American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1879-06-28
CARE OF THE HEALTH

ADVICE FOR Hot WEATHER.-Keer
cool if you can; don't drink any thing
with alcoholic poison in it; eat sparing
ly of plain, simple food; keep a gooc
conscience; read your newspaper, ant
don't forget to pay for it.-Troy IN. y,
| Times.
SPRAINs AND BRUIsEs.-Parsnipt tops
beaten to pulp and wetted with vine
gar are a good application; also bran
or clay, or brown paper, made wet with
vinegar. But for sprains or bruises the
best direction that can be given is to
wrap the part with a soft cloth in many
folds, and keep it constantly wet with
water as warm as the patient can bear
it. This treatment should be kept up
for an hour or two at time.
BLIsTERs.-If you wish a blister to
heal quickly, be careful not to remove
the skin. On infants this should be OBJ
served. The first dressing should be
lily or cabbage leaves coddled in boil
ing water. Then a salve made thus
one part wax, one part lard, one part
turpentine from the pine-tree; melt and
strain. Resin is sometimes used instead
of turpentine. This makes basilicon.
If the part blistered be in situation apt
to be rubbed, cover with cotton bats, as
in the case of burn, especially if the
patient be an infant.
SIMPLE TREATMENT FOR SCIATICA.-
DIR. Ebrard of Mines states that he has
for many years treated all his cases of
sciatica and neuralgia pains with an
improvised electric apparatus, consist
ing merely of fat-iron and vinegar,
two things that will be found in every
house. The iron is heated until suffi-
GENTLY hot to vaporize the vinegar, and
is then covered with some wooden fab
ric, which is moistened with vinegar,
and the apparatus is applied at once to
the painful spot The application may
be repeated two or three times day.
As rule, the pain disappears in "a
hours, and recovery ensues at once.
BoILs.-These painful and trouble
some things may sometimes be prevent
ed by wetting stick of caustic at one
end and making q circle round the in
famed part. If it sDiH rise, apply warm
fiax-seed or mush and fat poultices, and
as soon as it is soft open with a lancet
or dress with basilicon. If the boil is
hard tumor with hard speck in the
middle, which, when opened, shows 3
greenish core, it is q carbuncle, and
should have blister put entirely over
it. In fact, all boils which are too slow
to rise are best treated by being blister
ed. which is less painful than would be
supposed.
EFFECTS OF HIGH LIv1NG.-A cor
respondent of the London Builder,
while acknowledging the services of that
journal in the cause of sanitary reform,
contends that "the health of stable
keepers. of sewer explorers, the exemp-
ton of the inhabitants of the Ghetto
during the cholera in Rome" proves,
in his opinion, that the cause of cpl
denies lies more in the mistreatment of
human life than in all external mischief
put together, and attributes great deal
Of the illness among the wealthier
classes to their over-eating and drink
ing, just as, on the other hand, much
of that among the poorest is the fruit of
privation. "People of means live to
the top every day; consequently there
is no reserve force, for this has been all
consumed in endeavoring to surmount
the weight of difficulties daily present
ed" London men-servants have four
and sometimes five meals-three of
meat-daily. and the hospital doctors
say that their blood is 80 heated by high
living that they are very difficult patients
to deal with.
PETROLEUM AS REMEDY FOR Con-
sUMPTION.-The scenes which are daily
witnessed at the oil works at Point Breeze,
to which numbers of consumptives re-
sort in order to inhale the vapors from
nal application, have their counterpart
over in France. A Government report,
recently published in the Bulletin de
InerapeutiQue, narrates that refiner of
petroleum was prohibited by Project
from distributing petroleum in medic
inal doses. Some of the sufferers ap-
pealed, and the Government ordered
DR.. Blache, prominent medical prac-
titioner, to institute an investigation as
to the utility of petroleum in affections
of the chest. Native petroleum from
Pennsylvania and Virginia was expert
mented with. DR.. Blache, in his report,
stated that he found that, in chronic
bronchitis with abundant expectoration,
it rapidly diminished the amount of the
secretion and the paroxysms of cough
ing; while in simple bronchitis rapid
was obtained. Its en-
ployment in phthisis was continued for
too short a time to warrant any opinion
its efficiency. beyond that it
is diminishing the expectoration, which
also lost its purulent character. DIR.
Blache says that the petroleum is pop
ularly taken in doses of teaspoonful
before each meal, and that after the
first day any nausea which it excites in
most persons disappears. Philadelt hia
Paper.