The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1881-12-14
TIE FAMILY DOCTOR.

CONSTITUTION may be removed by
drinking a tumbler of cold water on
rising In the morning.
To OBTAIN a good nights sleep, sponge
the entire length of the spine with hot
water for ten or fifteen minutes.
For chapped skin, take of oxide OF
zinc, one dram; lard, two ounces. It is
also good for any kind Of sores.
FoR NEURALGIA. Take c good hand
full of the common field or Canada this
tie, pour two quarts of boiling water on,
and boil down to three pints take a
wineglassful three times q day before
meals.
TIE following Is recommended as q
cure for neuralgia headache Squeeze
the Juice of lemon into q small cup of
strong coffee. This viii usually afford
immediate relief In neuralgia headache.
Tea ordinarily increases neuralgia pain,
and ought not to be used by persons
affected with it.
To CUREcorns, says DR.. Foote's Health
Nor THY, take one measure Of coal or
gas tar, one of saltpeter, and one of
brown sugar mix well. Take q piece
of an old Kid glove and spread 8 plaster
on it the size of the corn and apply to
the part affected bind on and leave two
or three days and then remove, and the
corn will come with it.
EACH inhalation of pure air is returned
loGied with poison 100 grains of it
added to the atmosphere of bedroom
every hour, or 1900 grains during the
night. Unless that poison-laden atmos-
phere is diluted or removed by a con
slant current of air passing through the
rooms, the blood becomes impure, then
circulRtes sluggishly, accommodating and
pressing on the brain, causing frightful
dreams.
INGRowING Toe NAI1s.-To cure in
growing toe nails, one authority says,
put a small piece OF tallow In a spoon,
heat it until it becomes very het, and
pour on the granulations. Pain and ten
derness are relieved at once, and in few
days the granulations are all gone. the
diseased parts dry and grow destitute of
all feeling, and the edge of the nail ex-
p 81 SO as to admit OF being pared away
w-s1out any inconvenience.
Bad cooking Is responsible for large
All unit of Il-heslth, and so is rapid
e. *. Few persons chew their food
Pe fectly fine before swallowing it.
fooy have, so they think, not time to
e@s Is they should, and SO they swallow
something and go about their work. A
" ter says Three digestions are known
Is, plysi0logi sts-mouth digestion, stOm-
*. digestion, bowel digestion. To
Ia : the frat complete, the food should
L. ground fine by the teeth and mixed
E-fI the saliva and nothing else then,
r,Li not till then, it is ready to be in
ho 81 IL,
& ugh the second process. The stom-
-. 10 a patient long-sufering organ,
boz It cannot always do the work of the
ts-fh snd its own too, and when, from
Rraer inability TO meet the unjust de-
'nands forced ON it, dyspepsia with all
81 annoying train takes possession, the
J. bless victim can only mourn over his
g. ,isr haste and repent of his omissions
= ~ it may be too late to repair them.
l.dien especially need to be instructed
.O the necessity of thorough masti-
- IN of their food, and the habit |
& acd IN them of chewing it fine and !
I. ~ ample time to eat.
Sc IL an old German adage that "more |
} pie Zig their own graves with their |
than with spades, and verify it |
v iii seem so, if we could look at the /
j. and equity individuals, creeping
though life in pain and wretehedness.
Vt 1t is impossible TO induce even think
/ people to control their appetites.
a. / to eat such things and at such times
e nature shows them is necessary and
light. DR.. Hall declares unheSitatingly
that it is wrong to eat without an appe-
lite for it shows that there is NO gastric
nee In the stomach, and that nature
does not need food, and not needing it,
tusre being no Euid to receive and act
lpon it, it remains there only to purify,
tie very thought of which should be
Efficient to deter any man from eating
without an appetite to the remainder of
MS life. If tonic Is taken to whet the
'npetlte, 1t Is a mistaken course, for its
N Y result is to cause one to eat when
slre2dy an amount has been eaten be-
cad what the gastric Juice is able to
prepare. The object to be obtained Is a
arEe supply Of gastric juice; whatever
alIs to accomplish that essential object,
ails to have any efficacy toward the cure {
f dyspeptic diseases. The formation Of
gastric juice IS directly proportional to I
he wear and tear of the sYB- {
EN-, which it is to be the means
# supplying, and this wear and tear {
an only take place as the result of
xercise The efficient remedy for dys-
optics is work-out-doOr work-beneh-
M and successful in direct proportion
a It IS agreeable, interesting and profit {
ale.