Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-12-01
THE HOME DOCTOR.
COLDS AND FEVER.

COLDS AND FEVER.
DO not forget that the old adage,
"Stuff cold and starve fever" means
that if you do stuff cold you will have
to starve fever. Tannerism is good for
o cold. Oranges are good for fever
DR.. Foote'S Health Monthly.
INFLAMED EYES.
The following is recommended for in
hamedeye Borax, half dram; camphor
water, three ounces. The above simple
prescription Is in common use by the
highest medical authorities. 1t makes a
wash unexcelled for the treatment OF in
flamnlation of the eyes. In using it, lean
the head back and drop three drops In
the corner of each, and then open the
eyes and let it work in. Use it as often
as the eyes feel badly.
CHILBLAINS.
Chi blains usually indicate low state
of the system and need of hearty food
and tones, such as iron or quinine. A
local application of thick paste COM
posed OF slack lime, moistened with a
very little water and common oil, is re-
commended as good remedy. For
chapped hands, another of the unpleas-
ant Accomplishments of cold weather,
and, with some people, apt to be not
only disagreeable, but positively painful,
the best remedy is glycerine, to be put
on at night on retiring, and over that a
pair of old gloves, to be kept on all night.
CURING SICK HEADACHE.
A Vermont correspondent writes that
after suffering from sick headache for
twenty years, with frequent attacks of
diphtheria, quinsy and erysipelas, she
has discovered the cause of all her trou-
bles. Eight months abstinence from
meat has cured her of dyspepsia and all
the ailments she has suffered from, and
her health is better than it has been for
many years. On diet of vegetables
and cereals. with fish and eggs occasion
ally, she is we'll and strong. Happy are
they who find out their limitations, ply
steal, intellectual and spiritual, and do
not ruin health and happiness in vain
endeavor to digest something beyond
their powers.
REGARDING DIGESTION.
An English popular maxim says: ''Af-
ter dinner sit awhile; after dinner walk
a mile" The two eminent professors,
Claude Bernard and Robin, once made
an experiment on the point whether it is
repose or move about. Two dogs of the
same race and strength were fed on the
same kind of food, and one was allowed
to rest, while the other was made to move
about. Then after lapse an hour the
two dogs were killed. The one which
had been allowed to repose was found
to have finished his digestion, while the
one that had been kept in motion had
only half-digested his food.
sCIATICA AND NEURALGIA.
DR.. Ebrard, of Mines, states that he
has for many years treated all his cases
of sciatica and neuralgia pains with
an lmprovised apparatus, consisting
merely of hat-iron and vinegar, two
things that will be found in every house
The iron is heated until sufficiently hot
to vaporize the vinegar, and is then
covered with some wooden fabric, which
is moistened with vinegar, and the appa
ratus is applied at once to the pa1nfu-
spot. The application may be repeated
two or three times day. DR.. Ebrard
states that, as a rule, the pain disap
pears in twenty-four hours, and recovery
ensues at once.
USE PLENTY OF SOAP.
It is worth while for common people
to know that so, 900 typhus germs viii
thrive IN the circumference Of a pin-heaG
or a visible globule. 1t is worth while
for them to note that these germs may
be desiccated and be borne, like thistle
seeds, everywhere, and, like demoniacal
possessions, may jump noiselessly down
any throat. But there are certain things
spores cannot stand, according to the
latest ascertained results of science
Soap chemically poisons them. For re
dempt1on fly to hot water and soap, W
who live III danger of malarial poisoning
Hot water is sanitary. Soap is more
sanitary. Fight typhus, smallpox, vel
low fever and ague with soap. Soap is
board of health.
A NEW WAY TO TREAT DRHTHERL.
Quite discovery in the treatment OF
diphthefia has been made recently. A
young man whose arm had been ampu
tated was attacked by diphtheria before
healing took place; and instead of the
matter incident to that disease being de-
posted in the throat, the greater por
ton appeared in the wounded arm, and
the diphtheria was very Light and easily
and managed. DIR. Davis profted by this
ia his next case of dphtheria blistereG
his patients breast, and on this bistereo
part the chief deposits appeared This
was also an easy case of the disease
The theory is that diphtheria usually
appears in the throat because Of the
thinness of the lining of the throat
| Hanoo whom tho hliotar braa he tho CHI,
upon the other part Of the body the
disease appears there.
Court Stories.
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