American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-01-18
CARE OF THE HEALTH,
To PREPARE AN INyIGoRATING BAT

IOPREPARE AN lNVIGO RATING BATH.
"A teaspoonful or more of powdered
borax thrown into the bath-tub while
bathing viii communicate velvety
softness to the water, and ut the same
time invigorate and rest the bather;
persons troubled with nervousness or
wakeful nights, will find this kind of
bath a great benefit.
CURE FOR COLDS IN THE HEAD.-The
London Spectator says: 1t would seem
that the cure for those worst of all nuis-
ances, colds in the head, which DIR. Fer
rier suggested in the Lancet, might prove
to be remedy of very great value. 1t
is snuff-a white powder-composed
of the following ingredients: Hydro
chlorate Of morphia, two grains; AGA
cha powder, two drains trisnitrate of bis
muth, drams-the whole max
ing up quantity of powder, of which
one-quarter to one-half may safely be
taken, if necessary, in the course of
twenty-four hours. DR.. Terrier says
that with this snuff he has twice cured
himself of very violent colds, once, indeed,
by taking trinsitrate of bismuth alone,
which is very powerful remedy for ca
tarrh of the mucous membrane, and is
the most important ingredient in this
snuff Dr. Terrier mentions two others
who were cured of violent colds by the
same snuff, and to these instances we
may add that of the present writer,
-hD a in1a (r
on, with the sensation of weight in the
temples and the usual disagreeable feel
ing in the throat, as well as ordinary
catarrh, made trial of DIR. Terriers rem
edy one evening, and got up on the fol-
lowing morning completely free from
cold, which has not since required. The
snuff, instead of increasing the tendency
to sneeze, almost Immediately begins to
diminish it.
DISEASE FRIEND TO LIFE.-The
anniversary meeting of the Medical
Society of the District of Columbia
took place last evening at Tall
madge Hall. A large audience
assembled to hear the Grafton by
DIR. A. F. A. King. The subject of the
essay was, "The Conservative Influ-
ence of Disease in Producing Longevi-
ty." With much force of argument
and analysis he labored to prove that
disease was not the terrible enemy to
mankind that it had been painted by the
terrors of humanity, but in reality was
a true and beneficent friend. He quoted
from the celebrated DIR. Austin Flint
considered, was an inestimable boom"
He said that disease was not, in itself,
better than health, but that it contrib
utes to promote longevity, relatively to
circumstances. He cited morbific con-
ditions known as gastritis, rheumatism,
hemorrhage, numps, and insisted, with
an earnestness that commanded atten-
ton, and subtlety of logic that in
spired respect for his originality of
thought, that these diseases prevented
sudden death. In gastritis, the patient
naturally refrained from eating, and de-
manded copious draughts of cold water,
treatment which the most skillful sur
geon found to be the best. In rheuma-
tism the acute pain demanded rest, and
rest was found to be just the thing need
ed, for the auricular symptoms proved
that heart disease was the real enemy,
and muscular exertion was the most ia
tai thing for affections of the heart. So
with other diseases. -WashingtOn Post,
Dec. 81.
SANITARY HYGIENE AND CONSUME
TIoN.-After taking into account all the
influence of heredity, which is made
much of in treating of the causes of
phthisis, insufficient nourishment is re-
sponsible alike, in most instances, for
the deposit of tubercle and Inflammation
to which it naturally gives rise. There
are many men, who, by change in liv-
ing, render the tubercles already depos-
tied in their lungs harmless. Vitality
becomes SO high in its power that it
dominates these evil influences, and they
live out a fairly long life with enemies
in their lungs that are rendered power
less by the strength of the fluid that
IlgnJ Lucm we udEc SCcu COusunIpllO
cured again and again by the simple
process of building up the forces of vi.
tality through passive exercise in the
open air, and the supply of an abun-
dance of nutritious food and we have
no doubt that it can be prevented in
most instances by the same means. No
human body can long endure the
draught made upon it by cold climate
and by constant labor, unless it is well
fed, well clothed and well housed.
Somewhere deterioration will show itself,
and in New England-nay, all over the
kingdom of Great Britain it is the same,
where the people are worse fed than
here-the poverty of blood shows itself
in the deposit of tuberculous matter in
the lungs. If our physicians could only
be paid for preventing disease, and could
be permitted to prescribe for each fam
lily its way of living, there would be but
little difficulty in routing from its
stronghold that most fatal and persist
ent enemy of human life, which we call
consumption.-Dr. Holland, tn Serb
ner'S. .....
Blood Will Tell.