San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-20
CARE OF THE HEALTH.

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CARE OF THE HEALTH.
CURE FOR OFFENSIVE REATH.-Th'
Dental Cosmos says that the best treat
ment in regard to offensive breath is thu
use of pulverized charcoal, two or three
tablespoonfuls per week, taken in 6
glass Of water before retiring for the
night. '|' 81. '" .-.'.. "'.
REMOVING PARTICLES FROM THE
EYE.-A correspondent writes to the
Scientific american this remedy for Gin
ders in the eye: "a small cancels hair.
brush dipped in water and passed over
the ball of the eye on raising the lid.
The operation requires no skill, takes
but moment, and instantly removes
any cinder or particle OF dust or dirt
without inflaming the eye" 'Huo1nh
USES OF, FAT.-A moderate amount OF
fat is generally considered evidence Of
good health. About one-twentieth part
of the weight of man and the sixteenth
of a woman is considered the normal
proportion. Its Office, aside from its
value in giving symmetry to the figure,
is to prevent the rapid escape of animal
heat, and also to supply the waste Of
tissue from sickness, unusual exertion
and temporary deprivation Of food 4
BEWARE OF Ice ,WATER.-We guzzle
ice water with, our meals, and thus send
fresh food upon chilled and inactive Or
gans. Wekeep pouring in cold draughts
between meals, not allowing what we
have eaten to digest, but hold ii in the
stomach to decay and destroy. % Let
families recognize the truth and be wise
in time. Drink as little as possible in
hot weather, and let what is drunk be
not unnaturally cold.-BaHinaore News
CURE FOR BURNSIDE Waters, of
Boston, author of the alkaline treatment
for burns, recently said in an essay read
before a medical society: "Apply to
the burned surface bicarbonate of soda,
if it is wet surface, in fine powder; but
if it is dry burn, use paste of bicar-
Donate of soda and water, or a strong
solution of the bicarbonate of soda in
water, and apply to the burned surface.
This relieves sunburns as well as burns
from hot Goals, melted sulphur, hot iron,
and steam. Always dispose the burned
surface so that the blood can gravitate
toward the heart, if possible, as other
wise continuous pain may be felt, due
to the dilation of the blood vessels from
the weight of the contained blood"
A CURE FOR AsTHMA.-Prof. Ger
main See has recently read paper be-
lore the Paris Academy of Medicine in
which he expresses himself very enthusi-
concerning the efficacy Of
odide of potassium and iodide of ethyl
N the treatment of asthma. He dis
solves 10 grammes ofiodide of potassium
n 200 of wine or water, and gives before
Zach meal, twice day, dessert-spoon-
ul 6 or 9grammes), so that the patient
axes daily 16 or IS grammes of the So
ution. After some days this quantity
S gradually doubled. The same doses
nay be taken in strip of orange peel.
NATURES REMEDY.-People who,
Without knowing that they were apply
ng nature'sremedy, have drawn in their
breath hard when they had cut e finger
n barked shin on coal scuttle, will
'e pleased to learn that they have en-
'loyed respiratory analgesia in its SIM
'lest form. If any man will draw breath
eeply and quickly for the space of three
minutes or less he will thereby lose acute
to pain, so that he can endure
minor surgical operation without in
Eminent surgeons have .
ound the process OF great advantage
yhen used alone, not only, but when
nasthetics also were employed, in
'hich latter case the quantity of the drug
D be used is greatly diminished.
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