Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-09-11
A FEW HEALTH HINTS.
pR. OSWALD MAKES SOME SUCCESS
 TONS THAT ARE TIMELY.

spain's Popular Remedy for sunstroke
 -Prejudice Against Drinking Fresh
 Water in Hot weather-Calorio Food
 Loss of BIood-Cure for Lockjaw.
 In the seaport towns of southern Spain, sunstrokes are as common as chiolalns In Canada, and the popular remedy IS both sim pie and efficient A thick hnea bandage Is wrapped around the head and kept satu- rated with cold water, ''por sacar el fuego," as they call It-"to draw out the lire Ey- cry two minutes or so, the water IS re- newed. till the patient has recovered sui ficiently 10 sit up and continue cooling his temples with Q wet sponge l have never known that method 10 involve any inJuri- ous after effects, and believed that its em- ployment wo ld often break the incipient symptoms of climatic feverS though the popular prejudice against the influence of cold in all it's forms may recommend less rational specifics, bleeding, for instance, which at best exchanges momentary stu DOT for a week-long languor, and liability to relapseS
 PREJUDICE AGAINST FRESH WATER
 But it seems less easy 10 account for the egregious obstinacy of the preJudi,e against fires water as a beverage for healthy per sons under the influence of excessive heat A soldier reaching his noon-dRy camp in shady grove, 0 wayfarsr haltinS at pub lie well, a boy returning from a butterfly chase, are sure to be warned against the dis astrous effects Of cold water drank in the heat Wait till you cool off" "Take a drink of cotfee frstp You'll catch your death at that old spring. etc. Yet even the popular night air dread is not more utterly
 gratuitous We might as well be asked to
 believe that a way worn foot traveller mus
 not risk to sit down without first resting a
 few minutes in Q standing position We
 might as well warn a drowsy child against shutting bot eyes at once at the risk ot
 falling asleep too abruptly. The truth Is
 that q drink of cold water is hellthiest when
 the system is most urgently in neei of II, and at no other time the stomach more read lily forgives the a5ruptness of sudden repie
 .ion Only drunxards and persons whose digestive organs have besn dsbilitatei by long abuse risk the least unpleasant conSe- qusnces from free indulgence in the most natural of all di.usnts and refrig erants
 But, on the other hand, there Is no doubt
 that previous exposure to excessive heat increases the danger of surfeiting the sys- tem with caloriac fooi; that pork eaten in quantity after a warm days work often re- suits in a deliquium equaling the wors- symptoms of cholera morbuS Greasy ragouts become more indisestible in stunt mer; a quantum of Suet pudding, which at other times would produce only Q slight heartburn, has in sultry weathsr to be eK- plated by e it of distressing costiVenesS Tourists on returning from a dog s-day ex-
 far aff Nuralearfn~ hnr. vest day, snouli therefore coniine them selves to molerat. quantities Of food. and if possible abstain for q meal or two fre t all heat producing viands 4 jelly Tu ding with cold milk and sugar, or a plateIul of cold fruit and cakes will abundantiy satisfy the demands Of nature, which on such days are never eIorbitAnL The feeling of op- presive heat, in fact, diminishes all appe- tites except the desire for ref-iSeration
 AN ExHAUsTING LOSS or BLOOD.
 The appetite for solid food is also re- markably reduced by an exhausting loss Of blood, while the craving for fluids Is at the sane time increased On the day after the capture of Ori1aba, they brought me a Mestizo, who had been struck by a piece of a shell and found stunned and almost ex- sanguis, the hemOrrhage having been stopped only by the coagulation of the blood in his hair. After bandRging tho sore, which after all was only s,alp wound, l turnei him over to my landlord with the request to send for @ dozen oranges and gallon of nieve, or crushed ice. Out of those ingredients and lot of water and sugar my host brewed pailful of sherbet, and entering the sick-room towards evening was ap- palled to find that his guest had put him self outside the entire contents of the pail l succeeded in moderatins his ap- prehensions, but half an hour after he came Lack in a state of still greater amazemenL When he sent tho children with several platsfuls Of tid-bits from the supper table, the Mestizo had declined to partake, but l asked for another quart of that "eold syrup" - Won't it give him his death of cold or Q dropsyP No danger, if he IS thirsty Can he live if he don't eatfH ~Yes, if he | isn't hungry My host shook his head; but | the next morning our guest loft the house | with a firm step, smoking a cigaretts, as if | nothing had happene1
 Moisture, in the form of a por-bath is | an excellent remedy for tetAnus, or lockjaw | The immobility of the jaw IS only tho cul- | minatiye symptom of a complaint which | might be defnd As rigor of the upper mo- I tor muscles Tho affection begins with a | peculiar stiffness in the back part of the | neck, rendering every sideward motion of the head painful or even impossible: before | long the cramp-like sensation extends to the | spine; the patient feels impelled to bend for ward to relieve the strain on the shoulder Il muscles; headaches and feeling of general fl numbness beget a disposition to sleep. and on awakening from tttul nap the teeth feel set as firmly as those of a powerful Il steel trap. The patient leans his head on bis clutched fist, while spasms of the neck Il muscles often beget sensation as II the hinges of the Jaw bones were mechan- lcally riveted, and could be moved only by breaking force if not by a miracle Yet Q steam bath. or oven wet pack in sheets drencLsd with warm water. Is generally sufficient to accomplish that The combined influence of warmth and moisture seems to relax the ri-or of the first the spine, and by-and by the neck and jaws feel the relief, and by con .inual friction the danger of a relapse can De obviatsd for Q quarter of an hour. after which the abnormal symptoms will be re. iuced to a lingering numbaess, as after n stunning fall-Dr. Felix I. Oswald in Home and Farm