Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-01
Common Sense Remedies.

gard to the conductors. Cor. N. Y.
Sun.
Common Sense Remedies,
There is scarcely an ache to which
children are subject that is SO difficult
to bear as the earache. The cases, If
treated as follows, will often be relieved
Immediately. Take a bit of cotton and
soak it in glycerine and sprinkle on it
little black pepper; insert this into the
ear and put dry piece of cotton out
side, to be kept in place, if necessary,
by light bandage tied over the head.
Sometimes insects will find Judgement
in the ear, causing great pain. Should
this occur, turn the head on one side
and pour the ear full of sweet oil. In
sects breathe through pours in their
skin; the oil obstructs these openings,
causing their death. Children, and
often those of larger growth, acquire
the habit of picking their ears with
pin, hairpin, etc. 1t is a pernicious
practice and should not be allowed.
The drum of the ear is very delicate
membrane and is easily injured; inflam-
nation and deafness may be induced
thereby. have sometimes succeeded
in removing foreign bodies from the
throat, such as piece of meat or q
large bone by blowing forcibly into the
ear. 1t causes powerful reflex action,
during which the foreign substance
may be expelled from the windpipe.
Many persons are subject to nose bleed.
In robust, plethoric habits this is rath-
er beneficial than otherwise, but in
many cases it occasions inconvenience
and perhaps alarm. 1t generally yields
readily to treatment. Take a pledget
of lint. moisten, dip in equal parts of
powdered alum and gum arabic and
insert in the nose. Battle the forehead
and nape of the neck in cold water. If
alum and gum arabic are not at hand,
use the tea dust found in the bottom of
the tea caddy.
Among the more common accidents
which are liable to occur in the house
hold, and which often prove serious,
are burns and scalds. Their severity
and danger depend upon the extent of
surface and depth of tissues involved.
An unfailing remedy is, in most house,
holds, always on hand. Common
baking soda or bi-carbonate of soda.
Make thick paste with soda and
little water and apply to the
injured spot; then dust the whole with
the dry soda and cover with light
bandage. 1t will act like magic, re-
lieving the pain at once. Allow it to
remain until it is ready to drop off-a
few hours or days as the case may be.
When it is removed, dress the wound
with cosmoline Never put on to a
burn or scald any molasses, starch,
soap, flour, charcoal or glue. They
have the inconvenience of being un-
cleanly, and some of them form crusts
which it is difficult to remove. make
this suggestion from the fact that ply
sicians are seldom called to see cases
of extensive burns and scalds, but that
they find some such procedure has been
adopted.
Bruises and sprains, which are liable
to occur at any time, are much more
quickly cured if treated Immediately on
their occurrence. The effect of bruise
is to rupture some of the smaller blood
vessels, near the surface, and the blood
being poured out under the skin, forms
the black and blue spots, so-called.
When such an accident occurs, stream
of cold water directed onto the part and
continued as long as it can be borne,
and then renewed aftera time, will Oft
en- prevent swelling, and will contract
the mouths of the ruptured blood ves-
sells. Such method may be applied
by pouring water on to the part from a
height, from pitcher or coffee-pot.
A rubber tube may be attached to a
faucet, and the water thus conducted.
The parts should be tightly bandaged
afterward, and the bandages soaked
with tincture of arnica, or what pre-
fer, tincture of marigold (Calendula).
A sprain is always more serious than
bruise, the joints being the parts i'm
plicated. One may recover from
fractured limb sooner than from some
forms of sprain. When such an acci-
dent occurs, place the limb in basin
or pail of water as hot as can be borne
Keep the temperature up by the addi-
ton of more hot water from time to
time. Allow it to remain immersed in
the bath from ten minutes to half an
hour, according to circumstances.
After removing, bandage evenly and
tightly the whole extent of the limb,
below the injury, and making it tight
est at that point, thus forcing the blood
from the superficial veins toward the
trunk. The limb should be kept in an
elevated position for some hours after
ward. If the injury is to the lower ex-
tremity, the foot may be placed in
chair and supported by pillow. If
the upper extremities are involved,
sling, made of wide silk handkerchief,
and tied around the neck, will give the
necessary elevation and support.-A
Physician, IN Detroit Free Press.