The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1870-01-15
USEFUL DEPARTMENT.
Food Cure.

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lost. 1t is not pretended that all dis
eases are cured in this way but it is
very certainst that quite a number of or
binary ailments may be removed by the
judicious employment of the contents Of
a we'll furnished larder-and with this
great advantage the cures are more
permanent and less reliable to return
accomplishing their object without
any shock to the system, and without
the danger of lulliDg the patien: by mis-
taking the quantity, or quality, or name
of the dose. .t. ..a....., ..:
Ripe fruits and berries, slightly acid,
will remove the ordinary diarrheas of
early summer.
Common rice, parched brown like cof-
fee, and then boiled and eaten in the
ordinare way, without any other food;
is, with perfect quietude of body, n
or the most effective remedies for troub-
lssome loosness of bowels.
Some of the severest forms of that
distressing ailment called dysentery,
that is, when the bowels pass blood,
with constant desire, yet with vain
efforts to stool, are sometimes entirely
cured by the patient eating a heaping
Tablespoonful at a time of raw beef, cut
up very fine, and repeated at intervals
Of four hours, until cured. eating moth
ing else in the meanwhile. .f.1:..".
If a. person swallows any poison
whatever, or has fallen into commissions
from having overloaded the stomach, an
instantaneous remedy, more efficient
and applicable in a larger number of
cases than any half dozen medicines we
can now think Of is a heaping teaspoon
of common salt and as much ground
mustard, stirred rapidly in teacup of
water, warm or cold, and swallowed
Instantly. It is scarcely down before it
begins to come up, bringing with it the
remaining contents Of the stomach, and
less 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 common articles multi
fly a larger number of v~irulent pois-
ons than any medicines in the shops.
In case Of scalding or burning the
body, immersing the part in cold water
gives entire relief, as in~stantaneously
as thslightning. Meanwhile, get some
common dry -four, and apply it an inch
or two thick on the injured part, the
moment it eherges from the water,
and keep ~sprinkling on the -four through
anything like a pepper-box cover.
SO as to put it on evenly.
Do nothing else, drink nothing but
water, eat nothing, until improvement
commences, except some dry bread
softened in very weak tea of some kind.
Cures of frightful burnings have been
performed in this way, as wonderful as
they are painless. rI2I s>f4taa$
Erysipelas, a disease often coming
without ~premonition, and ending fatally
in three or four days, is sometimes
promptly cured by applying a poultice
Of raw cranberries pounded, and placed =
% the part over night. :
Insect bites, and even that of a rattle =
snake, have passed harmless by stir
ing enough Of common salt in the yolk
q good egg to make it sufficiently q
hin tor a plaster, to be kept on the Bit
ZEN parts. bt axe 7ra.1 afa v
Neuralgia and toothache are some. A
speedily relieved by applying to di
he wrist q quantity of bruised or gra.
ed horseradish.
Costive bowels have am agreeable
in the free use Of tomatoes at
1eals-their seeds acting in the way
T white mustard or figs, by stimulating
coats Of the bowels over which they :
ass in their whole state to increased
ash fFeA a b.
A remedy Of equal efficiency, in the :.
direction, is cracked wheat-that Z
!, common wheat grains, broken into vi
NO or three pieces, and then boiled IN.
! it is as soft as rice, and eaten mainly 1
two meals Of the day, with butter
!. molasses.
Common sweet cider, boiled down to in
makes a most excel csc
ut syrup for coughs and colds for tai
ildren-is pleasant to taste, and will no,
throughout the whole year in a Phi
cellar. tf staa8at 5sa4 .H5.s9 mn Clio
In. II recovering from an Illness, the fall
has . craving for some pleasant exp
drink. This il found in cider which / h
placed on the fire as soon as made ext
d allowed to come to a boil, then il b
oled, put in casks, and kept in a
cellar. Treated thus, it remains g
months a. good as the day it was
lde. gsAla & .EA ,Ats. Il 4zyGt.
once saved the life Of an infant
Iich had been inadvertently drugged
laudanum, and was fast sinking
o the sleep which has no awaking,
giving it strong coffee, cleared with
white OF an egg, a te~aspoonful every NJ,
} minutes until it ceased to seem IL.
,WsY.g;,H iAIa4 oon
knowledge given IN items like al
aoove should do something toward g
fishing the ~ruinous and almost uni y
sal habit of purchasing patent medi- = !
which, IA 80 many instances, are !,
'er s.inapplieable. hurtful, or utterly q $, u
less and III this latter case, are in whli
the cause of death. BY the loss CITY
me hi obtaining tbo sa-v;cas e seryi
lpetent physician to apply the prop. prop
with Q wise discrimination. 81
j Halls Journal Of Health. anyd
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