Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-12-29
THE FAMILY DOCTOR,

The following is recommended for
infiamed eyes: Borax, half dram;
camphor water, three ounces. The
above simple prescription is in common
use by the highest medical authorities.
It makes a wash unexoelled for the
treatment of inflammation of the ewes.
In using it, lean the head back and drop
three drops in the corner of each, and
then open tue eyes and let it work in.
Use it as often as the eyes feel badly.
"FooD and Health" recommends, az
an antidote against infection lin small.
pox, scarlet fever and diphtheria) the
fumes of boiling malt vinegar. 1t is
claimed that ''they dispel infectious par
ticles rapidly and kill their viruience,
particularly if used in time. Where
these fumes are used windows and doors
should be closed and not opened for
about twenty minutes. After this time
the fresh air can be freely omitted.
When these fumes are used repeatedly
disease will assuredly be kept OF.
THERE is no law in this country to
prevent the consumption of hot bread
but the law of common sense, and I'M
fortunately that is a dead letter as a
governing principle in the lives of q
great many people. That hot bread in
nine cases out of ten will produce dys-
pepsia is no newly discovered fact, and
especially is this terrible result sure to
follow persistent indulgence on the part
of those whose pursuits are quiet, in
doors and sedentary. And yet the re-
formers, or those who call themselves
such, the men and women who work
themselves into white heat over the sale
of glass of cider, will go Oh year after
year, not only making no cutlery against
this pernicious Indulgence, but actually
filling themselves up day by day with
the hot and poisonous gases of the oven.
This servant of the housewife can be
made as terrible stomach DESTROYER as
the distillery, and the sworn foes of the
latter are apt to be its best patrons.
Dyspepsia paints the nose and sours the
temper as surely as dram drinking. and
many sufferers from the former. though
by their own willful acts, inveigh the
most loudly against the latter A well
defined case OF lim-jams is the climax to
course of iptemperance, and warns the
victim that his alternative is death or
immediate reformation. But the dys-
pepsia that hot bread, mince pie and
kindred abonlination cause has no sud-
den warnings. The man who uses them
goes on making himself and those
around him wretched, and refuses to
acknowledge that he is q sinner above
those whose lighter faults he fercely
condemns.
A BABY is very tender thing, people
say, but most of them are very far from
knowing how tender. Imagine how
nereous you are in certain states-when
recovering from illness, say, when the
fall of q book or the slam of door
makes you culver and feel faint, as il
some one gave you blow. A puff of
wind will set it gasping, its little breath
blown quite away. A noise will make it
shiver a change of summer air makes
it turn death cold. A baby is the most
nervous of beings, and the tortures it
suffers in going to sleep and being
awakened by careless sounds when
dropping off are only comparable to
the same experience of an older person
during the acute nervous headache.
Young babies ought to pass the first
months of their lives in the country, for
its stiffness no less than its fresh air.
But where silence is not to be CON-
manded, baby may be soothed by fold
ing soft napkin, wet in warmish water,
lightly over the top of It's head, eyes
and ears. IT is the best way to put
nervous babies to sleep. 1t has been
tried hundreds of times with child so
irritable that paregoric and soothing
strip only made it wide awake. A fine
towel would be wet and laid over its
head, the ends twisted little until it
made q sort of skull cap, and, though
baby sometimes fought against being
blindfolded in this way, FIVE minutes
usually sent him off into deep and bliss
full slumber. The compress cooled the
little feverish brain, deadened sound in
his ears, and shut out everything that
took his attention, so that sleep caught
him unawares. Teething babies find
this very comfortable, for their heads
are always Lo and there is feyered beat
ing in the al les each side.