Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-08-07

INSECT BITES Bites Of gnats, fes
mosquitoes, flies, etc. may be avoidedM
sponging the face and hands with elds,
flower water. A weak carbolic lotion !,
also used for the purpose. 1t must M,
be too strong or the skin will be injured
SINGING IN THE EAR.-That unplea.
ant sensation known as singing in the
ear generally results from hardening NJ
the wax. 1t may frequently be removed
at once by Swinging the ear with LITTLE
warm soap and water, or by dropping
little glycerine oil into the ear at bed
time. If these remedies do not answe,
mustard poultice applied just behind
the ear at bed time, and repeated 4
necessary, two or three nights, is an al. |
most certain cure.
CLINICAL THERMOMErERs.--In Stain,
that some 10000 thermometers an
standardized yearly in Berlin and 30. OO0
in the thermometric institute at Weimar,
Professor Helmholtz also remarks that il
is really matter of life and death to be,
able to distinguish between a tempers.
turc of SO degrees and 9sa degrees
years ago, even in the very best and most
expensive of these instruments, errors Of
from l to II degrees being found,
Medical men have discovered that the
practical use of clinical THERMOMETERS is
Of extreme value, and, following the ex
ample Of Germany, great attention has
foi some time past been given in other
countries to the attaining of absolute per
lection in these instruments, the opera.
tions at Kew advancing this science be.
ing we'll understood. A special factor in
thermometry is. of course, the best pos.
sible glass, and the claim has been made
by English manufacturers that fifty wears
ago the work of graduation was done
less efficiently than now, but that the
glass of which the thermometers were
made. being perhaps of more simple con-
stitution, was on that account less sus
ceptible to influence inducing devious
conditions of strain.
DANGEROUS Use OF QuINISE.- -" Dan.
gerous, though popular" is the judg-
ment pronounced by DIR. W. Thornton
Parker in recent elaborate paper on the
present almost indiscriminate use Of
4uinine, and this judgment is fortified
by citations from numerous eminent
authorities. According to Ringer, large
doses produce severe frontal headache,
with dull and heavy, tensive and some
times agonizing pains. In toxic doses it
eXcites ce1vulsions. Chrome and Cure
find that the removal of the motor centres
of the brain prevents these convusions,
and If the central hemisphere is removed
on one side the commissions are unilateral;
on the other hand, Albertoni finds that
quinia will induce commissions when the
central hemisphere or the cortical motor
centres are removed. DR.. Bartholow states
that in full medicinal doses, as the quinia
accumulates in the brain, sense of full
ness in the head. construction OF the fore
head, more or less giddincss and even
decided vertigo are felt. In toxic doses
these symptoms have been intensified
intense headache with construction of the
forehead, dimness of vision or complete
blindness, deafness, delirium or coma,
dilated pupils, weak, fiut ering pulse, il-
regular and shallow respiration, convul-
sions, and finally collapse and death. Dr.
Wood states that the minimum fatal dose
of quinine is not known, but probably
varies much. DR.. Brown Sequard states
that in epileptics the attacks are rem
dered decidedly more frequent by the
cinchona alkaloids, and DR.. Wood is Of
the opinion, also. that, in large doses,
quinia without doubt abolishes the func-
tions OF the cerebrum.