Medical lore on home remedies and cautions from old text
A Victorian style compendium lists home remedies and cautions for health. It covers mustard plasters, bladder injections, bedtime water for infants, convulsions handled by side-lying positions, and controlling postanesthetic nausea. Also describes tooth powder, warts treatment with iodine and acetic acid, and cautions about damp rooms. Includes advice on sweating feet, sleep in illness, breath care, ear drops, boils treatment, and antiseptic practices.
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Materia Medica
Castile
Richardson
M. Gixtoot
Rural Brevities and Agricultural Tips
Practical notes on livestock breeding and care, tree borers, hen feed, and soil management. Advice covers retaining breeding stock, borers in fruit trees, sour milk oats feed for hens, bay seed use, green crop succession, rye for first crop, freezing effects on arre, and fertilization with superphosphates and barnyard manure depending on feed.
Santa Claus Comes To Simpson's Bar Christmas Night
In a flooded valley near Sacramento, Simpson's Bar Christmas Eve hosts a rough gathering at Thompson's store. The Old Man invites the group to his cabin for a spread, while Johnny, sick in bed, and a daring ride by Dick Bullen unfold. After a perilous night of drinking, horseplay, and a river crossing, Dick returns, battered, to reveal a small gift pack. The final scene delivers a quiet Santa Claus moment as the Old Man shares toys and a hopeful message for Johnny.
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Sacramento
North Fork
Simpson's Crossing
Grangers
Tules
Massachusetts
Simpson's Bar
Table Mountain
Thompson
Simpson's
Mr. Hamlin
Smiley
Jim Smiley
Jim
Tom Flynn
Simpson
Joe Dimmick
Dick Bullen
Johnny
Pearl
Enea
Thompson’s
Pine Tree Canyon
Sittiz
Mar
Thompson's
Bullen
Staples
Sonny
Morrew
Chrismiss
Sandy Claws
Pop
Poe
Bill
Jack
Crossin
Richard Bullen
Simpson’s Bar
Jovita
Richard
Rattlesnake Creek
Red Mountain
Tuttlevile
Motel of All Nations
Tuttleville
Sierras
Ratthkenake Creek
Jack Simpeed
Jovite Ross
Rattlesnake Hill
Simypson'’s
Sandy Claus
Santa Claus
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