The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-17
SOME PRACTICAL DoNT'S.

caramelS, and these very rarely.
Don't permit a child under five
to remain out of bed after eight
pm. even ifyou have to forego social
duties you think most sacred?
Don't think that child needs
food each time it manifestS hunger.
Try to assuage its thirst by several
teaspoonfuls Of boiled and cooled
water.
Don't hold child in convulsions
in your arms, but strip it quickly
and immerse it to the neck in a hot
bath, to which a tablesoonful of
mustard may be added.
Don't allow a patient with collie
tosufer until the physician arrives
give large injections (two quarts OF
warm water with ten drops, adult
dose, of tincture of opium).
Don't seek relief for burns by the
use of cold water if nothing else
is obtainable use warm water bet
ter still, keep the part wet with
sweet or inseed 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 fifteen drops Of tine.
ture of ergot (no sugar of Lead or
acid) every hour, until your physi-
clan 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, especially when
the person is much fatigued: or in
q crowded room.
Don't eat pork. When it is abb
solutely unavoidable to do so it
should be rendered harmless by
being thoroughly cooked by a
strong fire.
Don't allow meat and vegetables
| to be placed in the same compart-
ment of the refrigerator.
Don't wear high heels. Women
who wear them publicity advertise
| the fact that they seek or wish to
maintain serious internal trou-
bles.
Don't mistake weight for warmth
in clothing. Feeble people may be
worn down by heavy clothing and
vet be less sheltered than those
who wear light woollen fabrics,
both as inner and outer garments.
Don't read, write or do any deli
cate 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 cars
with anything but the tip Of the
little finger.
Don't attemptto remove hardened
ear wax by picking it out. If you
cannot reach a physician when
hardened ear wax becomes trouble
some or painful, you may gently
inject (by means of a fountain
syringe) warm water, to each pint
of which half an ounce of bicarbo-
nate of soda has been added.
Don't allow yourself to become
habitually constipated. Coax in
'testinal action by regularity of hab-
it, exercise, fresh and stewed fruits
and the avoidance of constipating
food.
Don't believe that eating fat will
make you fat; quite the contrary
holds true.
Don't eat gamey meats; renem'
ber that ''gamey" is the hyper re
fined word for rotten.
Don't try to check.a diarrhea sud-
denly.
"Don't pour mouthful Of coffee
into an empty stomach, even if you
must tear q button from your coat
and swallow it BEFORE says an Ara
bic proberb. 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
to give a violent blow on the back
Immediately after the accident. Il
this does not succeed, have the
patient held suspended by the feet
head downward, and moved rapidly
from side to side while you strike
between shoulders with the
palm of the hand. Stop this at once
if the patient shows evidences oi
suffocation. If these continue OF
the foreign body is not dislodged
| Sopd for a surgeon to perform