Take a bit of cotton batting, put on it a pinch of black pepper,
gather it up and tie it, dip it in sweet oil, and insert it in the
ear; put a flannel bandage over the head to keep it warm; it often
gives immediate relief.
Tobacco smoke, puffed into the ear, has often been effectual.
Another remedy: Take equal parts of tincture of opium and glycerine.
Mix, and from a warm teaspoon drop two or three drops into the ear,
stop the ear tight with cotton, and repeat every hour or two. If
matter should form in the ear, make a suds with castile soap and warm
water, about 100° F., or a little more than milk warm, and have some
person inject it into the ear while you hold that side of your head
the lowest. If it does not heal in due time, inject a little carbolic
acid and water in the proportion of one drachm of the acid to one pint
of warm water each time after using the suds.