3.  Choking, Pennyroyal Tea and Lard Relieves.—­“Pennyroyal tea and hog’s lard; drink hot.”  The pennyroyal may be purchased at any drug store for ten cents.  Make a tea of this, then add the hog’s lard.  As we all know, that this will produce vomiting and relax the tissues so that any foreign matter will come out.

4.  Choking, Grease and Meat Common Remedy for.—­“Warm lard, or any kind of grease, and give the patient.  Have seen it used with success.”  The warm grease will usually cause vomiting, and in that way remove the foreign matter.

In the Gullet.—­An emetic is good to give if the body cannot be reached with the hand.  Doctors use forceps or another instrument called a probang.  Pennies will go down into the stomach and pass out through the bowels and usually cause no trouble.  Fish bones can generally be reached with the finger or crochet hook.  This is also good for foreign bodies in the nose, such as beans.

Things in the nose.  Corn, Peas, Beans, Buttons, etc.—­Children frequently get such things in their nose and also ears.  They should be removed soon and then there will be no harm done.  They have been known to remain for years, and they have been the cause of catarrh.  A small curved hair-pin makes a good instrument to use and is always handy.  Also a crochet hook, though not so good, for it will not bend as well as the hair-pin.  The mother should sit facing a window or open door.  The child should be placed on its back with its head resting between the mother’s limbs and an assistant holds the child’s hands.  Its legs will be hanging down.  The light now shines into the nostril and the bent hair-pin can be slipped over the foreign body and easily hooked out.  The head must be held quiet by the mother.  The mother can do this herself, with one hand holding the head quiet and with the other can introduce the hair-pin and remove the object.  But the position of the child must be reversed with the head between her knees and the light shining in the nose; or place the child on a bench or cradle or buggy, head on a pillow, and to the light.  Hold the head and legs quiet; by kneeling by the child’s side, you can easily see the object and remove it.  If they are too far back, they can be pushed over into the throat, but parents should never attempt to remove an object in the nose they cannot see.  Sometimes causing sneezing with a feather or pepper will expel the object.

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Treatment of the drowned, suffocated or electrically shocked. Accidents, etc.—­The one action of first importance in the treatment of the drowned, the suffocated or the electrically shocked is to restore breathing.  This must be done by expelling from the lungs the poison or water which has caused the trouble, and by establishing artificial respiration.  Avoid delay.  One moment may lose or save a life.