Avoid purgatives or strong physic, as they not only do no good, but are positively hurtful.  Pills may relieve for the time, but they seldom cure.

Powdered resin is the best thing to stop bleeding from cuts.  After the powder is sprinkled on, wrap the wound with soft cotton cloth.  As soon as the wound begins to feel feverish, keep the cloth wet with cold water.

Eggs are considered one of the best remedies for dysentery.  Beaten up slightly, with or without sugar, and swallowed, they tend by their emollient qualities to lessen the inflammation of the stomach and intestines, and by forming a transient coating on those organs, enable Nature to resume her healthful sway over the diseased body.  Two, or at most, three eggs per day, would be all that is required in ordinary cases; and, since the egg is not merely medicine, but food as well, the lighter the diet otherwise, and the quieter the patient is kept, the more certain and rapid is the recovery.

Hot water is better than cold for bruises.  It relieves pain quickly, and by preventing congestion often keeps off the ugly black and blue mark.  “Children cry for it,” when they experience the relief it affords their bumps and bruises.

For a sprained ankle, the whites of eggs and powdered alum made into a plaster is almost a specific.

MEDICINAL FOOD.

Spinach has a direct effect upon complaints of the kidneys; the common dandelion, used as greens, is excellent for the same trouble; asparagus purifies the blood; celery acts admirably upon the nervous system, and is a cure for rheumatism and neuralgia; tomatoes act upon the liver; beets and turnips are excellent appetizers; lettuce and cucumbers are cooling in their effects upon the system; beans are a very nutritious and strengthening vegetable; while onions, garlic, leeks, chives and shallots, all of which are similar, possess medicinal virtues of a marked character, stimulating the circulatory system, and the consequent increase of the saliva and the gastric juice promoting digestion.  Red onions are an excellent diuretic, and the white ones are recommended raw as a remedy for insomnia.  They are tonic, nutritious.  A soup made from onions is regarded by the French as an excellent restorative in debility of the digestive organs.  We might go through the entire list and find each vegetable possessing its especial mission of cure, and it will be plain to every housekeeper that a vegetable diet should be partly adopted, and will prove of great advantage to the health of the family.

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HOUSEKEEPERS’ TIME-TABLE.