San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-08-03
CARE OF THE HEALTH.

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thin piece Of sponge saturated with wa
ter and placed in the crown of your hat
is an old and effective preventive Of
sunstroke.
CoNTAGioN OF MEAsLEs.-Measles Is
held by DR.. Bristowe of London, to be
infectious at least three days before the
appearance Of the eruption, that is, dur
ing the early catarrhal stage, when it Is
impossible to distinguish it certainly
from a severe cold.
CURE FOR CoNsUMpTIoN.-Dr. D.
Unger, the Minneapolis physician whose
cinchona recipe for the cure of drunk
ards recently attracted attention, is out
with this one for consumption: pound
OF finely-cut-up beefsteak (fresh);
dram pulverized charcoal; 4 ounces
pulverized sugar; ounces rye whisky;
l pint boiling water. Mix all together,
let it stand in cool place over night,
and give from to teaspoonfuls liquid
and meat before each meal.
DUST IN THE EYE.-H cinder or bit
of dust gets in the eye do not rub the
eyeball; that only irritates it. II the
intruder is beneath the upper eyelid,
lift the upper lid with the thumb and
finger of the right hand, and with the
fore finger of the left hand raise up
ward the under eyelid while you pull
down over it the upper lid. This will
seldom fail to remove the cinder, the
soft skin and eye-lashes taking it off
without injuring the eyeball.
GLYCERINE AS A MEDICINE.-In
moderate doses, not exceeding 80
grammes per diem, which should be
taken all at once, diluted with about 10
times the quantity of water, Catillon
affirms that glycerine improves the ap-
petite and the digestion, and acts gent
ly on the bowels. He does not recon-
mend a larger dose, but Harnack gave
diabetic patients as much as 1870 to $50
grammes daily, and found q marked
improvement in their general condition,
and a reduction in che quantity of urine
sugar and urea exerted, the latter two
results agreeing with those obtained by
Catillon in his experiments on dogs and
on himself. 1t is important, however,
to notice that glycerine is poison in
large doses.
A MUSTARD PLAsTER.-How many
people are there who really know how
to make mustard plasterp Not one in
a hundred at most, perhaps, and yet
mustard plasters are used in nearly every
family, and physicians prescribe the ap-
plication. The ordinary way is to mix
the mustard with water, tempering it
with little flour, but such plaster as
that makes it simply abominable. Be-
fore it has half done its work it begins
to blister the patient, and leaves him
finally with painful fiayed spot, af.
ter having produced far less effect in
beneficial way than was intended. Now
mustard plaster should never make
blister at all. If blister is wanted,
there are other plasters far better than
mustard for that purpose. When you
make a mustard plaster, then, use no
water, hut mix the mustard with the
white of an egg, and the result will be
l plaster which will g. draw ~ perfectly,
'ut will not produce blister even upon
he skin of an infant, no matter how
ong 1t is allowed to remain on the part.
REMEDY FOR INDIGEsTIoN.-Here is
ather curious remedy, but in many
ases very certain one, for the cure Of
Indigestion. 1t is simply the cultivation
# habit of chewing, while out of doors,
ifferent kinds of green leaves and swal-
owing the juice. One can always Gull
leaf from a hedge or bush as one
asses. Almost all are good that are
ct nauseous, such as the ivy, or poison
us, as the laurel-leaf. One of the lat
Or, however, is capital thing where
here is slight irritation of the stomach.
he chewing of leaves cures dyspepsia,
1 believe, by increasing the
ow of the salivary juice, and partly by
he tonic and stimulating action of the
af chewed. The leaves that occur to
lie at present as most likely to be bene-
cial are those of the pine-trees, spruce
: Scotch fir, blackthorn, currant and
'se bushes, mint, the petals of many
overs, the stalks of mountain-daisies,
Ie white portion Of rushes, the bark of
any young trees, and the tender parts
the stalks of green wheat, oats, or al
ost any of the larger grasses; but your