The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-17
Food and Conscience.


Never 60 to bed in any danger of being
hungry. People are kept awake by hum
ger quite as much as by bad conscience.
Remembering that sleep is the essential
force which the whole scheme starts, de-
cline tea or coffee within the last six
hours before going to bed. If the women
kind insist you may have your milk and
water at the tea-table covered with tea;
but the less the better. Avoid all mathe-
mates or intricate study of any sort IN
the last six hours. This is the stuff
dreams are made of, and hot heads, and
the nuisance of waking hours. Keep
your conscience clear. Remember that
because the work of life is infinite, you
car.not do the whole of it in any limited
period of time, and that therefore you
may just as we'll leave off in one place as
another. -Edoard EucreH Hale.
Various Cures for the Toothache.
find that there are distinct kinds of
toothache, each relieved by distinct
remedies. There is first, neuralgia tooth
ache, which darts from nerve to nerve, be
the teeth sound or decayed; leaps from
the temples to the prlate-runs into the
ears and destroys rhc temper-does 1t
not2 It generally has special hours for
tormenting one, and denotes weakness OF
the system. Medical advice should be
taken as to the restoration of strength,
and, for temporary relief, warm wrap
round the head, as much rest as possible,
or as little worry-good food, and when
the pain comes on cup OF strong beef
tea; sometimes ordinary tea, strong, but
not infused too long, cuts short an at
tack. I, myself, who have to rise early
to my house-work, have often neuralgia
toothache until breakfast is ready, when
a cup of tea and warm food sends it
away and restores smiles to my counte-
nance.
Akin to neuralgia is nervous tooth
ache, which is agonizing pain in one
tooth, coming on instantly and vanish
ing as quickly. Fatigue, worry or
excitement produces it. Lie down in
stantly and have q piece of flannel
wrung out of boiling water and
sprinkled with laudanum applied
to your cheek. Drink. little sal-vola-
tile in water and rest until relieved.
Next we have the toothache arising from
a chill; the jaw is here rheumatic, the
gums are probably swelled and infamed.
If possible, 60 to bed at once. If you
have q warm room bathe your feet in
mustard and water, and roll up your head
in flannel Hot lamentations applied to
your jaws will also be very useful and
soothing.
Fourthly, we have the sad toothache,
which arises from an impure state of the
blood and is accompanied by gumboils,
VIOLENT Inflammation, and throbbing pain
in the decayed teeth. In this case medi-
cal advice must be taken, but the home
treatment should be hot lamentations or
poultices to relieve the gumboils, the
mouth frequently rinsed with carbonate
of soda (baking soda) and a dose OF
Epson salts taken. This reduces the in
fammation, I may mention that in
toothace caused by cold have often put
on mustard blister on the part affected
and found it very eficacious, but it
reddens the cheek for few days. To
avoid toothache attend assidiously to
your general health and you will not be
conscious you have teeth.-Jay Gefs, in
Detroit Free Press.