The Best Cure for Earache.
Children frequently suffer from this most painful affection. Warmth is the best care. Drop some warm glycerine into the ear by means of a quill and afterwards introduce a piece of wool. Wool pulled from a blanket is the most suitable the fibres are elastic, and never become crushed into a hard pellet as cotton wool is apt to do. The application of a hot salt bag to the ear and s'tle of the head frequently gives No house should be without this useful accessory to the medicine chest. It should be made thus : Make a stout bag of blanketing 12in x 10in leaving a 2in hole in the seam to put in the salt. Place half a pound o common salt in the bag, and sow up the seam. When required the bag should bo placed in a cool oven, and when once the salt and flannel are warmed through, which they will be in a very few minutes, they maintain the heat for hours. The salt bag can be used a 3 a hot application in cases of spasms, rheumatism, severe back ache, neuralgia, cold feet, or any of jihe milder ailments which are alleviated by the application of heat in this most portable form.
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Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 53, 4 January 1895, Page 3
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