The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-07-02
THRMlDLAND JOURNAL.


up only once or twice year. This
is not only unsightly, but extremely
dangerous to the health of the family.
Watch these things carefully, at
least in hot weather, and he sure that
your cellar has been perfectly clean
ed and received a coat of lime. Burn
all refuse that will burn, carry the
rest to distance from the house,
and cart it away as often as possible.
Cholera and other plaques always go
where they find filth eeen or unseen to
feed upon. Many ordinarily neat
people are blind, blind about some of
these important matters which they
have not been brought up to consid.
err seriously. Little children are TAX.
en- sick and die-not because God
Wills it necessarily, but because there
are roLton cabbages and potatoes in
the cellar, and foul air arising from
every dark closet and vault about
the dwelling and outhouses, a some.
thing from the very ground itself.
Collodion, spirits of turpentine
and the common salye called oxide
of zinc, are each an invaluable rem
edy to apply to burns and scalds be.
fore a physician can arrive to do bet
ter, if better is to be done, and sweet
oil and lime water beaten up togeth.
er make cool and healing ointment
for them as good as any medlcament
known.-Harper's Bazar.
One of the most treacherous med
icines in all the pharmacopeia is the
hydrate of choral which is 80 com.
monty used; cases are reported where
two hundred grains have been taken
in safety, and other cases where ten
grains haye proved fatal or afforded
only narrow escape from death by
timely aid and effort; this drug
should never be taken but with the
advice and attendance ola physician.
For the disagreeable sensation
known as heartburn, which so often
accompanies indigestion, saltspoon-
fui of common salt dissolved in half
a wineglass of water, and drank, is
as effective a remedy as a dose of
saleratus water, and much pleas.
anter and safer one. Rubbing a
bruise IN sweet oil and then in spir-
its of turpentine will usually pre-.
vent the unsightly black and blue
spot which not only tells tales but
deforms.
Sir James Earle first called atten-
ton to the value of crushed ice in
the case of burns and scalds. After
being reduced by scraping finely the
ice is mixed with fresh lard into a
paste, which is put into thin cam
brio bag and applied to the part af-
fected. The ice should be as dry as
possible before putting into this bag.
This remedy is said to Danish all
pain until the mixture has so far
melted that fresh dressing is neces.
airy.
A correspondent of the National
Druggist thus writes:
''The writer's son had typhoid
fever during the heated term of last
summer, when the temperature of
the room often rose to 900 or. $50,
and the patients temperature ran up
to 1860 F. and over.
"a number of tubs were placed in
the room, and kept filled with ice,
and the doors kept closed The
temperature of the room sank 10 800
or less, an average Of 12o or $50 be-
low the temperature of the other
rooms in the house; and the cooler
atmosphere not only added to the
comfort of the patient, but aided in
keeping down the body temperature,
and materially contributed to final
recovery.
"We would strongly urge the use
of ice in the room, as measure of
comfort and luxury for all who are
confined to their beds during hot
summer DAYS, if they can afford the
expense, which, if ice for cooling
purposes is taken. is very moderate,
the cost last summer being only if
teen cents per hundred pounds. and
the average consumption somewhat
less than a thousand pounds day.
Good Results in Every
Case. .. !