Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1878 — THE HOME DOCTOR. [ARTICLE]

THE HOME DOCTOR.

CABBAGE FOB HEADACHE. Last evening you were drinking deep, So now your bead aches. Go to sleep; Take some boiled cabbage when you wake, And there’s an end to your headache. —Dr. Pickwick. CUBE FOB IVY POISONING. Many persons are poisoned by contact with the wild ivy and sumac, and in some oases the poisoning is very severe. To such it may be of interest to know that Dr. Brown, of the United States navy, claims to have discovered a certain remedy for such poisoning. It is bromine dissolved in olive oil, cosmaline or glycerine. He used twenty drops of bromine to an ounce of oil, rubbing it on tiie affected part three or four times a day, and washing it off occasionally with castile soap. HOW TO CUBE DYSPEPSIA. Dr. Nichols, who has made a series of dietetic experiments on himself, has arrived at the conclusion that, if the stomach is allowed to rest, any case of dyspepsia may be cured; that the diet question was at the root of the disease; that pure blood can only be made from pure food, and that, it the diink of a nation were pure and free from stimulating qualities, and the food was also pure, the result would be pure health. ’ A VALUABLE REMEDY. Dr. U. F. Waters, of Boston, has found in the juice of the milkweed a remedy for suppurating wounds. The time of healing varied from twenty-four to thirty-six hours; but in each instance new skin formed completely across. The doctor states that the only essential point is to dry the wounded surface gently and thoroughly with blottingpaper before applying the milkweed juice. After the juice is applied, and while the healing is in progress, a piece of blotting-paper is used to cover the surface. A HEALTHFUL PRACTICE. »Loosen the clothing, and, standing erect, throw the shoulders well back, then hands behind, and the breast forward. In this position, draw Blowly as deep an inspiration as possible, and retain it by an increased effort for a few seconds, then breathe it gradually forth. After a few natural breaths, repeat the long inspiration. Let this be done for ten or fifteen minutes every day, and in six weeks’ time a very perceptible increase in the diameter of the chest and its prominence will be evident. GLYCERINE AS A MEDICINE. In moderate doses, not exceeding thirty grammes per diem, which should be taken all at once, diluted with about ten times the quantity of water, Catillon affirms that glycerine improves the appetite and the digestion, and acts gently on the bowels. He does not recommend a larger dose, bnt Hamack gave diabetic patients as much as 180 to 360 grammes daily, in association with animal food, and found a marked improvement in their general condition, and a reduction in the quantity of urine sugar and urea exerted, the latter two results agreeing with those obtained by Catillon in his experiments on dogs and on himself. It is important, however, to notice that glycerine is a poison in large doses. A CURE FOR ASTHMA. Prof. Germain See has recently read a paper before the Paris Academy of Medicine, in which he expresses himself very enthusiastically concerning the efficacy of iodide of potassium and iodide of ethyl in the treatment of asthma. He dissolves 10 grammes of iodide of potassium in 200 of wine or water, and gives before each meal, twice a day, a dessertspoonful (8 or 9 grammes), so that the patient takes daily 16 or 18 grammes of the solution, or 1.8 grammes of the iodide. After some days this quantity is gradually doubled. The same doses may be taken in sirup of orange peel. If the patient become disgusted with the tast9 he may take the iodide in waters. There is no definite time for the duration of the treatment, but generally at the end of two or three weeks, when the attacks are mitigated or abolished, the dose may be diminished to a gramme and a half per diem. From time to time the treatment may be interrupted for a day, but a longer interruption may be followed by a relapse. In one case a patient who had been cured for a year, having given up the iodide for four days, was again attacked. Any accompanying cough may be relieved by the addition of a little extract of opium or sirup of >poppies; where, when there is not much cough o' 1 catarrh, two or three grammes of chloral given in the evening assist in diminishing the dyspnoea. The general result is that a cure takes place in almost all cases, even when the patients are placed amid atmospheric conditions which are habitually injurious. No precaution has to be taken as regards hygiene and regimen, and the use of coffee and tobacco has not’seemed to be injurious.