Be careful not to eat too much food.  Some consider, the best treatment is to fast, and it is a good suggestion.  Patients should keep quiet and have the room of a warm and even temperature.

VOMITING.—­Ice dissolved in the mouth, often cures vomiting when all remedies fail.  Much depends on the diet of persons liable to such attacts; this should be easily digestible food, taken often and in small quantities.  Vomiting can often be arrested by applying a mustard paste over the region of the stomach.  It is not necessary to allow it to remain until the parts are blistered, but it may be removed when the part becomes thoroughly red, and reapplied if required after the redness has disappeared.  One of the secrets to relieve vomiting is to give the stomach perfect rest, not allowing the patient even a glass of water, as long as the tendency remains to throw it up again.

NERVOUS HEADACHE.—­Extract hyoscymus five grains, pulverized camphor five grains.  Mix.  Make four pills, one to be taken when the pain is most severe in nervous headache.  Or three drops tincture nux vomica in a spoonful of water, two or three times a day.

BLEEDING FROM THE NOSE.—­from whatever cause—­may generally be stopped by putting a plug of lint into the nostril; if this does not do, apply a cold lotion to the forehead; raise the head and place both arms over the head, so that it will rest on both hands; dip the lint plug, slightly moistened, in some powdered gum arabic, and plug the nostrils again; or dip the plug into equal parts of gum arabic and alum.  An easier and simpler method is to place a piece of writing paper on the gums of the upper jaw, under the upper lip, and let it remain there for a few minutes.

BOILS.—­These should be brought to a head by warm poultices of camomile flowers, or boiled white lily root, or onion root, by fermentation with hot water, or by stimulating plasters.  When ripe they should be destroyed by a needle or lancet.  But this should not be attempted until they are thoroughly proved.

BUNIONS may be checked in their early development by binding the joint with adhesive plaster, and keeping it on as long as any uneasiness is felt.  The bandaging should be perfect, and it might be well to extend it round the foot An inflamed bunion should be poulticed, and larger shoes be worn.  Iodine 12 grains, lard or spermaceti ointment half an ounce, makes a capital ointment for bunions.  It should be rubbed on gently twice or three times a day.

FELONS.—­One table-spoonful of red lead, and one tablespoonful of castile soap, and mix them with as much weak lye as will make it soft enough to spread like a salve, and apply it on the first appearance of the felon, and it will cure in ten or twelve days.