the water becomes cold The quantity of water should be at least double the quantity of corn to be purified.
corns.
A remedy for corns on the feet.
ROAST a clove of garlick on a live coal, or in hot ashes, apply it to the corn, and fasten it on with a piece of cloth. This must be made use of the moment of going to bed.
Some assert that if you take a little unwrought cotton, lay it on the part affected, and wear it a week or two the corn will disappear.
It is likewise asserted that chalk formed into a paste will cure corns.
Take the skin of a codfish, after it has lain in the cellar, or a place where it has gathers d moisture a day or two, and bind it on the corn, and keep it till it is perfectly sound.
cough.
Whooping Cough.—THE sulphate of potass (formerly called liver of sulphur) has been extolled as a remedy in this disease. Dose, six grains every four hours for an adult.
Another remedy.
TAKE equal portions of new milk, and the lye strained from ashes of hickory bark, of which one table spoonful may be given every hour through the day to a child of seven years old.
