The Placer herald., 1873-05-17
HOUSE AND FARM.

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DIR. Brown Seqnard and published by the
Lippincotts, contains, among other very in
teresting articles, one in which the editor de-
scrbes a novel mode of treatment which he
first tried with perfect success in a very
bad case of dyspepsia in 1851 and which
has since been tested, with more or less sat
isfactory results, in many cases OF dyspep-
sia. The following is an extract from the
account of the first case:
''After few days, finding that he had not
improved decided to try radical change
of bis alimentaton, as regards the quantity
Of food to be taken at a time. Instead OF
,hree meals day, J. made him take sixty
or more. Every twelve or fifteen minutes
he took two or three mouthfuls of solid food
chiefly meat and bread. He drank little
less than wineglass of Bordeaux wine and
water every thirty or forty minutes. On
the very first day this mode of alimentaton
was begun his digestive troubles disappeared
and within week he was SO well that he
returned to Paris. x * X He continued
the same mode of almentation for almost
three weeks, and then gradually diminished
the number of his homeopathic meals, and
Increased the amount taken at each of them.
until in about eight or ten days he came to eat
only three times day, and a full meal at
each time
The following paragraphs will serve to
give the reader a clearer idea OF the treat
ment commended:
"The plan consists in giving but very lit
tie of solid or fluid food or any kind of drink
at a time, and giving these at regular in
tervals of from ten to twenty or thirty min
utes. All sorts of food may be taken in
that way, but during the short period when
such trial is made. it is obvious that the
fancies of the patients are to be laid aside,
and that nourishing food, such as roasted or
broed meat, and especially beef, mutton,
eggs, well baked bread, and milk, with
butter and cheese, a very moderate quantity
of vegetables and fruit ought to const-
tute the dietary of the patients we try to re-
leve. This plan should be pursued two or
three weeks, after which the patient should
gradually return to the ordinary system of
eating three times day.
The most varied diet as regards the kind
of food can be followed under this plan as
well as when one has only two or three
meals a day. The only absolutely essential
points are that the amount Of food taken
every 10, Is, 20 or 30 minutes be very
small (from one to four mouthfuls) and
that the quantity of solid food in day be
from 32 to 40 ounces, or little less when,
instead of water, the patient drinks beef tea
or milk"
KILLING ANIMALS WITH .CHLoRoFoRM.- -
Many would he glad to know how TO kill an
animal without suffering, and we venture to
give the benefit of our experiance. We are
constantly called to destroy horses, dogs
and cats, and have little difficulty in doing
it. For horses we use large sponge, say
six inches in diameter, thoroughly saturated
with cbloroform, which is dropped into a
bag large enough to be drawn over the
horses nose. 1t is not desirable to have
the bag "air-tight;" for, if SO, suffocation
is likely to ensue. In two or three minutes
the horse is unconscious, and in eight TO ten
minutes dead, without suffering.
For dogs and cats similar process, using
small sponge and bag; or these animals,
with the saturated sponge, may be put in a
box admitting sone air, when they soon 90
to sleep. Seventy-live cents worth of chic
roform will kill a horse, and twenty-five a
dog or cat. If one saturation of the sponge
does not complete the work repeat it.-Ou,
Dumb Antmats
A CHEAP AND DELICIOUS SoUP.-Save the
liquor in which the nice leg of mutton was
boiled to-day. 1t would be wicked to throw
it away, for large fraction of the succu-
lence and nulritiveness of the meat is in it..
Remove the fat tomorrow, and then put it
over the fire. Add onions, carrots or
turnips, sliced thin, and some parsley leaves
or lima beans, sweet corn and sliced potato,
with bits of celery; add in either case rice or
barley, tablespoonful of them to quart
of liquor is good rule. DO this, and at a
trihing expense you may have tureen of
soup fit to be set before a.king
How TO MAKE CHEAP FRAMEs.-Cut
strips of stiff pasteboard about an inch wide
the desired length, clip the ends to point,
and cover with any nice black cloth like
broadcloth Or fine cashmere, lap the ends
at the corners of the frames and fasten with
white or gilt button. Bind your picture
and glass together with strips of gummed
paper and glue on to the frame. Hang
against white wall. Bronzed paper which
can be bought for eight cents sheet, may
be used instead of cloth, in whcih case a
short strip across the corners is a great ad-
diton to its comelness.
REMOVING TAR SpoTs The old remedy
for removing tar is butter tar is soluble in fat,
and especially in butter; when this is left on
the tar spot for some time, both butter and
tar are easily washed out by sponge, with
soap and water. Recently DR.. Brikerd an
nounced that he had discovered that a
creamy mixture of powdered extract of
liquorice, with oil of annisseed, will easily
dissolve tar, resin, pitch, Venice turpentine,
etc. 1t is afterward washed out with soap
and warm water.
To MAKE CocoANUT CANDY.-Rasp very
fine a sound fresh eocoanut, spread it on a