The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-04-28
Health Hints.

Health Hints.
A CASE of sudden death from the use
of hydrate of choral is reported from
Connecticut The patient had used the
article for some time without harm, but
the first dose from new lot proved
fatal. The article seemed pure when
analysed. We are warned that this
substance also should be used with ex-
treme caution.
EXPERIMENTS have lately been con.
Quoted at the Birmingham Children's
Hospital, which point TO the fact that
scarlet fever is communicable through
the medium of the laundry. 1t has al
ways been held that the clothing of
fever patients is infectious, but now the
fact has been elected that the mixing of
such clothes with others in the wash is
an active agent in the spread of the
disease. 1t is thought that boiling will
destroy the germs, but the clothes
should be boiled, as well as washed,
separately from the others. Burning is
a remedy concerning which there is no
doubt.
health the tongue has hardly discern
ible lining; disease quickly gives it one.
In inflammation Of the respiratory tex
lures at the commencement of fevers,
in disorders of large portions of the alb
! dominal mucous tract, the epithelium
Accommodates, and the tongue has
loaded, whitish appearance. The coat
is apt to be yellowish in disturbances of
| the liver. and of a brown or very dark
! hue when the blood is contaminated.
But we must be very sure, in drawing
our differences, that the abnormal aspect
be not due to the food partaken Of or
to medicine. Its color is also modified
by the character of the occupation.
Thus, as Chambers asserts. there is q
curious, smooth, orangetinted coating
| on the tongue OF tea-tasters. n local
cause sometimes gives rise TO thick
opaque coat For instance, decayed
teeth may produce a yellow sheathing
on one side. Affections of the fauces
also occasion deep yellow hue. Again,
some persons wake up every morning
with their tongues covered at the back
with heavy coating, which wears off
during the day.-Dr j. u. DaCosta.
A Mr.. HOPE, in a paper before the
British Association, described q cure he
had effected of scarlet fever upon his
child by carbolic acid. He isolated the
child To kill the germs in the throat
and cure the pain in swallowing, he
used gargle of one part Of carbolic
acid to two hundred parts of water.
This had an instantaneous effect of the
most cheering kind. He put clothes
wrung out Of the same proportion Of car
bolic acid and water on the bed, over
the bed, and about the room, in it near
the door, for them TO wash their hands
in whenever they went out Of the room.
In a few days the child recovered, and
during the process of " desquamation"
he bathed the child's body with the
same mixture. Before the child recov-
cred sufficiently to prevent others from
catching the disease some Of the family
came in contact with it, by going into
the sick room, and carried it to another
child in the family. This, however. was
taken in season and soon cured, and the
house was cleared of the dire disease
Carbolic acid, however, is very dan
gerous substance. and should be used
only with great caution, under profess
sional guidance.
PHYSICAL CAPITAL FOR CHIIDREN.-Everv
hour that child sleeps is Just so much
investment Of physical capital for years
to come. Every hour after dark that a
child is awake is so much capital with
drawn. Every hour that child lives a
quiet, tranquil, joyous life of such sort
as kittens live on hearths, squirrels in
sunshine, is just so much investment in
strength and steadiness and growth of
the nervous system. Every hour that a
child lives life Of excited brain work
ing, either in a school-room or in ball
room, is just SO much taken away from
the reserved force which enables nerves
to triumph through the sorrows, through
the labors, through the diseases of later
life. Every mouthful of wholesome
food that n child eats, at seasonable
hours, may be said to tell on every mo-
ment of his life, no matter how long it
may be. Victor Hugo, the benevolent
exile, has found out that to be well fed
once in seven days for one meal has
been enough to transform the apparent
health of all the poor children in
Guernsey. Who shall say that to take
once in seven days, or even once in
thirty days, an unwholsome supper of
chicken salad and champagne may not
leave as lasting effects on the constitu
ton of child ?-Independen