many kinds of seed may be used for washing, as well as various kinds of bran. That of almonds, which, on account of its oil, is remarkably soft, is employed at present for washing the hands, by those who are desirous of having a white delicate skin. Cloth, the colors of which easily fade, and which will neither endure soap nor hard rubbing, may be washed extremely well with bran. Our fullers, therefore, and stocking-manufacturers, use oats, barley, and bran meal, especially when they wish the cloth to be slowly milled.