Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-09-04
I'm the Preservation Of Health.

Al this season hints on the preservation OF
health are perhaps the most acceptable service
~. can render our readers, whether in country
orclty:. - 80
The New York Scientific American vouchcs
far the efficacy Of the following remedy, the
editors having seen it etfectualy tested during
the rage of the cholera in that city some years
ago. Ii was known as the 'Sun Cholera Mix
ture" and was given to the public by the most
euliuent physicians Of the day. 1t is not to
be mixed with liquor, and may be compound,
ed without professional skill Dose 10 to 80
drops 1t is:
''linct oppi, capsici, rhci CO., mcnth, pip.
campho.'
Mix the above in equal parts; dose 10 to
~ drops In plain terms, take equal parts
tincture opium, red pepper, rhubarb, pcper-
mint andcamphor and mix them tor sc. In
case of diarrhea, take does of 10 or 81 drops
in or teaspooufuls Of water. No one who
has this by him and takes 1t in time will ever
have the cholera. We commend it to our
niends, and hope that the recipe will be wide
" published. Even when 90 cholera is aDticl-
mated, it is an excellent remedy for ordinary
summer complaint. 1t can be carried about
the person In small vial.
Don't keep solitary parlor, into which you
% but once month, with your parson, special
quests or sewing society. Make your living
loom the house Let the place be such that
when YOUR boy has gone to distant lands, or even
when, perhaps, he clings to single plank 10
the waters Of the wide ocean, the thought OF
the old homestead shall come to him 10 his
jesoatiou, bringing always light, hope and
ioye. Have DO dungeon about your house-no
room never open-no blinds that are always
shut.
lu the name of oxygen, which is the great
life principle of the animal body, let US beg
y,, 10 give the sick person full and constant
.upply of fresh air. If you keep him we'll
covered he can never take cold by having the
windows open day and night. If the wind
blows upon him, rub his face and neck with
YOUR naked hands frequently, and there
can never be mischievous impression made
there Remember that although a we'll man
NAV live 10 a room with imperfect ventilation,
q sick one must have the help of a pure tonic
atmosphere Remember that when typhoid
fever attacks an army, and there is deficiency
Of hospital accommodations, those who lie In
an open shed or exposed to the dews and
storms do much better than those who enjoy
the average hospital facilities.
Those escape contagious and Infectious
diseases, says the the Cincinnati Commercial,
whose bodies are in the best condition to re-
otthe Thugs needlul, but bathing ought not to
be carried to excess, or so far as to weaken the
system. The diet should be nourishing, and 10
vegetables or fruit should be eaten that are not
ripe and fresh. But it is mistake to exclude
them altogether from the table. Very little
change should be made in the diet at any time
and only such articles avoided as are known by
experience not to agree with the individual.
With the body kept high toned and vigorous,
aud the mind calm and hopeful one may walk
safely where the pestilence wasteth at MONDAY
aud not tear attack.
40 engine crowded to its utmost possible
capacity, and run day after day without oiliDg
will last but little while. No more can a
man crowd the work Of a week into single
DAY, aud still retain bis health and strength.
Physical laws are not always Immediately en-
forced. Sometimes the penalty does not fol-
low the traDsgression for years. But one thing
Is certain, sooner or later it will come. The
man who is careless of his health, is sowing
the seeds of disease the fruit Of which he will
sometimes reap 1t may come soon or it may
oe delayed Tor years. but in either case it will
make him wish that he had been moro careful.
III the education Of our children in the common
schools, there is great lack Of instruction in the
IaWs OF health. No child, however humble
Ills circumstance, ought to finish bis school
course without thorough knowledge of ply
sHOIOgy and hygiene. 1t is no use to educate a
10Y IN arithmetic and geography, and laDgua-
seS' and leave him in such ignorance OF the
laws of health, that he will die before he is
!'Seuty years old. of sickness which he might
Nst as We'll have avoided And among young
aud old knowledge in this department OF SCI
sAse, is Que Of the greatest needs of our times.