270. If there be no other lard in the house but lard with salt, the salt may be readily removed by washing the lard in cold water. Prepared lard—that is to say, lard without salt—can, at any moment, be procured from the nearest druggist in the neighborhood.
271. See the Lancet for October 10th, 17th, and 24th, 1840.
272. A stick of pointed nitrate of silver, in a case, ready for use, may be procured of any respectable chemist.
273. Which may be instantly procured of a druggist, as he always keeps it ready prepared.
274. A Bee-master. The Times, July 28, 1864.
275. Shaw’s Medical Remembrancer, by Hutchinson.
276. A tepid bath from 62 to 96 degrees of Fahrenheit.
277. A warm bath from 97 to 100 degrees of Fahrenheit.
278. Health. By John Brown, M.D. Edinburgh: Alexander Strahan & Co.
279. Several years ago, while prosecuting my anatomical studies in London University College Dissecting-rooms, on opening a young woman, I discovered an immense indentation of the liver large enough to admit a rolling-pin, entirely produced by tight lacing!
280. Dryden.
281. Sir W. Temple.
282. Goldsmith’s Essays.
283. Geoffry Hamlyn. By H. Kingsley.
284. Proverbs, xx. 29.
285. “I would have given him, Captain Fleming, had he been my son,” quoth old Pearson the elder, “such a good sound drubbing as he never would have forgotten—never!”
“Pooh! pooh! my good sir. Don’t tell me. Never saw flogging in the navy do good. Kept down brutes; never made a man yet.”—Dr. Norman Macleod in Good Words, May, 1861.
286. The Birmingham Journal.
287. A Woman’s Thoughts about Women.
288. If a girl has an abundance of good nourishment, the school-mistress must, of course, be remunerated for the necessary and costly expense; and how this can be done on the paltry sum charged at cheap boarding-schools? It is utterly impossible! The school-mistress will live, even if the girls be half-starved. And what are we to expect from poor and insufficient nourishment to a fast-growing girl, and at the time of life, remember, when she requires an extra quantity of good sustaining, supporting food? A poor girl, from such treatment, becomes either consumptive or broken down in constitution, and from which she never recovers, but drags out a miserable existence. A cheap boarding-school is dear at any price.
289. A horse-hair mattress should always be preferred to a feather bed. It is not only better for the health, but it improves the figure.
290. Spare Hours. By John Brown, M.D., F.R.S.E.
291. Household Verses on Health and Happiness. London: Jarrold and Sons.
292. Hurdis’s Village Curate.
293. Shakspeare.
294. Todd’s Student’s Guide.
295. Sir Astley Cooper’s Lectures on Scrofula.
296. I. Chronicles, xxi. 13.
297. A. K. H. B., Fraser’s Magazine, October, 1861.
298. Shakspeare.
299. The Times, May 16, 1867.
300. Winter in the South of Europe. By J. Henry Bennett. Third Edition. London: Churchill and Sons, 1865.
301. A wineglassful of barm, a wineglassful of vinegar, and the remaining sage tea, to make a half-pint bottle of gargle.
302. December 10, 1864.
303. Shakspeare knew the great importance of not crowding around a patient who has fainted. He says:
305. Professor Trousseau in Medical Circular, Feb. 5, 1862.
306. Exodus, v. 12.
307. Wilson on Healthy Skin.
308. Four poppy-heads and four ounces of chamomile blows to be boiled in four pints of water for half an hour, and then to be strained to make the fomentation.
309. Cut a piece of bread, about the size of the little finger—without breaking it into crumb—pour boiling hot milk upon it, cover it over, and let it stand for five minutes, then apply the soaked bread over the gum-boil, letting it rest between the cheek and the gum.
310. As long as fashion, instead of common sense, is followed in the making of both boots and shoes, men and women will as a matter of course suffer from corns.
It has often struck me as singular, when all the professions and trades are so overstocked, that there should be, as there is in every large town, such a want of chiropodists (corn-cutters)—of respectable chiropodists—of men who would charge a fixed sum for every visit the patient may make; for instance, to every working-man a shilling, and to every gentleman half a crown or five shillings for each sitting, and not for each corn (which latter system is a most unsatisfactory way of doing business). I am quite sure that if such a plan were adopted, every town of any size in the kingdom would employ regularly one chiropodist at least. However we might dislike some few of the American customs, we may copy them with advantage in this particular—namely, in having a regular staff of chiropodists both in civil and in military life.
312. A very small quantity of pure nitric acid—just a drain at the bottom of a stoppered bottle—is all that is needed, and which may be procured of a chemist.
313. Dublin University Magazine.
314. The Round Table.