Enquire within upon everything.

  • Robert Kemp Philp
Date:
1863
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    however long it has been in use, quite as effectively as at first. If our soldiers and sailors, therefore, when placed in unhealthy situations, were furnished with charcoal respira- tors, such as the second form above described, and if the floors of the tents and the lower decks of the ships were covered by a thin layer of freshly burnt wood charcoal, I think we could have little in future to apprehend from the rivages of cholera, yellow fever, and similar diseases by which our forces have of late been decimated. If found more convenient, the charcoal powder might be covered with coarse canvas, without its disinfectant properties being materially impaired. The efficiency of the charcoal may be greatly increased by making it red-hot before using it. This can easily be done by heating it in an iron saucepan covered with an iron lid. When the charcoal is to be applied to inflammable substances^ such as wooden floors, &c., of course it must be allowed to cool in close vessels before being used.—[We have deemed these remarks by Dr. John Stenhouse, F.R.S., lecturer on chemistiy at St. Bartholo- mew’s Hospital, to be of great impor- tance ; we have, therefore, printed them in extenso.'] (<Sfec 357.) 321. LEMOH SPONGE. — For a quart mould—dissolve two oimces of isinglass in a pint and three quarters of water; strain it, and add three quarters of a pound of sifted loaf sugar, the juice of six lemons and the rind of one; boil the whole a lew minutes, strain it again, and let it stand till quite cold and just beginning to stiffen; then beat the whites of two eggs, and put them to it, and whisk till it is quite white; put it into a mould, which must be fii’st wetted with cold water, or salad oil is a much better substitute for turning out jelley, blancmange, &c., great care being taken not to pour it into the mould till quite cool, or the oil W’ill float on the top, and after it is turned out it must be carefully wiped over with a clean cloth. This plan only requires to be tried once to be in- variably adopted. 322. TO KILL SLUGS.—Take a quantity of cabbage-leaves, and either put them into a warm oven, or heat them before the fire till they get quite soft; then rub them with unsalted butter, or any kind of fresh dripping, and lay them in places infested with slugs. In a few hours the leaves will be found covered with snails and slugs^ which may then, of course, be destroyed in any way the gardener may think fit. 323. HOW TO WASH KID GLOVES. — Have ready a little new milk in one saucer, and a piece of brown soap in another, and a clean cloth or towel folded three or four times. On the cloth, spread out the glove smooth and neat. Take a piece of flannel, dip it in the milk, then rub off a good quantity of soap to the wetted flannel, and commence to rub the glove down- wards towards the fingers, holding it firmly with the left hand. Continue this process until the glove, if wliite, looks of a dingy yellow, though clean; if coloured, till it looks dark and spoiled. Lay it to diy; and old gloves will soon look nearly new. They will be soft, glossy, smooth, shapy, and elastic. 324. DYEING THE HAIR.—It may be stated once for all that this practice is decidedly injurious. It may fail al- together in producing the desired re- sult ; it is never unattended by a certain amount of unpleasant circum- stances, and frequently with evil re- sults. In the first place, the alteration of the abnormal colour, so far as the ge- neral aspect of the face is concerned, has an effect the very reverse of that which was intended. Every consti- tuent part of man tends to make the human machine one harmonious whole: the figure, the stature, the skin, the hair, the gait, &c. Fair hair is associated with a sangm- neous and lymphatic temperament, a fine and white skin, blue eyes, and a
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