Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-01
FAMILY DOCTOR.

A HANDFUL of -four bound on a cut
will Immediately stop the bleeding.
BURNS and scalds are immediately re-
heved by an application OF dry soda
covered with a wet cloth, moist enough.
to dissolve it.
To REPLENIsH the fire in II sick-roonr
when the patient is sleeping, have the,
coal in paper bags, and they may then,
be handled noiselessly.
A CURE FOR ScIAwoA.-A cure for
neuralgia and sciatica-and, as [ anr
told, an unfailing one-is too valuable
not to be recorded. An English officer,
who served with distinction in the var
with Napoleon, was once laid up in q
small village in France with a severe
attack of sciatica. It so happened !A.5
at that time tinman was being en-
ployed at the house where he lodged,
and that this tinman, having been him
self soldier, took an interest in the
officers case, and gave him cue which,
IN this instance, succeeded immediately
! and forever, and which I am about to-
set down. 1t is at any rate so simple,
as to be worth trial. Take mcder-
ate-sized potato, rather large than
small, and boil it in one quart of water
Foment the part affected with the wa
ter In which the potato has been boiled
as hot as it can be borne at night be-
fore going to bed; then crush the pota-
to and put it on the affected part as
poultice. Wear this all night and in
the morning heat the water, which
should have been preserved, over again.
and again foment the part with it as
hot as can be borne This treatment
must be persevered with for several
days. 1t occasionally requires to be.
continued for as much as two or three.
weeks, but in the shorter or longer time.
it has never failed to be successful
Vanity Fair.
NIGHT Work AND LONG HoURs.-
There is no disease so insidious, nor
when fully developed so difficult to-
cure, as that species Of nervous degen-
Grafton or exhaustion produced by
night-work or long hours. It is easy
to understand how such state of pros
tration may he induced. The brain
and the nervous system have be very
aptly compared to galvanic battery in
constant use to provide a supply of
electric fluid for consumption within
given time. Gas long" say recent
writer, "as supply and demand are fair
~ balanced, the functions which owe
their regular and correct working TO
the fluid are carried on with precision;
but when, by ftful and excessive de-
mand carried far beyond the means Of
supply, the balance is not only lost, but
| To- l., I
| injured-disorder at first and disease
afterward are the result This illus
trates pretty clearly the condition of a
well balanced brain and nervous sys-
TEN, supplying without an effort all the
nervous force required In the operations
of the mind and body, so long as it's
work is in proportion to it's powers: but
if embarrassed by excessive demands
feebly and ftfully endeavoring to car
ry on these mental and physical opera
tiOns over which it formerly presided
without an effort" The symptoms.
of nervous prostration are exceedingly
painful; we can afford to pity even
the man of pleasure, who has
by his own foolish conduct induced
them, but much more so the brain
worker, who has been burning the.
midnight oil in the honest endeavor to
support himself, and probably a wife
and family, with responsibility III life.
He has made a mistake for which we
can readily forgive him. In the pleas
urable excitement of honest toll lie has
forgotten that the supply Of work can
not be regulated by the demand or need
for it, but by the power to produce it.
He has been living on his capital as.
well as the interest thereof, and when
he finds the former failing-whcn he
finds lie has no longer the strength to.
work as he used to do, and starvation
itself probably staring him in the face
if he ceases to toll, why the very thought
of coming collapse tends only to haston
the catastrophe. and reason itself may
| fall before the continued mental strain.
-CdSSeUs Magazine.