Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-02-15
HYGIENICS.
Ways of Retaining or Regainiug
E Health.

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Methyl salicvlate (oil Of wlntergreen)
mixed with an eonal quantity of olive
oil or lininentum saponis, applied ex-
ternally to infamed JOINTS affected by
acute rheumatism, affords instant relief,
and, having q pleasant odor Its use is
very agreeable. -Therapeuti 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 til mucous membranes:
II have used hot water as gargie for
the past six or eight years. In acute
pharynsitis and tonsiIitis, and in coryza,
or cold in the head, if properly used
in the commencement OF the attack,
it constitutes one Of the
most effective rene lies, being fire.
quentlv promptly curative. To be Of
service it should be used in considerable
quantity "a half,pln or a pint at t.me),
and just as hot as the throat will toler-
ate. | have so many cases OF acute dis.
ease thus aborted, and ca" commend the
method with great conf 'ence.'
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 ap-
plicaIion of electricity no fewer than two
hundred times, while for q whole year
he had adopted vegetarianisn. Billroth
injected the above remedy between the
tuber ischii and trochanter, and within
p day or two the pain was greatly re.
lieved, and eventually quite disappeared.
It would be rash to con-
clude too much from these results,
in the face of the intractability of neu-
ralgia to medication, but lift really prove
to be as eff caciou: 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 nunbness. 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
to do the best brain work cannot be the
devotees of fashion, but must dress ra-
tionalIy. Irritation of any nerve extrem-
ity prevents one from doing good brain
work. A silver in the finger, q tooth.
ache, wound, OK bols, 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 bIooded 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. says the London Lam
Get. There is nothing that will 50 de-
range the nervous sy stem Of a person
who is eIjminative in nervous force as
to lie all night in bed with another per:
son who is absorbent in nervous force.
The absorber will 20 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
fui peevish, fault finding and oiscour.
aged. No two persons. no mater who
they are should habitua!Iy sleep togeth-
or. One will thrive, the other will lose.
This is the law.
There are substances which, taken in
to the body, produce strange contrasts
in respect to felicity and depression.
Foods we'll cooked, foods carefully Sc.
lecled. foods supplied in sffi,ient guam
tity 20 sustain tbs body equally in ali
its parts. and so moderate az 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 q time promote felicity,
but the reaction leave depression. The
alka!oid in tea, theme, has this effect.
It causes, short an / slight felicity. 1t
eau es in a large number of persons
long and severe, aud painful Sadness
There are many who never know q day
of felicity owing to this one destroying
cause. In our poorest districts, among
the poor women OF our industrial pop
ulation, our s,o:king-weaving women,
the misery incident to their lot is
doubled by this one agent.-:Dr. B. w.
Richardson the Notrh American Review.