The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-09
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

DR.. SAUFILEBEN claimed the following
prescription as an antidote for carbolic
acid: Dilute sulphuric acid, 10 grammes;
muc. of gum arabic, 200 grammes SIM
pie syrup, 80 grammes mix. Give a
table.sp oonful every hour
OINTMENT FOR CHAPPED HANDS.
Melt one ounce Of spermaceh and one
half drachm Of white wax In one ounce
Of Oil Of sweet almonds, then add one-haH
ounce Of pure glycerine and stir until
cold. Scent, if you please, with what
ever perfume liked. This IS excellent
for chapped hands Or lips, For the
hands apply at night, and draw on pair
Of old kids to prevent soiling bed-cloth-
ing.
COFFEE AND EGGs FOR SICK PERSONS.
"A sick person, wanting nourishment
and having lost appetite, can often be
sustained on the following, when moth
ing else can be taken :. Make a strong
cup Of coffee, adding boiling milk. as
usual, only sweetening rather more;
take an egg, beat the yelk and white to-
gether thoroughly boil the coffee, milk
and sugar together, and pour it over the
beaten egg in the cup you are going to
serve it IN. This simple recipe is used
frequently in hospital practice
PROF. o. S. FOWLER, the great phren-
ologist, states that bile in the stomach
is dissoluble in water just as hot asst
can be swallowed. A pint Of hot water
slipped slowly, say for three quarters to
an hour and half, after which the pa-
tent is to go to bed and cover up warm.
will cure biiousness repeat a few times
if necessary. The bilious fever and
chills are cured in this way, by the ad
dition Of a cloth dipped in hot water and
laid on the stomach the patient to get
into bed, cover up well, and stay there.
MANY people suffer from chronic indi-
gestion, from the mere fact that, having
first and foremost produced the dyspep-
sia by overlooking the stomach, or by
other errors in diet, they give it no rest;
they keep on worrying it to get well
the very medicines they keep pouring
into it keep up the irritation in proba-
bly, five cases out of ten. In these cases
[ am convinced that two or three hours
complete rest to the stomach every day
from both meat and medicine would
soon induce healthy hunger. Those
who have this organ in good working OF
der would do well to remember that the
time when every particle of food has left
the stomach is not the time to put more
in. An hours rest, at least, is needed.
and if you give it this before each meal
it will be a willing servant, and will
never think Of suggesting the propriety
Of a sherry and bitters before you sit
down to dinner; and remember, will
ing servant makes o glad master, and q
gOOd-temDered one to boot.
The FooD We TAKE. An ordinary
meal, says an authority, is generally
composed Of five ingredients animal or
maeg geneas a ahy or sweet wee food
taken into the system by the blood YES
sells. For persons, and especially for
workingmen, in this climate, meats are
the most easily digested, and at the
same time are the most nourishing food.
Triple is the easiest and pork the hard
est to digest. Among vegetables rice
and boiled cabbage are the extremes.
Anything that is fried in fat is extremely
indigestible Milk contains the five in
gradients referred to above. so is really
an-suficient. Mothers make great
mistake in trying to induce infants I'm
der two years Of age to eat starchy food,
for there is no alkaline fluid in the
stomach Of an infant by means of which
the starch can be changed to sugar, and
SO infused into the system. It has been
estimated that q man working in the
open air daily needs fifteen ounces Of
meat, eighteen Of bread, three and q
half Of butter or fat, and ffty-one OF
water. Tea and coffee are nourishing.
An excess of starchy food is to be care
fully avoided Men who handle lead
ought to abstain from alcohol, for, if too
much is taken, the kidneys, which
throw off the poison Of the lead, are
likely to become diseased.