Bites and Stings | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Sep 2, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Bites and Stings.

ALMOST all these are destructive from their acid nature, consequently the cure is an alkali. Spirits of hartshorn is one of the strongest, and is kept in almost every household, and you have only to pour some of it out in a tea-cup and dabble it on with a rag. Relief is immediate.

If you have no hartshorn, then saleratus is a suitable alkali. Moisten it with water, and use as in the case of hartshorn; or, pour a tea-cup of boiling water on as much wood ashes, stir it and in a few minutes you will have an alkali. The lye of ashes will answer a good purpose while the physician is coming. Remember the principle—bite is an acid, the cure is an alkali.—Hall's Journal of Health.