The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-03-30
Health HinfS and
Rules Of Hygiene
These Hints Don't Cost Much. Are Not
Copyrighted. and if They Don't DO
You Any Good, They'll Not
DO ion Any Harm.

fruitful cause of indigestion IS eat
ing when one is either physically or
mentally tired. At such times one
should not take solid food. Drink in
stead hot milk. Nothing, according to
current magazine, is equal to it as a
stimulative and sedative. The milk
should never be scalded, but heated
quickly, and drank as hot as it can be
comfortably. The process of heating
reduces both its sweetness and density.
but the effect of its cordial and stimu-
lating power is felt at once. Some por-
tions of the milk are appropriated and
digested almost Immediately after they
are taken into the stomach. Many who
think they need stimulants when eX-
hausted by fatigue will find in a glass
of hot milk an equivalent that will be
at once satisfying and revivifying,
without any deleterious after effects.
woman physician, eminent in her
profession, was talking the other day
about the use of tea and coffee. Some
one had asserted, and called able cOun-
sci to prove, that these beverages We're
ruinous to the health destructive to the
complexion and every way evil. Hav-
ing for many years taken few patients
into her household where they were
constantly under her eye, she gave it
as her opinion that the moderate use
of both these articles, while they were,
perhaps, in no way advantageous, GER
tainly are not the deadly foes that they
are reputed to be- She is quoted in
the Ledger as having said: Il have
never yet known person kept awake
or made restless by tea or coffee at
moderate strength taken at a proper
| hour. / have seen the times when |
felt satisfied that cup of hot, fresh
coffee, after the French method of per-
collation., was refreshing and comfort
ing, and to this extent, at least bene-
fetal, that it made the patient content
| and cheerful, and put the nerves in
that good order that comes from
gratlfied appetite"
rn
The "food cure" is a comparatively
| new idea, introduced into England by
several physicians of advanced ideas,
who boldly advance the proposition
that they can cure ordinary human ills
by dieting and without the use of medi-
cines, says the New York Mail and EN-
press. They claim that certain foods
contain all the elements necessary to
effect cures; that they have made up a
list which embraces tonics, febrifuges
diureti tics, and, in fact, every medicinal
agent that is defined in the pharma-
! Copia These foods are of the simplest
character, but the English doctors do
not disclose them, except to their pa
tents They say that in the course OF
ten years there will not be one-third the
medicine used that is used to-day, and
| they point out the fact that the sale OF
quinine and all anti-pyretics has de-
creased in the last five years to a re-
markable degree. "There is a good
deal of common sense in the idea
said q physician who had heard OF the
new departure, land it may take If
doctors generally will go into 1t, but |
fear that the great majority who have
women patients will not. Why? Well,
you might convince a man that he was
! getting sufficient iron for his system
when he was eating beef, or that If he
needed starch he could get 1t from
bread instead Of from pills, but you
couldn't do that with n woman. They
| do not reason that way. | am speak
ing especially of patients slightly hypo-
| chrondriachal when | say they would
reject such treatment Immediately; but
as a general thing you can apply the
rule to all womankind. Advice as to
exercise or diet is generally lost. The
average woman wants to take medicine,
and If 1t Is very disagreeable she imag-
ines it is very eflicacious. She gradu-
ally gets a mania for pills and potions,
and takes delight in dosing everybody
who will submit. Now, IL doctor has
q paying patient and he can really help
her condition by giving her bread pills
with hypnotic suggestion | think II
| Is his duty to do so, and collect his fee.
lie might as well try to whistle down
the north wind as to make n woman
believe that exercise and diet are better
than medicine. If he Is overly con-
scientous and abandons the case an
other fellow comes along and gets 1t.
so the natural temptation is to cater 10
patients whlms."
The remedial value of salt, vinegar
and kerosene is thus set forth in a cur
rent compendium:
Salt as Il gargle will cure soreness of the
! throat
Salt in solution inhaled cures cold in the
head.
Salt and soda are excellent for bee
stings and spider bites.
Vinegar Is an antdote for poisoning by
alkals.
Vinegar and brown paper will heal brulse
or BLACK eye"
Vinegar and salt will strengthen lame
back.
Kerosene Is n good counter-irrltant.
HEALTH FoR THE MILLION:
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