The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-05-27
The Home Doctor.

BEEF TEA.-In medical practice, wine,
camphor, ether, and musk ale eminent
ly invigorating and refreshing rene
dies, and, compared with these, beef
tea occupies, of course, subordinate
position if, however, it be necessary
to preserve the exhausted body from
protracted illness, then there is no other
remedy in the whole rich store-house of
medicine which can afford such as
slstance for regenerating the dis
eased organism, as repeated doses of
beef tea.
PREVENTION OF SCARLET FEVER
DIR. Cherbonnier, graduate OF the
University of Paris, and stated to be
one of the most skillful physicians of
Baltimore, gives the following recipe as
a preventive of scarlet fever Extract
of belladonna, two grains; cinnamon
water, one ounce alcohol, ten drops
Give two or three times a day. Dose,
one drop for every year of the age of
the child F; ten drops will be the maxi
mum dose.
PURE AIR.-That the quantity of pure
air absolutely required by an adult is
about one pint at each inspiration, or
over fifty hogsheads every twenty-four
hours, in order that the blood and
body may be kept in state of health,
is proof sufficient that the impossible,
sensible nature of children should also
have their rights most sacredly pro-
tected all through their tender years.
But how many regard these rights as
sacred.
THE NECK. Perfect health demands
that the clothing about the neck should
be very moderate in quantity, and worn
so loose as to prevent the slightest
compression. The great error fire.
Quently committed in clothing this part
of the body consists in wearing such an
amount as to overhead and weaken the
throat, and thus render it easily sus-
ceptible to cold, or in wearing it SO
tight as to retard the circulation of the
blood to and from the head. Great
care should be exercised upon this
point, as the arteries and veins leading
from the heart to the brain are situated
so near the surface in the neck that a
slight compression there serves to check
the flow of the blood. Many cases of
congestion of the brain and headache
are partially or wholly caused by too
tight collars and cravats.
SALT WITH NUTS. everybody
knows that it is scarcely safe to eat
nuts without salt yet there is no harm
in the repetition of useful fact. Long
ago, when certain lady had partaken
too freely of hickory nuts in the even
ing, she was taken violently i'll in the
night. The celebrated DIR. Abernethy
was sent for, but it was after he had
become rather too fond of his cups. He
muttered, "Salt, SALT" of which no
notice was taken. Next morning he
went to the place, and she was a corpse.
He said that if they had given her salt
it would have relieved her. If they
would allow him to make an examina-
ton, lie would convince them. On
opening the stomach the nuts were
found in a mass. He sprinkled salt on
this, and Immediately it dissolved. 1t is
only necessary to add that salt improves
the flavor of nuts.
A GENERAL EVIL. Granular infam-
nation of the eyes is an unpleasant dis
ease well known throughout the United
States. This disease sometimes occa-
sions blindness, and is contagious. A
well known physician abiding to it,
says 81 have in many and l may say
in the majority of cases, been able to
trace the disease to the so-called rolling
towels. Such towels are generally
found in country hotels and the sleep
ing apartments of the working CLASSES,
and being thus used by nearly every
one, are made the carriers of one of the
most dangerous, and as regards its
symptoms, most troublesome diseases of
the eye. l therefore would strongly
recommend that the use of the rolling
towel be abolished, for thereby we will
discard one of the great instruments for
the spread of such dangerous disease
of the eye, by which thousands of
workingmen are annually deprived of
their means of support.