Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1859-02-08
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FOOD CURE.

The following article, from the last num-
Der of Halls Journal of Health, will be
found valuable for reference. Some of
the items have already appered in our
columns -
Ripe fruits and berries, slightly acid.
will remove the ordinary diarreahoeas OF
early summer.
Common rice, parched brown like cof-
fee, and then boiled and eaten in the or
dlnary way, without any other food, is,
with perfect quietude of body, of the most
effective remedies for Troublesome loose
ness of bowels
Some of the severeSt forms of that dis
tressing ailment called dysentery, that is,
when The bowels pass blood, with constant
desire, yet vain efforts to stool, are some
times entirely cured by the patient eating
heaping tablespoonful, at time, of raw
beef, cut up very fine, and repeated at IN
tervals of four hours, until cured, eating
and drinking nothing else in the mean
time.
If person swallows any poison what
ever, or has fallen into convulsions from
having overloaded the stomach, an instan-
tanenous remedy, more efficient and ap-
plicable IN larger number OF cases than
any half dozen medicines we can now
think of, is heaping teaspoon of common
salt and as much ground mustard, stirred
rapidly III a tea-cup OF water, warm or
cold, and swallowed instantly. It's scarce
ly down before it begins 10 come up,
bringing with 1t the remaining contents
of the stomach, and lest there be any rem
nant of IA poison, however small, let the
white OF an egg, or teacup OF strong cot
lee, be swallowed as soon as the stomach
is quiet; because these very common ar
ticles nullify larger number OF virulent
poIsons than any medicines in the shops.
In case OF scalding or burning the body,
Immerslng the part IN cold water gives
entire relief, as instantaneousiy as the
lightning. Meanwhile, get some common
dry flour, and apply it an inch or Two thick
on the injured part, the moment 1t energies
from the water, and keep sprinkling Oh
the -four through anything like a peper
box cover, so as 10 put II on evenly. Do
nothing else, drink nothing but cold water.
eat nothing, until improvement commences,
except some dry bread softened in very
weak tea OF some kind. Cures of fright
ful burnlngs have been performed IN this
way, as wonderful as they are painless.
Erysipeas, a desease often coming
without premenition, and ending fatally
in three or four days, Is sometimes prompt
ly cured by applying a poultice of raw
cranberes pounded, and placed on the
part over night.
Insect bites, and even that of rattle
snake, have passed harmless. by stirring
enough common salt in the yolk of an egg
to make ii sufficiently thin for a plaster,
to be kept on the bitten parts.
CoStve bowels have an agreeable re-
emdy in the free use of tomatoes at meals
their seeds acting IN the way of the
seeds of white mustard or figs, by stimu-
lating the coats of the bowels over which
they pass, IN their whole state, to increas-
ed action. A remedy of equal efficiency,
in the same direction, Is cracked wheat
that is, common white wheat grains
broken into three pieces, and then boiled
until it is as soft as rice, and eaten man
ly at two meals of the day, with butter or
molasses.
Common sweet cider, boiled down to
one-half, makes most excellent syrup
for coughs and colds for children-is
pleasant to the taste, and will keep through
out the year in cool celler.
In recovering from an illness, the sys-
tenn has craving for some pleasant acid
drink This is found IN cider which Is
| placed on the fire as soon as made, and
allowed TO come to boil, then cooled. put
in casks, and kept in a cooi celler. Trea-
/ ted thus, it remains for many months as
good as the day it was made.
We once saved the life of an infant
which had been inadvertently drugged
with laudanum, and was fast sinkin into
the sleep which has no waking, by giving
it strong coffee, cleared with the white of
an egg. teaspoonful every five mlnuste
until it ceased to seem drowsy.