TO CURE DEAFNESS.—­Obtain pure pickerel oil, and apply four drops morning and evening to the ear.  Great care should be taken to obtain oil that is perfectly pure.

DEAFNESS.—­Take three drops of sheep’s gall, warm and drop it into the ear on going to bed.  The ear must be syringed with warm soap and water in the morning.  The gall must be applied for three successive nights.  It is only efficacious when the deafness is produced by cold.  The most convenient way of warming the gall is by holding it in a silver spoon over the flame of a light.  The above remedy has been frequently tried with perfect success.

GOUT.—­This is Col.  Birch’s recipe for rheumatic gout or acute rheumatism, commonly called in England the “Chelsea Pensioner.”  Half an ounce of nitre (saltpetre), half an ounce of sulphur, half an ounce of flour of mustard, half an ounce of Turkey rhubarb, quarter of an ounce of powdered guaicum.  Mix, and take a teaspoonful every other night for three nights, and omit three nights, in a wineglassful of cold water which has been previously well boiled.

RINGWORM.—­The head is to be washed twice a day with soft soap and warm soft water; when dried the places to be rubbed with a piece of linen rag dipped in ammonia from gas tar; the patient should take a little sulphur and molasses, or some other genuine aperient, every morning; brushes and combs should be washed every day, and the ammonia kept tightly corked.

PILES.—­Hamamelis, both internally or as an injection in rectum.  Bathe the parts with cold water or with astringent lotions, as alum water, especially in bleeding piles.  Ointment of gallic acid and calomel is of repute.  The best treatment of all is, suppositories of iodoform, ergotine, of tannic acid, which can be made at any drug store.

CHICKEN POX.—­No medicine is usually needed, except a tea made from pleurisy root, to make the child sweat.  Milk diet is the best; avoidance of animal food; careful attention to the bowels; keep cool and avoid exposure to cold.

SCARLET FEVER.—­Cold water compress on the throat.  Fats and oils rubbed on hands and feet.  The temperature of the room should be about 68 degrees Fahr., and all draughts avoided.  Mustard baths for retrocession of the rash and to bring it out.  Diet:  ripe fruit, toast, gruel, beef, tea and milk.  Stimulants are useful to counteract depression of the vital forces.

FALSE MEASLES OR ROSE RASH.—­It requires no treatment except hygienic.  Keep the bowels open.  Nourishing diet, and if there is itching, moisten the skin with five per cent. solution of aconite or solution of starch and water.

BILIOUS ATTACKS.—­Drop doses of muriatic acid in a wine glass of water every four hours, or the following prescription:  Bicarbonate of soda, one drachm; Aromatic spirits of ammonia, two drachms; Peppermint water, four ounces.  Dose:  Take a teaspoonful every four hours.

DIARRHOEA.—­The following prescription is generally all that will be necessary:  acetate of lead, eight grains; gum arabic, two drachms; acetate of morphia, one grain; and cinnamon water, eight ounces.  Take a teaspoonful every three hours.