Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-30
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.

IL CuIe tOObnacQe, CUT as mOcl cot
ton as viii fill the tooth, dampen it.,
cover it with mixture of salt and pow
Tered alum and place it In the tooth.
A New YORK doctor says the best
cure he knows of for cold is the old
fashioned sweat Take ten grains of
luinine, hot mustard foot-bath and g
stiff glass of toddy-or rather, should
say, a hot lemonade.
For burns and scalds soak piece Of
linen rag In inseed oil, suspend it from
the tongs over saucer and ignite the
lower end; the oil which drops from it,
while consuming, should be applied,
when cold, with feather, to the burn
or scald.
NEVER sleep In close room with all
the doors and windows closed: even in
the coolest weather, one window should
be partly raised, or (which is best let
down from the top, so as to admit
fresh air, without allowing draught or
current ON the sleeper. The window
curtains may always be down, as the
air strained through the muslin loses
its dampness, and is more healthful.
HEADACHES IN CR1LDREN.-When a
child complains of headache, writes
DR.. Day, in the Medical Press,
our most careful scrutiny is de-
manded, and if it be too young to
describe its suferings, its manner and
appearance are highly suggestive of
some cerebral disturbance. Look at a
child OF some 10 or II months old who
IS well developed and comes of healthy
parents. There is the excitement of
dentition, and the little thing is observed
TO put its tiny hand to its head, which
it rolls, perhaps, from side to side, and
the anxious mother at last detects a
slight irregularity In the muscular
movements of the eyeball. Reflex
nervous irritation is conveyed through
the fifth nerve to the brain, and irrita-
ton so awakened may be followed at
any moment by q convulsion. The
child is wakeful, uneasy and restless.
The brain, so needful of rest at this
early period of life, is susceptible of
mischief. Habitual headaches in older
children indicate an exhausted and irri-
table brain, and if intellectual exertion
be carried too far in such cases mischief
is likely to ensue. It seems extraordi-
nary that educated men who have the
care of young persons should not see
this danger IN the anemia produced by
over study, the irritability and excita-
biity of manner, and the impossibility
of concentration, so necessary to the
accomplishment of any undertaking. If
intellectual exertion be carried beyond
certain point the brain becomes anemic,
fatigued, and the nutrition in the gangli-
onic cells of the cortex becomes
impaired, diseased or in some way al
tered from health. Whatever may be
the exact change IN these cells the in
ference is probably correct that chill
dren so suffering cannot grasp new
ideas; and if strong and powerful eff
forts are put forward in this direction
the knowledge is not retained, the OBJ
ject is frustrated, one idea is mixed up
with another, and confusion results.
This, I apprehend, is just enough to
Illustrate the grand problem that the
body must be looked to as well as the
mind, and the younger the child the
greater Is the necessity for the delay of
AANOAANNOu0A u I'D IL NtOCo OollhC
one as very extraordinary that the nerv-
Gus system, which is the last to attain
complete development, should be the
first to be overtaxed in this age of fore
ing and strain, when revolutionary ideas
are apt to override the Judgment. It
is not that the moderate exercise of the
brain in early life is injurious; on the
contrary, it is conducive to health. The
mind is then flexible and plastic, i'm
pressions are enduring, and habits of
concentration are easily acquired. It
is the premature and excessive exer-
else of it which is prejudicial when the
bodily powers need the chief attention.
No rigid rules, no cast-iron system will
do for the training of all children. All
are not cast in the same mold. Any
system of education must be elastic.
since mediocrity is the rule; and if
more be expected of some children,
whose physical development is at the
same time feeble, then disease or pre-
mature ill-health is the consequence.