The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1872-01-25
Miscellaneous Health Notes.

Lue NOVeluDbr uulupeI VI AVHto WtW
Health. While the facts may not be
new to many Of our readers, they are
worth treasuring:
EXPANDING THE LUNns.--Stap out in
to the purest air you can find, standper-
fectly erect, with head and shoulders
back, and then, fixing the lips as if you
were going to whistle, draw the air
through the lips into the lungs. When
the chest is about half full, gradually
raise the arms, keeping them extended
with the palms of the hands down, as
you suck in the air, so as to bring them
over the head Just as the lungs are quite
full. Then drop the thumbs inward,
and, after forcing the arms backward
and the chest open, reverse the process
by which you draw your breath, until
the lungs are empty. This process
should be repeated immediately after
bathing, and several times during the
day. It is impossible to describe, to one
who has never tried it, the glorious sense
of vigor which follows this exercise.
SLEEPLEssNEss.-The cure of sleep
lessness is sometimes difficult, particu-
larly in those who carry grave response
bilities. The habit of sleeping well is
one which, if broken up for any length
of time, is not easily recovered. Often
severe illness, treated by powerful
drugs, 80 deranges the nervous system
that sleep is never sweet after. Or per-
haps long continued watchfulness pro-
duces the same effect or hard study, or
too little exercise of the muscular sys-
tenn, or tea and whisky drinking or to-
bacco using.
To PURIFY THE BLooD.-A well
known physician says that he considers
the following prescription for purifying
the blood as the best he has ever used
One ounce yellow dock, one-half ounce
horseradish, one quart hard cider. Dose,
one wine glassful four times a day.
A WORD ABOUT CIDER.-Alexander
Frear, in the Independent, says: I" For
many bilious complaints, sour cider is a
specific, and in such cases is one of the
good things to be received with thanks
giving. Cider guzzlers are an abomina-
ton, but, if dyspeptics will take little
with their dinner, they will find diges-
ton greatly aided. We go in for the
manufacture of good, pure article, and,
in the use of it, to let our moderation be
known to all men,"
THE EARTH CURE FOR ULcERs.-1
dried and pulverized some clay, says q
writer in the Country Gentleman, and re-
commended it as valuable remedy to q
neighbor woman who had for ten years
a very bad ulcer on her ankle. She had
paid our best physicians over fifty dol
lars for treatment, without any relief.
She applied the dried clay almost con-
stantly for about six months, and per-
feet cure has resulted. The first effect
of the preparation was to remove in
fiammation and relieve pain, and now
she says there is no scar remaining, and
her limb, which was stiff and lame, is as
elastic as when she was girl. The wo-
man is very large, feshy person, about
forty years of age. I considered the test
a very severe one and the result very
satisfactory. About gallon of pulver-
lied clay was used.
OAKUM AS A DRESSING FOR BURNS
Mr.. Robert l.. Snow says OF oakum, a'
dressing for burns, that it induces the
healing of extensive sores with remark
able rapidity it induces healing action
in those indolent ulcers that are the re-
suit of defective hygienic conditions i
prevents all smell it is cheap, saves
time and trouble and, most important
of all, the resulting scars dc not con
tract.
, PAPER CoMFoRTABLEs.-Th mode o
, making comfortables warmer, by lining
them with newspapers, is good as Ions
, as they last, which cannot be long, es
pecially after washing few times.
, have tried similar way of attaining
the same object on cold nights, when
have not had sufficient bedding over me
, especially at hotels, where we cannot al
ways get just what we want. Throw OF
one or two of the top covers from tn
t bed, then pull from the pocket or satche
two or three large newspapers-one yer.
, large one will do +; spread them on tn
: bed and replace the cover, and you vii
have a warm and comfortable night
: without any perceptible increase i'll tn
| weight of the bedding. Again, whel
S YOU have hard, cold ride in q cutter
e or ten or twenty miles against the vino
3 place a spread newspaper over you
l chest before you button up your over
e coat, and you will not become chile
r through. Nothing can be cheaper, anc
P as far ar it goes, nothing more efficient
DARKNESS IN THE TREATMENT o
SMALL PoX.-If patient, in the begin
= : ming of the attack, be put in roor
! ! from which absolutely all light is eS
! cluded save that of candle, the etfec
l is to arrest the disease in the papular G
vascular stage the skin between tn
, vesicles is never inhamed nor swollen
e the large scabs of matter never forl
:, over the face there is no intense pail
4 and only trifing itching, and the sine
l. is either very slight or altogether want
> ing.-LondoR Lancet.
q Persons afflicted with eruptive disease
a should not use salt fish.
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