The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-09
HYGIENIC NOTES.
A BENEFICIAL BATH.


A doctor at Richmond says that if
people will take bath in hot whisky
and rock salt twice year they will never
catch cold or know the twinges of
rheumatism.
NOsE-BLEED.
Bleeding of the nose can be stopped
by vigorous action of the jaws, as if in
progress of mastication. In the case of a
child wad of paper should be placed in
the mouth and the child instructed to
chew hard. It is the motion of the jaw
that stops the flow of blood.
COLD BATH.
A cold bath as tonic can be safely
used "all the year round by those
who can bear it at all-if one will re-
member that the temperature of the
water should be uniformly about go deg.
Fab, and not take it as it comes, cool
in summer, and way down toward freez-
ing in winter
FOR BURNS.
A paste of calcined magnesia and
water has been employed in France
with wonderful success in treating burns
caused by boiling sulphuric acid. The
mask formed of this paste must be re-
moved and renewed as fast as assures
appear in it. Two cases of terrible
burns IN the face, occasioned by an ex-
plosion in chemical lecture-roOm, have
lately been SO thoroughly cured by this
method OF treatment that no trace of the
injuries remained visible.
NEURALGIA.
For neuralgia in the face, OF other
acute suffering elsewhere, the following
remedy has been tried with good effect.
Cut thick slice of bread all across the
loaf-fresh bread is best. Soak one
side for minute in boiling water, and
rapidly sprinkle cayenne pepper over the
hot side. Apply while still smoking hot
to the painful surface. The bread re-
tains the heat long enough for the
cayenne to begin to act, and cayenne
does not effect the delicate skins as
mustard does. 1t acts as a rubefacient
but not a blister. Another excellent
remedy fOr congestion from cold is to
apply poultice of flaxseed meal and
cayenne pepper. BY keeping a bit of
oil silk on the outside of the poulGce-
cloth it will retain both heat and
moistere for a long time.
THE SUPERSTITION ABOUT DRAUGHTs.
FIreside comforts are almost INSOFAR
able from the idea of an open fireplace
and from a hygienic standpoint, too,
the old-fashioned chimney, or an open
crate, is far superior to q closed stove.
But it should not be forgotten, writes
DIR. Oswald in the Popular Science
Monthly, that the operation of the
chimney -draught alone is insufficient to
correct the vitiated air of small room,
it merely creates an outward current.
An open window completes the renovat-
ing process; in cold weather a few
minutes are sufficient to revitalize the
indoor atmosphere fora couple of hours.
Only the blindest prejudice can deny the
pleasant effect of sucn an influx of life
air; it revives the azotized lungs as a
draught of cool water refreshes the
parched palate. Colds are neUer taken
an that aO0y. The very name is a mis-
leading decentralization or influenza
would be the right word. Long ex-
posure to freezing storm, III certain
cases, induces a true pleuritic fever,
very rare affection, and entirely differ
ent from the only too familiar catarrh
What we call a cold reimbursement,
Erkaltung) is caused by the influence of
impure air, or dust, on the sensitive
tissue of our respiratory organs, subse-
quent exposure to the open air merely
initiates the crisis of the disorder, the
discharge of the accumulated mucus
through the nose or throat. Fresh air
is here only the proximate cause, as in
toothache, or in those paroxysms of
retching following upon the first respi-
ration of half-drowned person. IF we
postpone the crisis by persistently avoid
ing the open air, the unacceptable mat
ter, instead Of being discharged. will be
deposited in the tissue of the lungs in
the form of tubercles