Connecticut western news., 1886-01-13
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.

Simple Remedy for Nervous Headache.
 A medical paper announces simple remedy for nervous headache, which is nothing more nor less than a solu- tion of bi-sulphide of carbon. A wide mouth glass-stoppered bottle is half filled with cotton or fine sponge, and upon this two or three drachms of the solution are poured. When occasion for it's use occurs, the mouth of the bottle is to be applied to the temple or as near as possible to the seat of the pain, so closely that none of the vola- tile vapor may escape, and retained there four or five minutes, or longer. For 8 minute or so nothing is felt, then comes sense of tingling, which in few minutes-three or four usu- ally-becomes rather severe, but which subsidies almost immediately if the bottle be removed, and any redness of the skin that may occur will also quickly subside. It may be reapplied, if necessary, several times in the day. and it genarally acts like magic,giying immediate relief.
 Whooping Cough and Conta9ion.
 Can this be whooping cough :? This question must often and often be asked. and answered to the best of ones ability. Can the disease exist without what has been called the dis tinctive whoopp It can, and often does. And in different cases the whoop has different sound and char acters. It is caused by a half convul- sive, half suffocating effort to draw in breath again after fit of coughing, and is often very loud.a kind of crow ing or piping sound, very distressing to listen to, and most distressful for the little sufferer. I have said ''little sufferer" because the complaint is one of childhood proper, but it is by no means rare in grown-up people.
 Bearing in mind, then, the very serious nature of this disease, and it's extreme infectiousness, to say nothing of the dangerous complications which it may give rise to, we cannot, I think. be too careful to prevent it's spread among the other members of a family, or among children generally.
 It is astonishing how little care is taken to prevent the spread of dan gerous ailments in family by the parents. What lessening of acute suffering there would be, and what 8 diminution in doctors bills, were this otherwise! A sick child is one per sons work by night and by day; a family of ailing ones means strain upon the nerves and a drain upon the system of the mother or nurse, that may seriously affect her health for life. Therefore I preach sanitation, and the isolation of the little patient in all cases of whooping cough, or even of distressing coughs, when the real ailment is about. This isolation is easily enough carried out in most families. I think I have before rec commended the setting apart of sick or hospital room in all houses where this can be done.
 The room should be upstairs, as high as possible, it ought to have a cheerful outlook. and quiet. A plain bedstead without curtains, a little wardrobe, a table, cupboard, and a chair or two constitute all the furni- ture that is permissible. If there are curtains at all about the windows, they should he of light guaze or lace. The windows themselves should be large, and have crimson or green blinds, but these should not be kept drawn down, as is too often the cus- tom, for sunlight is great and pow erful factor in the cure of disease of almost every kind; Ventilation ot this hospital room should be we'll secured, and with safety; guaze screen to fit the lower half of a window, permits it to be widely opened without the dan. ger that might accrue from draught. The floor of the sickroom should not be covered with carpet: it ought-to be we'll secured. and always perfectlv clean. and little bits of any thin kind drugget. or straw mats, put down tc drown the sound of the attendants feet.-A Fansily Doctor in Cassel.