CURE FOR THE TOOTHACHE.
Hohman, the author of this book, has cured the severest toothache more
than sixty times, with this remedy, and, out of the sixty times he applied it,
it failed but once in affecting a cure. Take blue vitriol and put a piece of it in
the hollow tooth, yet not too much; spit out the water that collects in the
mouth, and be careful to swallow none. I do not know whether it is good for
teeth that are not hollow, but I should judge it would cure any kind of
toothache.
ADVICE TO PREGNANT WOMEN.
Pregnant women must be very careful not to use any camphor; and no
camphor should be administered to those women who have the mother-fits.
CURE FOR THE BITE OF A MAD DOG.
A certain Mr. Valentine Kittering, of Dauphin County, has
communicated to the Senate of Pennsylvania a sure remedy for the bite of
any kind of mad animals. He says that his ancestors had already used it in
Germany 250 years ago, and that he had always found it to answer the
purpose, during a residence of fifty years in the United States. He only
published it from motives of humanity. This remedy consists in the weed
called Chick-weed. It is a summer plant, known to the Germans and Swiss by
the names of Gauchneil, Rothea Meyer, or Rother Huehnerdarm. In England it is
called Red Pimpernel; and its botanical name is Angelica Phonicea. It must be
gathered in June when in full bloom and dried in the shade, and then
pulverized. The dose of this for a grown person is a small tablespoonful, or
in weight a drachm and a scruple, at once, in beer or water. For children the
dose is the same, yet it must be administered at three different times. In
applying it to animals, it must be used green, cut to pieces and mixed with
bran or other feed. For the hogs the pulverized weed is made into little balls
by mixing it with flour and water. It can also be put on bread and butter, or
in honey, molasses, etc. The Rev. Henry Muhlenberg says that in Germany
30 grains of this powder are given four times a day, the first day, then one
dose a day for a whole week; while at the same time the wound is washed
out with a decoction of the weed, and then the powder strewed in it. Mr.
Kittering says that he in all instances administered but one dose, with the
most happy results. This is said to be the same remedy through which the
late Doctor William Stoy effected so many cures.