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Show . Halt Is Good. "Salt is good." It is tho language of inspiration, as well as of therapeutics. In all the range of the household materia medica there in no remedy half so valuable valu-able as common salt, both because of its real curative properties and of its immediate imme-diate availability. And moreover, it ha this advantage over more pretention remedies, that seldom in caeoef oraraea I or mismanagement can it be made to do mischief. If it doesn't heal it won't kill, at any rate. Here are some of the things it is good for: Heated dry and applied to the outer surface over the seat of inflammation or congestion, it, will give almost instant relief, while applications of a strong, hot solution of salt, in water or vinegar, act liko magic upon toothacljo, earache, neuralgic headache and all that brood of distressing ills. For catarrhal affections and sore throat a spray of warm water and salt is almost ! a specific, and is one. of the standard prescriptions of tho "nose and throat" specialists. For hay fever and those) t oilier slighter forms of nasal sensitive- ! Hess- that induce a constant sneezing thero is no remedy more quickly palliative pallia-tive and often curative than the vapor : of heatd salt, and alcohol. j I Put both in a tin vessel and heat over ' a flame. When there is a good showing of vapor place tho vessel underneath a covering that envelops the head as well nl inhale tho vapor through both nose and throat. For influenza and ordinary colds this treatment is also excellent. , , I New York Evening Sun. ' |