The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-29
Medical Notes

In pneumonia DR.. Bixwell recommends
muslin bags filled with hops frequently
applied, hot, to the back and front of the
chest walls. These are made large enough
to act as complete jacket poultices and
are heated by immersing them in hot wa
ter as often as they become cool. Later
these bags are to be replaced by a roll
OF absorbent cotton over the well-oled
chest Goose oil, by the way once pop
ular remedy, owes Its efficacy to the fact
that, like any other bland OIL 1t fills
the pores Of the skin and thus acts In a
sense as jacket, preventing radiation of
heat and access Of cold through the skin
Another method Of maintaining warmth
In pneumonia and preventing chilling is
that described by DR. Edes. An old un-
dervest slightly larger Is then slipped over
this and tackled with few stitches The
two vests are then cut up the front from
top to bottom, making sleeveless jack
ct which can be easily slipped over the
patient. One or two tapes sewed across.
the front, on each side, served to fasten
1t in place. OF course the jacket should
be heated over the fire before 1t Is put
on, and once In place it should be kept
on until the patient improves or change
Is necessary.
The advantages of sterilized milk when
an infant must be brought up on the
bottle are undisputed, but even the cheap
est of the many forms of sterilizing ap-
paratus Is beyond the means Of many.
Prof. Siebert, Of New York, describes
method which any one can use. Procure
one dozen two-ounce prescription bottles
and good corks to match. Cut small
groove up the side Of each cork half its
length. Fill six of the bottles enough to
run twelve hours as soon as the milk IS
MIXED from the COW or as soon as re-
ceived, place them in a Kettle Of water
and bring to boil. The steam will es-
cape through the groove in the cork.
After boiling take the bottle out and press
the cork in tightly; set eway on Ice or
in a cool place, and when baby wants
food remove the cork from one vial ana
apply rubber nipple, not germ lac
tory in the shape Of long rubber TUBE.
AS the bottles are empued wash clear
of milk and put to soak in strong soda
water. BY using half of the bottles dur
ing the morning and half during the even
ing they can always be sweet Fill SIX
at morning and six at evening milking.
That gives twelve to twenty-four hours
for bottles to soak. The nipple should
be washed after each nursing and placed
in soda water, turning inside out and
cleansing thoroughly.
DR.. Tucker Wise says that to maintain
health and ward off an occurrence OF
tuberculosis the following vital points
may be summarized to impress them
upon the attention: generous dietary
of heterogeneous food. Free ventilation Oh
dwelling and sleeping rooms by open
windows with wire gauze blinds. AIDE
quate house heating in winter Boil 81!
milk or cream previous to use. Try ana
obtain eight hours sleep every night;
If not sound sleep, contract the hours
to seven and rest in the day. Ii de-
bilitated with weak digestion take rest
In the recumbent position a quarter OF an
hour before and after meals. Wear the
loosest clothing possible, especlaiy
around the waist and lower ribs. to afford
freedom in respiration. Take systematic
exercise daily in the open air on foot.
If means and station In life admit OF a
long holiday from time to time i've our
ing the fine weather in a tent In the
open air or in a summer house for most
of the day, and, If unemployed, pursue
hobby to occupy the mind.
Eivlert, after much experimentation,
has evolved the following method for
making a food for infants containing
about one-third of the solid contents Iii
the form Of maltese:
Materials-Wheat -four or barley meal,
ten ounces 1.-TWO tablespoonful heaped
as high as possible) water, f1fty-siN
ounces (three pints and half extract
of malt, half a teaSpoonful or small
teaspoonful.
Process-With scant quart Of water
make the flour into Cruel, boiling ten
minutes in d double boiler. Take the
inner vessel and add the rest of the wa
ter cold. the malt extract being added 10
the last few ounces. Let 1t stand hfteen
minutes. Put back the inner vessel ana
allow to boil fifteen minutes STRAIN
through a coffee strainer of wire gauze'
This food has been largely used In the
hahies' ward of the Post Graduate hos
pital of New York by DR.. Chaplin
Tn recent number of the Medical
Age a question which interests many is
discussed at length. The question Is:
GLOW to remain young?" Man, says
a recent writer, begins In a gelatinous
condition and ends in a bony one; ne is
soft in infancy; he is hard in old age
The change from youth to age, according
tn this theory, is due to steady &C
cumulation of calcareous deposits in the
system interfering with functions of the