The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-03-03
THE HOME DOCTOR.

DIR. F!eck, a somewhat celebrated
Dresden chemist, attributes the prOduc-
tiOn Of pimples and Inflammation on the
forehead of some persons, in hot wealth
er, to the presence of fat or fatty acids
in the leather lining of hats BY exper-
iment he has lately shown that the fat
is contained in all feathers, aud. al
though small in quantity. is sufficient
to produce theEreSult in question To
avoid the unpleasant effects he recon-
mends rubbing the greasy leather with
burnt magnesa.
To cure bunions, use pulverized salt
petre and sweet oil. Obtain, at a drug
gist's five or six cents worth of saltpe-
tire ; put it into bottle with sufficient
olive oil to dissolve it shake up well,
and rub the inhammed joints night and
morning, and more frequently if painful.
When an individual is reported to
have died of disease of the heart. we are
In the habit of regarding it as an inevi-
table event, as something which could
not have been fOreSeen or prevented.
and it is too much the habit when per-
sons suddenly fall down dead, to report
the heart as the cause this silences all
inquiry and invest igation, and saves the
trouble and Inconvenience af a post 7l5r-
tenn. a truer report would have ten
a report of the disease of the heart that
many an opium eater is let off into the
grave that covers at once his folly and
his crime ; the brandy-drinker, too.
quietly slides abound the corner thus,
and is heard of 10 more in short, this
report of the heart is the mantle of char
lty, which the polite coroner and SYM
pathetic physician throws around the
graves of generous people. At a scien-
tihc congress at Strasburg, it was repOr-
ted, that of siXty-SiX persons who had
suddenly died, an immediate and faith
full post m0rteHl showed that only two
persons had any heart affections what
eyer-One sudden death in thirty-three
from disease of the heart. Nine out of
sixty die of apOpexy-one out of every
seYen-while forty six, more than two
out of three died of lung affection, hale
of them from congestion OF the lungs,
that is. the langs were so fun of blood
that they could not work there was
not room enough for air to get in to sup
port life. It is, then. or considerable
practical interest. TO know some Of the
common every day causes OF this con-
gestion of the lungs, a disease which.
the figures above being true, kills three
times as many persons, at short warming
2s apoplexy and heart disease together.
Cold feet, tight shoes, light clothing.
costIve bowels. sitting still until chilled
through after having warmed up bv la
Dor or long. hasty walk going TO sud-
denly from close, heated room, as a
lOuuger, or listener, or speaker. willie
the body is weakened by continual ap-
piication, or abstinence, or heated by
long address these are the frighful
causes of sudden death in the form of
congestion of the lungs but which, be-
ing falsely reported as disease of the
heart, and regarded as an inevitable
event, throw people off theii guard, in
stead of pointing them to their true
cause, all of which are avoidable; and
very easily so, rs a general rule, when
the mind has been once inlelligently
drawn to the subject. DR.. HIIl's Jour
nal OF Health.