The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-12-05
HOME HEALTH CLUB
edited by DR.. David H. Reeder,
Ch1cago.)
REMEDIES THAT ARE IGNORED

The medical colleges of the present
day are doing wonderful things. Some
of them are teaching things undream-
ed of when I took my first degree.
The Rockefeller Institute is doing still
more. wonderful things. We are seek
ing through every conceivable chan
mel to find out the why and the where
fore, the cause of disease. The old
method was to find remedies I be-
feved this was not the best plan and
for 25 years I have been urging that
the proper way to relieve sickness
and suffering was to find out the cause
and remove it. Nature will do the
curing. In the fashioned herb
remedies nature furnishes a means of
removing the cause in many cases of
sickness and when these remedies are
used properly no harm can possibly
follow.
For years many of these good-old-
fashioned remedies were ignored by
the great medical colleges. Poisons,
opiates, and coal tar preparations
were depended upon almost exclu-
sively, but Of late the tendency has
been away from that kind of drug
ging and toward the simpler and safer
methods Of old.
The question Of q correct diagnosis
is now considered of primary impor-
lance and must be the first step If
the doctor has a real desire to help
his patient.
I was very glad to see an item in
the New York Medical Journal which
referred to the British Medical Jour-
nal in which is given a very simple
home remedy for whooping cough.
eft consists Of peeling the cloves OF
garlic as the segments of the bulb are
called, - cutting them into thin slices,
and wearing them under the soles OF
the feet, between two. pairs Of socks,
for if placed next to the skin the pres
sure produced by walking is, apt to
cause irritation. The garlic can usual
ly be smelt on the breath within half
an hour after the slices have begun
to- be worn, and the whoop and spasm
usually disappear within 4S hours.
The garlic should be worn for week
or ten days or longer, according to
the severity Of the case. Among the
French Canadian habitants, we know
that onions are used in exactly the
same way. Garlic may also be ad-
ministered by eating it as form of
bread sauce, made by chopping up
the cloves when peeled, boiling them
in milk and mixing them with bread
Another remedy that is along the
same line and will also give quick re-
lief in hard, tight, or hacking coughs
is our old friend the onion. Take two
or three good big red onions and chop
them up fine and bind them on the
so1es of the feet at night before re-
firing. AS the chopped onions would
be quite moist, I would suggest that
oil cloth or oiled silk be used to bind
them on with so that the bed may not
be soi1ed or made disagreeable by the
odor.. incidentally if little acetic
acid strong Vinegar will do) and oil
is added, the poultice will be even
more effective and at the same time
will remove the corns and cal1ouses
if there be any in contact with it.
Here is another item from a medi-
cal journal that ought to be Of inter
est to every one Of my readers that
have poultry, especially just now
when the prices of eggs are almost
prohibitive in the cities.
''Clark reports the results obtained
by feeding pituitary gland substance
removed from growing manuals to the
domestic fowl. In the first expert
ment As grammes of pituitary sub
stance were fed to 35 hens while in
the second experiment 645 hens were
fed the same amount. It was found
that after the fourth day Of feeding
the substance, decreasing egg produce
ton was increased in the first series
of hens from Is day to 81; the in
crease in the second series was from
248 to 339. One Of the marked fea-
lures in the experiment was the In
crease in hatchability Of the eggs.
Out of 100 eggs collected before the
feerding of the pituitary substance.
only II Matched. After the substance
has been fed 90 proved hatchable. The
increase in the laying was preceded
and accompanied by increased intake
Of food
OF course the interest to physicians
was in the idea that this extract might
be used in cases Of steri1ity in human
beings and in the lonely homes where
children are greatly desired. I am
always especially glad to help those
who want children.