Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1883 — The Family Doctor. [ARTICLE]

The Family Doctor.

'try cranberries for malaria. Try a sun bath tor rheumatism. Try clam broth for a weak stomach. Try cranberry poultice for erysipelas. Try gurgling lager beer for cure of sore throat. Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach. Try eating fresh radishes and yellow turnips for gravel. Try eating unions and horseradish to relieve dropsical swellings. Try buttermilk for the removal of freckles, tan and butternut stains. Try tbe croup-tippet when a child is likely to be troubled that way. Try hot flannel over the seat of neuralgic pain, and renew frequently. Try taking cod liver oil in tomato catsup if you want to make it palatable. Try snuffing powdered borax up the nostrils for catarrhal “cold in the head.” Try hard cider—a wineglassful three times a day—for ague and rheumatism. Try taking a nap in the afternoon if you are going to be out late in the evening. Try breathing the fumes of turpentine or carbolic acid to relieve whooping cough. Try a cloth wrung out from cold water put about the .neck at night for a sore throat. Try an extra pair of stockings outside of your 6hoes when traveling in cold weather. Try walking with your hands behind you if you find yourself becoming bent forward. Try a silklhandkerchief over the face when obliged to go against a cold, pierc ing wind.