The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-07-17
The Home Doctor.

Hor lemonade is one OF the best
remedies in the world for cold.
A SINGLE drop of the sequipede chic
ride of iron put on corn between the
toes, once a day, with camels hair
brush, will effect marvellous cure.
ONE-HALF teaspoonful of salt in four
teaspoonfuls of water will regulate a
disordered stomach. to be repeated two
or three mornings, before breakfast.
REMEDY FOR CRoUP.-Half tea
spoonful of pulverized alum in little
molasses. 1t is simple remedy, one
almost always at hand, and one dose
seldom fails to give relief. If it should,
repeat it after one hour.
The London Lancet tells how to cure
felon. As soon as the disease is felt,
put directly over the spot fly blister
about the size of your thumb nail, and
let it remain for six hours, at the ex.
piration of which time, directly under
the surface of the blister, may be seen
the felon, which can instantly be taken
out with the point of needle or a
lancet.
The late physician of the Emperor of
Russia made careful study of the
effect of light as IA curative agent in the
hospital of st. Petersburg. He dis.
covered that the number of patients
who were cured in rooms properly light
ed was four times as large as it was
when they were confined in dark rooms.
CURE FOR WHooPING CoUGH.-Some
years ago it was found that the smell
of gas-works is favorable for whooping-
cough and children suffering from that
troublesome complaint were taken to
gas-works, which relieved them. Now
the report comes from Illinois that they
take children there, who suffer from
whooping- cough, down the shaft of the
nearest coal mine, and keep them there
until cured.
DIR. CAMPBELL, of Paris, recommends
to place persons threatened with death
from the inhalation of chloroform, head
downwards and feet upwards, for be-
tween ten and fifteen minutes. He con-
siders that death arises from syncope
due TO cerebral an@mia hence the add
vantage of inducing an artificial cere-
bral congestion. The usual efforts at
mechanical neutrality-suspicious. of
respiratory nerves, the drawing-ou of
the tongue, Installation of the lungs,
etc.-may be had recourse to at the
same time.
IF a person swallows any poison
whatever, or has fallen into commissions
from having overloaded the stomach, an
instantaneous remedy, more efficient
and applicable in a larger number of
cases than any half-dozen medicines,
is heaping teaspoon of common salt
and as much ground mustard, stirred
rapidly IN a teacup of water, warm or
cold, and swallowed instantly. 1t is
scarcely down before it begins to come
up, bringing with it the remaining con-
tents of the stomach, and lest there be
any remnant of the poison, however
small, let the white of an egg or tea
cup of strong coffee be swallowed as
soon as the stomach is quiet. These
very common articles Dullify a larger
number of virulent poisons than any
medicines in the shops.
DURING the late cholera epidemic
in Vienna, new remedy, called cam
phorein, was used with great success in
the hospitals. 1t is prepared simply by
passing chlorine gas into pure turpen-
tine oil until saturated it gives thick,
heavy, oily fluid, of brown color, with
strong smell If chlorine. This is
freed from muriatic acid by washing
with water. This remedy is applied by
placing a portion in fiat vessel and
holding it to the patient to inhale The
results attending this method of treat.
ment are regarded as indicating that
oil of turpentine is the best absorbent
of chlorine gas, and that, therefore, it
can be employed with advantage in
operations and other cases where
chlorine is to be evaporat I'd in large
quantities.