American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-02-01
CARE OF THE HEALTH,

CARE OF THE HEALTH.
DIR. BLACHER has recently reported
Tin the Courier Medica) some excellent
results from treatment of pulmonary
consumption, in its first two periods,
with glycerine instead of cod-liver oil.
THE health of weakly persons is
thought to be affected by carbonate of
lead in common white paint, arsenic, or
anthony in wallpaper, poisonous dyes
in dress stuffs, and arsenical dust from
| green Venetian blinds.
EXTRA wrappings when going out of
doors for exercise are less important
than the retaining of sufficient cloth
ing after exercise. Persons often s'catch
cold" from throwing off extra garments
Immediately after exercise which has
| heated the body.
To Stop THE NOSE-BLEED.-A recent
writer says that the best remedy for
bleeding at the nose consists in the Wig
orous motion of the jaws, as in the act
| of mastication. In the case of a child
a wad of paper should be placed in its
mouth, and the child should be instruct
ed to chew it hard.
TABLE SALT IN MILK FOR CHILDREN.
DR.. Q. G. Smith, in the Pacific Medt-
cal Journal, gives the following useful
hints, which, by the way, is confirmed
by other excellent authority: "When
cows milk is found to disagree with
died babies or small children, it
may in many cases be rendered entirely
wholesome to them by adding to it a
small portion of table salt, just enough
to be perceptible to the taste. 1 have
for years directed the practice of this
expedient among our people, and know
it to be of real value.
How TO PREVENT RHEUMATISM
Put away the sheets and Counterpart,
and sleep in blankets, under and over,
and no counterpart at all. The sheets
and the counterpart do a great deal of
mischief. The cotton keeps the sour heat
and perspiration from the body in the
bed, and so you breathe poisoned air all
night, summer and winter, and that
poisoned air makes your rheumatism
ten times worse. If you were in blank
cts they would not absorb the perspira-
ton; it would pass through from one to
the other; but in cotton, if it absorbs it
I had better say soaks into it-there
it remains, cold, or hot, or clammy.-
Mrs. Wdrren's NeW Book.
How TO EAT MILK.-There are many
who say, ''I like milk, but milk does
not like me''-that is, it does not agree
with them.- The reason for this, in
most cases, is that the milk coagr1ates
in the stomach in too firm a curd to be
easily digested. But many who can not
drink milk, or eat bread or milk, find
no difficulty in digesting a bowl of
baked apples and milk. Upon this hint
the experiment has been successfully
tried by physician of large experience,
of telling his patients who could not di-
gest milk to use apple-sauce as a con-
comitant, taking spoonful of apples
alternately with spoonful of bread,
crackers or pudding and milk. The ap-
pie prevents the formation of solid
mass in the stomach, and its juice also
aids digestion, SO that no distress or
sense of heaviness follows after a meal
thus taken. This information is given
for the benefit of rural readers, and we
think it will be worthy of trial, though
perhaps not successfully in every case.
--RuraL San.
WHAT SMOKING DOES FOR BoYs.-l
A certain doctor, struck with the large
number of boys under Is years of age
he observed smoking, was led to inquire
into the effect the habit had upon the
general health. He took for his pur-
pose 38 aged from to Is, and carefully |
examined them. In 81 he discovered |
injurious traces of the habit. In % |
there were various disorders of the cir
and digestion, palpitation of the |
heart, and a more or less taste for strong
drink. In IL there were frequent bleed
ing of the nose, 10 had disturbed sleep,
and IL had slight liberation of the mu
,ous membrane of the mouth, which dis
appeared on ceasing the use of tobacco
'or some days. The doctor treated them
Ill for weakness, but with little effect
Until the smoking was discontinued,
when health and strength were soon re-
'tored. Now this is no sold wife's
ale,'' as these facts are given under the
of the British Medical Monthly.
INDIsCRIMINATE CHILDREN KISSING.
Every body is expected to kiss the
,aby. The timid little girl who shrinks
rom the proffered OSCILLATION is ordered
" her parents to kiss the visitor. The
'isitor has slight or severe sore throat.
The diphtheric germs are conveyed to
he lips of the reluctant child, and find
odgment in the throat. A violent at
ack of diphtheria results and spreads
trough the family, usually by the same
irect infection. The heart-broken
Mother bows her head to the inscruta-
lie dispensations of Providence, and
vonders why her darling should be