Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-01-27
FRIEND LA GRIPPE.
A VISITOR WHO STiCkETH CLOS
Err THAN A BROTHER.
Shirley Dare, in the Examiner" Tells How
to Cure La Grippe - the Method Of DR..
Ferry. Former Surgeon General of New
York National Guard.

of the back, and great prostratiOn OF
strength, out of all proportion to the
cold, you may set it down as grip. A
subtle nerve poison is at work de-
pressing vitality. There may be grip
with pneumonia, grip with gastric or
abdominal complications, or catarrhal
grip with unpleasant head symptoms
which is the form it takes this winter.
There is usually fever in the head, and
flushed face though one may shiver with
chill. The first thing in family prac-
tice should be to get warm, and hot
bath, which just escapes parboiling
one, will often rout sharp seizure.
Hot water up to the neck kept hot
for fifteen minutes, hot bath sheet
to rub dry in, two or three hot soap
stones for feet, back and shoulders,
and a nights rest is better than all
the antipyrine or antifebrine in city
drug stores.
To rid the system of a poison, a
choice of cathartics is necessary. If
there is acid indigestion, salines are
best; a tablespoonful of Rochelle or
EPSON salts in cup of weak, hot
coffee answering well, till the acid
condition is relieved. If there is in
testinal trouble, inflammation and
soreness, take one tablespoonful of
castor oil and one of olive oil together,
the taste masked by sour orange juice
or Worcester sauce. Follow this by
drinking cups OF very hot water
hourly till the irritant poison is
thoroughly cleared out. This is the
advice of DR.. Ferry, former Surgeon
General of the New York National
Guard. Afterward he directs a ta-
blespoonful of sweet oil and glass of
hot water in the half hour before each
meal.
This method is healing internally.
For pain in the abdomen, apply hot
flaxseed poultices soaked in sweet oil,
covered with oiled silk or oiled paper
to keep the heat in. Heat, to the
greatest degree one can hear, is the
cure of pain. Watch the food. Yeast
bread in its best form is nearly poison
in grip; freshly baked bread is quite
poison, from the internal ferment il
creates. Whole wheat meal biscuits
made with soda or baking powder, and
thoroughly, quickly baked brown, arc
safe and strengthening. But many
patients find hot cornbread, thin anC
crisp, the pleasantest Of all bread in
grip. The large amount of potash ir
corn-over 60 per CENTS very &C
ceptable to the weakened digestion
With this give hot milk for those who
like it, hot broth made by baking {
round of beef in close stone jar ir
the oven and straining the juice, d
chicken jelly, made by baking in th'
same way, which gives all the strength
and flavor possible. Every atom o
fat is to be removed from broths o.
meats. The Old-fashioned calvesfoo
jelly is refreshing, and this jelly will
orange juice whipped to snow is ont
of the daintiest things for invalid fare
Orange and pineapple juice scrapet
from the pulp with a spoon, arr
medicinal as we'll as grateful. Blu
whisky is the great inevitable aid te
grip-whisky with one-fourth pure
glycerine, and rock candy, and table
spoonful each hour, or whisky ant
milk, whisky and fresh egg, beater
with drop or two Of pure oil of Gin
namon, an old-time specific for weak
ened heart. When this exists thu
patient must be kept warm at al
hazards, never exposed to any chill
never allowed to rise suddenly, Of
climb stairs, except in safe, slow fash
ion, bringing both feet OH each step
1t is stupid, but worth the bother
One gains strength faster for the care
and there is immense risk when the
nerve centers are nearly paralyzed by
the grip.
The attack usually runs from three
! to FIVE days, but the danger of relapse
lasts three weeks; in acute cases more
Relapse is usually due to cold and 60
ing out too soon. Chest and shoul
der protectors of four-fold tissue paper
between thin silk or yelling are safe
guards, and red pepper sprinkled in
the stockings keeps the feet warm
A clever doctor warns patients te
change their stockings as we'll as shoes
on coming in from damp streets
Keep warm. Keep dry. Eat light
nourishing food, and if you have the
blues, remember they follow grip az
sure as clouds come with q sea wind.
tis we'll to make people understand
that danger exists all of three weeks
after the acute attack passes-dangel