Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-10
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

CRoUP.-Take knife or crater and
shave off in small particles about q tea
spoonful of alum, mix it with twice the
quantity of sugar, to make it palatable,
and administer it as quickly as possible.
Almost instant relief will follow.
WHooP1Na CoUGH.-The inhalation Of
air charged with ammonia vapors, as a
remedy for whooping- cough, has been
tried in France with success. One Of
the methods of application employed is
boiling ammonia in the room where the
patient is.
CoUGH SIRUP.-Four ounces of tine
best gum arabic dissolved in one pint of
boiling water, with sugar, lemon juice
and balsam tolu added; the whole or
one-half daily taken before retiring will
soothe throat and stomach irritations
and relieve cough.
HEADACHE CURE.-Apply peppermint
to the frontal bone, or forehead (never
rubbing it), and fan it. Repeat this
three or four times, and then apply
cologne, and fan again. If the head
ache is caused by foul stomach, then
swallow small portion Of hot water and
peppermint.
A CURE FOR DPHTHERIA. "A South
African paper gives the following simple
remedy for curing that distressing and
commonly fatal malady diphtheria. It
is vouched for as being efficient in the
most obstinate cases, provided that it is
applied in time. A spoonful of flowers
of sulphur is well stirred in wineglass-
full of water. This mixture is used as a
gargle, and afterward swallowed. Brim-
stone is known to be abhorred by every
kind of fungoid growth, and this remedy,
which it may here be added has been
long known to medical men in Great
Britain, may have something in it.
LIP CoNTAGIoN A young lady writes
way from California to ask if it is posi-
bic for one person to acquire blood
poison from another through kissing, OF
by drinking from the same cup. Ger
tainly. Contagious diseases have been
conveyed in those ways too often to per-
NIT OF any doubt of it, and every one
ought to know it. Disease is lot likely
to be conveyed from lip to lip in kissing,
unless the person diseased has sore or
abrasion OF the mucous membrane, but
the latter may be SO slight as not TO be
noticeable. The practice of allowing in
discriminate kissing Of children is not
safe. Between those who are not very
well acquainted, a. nod of the head or
shake OF the hand is enough. Ii one
must drink from o public cup it is well
to place its rim against the skin below
the lip rather than against the more re-
ceptive mucus membrane.-Dr.T Foote's
Health Monthly.
How TO VENTIhATE BEDROOM WITH
OUT CHIL1.-With a proper supply OF
windows, and proper supply OF fuel in
open freplaces, fresh air is compare
lively easy to secure when your patient
is in bed. Never be afraid of open win
dows then; people do not catch cold in
bed. This is popular fallacy. With
proper bedclothes and hot bottles, if
necessary, you can always keep patient
warm in bed, and well ventilate him at
the same time. But q careless nurse
will stop up every Granny, and keep
dollhouse heat when her patient is in
bed, and, if he is able to get up, leave
him to do SO, without any precaution
against chill. The time when people are
most liable to take cold is when they
first get up. after the twofold exhaustion
Of dressing and of having had the skin
relaxed by many hours, perhaps days,
in bed. Then the same temperature
which refreshes the patient In bed may
be fatal to the patient just risen.