Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-01


TIE ewes of child under year old
should not be allowed to meet the blaze
of an unshaded light.
If we take the word of DR.. Cursch-
mann, consumption may be cured by
inhaling pure carbolc acid and oil OF
turpentine.
SIMPLE DRINK FOR DYsPEPTICs.-A
most palatable drink for weak stom-
ach is q pint of the best milk and pint
Of cold water, adding well-beaten egg,
with salt to suit
GET Your SLEEP. = Nothing gives
more mental and bodily vigor than sound
rest when properly applied. sleep Is
our great replenisher, and if we neglect
to take it naturally in childhood, all the
worse for us when we grow up. II we
go to bed early, we ripep It we SIT up
late, we decay and, sooner or later, we
contract disease called insomnia, al
lowing it to be permanently fixed upon
us, and then we decay, even In youth.
Late hours are shadows from the grave.
How TO CURE A CODA medical
journal tells how one man was cured OF
a cold: "He boiled a little NORWOOD
and horehound together, and drank
freely of the mixture before going to
bed. The next day he took five pills,
put one kind of plaster on his breast,
another under his arm, and still another
on his back. Upon advice from an ex-
perienced old lady he took all these of
with an oyster-knife in the afternoon,
and slapped on mustard-p laster IN
stead. Then he put some hot bricks on
his feet and went to bed. Next morn
ing another old lady came in with a
bottle of goose-oil, and gave him dose
of it on quill; and an aunt arrived
about the same time with q bundle OF
sweet fern, which she made into tea and
gave him every half-hour until noon, when
he took big dose of salts. After din
ner, his wife, who had seen a fine old
lady of great experience in doctoring,
gave him two pills of her own make,
about the size of walnut and of similar
shape, and two teaspoonfuls of home
made balsam to keep them down. Then
he took half-pint of hot rum, at the
suggestion of an old sea Captain visiting
in the next house, and steamed his legs
with an alcohol bath. At this crisis
two of his neighbors arrived, who saw
at once that his blood was out of order,
and gave him half-gallon of spearmint
tea and big dose of castor-oil. Before
going to bed he took eight of new kind
Of pills, wrapped about his neck fan
mel soaked in hot vinegar and salt, and
had feathers burned on shovel in his
room. He is now cured and full of
gratitude. :"
NASAL CATARRH.-We condense some
leading points from an excellent paper
on the subject, read by DIR. Bosworth
before the New York Academy of Medi-
cine: The nasal cavity and the pharynx
(the cavity of the mouth back Of the soft
palate) are alike covered with a mucous
membrane; are alike traversed by the
current of air in respiration; are alike
exposed to inflammation from changes
of temperature and from inbreathed
dust, and are alike without means Of
cleansing from hurtfur accumulations.
The mucous membrane keeps itself
moist and soft by its own peculiar Sc
erection. Its Inflammation is the source
of nasal catarrh. When infamed the
secretion is either increased or dimin-
ished. In the latter case we have "dry''
catarrh. In both cases the Inflammation
tends to become chronic-the liability
to "colds" constantly increasing, and
each new one helping toward the chronic
condition. In both cases-and this is
the worst fact about 1.-THE membrane
is thickened by the Inflammation, and
in time may become permanently SO, to
the extent of closing up the passages.
When the Inflammation causes an III
creased flow of mucus it may also cause
the white blood corpuscles to exude
from the blood vessels, and thus render
the mucus purulent or pus-like. This
finds exit into the pharynx, where it
either accumulates between its roof and
the palate, or falls into the throat. The
nasal passages becoming obstructed, the
patient is forced to breathe through his
mouth, whereby the disease is extended
to the larynx and toward the lungs. In
dry catarrh the thickened membrane
crowds upon the mucous glands and ar
rests their natural activity In this case
the mucus is thick, dries rapidly, and
forms tenacious crust, beneath which
the imprisoned secretions undergo de-
generation, and become fetid and often
sive. The disease should have the early
attention of physician. When the
membranes have become hypertrophied
(thickened) it is difficult reduce them
except by painful operations, and then
the result is not certain. In many cases
round masses of flesh develop far within
the nostrils, which wholly close up the
passages, and can be removed only by