A gelatinous mass is precipitated, a small portion of which, inserted in the cavity of an aching tooth, invariably gives immediate relief. 4.  Saturate a small bit of clean cotton wool with a strong solution of ammonia, and apply it immediately to the affected tooth.  The pleasing contrast immediately produced in some cases causes fits of laughter, although a moment previous extreme suffering and anguish prevailed. 5.  Sometimes a sound tooth aches from sympathy of the nerves of the face with other nerves.  But when toothache proceeds from a decayed tooth either have it taken out, or put hot fomentations upon the face, and hot drinks into the mouth, such as tincture of cayenne.

TO CURE WARTS.—­Warts are formed by the small arteries, veins, and nerves united together, taking on a disposition to grow by extending themselves upward, carrying the scarf-skin along with them, which, thickening, forms a wart.  Corns are a similar growth, brought about by the friction of tight boots and shoes. 1.  Take a piece of diachylon plaster, cut a hole in the centre the size of the wart, and stick it on, the wart protruding through.  Then touch it daily with aquafortis, or nitrate of silver.  They may be removed by tying a string tightly around them. 2.  Take a blacksmith’s punch, heat it red hot and burn the warts with the end of it.  When the burn gets well the warts will be gone forever. 3.  Scrape down enough dry cobwebs to make a ball large enough to, or a little more than, cover the wart and not touch the flesh around the same; lay it on top of the wart, ignite it and let it be until it is all burnt up.  The wart will turn white, and in a few days come out. 4.  Pass a pin through the wart; apply one end of the pin to the flame of a lamp; hold it there until the wart fries under the action of the heat.  A wart so treated will leave. 5.  Dissolve as much common washing soda as the water will take up; wash the warts with this for a minute or two, and let them dry without wiping.  Keep the water in a bottle and repeat the washing often, and it will take away the largest warts. 6.  They may be cured surely by paring them down until the blood comes slightly and then rubbing them with lunar caustic.  It is needless to say this hurts a little, but it is a sure cure.  The hydrochlorate of lime applied in the same way will cure after several applications and some patience; so will strong good vinegar, and so it is said will milk weed.  The cures founded upon superstitious practices, such as muttering some phrases over the excrescence, stealing a piece of beef, rubbing the wart therewith and then burying it under the leaves to await its decay, etc., etc., are all the remnants of a past state of ignorance and are of no use whatever.  Warts are generally only temporary and disappear as their possessors grow up.

HOW TO CURE WHITE SWELLING.—­Draw a blister on the inside of the leg below the knee; keep it running with ointment made of hen manure, by simmering it in hog’s lard with onions; rub the knee with the following kind of ointment:  Bits of peppermint, oil of sassafras, checkerberry, juniper, one drachm each; simmer in one-half pint neatsfoot oil, and rub on the knee three times a day.