The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-02

body which are affected. The patient
les on straw bed on which is placed
q sheet. The attendant having ascer-
tained the suffering parts daubs them
to the thickness of several inches with
the mud. The invalid, covered with a
hot sheet or blankets, lies for half an
hour, perspirlng freely, then gets into
hot sulphur bath, is thoroughly
cleansed. rubbed dry, and returns to
bed artifically warmed, where the
perspirat.on continues for an hour or so
longer. This treatment is repeated al
most every morning for about twenty
days, and is of great value in all mani
festations of rheumatism. The mud Is
dug out of mountain a few miles from
the spa, and brought ITO the establish
ment and allowed to soak for several
years in tanks of boiling sulphur water
until required for use.
If English people would only realize
the imense Importance and value of
fruit as an article of diet in the early
morning. we should find its appearance
far more general on the ordinary break
period of the day there can be no ques-
ton whatever. and more fruit and less
animal food would undoubtedly conduce
to a much healthier condition of body.
In the morning there is an acid state of
the secretions, and nothing is SO well
calculated to correct this as cooling.
sub-acid fruits, such as peaches, apples
and pears. The apple is one of the best
of fruits; oranges also are generally
acceptable to most people: but the juice
alone should be taken and not the pulp
and the same may be said of lemons
and pomegranates. Tomatoes act on
the liver and bowels, and blackberries,
figs, raspberries, currants and straw
berries may be classed among the best
foods and medicines. The sugar in
them is nutritious, the acid is cooling
and purifying and the seeds are laxa-
tive.
The fact is noted in technical jour
nal of the already considerable, as we'll
as rapidly increasing, quantity of cot
ton fibre that Is annually consumed in
the manufacture of absorbent cotton
for surgical uses. The process of pre-
pairing the raw cotton for such purposes
Is given as follows: After boiling in a
solution of potash, which eliminates all
the greasy and waXy matter, the res
idue cotton Is placed in so-called
''whizzer," and dried; being then treated
to the medicating process by the use of
such antiseDtics as diluted corrosive
sublimate and carbolic acid, the cotton
Is placed upon cards and run into laps,
being thus made ready for the market,
where Ii brings u comparatively high
price. Prepared according to this
method. the cotton Is in admirable
condition for the stanching and cover
ing of wounds, and in the sick room Is
regarded as equally valuable in its
simple and effective action, absorbing,
as it does, all moistures with great
readiness.
The aroma of red cedar Is sa.l TO be
fatll to house moths; the aroma of
black walnut leaves IS fatal to fleas.
1t Is a matter of common observation
that persons engaged In the business
of making shingles out of odorifelous
cypress timber, dn malarlal districts.
are rarely. AZ ever, affected by malaital
diseases, snd that persons engaged in
disabling turpcrtine do not suffer from
either mllar!al diseases or consumpAo,.
1t Is sMd THAT when cholera was epi-
demlc in Memphis. Tenn, persons work.
Ing In livery stables We're entirely ex,
enipt from 1t. 1t Is affirmed that since
the destruction of the Glove trees on
the island Of Tenate the colony has