Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-27


-tByron.
By far the greater portion of ill-health
is caused by the persons who have to en-
dure it, and while the fact is quite gener-
ally recognized, it is not savingly acted
upon.
a German doctor recommends bread
made with sea. water as remedy against
scrofula and disorders resulting from in
sufficient nourishment. Ses-water ought
to stand twelve hours before being used
for making dough, in order to free it from
impurities. Bread made from it has no
unpleasant taste.
A study of thirty years has convinced
Mons. V. Burg that copper absorbed in
various ways into the system affords al
most certain protection against cholera.
Among other precautions he recommends
the external application of metallic copper
in the form of plates or even ordinary
coins, the burning of bi-chloride of copper
in alcohol lamps, the drinking of wine
mixed with the water of cupreous springs,
and the use of vegetables rendered green
by sulphate of copper.
Everyone knows how difficult it is to
induce patient to take codliver oil, and
A perfectly simple way to prepare it is to
drop the desired dose into little glass of
cold water; the oil will form globule
that is easily swallowed. Take a swallow
of cold water; then drink rapidly from
the glass, keep the mouth closed tightly
for Minute, and when you open it you
will bs surprised to find that no unpleas-
ant taste is left in the mouth.
Tbs Shaker Manifesto has the following
" Half teaspoonful of common table salt
dissolved in a little cold water and drank
will instantly relieve heartburn or dyspep.
sia. If taken every morning before break
fast, increasing the quantity gradually to
| tesspoonful to glass of water, it will in a
! few days cure any ordinary case of dyspep-
sia, if at the same time due attention ia
paid to the diet. There is no better rem.
| edy than the above for constipation no
better gsrgle for sore throat. 1t is equal
to chlorate of potash, and is entirely safe.
| It may be used as often as desired, and if
little is swallowed each time it will have
beneficial effect on the throat by cleans
ing it and allaying the irritation. In doses
of one to four teaspoonfuls in half pint
to pint of tepid water it acts promptly
as an emetic, and in cases of poisoning is
always at hand. 1t is an excellent remedy
| fer bites and stings of insects. 1t is val
liable astringent for heplorrhsges, particu-
larly for bleeding after the extraction of
tooth. 1t has both cleansing and healing
properties, and is therefore most excel.
lent application for superficial liberation.
Just at the moment when cold water
cures, milk cures, whey cures, grape cures,
and the Karlsbad or starvation cure occu-
py the attention of those who perhaps are
in great measure personally responsible for
wanting any cure at all, new one has
sprung up in America, and has already
found followers in England, says The Lon
don Daily Ne,os. The drinking of hot
water was an old fashioned practice among
persons with impaired digestive organs.
Hot water as a cosmetic has greatly ad-
vanced in favor during the present London
season, while the practice of drinking wa.
ter as near to boiling point as is humanity
possible, has taken to itself supplement-
ary treatment in the United States. The
probably apocryphal saying attributed to
Diane de Poictiers, that she owed the pres
ervation of her beauty to the use of cold
water is gradually being discredited, and
Phyllis no longer laves her lovely features
in the cool translucent wave, but in the
same almost boiling hot. As, a few years
ago, we were enthusiastic about cold tub
bing, most meritorious when the ice on the
top is required to be broken with boot
jack, go is kind of scalding propaganda
in progress at the present moment, and
those who clung most desperately to the
geld tub are now quietly pushed into
luke warm If not hot water