by Barkham Burroughs
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HOW TO CURE WORMS IN CHILDREN.--1. Take one ounce of powdered snake-head (herb), and one drachm each of aloes and prickly ash bark; powder these, and to one-half teaspoonful of this powder add a teaspoonful of boiling water and a teaspoonful of molasses. Take this as a dose, night or morning, more or less, as the symptoms may require. 2. Take tobacco leaves, pound them up with honey, and lay them on the belly of the child or grown person, at the same time administering a dose of some good physic. 3. Take garden parsley, make it into a tea and let the patient drink freely of it. 4. Take the scales that will fall around the blacksmith's anvil, powder them fine, and put them in sweetened rum. Shake when you take them, and give a teaspoonful three times a day.
SCALDING OF THE URINE.--Equal parts of the oil of red cedar, and the oil of spearmint.
URINARY OBSTRUCTIONS.--Steep pumpkin seeds in gin, and drink about three glasses a day; or, administer half a drachm uva ursi every morning, and a dose of spearmint.
FREE PASSAGE OF URINE.--The leaves of the currant bush made into a tea, and taken as a common drink.
VENEREAL COMPLAINTS.--Equal parts of the oil of red cedar, combined with sarsaparilla, yellow dock and burdock made into a syrup; add to a pint of this syrup an ounce of gum guiaicum. Dose, from a tablespoonful to a wine-glass, as best you can bear.
HOW TO CURE SORE THROAT.--"One who has tried it" communicates the following sensible item about curing sore throat: Let each one of your half million readers buy at any drug store one ounce of camphorated oil and five cents' worth of chloride of potash. Whenever any soreness appears in the throat, put the potash in half a tumbler of water, and with it gargle the throat thoroughly; then rub the neck thoroughly with the camphorated oil at night before going to bed, and also pin around the throat a small strip of woolen flannel. This is a simple, cheap and sure remedy.
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LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS
Acacia--Concealed love. Adonis Vernalis--Sorrowful remembrances. Almond--Hope. Aloe--Religious superstition. Alyssum, Sweet--Worth beyond beauty. Ambrosia--Love returned. Apple Blossom--Preference. Arbor Vitæ--Unchanging friendship.
Bachelor's button--Hope in love. Balsam--Impatience. Begonia--Deformity. Bellflower--Gratitude. Belvidere, Wild (Licorice)--I declare against you. Blue Bell--I will be constant. Box--Stoical indifference. Briers--Envy. Burdock--Touch me not.
Cactus--Thou leavest not. Camellia--Pity. Candytuft--Indifference. Canterbury Bell--Gratitude. Cape Jessamine--Ecstasy; transport. Calla Lily--Feminine beauty. Carnation (Yellow)--Disdain. Cedar--I live for thee. China Aster--I will see about it. Chrysanthemum Rose--I love. Cowslip--Pensiveness. Cypress--Mourning. Crocus--Cheerfulness. Cypress and Marigold--Despair.
Daffodil--Chivalry. Dahlia--Forever thine. Daisy (Garden)--I partake your sentiment. Daisy (Wild)--I will think of it. Dandelion--Coquetry. Dead Leaves--Sadness. Dock--Patience. Dodder--Meanness. Dogwood--Am I indifferent to you?
Ebony--Hypocrisy. Eglantine--I wound to heal. Elder--Compassion. Endive--Frugality. Evening Primrose--Inconstancy. Evergreen--Poverty. Everlasting--Perpetual remembrance.
Fennel--Strength. Filbert--Reconciliation. Fir-tree--Elevation. Flux--I feel your kindness. Forget-me-not--True love; remembrance. Fox-glove--Insincerity. Furze--Anger. Fuchsia--Taste.
Gentian--Intrinsic worth. Geranium, Ivy--Your hand for the next dance. Geranium, Nutmeg--I expect a meeting. Geranium, Oak--Lady, deign to smile. Geranium, Rose--Preference. Geranium, Silver leaf--Recall. Gilliflower--Lasting beauty. Gladiolus--Ready; armed. Golden Rod--Encouragement. Gorse--Endearing affection. Gass--Utility.
Harebell--Grief. Hawthorn--Hope. Hazel--Recollection. Hartsease--Think of me. Heliotrope--Devotion. Henbane--Blemish. Holly--Foresight. Hollyhock--Fruitfulness. Hollyhock, White--Female ambition. Honeysuckle--Bond of Love. Honeysuckle, Coral--The color of my fate. Hyacinth--Jealousy. Hyacinth, Blue--Constancy. Hyacinth, Purple--Sorrow. Hydrangea--Heartlessness.
