Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1875-01-21
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Milk as Remedial Agent.

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Considerable has been said
lately in medical Journals con-
corning the value of milk as a
remedial agent in certain diseas-
es. An interesting article upon
this subject lately appeared in
the London Milk journal, IN
which it is stated on the author
ity of DIR. Clark, that in the
East Indies warm milk is used
to a great extent as a specific for
diarrhea. A pint every four
hours will check violent diar-
rhea, stomach-ache, incipient
cholera and dysentery. The
milk should never be boiled but
only heated sufficient to be a
greeably warm, not too hot to
drink. Milk when boiled is
unfit for use. This writer
gives several instances to show
the value Of this simple sub
stance in arresting the disease,
among which is the following:
The writer says, at has never
failed in curing me in six or
twelve hours, and / have tried
it, / should think, fifty times.
/ have also given it to a dying
man who had been subject to
dysentery eight months, latter
lyaccompanied by one continual
diarrhea, and it acted on him
like a charm. In two days his
diarrhea was gone, in three
weeks he became a hale, fat
man, and now nothing that may
hereafter occur will ever shake
his faith in hot milk"
AWriter also communicates
to the Medical Times and Ga
Zette, a statement of the value
Of milk in twenty-six cases of
typhoid fever, in every one Of
which its great value was appa-
rent. 1t checks diarrhea, and
nourishes and cools the body.
People suffering from disease
require food. quite as much as
those in health, and much more
so Uncertain diseaseswhere there
is rapid waste Of the SYSTEM
frequently all ordinary food in
certain diseases is rejected by
the stomach, and even loathed
by the patient; and nature ever
beneficient, has furnished a food
that in all diseases is beneficial
lin some directly curative.
Such food is milk. The writer
in the journal last quoted, DIR.
Alexander Yale, after giving
particular observations upon
the points above mentioned, viz
its action in diarrhea, its nour-
ishing properties and its action
in cooling the body, says:
1--WE believe that milk nourishes
i'll fever, promotes sleep, wards
off delirium, sooths the intes-
tines, and, is the SINE que non
in typhoid fever" We have
alternately tested the value of
milk in scarlet fever, and learn
that it is now recommended by
the medical faculty i'll all cases
of this often very distressing
children's disease. Give all the
milk the patient will take, even
during the period of the great
estfever; itkeeps upthe strength
of the patient, acts well upot
the stomach, and is every way q
blessed thing in this sickness
Parents, remember it,and do MOI
fear to give it if your dear ones
arc afflicted with the disease
How TO CURE A SoRETHRoAT. -
zone who has tried it" commune
Gates the following seasonable
item about cureing core throat
Let each one of your half million
readers buy at any drug store
one ounce of camphorated oil and
five cents worth of chloride OF
potash. Whenever any soreness
appears in the throat, put the pot
ash in half tumbler of water
and with it gargle the throat
thoroughly, then rub the neck
thoroughly with the camphorated
oil at night before going to bed,
also pin around the throat a small
strip of WOODEN flannel. This is d
simple, cheap and sure remedy
'The child has since died." is
the laconic remark which q
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