The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-06-08
The Lorristown Gazette.
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.


If we add pint of pure water to a
pint of impure water, we dilute the i'm
pure water, and it is made that much
the more pure. IF we add dozen pints
of pure water to it, we dilute it still
more, and bring it nearer purity yet;
but if we add certain number more,
instead of the impurity becoming dl-
luted, it is absolutely destroyed, and Or.
Letherby, of London, says that the
water is perfectly pure. It is the same
way with impure air. A certain quantity
of pure air added to it, dilutes the bad
air and makes it less noxiOus, while II a
certain quantity more IS added, the I'M
purity of the air Is destroyed, as Is the
case with impure water. Any person
can judge of this from the good effect OF
much pure air upon bad air.
THE following hints concerning the use
of tea may prove useful: 1. Whosoever
uses tea should do so in great mOdera-
ton. 2. 1t should form part of the
meal, but never be taken before eating,
between meals, or on an empty stomach,
as it Is too frequently done. 3. The
best time to take tea Is after hearty
meal. l. Those who suffer with weak
Those who are troubled with inability to
sleep nights should not use tea, or, if they
do, take it III the morning 6. Brain
workers should never goad on their
brains to OycrwOTk on the stimulus of
tea. z. Children and the young should
never use tea. 8. The oyerworked and
underfed should never use tea. 9. Tea
should never be drunk very strong. 10.
If hotter with acpci1aro I,la Mill on1
sugar. IL It's use should at once be
abandoned when harm comes from it.
y. Multitudes of diseases come from
the excessive use of tea, and for this
reason those who cannot use it without
going to excess should not use it at all.
DIR. DAY says III late lecture What
ever be the plan of treatment decided
upon rest Is the first principle to incul-
cate in very severe headache. Rest,
which the busy man and anxious mother
cannot obtain so long as they can man
age to keep about, is one of the first
remedies for every headache, and we
should never cease to enforce it. The
BRAIN. when excited, as much needs
quiet and repOse as a fractured limb or
an intiumed eye it is obvious that the
chances of shortening the seizure and
arresting the PAIN Will depend on our
power to have this carried out actually.
1t is a practical lesson to keep steadily
In view In that there may lurk behind a
simple headache some lesion of unknown
magnitude, which may remain stationa-
~ If qUietude can be maintained. There
Is a point worth attending to In the
treatment of all headaches It is that
the head be elevated at night, and the
s,
sinks into it and becomes hot, which,
with some people, is enough to provoke
m attack in the morning if sleep has
been long and heavy.
EXCEPT a Turkish bath, nothing is
more eAicacioUs in the sore throat of
children or adults than a wet compress
to the throat Double a towel two or
three times, 50 as to make a pad that
viii fiji snugly under the chin and over
the throat, and let it extend around
from ear to ear. Then bind a thickly-
folded towel over the wet pad, having
the towel wide enough to overlap the
edges Of the pad 1t is best to pass this |
outer covering over the head, and. not |
around the neck after the style of era
vat, the object being to exclude the air |
so US to keep up perspiration over the |
diseased parts. But II the soreness Is |
low down on the throat, the outside |
towel may be passed around the neck
yet, when this IS done, it is much more
difficult to exclude the air. The wet
compress may be put on cold or warm
bat, when cold, it soon becomes warm
from tire heat Of the skin, and is really
e warm vapor bath. When the pad is
..>uG off, the throat should be washed in
-olj water to close the pores, and then
w,I dried with d towel. This is appi-
.ahIe to Group and to all kinds of sore
-hroats, and viii be found more cleanly
tni cqn lily as efficient as grandmother
stocking filed with ashes.