The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-01-24
THE HOME DOCTOR,

To REMOVE dandruff, wash the scalp
frequently with bay rum and bofax,
which will raise q lather, and rinse off
with cold water.
To STOP the flow of blood, even from
a severe wound, bind on the wound the
| fine dust of tea. After the flow has
been stanched, laudanum may be ap-
piled with advantage.
To CURE weak eyes, take rose-leaves-
| the more the better-and put them into
little water, then boil; after this, strain
it into a bottle, and cork it tight. You
will find this liquid very beneficial in
removing redness and weakness from the
eyes.
To CURE vertigo or dizziness, arising
from dyspepsia, eat food that is easily
digested, avoiding pastry and fat meat.
Sometimes it is occasioned by costive-
ness, and in this case the remedy IS to
keep the bowels open with gentle phys
ic. Avoid coffee, ardent spirits, late
suppers, and go to bed and rise early.
Take plenty of outdoor exercise.
A SIMPLE and safe vermifuge consists
of powdered rust of iron. 1t expels the
worms and strengthens the constitution.
| 70 child 6 years old, twenty grains
may be given. An adult may take a
quarter of an ounce. 1t may be given
in molasses or in beer. Follow always
with an aperient-senna for child, cas-
tor Oil for an adult.
TEA and coffee dietary for children is
as bad in its effects as its use is uni
versaL DIR. Ferguson found that chill
dren SO fed only grew four pounds per
annum between the ages of 13 and
16; while those who got milk night
and morning grew fifteen pounds each
year. This needs no commentary. The
deteriorated physique of tea and coffee
| fed children, as seen in their lessened
power to resist disease, is notorious
amidst the medical men of factory dis
tricts.
For bleeding at the nose, the best
remedy, as given by DIR. Gleason, in one
of his lectures, is q vigorous motion of
the jaws, as if in the act OF masticatien.
In the case of child, a wad of paper
should be placed in its mouth and the
child instructed to chew it hard. It is
the motion of the jaws that stops the
flow of blood This remedy is SO very
simple that many will feel inclined to
laugh at it, but it has never been known
to fail in a single instance, even in very
severe cases.
OFFENSIVE breath can easily be got
rid of, for from six to eight drops of the
concentrated solution of chloride of soda
in a wineglassful of pure fresh water,
taken Immediately after the abiu-
tons of the morning are completed,
will sweeten the breath by disinfecting
the stomach, which, far from being in
jured. will be benefited by the medi-
cine. Ii necessary, this may be repeated
in the middle of the day. In some cases
the odor from carious teeth is combined
with that of the stomach. IF the mouth
| is well rinsed with teaspoonful of the
solution of the chloride in a tumbler of
water, the bad odor OF the teeth will be
removed.
| DIRECT experiments by Durham,
Hammond and others show that sleep
in the brain is promoted by absence of
blood therefrom. This is proved also,
indirectly, by the greater quantity OF
blood which circulates in the skin and
extremities during sleep, because there
is greater radiation of heat from the
skin. Whatever tends to abstract blood
from the brain favors sleep, hence, di-
gestion tends to cause sleep, rs do hot
drinks, ETC., by drawing the blood sup.
ply from the brain to the stomach. So
conversely, whatever tends to keep ur
the activity of the brain cells and the
circulation, tends to prevent sleep; this
being, therefore, the effect of any slim
illus applied to the senses, sights
sounds, thought, anxiety and the like
while the opposite tends to favor sleep