The Arizona sentinel., 1885-02-14
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

FIAT MEAT.-Mauy DubCucIS VIII buduh
 Dr. Hammond for this: "Eat plenty of
 well-cooked and nourishing food. The
 nerves cannot be kept healthy on slops.
 Gruels, panadas and teas arc well enough
 in their way, but the nerves require for
 their proper nourishment undiluted animal and vegetable food as rule the
 former should predominate. 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"
 IN BABYHooD.-A 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. It is done with the view of teaching 1t all the sooner to maintain the erect attitude; but bent legs may be the result, and, however strong bent-legged 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 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 ren 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.
 CARBoL1o ACID IN DRHTHER1A.-Dr. 2. T. Magill, of Lincoln, Mo-, con- tributes to the Chicago Medical Journal the method of treating diphtheria 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 con- 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 a 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- tient's head. The room must be closed. In a short time the patient will perspire freely. If persevered in at short inter vals, breathing becomes softer, and, after a succession of quick, expulsive efforts, the patient throws of 8 coat or tube of false membrane. The acid vapor seems to prevent the re- formation of emulation. Alcohol and sulphate of quirine are used in conjunc- tion with the acid, for their supporting 
 EATABLEs FOB THE S1cK.-A writer in LGad and Water cautions nurses and attendants against the too-common prac- tice of leaving milk, blancmanges, jellies, 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 nents 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 cov- cred, is bad practice. If it be intend sd for an invalid 1t may convey the seeds of disease rather than the elements ,f nutrition, and if transferred to the
 able may iniuriously affect the whole
 amily. As 8 rule, articles which have been standing in the sick-room should oe thrown to the waste. In cases of contagious diseases it is advised to burn he clothing which has been worn by the sufferer or used for bedding. When
 his is not done thorough disinfection is recommended. As food disinfection is hardly to be thought of, let all such ar icles as have been exposed at the bed
 tide of the sick be dumped in the gar page or swill- barrel. -Dr. Foote's HeaLth l Monthly.