The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-02-24
HEALTH INTELLIGENCE.
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AMONG forty-seven thousand dogs
taken TO the pound of New. York City
during five years past, only one was
found to have hydrophobia.
A FOND mother wrote to an enthusias-
tic young lady who had established
physiology class for girl: Please do
not teach my mary Ann any more about
her insides. 1t will never do her no
good, and it's rude"
If WE were provided with sense of
smell as acute as many animals possess,
it would probably be great aid in dag
nosis, for there are some diseases that
are accompanied by definite odor, and
possibly all are, to some extent.
PRoFEssoR LEWIS, of Stevens Insti-
tute, has made four hundred analyses of
food and drugs, and found that in all
-cases.cf adplteration. excepting one, no
poisonous material WIS employed. In
one specimen of pickles copper was
found
DR. HEWITT, of Lake Superior, be-
lieves that diphtheria was brought into
his family by the house cat. 1t died of
some affection of the throat and glands
of the neak, and violent diphtheria then
attacked two of his children and caused
their death. ~
NUTMEGs should be used sparingly,
for they possess narcotic property that
constitutes them a drug. A lady who
was induced to take nutmeg tea by her
nurse was made drowsy by it and finally
put into profound stupor resembling
that of opium.
DIR. EMMETT recommends the fat pork,
properly prepared, as an excellent sub
stitute for cod-liver OIL We should our
selves prefer the cod-liver oil, hut, when
they can be digested, faxseeds carried
in the pocket and eaten raw afford
large amount of fatty substance.
A SUGGESTION for hoarseness worthy
of trial is the use of common horse-rad-
dish prepared in sugar-one part, to
nine parts of sugar. A little of this
mixture in the mouth, swallowed slowly,
gives relief. The remedy (horse
is not new one, but, to US, the sugar
way of using il seems to be new and
good one.
THE st. Louis Miller, the Scientific
american, and the Massachusetts, Eclec-
tic Medical journal endorse onions as
an excellent food for colds settled upon
the lungs. An extract can be made by
boiling down the juice of onions to a
syrup, that can be taken as a medicine,
but eating freely of well-cooked onions
is good way to obtain their medical
effect.
The habit of chewing gum, common
among children, is Objectionable be-
cause it tends to separate the gums from
the base of the teeth and exposes the
sensitive portions of the teeth to the
air, makes the teeth prone to decay and,
furthermore, induces an unnatural flow
of the salival fluids as does smoking and
chewing tobacco.
A WRITER in the Nineteenth Century
says that contagion consists of minute
solid particles and not gaseous dissem-
inatioRs. If this Is true we can readily
understand that a person who breathes
only through his nose will be much less
likely to catch q contagious disease in a
sick-room than would a mouth -breather.
Free ventilation, perfect cleanliness and
frequent changes of clothes afford the
best means of removing the contagious
particles given of by sick persons.
ANY suggestions from Russia or for
eign parts seems to have wide circulation
whether it Is valuable or not. In al
most every one of our exchanges we
have seen a corn remedy of Russian
apothecary quoted as follows: sSalicylic
acid, thirty parts extract of cannabis
indicus, five parts collodion. 240 parts.
1t is to be appied by means of a camePs
hair-pencil. There can be no harm in
trying it, but we don't believe we should
lose many dollars if we were to offer to
pay one dollar to every reported case of
cure by it.