The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-04-13
HYGIENIC NOTES.
VENTILATION.

VENTILATION.
A physician recommends as essential
to health the opening of the windows of
every room in house for n short time
daily, that the atmosphere may be puri-
fed and changed. The want of proper
ventilation is one of the prominent causes
of typhoid fever, in connection with I'M
closed conduits to the sewer drains in
bedrooms.
TAPE-wORM REMEDY.
l know by actual experience that one
half ounce of powdered korson root,
stepped in one pint of hot water, and
taken in equal parts-water, root and all
stirred up-two hours apart, on an empty
stomach that has received no food or
drink for twelve hours, and followed in
one hour by very large dose of salts,
will expel tape worm. Cor. Chicago
Tribune. IH |
WHEN AND HOW TO EAT FRUIT.
When fruit does harm it is because it
is eaten at improper times, in improper
quantities, or before it is ripened and fit
forsthe stomach. A distinguished ply
stefan has said that if his patients would
make practice of eating a couple of
good oranges before breakfast, from Feb
ruary to June, his practice would be
gone. The principal evil is that we do
not eat enough of fruit that we injure
its finer qualities with sugar that we
drown them in cream. We need the
medical action of the pure fruit acids in
our system, and their cooling, corrective
influence. -Medicai Journal.
sNEEzING.
AS rule, sneeze is the warning ma
ture gives that some part of the body is
exposed to cooler temperature than the
other parts, and that the sneezer is
catching cold" Next to the warning,
what is the use of the sneeze? 1t throws
open the pores of the whole body, and
induces gentle perspiration in word,
it throws off the cold A child rarely
sneezes more than twice. Precipitation
is readily induced in youth an old
man, on the contrary, sneezes half a
dozen to dozen times, with loudly ex-
plosive catalogue" 1t is harder to set
him to perspiring. When one is sitting
by an open window, and finds himself
sneezing nature tells him he is taking
cold. He should get up instantly, walk
about, and take full tumbler of cold
water to keep up the gentle perspiration
that the sneeze set in motion. If he
does this, he will not be telling, an hour
after, that he has "cold in his head, !"
or chest, or lungs.-Dr. f.. Wentworth
REMEDIES FOR SCARLET FEVER.
DIR. Henry Pigeon writes TO the Lon
don Lancet as follows "The marvel
Gus success which has attended my
treatment of scarlet fever by sulphur in
duces me to let my medical brethren
know of my plan, SO that they may be
able to apply the same remedy without
delay All the cases in which L used it
were very well marked, and the epider-
mis- on the arms in each case came away
like the skin of snake. The following
was the exact treatment followed in each
case Thoroughly anoint the patient
twice daily with sulphur ointment give
five to ten grains of sulphur in little
jam three times day. Sufficient sui
phur was burned, twice daily ION Goals
ON a shoveD, to fill the room with the
fumes, and, of course, was thoroughly
inhaled by the patient. Under this
mode of treatment each case improved
immediately, and none were over eight
days in making a complete recovery, and
firmly believe in each it was prevented
from spreading by the treatment adopt
Ell. One case was in a large school
Having had large experience in scarlet
fever last year and this, feel some con-
tidence in my own judgment, and / am
of opinion that the very mildest cases /
ever saw do not do half 80 well as bad
cases do by the sulphur treatment, and,
as far as l can Judge, sulphur is RS near
a specific for scarlet fever as possible. -
Mr.. Witt, member of the Royal Col
lege of Surgeons, has published PAM
phlet, in which he states that bicarbonate
of ammonia is specific for the cure OF
scarlet fever and measles. He cites DIR.
Peart, of Liverpool, and other practi-
TONERS, who have never lost case out of
hundreds since adopting this remedy.
Two drachms OF the bicarbonate of am
monia are dissolved in five ounces of
water, and two tablespoonful of the So
luton given every two, three or -four
hours, according to the urgency of the
symptoms. No acid drink must be
taken, but only water, or toast and
water The system is to be moved by a
dose of calomel if necessary. The room
must be well ventilated, but the patient
kept from the slightest cold or draught.
Gargles should also be employed in clear
ing the throat The ammonia seems to
counteract the poison which causes scar
latina, and also acts on the system by di-
minishing the frequency and at the same
time increasing the strength of the pulse.
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