Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-10-25
SOME PRACTICAL DoN,Ts.

Don't give child any sweets except
molasses candy or chocolate CaramclS,
and these very rarely.
Don't permit a child under five to re-
main out of bed after eight p. NJ, even if
you have to forego social duties you
think most sacred.
Don't think that child needs food
each time it manifests hunger. Try to
assuage thirst by several teaspoonfuls Of
boiled and cooled water.
Don't hold child in commissions in
your arms, but strip it quickly and i'm
merse it to the neck in a hot bath, to
which a tablespoonful of mustard may be
added
Don't allow a patient with collie to
suffer until the physician arrives; give
large injections 1.-TWO quarts of warm wa
ter with ten drops, adult dose, of tine
ture of opium.
Don't seek relief for burns by the use
of cold water; if nothing else is obtain
able use warm water; better still, keep
the part wet with sweet or linseed oil.
Don't lose your head when with cases
of bleeding from the lungs; they very
rarely prove Immediately fatal. Prop
the patient up in bed, and give him
small pieces of ice to swallow, and tif
teen drops of tincture of ergot (no sugar
of lead or acid every hour, until your
physician arrives.
Don't imagine that sunstroke Cheat
prostration) follows exposure to the sun
exclusively. The same may be produced
by excessive heat even at night, es-
pecially when the person is much fatigued,
or in a crowded room.
Don't allow meat and vegetables to be
placed in the same compartment of the
refrigerator.
I Don't wear high heels. Women who
wear them publicly advertise the fact that
they seek or wish to maintain serious in
ternal troubles.
Don't mistake weight for warmth in
clothing. Feeble people may be worn
down by heavy clothing, and yet be less
sheltered than those who wear light
wooden fabrics, both as inner and outer
garments.
Don't read, write or do any delicate
work unless receiving the light from
above and over the shoulder. Don't
read in street cars or other jOlting
vehicles.
Don't rub the eyes, except with your
elbow.
Don't attempt to clean the ears with
anything but the tip of the little finger.
Don't attempt to remove hardened ear
wax by picking it out. If you cannot
reach physician when hardened ear wax
becomes troublesome or painful, you may
gently inject (by means of fountain
svringe) warm water, to each pint Of
which half an ounce of bicarbonate of
soda has been added.
Don't believe that eatiug fat will make
you fat; quite the contrary holds true.
Don't eat gamey meats; remember that
''gamey" is the Unprecedented word for
rotten.
Don't pour a mouthful of coffee into
an empty stomach, even if you must tear
a button from your coat and swallow it
before" says an Arabic proverb. This
applies to tea as well.
Don't attempt to remove foreign bodies
from the upper part of the windpipe by
trying to reach them with instruments of
any kind. Try giving a violent blow on
the back Immediately after the accident.
If this does not succeed, have the patient
held suspended by the feet, head down
ward, and moved rapidly from side to
side while you strike between the shout
ders with the palm of the hand; stop
this at once if the patient shows evil
dences Of suffocation If these continue,
Or the foreign body is not dislodged,
send for surgeon to perform tracheoto-
my or laryngotomy as quickly as posi-
.-PhrenoJOgical Journal.