Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-20
THE HOME DOCTOR.
CHILDREN s DIARRHRA.


DR.. M. j. Guerin of France advises
the use of charcoal in cases of children's
diarrhea. He recommends it with each
meal, in milk or half a teaspoonful of
ly-powdered, farina-like bakers char
coal, though probably any charcoal to
be had of druggists for medicinal pur
poses will serve as well.-Dr. Foote's
Health Monthly.
THE VALUE OF RICE.
When the excellence of rice as a diet
is fully understood, it's use will be more
frequent and of daily occurrence in
every household. At this season of the
year especially, it may be properly
classed as superior to any of the cereals
which are IN such general use for morn
ing and middle meals. No other food is
so easy of digestion. -.-
TO PREVENT CONTRACTION.
Contagion is largely propagated by
means OF the clothing, and clothing is
best disinfected by heat. No form of
contag1on can Withstand dry heat of
0210. The clothing should be placed
IN box or closet maintained at that
temperature for perhaps an hour. Car
bolic acid will not destroy the. effect Of
vaccine virus but for the time being.
SANITARY ERRORS.
l. TO believe that the more hours
children are at their studies the faster
they learn. 2. To believe that the more
person eats the fatter and stronger he
will become. 3. To believe that il exer
else is good for one, it should be taken
at all hours and seasons, the more vio-
lent the better the result. 4. To mag
Inc that the smallest room in the house
is large enough to sleep in. 5. To eat
without appetite. 6. To eat a hearty
supper the last thing at night.
TARTARIC ACID IN DIPHTHERIA.
The topical use of tartaric acid in
d1phtherla has been successfully resorted
to by M. Vidal, who, III one of the for
e1gn medical Journals, remarks upon the
necessity OF thus making used OF topical
agents against the false membrane. as it
has great tendency to spread by sort
OF Instrumentation, comparable to what
occurs in certain cntaneous affections.
His formula is ten parts, by weight. CT
tartaric acid, fifteen of glycerine, and !
twenty-five of whitewater The acid acts
upon the false membrane, converting it
into gelatinous mass, and favors it's
expulsion.
AIR YOUR HOUSES.
The first number of Food and Health
contains the following advice, which all
housekeepers would do well to heed:
"We must have soon hot weather. and
want ventilated houses. Too many
houses are built up the back in America,
there are no through draughts; front and
back open and current set a going.
that's fresh air. Air stagnates, and cur
tains drawn, blinds down, carpets on
floors, doors closed, and one bit of a
window just opened; goodness, where's
the life to come from to breathe in so
many cubic inches even of oxygen
Now, then, in the morning let
your maids open the street door
for an hour, and set something airing,
some current into those stagnant air
layers, that stuff each other up, and can
neither move up nor down, nor in, nor
put. Ladies are faint, children droop,
babies die, men swear, and all for the
want Of little current of fresh air just
passing through the house. Look to it,
md open your house door the first thing
N the morning, and if you can set cur
rent going do it. ~