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iii. Late at breakfast - hurried for

dinner-cross at tea.

v. Between husband and wife little attentions beget much love.

vi. Always lay your tale neatly, whether you have company or not. vii. Put your balls or reels of cotton into little bags, leaving the ends out. viii. Whatever you may choose to give away, always be sure to keep your temper.

ix. Dirty windows speak to the passerby of the negligence of the inmates.

x. In cold weather a leg of mutton improves by being hung three, four, or five weeks.

xi. When meat is hanging, change its position frequently, to equally distribute the juices.

xii. There is much more injury done by admitting visitors to invalids than is generally supposed.

xiii. Matches, out of the reach of children, should be kept in every bedroom. They are cheap enough.

xiv. Apple and suet dumplings are lighter when boiled in a net than a cloth. Scum the pot well.

xv. When chamber towels get thin in the middle, cut them in two, sew the selvages together, and hem the sides.

xvi. When you are particular in wishing to have precisely what you want from a butcher's, go and purchase it yourself.

xvii. One flannel petticoat will wear nearly as long as two, if turned behind part before, when the front begins to wear thin.

xviii. People in general are not aware how very essential to the health of the inmates is the free admission of light into their houses.

xix. When you dry salt for the table, do not place it in the salt-cells until it is cold, otherwise it will harden into a lump.

xx. Never put away plate, knives and forks, &c., uncleaned, or great inconve

xxii. Persons of defective sight, when threading a needle, should hold it over something white, by which the sight will be assisted.

xxiii. In mending sheets and shirts, put the pieces sufficiently large, or in the first washing the thin parts give way, and the work is all undone.

xxiv. Reading by candle-light, place the candle behind you, that the rays may pass over your shoulder on to the book. This will relieve the eyes.

XXV. A wire fire-guard, for each fireplace in a house, costs little, and greatly diminishes the risk to life and property. Fix them before going to bed.

xxvi. In winter, get the work forward by daylight, to prevent running about at night with candles. Thus you escape grease spots, and risks of fire.

xxvii. Be at much pains to keep your children's feet dry and warm. Don't bury their bodies in heavy flannels and wools, and leave their knees and legs naked.

xxviii. Apples and pears, cut into quarters and stripped of the rind, baked with a little water and sugar, and eaten with boiled rice, are capital food for children.

xxix. A leather strap, with a buckle to fasten, is much more commodious than a cord for a box in general use for short distances; cording and uncording is a tedious job.

XXX. After washing, overlook linen, and stitch on buttons, hooks and eyes, &c.; for this purpose keep a "housewife's friend," full of miscellaneous threads, cottons, buttons, hooks, &c.

xxxi. For ventilation open your windows both at top and bottom. The fresh air rushes in one way, while the foul makes its exit the other. This is letting in your friend and expelling your enemy.

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purchasing cheap calico for gentlemen's night-shirts. Cheap calico soon wears into holes, and becomes discoloured in washing.

xxxiii. Sitting to sew by candle-light at a table with a dark cloth on it is injurious to the eyesight. When no other remedy presents itself, put a sheet of white paper before you.

xxxiv. Persons very commonly complain of indigestion: how can it be wondered at, when they seem, by their habit of swallowing their food wholesale, to forget for what purpose they are provided with teeth ?

xxxv. Never allow your servants to put wiped knives on your table, for, generally speaking, you may see that they have been wiped with a dirty cloth. If a knife is brightly cleaned, they are compelled to use a clean cloth.

xxxvi. There is not anything gained in economy by having very young and inexperienced servants at low wages; they break, waste, and destroy more than an equivalent for higher wages, setting aside comfort and respectability. xxxvii. No article in dress tarnishes so readily as black crape trimmings, and few things injure it more than damp; therefore, to preserve its beauty on bonnets, a lady in nice mourning should in her evening walks, at all seasons of the year, take as her companion an old parasol to shade her crape.

451. Domestic Pharmacopoeia. In compiling this part of our hints, we have endeavoured to supply that kind of information which is so often wanted in the time of need, and cannot be obtained when a medical man or a druggist is not near. The doses are all fixed for adults, unless otherwise ordered. The various remedies are arranged in sections, according to their uses, as being more easy for reference.

only half the quantity of water used, it acts as a discutient, but not as an eyewater.

454. COMMON.-Add half an ounce of diluted acetic acid to three ounces of decoction of poppy heads. Use, as an anodyne wash.

455. COMPOUND ALUM.- Dissolve alum and white vitriol, of each one drachm, in one pint of water, and filter through paper. Use, as an astringent wash.

456. ZINC AND LEAD.- Dissolve white vitriol and acetate of lead, of each seven grains, in four ounces of elderflower water; add one drachm of laudanum (tincture of opium), and the same quantity of spirit of camphor; then strain. Use, as a detergent wash.

457. ACETATE OF ZINC.-Dissolve half a drachm of white vitriol in five ounces of water. Dissolve two scruples of acetate of lead in five ounces of water. Mix these solutions, then set aside for a short time, and afterwards filter. Use, as an astringent; this forms a most valuable collyrium.

458. SULPHATE OF ZINC.-Dissolve twenty grains of white vitriol in a pint of water or rose water. Use, for weak eyes.

459. ZINC AND CAMPHOR.-Dissolve a scruple of white vitriol in ten ounces of water, then add one drachm of spirit of camphor, and strain. Use, as a stimulant.

462. CONFECTIONS used as vehicles for the administration of more active medicines, and Electuaries are made for the purpose of rendering some remedies palatable. Both should be kept in closely covered jars.

463. ALMOND CONFECTION. - Re

464. ALUM CONFECTION.-Mix two scruples of powdered alum with four scruples of treacle. Dose, half a drachm. Use, as an astringent in sore throat and relaxed uvula, and ulcerations of the mouth.

465. ORANGE CONFECTION.-Take one ounce of the freshly rasped rind of orange, and mix it with three ounces of white sugar, and beat together till perfectly incorporated. Dose, from one drachm to one ounce. Use, as a gentle stomachic and tonic, and for giving tonic powders in.

466. BLACK PEPPER CONFECTION. -Take of black pepper and elecampane root, each one ounce; fennel seeds, three ounces; honey and sugar, of each two ounces. Rub the dry ingredients to a fine powder, and when the confection is wanted, add the honey, and mix well. Dose, from one to two drachms. Use, in hæmorrhoids, or piles.

467. COWHAGE.-Mix as much of the fine hairs or spicule of cowhage into treacle as it will take up. Dose, a teaspoonful every morning and evening. Use, as an anthelmintic.

468. SENNA CONFECTION.-Take of senna, powdered, four ounces; figs, half a pound, cassia pulp, tamarind pulp, and the pulp of prunes, each four ounces; coriander seeds, powdered, two ounces; liquorice root, one ounce and a half; sugar, one pound and a quarter; water, one pint and a half. Rub the senna with the coriander, and separate, by sifting, five ounces of the mixture. Boil the water, with the figs and liquorice added, until it is reduced to one half; then press out and strain the liquor. Evaporate the strained liquor in a jar by boiling until twelve fluid ounces remain; then add the sugar, and make a syrup. Now mix the pulps with the syrup, add the sifted powder, and mix well. Use, purgative.

an ounce of castor oil. Dose, from half an ounce to an ounce. Use, purgative.

470. SULPHUR AND SENNA CONFECTION.-Take of sulphur and sulphate of potash, each half an ounce; of confection of senna, two ounces; and oil of aniseed, twenty minims; mix well. Dose, from one to two drachms. Use, purgative.

471. CREAM OF TARTAR CONFECTION.-Take one ounce of cream of tartar, one drachm of jalap, and half a drachm of powdered ginger; mix into a thick paste with treacle. Dose, two drachms. Use, purgative.

472. ANTISPASMODIC ELECTUARY. -Take six drachms of powdered valerian and orange leaves, mixed and made into an electuary, with a sufficient quantity of syrup of wormwood. Dose, from one to two drachms, to be taken two or three times a day.

473. Decoctions.-These should only be made as they are wanted; pipkins or tin saucepans should be used for the purpose; and no decoction should be boiled longer than ten minutes.

474. CHIMAPHILA.-Take one ounce of pyrola (chimaphila, or winter-green), and boil it in a pint and a half of water until it is only one pint; then strain. Dose, from one to two ounces, four times a day. Use, in dropsies, as a diuretic.

475. LOGWOOD.- Boil one ounce and a half of bruised logwood in two pints of water until it comes to one pint; then add one drachm of bruised cassia, and strain. Dose, from one to two ounces. Use, as an astringent.

476. DANDELION.-Take two ounces of the freshly-sliced root, and boil in two pints of water until it comes to one pint; then add one ounce of compound tincture of horseradish. Dose, from two to four ounces. Use, in a sluggish state of the liver.

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ternally as local stimulants, to relieve deep-seated inflammations when other means cannot be employed, as they are more casily applied locally.

478. ANODYNE AND DISCUTIENT.Take two drachms of scraped white soap, half a drachm of extract of henbane, and dissolve them by a gentle heat in six ounces of olive oil. Use, about half an ounce to be well rubbed into the part twice a day, for glandular enlargements which are painful and stubborn.

479. STRONG AMMONIATED. - Add one ounce of strong liquid ammonia (Liquoris ammonia fortius) to two ounces of olive oil; shake them well together until they are properly mixed. Use, employed as a stimulant in rheumatic pains, paralytic numbnesses, chronic glandular enlargements, lumbago, sciatica, &c. This embrocation must be used with care, and only employed in very obstinate cases.

480. COMPOUND Add six drachms of oil of turpentine to the strong ammoniated liniment above. Use, for the diseases mentioned under the head of strong ammoniated liniment, and chronic affections of the knee and ankle joints.

481. LIME AND OIL. Take equal parts of common linseed oil and lime water (Liquor calcis), and shake well. Use, applied to burns, scalds, sun peelings, &c.

482. CAMPHORATED.—Take half an ounce of camphor and dissolve it in two ounces of olive oil. Use, as a stimulant, soothing application, in stubborn breasts, glandular enlargements, dropsy of the belly, and rheumatic pains.

483. SOAP LINIMENT WITH SPANISH FLIES. Take three ounces and a half of soap liniment, and half an ounce of tincture of Spanish flies; mix and shake well. Use, as a stimulant to chronic bruises, sprains, rheumatic pains, and indolent swellings.

484. TURPENTINE. Take two ounces and a half of resin cerate (Ceratum resina), and melt it by standing the vessel in hot water; then add one ounce and a half of oil of turpentine, and mix.

Use, as a stimulant application to ulcers, burns, scalds, &c.

485. Enemas.-These are a peculiar kind of medicines, administered by injecting them into the rectum or outlet of the body. The intention is either to empty the bowels, kill worms, protect the lining membrane of the intestines from injury, restrain copious discharges, allay spasms in the bowels, or to nourish the body. These clysters, or glysters, are administered by means of bladders and pipes, or a proper apparatus.

486. LAXATIVE.-Take two ounces of Epsom salts, and dissolve in three quarters of a pint of gruel, or thin broth, with an ounce of olive oil. Use, as all enemas are used.

Take twelve

487. NUTRITIVE. ounces of strong beef tea, and thicken with hartshorn shavings or arrowroot.

488. TURPENTINE.-Take half an ounce of oil of turpentine, the yolk of one egg, and half a pint of gruel. Mix the turpentine and egg, and then add the gruel. Use, as an anthelmintic.

489. COMMON.-Dissolve one ounce of salt in twelve ounces of gruel.

490. CASTOR OIL.-Mix two ounces of castor oil with one drachm of starch, then rub them together, and add fourteen ounces of thin gruel. Use, purgative.

491. OPIUM.-Rub three grains of opium with two ounces of starch, then add two ounces of warm water. Use, as an anodyne, in colic, spasms, &c.

492. OIL.-Mix four ounces of olive oil with half an ounce of mucilage and half a pint of warm water. Use, as a demulcent.

493. ASSAFOETIDA.-Mix one drachm of the tincture of assafoetida in a pint of barley water. Use, as an anthelmintic, or in convulsions from teething.

494. Gargles.-These are remedies used to stimulate chronic sore throats, or a relaxed state of the swallow, or uvula.

495. ACIDULATED.-Mix one part of white vinegar with three parts of honey of roses, and twenty-four of barley water. Use, in chronic inflam

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496. ASTRINGENT. Take two drachms of roses and mix with eight ounces of boiling water, infuse for one hour, strain, and add one drachm of alum and one ounce of honey of roses. Use, in severe sore throat, relaxed uvula, &c.

497. FOR SALIVATION.-Mix from one to four drachms of bruised gall-nuts with a pint of boiling water, and infuse for two hours, then strain and sweeten.

498. TONIC AND STIMULANT.-Mix six ounces of decoction of bark with two ounces of tincture of myrrh, and half a drachm of diluted sulphuric acid. Use, in scorbutic affections.

&c.

507. STIMULANT. Dissolve one drachm of caustic potash in one pint of water, and then gradually pour it upon twenty-four grains of camphor and one drachm of sugar, previously bruised together in a mortar. Used as in fungoid and flabby ulcers.

508. ORDINARY.-Mix one drachm of salt with eight ounces of water. Used for foul ulcers and flabby wounds.

509. COLD EVAPORATING. - Add two drachms of Goulard's extract (Liquor plumbi diacetatis), and the same quantity of sulphuric ether (Ether sulphuricus), to a pint of cold water. Use, as a lotion for contusions, sprains, inflamed parts, &c.

510. HYDROCHLORATE OF AMMONIA.

500. MYRRH.-Add six drachms of tincture of myrrh to seven ounces of infusion of linseed, and then add one drachm of diluted sulphuric acid. Use, as a detergent.

501. FOR SLIGHT INFLAMMATION OF THE THROAT.-Add one drachm of sulphuric ether to half an ounce of syrup of marsh-mallows, and six ounces of barley water. This may be used frequently.

502. Lotions.-Lotions are usually applied to the parts required by means of a piece of linen rag or piline, wetted with them, or by wetting the bandage itself.

503. EMOLLIENT.-Use decoction of marsh-mallow or linseed.

504. ELDER FLOWERS.-Add two drachms and a half of elder flowers to one quart of boiling water, infuse for one hour, and strain. Use, as a dis

cutient.

(Ammonia hydrochloras) in six ounces of water, then add an ounce of distilled vinegar and the same quantity of rectified spirit. Use, as a refrigerant.

511. YELLOW LOTION.-Dissolve one grain of corrosive sublimate (Hydrargyri chloridum, A VIOLENT POISON) in an ounce of lime water, taking care to bruise the crystals of the salt in order to assist its solution. Use, as a detergent.

512. BLACK WASH. Add half a drachm of calomel to four ounces of lime water, or eight grains to an ounce of lime water; shake well. Use, as a detergent.

513. ACETATE OF LEAD WITH OPIUM. Take twenty grains of acetate of lead, and a drachm of powdered opium, mix, and add an ounce of vinegar and four ounces of warm water, set aside for an hour, then filter. Use, as an astrin