The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-03-28
HEALTH AND DISEASE.

with one OF them critters.
HEALTH AND DISEASE.
WHooPING-CoUGH is said to be effectu-
ally treated in Austria by the use of the
rod. When the child is seized by one
of the coughing fits, the rod is vigor-
ously applied. The doctors allege that
whooping-cough is rather a nervous af-
lection than anything else, and the fog
ging, besides good counter-irritant,
rouses the child to an exercise of the
will which often suppresses a cough.
HE lNTERAARRIAGE OF RELATIVES
Mr.. George Darwin, after searching in
vestigation, concludes that $ the widely
different habits of life of men and women
In civilized nations, especially among
the upper classes, tend to counterbal-
ance any evil from marriage between
closely related persons. Mr.. Darwin's
views are In a measure sustained by DR..
Vornis inquiry into the commune of
BATE. BATE is a rocky, secluded, ocean
washed peninsula of the Loire Inferie-
ure, France. containing over 5000 peo-
pie of simple habits, who don't drink and
commit no crime For generations they
have intermarried, but no cases have
occurred of deaf mutism, albinoism,
blindness or malformation, and the num-
Der Of children born is above the average.
RELIEF FOR NERVOUS HEADACHE
Having observed that bromide of potas-
SUM, in twenty or thirty grain doses,
and tincture of aconite root, sep
arately, relieved more cases than
any remedies had previous
ly exhibited, experimental with larger
doses of the drugs combined. For sew
eral years j have been in the habit Of
giving in these cases sixty grains of the
bromide Of potassium and ten drops of
the tincture of aconite root in a wine
glassful of water, the same to be repeat.
ed in an hour Or two if the head be not
relieved {; but repetition Of the dose is
very seldom required. In the case of
ladies and others who wish to have
remedy at hand, or who are about to
start on a journey, supply them with
the following mixture
Bromide of potassium, Scruples ii.
Tincture of aconite root, Grains, i.
Distilled water,
Simple girur, "a scruples, il.
Take dessert-spoonful in some water
every hour until relieved.-Am1ericon
Practitioner.
DPHTHERTA CURED BY SULPHUR
few years ago, when diphtheria was
raging in England, a gentleman accom-
panied the celebrated DR.. Field on his
rounds to witness the so-called "wonder
full cures which he performed, while
the patients of others were dropping on
all sides. The remedy, to be SO rapid,
must be simple. AL he took with him
was powder Of sulphur and quill, and
with these he cured every patient with
out exception. He put teaspoonful Of
-four OF birthstone into wine glass of
water, and stirred it with his finger, in
stead of spoon, as the sulphur does
not readily amalgamate with water.
When the sulphur was well mixed he
gave it as a gargle, and in ten minutes
the patient was out of danger. Brim-
stone kills every species of fungus in
man, beast and plant, in few minutes.
Instead Of splitting out the gargle, he
recommended the swallowing of it. In
extreme cases, in which he had been
called just in the nick of time, when the
fungus was too nearly closing to allow
the gargling, he blew the sulphur
through quill into the throat, and,
after the fungus had shrunk to allow of
it, then the garglipg. He never lost
patient from diphtheria. Il the patient
cannot gargle, take live coal, put it on
shovel and sprinkle spoonful or two
of -four OF birthstone at time upon it,
let the sufferer inhale it, holding the
bead over it, and the fungus will die.
| CARBoL1o ACID FOR COUGHS AND Ca
TARRH. The London Medical Record
gives the experience Of DR.. Moritz in
the us6'of carbolic-acid spray in catarrhal
disease Of the respiratory organs Hay
| ing had much TO do with carbolic acid,
and especially the spray, he noticed that
the bronchial catarrh with which he was
| frequently troubled did not occur, or
| that, il it began, it was soon arrested. A
colleague Of his, De. Asseldelft, made
the same observation. DR.. Moritz used
the spray OF 2 per cent. solution of
carbolic acid, He first tried it on two
children in whom the commencement of
whooping-cough was suspected. After
the remedy had been used two days, the
slight catarrh which was present came
to stand-still, and in few days disap.
peared. In several children with
measles, the cough was diminished, and
the nights were more quiet after the use
Of carbolic-acid spray. In two surgical
patients also, whose lungs were in sus-
picious state, the cough entirely disap+
peared during the frequent use of the
spray. The carboaic acid does not act
as cauterant, for dilution produces ben
efcial action, and it is not demonstrated
that it exerts any chenSical action on the
false membranes, as sozAe have thought.
e appears most reasonable that it acts
as parasiticide, destroying the proto-
organisms which constitute the funda-
mental mart of the false r,oasnahraras and