Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-10-18
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

70 CURE chilblains, slice raw potatoes
with the skins on, and sprinkle over
them little salt, and, as soon as the
liquid therefrom settles in the bottom of
the dish, wash with it the chilblains.
One application is all that is necessary.
As EVERY particle of food must be act
ed upon by the gastric juice, or some Of
it will be troublesome afterward, it
stands to reason that the finer food is
cut, chewed, masticated, the more easily
and perfectly will it dissolve or be d.
gested. Meats. vegetables, any food
masticated as fine as small shot, will
certainly be digested far more easily and
very much sooner than if it goes down
in Jumps as large as buckshot, or chest
nuts or walnuts. Masticate the food
fine in the mouth, and mix it well there
with saliva.
APPLES AS FOoD.-A raw, mellow
apple is digested in an hour and half,
while boiled cabbage requires five hours.
The most healthy dessert that can be
placed on the table is baked apple. If
eaten frequently at breakfast with coarse
bread and butter, without meat or flesh
of any kind, it has an admirable effect
upon the general system, often remov-
ing constipation, correcting acidities
and cooling off febrile conditions more
effectually than the most approved med
icines. If families could be induced TO
substitute them for pies, cakes and
sweetmeats, with which their children
are frequently stuffed, there would be a
diminution in the total sum of doctors
bills in single year sufficient to lay in
stock of this delicious fruit for the
whole seasons use.
To ALWAYS have good appetite
Never eat when not hungry never eat
rich food; never eat much never eat
hearth of rich or very nourishing food
at tea time nothing after. Better still,
omit that meal when there is no special
desire for food, fasting while sick till
the appetite returns. 10 have an appe-
tite at dinner-Do not fully satisfy the
appetite in the morning. To have an
appetite in the morning, take a igh,
supper or nOne-nothing later. To avoid
vomiting or a furred tongue, eat sparing.
ly of wholesome. plain food. Plain,
simple food is not only easy of digestion
but actually contains more nourishmeni
than the complicated dishes, the rich
and concentrated foods such as pastry
and highly seasoned dishes.
ONIONS IN CoNsUMpT1oN.-Dr Pierce
physician of the Plymouth public dis
pensary, recommends the following:
have, in former paper, mentioned the
frequent desire of phthisical patients fol
onions and salt and smoked fish. Oh
those who asked, forty had a great de.
sire for onions, eight had not SO much
desire; twenty-six desired pickles and
vinegar, while four did not. I cannot
avoid again remarking on the frequency
with which onions are debarred youne
and delicate people and phthisieal pa
tents. It is D continually recurring ex
perience with me to hear young people
say how great is their desire for onions
which are often preferred raw, eaten will
a little salt, and it is rare that l have
ever heard Of an onion disagreeing will
them. The marked passion for specia
food, such as that which phthisical pa
tients have for onions, puts us on tn.
right path for future knowledge.