The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-29
Health Hints.
How to Preserve and Restore
Health.


-Dr. T. r. Allison, a believer in the
worth of vegetable food, says that diet
IL the philosophers stone. ''Allow me
to diet a man." be says, ''and | will
make him lively or sad, good OF bad
tempered, lazy or studious, long,
or short lived, or give him almost any
known disease"
NEW CURE FOR SMALL Pox.-A
surgeon in the English army in China
has discovered a remedy very efficient
in small pox. 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 army in India, and it is
considered a perfect cure.
WARM FEET.-Children and all fee
Bile folks whose feet become cold in bed,
should be provided with a foot-blanket,
AN ordinary wooden 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 a bad one, as when the
body is in a constrained pc ition, 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 a very cold room, it
is but common comfort to give t.lem 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 a fire. For sick persons, warm
shoes as hot as the feot will bear, and
put them on it is a much be ter and
wicker way than using a bottle Of hot
water, or heating q brick. To go to
bed with cold feet or hungry, is idiocy,
when both a be avoided. = Rurdl Nea
Yorker.
MILK AND Oh IN DIsEAsE.--Dr.
W. w. Townsend, a we'll known physi-
clan in Philadelphia, ia writing to the
Scientific American on the use of mill
as a diet in dysentery and typhoid fever.
says:
/ am now in my seventy-ifth year,
and have witnessed several epidelnics OF
lysentery, typhoid, scarlet and relaps.
ing fevers, smallpox, measles, &c, and
have used milk in every case coming
under my care for near 40 years, il
every stage of the disease. | will not
say it is a cure, for [ do not believe i'll
the so-called cures and specifics. >
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 in rredients. 1t is the rectp
erative power of nature that perform:
the cure, and he who studies how t
assist it by sustaining the system is the
best physician, and milk is one Of the
best agents that can be used. In dys
entery / prefer fresh buttermilk, as al
the patient wants is perfect rest, and
discard all irritating cathartics and pur.
g~atives. Mercury in any of its prepar.
ations is poison in dyson terry or scarlet
fever, and the physician who gives then
will never be successful. If his patient
RECEIVERS, it win be despite his treatment,
1 will add that in smallpox and scarlet
fever l anoint the patient from head
to feet with olive oil, by means of q
badger brush, and repeat as often as II
disappears ; thereby allaying the heat,
keeping open the pores of the skin, pro-
ducing q~uietude, preventing congestion
of the capillary circulation, and obviat'
ing the necessity of anodynes. | have
practiced the greasing for 30 years, and
was sneered at by my medical brethern
for it and the milk treatment. Now ]
believe it is in general use, and with the
best results.