Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-05-29
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/. If man faints, place nm on M
back, and let him alone,
2, If any poison is swallowed, drink
instantly half glass of cool water, with
a heaping teaspoonful each of common
salt and ground mustard stirred into it;
this vomits as soon as it reaches the stom-
ach; but for fear some of the poison may
remain swallow the white of one or two
raw eggs, or drink cup of strong coffee,
these two being antidotes for a greater
number of poisons than any dozen other
articles known, with the advantage OF
their always being at hand; if not, pint
of sweet oil, or lamp oil, or drippings,"
or melted butter, or lard, are good substi-
tutes, especially if they vomit quickly
3. The best thing to stop the bleeding
of moderate cut instantly, is to cover it
profusely with cob-web, -four and salt
half and half. ~
4. If blood comes from wound by Jets
or spirits, be spry, or the man will die in
few minutes, because an artery is sew
cred; tie a handkerchief loosely around,
near the part between the wound and the
heart; put a stick between the handker-
chief and the skin, and twist it around
until the blood ceases to flow; keep it
there until the doctor comes; if in po-
sition where the handkerchief cannot be
used, press the thumb on a spot near the
wound, between the wound and the heart;
increase the pressure until the bleeding
ceases, but do not lessen the pressure for
an instant until the physician arrives, SO
as to glue up the wound by coagulation or
cooling of the hardening blood.
s. If your clothing takes fire, slide the
hands down the dress, keeping them as
close to the body as possible, at the same
time sinking to the floor by bending the
knees; this has a smothering effect upon
the flames if not extinguished or great
Roadway cotton, lie down on the floor,
and roll over and over; or better, envel
ope yourself in carpet, rug, bed cloth,
or any garment you can get hold of, al
ways preferring wooden.
6. If the body is tired rest; if the
brain is tired, sleep.
7. If the bowels are loose, lie down in
a warm bed, remain there and eat moth
ing until you are we'll.
5. If the action of the bowels does not
occur at the usual hour, eat not an atom
until they do act, at least for thirty-six
hours; meanwhile, drink largely of cold
water or hot teas, and exercise in the open
air to the extent of a gentle perspiration,
and keep this up until things are righted;
this suggestion, if practiced, would save
myriads of lives every year both in city
and country.
9. The three best medicines in the
world, are warmth, abstinence and re-
pose-HaUs journal of Health.
Two MEALS DAY.-If any man or
woman Of forty-fve or over, not engaged
in hard manual labor, especially the stu
dious, sedentary and indoor livers, would
take but two meals a day for one month,
the second being not later than three in
the afternoon, and absolutely nothing af
forwards, except it might be in some
cases an orange or lemon, or cup of warm
drink, such as tea, broma, sugar-water,
or ice-cream, there would be such
change for the better in the way of
sounder sleep, feeling on waking Of
having rested, an appetite for breakfast,
a bouyance of disposition during the day,
with geniality of temper and manner
that few, except the animal and the glut-
ton, would be willing to go back to the
Aesh-pots of Egypt.
Ben Wade" as he is Familiarity call
ed, one of thepolitical lions of the West,
has taken but two meals day for twen-
ty years; and if all sedentary persons,
those who are indoors greater part of
their time, would, after the age of forty
FIVE, observe the same infexible rule,
there can be no doubt, other things being
equal, that long years of happy exemp-
ton from the ordinary ills of life would
have been the result. The reason is that
the stomach would have time to rest, for
recuperation, and would thus be able to
perform its part more thoroughly, max
ing purer blood, giving better sleep, and
securing good appetite for breakfast.
Let any man try it for ten days, taking
'vshe second meal seven hours after the
first, and abandon the practice if he
an."-HaHs Journal Of Heath.
QUIET VIRTUEs.-It is the bubbling
spring which flows gently, the little riv-
ulet which runs along day and night by
the farmhouse that is usef,l ro+bor .L,,