The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-08-25
some Health Hints
Suggestions That May Enable Many Tribune
Readers 10 Feel Better.
WISDOM FOR The HOUSEHOLD
These Hints Don't Cost Much, Are
Not Copyrighted and if They Don't
Do You Any Good You Can Have
the Satisfaction of Knowing That
They viii Not Do You Any Harm.
For the Saturday Tribune.

gen. 1t consists of quilt containing
coil of wire bent in the fashion of q
gridiron, inclosed in insulating and
non-conducting material and imbed-
ded in cotton, wool or other soft sub
stance with silk or woolen covering.
The resistance offered by the coil to the
flow of an electric current through the
wire produces heat in the same way
that heat and eventually light are pro-
duced in the filament of the glow
lamp. A uniform temperature OF about
$50 degrees Fahrenheit is thus main-
tained but in the event Of the tenn
perature rising beyond that point from
increase of pressure in the electric
mains, fuse instantly melts and au-
tomatically shuts off the current. The
quilt may be attached to ordinary in
candeseent lamp terminals. In de-
scribing this device London Lancet
says that this most important medical
use of such an invention would be on
the operating table, where, in length
ened operations or in those attended
with hemorrhage, where artificial
means to sustain the patients temper
ature are required, blankets and hot
water are decided nuisance. In such
cases these quilts would be invaluable
as u soft, dry, warm and convenient
covering. Again, in cases of chronic
rheumatism, ,lumbagO or senile slowness
of circulation, such an appliance would
be useful. The thermogen is now re
ceiving trial at several large English
hospitals.
DR.. Stotzer-B -Buetzer, in one of the
foreign medical reviews, writes as fol-
lows on the medicinal and hygienic
properties of the apple: Apples eaten
Immediately before bed time promote
the health generally. Its dietical as
well rs alimentary substance is of the
highest order. 1t contains more phOs
phoric acid in an easily digestible COM
bination than any other vegetable
product. 1t is (1) good brain food, (2)
eXcite3 the functions of the liver, (8)
promotes a sound and quiet sleep, (4)
disinfects the mouth, (5) agglutinates
the surplus acids of the stomach, (6)
paralyzes hemorrhOidal disturbances,
~ helps the secretions of the kidneys
and prevents calculus concretion, (S)
obviates indigestion and (9) is a good
preventive against. diseases Of the
throat.
Many Pittstonians and several
Scrantonians remember H. r. Rowley,
the artist, who boarded for many years
at the Eagle hotel in Pittston. Mr.
Rowley is now in Utica, N. Y, in ro-
bust health. Years ago he was a Wet
i'm of acute dyspepsia and suffered i'm
told misery from indigestion. One
day his torture became 50 intolerable
that in sheer desperation he seized q
huge beefsteak-a thing unprecedented
-plastered it over with mustard an
inch thick-he had never before looked
at mustard-and swallowed the whole
conglomeration in trice. Mr.. Rowley
no doubt expected this would bring on
a crisis, if not an undertaken Nor was
he disappointed about the crisis. The
mustard and the beef steak formed
such an amicable alliance in his ali
mentaries that the demon dyspepsia
was fairly shamed into retreat. The
next day Mr.. Rowley repeated this
accidental prescription and added
mustard to his bread and potatoes as
well. The long and short of ii was
that by the free use of mustard, he
knocked his dyspepsia out in less than
a fortnight and could now introduce
iron wedges into his stomach without
feeling much the worse therefor. This
narrative may run counter to the tradi-
tional teachings of hygiene, but it is
the sober truth, as Mr.. Rowley will
himself attest. And the point to it, if
there is any point, is that dyspep-
tics often overdO the matter of "diet-
ing" and by their fussy abstemious-
ness augment rather than relieve the
original trouble.
According to the directions of DR..
Salmon, to sterilize milk, take tin
pail and have made for it Il false bot
tom perforated with holes and having
legs half an inch high to allow circula-
ton of the water. The bottle of milk
to be treated is set on this false bottom
and the pail is filed with water until
it reaches the level Ofthe surface of the
milk in the bottle. A hole may be
punched in the cover of the bottle, in
which cork is inserted, and the ther-
InOmeter is put through the cork SO
that the bulb dips into the milk, and
the temperature can thus be watched
without removing the cover. This
water is then heated until the milk
reaches temperature of l55 degrees
Fahrenheit, when it is removed from
the heat and allowed to cool gradually.
A temperature of $50 degrees main
tanned for half an hour is sufficient to
destroy any germs likely to be present
in the milk, and it is found in prac-
tlce that raising the temperature to
100 degrees and then allowing it to
stand in the heated water until cool,
msures the proper temperature for the
required time. The Pasteur method is
practically the same-the temperature
IS raised to l60 degrees, kept there
about ten minutes, and the cooling
process is as rapid as possible, rather
than gradual. 1t is found that the lat
ter method makes the milk more easy
OF digestion in the case of infants or
delicate persons. Either process i'm.
Iures the Kidding of dangerous germs.
md milk SO prepared will keep usable
.hirty-six hours.
There is a good bit of healthy sense
in Kate Fields advice to women:
"Judicious mental work may help to
lift one out of the ruts of premature
bid age. Read and think what you
read. Don't, use your. mind as if it
we're sieve and you were trying to
zee how much you could pour through
It. There is belief extant that knoWl.
edge, if gained at all, must be acquired
IN youth. Fallacious theory! Behold
Halileo at three score and ten pursuing
his studies with unflagging zeal; Cato
beginning Greek when advanced in
years. Ogilby commenced classical
studies when past so. Gladstone is MS
much the student today as when the
ploom of youth mantled his cheek. Be
Kind to the feelings and fancies of