Montreal Star.

EYE-WASHES.

The best eye-wash for granulated lids and inflammation of the eyes is composed of camphor, borax and morphine, in the following proportions:  To a large wine-glass of camphor water—­not spirits—­add two grains of morphine and six grains of borax.  Pour a few drops into the palm of the hand, and hold the eye in it, opening the lid as much as possible.  Do this three or four times in twenty-four hours, and you will receive great relief from pain and smarting soreness.  This recipe was received from a celebrated oculist, and has never failed to relieve the most inflamed eyes.

Another remedy said to be reliable:  A lump of alum as large as a cranberry boiled in a teacupful of sweet milk, and the curd used as a poultice, is excellent for inflammation of the eyes.

Another wash:  A cent’s worth of pure, refined white copperas dissolved in a pint of water, is also a good lotion; but label it poison, as it should never go near the mouth.  Bathe the eyes with the mixture, either with the hands or a small piece of linen cloth, allowing some of the liquid to get under the lids.

Here is another from an eminent oculist:  Take half an ounce of rock salt and one ounce of dry sulphate of zinc; simmer in a clean, covered porcelain vessel with three pints of water until all are dissolved; strain through thick muslin; add one ounce of rose-water; bottle and cork it tight.  To use it, mix one teaspoonful of rain-water with one of the eye-water, and bathe the eyes frequently.  If it smarts too much, add more water.

SUNSTROKE.

Wrap a wet cloth bandage over the head; wet another cloth, folded small, square, cover it thickly with salt, and bind it on the back of the neck; apply dry salt behind the ears.  Put mustard plasters to the calves of the legs and soles of the feet.  This is an effectual remedy.

TO REMOVE WARTS.

Wash with water saturated with common washing-soda, and let it dry without wiping; repeat frequently until they disappear.  Or pass a pin through the wart and hold one end of it over the flame of a candle or lamp until the wart fires by the heat, and it will disappear.

Another treatment of warts is to pare the hard and dry skin from their tops, and then touch them with the smallest drop of strong acetic acid, taking care that the acid does not run off the wart upon the neighboring skin; for if it does it will occasion inflammation and much pain.  If this is continued once or twice daily, with regularity, paring the surface of the wart occasionally when it gets hard and dry, the wart will soon be effectually cured.

SWAIM’S VERMIFUGE.

Worm seed, two ounces; valerian, rhubarb, pink root, white agaric, senna, of each one ounce and a half.  Boil in sufficient water to yield three quarts of decoction.  Now add to it ten drops of the oil of tansy and forty-five drops of the oil of cloves, dissolved in a quart of rectified spirit.  Dose:  one tablespoonful at night.