The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-09-01
HOT AND COLD WATER.
How 10 Use These Remedies TO the
Best Advantages.

How 10 Use These Remedies TO the
Best Advantage
Hot or cold water is excellent as an
application for Inflammation, conges-
tons or abrasions. but how many peo-
pie know which to apply in particula.
eases while awaiting the arrival OF
medical relief: Not E-any, and the mis-.
takes made in some instances are III.
dicrous.
Take the barber. for example. who
has cut his patrons face He generally
washes the face with a towel soaked
in warm water, often pressing it right
into the injury, and then wonders why
the blood flows from the cut so freely
In ninety-nine cases out of hundred
IL he had used cold water, and the
colder the better the blood would
have ceased TO flow from the injury al
together. as the cold would have ten
dency to contract the openings in the
torn blood vessels. In all eases of such
cuts or abrasions very cold water will
at least reduce the amount of bleeding
If it doesn't stop it altogether, and yet.
singularly enough, boiling water viii
have the same effect.
Water below the boiling point in
creases the flow, but above that de-
gree decreases it. In surface inflamma-
lions or congestions cold water ought
to be used, while if the condition is sit
uated below the surface hot water is
necessary as an application because it
draws the blood toward the surface
and thus stimulates the circulation
through the part where it is most
needed.
In cases of Assesses or pimples
with pus forming III them, but which
have not yet come to a head, the secre-
ton of pus can be rapidly increased
and the duration of the annoyance
thereby decreased by applying hot wa
ter to them at frequent intervals.
Where the eye is infamed or smarts,
after a period of eye strain, such as
night work often induces, hot appl-
cations are the things for relief. but
the water used should be gradually
allowed to cool off toward the end.
Tired eyes will invariably be rejuve-
mated by adopting this method of treat
ment, and many headaches resulting
from such a condition may thereby be
prevented or cured.--St. La;lis Globe
Democrat
A Battle In the Sea.
Did you ever see bluefish charge a
school Of menhaden at sea? That Is
something worth seeing. The bluefsh
throw their lines forward until they al
most surround the menhaden, and they
attack them flank and rear. The men,
haden fairly make the water boil in
their efforts to escape, while all around
the enemy is at them tearing relent-
fessly. Into all this commotion comes
great shark. It's a picnic for the
shark, a school of menhaden all herded
up for it's benefit. 1t swims leisurely
into the midst of them, opens its mouth
and takes In half dozen menhaden at
q gulp. 1t swims around and bites out
half dozen more from the school. 1t
gorges itself without effort But the
menhaden are not nearly as much dis
turbed by the presence Of the monster
swimming about among them as they
are by the charging bluefish. The shark
takes half dozen fish or more at a
bite, while the bluefish only bites a
piece out of a single fish, but there is
only one shark, while there may be
thousands of bluefish plunging and
tearing necessarily and killing and
manning at every stroke The sharks
brute, but under such circumstances
the menhaden have less of fear than
they have of contempt for him.