Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1878-08-31
HEALTH NOTES.

Only best assistants" says Il Boston
doctor, care catnip, smartweed, horse
radish leaves and mustard-plasters.'
SICK headache can often be greatly
relieved, and sometimes entirely cured
10y the application of a mustard plaster
Mt the base of the neck,
COMMON charcoal, finely powdered,
makes n better deuiriice for the teeth
than any thing You can buy ut the stores,
and there's nothing injurious about 1t,
either.
HEALru IN Hot WEATHER.-The
course usually taken by persons in a
heated term is, according to the Lon
don lancet, in direct violation of the
laws OF nature. PerSpiration is a mois-
ture which nature spreads over the sur
face of the human body for much the
same purpose as IN intelligent house
wife sprinkles water Oyer her butter
cooler But perSpiration is checked by
sitting in draugbts, by wearing very lit
tie clothing, and by adoptnglight colorS
for dress. The remedy is taken for the
disease, and through impeding the pro-
cesses of nature, summer colds and 9TH
err allied evils are contracted. ''The con-
ditions of health require that, within
very narrow limits, the temperature OF
the human body should be the same,
whether the thermometer should be 10
degrees in the shade or sinks to a few
degrees below zero.
TREATMENT OF YELLOW FEyER.--
DIR. Blackburn, in Louisville Courier
J0urnQl: The patient shall be placed
in bed in a horizontal posture, should
not be permitted under any circum.
stances to arise from that bed, should
be well covered with blankets, a foot
tub Of hot water without mustard should
be introduced under the blankets, the
patient, lying upon his back, should
leX his lower limbs and place his feet
in the tub; the covering should be tuck
ed well arocnd him, close up to his
neck he should be given hot tea, COM
posed of balm, sage, elder-bIossom,
boneset, corn shock or orange or lemon
leaf. At the same time, he should be
permitted to drink ice-water on to take
crushed ice in sufficient quantities to
allay his thirst. Free and continuous
pe~rspiration should be kept up. After
the toot-tub has been removed, II the
action OF the skin should cease ana inc
forehead become Dry, the ieet should
be at once replaced in the tub and the
ptysan, or hot ten, should be used rs
before. The fever will continue from
twenty to ninety hours. When it has
passed oil, the blankets should be grad
ually withdrawn from the patient;
s~tlmulants, such as ale, porter, pure
rum ana french brandy shQuIo De rec
y gwen l prefer Nooh : Imperial ~,
LOUIS hatVe VINE TO any sJIlhuI"nV !
nave ever used Noutishined'' SuCl as
fico-"ater or c~orG-nleal cruel OF cllcH'
eh WATER Shoul1 DC gwen c"oIIouSI!
ana 9Parlii9Iy' onoulu mere oo 9Pomm--
IaileouS movement d me D""e!7' uS WIZ
occur III many cases rom Iio lr'lIa'Ioi
Oh inc mucous coaV u IIc s!oll'ch 'IIu
ooWelS, ihat tissue "hlch Is nE7t aSSauII-
eu by inns olsease' give no oPI4n'' no
preparation OF OPIUM nor any tnihS 10
checE that acIIon' IL Is JhG crlSi5 OF
.he ulSease' ~ H. IS III iieIsIe9' the
FEVER VIII pass on IN I'VE hou!S' ana tho
patent VIII recover raPluly without rear
OF Il relapse. 0houIa inc PerSPilratioh
nave a SLaylnous' guminy touch, yon
may expect your Patieht 10 recoNerWiV
WaIcniui anu careful nursing Dul
Snouiq Ihe PefsplfaIioh nave Il sensation
IKE lhat OF pure "atet' showing Inat
mere IS no VlcifioN' aGIloh ny inc SH!li'
"nIch gives rellel 10 me I'VE anu A'u.
heys' you may know 'hat your PA'iehi
y ~ E'e"g finger 19n VII ahd upon
'8 e4"mhaaon the tongue red ana