American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1878-11-30
CARE OF THE HEALTH.

TREES about house may be too
dense. An Italian proverb says that
must.
REMEDY FOR Cold FEET.-A very
valuable receipt for n foot bath for any
one troubled with cold feet. One pound
prick y-ash bark, pound white mus
tard, and pound of pepper. Boil in
gallon of water, strain and bottle and
keep cool. Use a teacup of this with
quarts Of water for a foot-bath at
bedtime.
IRISH Moss FOR COLDS.-Take l
ounce of moss, wash it well twice in
boiling water, pour a little cold water
on it, aud let it stand all night; the
next day add to it ] quart of fresh milk,
Il little lenon-peel, and two blades of
mace; boil all slowly until the milk is
thick; put loaf-sugar in a basin, and
strain the milk on it. 1t should be stir
red while boiling to prevent the moss
SPECIFIC FOR BRONCHITIS AND
ASTHMA.-Mr. G.. A. Sala states that
an unfailing source of relief from the
agonies of bronchitis and spasmOdic
asthma will be found in the following
specific: The juice of lemons, which
have been warmed in the oven to dry
L., IS IL,
spoonfuls of the very best Florence oil.
Mix carefully, put in an earthen jar,
which keep covered, and swallow a
spoonful when you feel the fit COM
ing on.
WEARING FLANNEL.-Put it on at
once. Winter or summer, nothing bet
ter can be worn next the skin than a
| loose, red, wooden flannel shirt !;
"loose,'' for it has room to move on the
skin, thus causing q Utilization which
| draws the blood to the surface and keeps
it there, and, when that is the case, no
one can take cold; &c red,'' for white
flannel fulls up, mats together and be-
comes tight, stiff, heavy and impervious /;
woolen," the product of a sheep, not
of cotton wool, because that merely alb
serbs the moisture from the surface,
while wooden flannel conveys it from
the skin and deposits it in drops on the
outside of the shirt, from which the
ordinary cotton shirt absorbs it, and, by
its nearer exposure to the exterior air,
it is soon dried without injury to the
body. Having these properties, red
wooden flannel is worn by sailors even
in the midsummer of the hottest coun-
tries. Wear thinner material in sum-
mer.-HalI's Journal Of Health.
AToMIzED SEA-wATER IN BRONCHIAL
DIsEAsEs.-Prof. Mantegazza, in an
| Italian medical journal, states that he
has derived great advantage from the
employment of pulverized or atomized
sea-water in cases of chronic non
specific laryngitis, obstinate chronic
pharyngitis, bronchial catarrh from
| chronic bronchitis with or without bron-
chial dilatation, the first and second
stages of phthisis, Gaseous pneumonia,
and chronic pneumonia of different
forms accompanied by profuse bron-
chial expectoration, and various forms
of scrofula. He does not advise it in
those forms of phthisis which pursue a
rapid course and are accompanied by
much febrile action and great bronchial
irritation In all doubtful cases trials
may be made of few inhalations,
which, if they do no good, do little or
no harm. Pulverizations of sea-water
are now executed at several establish
ments in Italy, especially at Runini,
where they are conducted on so large a
scale that 20 persons may receive them
at the same time, the pulverization be-
ing effected by means of compressed air
and steam engine. The administra-
ton lasts for half an hour at first, and
afterwards for an hour, from 80 to 40 of
these being required. The patients
while respiring the vapor should be en-
couraged to alkand sing as far as their
strength allows. The first effects pro-
duced are a pleasant excitement and a
return of appetite.