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Show Valuable Healtk Hints ior tLe Home I To Clear Up a Gold. 'yA.KE a dose or two of hexa-1 hexa-1 methy-lonamin at tho outset For an adult from 20 to 30 grains dissolved in half a glassful of water is tho proper amount, taken twice only, night and morning. A Ginder in the Eye. YVT-SH out the cinder or other Vv foreign body with a normal salt solution one teaspoonful of salt dissolved in a pint of freshly boiled water applied with a medicine medi-cine or eye-dropper. To Prevent Blisters. FEET that perspire excessively and tend to blister in Summon should bo bathed every night, first in cold water and thon in a quart of water h which three teaspoon-fuls teaspoon-fuls of foi'maldohydo have been dissolved. For Constipation. DRINK a glass of cold water before be-fore breakfast and eat liberally liber-ally of groen vegetables, oatmeal, cornmoal, wholo-whoat bread, oils and cooked fruits. A Cure for Styes. a PPLY hot compresses until a jH yollow spot appears in the sty, then ovacuato tho pus by pulling out ono or more eyelashes or by in- For Catarrh. A VOID dust and tobacco smoke, keep the bowels regular and tho feet dry and warm, and spray tho nose daily with Dobell's solu-tion, solu-tion, which is antiseptic and alka- For Barber Itch. qULL out the hairs for an eighth of an inch in and around every sore with tweezers. Then soak the face in very hot water and IH apply ammoniated mercury oint- IH A Good Eyewash. a TEASPOONFUL of boracic acid in a pint of bailed water is a good cyowash to us-3, particu- jH larly when one is troubled with For Gas in Stomach. tAVE your druggist make up twenty powders of sub-gallate of bismuth, each containing ten grains, and take ono after meals, For Burns. JM nn Hb best treatment for most IH A- burns is tho application of a IH 1 per cent solution of picric acid. Saturate gauze with this, apply to the burned flesh and cover with a dressing of absorbent cotton and a bandago lightly wound. Puncture tho blisters, but do not romovc tho blistered skin. If You're Too Stout. H pv ON'T drink too much cold water with your meals, for this stimulates tho appetite and in- jJ creases digestive capacity. For Bunions. jH qOAK occasionally in very hot water, and v.'hen dry paint with equal parts of tincture of Iodine and grain alcohol. For Inflamed Eyelids. TT) UB the edgos of the lids every night with an ointment con-tainlng con-tainlng two grams of yellow oxide of mercury and four drams of vas- For Boils. a PPLY a cloth wet with hot boric acid wator to bring boils to a head. Then a drop of carbolic acid will empty them and ammon-iatud ammon-iatud mercury ointmbni will help them to heal. |