Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-22
HEALTH NOTES.

Cracked earthenware should never be
used for domestic purposes. 1t is safe
rule in good housekeeping to break any
| fractured stoneware to pieces and render
them quite untitled for any employment as
utensils. In a paper read before the
Academy of Sciences, Paris, NJ. Z. Pey-
russon demonstrated very clearly how the
germs of cholera, typhoid fever, and SINH
lar diseases may be preserved and COM
municated by even the slightest crack or
! fssure which may be caused by very
trifing accidents to crockery and faience.
The proper temperature for bath is the
one which feels agreeable and comfortable,
says the Herald Of Health, and not the one
that feels hot or cold. OF course these
may be necessary in certain cases. As
rule bath may last as long as it is agree.
| able. This may be one minute, five min
utes, or longer. Those who have Accus-
toned themselves to hot baths may lower
the temperature gradually, and soon ac-
custom themselves to a cold or cool bath.
An English doctor says he has found
cure for rheumatism in total abstinence
| from food. He declares that many cases
of acute articular rheumatism stave been
cured by fasting from four TO eight days,
while chronic rheumatism was also ale.
waited. No medicines were given, but pa
tients could have cold water and lemonade
in moderation The doctor states that
rheumatism is only phase of indiges-
ton, and therefore can be cured by giving
complete and continued rest TO all the d.
gestive organs.
A thirty years investigation of the sub
ject has convinced NJ. V. Burg OF the eff
| cacy of copper as a preventive and cura-
tive of cholera. The metal absorbed into
the system, he says, acts as an almost per-
feet prophylactic. the exceptions not being
more numerous than in the case Of vaccins-
| tion in defending people from smallpox.
Among other precautions he recommends
the external application of copper in the
metallic form, the burning OF dichloride OF
| copper in alcoholic lamps, wine mixed with
the natural mineral water Of St. Christian,
and the use of vegetables rendered green
by sulphate of copper.
Ii person swallow any poison what.
ever, or has fallen into convnlsiOns from
having overloaded the stomach, an instan-
taneous remedy, more efficient and appliea-
BILE in larger number of cases than half a
dozen we can now think of, is heaping
bSaS SPOoAlul VI SOILLlOH sd4L aUu as UuCH
ground mustard. stirred rapidly in Z teacup
of water, warm or cold, snd swallowed in
stantly. 1t is scarcely down before it be-
gins to come up, bringing with it the re-
naming contents OF the stomach and lest
there be any remnant of poison, however
small, let the white of an egg, or teacup
of strong coffee, be swallowed as soon as
the stomach is quiet. These very common
articles nullify larger number of virulent
poisons than any medicines in the shops.
A physician says For the wind in
the stomach" children are thought to
have, for their tiresome crying, and for
their restlessness and worrying at night
with which they are afflicted, if Che warm
bath were resorted to oftener instead OF
using soothing sirups and worse nostrums,
it would be far better for the children. In
preparing warm bath for infants, great
care should be taken not to have the water
hot. A lady remarks on this subject
"When my child was sick one night the
doctor ordered the hot water ready, and
said it was all right. Just as she was go
ing to put the child in l said, Pat your
elbow into the water first She did so and
found it altogether too hot In washing
my babies l often find the water that ia
agreeable to my hands is not SO to my
flesh that is covered with clothing, which
leads me TO think oftentimes babies are
tortured, and even injured, by giving them
a bath in water that is too hot.