The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1885-07-18
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.


Ear MEAT.-Many butchers will thank
DR.. Hammond for this "Eat plenty Of
well-cooked and nourishing food The
nerves cannot be kept healthy on slops.
Gruels, panadas and teas are well enough
in their way, but the nerves require for
their proper nourishment undiluted
animal and vegetable food as rule the
former should predominant. Meat eaters
are rarely troubled with nervousness.
Americans eat more vegetables than any
well-to-do people, and they are probably
the most nervous nation on the face OF
the earth. 1a
In BABYHooD.-Ay young child's bones
are soft and cartilaginous, and keeping
a poor little thing up against chair,
when it ought to be lying ON its back
kicking the air and strengthening its
limbs, or crawling on the nursery floor,
is positively injurious and sinful. 1t is
done with the view of teaching it all the
sooner to maintain the erect attitude;
but bent legs may be the result, and,
however strong bentlegged man may
be, he certainly does not look elegant.
Let the child creep, then, and as soon as
he finds he can pull himself up, and
stand by the side of q box, he will do
so. This is the only safe and natural
process. Soon after this he will, if en-
couraged, venture upon what parents
call the first step. Let him creep, and
when he walks and crawls laugh at him.
Unless you wish to make the child an
idiot, do not rush to pull him up. Child
rem are not all brittle, and they ought to
learn at very early age to depend upon
the strength nature has endowed them
with Western World.
CARBoL1c ACID IN DRHTHEB1A-Dr.
2. T. Magill, of Lincoln, Mo-, con-
tributes to the Chicago Medical Journal
the method of treating diphtheris from
which he has secured better results
than from any other. He uses an ordi-
nary hose, from three to five feet long
and about one inch in diameter. One
end is placed over the spout of COM
mon tea-kettle, into which has been put
half gallon of water and half an ounce
of carbolic acid. The kettle is then
placed on the stove over good fire,
and, when the water reaches the boiling
point, the free end of the hose is carried
under a blanket thrown over the pa
tents head. The room must be closed.
In short time the patient will perspire
freely. If persevered In at short inter
walls, breathing becomes softer, and,
presently, after a succession of quick,
expulsive efforts, the patient throws of
a coat or tube of false membrane. The
acid vapor seems to prevent the re-
formation of emulation. Alcohol and
sulphate of quinine are used in conjunc-
ton with the acid, for their supporting
properties.
EATABLEs FOR THE SICK.-A writer In
Land and Water cautions nurses and
attendants against the too-common prac-
tice of leaving milk, blancmanges, iellies.
and other delicacies and foods uncovered
in the sick room. He reminds the read
er that milk in the larder will keep meat
from spelling by absorbing the bacteria
and atmospheric Impurities which would
otherwise affect the meat. This, caution
is much needed. The emanations from
the bodies Of sick people are often vitiat-
ing if not infectious. The sick -room
can hardly have as pure air as apart
ments occupied by people In health, and
the latter are too often confined and
poorly ventilated. Leaving food of any
description in sleeping -room of occu-
pants sick or well, unless securely COW
cred, is a bad practice. If it be intend
ed for an invalid it may convey the
seeds of disease rather than the elements
of nutrition, and if transferred to the
table may iniuriously affect the whole
family. As a rule, articles which have
been standing in the sick-roem should
be thrown to the waste. In cases of
contagious diseases it is advised to burn
the clothing which has been worn by the
sufferer or used for bedding. When
this is not done thorough disinfection is
recommended. AS food disinfection is
hardly to be thought of, let all such ar
ticles as have been exposed at the bed
side of the sick be dumped in the gar
bage or swill-barrel.-Dr. Foote's Health
Monthly.