The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1869-11-20
Know And Cure ThyseIr.
Food Cure.

DR.. W. W. Hall, in his excellent Journal
Of Health for December, 1869, writes up
the following invaluable remedies, every
one of which should be memorized:
This Journal aims to show how to main
tain health by natural agencies, and by the
same means to restore it if lost. It is not
pretended that all diseases are cured in this
way; but it Is very certain that quite mum.
Der of ordinary ailments may be removed
| by the judiciOus employment Of the eoutents
of well-furnished larder-and with this
| great advantage, the cures are more perma-
nent, and less liable to return-accomplish-
| ing their object without any shock to the
! system, and without the danger of killing
| the patient, by mistaking the quantity, or
| quality, or name of the dose.
| Ripe fruits and berries, slightly acid, will
| remove the ordinary diarrhoeas Of early sum
mer.
| Common rice, parched brown like coffee,
and then boiled and eaten in the ordinary
way, without any other food, is, with perfect
| quietude of body, one of the most effective
remedies for troublesome looseness of bow
| els.
e-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 a
heaping tablespoon, at time, of raw beef,
cut up very fine, and repeated at intervals
of four hours, until cured, eating and drink
ing nothing else IN the meanwhile.
If a person swallows any poison whatever,
or has fallen into convulsiOns from having
overloaded the stomach, an instantaneous
remedy, more efficient and applicable in
larger number of cases than any half doz-
en- medicines we can now think Of, is a
heaping teaspoon of common salt and az
much ground mustard, stirred rapidly In d
teacup of water, warm or cold, and swallow
ed instantly 1t is scarcely down before 1t
begins to come up, bringing with it the re-
manning contents Of the stomach; and lest
there be any remnant of a poison, however
small let the white of an egg, or a teacup
of strong coffee, be swallowed as soon as the
stomach is quiet; because these very com
mon articles nullify larger number of viz
ulent poisOns than any medicines in th e
shops.
In case of scalding or burning the body !,
immersing the part In cold water gives eli
tire relief, as unanimously as the light
ming. Meanwhile, get some common dry
-four, and apply it an inch or two thick on
the mi ured part the moment it emerge 5
from the water, and keep sprinlzling on the
-four through anything like a pepper-bol-
cover, so as to put it on evenly. Do nothing :
else, drink nothing but water, eat nothing
until Improvement commences, except som, 2
dry bread softcned In very weak tea of som ,
kind. Cures of frighEful burns have beer 1
performed in this way, as wonderful as they r
are painless.
Erysipelas, a disease often coming with.
out premonition, and ending fatally in three
or four days, is sometimes promptly cured
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pounded, and placed on the part over
night
Insect bites. and even that of rattle
snake, have passed harmless, by stirring
enough of common salt in the yolk of q
good egg to make it sufficiently thin for
plaster, to be kept on the bitten parts
Neuralgia and tOothace are sometimes
speedily relieved by applying to the wrist a
quantity of bruised or grated horse radish.
Costive bowels have an agreeable remedy
in the free use of tomatoes at meals-their
seeds acting in the way of the seeds of
white mustard or figs, by stimulating the .
coats Of the bowels over which they pass, in
their whole state, to increased action.
A remedy of equal efficiency, in the same
direction is cracked wheat-that is, com
mon white wheat grains, broken into two or
three pieces, and then boiled until it is as
soft as rice, and eaten mainly at two meals
of the day, with butter or molasses.
Common sweet cider, boiled down to one
half, makes q most excellent syrup for
coughs and colds for children-is pleasant
to the taste, and will keep throughout the
year a cool cellar,
In recovering from an illness, the system
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
como to a boil, then cooled, put in casks, and
kept IN a cool cellar. Treated thus, it re-
mains 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 lauda-
mum, and was fast sinking into the sleep
which has no waking, by giving it strong
coffee, cleared with the white of an egg, q
teaspoonful every five minutes until it ceas-
ed to seem drowsy.
Our book on " Health and Disease was
written with a view to introduce people to
the knowledge Of items like these, in the
hope of doing something towards abolishing
the ruinous and almost universal habit of
purchasing patent medicines, which, in so
many instances, are either iDapplicable,
hurtfnl or utterly useless, and, in this lat
ter case, are indirectly the means of death,
by the loss of time in obtaining the services
of competent physician to apply the prop
er means with a wise discrimination.
Rules for Estimating Cotton.
81 feet will give 90 rows to the acre, Is