Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-12
CARE OF THE HEALTH.

CARE OF THE HEALTH.
DR.. LAMBERT says that cranberries,
with their malic and citric acid, are
good for those living in malarious
places. Cranberry jelly he especially
recommends, as the seeds and skins ir-
ritate weak alimentary canal.
ONE of the best chest-protectors on a
cold, clustering day, when one is riding,
is newspaper folded so as to have three
or four thicknesses and placed over the
chest and buttoned under the overcoat,
cloak or sacque.
DRIED mullen leaves are said to be
an excellent remedy for catarrh. Dry
them first in the sun, then by the fire;
powder fine; put in clean clay pipe
and smoke, blowing the same through
the nostrils, but being careful not to
swallow into the lungs.
For PoIsoNs.-H any poison is swal-
lowed, drink instantly half glass of
cool water, with heaping teaspoonful
of common salt and ground mustard
stirred into it. This vomits as soon as
it reaches the stomach. But, for fear
some of the poison may remain, swal-
low the white of one or two eggs, or
drink a cup of strong coffee-these two
being antidotes for greater number of
poisons than any other dozen of articles
known, with the advantage of their be-
ing always on hand; if not, pint of
sweet oil, lamp oil, drippings, melted
butter or lard, are good substitutes, es-
pecially if they vomit quickly.
CAUSE OF WHOoPING COUGH.-A
paper recently read before the New
York Academy of Science. by DR.. h.
A. Mott, holds that much of the NOR
tally among children from whooping
cough is attributable to the prevalent
faulty belief that it will be much worse
for the child if the disease is broken up.
The disease is now known to be caused
by a fungoid growth, which begins un-
der the tongue, and spreads backward
to the throat and lungs, the spores re-
quiring from 9 to Is days to develop.
When the fungus enters the bronchial
tubes, most alarming complications
arise. 1t is, then, best to kill the fungus
in its earliest stage; there would then sell
dom be any trouble from bronchitis,
cholera infantum, or cerebral difficult
ties. Quinine, just after coughing spell,
and before retiring for the night, is the
best remedy.
For WEAK EYEs.-A simple remedy
for weak or sore eyes is recommended,
as follows: Get ive-cent cake of elder
flowers at the druggists, and steep in
one gill of soft water. 1t must be
stepped in bright tin or earthenware !;
strain nicely, and then add three drops
of laudanum; bottle it tight and keep
in a cool place; then use it as a wash,
letting some of it get in the eyes. Fol-
low this, and relief is certain. If the
eyes are painful or much sore, make
small, soft congresses, wet in the mix
ture, and bind over the eyes at night.
If the eyes are badly inflamed use it
very freely; and tea made of elder
flowers, and drunk, will help cleanse the
blood. Pure rock salt and water will
strengthen your weak eyes if you battle
them in it. l would earnestly advise
you to avoid mixtures or washes con-
tanning mineral or other pOisons.-Phu-
sician.
FOOD FOR FAT PEOPLE.-If any read
er is growing too fat for comfort, he
may, possibly, find the following sug-
gestions valuable: There are three
classes of food, the oils, sweets and
starches, the special office of which is
to support the animal heat and produce
fat, having little or no influence in pro-
noting strength of muscle or endurance.
If the fat, therefore, would use less fat
and more of lean meats, fish and fowl,
less of fine flour and more of the whole
products of the grains - except the
hulls-less of the sweets, particularly
in warm weather, and more of the fruit
acids in mild form, as in the apple,
sleep less, be less INDECENT and labor
more in the open air, the fat would dis
appear, to a certain extent at least, with
no loss of real health. In
food we have almost a perfect con-
troll of this matter, far better than we
can have in the use of drugs. If we
have too much fat and too little muscle,
we have simply to use less of the fat
forming elements and more of the mus
Gle food, such as lean meats, fish and
fowl, and the darker portions of the
grains, etc., with peas and beans.-NeI-
ical Journal.
RULES FOR WINTER.-Never lean
with the back upon any thing that is
cold Never bepin a tourney until the