The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-01-06
Uhf Uributtf.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.
hs-Editorial and Local ON Second and Third Page
FOOD CURE.
IFrom Halls Journal of Health.l

| by the same means to restore 1t II lest
1t is not pretended that all diseases ar
cured In this way; but it is very certai
| that quite Eumber of ordinary allment
may be removed by the judicious en-
| pioymend of the contents of a well stock
ed larder and with this great advantag
| the cures are more permanent and les
liable to return-accomp plishing their oh
| ject witllou any shock to the system, an'
without the danger of lulling the patien
| by mistaking the quantity, or quality, O
name of the dose.
Ripe fruit and berries, slightly acid
| will remove the ordinary diarrheas 0
early summer.
Common rice, parched brown like cof
fee, and then boiled and eaten IN the or
dinary way, without any other food, IS
with perfect quietude of body, one O.
the most effective remedies for trouble
some loosness of bowels.
Some of the seyerest forms of that dis
tressing ailment called dysentery, that Is,
when the bowels pass blood, with constant
desire, vet vain efforts to stool, are some
times entirely cured by the patient eat
ng heaping tablespoonful at a time,
OF raw beef, cut up very fine, and re
peated at intervals of four hours, until
cured, eating and drinking nothing else
in the meanwhile.
If person swallows any poison what
ever or has fallen into convuislons IRON
having overloaded the stomach, an IN
staneous remedy, more efficient and ap-
plicable in larger number OF cases than
any half dozen medicines we can now
think of, is heaping teaspoon CT COM
mon salt with as much mustard, stirred
in teacup OF water, warm or cold, and
swallowed Instantly. 1t Is scarcely down
before it begins to come up, bringing Wlth
it the remaining contents OF the stomach,
and less there be any remnant of poison,
however small, let the white OF an egg,
or a tea-cup of strong coffee, be swallow
ed as soon as the stomach Is quiet; be-
cause these very common articles nulllfy
a larger number of virulent polsons than
any medicines in the shops.
In case of scalding or burning the body,
inimersng the part in cold water gives
entire relief, as instantaneously as the
lightning. Meanwhile, get some common
-four, and apply it an inch or two thick
on the injured part, the moment 1t emer-
ges from the water, and keep sprlnkling
on the -four through anything like pep
er-box cover, so as to put 1T on evenly.
Do nothing else, drink nothing but water,
eat nothing, until Improvement commen-
ces, except some dry bread sottened In
some very weak tea of some kind. Cures
of frishtful burnings have been perform
ed in this way, as wonderful as they are
painless to the patient.
Erysipelas, disease often coming with
uat premonition, and ending fatally in
three or four days, is sometimes prompt
ly cured by applying a poultice of raw
cranherries pounded, and placed on tho
part affected over night.
Insect bites, and even that of rattle
snake, have passed harmless by stirring
enough Of common salt in the yolk OF II
good egg to make it sufficiently thick for
a plaster, to be kept ON the bitten parts.
Costiye bowels have an agreeable rem
edy in the free use of tomatoes at meals
their seeds acting in the way of white
mustard or figs, by stimulating the coats
of the bowels over which they pass In
their whole state to increased action.
4 remedy Of equal efficiency in the
same direction, is cracked wheat-that
is, common 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 OF
molasseS.
Common sweet cider, boiled down to
e.half, makes most excellent syrup
for coughs and colds for children-is
pleasant to the taste, and will keep
throug ghout the year in cool cellar.
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 q boil, then cooled,
put in casks, and kept In cool cellar. =
Treated 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 sinking in
to the sleep which has no awaking. by
giving it strong coffee, cleared with the
white of an egg, a teaspoonful every five
minutes until it ceased to seem drcwsy.
Our book on Health and Disease
was written with view to introduce peo
pie to the knowledge Of items like thes,
in the hope of doing something toward
abolishing the ruinous and almost univer-
sal habit of purchasing patent medicens,
which in SO many Instances, are either IN
applicable, hurtful, or utterly useless
| and, in this latter case, are indirectly the
cause of death, by the loss of time in oh
tanning the services of competent ply
sician TO apply the proper means with ;
wise discrimination.