The Northern Pacific farmer. [volume] (Wadena, Minn.) 1878-1885, 1884-02-14
HYGIENICS.
Ways Of Retaining or RegainiDg
Health.

ways OF fteCa1n1n2 or he&&1n1Ds
Health.
Methyl salicylate (oil of w1ntergreen)
mixed with an equal quantity of olive
oil or linimentum saponis, applied 'ex-
ternally to inhamed joints affected by
acute rheumatism, affords instant relief,
and, having a pleasant odor. it's use is
very agreeable.-Therapeutic Review.
DIR: George r. Shepherd of Hartford
says in respect to the use of hot water
IS remedial agent in the treatment of
Inflammation OF tn mucous membranes:
~ have used hot water as gargle for
the past six or eight years: In acute
or cold in the head, if properly used
it constitutes one of the
most effective remedies, being fire.
Quently promptly curative.--To be of
service it should be used in considerable
quantity "a half pint or a pint at time),
and just as hot as the throat will toler-
ate. have so many cases Of acute dis
ease thus aborted, and can commend the
method with great confidence"
The latest agent introduced for the re-
lief of neuralgia is one per cent. solu-
ton of hyperosmic acid, administered by
simultaneous injection, It has been en-
ployed in Billroth's clinic in a few cases.
One of the patients had been q martyr
to sciatica for years, and had tried in
Vulnerable remedies, including the ap-
plication Of electricity no fewer than two
hundred times, while for whole year
he had adopted vegetarianisnl. Billroth
injected the above remedy between the
tuber ischii and trochanter, and within
q day or two the pain was greatly re-
lieved, and eventually quite disappeared.
1t would be rash to con-
clude too much from these results,
in the face of the intractability of Deu-
ralgia to medication, but lift really prove
to be as etticacious as considered, hyper.
osmic acid will be therapeutic agent of
no mean valu, .-Lancet
The nerves and brain will not work
we'll when there is any pressure on them.
Pressure on the main nerve Of limb
alters it's conducting power, and causes
a sensation of numbness. For this rea-
son all bands, shoes or articles of dress
which construct or press on the nerves
of the skin, interfere with and diminish
brain action in proportion to the
amount of pressure. Women who wish
to do the best brain work cannot be the
devotees of fashion, but must dress "a
tionally. Irritation of any nerve extrem-
ity prevents one from doing good brain
work. A silver in the finger, a tooth
ache, a wound, or boil, will prevent fine
study or thought. A certain amount OF
bodily heat is also necessary. When one
is cold he cannot think we'll. Cold blood
ed animals have less active nervous sys-
TENS than warm blooded ones.-W. L.
Holbrook.
More quarrels arise between brothers,
between sisters, between hired girls. be-
tween school girls. between clerks in
stores, between hired men, between
cal changes through their system by
lodging together night after night under
the same bed clothes than by any other
disturbing cause says the London Ian.
Get. There is nothing that will 80 de-
range the nervous system of a person
who is eliminative in nervous force as
to lie all night in bed with another per-
son who is absorbent in nervous force.
The Rbsorber will 60 to sleep and rest
all night, while the eliminator will be
tumbling and tossing, restless and ner-
vous, and wake up in the morning fret
full peevish, fault finding and discour.
aged. No two persons, no matter who
they are should habitually sleep togeth.
er. One will thrive, the other will lose.
This is the law.
There are substances which, taken in
to the body, produce strangez=eontrasts
in respect to felicity and depression.
Foods well cooked, foods carefully Sc.
lected, foods supplied in sffcient guam
tity to sustain the body equally in all
its parts, and so moderate as never to
Cypress the nervous digestive powers, all
conduce to felicity in the most telling
manner. Many common foods and
drinks affect the system specially. As a
rule, all agents which stimulate, that is
to say. relax the arterial tension, and
soallow the blood freer course through
the organs, for time promote felicity,
but the reaction leave depression. The
alkaloid in tea, theme, has this effect.
It causes, a short and slight felicity. 1t
causes in a large number of persons
long ana severe, and painful sadness.
There are many who never know day
of felicity owing to this one destroying
cause. In our poorest districts, among
the poor women of our industrial pop
ulation, our stocking women,
the misery incident to their lot is
doubled by this one agent.-Dr. B. w.
Richardson the North American Review.