The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-05-03

| baccO, is one OF the best antldotes fof
strychnia.
In the treatment of epilepsy, small
doses of atropia have been used with
marked success by DIR. Seidesdorf.
LARGE doses of nitric acid have been
found by Henry Kennedy, prominent
Irish physician, to be curative in dia-
betes insipidus.
A RECENT authority thinks the best
treatment for boils and carbuncles is to
leave them to nature, with the applica-
ton of Simple warm-water dressing.
The old practice of restricting the
amount of fluids taken by dropsical
patients has been revived at one of the
London hospitals with asserted good re-
suits.
DIALYzEp iron has lately been used
by DIR. Da Costa hypodermically with
entire success. 1t is also highly recon-
mended as an antidote i'll poisoning by
arsenic.
A WRITER to the London Lancet eau
tons strongly against the admlnistra-
ton of brandy or other stimulants to
consumptive patients, when faint from
excessive hemorrh9ge. Such hemor-
rhage is often due to the rupture of a
blood tumor in the lung, and the result
ing faint spell promotes the formation of
a clot, which offers the only hope of pre-
venting speedy fatal result. Ergot and
turpentine, he says, have been found, at
the Brompton Hospital for Consump-
ton, the most useful remedies for check
ing the hemorrhage.
THE influence of diet is various under
different circumstances, and presents
many peculiar points. A youth who is
growing requires more than a mature
man-the active more than the seden-
tary-and the healthy more than the in
valid. Much, too, depends on the state
of the mind, and the potent influences
of the nervous system. The prosperous
person who sits down to table with
cheerful soul, disposed to please and be
pleased even with trifes, will bear more,
and extract more nourishment from it,
than the harassed, anxious, or thought
full man, whose mind is revolving mat
tiers of a distressing or exhausting ma
ture. The diet adapted for bilious
sanguine, the nervous and the lymphat-
&c, and vice versa.
A MEDICAL journal publishes an article
upon a disease of which very little has
hitherto been written-phosphor dis
ease. Those who make much use of
phosphorus in their daily work-as the
operators in lucifer-match factories-are
subject it seems, to distressing affec-
ton of the bones, especially of the jaws.
The affection is at first supposed to be
simple toothache; but, il not checked
in the outset, it results in the death of
the bone, and long train of the most
painful symptoms. 1t is pretty well es-
tablisheo that the fumes of phosphorus,
to produce their peculiar mischief, must
come in immediate contact with the bone
or its periosteum. Hence, in some OF
the match factories, no workman is al
lowed to return to his labor for a week
after the extraction of tooth; and the
Government of England has passed a
law that no person having decayed |
teeth shall be allowed to work in lucifer-
match factories.
In an article entitled Learning and
Health, in the Gentienldn's Magazine, |
DR.. Benjamin w. Richardson earnestly |
deprecates the too early forcing of chill |
drens minds. Health" he says, sis |
never at any period of life so tried as in
the first years. Then it is confirmed or
destroyed, made or unmade. For chill
dren under 7 the whole teaching that |
should be naturally conveyed should be
through play. if the body is to be trained
up healthy as the bearer of the miHd,
and it is wonderful what an amount Of
can by this method be attained.
Letters of languages can be taught
in different languages can
be carried on animal life can be CLASH
fed the surface of the earth can be
made clear; history can be told as a
story, and number of other and most
useful truths can be instilled without
ever forcing the child to touch a book or
read formal lesson. Under such sys-
tenn the child grows into knowledge,
makes his own inventory of the world
that surrounds him and the things that
are upon it, and, growing up free to
learn, learns we'll, and eats, and sleeps
md plays well. In a child trained after
his method, not only is health set forth,
out happiness likewise--a most impor-
amt item in this period of life."