The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-04-27
Health Hints and
Rules Of Hygiene
Suggestions That May Save You Many
a Doctors Bill.
WISDOM FOR THE HOUSEHOLD

These Hints Don't Cost Much, Arc Not
Copyrighted. and II They Don't DO
You Any Good, They'll Not
Do You ANY Harm.
1t is pointed out by the British Medi-
cal Journal that nicotine Is not, as used
to be supposed, the most dangerous
principle (of tobacco. but pyridin and
collodin. Nicotn is the product of the
cigar and cigarette; pyridin, which is
three or four times more poisonous,
comes out of the pipe. 1t would be
well, both for the devotees of tobacco
and their neighbors, II they took care
always to have the smoke filtered
through cotton wool or other absorbent
material before 1t is allowed to pass
the barrier OF the teeth" Smokers
might also take lesson from the un-
speakable Turk, who never smokes a
cigarette to the end. but usually throws
1t away when little more than half Is
finished. If these precautions We're
more generally observed, we should
hear much less of the evil effects of
smoking on the nerves and heart, and
ON the tongue itself.
The Temperature at which bread is
both raised and baked is of the great
est Importance in producing the perfect
loaf. Dr.. Woods, of the Connecticut
Experiment station. places the proper
raising temperature at from so to So
degrees Fahrenheit, and the baking
temperature at from 400 to 500 degrees
In late paper on bread making he
cautions the housewife against cooling
the loves of bread too rapidly after
taking them from the oven. Much Of
the souring of bread" he adds, sis
doubtless due to lack of care during
cooling. Owing to the high-water con-
tents, and the larger amounts of nitro
genous substances and sugar which
bread contains, 1t Is, especially while
warm, q good soil for development of
various kinds of molds and bacteria.
A loaf Of bread hot from the oven,
taken into a poorly-ventilated room
crowded with people, will become sour
In the course Of two or three hours"
Dr. Thomas s. Blair, Of Harrisburg,
advances in the Medical News the SEN
sational theory that our sudden and
destructive epidemcs are ghastly vis-
itOrs from other worlds. In other
words, he contends that the thousands
Of tons Of meteoric matter and cosmic
dust which are annually precipitated
upon the earth inflict upon this planet
a host Of life germs of non-terrestrial
origin. "Recent investigations have
proved colored SHOWS to be filled with
organisms" states Dr. Blair, land the
Polar SHOWS are said to have yielded
more than three hundred different life
forms. These organisms can hardly
be produced in our atmosphere, mil
lions Of hundredweights of them, ac-
cording to Dana, having fallen since
the days Of Homer, who first described
them in the 'Iliad'" DR.. Blair feels
sure that not only the mysterious
BLACK Plague" of the Fourteenth CEN
tury and,the old type of spotted fever"
arose from non-mundane source; but
he assigns to these unearthly microbes
the blame for the peculiar epidemic
called cerebro-spinal meningitis which
prevailed between the years 1866 and
1867, and goes so far as to assert that
epidemics such as those Of typhoid,
diphtheria and "la grippe
HEALTH FOR THE MILLION:
To relieve the blocking up in the chest
and difficulty in breathing take ten drops
of the tincture of digtalis In a wineglass-
full of cold water, after meals, for three
weeks.
To tone up the appetite: Tincture Of nuX
vomica, two drains; tincture Of colombo,
one ounce; compound tincture of gentian,
enough to make four ounces. Take one
teaspoonful In water before each meal.
To cure corns, carefully paint with aro-
matte vinegar every night. BE watchful
lest the vinegar spread beyond the corn, as
1t would cause blisters. About two weeks
are required to destroy corns.
For sweaty hands and feet there is moth
ing better than dusting with a powder
composed as follows: Salicylic acid, 100
grains; talcum powder, one ounce, and
prepared chalk, one ounce. Mix and use
three times daily.
Ringing in the ears is often caused by
collection of cerumen (wax) in the external
auditory meatus. Drop fw drops of gly-
cerlne into the ear at night. The next
morning syringe the ear very slowly and
gently with lukewarm water. This will
remove the mass.
The best complexion remedy is water
plus washrag and soap, vigorously ap-
piled from head to foot once every day of
ones life Either at night on going to bed
or upon rising in the morning Is the best
time to bathe. Use hot, warm or cold
water as may be the most agreeable.
Rice coffee is very palatable and nutri-
tious for invalids. 1t should be Drowned
as coffee is and ground. To two table,
spoonfuls of rice add a pint of boiling
water. Cover and keep in a hot place for
fully ten minutes. 1t may be served with
sugar and cream or boiled milk, as coffee
or tea