Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-01-31

Home Health
Club
D DAVID d. lEEDEl. n. D.. n. ].
Ia Porte, Ind: - =.
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ToNsILITIs.

ToNsILITIs. '~-
There is not much need of proof that
the Home Health club methods of prac-
t1cal home helps in all kinds of dis
ease are best Yet there are so many
letters written me daily from all parts
OF the world, telling of cures effected
by the simple methods which l recon-
mend, that if wished to do so could
fill this entire paper with letters only
and still would not publish hun
dredth part OF them. In the mail this
week there were over so letters and
about the same number are now on
my desk to be answered as soon as
this lecture is. finished. am always
glad to get your letters, whether they
tell about benefits received or tell
about your suffering and want help.
How thankful am that the long prac-
tice and a certain amount of intuition
enables me to give the right kind of
advice.
Two letters just received tell me
about tonsilitis: The first mother says
that in spite of the remedies prescribed
Ny IAO 6OOu Ac"AAy uOCCOI, Ac1 Cu41u
grew rapidly worse during the night.
She sent to neighbor, who had often
| told her of the home remedies Of the
| Home Health club, and asked if there
| was anything in the club method about
tonsilitis.
At first, the distracted mother was
afraid to trust to such simple means,
Init
| doctor was many miles away, she de-
cided to try.
To anyone it was plainly evident
that the pulse ran as high as 1925 beats
per minute, while the temperature was
rapidly reaching the danger point. Both
tOnsils were inflamed and swollen.
The book says: wherever there is
inflammation there is enlargement of
blood. This being true, antipyretic
measures; that is, measures to reduce
the fever or inflammation, must be
adopted. There is a rapid pulse, but
this will go down with the decline of
temperature
This body of ours is wonderful
thing. Suppose that there is an injury
sustained by any part of it.; there is a
great supply of nutriment Immediately
directed to that part to repair the dam
age. The finger is cut, making an ug-
~ wound. There is a great supply of
nutrition directed to that finger, and,
consequently, the wound is soon
healed.
This is true also OF the blood. If
any part of the body is subjected to
severe cold, the blood rushes there to
supply the extra demand for warmth,
and this gives the key to our remedy.
AS there is too much blood collected in
the throat, and we have just found
that it can be drawn elsewhere by ap-
plying cold-why, all that IS necessary,
then, is to apply cold compress to
the throat TO draw the blood away
from the tonsils to the surface. and
then it will continue over the entire
body. The best way to apply this cold
compress is as follows:
Prepare basin of as cold water as
can be secured-if you have ice, all the
better. Take a. common bath towel
and fold it lengthwise to about three
inches wide. Then wiring this out of
the cold water and wrap it around the
throat of the patient. Cover with a
dry towel. Change for a fresh cold
towel as soon as the present one be-
comes noticeably heated. Continue this
until the Inflammation has been re-
duced.
The fever phase of the disease has
our attention next. Home Health club
readers are all possessed of knowledge
regarding the reduction of fever. Fever
is plain case of superfluous heat, and
that is very readily overcome by coun-
teracting ILLS heat with cold. It is
merely a question of what is the best
method of applying this cold. Mocha
no-Therapy chooses the hydriatic
branch Of it's methods, and applies
cold congresses, either locally or gen.
orally.
The following the Home Health club
regular procedure to induce ordinary
febrile reaction: Wrap the feet and
ankles in hot wooden blanket, and
maintain the temperature by hot
bricks, flatirons, hot water bottles, or
something Of that nature. Then apply
cold congresses to the head, neck and
chest. This will produce the desired
results.
There are a number of simple, safe
and practical home remedies which are
by some called medicine, that may be
used with perfect safety in all such
cases. I have frequently. told you of
the many old-fashioned herb remedies
and of the tissue elements, all of which
can be used with perfect safety, be-
cause as a matter of fact, such RENE
dies are not drugs, but physiological
foods.
I trust that the anxious mother NAV
be able to restore her child, also, by
the methods which at once wrote her
of and in another lecture will tell you
about enlarged >tonsils, and how to cure
them without surgery.
CLUB NOTES.
Minnesota.-Dr. David H, Reeder.
Laporte, Ind.-Dear Doctor: I have
been reading some of the Home Health
club notes and am much interested. I
would like to ask your advice in regard
to my troubles. My shoulders, back
Of head, neck and down my spine, sting
and hurt me if use my arms much.
I have catarrh of the throat, 1 think:
at least have to do considerable
hawking, especially in the mornings.
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