The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1879-04-24
THE HOME DOCTOR.


TAKING CoLD.-Upon this subject
high authority says: When person
begins to shiyer, the blood is receding
from the surface; congestion, to great
er or less extent, has taken place, and
the patient has already taken cold, to
be followed by fever, Inflammation of
the lungs, neuralgia, rheumatism, etc.
All these evils can be avoided and the
cold expelled by walking, or in some
exercise that will produce prompt and
decided reaction in the system. The
exercise should be sufficient to produce
perspiration. If you are so situated
that you can get glass of hot water to
drink, it will materially aid the perspira-
ton, and in every way assist nature in
her efforts to remove the cold. This
course followed, your cold is at an end,
and whatever disease it would ultimate
in is avoided; your suferings are pre-
vented, and your doctors bills saved"
SIoK-RooM. RULEs.-From an ex-
change we clip few hints" to those
visiting the sick: Enter and leave the
room quietly. Garry a cheerful face,
and speak cheerful words. If the sick
ness is serious, do not fall into gay and
careless talk in the attempt to be cheer
full. Don't ask questions, and thus
oblge the invalid to talk. Talk about
something outside, and not about the
disease of the patient. Tell the news,
but not the List of the sick and dying.
If possible, carry something to please
the eye and relieve the monotony of the
sick-room-a flower, or even picture
which you can loan for few days.
Highly perfumed flowers, however,
should never be carried into the sick
room. Some little delicacy to tempt
the appetite may be well bestowed.
Stay only few minutes at the longest,
unless you can be of some help.
GUARD THE CHnDREN.-Little chill
dren must be carefully guarded during
this season, if parents expect to keep
them from sickness. We do not mean
that they should be confined within
doors, even in cold weather. On the
contrary, they are much more likely to
keep well if they are exercising in the
open air during the middle portion of
every day not absolutely inclement.
From 10 in the morning to 5 in the af-
ternoon is the best time for young chill
dren to be outdoors at this season.
Toward night the air becomes too chilly.
But they should always be warmly
clothed, the feet being well protected,
and the soft under-fannels never omit
ted. Half of the illnesses of little chill
dren, and much of their fretfulness,
might be prevented by keeping them
warm, not only out of doors, but in the
house. This should not be done by
having hot rooms, but by putting on
them light, warm, woolen garments. If
children have cold feet or cold arms, of
course they feel cross, and they don't
know what is the matter with them.
CURE FOR DpHTHER1A.-A Dublin
paper gives this remedy for diphtheria: {:
Put a teaspoonful of sulphur into q
wine-glass Of water, and stir it with the
finger instead of spoon, as the sui
phur does not readily amalgamate with
water. When the sulphur is we'll mixed
then it is to be given to the patient
to gargle, and, after garging, to swallow
it. and the patient will be out of dan
ger in ten minutes. When the fungus
is too nearly closing to allow garging,
the sulphur in that case should be blown
through a quill into the throat, and,
after the fungus has shrunk to allow of
it, then the gargling. If patient can
not gargle, take live coal, put it on a
shovel, and sprinkle a spoonful of -four
of birthstone upon it; let the sufferer
inhale it by holding the head over it,
and the fungus will die. Birthstone
kills every species of fungus in man,
beast, and plant in a few minutes. A
few days ago, at Princess Mary's Cot
tage Homes, London, an outbreak of
diphtheria attacked fifty of the in
mates, but one of the nurses cured them
all by causing the patients to gargle
with sulphur and swallow the gargle."
A HoMEEY CURE FOR DYSPEPSIA
Here is rather curious remedy, says
Casseps Family Magazine, but il
many cases a very certain one, for the
cure of Indigestion. It is simply the
cultivation of habit of chewing, while
out of doors, different kinds of greer
leaves, and swallowing the juice. One
can always Gull leaf from a hedge Of
bush as one passes. Almost all are
good that are not nauseous, such as the
ivy, or poisonous, as the laural leaf
One of the latter, however, is capita
thing where there is slight irritation O
the stomach. The chewing of leave
cures dyspepsia, principally, believe
by increasing the flow of the saliyar.
juice, and partly by the tonic or stimu
lating action of the leaf chewed. Th
leaves that occur to me at present a
most likely to be beneficial are those o
the pine trees, spruce or Scotch Tn
blackthorn, currant and rose bushes
mint, the petals of many flowers, tn
stalks of mountain daisies, the whit
portions of rushes, the bark of man
young trees, and the tender parts of til
stalks of green wheat, oats, or almos
any of the larger grasses; but you
own taste must in great measur
guide you, if you elect to take trial ,
my remedy. I should say, however, th'
the chewing is better to take place befol
or between meals than immediatel
after.
The circus business has decided
waned from what it was twenty yea
ago, and for the coming season the ira
cling concerns will be very few COZ
pared with former times. Many of Il
names once familiar on the flaming bill
| ora not saar onm in co,,p otinr, NTH n;