Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-25
THE HOME DOCTOR.
SALT.

SALT.
Half teaspoOnful of common table salt
dissolved in little cold water, and drank,
Will instantly relieve ''heart- burn " or
| dyspepsia. Ii taken every morning be-
fore breakfast, increasing the quantity
| gradually to teaspoonful of salt and O
| tumbler of water, 1t will in q few DAYS
cure any ordinary case of dyspepsia, if,
at the same time due attention is paid
to the diet. There is no better remedy
than the above, for constipation. = HalTs
Journal of Health.
SUGAR NOT AN AGGRAvATION OF DYsPEP-
STA.
A writer in the Medicin Practicien pre-
sents quite different view of the rela-
ton of sugar to the gastric Juice from
that commonly held by chemists and
medical practitioners. To prove his DO
sitlon, he cites the case of q dyspeptic
doctor, who for twenty years had a ter
ror of sugar, but who now consumes
three and tlree-fourths ounces of sugar
daily without Inconvenience. Entering
the field OF experiment In this dIrecuion,
he found that dog ate eighty grains OF
sugar with 200 OF other food, and in six
hours afterwards its stomach not only
showed but little food but the mucous
lining of the stomach was redand highly
congested, and the congestion of the liv-
er was notable. Again an animal opened
after having eaten 200 grains of food and
no sugar whatsoever, showed 80 to 100
grains of sugar undigested. IT would
appear, therefore, that, contrary to COM
mon opinion, sugar favors the secretion
of the gastric juice.
MULLEN AS A REMEDY FOR COUGHS.
DR.. Quinlan, of Dublin, who last year
read paper at the British Pharmaceu-
teal Conference on the hemostatic prop
critics of the Pb0ntG9o IanceOJot0, has
recently investigated the properties of
the common mullen, Ver60sc1Jna Thap-
Sus british Medical Journal, January
27, p. 149.) This plant has long been
used IN Ireland as domestic remedy for
consumptive cough, and DR.. Quinlan
has made q series of experiments with
view to determine if it really possesses
the valuable properties attributed to it.
He finds that when boiled in milk the
patient takes the decoction readily and
experiences a physiological want when
it is omitted. Its power of checking
phthlsical looseness of the bowels and
the relief afforded to coughing were very
marked, so that the patients took hardly
any other cough mixture. In early
stages it appears to have distinct pow
er of increasing weight, but in advanced
cases DIR. Quinlan remarks that he is not
aware OF anything that will do this ex-
cept koumiss.
DANGER OF ICED DRINKS.
We wilt soon be in the midst of the
hot season when tired and thirsty NOR
tails are too apt to indulge in frequent
draughts of ice water This practice,
says the London Lancet, is one against
which many persons need to be put ON
their guard. Cold drinks are depressing
III their influence, and the result of TAX
ing such draughts when performing more
tnan common feats of strength and en-
| durance, particularly In middle age and
advanced life, is to lower the tone of the
! nerve centers at time when it is most
| desirable that they should be in excep-
tlonally good working order, so that they
may retain the vitality necessary to meet
unusual need. So far as we are aware.
the physiological effect of iced rotations
taken putting forth special strength and
making peculiarly large demand on
the vital force of the nervous system, is
either not understood or is forgotten.
For the sake of the many Jealous states
men or politicians who do not seem to
have given the need of special precau-
tons in this particular single thought,
it is desirable to point out that the worst
illnesses may, and do, proceed appar-
emily from insignificant causes. This is
one of the petty causes which may lead
to sad results.