495.  For flatulency

Make a tea of the seeds of anise, caraway, and coriander, and drink freely of it.

496.  For hiccough

Take five drops of oil of anise on sugar when they commence to be troublesome.

497.  For heartburn

This is a very disagreeable sensation, but may be banished by taking a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda dissolved in half a tumbler full of sweetened water.

498.  Erysipelas

This when very bad needs the attendance of a physician; when not so bad, paint the inflamed part over with white lead, mixed with paint oil, it is an excellent remedy.

499.  For felon

Poultice well with flaxseed meal until matter begins to form, then at once have it well laid open with a lance, continue the poultice for some time afterwards.

500.  Hair restorative

Take of black mustard seed 1/2 oz., red pepper 15 grains, blood root 1/2 oz., cantharides 15 grains, castile soap 1/2 oz., alcohol one quart; mix all together in a bottle, let stand for a week, occasionally shaking.  Perfume with oil of bergamot, and apply three or four times a day.

501.  To Kill rats and mice without poison

Slice up a quantity of corks, grease, and scent them with oil of anise; throw them in the way of the rats and mice; they will eat, but cannot digest them; the result is they will die.

502.  Eye water

One part of good brandy, to six of clean rain or distilled water, makes an admirable eye water for most cases of sore eyes.

503.  For chronic gout and rheumatism

Take of bicarbonate of potash 1/2 drachm, tincture of orange 2 drachms, compound decoction of aloes 8 oz., mix.  Dose, a wine glass full whenever the fit is expected.  This is Sir A. Cooper’s prescription.

504.  For sickness and vomiting

Take of creosote 16 drops, acetic acid 16 drops, compound spirit of juniper 1 oz., syrup 1 oz., water 14 oz.; mix the creosote with the acid, add gradually the water, and lastly the syrup and spirit.  Dose from two to four tablespoonsful.

505.  Laxative pill

Take of powdered aloes 1 drachm, gamboge 10 grains, Castile soap and water sufficient to make a pill mass; mix and divide into 34 pills.  Dose, one, two, or three, to be given when necessary, for torpid bowels.

506.  For headache

In case of a severe attack of headache the best remedy is, generally, to take a good strong physic of salts and senna.  If this does not relieve it, or where the person is very frequently troubled with headache, apply a blister to the back of the neck, you will find it an excellent remedy.

507.  For making size