Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-27
Accidents and Emergencies.

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, The uninformed reader will be sui
prised to learn the curative virtues O
some of the most familiar things il
any common household, and surely i
is the duty of al, especially of Ia s
who live in out of the-way places, !,
acluaint themselves with at least soma
Of these, for in many instances i
would be the saving of human life.
Take, + T examI l.. the variei use:
OF good article OF hogs lard. Two q
three folds OF wooden flannel dipped il
hogs lard will promptly remove the
pain or swelling from the sting of g
hornet, wasp or bee.
2 Warm, fresh, unsalted hogs lard
is one Of the very best things TO dis
lodge any live insect from the ear.
3. A quarter of a pint of warmed
lard, drunk every fifteen minutes be.
fore bre ikfast, will sometimes dislodge
tapeworm, head and all.
4. Hogs lard rubbed well into a
swollen limb, with the hand patiently,
often removes the swellings and any
deep seated pains attending them.
5. Half pint of hogs lard, taken on
three successive mornings, has relieved
cases of the most obstinate constipation
even when croton oil and injections had
failed.
6. If the skin, in scarletina, is daily
we'll rubbed with hogs lard or bacon
rind for ten days, it will allay the heat
of the skin, remove the soreness of the
throat, lessen the risk OF dropsy, and
prevent the spreading of the disease,
by combining to the body those small,
solid particles, which otherwise, escap.
ing from the skin, would be breathed
into the lungs of others and swallowed
into their stomachs and thus infect the
blood.
z. TIE intolerabIe itching which at
tends erysipelas is mitigated and en-
tirely controlled by persistent inunc.
tons with hogs lard.
8. Persons who work in wooden
factories, where the material has to re.
ceive hogs lard on it before it can be
orked up are remarkably exempt
from consumptive diseases, while those
who live in cotton factories are
especially liable to it.
9. InunctiOns daily and abundantly
of the parts effected with itch will
cure almost any ordinary case.
IL. The night sweats of consump.
ton are often modified and sometimes
removed by rubbing hogs lard into the
skin every night, if sleeping in the
same wooden night shirt, which be-
comes impregnated with the oil.
IL. There is no remedy which affords
more instantaneous relief from the
effect of swallowing acrid poisons than
drinking hogs lard, which not only
soothes the scalding heat in the throat,
but dilutes the poison in the stomach,
and by continuing to drink it until the
stomach is full, feather in the throat
will bring it all up, poison and all.
Surely it is well to know these things,
and any book must be valuable, a main
subject of which is to utilize things
which are most commonly at hand,
with view to alleviate pain, restore
health, and save life.
A young man in a farmers family
C ,identally dropped an open knife,
which struck the arm of little girl
playing on the floor. The blood flowed
alar ningly fast; the father mounted a
horse and rode at full speed for the
nearest physician, who lived five miles
away, to end that he had started an
hour before to go ten miles in an op
posite direction to visit patient who
was in a dangerous condition, and was
not expected to return until next morn
ing. a message was left, and in the
most dreadful apprehension and sus
pense the father turned his face home
ward. Meanwhile the little child had
bled to death; the mother was thrown
into commissions and expired. On
learning the facts as he entered the
house at nightfall, the father went
through into the garden, threw him
self into a we'll and was drowned.
If common handkerchief had been
tied loosely about the arm above the
wounded artery, a stick run through
between the handkerchief and skin,
and twisted around tightly, the bleed
ing would have been stopped in sixty
seconds, and the child saved; but no
boIy in the house knew this.
1t il to provid families and individu-
ais with such knowledge as will enable
them to act efficiently under the emery
encies of sickness or accident, that this
book is written.