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as it is poisonous

To apply this eye wash is by wetting small pieces of white

rags coubled up and laying them over the closed eye lids two

or three times a day or oftener letting them remain ten or

fifteen minutes each time and also upon retiring at night, Mrs.

Elliss

To Prevent Contagion

mixture of equal parts of turpentine and carbolic acid. half a

teaspoon full of the mixture put into a bottle of water kept near

the boiling point

A Remedy for Diphtheria

Burn turpentine and tar on hot coals inhale the smoke and

sulfur is good used the same way.

Rheumatism Receipt

Oil of lagoon 2 ounces

" " Spike 2 "

" " Hemlock 2 "

" " Hortshorn 2 " (may be Hawthorn)

" " Cedar 2 "

Spirits of alcohol 6 "

Another

Take celery and make tea of it and drink four or five times a

day for six weeks in severe cases

Receipt to make ink

Gum Arabic 5 cents worth, caperos 5 cents worth, logwood 5

cents worth. mix

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