No directions here given are intended to supply the place of medical attendance. A little medical knowledge is a dangerous thing, and this temporizing with the constitution is often attended with the worst results. It would, therefore, be an act, of folly and danger for the nonprofessional to presume to decide on the ailment, and equally so to prescribe for it. At the same time, it is well to gain all the information possible.

The following recipes have been submitted to a physician:-

For Hooping Cough

Dissolve one scruple of salt of tartar in a gill of soft water; add to it ten grains of cochineal, finely powdered, and sweeten it with lump sugar. The dose for an infant is a teaspoonful four times a day; from five years old upwards, a table-spoonful may be taken. The following embrocation for spasmodic coughs of all kinds, as well as for inflammatory croup, is valuable: Two drachms of tincture of opium, two ounces of camphor liniment. A teaspoonful to be rubbed in over the throat and chest every night and morning, and cover the parts immediately with flannel. If the chest is loaded with phlegm, a gentle emetic must be given once, twice, or three times a week, as required. Ipecacuanha wine is most suitable, and the dose for a child of four or five years is two and a half or three drachms.

During the first stages of this disorder the patient should breathe an equal temperature, as nearly as it can be managed, not too warm and close, but equal; and when the virulence of the disorder has passed away, the open air (if the weather be mild) may be frequently resorted to: and a change of air, where it is practicable, will often remove at once all remains of the complaint.

The diet is,of paramount importance , and for children of even six and seven years of age, ought to be little more than milk and broth. Should the milk be found to curdle on the stomach, a little common salt must be added. If thirst prevails, a little toast and water may be given. If the attack, from its length and severity, should cause a loss of strength, it will soon be recruited by a cold infusion of bark, gentle exercise, pure air, and diet of nourishing broth.

Mixture For Hooping Cough

Ipecacuanha wine, two drachms; carbonate of soda, half a drachm; paregoric elixir, two drachms; water, one ounce. A teaspoonful or two (according to the age of the patient) may be given three times a day.

Scarlet Fever, Or Scarlatina

This disease begins with the common symptoms of fever, often with languor and disposition to fainting, shiverings, sickness, a quick pulse, and pain in the head; there is frequently, very early in the dis-1 order, a stiffness of the muscles of the neck, which is soon followed by some difficulty in swallowing.

To determine the eruption to the surface of the body, it will be right to give the simple saline, made as follows: Take of citric acid one drachm and a half; bi carbonate of potash, two drachms; water, seven ounces and a half; simple syrup, half an ounce; spirits of nitre, two drachms. Mix, and take a sixth part every four hours. If the child is very young, give half the dose.

Throughout the whole of this disease it will be advisable to make frequent use of some detergent (cleansing) gargle, which in young children must be thrown into the throat with a syringe.

Detergent Gargle

Take of purified alum one drachm; barley water, half a pint; honey of roses, one ounce.

Draught For Palpitation Of The Heart, With Great Nervous Irritability

Tincture of foxglove, ten drops; camphor mixture, one ounce; tincture of columba, one drachm. This draught may be taken twice a day.

Mixture For Children Teething, When The Bowels Are Disordered

Chalk mixture, fifteen drachms; tincture of cinnamon, one drachm. Mix together. Two teaspoonfuls to be given three or four times a day as required.

Primrose Ointment, For Burns And Ulcers

Bruise one pound of the leaves of this well known plant, in a mortar, along with half a pound of the flowers; simmer these in an equal quantity of hog's-lard, without salt, until the primroses become crisp; after which the ointment, whilst fluid, must be strained through a coarse sieve. This is an excellent application for obstinate ulcers or burns.

Excellent Medicine For Indigestion

Carbonate of magnesia, one ounce; carbonate of soda, one ounce; powdered ginger, one drachm; best Turkey rhubarb, half a drachm. Well mixed in a mortar, to be kept in a bottle with a glass stopper. The dose for an adult is half a teaspoonful.

For Inflammation Of The Eyes

Brandy, one teaspoonful; white wine vinegar, one teaspoonful; soft water, nine tea-spoonfuls. Mix - and to be used frequently.

Cure For Ringworm

The head to be washed twice a day with soft soap and warm soft water; when dried, the places to be rubbed with a piece of linen rag dipped in ammonia from gas tar; the patient should take a little sulphur and molasses, or some other gentle aperient, every morning; brushes and combs should be washed every day, and the ammonia kept tightly corked.

Or:- Mix pyroligneous acid with one-third of water; rub the spots carefully for three mornings: if cured, a scurf will appear, which must be softened with cold cream, or lard without salt, but no soap or water must be used.

It is desirable to cut off the hair from the immediate neighborhood of the ring -and after the cure is effected, weaken the lotion still farther, by the addition of more water, and well wash the head all over with it. It seldom happens that an internal use of medicine is requisite; but where the disease is very inveterate, I would recommend a powder to be given at bed-time, once or twice. The following will answer very well for a child of seven years of age: calomel, one grain; jalap, powder, eight grains.

The great Abernethy used to say poultices were blessings or curses, as they were made; I cannot, therefore, insert a more useful recipe than that of this celebrated surgeon's for a well made