Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-25
THE HOME PHYSICIAN,

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THE HOME PHYSICIAN.
To CURE PHTHIsIC. Take handful
| Of sunfower seeds, mash them fine.
pour boiling water over them: let it
| simmer few minutes, then pour Of.
and when cool enough drink. Repeat
| the draught until relieved. Good for
| children or adults.
CHILBLAINs.-A correspondent of
| the Boston Journal of CRenaistry fur
n7shes simple remedy for chilblains.
| i IS simply solution of thirty grains
Of permanganate of potasSa in an ounce
OF pure water, to be applied thorough
~ bE brush or swab, or in the form OF
gouitice. We give it for what it may
lie worth.
REFRESHING FOR THE SICK ROOM.-
There is a French story that during the
plague at Marseilles band of robbers
plundered the dying and the dead with
ont INJURY TO themselves. They were
imprisoned, tried and condemned to
t.le. but were pardoned on condition of
disclosing the secret whereby thev
could, with impunity, ransack houses
infected with the terrible scourge.
They gave the following recipe, which
makes a delicious and refreshing wash
for the sick room: Take of rosemary,
Wormwood, lavender, rue, sage and
mint, large handful of each. Place
n stone jar, and turn over it one
gallon of strong cider vinegar. cover
closely and keep near the fire for four
days; then strain and add one ounce of
powdered camphor gum. Bottle and
keep tightly corked. It is very arc
matte, cooling and refreshing in the
sick room, and is of great value to
nurses.
AIR BATHs.-A writer in the Boston
journal OF Chemistry contributes an
interesting article on air baths. He
holds that large proportion of inva-
lids do not bear well the application of
either cold or tepid water to the BODY.
Only the strong and robust in cold
climates can endure the icy streams of
the shower-bath. The sponge-bath
even saps the vitality of many to fatal
extent, and feeble persons are rarely
IN any degree benefited by its use. The
tepld bath, as a curative means. con-
stantiy followed, weakens rather than
strengthens, and, in short, he claims
that bathing, beyond the needs of per-
feet cleanliness, is not to be recon-
mended to any one. The "douching''
and 'wetsheet" hygienic institutions.
he says, have had their day. The
"steaming and sweating" Turkish bath
has been popular, but its evils have
been so frequently demonstrated that
It IS rapidly falling into disuse. This
Is the way. the writer states, the high
est good may be obtained from the air
bath, q curative agent that comes with
out money and without price to the
feeble and physically impoverished:
The morning is the time for the air
bath, and all that IS required is a hair
cloth mitten and moderately cool
room. When the invalid steps from
the bed to the floor in the morning. let
the air glove or mitten be seized. and
without removing the night clothes pro-
coed to rub gently ali parts Of the bOdy,at
the same time walking about in the room
until a feeling of fatigue is experienced;
then drop the glove and gently pass the
hand over all parts Of the body before
resrming the clothing. Unless the
nude body is extremely sensitive 10
cold, a portion may be exposed to the
az tOT 4 few moments while IN motion.
even Or the first morning. The next
morning jump out Of bed In a m0der-
ately cold room and go over the same
process as before, remaining a little
longer exposed to the air after the rub
bing. The third morning repeat this
treatment; and on the fourth or at
the end Of a week, take off all the
night-clothing and briskly apply the
hair glove, first with the right hand
and then with the left, all the time
walking about. Follow up this, as the
degree Of strength permits, morning
after morning, until the body is so re-
iuverated and the blood so attracted to
the surface that the cool air is felt to be
a luxury. Let the body be entirely
nude, no socks upon the feet, no scarf
about the chest. At first, or after the
first week, perhaps, the exposure to the
pure cool air may be three or four min
utes: soon increase the exposure, until.
after a month or two, the air bath
NAV continue for twenty minutes
o. half an hour. Do not fail to walk
about during the first month, using the
hands in polishing the skin After the
rSt month the patient may sit in the
9ir Of the room part of the time, but
constant gentle exposure is the best.
Another most important curative agent
n connection with the air bath is sun
GIT. IF possible" says the writer,
& sit and walk in the sunlight during the
bath" 1t is astonishing what the di-
rect active rays of the morning sun can
] for an invalid when the whole nude
5ody Is brought under its influence.
THERE are 10000 Mormons who up
lcid polygamy in the Territory of Idaho