River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1884-02-14
HYGTENICs.
Ways OF Retaining or Regaining
Health.

Ways OF Retaining or Regaining
Health.
Methyl salicylate Toll of wintergreen)
mixed with an equal quantity of olive
oil or linimentum saponis. applied ex-
ternally to infiamed joints affected by
acute rheumatism, affords instant relief,
and, having a pleasant odor. its use is
very greeable.-Therapeu Review.
DR.. George r. Shepherd of Hartford
says in respect to the use OF hot water
as remedial agent in the treatment of
Inflammation of tn : mucous membranes:
II have used hot water as gargle for
the past six or eight years. In acute
pharyngitis and tonsilitis, and in coryza.
or cold in the head, If properly used
in the commencement of the attack,
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 halfpint or 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. 1t has been en-
ployed in Billroth's clinic In few cases.
One of the patients had been martyr
to sciatica for years, and had tried in
Vulnerable remedies, including the APP
plicaJion of electricity no fewer than two
hundred times, while for whole year
he had adopted vegetarianism. Billroth
injected the above remedy between the
tuber ischii and trochanter, and within
II fxxt<, 4 HI MofI
lieved, and eventually quite disappeared.
1t would be rash to corr
clude too much from these result1,
in the face of the intractability of neu-
ralgia to medication, but ifitreally prove
to be as efficacious 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 its 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 ra-
ity prevents one from doing good brain
| work. A silver in the finger, q tooth
ache, 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 well. 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
husbands and wives, owing to electri-
cal changes through their system by
lodging together night after night under
the same bed clothes than by any other
disturbing cause saws the London Lam
Get. There is nothing that will SO de-
range the nervous sy stem of 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 absorber 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.
4 his ~ Tic INV
There are substances which. taken in
to the body, produce strange contrasts
in respect to felicity and depression.
Foods well cooked, foods carefully Sc
lected, foods supplied in sfficient guam
tity to sustain the body equally in all
it's 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
so allow the blood freer course through
the organs, for time promote felicity,
but the reaction leave depression. The
alkaloid in tea, theme, has this effect.
1t causes, short and slight felicity. 1t
causes in large number of persons a
long and 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 weaving women,
the misery incident to their lot is
doubled by this one agent.-Dr. b. w.
Richardson the North American Review.