CROUP.

Croup, it is said, can be cured in one minute, and the remedy is simply alum and sugar.  Take a knife or grater and shave off in small particles about a teaspoonful of alum; then mix it with twice its amount of sugar, to make it palatable, and administer it as quickly as possible.  Almost instantaneous relief will follow.  Turpentine is said to be an excellent remedy for croup.  Saturate a piece of flannel and apply it to the chest and throat, and take inwardly three or four drops on a lump of sugar.

Another remedy.—­Give a teaspoonful of ipecacuanha wine every few minutes, until free vomiting is excited.

Another recipe said to be most reliable:  Take two ounces of the wine of ipecac, hive syrup four ounces, tincture of bloodroot two ounces.  Mix it well.

Dose for a child one year old, five to ten drops; two years, eight to twelve drops; three years, twelve to fifteen drops; four years, fifteen to twenty drops; five years, twenty to twenty-five drops, and older children in proportion to age.  Repeat as often as shall be necessary to procure relief.  If it is thought best to produce vomiting, repeat the dose every ten or fifteen minutes for a few doses.

BURNS AND SCALDS.

A piece of cotton wadding, spread with butter or sweet oil, and bound on the burn instantly, will draw out the pain without leaving a scar; also a handful of flour, bound on instantly, will prevent blistering.  The object is to entirely exclude the air from the part affected.  Some use common baking-soda, dry or wet, often giving instant relief, withdrawing the heat and pain.  Another valuable remedy is to beat the yellow of an egg into linseed oil, and apply it with a feather on the injured part frequently.  It will afford ready relief and heals with great rapidity.  Some recommend the white part of the egg, which is very cooling and soothing, and soon allays the smarting pain.  It is the exposure of the part coming in contact with the air that gives the extreme discomfort experienced from ordinary afflictions of this kind, and anything which excludes air and prevents inflammation is the thing to be at once applied.

TO STOP THE FLOW OF BLOOD.

For a slight cut there is nothing better to control the hemorrhage than common unglazed brown wrapping paper, such as is used by marketmen and grocers; a piece to be bound over the wound.  A handful of flour bound on the cut.  Cobwebs and brown sugar, pressed on like lint.  When the blood ceases to flow, apply arnica or laudanum.

When an artery is cut the red blood spurts out at each pulsation.  Press the thumb firmly over the artery near the wound, and on the side toward the heart.  Press hard enough to stop the bleeding, and wait till a physician comes.  The wounded person is often able to do this himself, if he has the requisite knowledge.