The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-03-29
HEALTH AND DISEASE.

WHooPINa- 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 nervous al
lection than anything else, and the fog
ging, besides good counter-irritant,
rouses the child to an exercise OF the
will which often suppresses cough.
THE INTERMARRIAaE 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.. Darwln's
views are in measure sustained by DIR.
Vorni's inquiry into the commune of
BATE. BATE is a rocky, secluded, ocean
washed p u" ~u'a of the Loire Inferie-
ure, France, containing over 3, 900 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-
stun, in twenty or thirty grain doses,
and tincture of aconite root, sep
arately, relieved more cases than
any remedies L had previous
~ exhibited, I experimental with larger
i e I, i Enr low
eral years l 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 a
remedy at hand. or who are about to
start on journey, supply them with
the following mixture
r Bromide Of potassium, Scruples, j.
Tincture OF aconite root, Grains, /.
| Distilled water,
Simple airuI, IA scrupies, u.
Take a dessert-spoonful in some water
every hour until relieved.-American
Practitioner
DIPHTHERIA CURED BY SULPHUR.
few years ago, when diphtheria was
raging in England, gentleman accom-
panied the celebrated DIR. 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. All 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-giass 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 gargling. He never lost q
patient from diphtheria. If the patient
cannot gargle, take live coal, put it or
a shovel and sprinkle spoonful or two
of flour of birthstone at q time upon it
let the sufferer inhale it, holding the
head over it, and the fungus will die.
CARBoLIC ACID FOR CoUaHs AND Ca
gives the experience of DR.. Moritz in
the use of carbolic-acid spray in catarrhal
disease of the respiratory organs. Hav.
ing had much to do with carbolic acid
and especially the spray, he noticed thai
the bronchial catarrh with which he was
frequently troubled did not occur, OF
that, ii it began, it was soon arrested. A
colleague of his, DIR. Asseldelfft, made
the same observation. Dr. Moritz USED
the spray of a 2 per cent solution Of
carbolic acid. He fr,t tried it on two
children in whom the commencement o.
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, ant
the nights were more quiet after the ust
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 carbolic acid does not ac
, as cauterant for dilution produces ben
|. . eicial action, and it is not demonstrated
: that it exerts any chemical action on tn,
false membranes, as some have thought
It appears most reasonable that it act
as parasiticide, destroying the proto
: organisms which constitute the funda
mental part of the false membranes ant
, which exist in the circulatory system
since the local alt ,rations are more thar
, the expression of zymo.ic influence.
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