The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1870-09-01
Things worth Knowing.

A Mormon saint has discovered and rub
lished in the Church Organ, a sure preven-
tive of small Iox, which is: ''After being
exposed, eat sufficient quantity of onions
to move the bowels, and go on abou: your
business. Try it, and report the effect to
this office. so that it may be published to the
world with more signatures than one."
VALUABLE RecIPE.-Among the various
methods of keeping and making water cool,
none is much better or easier than that prac-
ticed in the East. The water is put in jugs,
bottles or wine coolers, which are placed in
buckets filled with salt and salt petre, and
then turned rapidly, until the water almost
reaches a freezing point. If the weather is
very hot. the buckets are replenished several
times day, and the turning process repeat
ed Thus says writer III the Lady's Friend.
You have sparkling cold water with the
thermometer at one hundred degrees in the
shade, and even when no ice is 10 be Lad.
FoOD MEDICINE.-Dr. Hall relates the ca.
OF a mar who was cured Of billiousness by
going without his supper and drinking freely
OK lemonade. Every morning. say $ the doc
tor, this patient rose with "a wonderful sense
of rest, refreshment, ana feeling as though
the blood bad been Utterly washed, cleaused,
and cooIed by the lemonade and the fast
His theory Is that the food will be used as a
remedy for many diseases successfully
For example, he instances cures OF splitting
blood 10y the use of salt epilepsy and vel
low fever, watermclIUns kidney affections,
celery; poison, olive or sweet oil erysipe,
las, lounded cranberries applied to the parts
affected hydrorhobia, oninns, ETC. So the
thing to do in order to keep in good health.
is really to know what TO eat, and not what
medicine to take.
MEDICAL Properties OF EGGs.-The
white Of al egg has OF late proved the most
efticacious remedy for burns. Seven or eight
successive applications Of tins substance
soOthes pain, and tffectually excludes The
burn from TIE dir. This simple remedy
seems preferable to colodian, or ever cotton.
Extraordinary stories are told Of the healing
properties Of Lew oil which is easily made
from the yoke of hen eggs. The eggs are
first boiled hard, and the yokes are then re-
moved, crushed and placed over fire. where
they are carefully stirred till the whole sub
stance Is just on the point of catching fire.
when the oil separates and is pou ed fl
One yoke Will yield nearly two teaspooufuls
OF oil. 1t Is in general Use among colonists
OF South Russia as a means Uf curing cuts.
bruises and scratches.
CHOLERA INFANTUM.-An eminent ,bv.
siciau in the HearM and Home gives the fol-
lowing emedv for cholera iulantum
The immediate remedies are such as allav
the excessive irritation Of the stomach and
bowels, aud sustain the strength The first
indication is best secured by pruvining a
good wet-aurse, if the child is band-fed. If
the nurse cannot be obtained, the food must
be prepared with the greatest care. Goats
or cows milk. fresh, is perhaps tie best sub
s'itute. The food of the Lurseling must he
given in small quantities, or entirely with,
held for few hours. 1t is worse than use
less to urge food upon stomach which in
SANITY rejects it. Water must be given
very sparingly, it is scarcely tolerated.
Of the simple domestic remedies. lme-water.
and when the skin is cool. a few drops Of
andy, alay irr tation and sustain TIE cir>
culation. The lime-water should be given
with or Immediately after the fooG. a balf
teaspooLful diluted with milk. BRANDY
should be given, diluted with water. FIVE TO
fifteen drops, and repeated every two or
three hours, unless the skin is bot. Warm
applications of spirits to the bowels relieve
the pain. The most important measure to
be adopted is the removal Of the child TO a
place where it viii! have a pure and invfg- !
Grating air. The effect of this change is often
surprising.