The Nose

In case of a foreign object getting lodgment up the nose, do not attempt to remove it, but blow with some strength into the open mouth, and the object will be expelled.

If a child persists in sucking a finger or thumb, rub the finger every day with turpentine or extract of quassia. The unpleasant bitter will soon put an end to the habit.

A Copper Coin Swallowed may be rendered harmless by a diet of bread and milk, giving nothing sour, as this would corrode the metal. Also give the raw white of an egg three times a day, and a dose of castor oil every night.

Sleeplessness, Insomnia

The usual cause of this trouble is too much blood in the brain, and those thus affected will often find it advantageous to raise the head of the bed a foot higher, and then sleep on a thick hair pillow so as to bring the head a little higher than the shoulders. The object of this is to make the work of the heart harder in throwing blood to the brain. Sometimes rising for a time, wrapping up and sitting in a chair with the feet, if possible, at the fire. Take a short nap in this manner, and then return to bed. Part of a raw onion eaten with salt will often quiet the nervous system and produce sleep in a few minutes. After continued mental labor, a light lunch before retiring will often induce sleep, as the work of digestion draws the blood from the brain to the stomach. Or have the room dimly lighted, lie with the head propped high. Select some object a little to one side. Look steadily at this. Let the eyes get well a-weary, and refreshing sleep will soon follow.

Foot Baths For Burning Feet

Use water as hot as can be borne. This will be found a great relief. Baths of sand, warm and moist, are also good. Bury the feet in this up to the ankles, and let remain from twenty to thirty minutes.

Hysteria

This can frequently be controlled by firmness on the part of the attendant. Relate some astonishing incident to change the train of thought; be decided; give ammonia to inhale; give a hot foot bath, or warm bath, to the whole person.

Convulsions may be frequently cut short, like magic, by turning the patient on the left side. The nausea, as an after effect of chloroform and other anaesthetics, may generally be controlled in the same manner.

Warts

Touch them with nitrate of silver, or tincture of iodine, or bathe them two or three times a day with strong saleratus water, heating it in by the fire. Nitric acid applied is also a sure cure, but is a little painful.

Wens

Paint with iodine daily (colorless tincture if to be had), or as often as it will bear the application. This is slow but sure.

Stiffened Finger Joints

Dissolve camphor gum in olive oil, and rub the stiffened joint with' this preparation three or four times daily. The rubbing, as well as the oil, helps to soften the bony formation around the joints.

Weakened Sinew

Bind a piece of tea lead the size of a silver dollar over the swollen joint. Do this firmly, it will effect a cure in a few days. This may be hastened, if the case is very bad, by gentle beating with a knife handle, increasing the force as it can be borne.