The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-03-24
HEALTH INTELLIGENCE.
From DR.. roo,.'. H..i.A s,on.hl,.I

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1T SEEMS singular that professional
men viii continue to use chlorofotm
when ether is as efficient and 80 much
safer.
In coSGEsTIvE and infammatory eye
diseases, the use of hot water thrown by
the band against the eye is recommended
by Dr.. Leartus Conner as the best
remedy.
TIE Health Officer of Providence,
r. l., reports that in that city typhoid
and Intermittent fever do not occur dur
ing the same seasons, and appear to be
antagonistic.
The method of routing insects or mag
gots from the ear by the use of
anasthetics (ether or chloroform held on
a sponge over the ear) is said to have
originated with DIR. j. E. Blake, of New
York City, in 1862.
The Chinese exhibit almost every
known form of skin disease, and are also
much subject to dyspepsia and lung af-
fectlons; but their ''favorite" disease, if
it may be so called because of its preva-
lence, Is rheumatism.
The Baltimore Gazette relates that
lady who had been vaccinated borrowed
pair of earrings from n lady friend for
day. The owner, on resuming their
use, was astonished to find that she was
thoroughly vaccinated in the ears.
In ACUTE sickness when milk and beef
tea disagree, the French hospitals give
preparation called Albumen water, made
by dissolving the white of an egg In
pint of water, and adding glycerine to
sweeten, and lemon juice to flavor.
THE editor of the Medical CdU says
he has often been called to children in
spasms or suffering from vomiting or
( diarrhpa, the whole trouble being due
10 nursing from the breasts of a mother
or nurse that had had % fit of anger. F"
Forty thousand dollars worth of
chewing gum Is gathered every year in
/ Maine. most of which is for school
/ children and factory girls; but even this
/ delicacy is subject to adulteration, pine
gum being sometimes worked into the
spruce gum.
/ EXPERIMENTS made to test the muscu-
/ lar power of insects, prove that the
smaller the insect the greater proper
/ tomato muscular power. A bee is for
It's weight thirty times stronger than a
/ horse, for a bee harnessed to a wagon
can pull twenty times its own weight.
THE Cook County Hospital, of Chicago
H., is to be placed in part under manage
ment of Homeopathic physicians, and IL
part under REGULARS. It remains tc
1 be seen whether by this arrangement
4 familiarity will breed more contempt, oil
better acquaintance heal the breach be
tween the two schools.
THoUGH consumption is very prevalent
in st. Petersburg, Russia, it is said tina
professional singers never die of thai
disease there. 1t is therefore inferred
that the exercise involved in singing anC
the deep respirations which it neces
states have much to do with maintaining
a healthy condition of the lungs.
ONCE more a Irregular physician
announces in the Medical Record hi
preference for the Eclectic Code o
Ethics which simply calls for the adop
ton of the golden rule and good manner
amongst medical men. The acceptance
of a letter making such an avowal in 81
prominent an organ of the old schoo
shows that some leaven of progress j
leavening the whole lump.
AN editorial in the Boston Journal 0
Chemistry about Boston water" attrib
utes its unpleasant ''fshy, cucumbe
taste and smell" to diseased condition
of fish which become coated with slim,
membrane when the water supply be
comes diminished by drought, this slim
sloughing off when a fresh supply O
water Is afforded them. A mere flake O
this slime will contaminate barrel o
water.