To Prepare Shad for Broiling

Scale your shad perfectly, clean it nicely, then split it down the back, and lay it flat on your board or tray; now remove the entrails perfectly, taking care not to break the gall. Wash out all the blood, and lay your shad in clean water till you are ready to place it over the fire.

To Prepare a Shad for Breakfast

First, with a sharp knife, remove all the bones from your shad, sprinkle it with salt and a little Cayenne pepper, after which dredge on a thin coat of flour. Have ready a greased tin sheet (not a pan), lay on it your shad, and put it in your stove or oven; let it brown slowly, and when done slip it carefully off the tin sheet to a hot dish. Butter it well, and serve it immediately.

To Broil a Fresh Shad

Grease your gridiron, put your shad on it, over bright coals for five minutes, just to give it the taste of the fire, then transfer it to a tin sheet, and having dredged on flour, pour on a large spoonful of melted butter, and bake.

Diarrhea

• Cut up a dozen green persimmons with an ounce of red oak bark,
• boil these in a pint of water till reduced one - half,
• add one ounce of gum Arabic and
• half a pound of white sugar.

Boil the mixture with a teacupful of the syrup from black-berry preserves down to a stiff candy.

Sift coarse white sugar on a clean sheet of white paper, and drop the candy on it in the form of lozenges.

Let the patient eat three or four each day.

A Cancer Cure

• Pound up a handful of sorrel leaves,
• Stew them with lard,

Apply the poultice to the cancer, taking care to protect the well flesh by means of a large piece of adhesive plaster with a round hole cut in the center just sufficiently large to expose the cancer.

This poultice should remain twenty-four hours.

Strong potash, applied in the same way, it is said, will destroy a cancer so that it can be pulled out as you would pull up a parsnip from the ground.

Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog

Elecampane is a plant well known to most persons, and is to be found in many of our gardens. Immediately after being bitten, take

• one and a half ounces of the root of the plant,--the green root is perhaps preferable, but the dried will answer,
• slice or bruise,
• put into a pint of fresh milk,
• boil down to a half pint, strain, and when cold drink, fasting for at least six hours afterward.

The next morning, fasting, repeat the dose, using two ounces of the root. On the third morning take another dose prepared as the last, and this will be sufficient. It is recommended that after each dose nothing be eaten for at least six hours.

Important Medical Discovery

A remarkable medical discovery has recently been made in the treatment of deafness, by Professor Scott, of the New York Medical University, by which the most apparently hopeless cases are radically cured. The method consists in introducing atomized oxide of phenol directly into the cavity of the tympanum. No unpleasant sensations are produced, and a feeling of clearness seems to follow the application. Numerous cases are daily treated successfully at the university.