Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1892-11-17

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EARAcuE. An excellent way to allie
viate the mlseries of carachc, is TO lay
over a stove-pIate which Is very warm,
thick cotton cloth which has just been
wrung out of water. A steam immedi-
ately rises. over which the child's aching
ear should be- held. The steam perme-
ates all the crevices as no other remedy
will, and instantaneous relief Is expert
enced
To PREVENT THRoAT TROUBLE IN
CHLDneN. Before the cold weather
comes on, rn1 colds, sore Threats, and
all the other attendant evils of our vari-
able climate are fairly with us, mothers
should see that their children accustom
themselves to the use of cold water on
the throat and chest. A vigorous wash
ing and scrubbing with cold water every
morning, followed by friction with a
coarse towel, will do much TO prevent
any throat trouble later on. A child
should also be taught TO gargle the throat
we'll with cold water every time 1t brushes
its teeth.
WASHING OUT THE SToMAcH.-In
some quarters it has become almost
routine practice to wash out the stomach
for nearly all diseases of this organ. Az
ter pointing out the usefulness OF this
measure in suitable cases, DR.. Soltan
Fenwick, of London, in timely article
in The Practitioner, deals with the dam
gers attending it and the harmfuness
arising from its employment in unsuit-
able cases. lie mentioned six cases OF
convusive seizures in chronic diseases of
the stomach, apparently brought about
by the use Of the stomach tube. A case
of perforation of Il gastric ulcer occurring
Immediately after the use Of the
stomach tube is reported. Hemor-
rhage from the use Of the stomach pump
is not uncommon in some cases. DIR.
Fenwick has been able to collect three
cases of boracic acid poisoning
from the employment of this
agent as an antiseptic in di-
sease of the stomach; two of the three
cases proved fatal. The irritation of the
stomach not having been thoroughly per
formed, sufficient quantity of the acid
remained behind, absorption of which
proved fatal. The proportion of cases
in which any of the grave accidents re-
lated make their appearance is certainly
very small, but the possibility of their
occurrence should ever be before the
practitioners mind before deciding on us
ing the stomach pump, which is not only
| of questionable benefit in many cases, but
decidedly injurious, if not dangerous, In
| a considerable number.
THE COLOR OF THE BLOOD IN MAN.
| Having recently examined large num-
| Der of specimens of human blood from
| persons of different ages ranging from
| four to seventy-six years, some being
| those in robust health, Others being tu-
berculose, a writer in Science was struck
with the great difference in the shade OF
color presented, some being of very
| rich tint, others very pale. He says:
| 1.-The richest color was in the blood of
| girl twenty-six years of age, graduate
| of Vassar college, who had the highest
| anthropometric measurement for resplra-
tory capacity in class of about 900
| girls. Her health was excellent, and she
| consumed rather more flesh food than il
usual. The next highest tint was found
| in the blood of woman about seventy
| wears old, with somewhat unusual
| chest measurement, having also excel
lent respiratory capacity and being In
fine health. This woman, on the con-
trary, does not eat flesh at all. ex-
pected in her case to find more than
ordinary number of white blood corpus
cles, but there were far less than usual, 1t
being difficult to find them, there were
so few. The palcst blood was from
chlorotic Irish servant girl of twenty-five
| years and in tuberculosis boy of four.
There was not much perceptible differ
ence in ther cases. The girl had natur--
ally good respiratory power, but she had
lessened it by tight clothing and an al
most constant indoor life for long time.
After spending a month at the seaside l
examined her blood again and found the
tint somewhat deeper than before. AS
we know, the color of the blood 10
caused by the h@moglobin in the red
blood corpuscles, and if this is greater
when the respiratory capacity is great
est, may not the color of the blood be
heightened by charging the chest and in
creasing the lung powers From some
observations 1 have made l believe it
can"