CURE FOR INFLAMED EYES.—­Pour boiling water on alder flowers, and steep them like tea; when cold, put three or four drops of laudanum into a small glass of the alder-tea, and let the mixture run into the eyes two or three times a day, and the eyes will become perfectly strong in the course of a week.

CURE FOR WEEPING EYES.—­Wash the eyes in chamomile tea night and morning.

EYES, GRANULAR INFLAMMATION.—­A prominent oculist says that the contagious Egyptian or granular inflammation of the eyes is spreading throughout the country, and that he has been able in many, and indeed in a majority of cases, to trace the disease to what are commonly called rolling towels.  Towels of this kind are generally found in country hotels and the dwellings of the working classes, and, being thus used by nearly every one, are made the carriers of one of the most troublesome diseases of the eye.  This being the case, it is urgently recommended that the use of these rolling towels be discarded, and thus one of the special vehicles for the spread of a most dangerous disorder of the eyes—­one by which thousands of workingmen are annually deprived of their means of support—­will no longer exist.

CURE FOR STY IN EYE.—­Bathe frequently with warm water.  When the sty bursts, use an ointment composed of one part of citron ointment and four of spermaceti, well rubbed together, and smear along the edge of the eye-lid.

CURE FOR FELONS.—­1.  Stir one-half teaspoonful of water into an ounce of Venice turpentine until the mixture appears like granulated honey.  Wrap a good coating of it around the finger with a cloth.  If the felon is only recent, the pain will be removed in six hours.

2.  As soon as the part begins to swell, wrap it with a cloth saturated thoroughly with the tincture of lobelia.  An old physician says, that he has known this to cure scores of cases, and that it never fails if applied in season.

CURE FOR FEVER AND AGUE.—­Take of cloves and cream of tartar each one-half ounce, and one ounce of Peruvian bark.  Mix in a small quantity of tea, and take it on well days, in such quantities as the stomach will bear.

CURE FOR FEVER SORES.—­Take of hoarhound, balm, sarsaparilla, loaf sugar, aloes, gum camphor, honey, spikenard, spirits of turpentine, each two ounces.  Dose, one tablespoonful, three mornings, missing three; and for a wash, make a strong tea of sumach, washing the affected parts frequently, and keeping the bandage well wet.

CURE FOR FITS.—­Take of tincture of fox-glove, ten drops at each time twice a day, and increase one drop at each time as long as the stomach will bear it, or it causes a nauseous feeling.

GLYCERINE CREAM.—­Receipt for chapped lips:  Take of spermaceti, four drachms; white wax, one drachm; oil of almonds, two troy ounces; glycerine, one troy ounce.  Melt the spermaceti, wax and oil together, and when cooling stir in glycerine and perfume.