Telegram-herald., 1891-09-09
EMERGENCY REMEDIES.
Yaoes Showing That Every Trade
Has It's Special Physic.
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either . fool OF . physician Al forty.
Here are two ancient adages which sug-
gest combination Every trade has
its special physic- This Is true In
conversation the other day with Re-
eorder reporter New York surgeon re-
marked that few things gave more pain,
attended with - much danger, as soms
particles Of line dust In the eye. A
gentleman standing by quietly re-
marked: And yet such an accident u
Of daily occurrence. Is attended hardly
with any danger, and is most easily
treated" How SOP" came . chorus Of
voicea-
We'll. win tell You I was brought
mp 10 the trade Of plasterer--a ceiling
plasssrer. You may not know that the
final layer upon good ceiling Is almost
pure lime. The plasserer stands upon
Q platform and lays on the paste IL
falls upon him in every direction. and.
especially II he is . new hand. often =
spatter falls right into his eye. When
he gets accustomed To tho work the eye
lid seems 10 get used to is, too. and
seems 70 close automatically in self-de-
feuss- Directly such an accident occurs
follow-workman talxcs q mouthful OF
water from the nearest pail-and there
u always . pail of water handy-opens
the eye as wide as possible and squirts
with au his force the contents Of his
mouth against the eyeban. This inme-
diately cools the lime and also drives 10
out Of the eye Simple remedy, isn't II.
and eminently practical Brt you SEQ
. mans eye would be burned out long
before he could reach the nearest doc
tor'a"
Immediately other gentlemen had
something 10 tell One was o wine
merchant my cellarmen have fun
ny way Of stopping bleeding. They
think nothing of a cut finger or hand.
or even large wound. They run 70
the nsarest spirit cash. or claret II spir.
its are not handy. and let few drops
fau en- the wound. 1t acts as an imme-
date styptic- Then big dusty old cob
web = taken from the nearest bottle or
corner Of bin. and clapped on tight
over the cut or abrasion. Cobwebs arc
splendid healing agents"
''SAilors,r said another, "are never at
loss under such circumstances; their
favorite styptic at sea Is bit of unrav-
cled taxred rops. On land they viii
take the quid of tobacco from their
cheek or the lining of their cap, and tho
effect Is astonishing. But 1 nave seen .
man wild drunk after such quid had
been tied over the wound. Isuppose tho
nicotine gets into the blood and acts -
IN intoxicant-"
Carpenters" said anothsr gentle
man, III they cut themselves, pick up .
handful Of hnc shavings and clap them
on to the wound, and joiners smear
dab Of glue; but ono OF the quaintess
things ever saw used was By an old
farmer mp In Chester county. He got
his hand badly torn BY bit Of old wire
fence, and he bled considerably. With
out thought be stopped down and dug
mp handful of soil. spa4 on II. and
worked IL quickly into paste. and lsid
II On the wound and bound n up with
his neekerchief. In IN astonishingly
short time he was st work again - Il
nothing had happened"
Can anyone tell me tho therapeutic
IL value Of fasting spittle?" asked
quiet man. 81 know that old wives, -
the saying il take great stock In il for
warts, birthmarks, corns, bruises, and
even small ssts. Indeed. old nurses
seem to believe that their saliva in the
morning before taking food il pana-
cea for every kind Of skin complaint
But did you ever hear Of an old beaver
or silk hat being used as q styptic? You
viii find 1t capital one, and for burns
and scalds, II placed over the wound in
sufficient quantity to keep ont the air,
it will draw out the heat rapidly, as
any hat manufacturer win vcuch."
1--WE are getting q little of the track,
said one, when we talk of fasting
spittle; deep sea fishermen and FISH,
mongers generally hold that nothing il
better than a piece of fish skin Eel
skins are commonly used to euro rheu-
matisn. and are considered infallible
by some A negro minstrel once told
me that nothing stopped bleeding and
assisted natures healing work so we'll
as burned cork. Thus every trade and
profession has iss own emergency rem
edies. - the doctor called them Just
now, and doubsless the list might be ex-
tended 70 every trade known"
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