Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

OrluK1nS UumDier Oh cOlu wafer OF
rising in the morning.
To OBTAIN 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. 1t is
also good for any kind Of sores.
For NEURALaIA.-Take 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
wineglassful three times a day before
meals.
The following is recommended as
cure for neuralgia headache : Squeeze
the juice of lemon into small cup of
strong coffee. This will usually afford
immediate relief in neuralgia headache.
Tea ordinarily increases neuralgia pain,
and ought not to be used by persons
affected with it.
To CURE corns, says DR.. Foote's Health
Monthly, take one measure of coal or
gas tar, one of saItpeter, and one of
brown sugar; mix well. Take piece
of an old kid glove and spread a 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
loaded with poison; $50 grains Of it
added to the atmosphere of bedroom
every hour, or 1,2OO 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
circulates sluggishly, accommodating and
pressing on the brain, causing frightful
dreams.
IMPROVING Toe NAILs.-To cure in
growing toe nails, one authority says,
put small piece of tallow in a spoon,
heat it until it becomes very hot, 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-
posed so as to admit of being pared away
without any Inconvenience.
BAD cooking is responsible for large
amount of ill-health, and so is rapid
eating. Few persons chew their food
perfectly fine before swallowing it.
They have, so they think, not time to
eat as they should, and so they swallow
something and go about their work. A
writer says: Three digestions are known
to physiologists-mouth digestion, stom-
ach digestion, bowel digestion. To
make the first complete, the food should
be ground fine by the teeth and mixed
with the saliva and nothing else; then,
and not till then, it is ready to be in
troduced into the stomach, and go
through the second process. The stom-
ach is a patient, long-suffering organ,
bat it cannot always do the work Of the
teeth and its own too, and when, from
sheer inability to meet the unjust de-
mands forced on it, dyspepsia with all
its annoying train takes possession, the
hapless victim can only mourn over his
unwise haste and repent of his omissions
when it may be too late to repair them.
Children especially need to be instructed
as to the necessity of thorough masti-
cation of their food, and the habit
formed in them of chewing it fine and
thhHnS duplo tiuo W eat.
IT is an old German adage that "more
people dig their own graves with their
teeth than with spades" and verify it
would seem so, if we could look at the
immense number Of dyspeptics, rheu-
matte and equity individuals, creeping
through life in pain and wretchedness.
Yet it is impossible to induce even think
ing people to control their appetites,
and to eat such things and at such times
as nature shows them is necessary and
right. DR.. Hall declares unhesitatingly
that it is wrong to eat without an appe-
tite for it shows that there is no gastric
juice in the stomach, and that nature
does not need food, and not needing it,
there being no fluid to receive and act
upon it, it remains there only to purify,
the very thought Of which should be
sufficient to deter any man from eating
without an appetite to the remainder of
his life. If q tonic is taken to whet the
appetite, it is a mistaken course, for its
only result is to cause one to eat when
already an amount has been eaten be-
yond what the gastric juice is able to
prepare. The object to be obtained is a
large supply Of gastric juice whatever
fails to accomplish that essential object,
fails to have any efficacy toward the euro
of dyspeptic diseases. The formation of
gastric juice is directly proportional to
the wear and tear of the sys-
TEN, which it is to be the means
of supplying. and this wear and tear
can only take place as the result Of
exercise The efficient remedy for dys-
peptics is work-out-door workbench
cial and successful in direct proportion
as it is agreeable, interesting and profit