American citizen., 1878-08-24
CARE OF THE HEALTH.

EhGoT, eSpecIduy lne Tree aum1nlS-
tration of ergotin hypodermically, is
said to be speedy and positive cure
for trichiniosis.
ABERNETHY used to say that " of the
large quantity offood a man swallowed,
one-fourth supported him, and the rest
he kept at his risk
DIR. c. L. WARREN, of Austin, Texas,
who has had much experience with yell
low fever in the South and on the 18TH
mus, is firm in the belief that teas
poonful of white mustard taken three
times a day, in a dram of whisky, is an
infallible antidote for yellow fever.
To prevent the hair falling out, the
common application, in Oriental coun-
tries, is the bruised bulbs of the Aspho-
delus 6ulbosus, garlic, or onions, mixed
with gunpowder. An infusion of the
small leaves of the orange or lemon tree
in red wine, containing twenty grains
of tannin per liter, has also proved serv-
iceable.
A NEW DIsINFECTANT recommended
in the British Medical Journal for use
in hospitals, and to destroy the poison
germs of smallpox, scarlet fever, and
other infectious diseases, is composed of
one part of rectified oil of turpentine
and seven parts of benzine, with the ad-
dition of five drops of oil of verbena to
each ounce. Its purifying and disin-
fecting properties are due to. the power
which is possessed by each of its ingre-
dients of absorbing atmospheric oxygen,
and converting it into peroxide of by
drogen-a highly active oxidizing agent,
and very similar in its nature to
ozone. Articles of clothing, furniture,
wallpaper, carpeting, books, newspa-
pers, letters, etc., may be perfectly sat
urated with it without receiving the
slightest injury; and when it has been
once freely applied to any rough or po-
rous surface, its action will be persist
ent for an almost indefinite period.
REMEDIES FOR YELLOW FEVER
The following is translated from re-
cent number of the Comnlercio del Yale,
of st. Louis, and in view of the preva-
lence of the dreaded scourge in many of
our Southern cities, it ought to have a
widespread publicity: The yellow fe-
yer, as is we'll known, begins with a
feeling of general languor or indisposi-
tion, severe pains in the head, back and
loins, and relaxation of the members.
These are the general symptoms, which,
if properly attended to from the begin
ming, may be almost invariably overcome.
According to the experience of the best
medical authorities of Brazil aud Cuba
the best preventive consists in OBJ
serving all the rules of health, and es-
pecially to avoid fatigue and organic
dsturbapces by means of healthy diet
and moderate repose. The treatment
consists simply in giving, the first day,
potion of three drops of the tincture of
aconite root in a half-glass of water,
which should be given in doses of ta-
blespoonful every half-hour until free
perspiration is induced, which should
be aided by keeping the patient warmly
covered with blankets and warm appli-
cations to the feet. The patient should
be kept in this condition the first day.
The second day two or three ounces of
castor oil should be given, and repeated,
if necessary, until the bowels are thor
oughly evacuated. When this is effect
ed the disease is almost invariably under
control, and the patient, by careful
nursing and a moderate diet, RECEIVERS
SELF CURE OF INEBRIETY.-A per-
son afflicted with this disease can easi-
ly supply himself with the remedies
used at nearly all the Tnebriate Asylums
and be his own physician at his own
home, without the necessary expense
and publicity of visiting the. Washing
tonian Home or any. other reformatory
institution. His laboratory need con-
tain only a small quantity of cayenne
pepper, pot of concentrated extract of
beef, and a few grains Of bromide of
potassium. When the desire for alco-
hol drinks recurs, make a tea from the
cayenne pepper, as strong as can be
taken with any degree of comfort,
sweeten it with milk and sugar and
drink. This tea will supply the same
place that a glass or liquor would fill,
and will leave no injurious effect behind.
daily as often as the appetite
it will be but few days before
he sufferer will have become disguised
with the taste of the pepper, and, with
The appearance of this disgust dis
appears the love Of liquor. The fact is
proven every day The extract of beef
s to be made into beef tea, according to
,he directions ON the pot, in quantities
Is may be needed for the time being,
md furnishes cheap, easily digested
md healthy nutriment, it being made
9 to stay on the stomach" when heavier
articles of food would be rejected. The
of potassium is to be used care
ully and only in case of extreme
the dose being from fifteen
o twenty grains, dissolved in water.
This is public exhibit of the method of
reatment adopted at the inebriate asy-
ums. In addition thereto the drinking
nan should surround himself with in
luences which tend to make him forget
he degrading associations of the bar
DOM and lift him upward. He should
ndeavor, SO far as his business voca-
ions will permit, to sleep, bathe and
at regularly, and obey the laws of
lealth. By the adoption of this course,
and sincerely, no man
rho has the will to reform can fail to do
!