Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1878 — HEALTH AND DISEASE. [ARTICLE]

HEALTH AND DISEASE.

W HOOFING- cgTTGH is said to be effectually treated in Austria by the use of the rod. When ike child isseized bv age, of the fed is mgS-a ously applied. The doctors allege tßit wjioopiug-cough is rather a nervous iflection than anything Mae, and thsflogging, besides a 3on3Efr-&tifentr rouses the child to an exercise of the which offfeff £ cough. 1 westigation, the widely^ different habits of and wmnep (S&e any_fivil_fjom marriage between "ygbEarefi amhasuresustain'edby Dr. Vornffl* iWqTßrf sets |he*(feiihuHe of Stktz.Cßmz ill rjdfefcyf secluded. oceanwashed AelTiaire luferiecommit no crime. For generations they but no cases have occurred of deaf-mutism, albinoism, blindness or malformation, and the num’berof children bom ip above thq.average.

Relief fob Nervous Headache.— Tl*vi<g obseiHd thaibfemidfi.of potassium, in twenty or thirty-grain doses, *Ssftl * tincture of aconite root, senrelieved more cases than Ifiy remedies if had*Jfrevibus ly exhibited, I experimented with larger doses of fee drugs combined. For several years I haye been id the habit of jawing in these cases sixty grains of the bromide of potassium and ten drops of » tincture of aapni|cv wine*. ssful of water, the same to be repealed in an hour or two if the head be not relieved ; but a repetition of the dose is very seldom /expired. In the case of ladies and others who wish to have a remedy at hand, or who are about to start oh* journey, I supply them with the following mixture: R Bromide of potaaejojn, Scruples, ij. Tincture of aconite root, Grains, i. Distilled water, Simple siruj, aa scruples, ij. Take a dessert-spoonful in some water every hour until relieved. —American Practitioner.

Diphtheria Cubed by Sulphur.— A few years ago, when diphtheria was ligiqp in England, a gentleman acewnpanied the celebrated jpr. Field rounds to witness the so-called “womkr ful cures” which he performed, while the patients of others were dropping on all sides. The remedy, to be so rapid, must be simple. All he took with him was powder of sulphur and a quill, aud with these he cured every patient without exception. He put a teaspoonful of flour of brimstone into a wine-glass of water, and stirred it with his finger, instead of a spoon, as the sulphur does not readily amalgamate with water. When the sulphur was well mixed he gave it as a gargle, and in ten minutes the patient was out of clanger. Brimstone kills every species of fungus in man, beast and plant, in a few minntes. Instead of spitting oat the gargle, he recommended the swallowing of it. In extreme cases, in which he had been called just in the nick of time, when the fungus was too nearly closing to allow the gargling, he blew the sulphur through a quill into the throat, and, after the fungus had shrunk to allow of it, then the gargliDg. He never lost a patient from diphtheria. If the patient cannot gargle, take a live coal, put it on a shovel and sprinkle a spoonful or two of flour of brimstone at a time upon it, let the sufferer inhale it, holding the head over it, and the fungus will die.

Carbolic Acid fob. Coughs and Catarrh. — The London Medical Record gives the experience of Dr. Moritz in the use of carbolic-acid spray in catarrhal disease of the respiratory organs. Having had much to do with Carbolic acid, and especially the spray, he noticed that the bronchial catarrh with which he was frequently troubled did not occur, or that, if it began, it was soon arrested. A colleague of his, Dr. Asseldelfffc, made the same observation. Dr. Moritz used the spray of a 2 per cent, solution of carbolic acid. He first tried it on two children in whom the commencement of whooping-cough was suspected. After the remedy had been used two days, the slight catarrh which was present came to a stand-still, and in a few days disappeared. In several children with measles, the cough was diminished, and the nights were more quiet after the use of carbolic-acid spray. In two surgical patients also, whose luags were in a suspicious state, the cough entirely disappeared during the frequent use of the spray. The carbolic acid does not act as a cauterant, for dilation produces beneficial action, and it is not demonstrated that it exerts any chemical action on the false membranes, as some have thought. It appears most reasonable that it acts as a parasiticide, destroying the protoorganisms which constitute the fundamental part of the false membranes and which exist in the circulatory system, since the local alterations are more than the expression of zymotic influence.