Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-31
THE HOME DOCTOR.
SCARLET FEVER.


DR.. Shearer, Of Berks County, Pa,
claims that he has employed cola water
spoDging and ice bags to the throat in
severe cases of scarlet fever during
twenty years, and with such good re-
suits that he considers the treatment
not only permissible, but actually
necessary where the symptoms are
alarming.
FROSTED FEET.
The following simple remedy is an ab-
solute cure: Before going to bed have a
kettle of hot water ready. Put some IN
shallow tin, and hold the frosted part
of the foot in it-not the whole foot, but
one frosted spot after another-fOr ten
or twenty minutes, keeping the water
Just as hot as you can bear it. Then
pour a little cold water over the frosted
parts, and thoroughly rub them dry.
Follow this plan three nights, have
shoes good size, and the cure is e.
fectual.
MALARIA.
The general ststement that malaria is
ost abundantly generated in marshes
fresh or salt water-and IN low, damp
that it may also prevail In mountainous
regions and In places where the soil is
specifically dry. A loose surface soil,
everything ali impervious stratum OF clay
or rock, permits the air to penetrate to
this stratum, where the water which &C.
cumulates after rain may be retained
in depressions, and we have thus all the
conditions necessary for decomposition
of the vegetable matter which may be
present in the soil, and for the evoiu-
ton of malaria. George M. Stern
berg.
FACIAL NEURALGIA.
DR.. McColganan extoIs the value of
the ether or rh1golene spray for the in
Simultaneous relief principally of facial
neuralgia. He first had occasion to OBJ
serve its good effects upon MS own per-
son, he having suffered greatly from
facial neuralgia. Since curing himself
he has had occasion to test its efficacy IN
about twenty cases. The result was in
variably a most gratifying success. In
many instances a permanent cure was
established. He attempts to explain it's
action by supposing a complete change
to take place in the nutrition of the al
fected nerve in consequence Of the in
tense cold acting as a reyulsive. South
e1rp Practitioner.
THE USE OF CHLORAL.
Chloral has direct action upon the
heart and the brain, so that when either
of these organs is i'll all abnormal condi-
ton, the dangers to be unprecedented
from It's use are not few. It's action
differs very much from that Of opium,
for the victims of the latter seldom die
from the immediate influence of the
drug, but rather from some organic dis
ease brought on by it's use. Now,
chloral accamuIates in the system until
such quantity is present as will stop
all organic functions; but death in these
cases generally results from an inter-
ference with the hearts action, or from
a sort of suspension of the nervous
stimuli-the nature of the death thus
being not unlike that of chronic alcohol
ism. Many chIoral drinkers have been
dipsomaniacs at one time or another,
and have drifted from the use of alcohol
to the chloral bottle, or have moderated
their consumption of alcohol by the
conjunction of chloral. Although
chloral-drInking is not so apparent as
dram-drinking, yet it has even a greater
power over It's victims, and as its imme-
date effects are not so degrading as
alcohol, they imagine it is not so ruinous
as the latter; but it is the result of an
Unsuitable desire, and as suchit becomes
an infatuating and degrading vice. The
consumption of the drug, we are glad TO
note, has greatly decreased during the
past few years, for knowledge OF the
evils of its indiscriminate use has been
acquired, and proper place in thera-
peutics has been assigned to it.-Chona-
6eT'S Journal.
JUDGE ROBERT E. FARMAN, of War