The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-10-27
= FAMILY DOCTOR.

-. CURE sore throat pour a few drops
81 >Pl:t- Of yamphOr on lump of
Ug9r ard allow it to dissolve IN the
mouth evary boEr, The third and
e ulth Gy.e viii enable the patient to
,w.i.2V with ease. This, it is said, has
.Eyrrd the last Stages Of the disease.
Ir is recommended to treat infamed
amInds by smoking them with burning
v- oil or WOODEN cloth. Twenty minutes
.lH the smoke Of wool, it is said,
viii take the pain out Of the worst
wound, and, if repeated once or twice,
vii allgy the worst case of Inflammation
arising from a wound. This remedy Is
certainly very simple, and within the
reach Of every one.
An exchange says: "That painful
afiliction, a felon, can readily be pre-
vented by moistening the finger with the
tincture Of lobelia in the early stages Of
the attack. If allowed to progress too
far before the remedy is applied it will
have no effect. If it cannot be conyen-
iently obtained, rock salt pUlverized,
after being dried in an oven and mixed
with an equal part Of turpentine and
applied frequently, viii destroy felon IN
twenty-foT hours"
An old-fashioned remedy for a cold ;
4 warm "stew," getting into bed with
covering we'll tucked ID, hot bricks to
feet, and drinking sbundantly Of hot
teas until there is a dripping perspira-
tion, to be kept up an hour or two OF
more until the system Is relieved, and
then to cool of very gradually IN the
course of another hour, is derisively
styledau "Old woman's remedy;" but
for all that it viii break up any cold
taken within thirty-six hours it viii
promptly relieve many Of the most pain
lul forms Of sudden disease, with the
advantage Of being without danger,
gives no shock to the system, nor wastes
its strength.-HOlU to Live Iona.
NEVER eat till you have time to digest,
for digestion requires leisure; we can
not sssimilate our food while the func-
tiOnal energy of our system is engrOssed
by other occupations. After q hearty
feed, animals retire to a quiet hiding
place, aud the "after-dinner laziness, a
the plea Of our system for rest, should
admOnish US TO initiate their example.
The idea that exercise after dinner pro-
notes digestion Is a marvellous fallaCy.
Jules Virey settled that question by a
cruel but conclusive experiment. He
selected two ours of the same size, age
and general physique, made them keep
q fast-day and treated them the next
morning to . square meal Of potato chips
and cubes Of fat mutton, but as soon as
one of them had eaten his fill be made
the other stop, too, to make sure that
they had both consumed the same guam
tity. Dog No. 1 was then confined in q
comfortable kennel, while No. 2 had to
run after the doctors coach, not at a
breathless rate Of speed, but at a fair,
brisk trot for two hours and a half. As
soon as they got home, the cOaoh-dog
and his comrade were slain and dissected,
the kennel dog had completely digested
his meal, while the chips and cubes in
the coach-dog's stomach hadnOt changed
their form at all, the process Of assimil-
alton had not even begun. Railroad Ia
borers, who bolt their dinner during g
short interval Of hard work, might as
we'll pass their recess in a hammock ;
instead Of strengthening them, then
dinner viii only Oppress them, till 1t is
digested, together with their supper, III
the cool of the EVENING" L. OSIVGLd,
i7g Popular Science Monthly.