The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-07-25
YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD EMEIlC Do"f

l crnnose vour baby should creep in where | YOU keep your posons some day when you . | husv in the consulting room, and reacn up anu l pn1clf a vial of corrosive sublmate (bichloride of mercury tablets off the bottom .., snen,
 breaking the vial ana ca. @ some 1n Iust t then by a 1uckv chance you enter the dispensary ana find the baby with her lips and mouth al
 stained blue and the poison taplets all oyer 'ao n floor What are you going to do III sucn aA en,ereency-run around in little circles wiring ing your hands, give the baby an emetic! That happened to our baby. We gave her tne only en,etic know which is reasonably prompt in effect This emetic we gave our papy ID branded poison by sood many seIos ~ is rate druggists when people ask TOT II. but u !. nevertheless the only quick, sure emetic know
 of for just such emergencies, ana snouio hu-
 wise every one to keep it in the housenoid Hie is. dicine ca binet or in the pocket emergency kl.' The emetic is copper sulphate, otherwise known as blue vtriol or blue stone. suppose It wouia be somewhat poisonous II you .ooh moSnce But not in the quantity sufnclent 10 proouce vomiting For this purpose one or two grams of copper sulphate is enough, ana IL IS pest s'- en dissolved in a spoonful or two oi ht Wate.t .s When you give dose of copper suipna.e as
 an emetic let me tell you it is wise to be all set for the rebound, for as say this IS a very sooo emetic indeed and 1t won't stay down long. Sometimes it seems to me the dose scarcely gets all the way down before you receive complete inventory of the patients last meal. It. For the pocket emergency kit (meaning the pocket in the door of the hivver) copper SUI phate may be carried in convenient one-sraIn tablets If your druggist is cantakerous, uh accom- mmodating sort, you'll have to carry q small corked viol containing one or two grams
 of copper sulphate dissolved in one or two spoonfuls of water all ready 10 snooe. . .h. Of course we never knew how much or the fatal mercury the baby actually swallowed II any, but from the evidence on her lips ana tongue it looked alarming. After the copper sulphate had done it's work, she resumed play and there was no further fuss about It. except that about that time came to and decided a doctor could worry along in practice without
 Keeping or using corrosive sublimate at all. The old household emetic IS lpecac-syrup | of ipecac. of which you must give an lnIans teaspoonful and an older child tablespoonlul' and even then 1t is uncertain. slow ana unre- liable in serious poisoning emergency some times 1t takes ten or fifteen minutes Tor lpecac | to produce vomiting. It is still a good one in | cases of croup other conditions where im-
 mediate effect is not so important. | Where no such remedy is at land. fairly good emetics to try are first two tablespoonfuls of mustard flour stirred in a glassful Of warmlsn water or second, a heaping teaspoonful or alum in a little water.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Tobacco and Diabetes
 | A physician recently reported to you that no | diabetes patient he has ever treated used toDac- CO., He reasoned from that observation that the | diabetes patients. He should tell 1t to Ca brand | of cigarets). Probably the doctor has never
 had diabetes patient with one arm. Then why
 not Top off an arm when twO-armed case oi l diabetes turns up? (DOn H. Dufie, M. D. | Answer-Well, now that you put 1t in that | way, I do feel almost foolish. And yet, Doctor | somehow l think there may De q gram oL WAS- | dom in the observation. Anyway, let's wait and | see what the diabetes patients have to say. oil Heaters Are Healthful
 Il From the standpoint of good hygiene which | would you install in a new home, an oil burn. ing heater or a coal burning heater? co. D. H.)
 Answer-one is as healthful as the other II with the oil burner perhaps jump ahead oi
 the coal burner in the saving on the hired
 mans temper. From the hygienic viewpoint | think electric heating would be first choice
 were it not too expensive; second should place gas burning equipment; third either oil-burn
 ing coal-burning equipment.
 | More Cottage Cheese
 I set 6 gallon of skim milk in Q warm plact
 | to clabber. When 1t is clabbered put 1t in
 double boiler over the fire, with 6 thernOmetel
 in it, and when the clabbcr gets to tempcra
 ture of 78 degrees I set 1t on the back Of stove
 Then I pour 1t into a sugar sack and squccx'
 1t dry, then swish 1t in cold water several timc
 then tArn 1t into bowl and add onc-half pin
 stinIy whipped cream and little salt and bca
 1t into creamy mass. Set 1t refrigerator oveI
 night, and next day you have cheese what Il
 cheese! (Mrs C. A. M)