Simple Home Remedies.

Otago Witness, Issue 2369, 27 July 1899, Page 52

Simple Home Remedies.

It was my mother's custom, says a writer in an American farming paper, to keep a medical note book, and in this she wrote her favourite remedies. This became a valuable book in a few years, and its recipes were often called for by neighbours in cases of sudden illness. I will give a few remedies which we have often tried and found reliable. Cough Medicine. — Squeeze the juice from two or three lemons, add half a cupful of clear honej r , and boil it in a granite ketfcle until it becomes a thick syrup. Take a tablespoonful every two hours until the cough is loosened. " | A good liniment -/or sprains, neuralgia, and rheumatism is made of one ounce each of -turpentine, oil of cloves, laudanum, and camphor. Apply frequently, rubbing it in l well with the palms of the hands. For Earache. — Fill the ear with a little cotton dipped in warm sweet oil. If this does not give relief, a few drops of laudanum should be applied to the oil. Do not keep the cotton in the ear any longer than really necessary, as it makes the ear tender and sensitive. If the pain does not yield to this treatment it is best to summon the doctor, for it is possible that the ear is gathering, or that an insect has worked its way so far in that it is oufc of sight, and if not attended to at once may cause deafness.