The Red Cloud chief., 1879-07-24

ADVICE FOR HoT WEATHER--Kcep
cool IL you can; don't drink any thing
with alcoholic poison in II; 81, sparing-
" Of plain, simple food; keep 8 good
conscience; read your Newspaper, and
don't forget to pay for it--Troy (S. ~
Times.
SPRAISs AND BKUIsEs.-Parsnip tops
beaten , q pulp and wes,ed with vine
gar ~ a good application ; also bran.
or clay, or brown paper, made wet with
vinegar. But for sprsins or bruises the
best direction that can be given is TO
wrap the part with q soft cloth in many
folds, and keep it constantly wet with
water as warm as the patient can bear
il. This treatment should be KEEP. up
for an hour or two AZ q time.
BLIsrERs.-H You wish a blister TO
heal quickly, be careful not to emove
the skin. On infants this should be OBJ
served. The first dressing should be
lily or cabbage leaves coddled in boil
INK WobSt q ~ III ihh7
one part wax, one part lard, n part
turpentine from the pine-tree; melt and
strain. Resin is sometimes used instead
Of turpentine. This makes basilicon.
II the part blistered be in a situation ap,
TO be rubbed, cover with cotton bats, IS
in the case Of a burn, especially if the
patient be an infant.
SIMPLE TREATMENT FOR SCIATICA.-
DIR. Ebrard of Mines states that he has
for many years trested all his cases Of
s~ciatics and neuralgia pains with an
i~mprovised electric apparatus, consist
ing merely Of a flst-iron and vinegar,
two things that will be found in every
house. The iron is heated until suili-
GENTLY hot TO vaporize the vinegar, and
is then covered with some wooden fab
ric, which is moistened with vinegar,
and the apparatus is applied at once to
the painful spot. The application may
be repeated two or three times a day.
AS a rule, the pain disappears in "a
hours, and recovery ensues at once.
BoILs.-The5e painful and trouble.
some things may sometimes be prevent
ed by wetting a stick Of caustic at one
end and making a circle roupd the in
famed part. If it wiH rise, apply warm
fax-seed or mush and fat poultices, and
as soon as it is soft open with a lancet
or dress with basilicon. II the boil is
a hard tumor with a hard speck in the
middle, which, when opened, shows q
greenish core, it is a carbuncle, and
should have a blister put entirely over
it. In fact, all boils which are too slow
to rise are best treated by being blister
ed, which is less painful than would be
supposed.
EFFECTS OF HIGH LIvING.-A Dr.
respondent Of the London Builder,
while acknowledging the services of that
journal in the cause Of sanitary reform,
contends that "the health of stable
keepers, of sewer explorers, the eXemp-
ton of the inhabitants of the Ghetto
during the cholera in Rome" proves,
in his opinion, that the canse of cpl
denies lies more in the mistreatment of
human life than in all external mischief
put together, and attributes a great deal
of the illness among the weather.
classes to their o~ver-eating and drink
ing, just "a, on the other hand, much
of that among the poorest is the fruit of
privation. "People of means live to
the top every day; consequently there
is no reserve force, for this has been all
consumed in endeavoring to surmount
the weight of difficulties daily present
ed" London men-servants have four
and sometimes five meals-three of
meat-daily, and the hospital doctors
say that their blood is so heated by high
living that they are very difficult patients
to deal with.
PETROLEUM AS A REMEDY o Con-
sUMPTIoN.-The scenes which are daily
witnessed at the oil works at Point Breeze,
to which numbers of consumptives re-
sort in order to inhale the vapors from
the stills and obtain crude oil for inter
nal application, have their counterpart
over IN France. A Government report,
recently published in the Bulletin de
T~herapeutique, narrates that a refiner of
petroleum was prohibited by a Project
from distributing petroleum in medic
inal doses. Some of the sufferers APP
pealed, and the Government ordered
DR.. Blache, a prominent medical prac
~titioner, to institute an investigation As
to the utility of petroleum in affections
of the chest. Native petroleum from
Pennsylvania and Virginia q expert
mented with. DR.. Blache, in his report,
stated that he found that, in chronic
bronchitis with abundant expectoration,
it rapidly diminished the amount of the
secretion and the paroXysms of cough
ing; while in simple bronchitis rapid
ameliora,ion was obtained. Its en-
ployment in phthisis was continued for
too short a time to warrant any opinion
regarding its efficiency, beyond that it
is diminishing the expectoration, which
also lost its purulent character. DR..
Blache says that the petroleum is pop
ularly taken in doses of a teaspoonful
before each meal, and that after the
first day any nausea which it excites in
most persons dissppears.-Philadeli hta
Paper.
Ups and Downs of BOdie.
A San Francisco correspondent
t writes: The ups and downs of mining
towns we're well illustrated last