Every person should know the largest doses, which is safe to take, of active medicines, The following table shows the largest doses admissible, in grammes, and also the equivalent in grains for solids, and in minims for liquids. The doses are expressed in fractions, thus: 1-13, 1-64, meaning one-thirteenth, one-sixty-fourth. In non professional hands it is the safest plan to strictly observe the rule of never giving the maximum dose of any medicine: Grammes. Grains. Aconite Root. .15 24 3 78 Mercury, Corrosive Chlor.. .03 9-20 .93 9-20 Atropia Sulph.. .001 1-64 Nitrate Silver.... Barium, Chlor. Belladonna, Herb.. .2 3 Opium Root.. .1 Phosphorus.. 34 Potassa, Arsenite. Relative Value of Food (Beef par) Oysters, 22; milk, 24; lobsters. 50; cream, 56; codfish, 68; eggs, 72; turbot, 84; mutton, 87; venison, 89; veal, 92; fowl, 94; herring, ico; beef, 100; duck, 104; salmon, 108; pork, 116; butter, 124: cheese, 155. Percentage of Carbon in Food. Cabbage, 3; beer, 4; carrots, 5; milk, 7; parsnips, 8; fish, 9; potatoes, 12; eggs, 16; beef, 27; bread, 27; cheese, 36; peas, 36; rice, 38; corn, 38; biscuit, 42; oatmeal, 42; sugar, 42; flour, 46; bacon, 54; cocoa, 69; butter, 79. Foot-tons of Energy Per Ounce of Food. Cabbage, 16; carrots, 20; milk, 24; ale, 30; potatoes, 38; porter, 42; beef, 55; egg, 57; ham, 65; bread, 83; egg (yolk), 127; sugar, 130; rice, 145; flour, 148; arrowroot, 151; oatmeal, 152; cheese, 168; butter, 281. roast 100 raw fish The Percentage of Starch. In common grains is as follows, according to Prof. Yeomans: Indian meal, 77 to 80; oatmeal, 70 to 80; wheat flour, 39 to 77; rye flour, 50 to 61; buckwheat, 52; peas and beans, 42 to 43; water), 13 to 15. The Degrees of Sugar. 80 roast 87 boiled 94 boiled Rice flour, 84 to 85; barley flour, 67 to 70; potatoes (75 per cent. In various fruits are: Peach, 1.6; raspberry, 4.0; strawberry, 5.7; currant, 6.1; gooseberry, 7.2; apple, 7.9; mulberry, 9.2; pear, 9.4; cherry, 10.8; grape, 14.9. Easy of Digestion-Arrow root, asparagus, cauliflower, baked apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, peaches. Moderately Digestible-Apples, raspberries, bread, puddings, rhubarb, chocolate, coffee, porter. Hard to Digest-Nuts, pears, plums, cherries, onions, carrots, parsnips. cucumbers, Fat, Water and Muscle Properties of Food. 100 PARTS. Water. Muscle. Fat. Cucumbers... 100 PARTS. Turkey, domestic, roast. 2 wild, roast. 2 00 Turnips, boiled. 15 fresh, fried.. 30 35 Water. Muscle Fat. .......97.0 Turnips... Cabbage... 1.5 1.0 Mutton... 94.4 1.1 4.0 Pork.. .90.0 4.0 5.0 Beans. Milk, cows' .86.0 5.0 8.0 Buckwheat. Eggs, yolk of.. 79.0 15.0 27.0 Corn Eggs, white of.. Lamb Percentage of Nutrition in Various Articles of Food. Raw cucumbers, 2; raw mellons, 3; boiled turnips, 42: milk, 7; cabbage, 72; currants, 10; whipped eggs, 13; beets, 14; apples, 16; peaches, 20; boiled codfish, 21; broiled venison, 22; p tatoes, 222; fried veal, 24: roast pork, 24; roast poultry, 26; raw beef, 26; raw grapes, 27; raw plums, 29; broiled mutton, 30; oatmeal porridge, 75; rye bread, 79; boiled beans, 87; boiled rice, 88; barley bread, 88; wheat bread, 90; baked corn bread, 91; boiled barley, 92; butter, 93; boiled peas, 93; raw oils, 94. Toothache Cure. Compound tinct. benzoin is said to be one of the most certain and speedy cures for toothache; pour a few drops on cotton, and press at once into the diseased cavity, when the pain will almost instantly cease. Toothache Tincture. Mix tannin, I scruple; mastic, 3 grains; ether, 2 drams. Apply on cotton wool, to the tooth, previously dried. water, 1 ounce Charcoal Tooth Paste. Chlorate of potash, 1⁄2 dram; mint Dissolve and add powdered charcoal, 2 ounces; honey, 1 ounce. Excellent Mouth Wash. Powdered white Castile soap, 2 drams; alcohol. 3 ounces; honey, ounce; essence or extract jasmine, 2 drams Dissolve the soap in alcohol and add honey and extract. Removing Tartar from the Teeth. This preparation is used by dentists Pure muriatic acid, one ounce; water, one ounce; honey, two ounces; mix thoroughly. Take a toothbrush, and wet it freely with this preparation, and briskly rub the black teeth, and in a moment's time they will be perfectly white; then immediately wash out the mouth well with water, that the acid may not act on the enamel of the teeth This should be done only occasionally. Bad Breath. Bad breath from catarrh, foul stomach, or bad teeth, may be temporarily relieved by diluting a little bromo chloralum with eight or ten parts of water, and using it as a gargle, and swallowing a few drops before going out. A pint of bromo chloralum costs fifty cents, but a small vial will last a long time. Good Tooth Powder. Procure, at a druggist's, half an ounce of powdered orris root, balf an ounce of prepared chalk finely pulverized, and two or three small lumps of Dutch pink. Let them all be mixed in a mortar, and pounded together. The Dutch p nk is to impart a pale reddish color. Keep it in a close box. Another Tooth Powder. Mix together, in a mortar, half an ounce of red Peruvian bark, finely powdered; a quarter of an ounce of powdered myrrh; and a quarter of an ounce of prepared chalk. Best slacked lime, 6 Mix with a covered sieve and preserve in A Safe Depilatory. Take a strong solution of sulphuret of barium, and add enough finely powdered starch to make a paste. Apply to the roots of the hair and allow it to remain on a few minutes, then scrape off with the back edge of a knife blade and rub with sweet oil. Quick Depilatory for Removing Hair. ounces; orpiment. fine powder, 1 ounce. a dry place in closely stoppered bottles. In using mix the powder with enough water to form a paste, and apply to the hair to be removed. In about five minutes, or as soon as its caustic action is felt on the skin, remove, as in shaving, with an ivory or bone paper knife, wash with cold water freely, and apply cold cream Tricopherous for the Hair. Castor oil, alcohol, each 1 pint; tinct. cantharides, one ounce; oil bergamot, 1⁄2 ounce; alkanet coloring, to color as wished. Mix and let it stand forty-eight hours, with occasional shaking, and then filter. Liquid Shampoo. Take bay rum, 2% pints; water, pint; glycerine, 1 ounce; tinct. cantharides, 2 drams; carbonate of ammonia, 2 drams borax, 1⁄2 ounce; or take of New England rum, 11⁄2 pints; bay rum, 1 pint; water 1⁄2 pint; glycerine, 1 ounce; tinct cantharides, 2 drams; ammon. carbonate, 2 drams: borax, 1⁄2 ounce; the salts to be dissolved in water and the other ingredients to be added gradually. Cleaning Hair Brushes. Put a teaspoonful or dessertspoonful of aqua ammonia into a basin half full of water, comb the loose hairs out of the brush, then agitate the water briskly with the brush, and rinse it well with clear water Hair Invigorator. Bay rum, two pints; alcohol, one pint; castor oil, one ounce; carb. ammonia, half an ounce; tincture of cantharides, one Mix them well. This compound will promote the growth of the hair and ounce. prevent it from falling out. For Dandruff. Take glycerine, four ounces; tincture of cantharides, five ounces; bay rum, four ounces; water, two ounces. Mix, and apply once a day, and rub well down the scalp. Mustache Grower. Simple_cerate, 1 ounce; oil bergamot, 10 minims; saturated tinct. of cantharides, 15 minims. Rub them together thoroughly, or melt the cerate and stir in the tincture while hot, and the oil as soon as it is nearly cold, then run into molds or rolls. To be applied as a pomade, rubbing in at the roots of the hair. Care must be used not to inflame the skin by too frequent application. Razor-strop Paste. Wet the strop with a little sweet oil, and apply a little flour of emery evenly over the surface. Shaving Compound. Half a pound of plain white soap, dissolved in a small quantity of alcohol, as little as can be used; add a tablespoonful of pulverized borax. Shave the soap and put it in a small tin basin or cup; place it on the fire in a dish of boiling water; when melted, add the alcohol, and remove from the fire; stir in oil of bergamot sufficient to perfume it. Cure for Prickly Heat. Mix a large portion of wheat bran with either cold or lukewarm water, and use it as a bath twice or thrice a day. Children who are covered with prickly heat in warm weather will be thus effectially relieved from that tormenting eruption. As soon as it begins to appear on the neck, face, or arms, commence using the bran water on these parts repeatedly through the day, and it may probably spread no farther. If it does, the bran water bath will certainly cure it, if persisted in. To Remove Corns from Between the Toes. These corns are generally more painful than any others, and are frequently situated as to be almost inaccessible to the usual remedies. Wetting them several times a day with hartshorn will in most cases cure them Try it. Superior Cologne Water. Oil of lavender, two drams; oil of rosemary, one dram and a half; orange, lemon and bergamot, one dram each of the oil; also two drams of the essence of musk, attar of rose ten drops, and a pint of proof spirit. Shake all together thoroughly three times a day for a week. Inexhaustible Smelling Salts. Sal tartar, three drams; muriate ammonia, granulated, 6 drams; oil neroli, 5 minims; oil lavender flowers, 5 minims; oil rose, 3 minims; spirits ammonia, 15 minims Put into the pungent a small piece of sponge filling about one-fourth the space, and pour on it a due proportion of the oils, then put in the mixed salts until the bottle is three-fourths full, and pour on the spirits of ammonia in proper proportion and close the bottle. Volatile Salts for Pungents. Liquor ammon., fort, 1 pint, oil lavender flowers, 1 dram, oil rosemary, fine, dram, oil bergamot, 1⁄2 dram, oil peppermint, 10 minims. Mix thoroughly and fill pungents or keep in well stoppered bottle. Another formula is, sesqui-carbonate of ammonia, small pieces, 10 ounces, concentrated liq ammonia, 5 ounces. Put the sesqui-carb, in a wide mouth jar with air-tight stopper, perfume the liquor ammonia to suit and pour over the carbonate, close tightly the lid and place in a cool place, stir with a stiff spatula every other day for a week, and then keep it closed for two weeks, or until it becomes hard, when it is ready for use. Paste for Pagering Boxes. Boil water and stir in batter of wheat or rye flour. Let it boil one minute, take off and strain through a colander. Add, while boiling, a little glue or powdered alum Do plenty of stirring while the paste is cooking, and make of consistency that will spread nicely. Aromatic Spirit of Vinegar. Acetic acid, No. 8, pure, 8 ounces; camphor, 1⁄2 ounce Dissolve and add oil lemon, oil lavender flowers, each two drams; oil cassia, oil cloves, 1⁄2 dram each. Thoroughly mix and keep in well stoppered bottle. Rose-Water. Preferable to the distilled for a perfume, or for culinary purposes: Attar of rose, twelve drops; rub it up with half an ounce of white sugar and two drams carbonate magnesia, then add gradually one quart of water and two ounces of proof spirit, and filter through paper. Bay Rum. French proof spirit, one gallon; extract bay, six ounces. Mix and color with caramel; needs no filtering. Fine Lavender Water. Mix together, in a clean bottle, a pint of inodorous spirit of wine, an ounce of oil of lavender, a teaspoonful of oil of bergamot, and a tablespoonful of oil of ambergris. The Virtues of Turpentine. After a housekeeper fully realizes the worth of turpentine in the household, she is never willing to be without a supply of it. It gives quick relief to burns, it is an excellent application for coins, it is good for rheumatism and sore throats, and it is the quickest remedy for convulsions or fits. Then it is a sure preventive against moths by just dropping a trifle in the bottom of drawers, chests and cupboards, it will render the garments secure from injury during the summer. It will keep ants and bugs from closets and store-rooms by putting a few drops in the corners and upon the shelves it is sure destruction to bedbugs, and will effectually drive them away from their haunts if thoroughly ap plied to all the joints of the bedstead in the spring cleaning time, and injures neither furniture nor clothing. A spoonful of it added to a pait of warm water is excellent for cleaning paint. A little in suds washing days lightens laundry labor. A Perpetual Paste is a paste that may be made by dissolving an ounce of alum in a quart of warm water. When cold, add as much flour as will make it the consistency of cream, then stir into it half a teaspoonful of powdered resin, and two or three cloves. Boil it to a consistency of mush, stirring all the time. It will keep for twelve months, and when dry may be softened with warm water. Paste for Scrap Books. Take half a teaspoonful of starch, same of flour, pour on a little boiling water, let it stand a minute. add more water, stir and cook it until it is thick enough to starch a shirt bosom It spreads smooth, sticks well and will not mold or discolor paper. Starch alone will make a very good paste. A Strong Paste. A paste that will neither decay nor become moldy. Mix good clean flour with cold water into a thick paste well blended together, then add boiling water, stirring well up until it is of a consistency that can be easily and smoothly spread with a brush; add to this a spoonful or two of brown sugar, a little corrosive sublimate and about half a dozen drops of oil of lavender, and you will have a paste that will hold with wonderful tenacity. A Brilliant Paste. A brilliant and adhesive paste, adapted to fancy articles, may be made by dissolving caseine precipitated from mi by acetic acid and washed with pure water in a saturated solution of borax. A Sugar Paste. In order to prevent the gum from cracking, to ten parts by weight of gum arabic and three parts of sugar, add water until the desired consistency is obtained. If a very strong paste is required, add a quar tity of flour equal in weight to the gum, without boiling the mixture. The paste improves in strength when it begins to ferment. Tin Box Cement. To fix labels to tin boxes either of the following will answer: 1. Soften good glue in water, then boil it in strong va egar, and thicken the liquid while boiling with fine wheat flour, so that a paste results Starch paste, with which a little Venice turpentine has been incorporated while warm 2. Paper and Leather Paste. Cover four parts, by weight, of glue, with fifteen parts of cold water, and allow it to soak for several hours, then warm moderately till the solution is perfectly clear, and dilute with sixty parts of boiling water, intimately stirred in. Next prepare a solution of thirty parts of starch in two hundred parts of cold water, so as to form a thin homogeneous liquid, free from lumps, and pour the boiling glue solution into it with thorough stirring, and a the same time keep the mass boiling Commercial Mucilage. The best quality of mucilage in the market is made by dissolving clear glue in equal volumes of water and strong vinegar, and adding one-fourth of an equat volume of alcohol, and a small quantity of a solution of alum in water. Some of the cheaper preparations offered for sale are merely boiled starch or flour, mixed with nitric acid to prevent their gelatinizing. |