The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1879-12-27
THE HOME DOCTOR.
TO RELIEVE cATARRH.

TO RELIEVE CATARRH.
A writer in an exchange gives the
following eight hints for relieving
catarrh:
lnhale through the nostrils a strong
solution of salt and water. would add
wise as strong a solution as an ounce to
the pint, though some will tolerate
more.
But it is mistake to suppose that
salt water will cure all cases of catarrh.
When the condition is one of chron-
ic congestion simply, with acrid secre-
ton, it may be sufficient; but in the
worst forms, where there is a deep
seated Inflammation with liberation,
more powerful astringent, as well as
stimulant, and even escharotic solutions
are requisite to effect cure.
In this strength it is not painful, but
acts as tonic aud astringent, relieving
congestion, and preventing the endos-
nose effect which would accompany
the use of pure water or weaker solu-
tons.
Inhale the smoke from pine tar. Get
pint or more of pure pine tar mot the
OLD from ship chandler; heat poker
red-hot, and stir the tar with it; thick
smoke will rise.
Hold your head over it, keep your
mouth shut, and inhale through the
nostrils; heat the poker three or four
times, until the room is filed with
smoke, shut doors and windows, and
remain in the room as long as pos sible
II is good plan to smoke mullen in
ones bedroom just before retiring;
after smoking open window from the
top; the smoke slowly escapes, but
enough remains to be of some benefit.
Mullen leaves should be thoroughly
dried and then used the same as tobac-
co in a pipe.
The smoke should be pressed to the
back of the mouth and exhaled through
the nose; once or twice week will
suffice, and should be persevered in.
If properly cured there will not be an
acrid emulation. A little piece of
sponge in the bowl of the pipe will pre-
vent the juice from passing into the
mouth.
Mullen will be stronger gathered be-
fore the frost INJURIES it, but will answer
even if dug from under the snow. Ii
will also be found an excellent remedy
for cold in the head.
A HINT TO ooNsUMPTIvEs.
A correspondent of the Les Moaades
calls attention to the fact that butchers,
though they may be pale and thin when
they enter on the business, quickly gain
freshness of color, stoutness and a gener-
ally comfortable look. 1t is pure fiction,
of course, that they put aside the best
portions of the meat for themselves. and
it is known fact that most of them lose
appetite. The correspondent attributes
their general well being to assimilation,
through their respiratory passages, of
nutritive juices of the meat volatiized
in the air-a kind of nutrition by etiu-
sion. If this be really fact, it is argu-
ment that young people, suffering from
deficient or impure blood, and especi
ally children of a weak or Emphatic
constitution, might be subjected with
advantage to hygiene treatment based
upon it. A well-known French ply
stefan commends the idea, and offers
the following plan for the treatment of
consumptive persons, IN place ofsending
them off to distant places with reputedly
mild climates: In ventilated,
sunlit and sheltered room, with south
ern exposure, he would, by means of a
Monsseron brazier, the high moist heat
of which is salutary and favorable to
respiration, form for the patient an arti-
fetal climate, like that of Nice or Florida,
having all the advantages, without the
inconvenier ces, of the real climate. To
aid the antiseptic action of the warm,
moist air, rich in vapors, charged with
dissolved carbonic acid, he would place
IN one or more corners of the room an
open bottle of water saturated with sui
phurous acid. By this arrangement he
thinks the progress of the differentiation
would he arrested