Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-06
NUMBER 81.
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.
ovrR-Rrrr fruit produces diarrhea.

| OVEE- RIFE rltlt produces dlarrhea.
BmTous people should avoid pies,
cakes and all fancy dishes.
CooKING does not render diseased or
purifying meat wholesome.
A SHEET saturated with disinfectant
should be hung over the door OF the sick
chamber, to avert any fever poison
waited through the open door,
THFRE should be no direct eomrnuni-
cation betwixt fever patients and the
h Tseaold; only direct communication
b the nurses should he permitted.
il. BoUoHUT's experiments with pep
sue for destroying worms in the stomach
aud bowels have been continued with
extremely promising results. Even the
| tape worm succumhs 10 the digestive
action Of pepsine in large doses, while
the more highly organized tissues Of the
stomach arc unaffected.
Dir HAMMOND states that there are
very few, if any, cosmetics which do not
contain lead He also says that death
from lead poisoning by the use of cos
| nctlcs is by no means an uncommon
case. The Introduction of lead into the
| system produces various effects-colic,
| paralysis, prostitution of the nervous
system and insanity being the most
common results
Bone FeroS.-Of all painful things,
can there he any SO excruciatingly pain
ful as a bone felon? We know of none
TINT flesh IS heir to, and as this malady
Is quite frequent and the subject of
much earnest consideration, we give the
latest recipe Tor the cure As soon as
tho disease IS felt, put directly over the
spot fly blister about the size of your
thumb nail, and let it remain for six
hours, ut the expiration of which time.
directly under the surface Of the blister.
may be seen The felon, which can be in
stantly taken ont with the point of a
needle or lancet
How TO TREAT CoLD. When YOU
get chilly all over and away into your
bones, and hegin to sniffie and almost
struggle for yom breath, just begin in
time and your tribulatlon need not last
very long. Get some powdered burax
and snuff tho dry powder up your nos
trils. Get your cmnphor- bottle and
smell IT frequently; pour some ON your
handkerchief, and wipe your nose with
1t Whenever needed. Yournose will not
get sore, and yuu will soon wonder what
has become of yonr cold Begin this
heatment in the forenoon. and keep on
nj intervals until you go to bed. and
yuu wi sleep as well as you ever did
I'm inst telling you my experience, says
a correspondent
The practice Of eating snow and ice,
so common among school children, is a
fruitful cause of catarrh 1t is common
to 500 boys and girls devour snow bali
as though it were an apple, or an icicie
rs eagerly AS a bit of candy. The hard
palate winch forms the roof of the
month also forms the floor of the nos
trils, and ~ no thicker than pasteboard
The chilling effect Of snow and ice
brought freely in contact with this thin
partition, the upper covering of which is
sensitive secreting membrane, made
up almost wholly of fine blood vessels and
nerves, produces a congestion often sue
ceeded by chronic inflammation. As n
consequence, these snow and ice eating
| boys and girls almost always have /" cold
IN the head, and running noses. This
is the foundation and origin OF one of
tho most disagrccable, persistent and
! inculathle affections to which the people
! of tho North are silblect-nasal catarrh
| Catanli is said to lead TO consumption
| Whether this is SO or not the chilling
| Of the nasal membrane, part OF whose
function it is to warm the AR in its pass
age to the lungs, cannot but injure
those organs, particularly III people of
delicate constitution.