Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-14
Odds and Ends of Hygiene.

Under the heading Bodily Comforts, %
Helen Watterson writes to The DISPATCH
as follows:
You who are so fortunate as to have as
late in the winter as this some rich cider,
we'll preserved in casks or demijohns, are
counseled, when drinking it. to try the
single addition to its fruity body that will
improve it, ramely, fresh Apoll1naris water.
The better way is not to pour the water into
glass until it is about a third full, and
then pour the cider into that and stir it a
moment before drinking so as to get the
carbonic acid gas quite through the body Of
the cider Not only is cider mixed thus
with Apollinaris more healthful, but it is as
pleasant as champagne, with none of its un-
pleasant after effects
A little cold sometimes settles in a single
sensitive tooth, resulting in an infamma-
tion which causes extreme tenderness and
pain. This is particularly liable to happen
to a tooth in which the nerve has been. de-
stroyed and is the usual cause of the ulcera-
tion that results often in the loss of the
tooth. If, when. the first soreness comes,
the following course is pursued, the effect is
often magical: Dip a small tamels hair
brush into tincture of iodine and paint the
gum lightly all about the root of the tooth.
Keep out of the cold and draughts, and in
six to ten hours paint again. But the like
lihood is that before that time comes the
soreness will quite have disappeared.
The reason why vomiting in infants is so
easily accomplished, while the same act in
an adult is accompanied with so much pain
and difficulty, lies in the difference in the
shape of the stomach in each case. The
human stomach, as is well known, is con-
tinuation of the muscular tube called the
esophagus. Now a baby's stomach
is little more than a slight distention
of this tube, with the axis of the
stomach nearly in the same line as the axis
of the nsophagus. Any contraction of the
muscles of baby's stomach, therefore,
will push the contents back into the osoph-
agus without pain. With adults this is not
so, because with growth the shape of the
stomach has greatly changed. 1t is pear
shaped when full grown, body convex in
outline and lying lengthwise across the
body, with the 9sophagus opening out of it
at the upper end of the less curved side To
get the contents of the full-grown stomach
back into the oesophagus is,-therefore, not
an easy matter, and a much more violent
action of the muscles is necessary to accom-
plish it. This it is that makes the pain
and discomfort attendant upon vomiting in
an adult, while baby, bless its tube
shaped little stomach, Can part with its
food without pain.
Many persons find that they can't eat
English walnuts without following discon1-
fort, and as English walnuts are very good
eating indeed, these persons are divided be-
tween lamentation If they eat them, and
lamentation if they don't. An English
physician (who should certainly be an au-
thority on English walnuts) says that
the indigestible part of the kernel lies, not
in the meat, but in the thin skin that sur
rounds il. II this is removed people can
eat them freely without distress. The pro-
cess Of blanching, which means simply