The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-10
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Health and Hygiene

Nervura, f7.2. Malt liquors contain
from 1.5 to per cent. of alcohol, wines
from to 20 per cent, while ardent
spirits, of which whisky is type, con-
tains from As to 60 per cent. of alcohol.
Among the wines it is only old Port
that contains more than II per cent. of
alcohol 1t is therefore APPARENT that
these nerve stimulants" and blood
purifiers" outrank wines in the
amout of alcohol.
Why is it, asks the Medical Record,
that people will keep various poison
Gus drugs about the house in close
proximity to harmless medicines? Why
is it, furthermore, that persons know
ing such facts get up at night and
drink something out of an unidentified
bottle? Is it so much trouble to light
the gas and be sure what one is doing?
Day by day the newspapers recount
/ deaths resulting from such careless
ness, and it is hard to feel much SYM
pathy with people SO reckless of COM
mon sense.
According to Flebert, a mustard
| plaster made according to the following
directions will not blister the most sem
sitive skin: Two teaspoonfuls of mus
| tard, two of -four two of ground gin
ger. Do not mix too dry. Place be-
tween two pieces of old muslin and ap-
ply. If it burns too much at first, lay
| an extra piece of muslin between it
and the skin; as the skin becomes ac-
| customed to the heat, take the extra
piece of muslin away.
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Selft treatment is never advisable
| for the removal of moles. The follow
| ing is sure cure" for warts. The
| skin surrounding the warts should be
| covered with absorbent cotton; then,
! by means of a glass rod, liquor carbolic
! acid may be applied to each wart and
| allowed to dry. 1t causes no pain. In
few days a portion of the wart will
fail off; renew the application until
| all has been removed.
To relieve flatulence, shortness of
! breath and a sense of suffocation take
| ten drops of the tincture of nuX vomica
in cold water before meals and at bed
time every day for six weeks. Also
| take ten drops of the tincture of digi-
tails in cold water three times daily
after meals for three weeks. To re-
lieve constipation take twenty drops of
cascara sagrada at bedtime and before
| breakfast.
| An excess of and too long continued
use of food or fruit may cause dyspep-
sia. To cure dyspepsia take ten drops
| of the tincture of nuX Vomica in two
| tab.espoonsful of cold water, before
meals and at bedtime, for eight weeks;
| also take half a teaspoonful of the phos-
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| boiling water two hours after meals, ev-
cry day for six weeks.
A Boston woman is lecturing in Chi
| caGo on the usefulness of avoiding meat.
Not only does meat tend to lower the
| physical but the moral nature. Muir
| derers and thieves, she says are great
eaters of meat, and thinkers, artists and
great men of al sorts are eaters of yege-
| tables, nuts and fruits.
| A report comes from the dco-Surgical
| society, of Antwerp, of the discovery of
| anti-toXin for pneumonia by DIR. Menncs,
| of Louvain. The microbe is stated to be
extremely small, of a shape approaching
| an oval At present successful expert
ments have been confined to animals.
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| To cure a tendency to nose bleed take
teaspoonsul of pepto-mangan in milk
or water, after meals, three times daily
| for eight weeks; also take fifteen drops
| of the fluid extract of hamameis in
water three times daily, between meals,
| for two weeks.
The reason the eye sinks back in the
| head when person is i'll is that the eye
| ball rests on cushion of fat. which en-
| tirely surrounds It, When a person Is
| sick and emaciated the cushion of fat is
| absorbed, and the eye thus falls back.
| O.
! Any one subject TO attacks of catarrh
| Of the stomach or bowels must protect
| these localities with flannel. Wear a white
| all-wool flannel bandage night and day
throughout the year.
The too free use of aoetic acid as a corn
| solvent caused the death of an English
gentleman recently. A sloughing wound
was formed which inhamed, and was fol-
| lowed by gangrene, causing death.
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| Chronic acid, one hundred grains to the
ounce, applied frequently with a toothpick,
will remove small warts or similar
| growths.
Scraped apple is said to disguise the
taste of quinine. A little fannie acid and
chos alate have also been found useful.