Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-29
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

To CURE gore throat pour few drops
OF spirits Of camphor on lump Of
sugar and allow 1t to dissolve in the
mouth every hour. The third and
fourth dose will enable the patient to
| swallow with ease. This, it is said, has
| cured the last stages Of the disease.
IT is recommended to treat infamed
wounds by smoking them with burning
wool or WOODEN cloth. Twenty minutes
in the smoke of wool, it is said,
will take the pain out of the worst
wound, and, if repeated once or twice.
will allay the worst case of Inflammation
arising from a wound. This remedy is
certainly very simple, and within the
reach of every one.
AN exchange says: "That painful
affection, felon, can readily be pre-
vented by moistening the finger with the
tlncture OF lobelia i'll the early stages of
the attack. II allowed to progress too
far before the remedy is applied it viii
have no effect Ii it cannot be conven-
iently obtained, rock salt pulyerized,
after being dried in an oven and mixed
with an equal part of turpentine and
applied frequently, Will destroy felon In
twenty-four hours"
An old-faslioned remedy for a cold:
A warm "stew," getting into bed with
covering well tucked in, hot bricks to
feet, and drinking ahundantly OF hot
teas until there is dripping perspira-
ton, to be kept up an hour or two or
more until the system is relieved, and
then to cool off very gradually in the
course of another hour, is derisively
styled an cold woman's remedy" but
for all that it will break I'D any cold
taken within thirty-six hours it viii
promptly relieve many Of the most pain
full forms of sudden disease, with the
advantage OF being without danger,
gives no shock to the system, nor wastes
its strength.-HosO to Live Long.
NEVER eat till you have time to digest,
| for digestion requires leisure; we can
not assimlate our food while the func-
tional energy OF our system is engrossed
| by other occupations. After q hearty
feed, animals retire to quiet hiding
place, and the "aftcr dinner laziness,"
| the plea Of our system for rest, should
admonish us to intate their example.
| The idea that exercise after dinner pro-
notes digestion is a marvellous fallacy.
Jules Virey settled that question by
| cruel but conclusive experiment. He
| selected two ours of tho snme size, age
| and general physique, made them keep
fast-day and treated them the next
| morning to square meal of potato chips
| and cubes OF tat mutton, but MS soon as
one of them had eaten his fill he made
the other stop, too, to make sure that
| they had both consumed the same quau-
tity. Dog No. was then confined in
comfortable kennel, while No. 2 had to
run after the doctors coach, not at q
breathless rata of speed, but at fair,
brisk trot for two hours and half AS
soon as they got home, the coach-dog
and his comrade We're si:sDl and dissected:
the kennel dog had completely digested
MS meal, WINE the chips and cubes in
| the coach dog S stomach had not changed
| their form ut all, the process of assimil-
.tion had not even begun. Railroad la
Dorers, who bolt their dinner during
short interval Of hard work, might as
| we'll pass their recess in hammock;
instead Of streng ;hening then, their
dinner will ouly Cypress them, till it is
digested, together with their supper, in
the cool Of the evening.-E l.. OSaOdLd,
"a Popular Science monthly.