Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-10-27
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

COLD OR HoARSENEsS. A correspon-
dent assures us that the following is an
| infalllble cure for cold and hoarseness
Boil two ounces of flaxseed in one quart
OF water, strain, and then add two
ounces of rock candy, half pint of
sirup or honey, and the Juice of three
lemons mix and boil them together.
Let ii then cool, and bottle for use.
Take one cuplul before going to Bad
the hotter You drink it the better.
WHooPING CoUGH.-On an extended
trial the author, DIR. Gaspar Griswold,
of this city, finds carbolic acid in
toh0oping cough, in doses of one-fourth
ininim to child of six months, one-half
minim for one of year, and one minim
for one of two years and upward, to be
the best remedy. "The whoop goes
the vomiting ceases the paroxysms are
modified In intensity and frequency.
| This result he believes to "arise from
similar action to that of creosote on the
motor fibers of the vagus to the stomach
and from lowering of the vitality of
the specific germ of whooping cough dis
ease. y Scientific american.
APPLES AS FooD.-A raw, mellow ap
pie is digested in az hour and half.
while boiled cabbage requires five hours.
The most healthy dessert that can be
placed on 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
etfectually THAI the most approved
medicines. If families could be inauced
to substitute them for pies, cakes and
sweetmeats, with which then children
are frequently stuffed, there wo III be
a dimInution IN the total sum of doctors
bills IN single year sufficient to Law in
stock OF this delicious fruit for the
whole seasons use.
LET THERE BE LIGHT. "A dark house
is always unhealthy; always an ill-aired
house. Want OF light stops growth,
and promotes serofula, ricketts,, etc,
among the children. People lose their
health III dark house, and if tbey get
Ill they cannot get well in it. DR.. Ed
wards, of Paris, says the action of light
tends to develop the different parts of
the body in Just that proportion which
characterizes the species, and that III
warm climates the exposure of the
whole surface of the body to the action
OF the light will be very favorable 10 the
regular conformation of the body.
Humboldt confirms this in the account of
his voyage to the equinoctial regions.
He says 'both men and women-whose
bodies are constantly Injured to the effect
of light-are very muscular and possess
deshy and rounded FORMS"
THE CURE FOR CHOLERA INFANTUM.
1t has been demonstrated that cholera
intantum is so checked by the tonic eff
feet Of sudden removal to fresh sea air
that the sick child almost invariably
recovers. The Seashore Horne of this
city begs the physician connected with
the dispensary to send for its hospitality
the children most IN danger they
do SO. So favorable is the effect of the
prompt change to their quarters at Win
throp, that, last year, of 1874
sick children received. only one
died Of cholera ufantum. One
other child died from organic disease of
the brain. One hundred and eighty
seven were discharged well, and -four re-
lieved. The results in New York of the
seashore treatment are as favorable.
The terrible mortality there this summer
is due to the long protracted debility.
resulting from the long period of warm
weather. But there, as here, the re-
moval Of the children to the sea air has
checked the mortality. Boston paper.