Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-08-19
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

ELECTRICITY is an excellent stimulant to digestion and the action of the liver, and those who can may employ 1t to ad- vantage.
 A STANDING antidote for poison by dew, poison-oak, ivy, etc., is to take a handful of quicklime, dissolve in water, let it stand half an hour, then paint the poisoned parts with it. Three or four applications will never fail to cure the most aggravated cases.
 THE FLESH H-BRUsH.-Though "clean- iness is next to godliness, 1t may be iniudicious to wash the body in cold wa- ter at all times, especially for the aged, very young and the very weak. A cold bath IS never judicious-always iniudi- clsus when not followed " a sensation of comfort and pleasure. On the con- trary, no weather is too cold for the iu- dicious use of the fesh-brush, one not harsh enough to produce irritation of the surface. In the morning its use will quicken the surface circulation, increase the warmth, sending the blood to the extremet;es, while at night, on retiring, a soothing effect is produced, 9aieting the nerves and favoring a good nights
 
 pecially to the nervous and delicate.
 UNwEo1EsoME FooD.-Dr. N. George, professor of rural hygiene at the Agro- nomical Institute in Paris, makes some suggestions in regard to unwholesome food which seem to be deserving of con- sideration. He calls particular atten- tion to the danger of using fresh milk from COWS showing any signs of indis- position. In such cases 1t is by no means necessary to waste the milk all that is essential to render it entirely harmless Is that it be boiled before us- ing. The danger attending the skin ming or cutting up of diseased animal IS another point worthy of attention, and, although he regards thorough cooking as 8 great preservatlve in the case of animals diseased at the time of death, he strongly recommends an early burial in grave of considerable depth as the safest disp )sal of the flesh of all animals seriously diseased. This course preclUdes the possibility of il effects, often very serious, disseminated by the flies and other insects, which are sure to convey, to greater or less ex- tent, the contagious principle. His bId1 all h1hho Ol meat should be thoroughly cooked, in the interest of health, would probably be thrown away upon the numerous class of rare-beef eaters, so common in this country and England. He also depre- cates the habit so common among lovers of game of keeping tEe meat too long befole eating, until it is what we com monly call "higL." Another polnt to which he directs attention, and one which would probably occur to few if any of our readers, is the Dcis5rous in- tnence of wood which has been painted, in the cooking of victuafs, and ke ststes that in Paris the Ase of painted wood as fuel, by bakers or pastry cooks, for the purpose of heating their bake ovens, Is forbidden by police regulation. He cites case where g large number oi persons were poisoned, though happily net fatally, by the use of bread baked in an oven so heated. The immediate cause of this poison was alleged 10 be the sugar of lead contained in the paint. ] He concludes with caution against the uss of any food where mold has Set in and pea.ieularly deprecates the use ol musty flour, sa2.l also the too common l pracfies Of eating sruits or vegetables not properly ripenad, especially early