The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1883-04-06
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

THE best remedy for sprained ankle
or wrist, until medical aid arrives, is to
battle the afflicted member In arnica,
and if it is not near at hand, cold water
is the next best thing.
For FROSTED FEET-Smear cloths
literally with pine-tar and bind them
with the frozen parts. Let the swath-
ing remain on some thirty-six or forty
eight hours, and the work is done-all
but washing your feet. Pine tar is the
best known agent to remove the fire
from burns.
For ITCHING FEET.-The following is
a cure for the intolerable itching of the
feet caused by frosting: Soak the af-
fected parts in water as hot as it can be
borne, in which all the alum has been
dissolved that it will readily take.
Fifteen minutes is long enough to con-
tinue the bath.
NEVER sleep in room, if there is no
fire, with all of the windows and doors
closed. The average room does not
contain more than one-third the air
needed by the sleepers. Never sleep in
the same clothes worn by day, but
hang them where they can "air." Never
drink water that has stood in the sleep
ing room all night in open vessels.
Never go to bed with cold feet, but first
soak them in hot water, then dash on
cold water, followed by thorough frlc-
ton.
WEAKENING TREATMENT.-It is law
of our nature that weakness will result
not only from violent and undue labor,
but as well from Incidence and inactiv-
ity, but no more certainly than that in
sufficient clothing, bathing in water SO
cold as to produce a shock and per-
manent chill, ETC., must prove as adverse
to the health as the opposite extreme.
1t is no more foolish, foolhardy, to brave
all weathers insuficiently clad, than to
attempt to endure as much heat as pos
sible, to which foul air is added. While
proper amount of exposure in the
cool and cold season, if properly clad,
will invigorate, promote the health and
fortify one so as to be able to endure
cold weather with impunity, and thus
enable them to escape the ordinary
"colds," it is equally true that the "fus-
sy" may and do so debilitate themselves
by the opposite extreme as to suffer I'M
usually from colds and sickness. just
to the extent that one is deprived of the
invigorating influence of pure air and
out-of-door exercise, weakness must re-
suit, liz addition to the facilitating re-
! suit of Incidence and of unnatural heat
! The individual, therefore, who, with a
! false and absurd idea of carelessness,
remains in hot and uncomfortable
room, at a temperature which would be
oppressive in the summer, enduring all
! possible heat, does violence to nature,
and is thus predisposed to colds and
consequent disease. The individual
who wears as much clothing as can be
| borne, and the same on mild day as
on the coolest, will certainly reduce the
power of the body to generate heat,
and just to that extent induce sickness.
That one who, for fear of having cold
feet, puts them in the oven on every
occasion, and who carries the hot brick
to bed, in the mildest and coolest
weather alike, will secure cold
feet and hot head. In other words,
nature evolves only just the heat needed
under the circumstances-less and less
the more artificial heat is supplied
necessarily reducing the strength.
Avoid alike, unnecessary exposure to
both heat and cold, both facilitating in
their extremes, while the medium is in
migrating. 1t is safe to be comforta-
! ble.-DT. u. H. HdndtOrd.