The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-09
THE HOME DOCTOR.

THE HOME DOCTOR.
For CHILB1AINs. Take alcohol or
whisky make verv strong with Cayenne,
and battle freely three or four times
sure cure.
For RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, Enc
Apply clothes wrung from water as hot
as can be borne; cover warm and
change often.
CURE FOR SICK HEADAoHE.-If you
get up in the morning with sick head
ache take one-third teaspoonful of soda
(baking), battle the feet IN water as hot
as can be borne, or otherwise warm them,
and keep quiet, and in two hours, if re-
lief is not obtained, take grain of qui-
nine every hour till three are taken.
Excellent.
Group REMEDY. can be cured
in one minute, and the remedy is simply
alum and sugar. The way to accom-
plish the deed is to take knife or crater,
and shave of, in small particles, about
/ teaspoonful of alum then mix it with
about twice it's quantity OF sugar, to
make it palatable, and administer it as
quickly as possible. Almost instantane-
Gus relief will follow.
| For BLEEDING AT THE NOSE. First,
for present relief, hold the head erect,
and, if at hand, hold dry lint or piece
of cotton rag to the nose and snuff
moderately, or snuff powdered kino
second, get one ounce of cinnamon bark,
and eat one-third the first day, then lit
tie more the second day then wait till
the third day, and, if it don't cure, eat
the balance; it never failed with me.
| MILK AS PREVENTIVE OF LEAD PoI-
4 soNINa.-A remarkable case is given, in
[ the Paris Journal de Medecinc, of the
effect of the habitual use of milk in
whitehead works. In some French
lead-mills it was observed that in large
working population two men who drank
much milk daily were not affected by
lead. On the general use of milk
throughout the works collie vanished en-
tirely. Each operative was given enough
extra pay to buy quart of milk day.
From 1868 to 1871 no cases of colo had
occurred.
FEVER AND AaUE. What we call fever
and ague might be banished from the
country as general disease if two things
were done. First. Have 8 fire kindled
every morning at daylight, from spring
till fall, in the family room, into which
all the family should repair from their
chambers, and there remain until break
fast is taken. Second. Let fire be
kindled in the family room short time
before shutdown ; let every member of
the family repair to 1t, and there remain
until supper is taken. In both cases the
philosophy of the course marked out
consists in two things: First. The fire
rarefes the malaria, snd causes it to as
cend above the breathing point. Second.
The food taken into the stomach creates
an activity of circulation which repels
disease.
CRAMPS. These most terrible of pains
arise from the veins being so full of
blood that they swell out, press against
the large nerves, and thus impede the
circulation of the vital fluid. In smaller
nerves the dlstension produces neural
g1a, which is literally "nerve-ache."
The cause OF this unusual fullness Of the
veins is that the blood is SO impure, so
thick, SO full of disease, that it cannot
flow by natures ordinary agencies. In
proportion as it is thick it is cold. and
this abnormal state is indicated by the
feebleness of the pulse. In cholera pa
tients it is very marked, and exists days
and weeks before the attack. The fol-
lowing is simple method eff treatment:
When person is attacked with cramp,
get some hot water quietly and expedi-
tlously (for noise and ordinations of
grief and alarm still further disturb the
nervous equiibrium); put the sufferer
IN the water as completely as possible,
and thus heat is impaired to the blood,
which sends it coursing along the veins,
and the pain is gone. While the water
is in preparation, rub the cramped part
very briskly with the hand or wooden
flannel, with your mouth shut But
why keep the mouth shut2 You can
rub harder, faster and more efficiently,
besides it saves the sufferer from mean
ingless and agonizing inquiries. A man
in pain does not want to be talked to
he wants relief, not words. If all could
know, as physicians do, the inestimable
value of quiet composure, and the con-
fdent air on the part of one who at
tempts to aid a sufferer, it would be
practiced with ceaseless assiduity by the
| conslderate and the humane.