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 518 FOR THE SICK.

LINSEED TEA.

PUT one tablespoonful of linseed into a stewpan with half a pint of cold water ; place the stewpan over a moderate fire, and when the water- is quite warm, pour it off, and add to the linseed half a pint of fresh cold water, then let the whole boil three or four minutes; season it with lemon and sugar.

POWDERS FOR CHILDREN.

A VERY excellent carminative powder for flatulent infants may be kept in the house, and employed with advantage whenever the child is in pain or griped, dropping five grains of oil of anise-seed and two of peppermint on half an ounce of lump sugar, and rubbing it in a mor- tar, with a drachm of magnesia, into a fine powder. A small quantity of this may be given in a little water at any time, and always with benefit.

FOR CHILDREN TEETHING.

TIE a quarter of a pound of wheat flour in a thick cloth and boil it in one quart of water for three hours ; then remove the cloth and ex- pose the flour to the air or heat until it is hard and dry ; grate from it, when wanted, one tablespoonful, which put into half a pint of new milk, and stir over the fire until it comes to a boil, when add a pinch of salt and a tablespoonful of cold water and serve. This gruel is ex- cellent for children afflicted with summer co: ^plaint.

Or brown a tablespoonful of flour in the oven or on top of the stove on a baking tin; feed a few pinches at a time to a child and it will often check a diarrhoea. The tincture of " kino "of which from ten to thirty drops, mixed with a little sugar and water in a spoon, and given every two or three hours, is very efficacious and harmless can be procured at almost any druggist 's. Tablespoon doses of pure cider vinegar and a pinch of salt, has cured when all else failed.

BLACKBERRY CORDIAL.

THIS recipe may be found under the head of COFFEE, TEA, BEVER- AGES. It will be found an excellent medicine for children teething, and summer diseases.

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