San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-07-27
CARE OF THE HEALTH.

CARE OF THE HEALTH.
PHOSPHATE of zinc is recommended
for neuralgia.
A RUSSIAN surgeon has made series
Of experiments showing that cancer is
inoculable. .. 1885
LIVING out Of doors, and even camp
ing out, is now recommended for con-
sumptives by physicians in Europe as
well as America.
MALARIAL disorders, in children es-
pecially, are sometimes accompanied by
an eruption resembling that Of scarlet
fever.
A GERMAN physician has discovered
that II one-fifth part Of oil of turpentine
be added to chloroform, the latter can
be administered without danger of
asphyxia.
1T is not so generally known as it
should be that belladonna, or its active
principle, atrophia, is the most efficient
antidote in case of opium-poisening but
1t must not be administered in too large
quantities, else 1t produces poisonous
effects of its own.
CURE OF Undertakes. AT the New
York State Inebriate Asylum, various
remedies are given as temporary substi-
tutes for alcoholic stimulant. Among
the most reliable, of them is prescrip-
ton containing dilute phosphoric acid
and the elixir of calisaya bark.
CAUTION TO Neutrality-suspicious.
of Berlin have sent forth an urgent
warning against the use Of the popular
baby-carriage in which the little ones
sit facing the nurse and are pushed
backward. The natural desire Of the
eye is to draw nearer to what it sees,
and the practice Of reversing this nor
NAL order Of things and causing sur
rounding objects to recede is liable to
affect injuriously the development Of
both sight and brain. $3.50
EFFECTS OF ALCOHOL.-Ar recent Lon
don letter to The Medical Times gives
an interesting abstract Of lecture by
DR.. Alfred Carpenter on "Alcoholic
Drinks as Diet, as Medicines, and as
Poisons." The lecturer considered that
alcohol in any of its forms may be
good medicine, "but it is q bad diet,
and that its action as poison is visible
among all ranks of society,"" He sum-
med up its effects very strikingly in say
ing that "work which is kept going by
continuous doses of alcohol always ends
in breakdown. If it is taken for the
purpose of increasing muscular exer-
ton, ultimately there is great loss of
muscular power, as all athletes know.
If mental exertions are kept going by
alcohol, there is a mental breakdown,
as the lunatic as ylums testify"
CURE FOR BRONCHITIS, LARYNGITIs,
AND QUINsY.-Mr. G. A. Sala, in a re-
cent Illustrated London Ne,0s, writes:
" Until two or three evenings since
had never heard of the treatment of
bronchial complaints by the external
application of the most precious Of met
ais. was talking to an American gen.
tleman on the subject Of bronchitis and
spasmodic asthma, when he said, why
don't you try gold neckletp have
worn one, my wife has worn one, my
children have worn such necklets for
months together. I have recommended
the remedy to hundreds of my friends,
and in no case have found it fail as
cure for bronchitis, laryngitis, and quin-
sy sore-throat.' He went on to say that
the necklet should be worn so just as to
be concealed, in the case Of menfolk, by
the shirt-collar. 1t should not be 50
tight as to inconvenience the wearer,
but it should be made to press fiat on
the throat" .s