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Página 83 - Another treatment of warts is to pare the hard and dry skin from their tops, and then touch them with the smallest drop of strong acetic acid, taking care that the acid does not run off the wart upon the neighboring skin; for if it does, it will occasion inflammation and much pain.
Página 143 - ... liquor for use. The article to be cleaned should then be laid upon a linen cloth on a table, and having provided a. clean sponge, dip...
Página 86 - Repeat these movements deliberately and perseveringly, fifteen times only in a minute. (When the patient lies on the thorax, this cavity is compressed by the weight of the body, and expiration takes place. When he is turned on the side, this pressure...
Página 106 - ... saucepan, the inside of which is quite bright, with the cover to fit quite close ; put to them the rind of a lemon cut thin, with half its juice, a small stick of cinnamon, and twenty grains of allspice ; cover them with spring water, and allow one pound of...
Página 92 - ... but take care it does not boil over. In a quarter of an hour strain it off; and add salt and a bit of butter when eaten.
Página 56 - The agreeable feelings which entire cleanliness is calculated to produce, as well as the excellent moral influence which it is capable of exerting on the mind, are in themselves of sufficient moment to claim for it the most solicitous attention. Children who are early accustomed to the comfortable and healthful impressions of washing and bathing, will rarely in after life...
Página 150 - The Enchanted Bottle. FILL a glass bottle with water to the beginning of the neck ; leave the neck empty, and cork it. Suspend this bottle opposite a concave mirror, and beyond its focus, that it may appear reversed. Place yourself still further distant from the bottle ; and instead of the water appearing, as it really is, at the bottom of the bottle, the bottom will be empty, and the water seen at the top. If the bottle be suspended with the neck downwards, it will be reflected in its natural position...
Página 163 - If a soap-bubble be blown up, and set under a glass, so that the motion of the air may not affect it, as the water glides down the sides and the top grows thinner, several colours will successively appear at the top, and spread themselves from thence in rings down the sides of the bubble, till they vanish in the same order in which they appeared; at last a black spot appears at the top, and spreads till the bubble bursts.
Página 94 - Gather the fruit in dry weather; allow half a pound of good brown sugar to every pound of fruit; boil the whole together gently for an hour, or till the blackberries are soft, stirring and mashing them well. Preserve it like any other jam, and it will be found very useful in families, particularly for children, regulating their bowels, and enabling you to dispense with cathartics. It may be...
Página 103 - Milk Porridge. — Stir four table-spoonfuls of oatmeal, smoothly, into a quart of milk, then stir it quickly into a quart of boiling water, and boil up a few minutes till it is thickened : sweeten with sugar. Oatmeal, where it is found to agree with the stomach, is much better for children, being a fine opener as well as cleanser ; fine flour in every shape is the reverse.