The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-15
SOME Health Hints
Suggestions That May Enable Many Tribune
Readers 10 Feel Better.
WISDOM FOR The HOUSEHOLD

Not SopYTlRnteu anu u ihey Dont
DO You ANY Good You Can Have
the Satisfaction of Knowing That
They Will Not Do You Any Harm.
Gable advices announce the eXploita-
ton, before the Budapest Medical con-
gress, of the diphtheria cure of DR..
Behring, of Berlin, disciple of Pro-
fessor Koch. The cure received high
Endorsement. DR.. Behring's cure is
called blood serum. By successive
and increased doses diphtheria virus
is injected into animals, and they have
gradually acquired immunity against
the malady, and the blood of such ami
mails injected into other animals had
the effect of comforting immunity
upon the latter or healing them if suf-
ferng from diphtheria. Of this blood
Dr. Behring extracted the serum and
has injected it into human beings with
wonderful results. Professors Heub-
ner, Of Berlin, and RouX, Of Paris, in
dorsed the cure at the congress. Pro-
fessor RouX said that he had applied
it at the Children's hospital, in which,
up to last year, 60 per cent. of the cases
of diphtheria ended fatally. Thisye
he added, he had inoculated over 4O0
children with the serum, and the NOR
tality sank from 60 to Is per cent.
After few injections the malady
changed almost instantly to light
fever, and then soon disappeared.
Not very long ago foreign physi-
clan recommended very pleasant and
effective means of curing short colds in
the head and chest. His remedy was
simple cologne water, fifty drops of
which are inhaled four or five times a
day by the mouth and nose. The New
York Herald's European edition now
publishes very simple method of
checking asthma, by the use of pow
der, which acts in the same way as Co
logne water. The formula is: Pow
dered snuff, 5 grammes; camphor, 5
grammes; menthOl, 0.l5 centigr. An
other method of checking asthma, is
by rhythmical fractions of the tongue
made by the patients themselves when
they feel that an attack is coming on.
These fractions of the tongue are made
with the hand covered with a hand
kerchief eighteen to twenty times 4
minute, initiating the respiratory
rhythm by an in and out movement.
They restore breathing and may check
the attack. These fractions made by
an assistant may also be found effica-
cious during the strangulatory period
Of the attack.
1t is well-known oculist who says:
"The practice Of wearing other peo-
pies glasses is extremely injurious.
1t should not be done any more than
wearing another's false teeth. One
may seem more cleanly than the other,
but both display equal ignorance. The
teeth would be as likely to fit as the
glasses. In response to the query:
Have you ever worn glasses? how fire.
quently do we hear: No, only pair
of my mothers or aunt's, or a pair |
found in the house, They are worn
in too many cases long enough to do
serious damage"
The ubiquity of the tubercle bacillus
is already well recognized, says the
Philadelphia Record. 1t has been
found on fruit exhibited for sale on the
streets, and upon the walls and CELL
ings and in the dust of houses occupied
by tuberculous subjects. The knowl-
edge of these facts prepares us for the
announcement made by Strauss at a
recent meeting of the Paris Academy
of Medicine, that he had found virulent
tubercle- bacilli within the nasal cavi-
ties of non-tuberculOus persons whose
relations necessitated their associations
with and frequent presence in rooms
occupied by tuberculous patients. Most
of these were in perfect health and
presented not the slightest evidence of
tuberculosis. These observations en-
phasize not only the widespread dis
tribution of the bacillus, but also the
risk of associations with the tubercu-
lous and the dangers of dust, as from
the careless street cleaning of our large
cities and house sweeping, and the
beating of carpets in the open air; and
| Ibuiiy WIG llpOl luhNO vi bIcuJIlIB
through the nose, for as is we'll known
the nasal passages act as filter for the
air that enters the lungs and stand as
a barrier to the entrance of particles
whose presence might occasion mis-
chief.
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The germs of typhoid fever, says
Modern Medicine, not infrequently
cling to residence for many years, SO
that deaths occur there in one family
after another, each being often in ig-
norance of the previous fatalities.
When u well once becomes infected
with typhoid fever germs from an ad
jacent vault, cleaning out the well
amounts to nothing, as it would gen
orally be necessary to clean out space
bounded at the surface by circle hav-
ing diameter three times the depth
of the well, and extending down into