The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-29
NU UMBER Al.
Health Hints.
How to Preserve and Restore
Health.

How to Preserve ana Restore
Health.
DIR. T. r. Allison, believer in the
worth of vegetable food, says that diet
is the philosophers stone. "Allow me
to diet man," he says, "and Will
make him lively or sad, good or bad
tempered, lazy or studious, long,
or short lived, OF give him almost any
known disease.'
NEW CURE FOR SMALL-PoX.-A
surgeon in the English army in China
has discovered remedy very efficient
in smallpox. The disease is treated
as follows: When the fever has
reached the highest point, and before
the eruption appears, rub the chest of
the patient with croton oil and tartaric
ointment, which makes the eruption
appear on that part Of the body, and
not ON the rest of it. By means of
this treatment they also obtain the re-
suit of causing the eruption to break
out entirely, and of preventing the dis
ease from attacking the internal or
gans. Such is the treatment adopted
in the English sxmY in India, and it is
considered a perfect cure H
WARM FEET.-Children and all fees-
BILE folks whose feet become cold in bed,
should be provided with a foot-blanket.
| An ordinary woolen blanket will make
four, if cut in two and then across at
right angles hem or bind the edges
and the blankets are ready for use. To
insure complete comfort, warm the
blankets at bedtime. The habit most
children, and many adults, have of
drawing up the limbs in bed for great
| er warmth is bad one, as when the
body is in a constrained position, the
circulation of the blood is greatly re-
tarded. Children in particular should
be taught to lie straight in bed, and
when they sleep in very cold room, it
is but common comfort to give them a
foot blanket. 1t is one form of safety
to warm foot blankets ready for such
members of the family as have been
out in the cold at night. Rubbing the
feet smartly is better than warming
them at fire. For sick persons, warm
shoes as hot as the feot will bear, and
put them on; it is much better and
wicker way than using bottle of hot
water, or heating brick. To go to
bed with cold feet or hungry, is idiocy,
when both can be avoided. .-RatfaI Ne,o
Yorker.
MILK AND OH IN DIsEAsE.-Dr.
w. W. Townsend, a well-known physi-
clan in Philadelphia, in writing to the
Scientific American ON the use of milk
as diet in dysentery and typhoid fever,
says:
l am now in my seventy-fifth year,
and have witnessed several epidemics of
dysentery, typhoid, scarlet and relaps-
ing fevers, smallpox, measles, &C., and
have used milk in every case coming
under my care for near 40 years, in
every stage of the disease. l will not
say it is a cure, for do not believe in
the so-called cures and specifies. "
Milk is the natural food of all mamma
lians. 1t not only sustains life, but
promotes the growth of every part of
; the system. No other article contains
all these ingredients. 1t is the recup-
erative power of nature that performs
5 the cure, and he who studies how to
u assist it by sustaining the system is the
best physician, and milk is one of the
best agents that can be used. In dys-
II entery prefer fresh buttermilk, as al
i the patient wants is perfect rest, and
o discard all irritating cathartics and pur
: gatives. Mercury in any of its prepar
ations is poison in dysen terry or scarlet
l. fever, and the physician who gives then
" will never be successful. If his patien
lie RECEIVERS, it will be despite his treatment
r. l will add that in smallpox and scarle
le fever | anoint the patient from hea'
to feet with olive oil, by means of
k badger brush, and repeat as often as
a disappears thereby allaying the heat
st keeping open the pores of the skin, pro
he ducing quietude, preventing congestio
q of the capillary circulation, and obviat
ing the necessity of anodynes. | hav
IT, practiced the greasing for 30 years, an
he was sneered at by my medical brother
,e for it and the milk treatment. Now
no believe it is in general use, and with tn
ty best results.