The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1878-04-11
HEALTH AND DISEASE.

WHooPNa- COUGH is said to be effectn-
ally treated In Austria by the use of The
rod. When the child is seized nv one
OF the coughing fits, the rod is y;eor9
o4sly applied. The doctors allege that
whoeoplng-cough is rather nervous u.
1ectlon than anything else, and the foo.
glng, besides a good counter-irritani
rouses the child to an exercise of the
WILL which often suppresses cough.
LIE VETERINARIANS OF RELATIVES -
Mr, george Darwin, after searching in
1estlgauon, concludes that "the widely
ulHerent habits OF life of men and women
~ ~ clVinzed nations, especially among
tne upper classes, tend to counterbal-
ance any evil from marriage between
closely related persons. Mr.. Darwin's
views are IN measure sustained by DIR.
worms inquiry into the commune of
batz. Batz is rocky, secluded, ocean
ure, france. containing over &, 900 peo-
pie OF simple habits, who don't drink and
commit no crime. For generations thew
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 BEADACHE
Having observed that bromide of potas-
SUM, in twenty or thirty grain doses.
and tlncture of aconite root, sep
arately, relieved more cases than
any remedies I had previous
~ exhibited, [ experimental with larger
doses OF the drugs combined. For sew
eral years i have been in the habit of
giving IN these cases sixty grains of the
bromide OF potassium and ten drops of
the hncture of aconite root in a wine
glassful of water, the same to be repeat.
ed III 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 q
remedy at hand. or who are about to
start on journey, l supply them with
the following mixture
r Bromide of potassium, Scruples, ii.
Tincture of aconi;e root, Grains, i.
Distilled water.
Simple HiruI, "a scruples, il.
Take dessert-spoonful in some water
every hour until relieved.
Practitioner.
DIPHTHERIA CURED BY SULPHUR
few years ago, when diphtheria was
raging IN England, a 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
flour of birthstone into a wine-g glass OF
water, and stirred it with his finger, in
stead of a 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 a
patient from diphtheria. If the patient
cannot gargle, take live coal, put it on
shovel and sprinkle a spoonful or two
of -four OF birthstone at time upon it,
let the sufferer inhale it, holding the
head over it, and the fungus will die.
| CARBoLIC ACID FOR COUGHS AND Ca.
TARRH.-The London Medical Record
gives the experience of DR.. Moritz in
the use 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, OF
that, if it began, it was soon arrested. A
colleague of his, DIR. Asseldelfft, made
the same observation. DR.. Moritz used
the spray of 2 per cent solution of
carbolc acid. He first tried it on two
children in whom the commencement of
whcoping-cough was suspected. After
the remedy had been used two days, the
slight catarrh which was present came
| to a 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 a sus-
picious state, the cough entirely disap-
peared during the frequent use of the
spray. The carbolic acid does not act
as cauterant, for dilution produces ben
eficial action, and it is not demonstrated
that it exerts any chemical action on the
false membranes, as some have thought.
1t appears most reasonable that it acts
as parasiticide, destroying the proto-
organisms which constitute the funda-
mental part of the false membranes and
which exist in the circulatory system,
since the local alterations are more than
the expression of zymotic influence.
England Will Roar.