Daily globe., 1882-07-16
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.
OvER-R1pE fruit produces diarrhes

OvER-RIPE fruit produces diarrhea.
BILIOUS people should avoid nies,
cakes and all fancy dishes.
COOKING does not render diseased or
purifying meat wholesome.
a SHEET saturated with disinfeetant
should be hung over the door of the sick
chamber. to avert any fever-poison
waited through the open door.
THERE should be no direct communi-
cation betwizt fever patients and the
h 'usehold; only direct communication
b. the nurses should be permitted.
NJ. BoUcHUr's experiments with pep
sine Tor destroying WORMS in the stomach
and bowels have been continued with
extremely promising results. Even the
tape-worm succumbs to the digestive
action OF pepsine in large doses, while
the more highly organized tissues of the
stomach are unaffected.
DR.. HAMMOND states that there are
very few, if any, cosmetics which do not
contain lead. He also says that death
from lead poisoning by the use of cos
metics Is by no means an uncommon
case. The introduction of lead into the
system produces various effects-colic,
paralysis, prostration of the nervous
system and insanity being the most
common results.
Bone FELoN.-Of all painful things,
can there be any so excruciatingly pain
ful as bone felon? We know of none
tnat flesh is heir to, and, as this malady
Is quite frequent and the subject of
much earnest consideration, we give the
latest recipe for the cure As soon as
the disease is felt, put directly over the
spot fly blister about the size of your
thumb nail, and let it remain for six
hours, at the expiration of which time,
directly under the surface of the blister.
may be seen The felon, which can be in
stantly taken out with the point of q
needle or lancet.
How TO TREAT COLD. you
get chilly all over and away into your
bones, and begin to sniffie and almost
struggle for your breath, just begin In
time, and your tnbulation need not last
very long. Get some powdered borax
and snuff the dry powder up your nos
trlls. Get your camphor- bottle and
smell it frequently; pour some on Your
handkerchief, and wipe your nose with
get sore, and you will soon wonder what
has become of your cold. Begin this
treatment In the forenoon. and keep on
at intervals until you go to bed, and
you viii sleep as well as you ever did.
I'm just telling you my experience, says
a correspondent.
The practice of eating snow and ice,
so common among school children, is q
! fruitful cause of catarrh. 1t is common
to see boys and girls devour a snow ball
as though it were an apple, or an icicle
as eagerly as bit Of candy The hard
| palate which forms the roof of the
mouth also forms the floor of the nos
trils, and is no thicker than pasteboard.
The chilling effect of snow and ice
! brought freely in contact with this thin
partition, the upper covering of which is
a sensitive secreting membrane, made
up almost wholly of fine blood vessels and
| nerves, produces a congestion often sue
| ceeded by chronic inflammation. AS a
consequence, these snow and ice-eating
boys and girls almost always have "cold
in the head" and running noses. This
is the foundation and origin of one of
the most disagreeable, persistent and
incurable affections to which the people
of the North are subiect-nasal catarrh.
Catarrh is said to lead TO consumption.
Whether this is so or not, the chilling
of the nasal membrane, part of whose
function II is to warm the air in its pass
age to the lungs, cannot but iniure
those organs, particularly i'll people of
delicate constitution.