Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-03-04
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

FoR FELoN.-Take equal parts of gum camphor, gum opium, castile soap and brown sugar; wet to a paste with spirits of turpentine. Prepare it, and apply thick plaster of it.
 FoRSPRAfN.-Bathew with arnica diluted with water, and bandage with soft fan nel moistened with the same. A sprained wrist thus treated will grow well and strong ill few days.
 A SURE CURE FOR CHILBLAINs.- applications of vaseline will cure the worst case of chilblains. For ordinary cases one or two applications will be sufficient. Although vaseline IS made from petroleum, 1t is far more rapid in its work of healing than kerosene.
 TAPEwoRM -Salicylic acid, given at ..lteI ss.ls of an hour for four hours, and followed by castor oil in full dose, sue ceeded in expelling tapia which had re- sisted all other remedies. One case reported had resisted all other medica- tion for nine years. s.-LOuisUilye Medical Herald.
 FOR CANCER.-Gather wood-sorrel when in blossom (that bearing blue howeris better than the yellow -howered),
 
 "a plate and cover the whole plate with glass set 1t in the sun until paste is formed, then cork it tightly in vial. When applied, it should be spread on cloth or wash-leather, and placed over the cancer only i'll the daytime, so that the patient may sleep. If properly gathered, prepared and applied, it will draw out the cancer in about four days. Meantime the patient should drink much yellow-dock tea. The newspaper core spondent who furnishes the recipe adds that it is vouched for by Mir. Samuel Baker, of New Hampshire, and Mrs. Warren James, of Deerfeld Center, N. Y.
 APPLES. more extensive use of apples as food at our meals, remarks Dr. J. H. Hanaford, will do much to diminish dyspepsia and biliousness. They are "loosening, and therefore tend to remove constipation-a promi- nent cause of digestive homogeneous. The acid of this frylt-ene of the very best known in aid of digestion-acts fa- vorably on the liver, causing it to se- crete the bile, which is natures cathar- tic, thus preventing this constipation. While eating them between meals must derange the stomach-like the use of all 1 food at that time-they are really very 1 valuable food, demanded especially il warm weather. They may be too cool. | ing in the coldest weather, while the | more-acid berries are better in the spring | and summer.
 QUANTITY OF FooD.-H children are very hearty eaters their food should be of the simplest kind, and thus prevent eating more than the system really needs. The first reason for consuming food should be necessity, and the second may be the qualification of the appetite Usually children have appetites so strong that they need no stimulants, no condi ments, as spices, pepper or mustard These articles should be reserved for the failing appetites of debility and age They are useful only by way of increas ing the appetite and promoting the dul digestion of what Is eaten. They may stimulate the nervous system, and shorllt be avoided in all infammatory tenden cies of the system. The excessive ust of sirups, sugar and molasses may in duce fermentation in the stomach aEt long canal. In moderate quantities tho7 are useful, and sometimes are strongl, needed. Articles preserved in sirul should be sparingly taken, as they ar, usually not easy of dig -stion-tha health and growth demand that tn amount of food should vary with tn amount of exercise; the kinds of fooc should be such as may supply the need of the system; the amount of foo should be no more than can Do easil digested.