Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1883 — THE FAMILY DOCTOR. [ARTICLE]

THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

Fob toothache, where a cavity exists, there are many remedies in common use, bnt, says an exchange, none foom to relieve as equal parts of hydrate of chloral and gum camphor rubbed together. Saturate a piece of cotton with the mixture and put it into the cavity of the tooth covering it, with dry cotton. Care must be taken not to allow the remedy to come in contact with the inside of the month, ns it may produce severe burning. An exchange says : “ Let anyone who has au attack of lockjaw take a small quantity of turpentine, warm it and pour it on the wound, no matter where the wound is, and relief will follow in than a minute. Nothing bettor car applied to a severe cut or lonise cold turpentine ; it will give certain hes almost instantly. Turp ..tin is a sovereign remedy for crou, . t ■ sci a piece of flannel with it, a ,1 pi- >< flannel on the throat and chest, an every case throe or four dro; \ ou a 1 of sugar may be taken inwardly.” Dr. Ebkaud, of Nimen, stntßs that he has for many years treated all his cases of sciatic and neuralgic pains with an improvised apparatus, consisting merely of a flat-iron and vinegar, two things that will be found in every house. The iron is heated xmtil sufficiently hot to vaporize the vinegar, and is then covered with some woolen fabric, which is moistened with vinegar, and the apparatus is npplied at once to the painful •spot. The application may be repeated two or three times a day. Dr. Ebrard states that, as a rule, the pain disappears in twenty-four hours, and recovery ensues at once. Salt in Diitttheria. —Tn a paper read at the Medical Society of Victoria, Australia, Dr. Day stated that, having for many years Regarded diphtheria, in its early stage, as a purely local affection, characterized by a marked tendency to take on putrefactive decomposition, he has trusted must to the free and constant application oi au!aseptics, and, when their employment nas been adopt-' I ed from the first, and been combined j with judicious alimentation, he has sel- ■ dom seen blood-poisoning ensue. In ! consequence of the great powt - which 1 salt po ’Besses in p dventing th. pretiei factive decompoaitv >n of meat and other organic matter, Dr. Day has o ten prescribed for diphtheritic patient; Jiving far away from medioal aid the frequ at use of a gargle composed of a tea spa. aful or more of salt di ived in a tumble* of water, giving Shi.ben who cannot gargle a teaspoonful ■ two to drink occasionally. Adults to n o the gargle as a prophylactic or preventive, three or four times a day. How Voltaire Curbs thb Deoav ow His Stomach.— ln the “Memoirs of Count Segur” there is the following anecdote : “My mother, the Countess de Segur, being asked by Voltaire re specting her health, tola him that the most painful feeling she had arose from the decay in her stomach and the difficulty of finding any kind of aliment that it could bear. Voltaire, by way of consolation, assured her that he was onse for nearly a year in the same state, and believed to be incurable, bat that, nevertheless, a very simple remedy had rostored him. It consisted in taking Mt other nourishment than yelks of beaten up with the flour of potatoes and water.” Though this circumstance concerned so extraordinary a person m Voltaire, it is astonishing now little it is known and how rarely the remedy has been practiced. Its efficacy, however, in cases of debility, cannot be questioned, and the following is the mode of preparing this valuable article of food as recommended by Sir John Sinclair x Beat up an egg in a bowl, and then add six table-spoonfuls of cold water, mixing the whole well together; then add two table spoonfuls of farina of potatoes ; let it oe mixed thoroughly with the liquid in the bowl; then pour in as much boiling water as will convert the whole thing into a jelly, and mix it well. It may be taken alone or with the addition of a little milk in caß6 of stomachic debility or consumptive disorders.—Scientific American*

Making Flowers of Soap-Bubbles. A pretty experiments has been described by the well-known Belgian physicist, M. Plateau. He bends fine iron I wife, so as to present the contour of a flower of six petiui The central ring to which the petals axe attached is suppor ud on a forking stem, which is stuck in a piece of wood. After oxidizing the wire slightly with weak nitric acid the flower is dipped in .glyceric liquid so as to. receive films in the petals and the oenti i i part. It is then turned up, placed on n table near a window and covered with bell jar. For a little at first it appv’ara colorb" butsoon a striking pity of colors c menccs. In the « xperime; r, ltok Plat*, f describes, the liuw< r continued u‘how!.'-J mociifi"UUo;:s c< .or for toil henna, , when dusk stopped ,U rvation. Next. ' morning several 'petals had burst. Th* liquid used was of very mediocre quality, ; JS&pmfttends preparation of ne liquid thtffi : IKsolve i fresh p : ec© #f Marseilles soap, cut up into . <ll pieces, iu foi y parts by weight of hot distilled water. F : ’1 t after cooling and mix thoroughly three volumes of the solution with two of Pi-ice’s glycerine. The solution should be left at resbtill all the air bubbles are gone. Londpr* Times. I ’. ; ' ~ T " Prof. SuLLiiAft has eyeavated a| Gnosso, in Crete, the he supposes to bo I’b‘th -<• jus f;r. < the I’llsßTirf and the Minotaur. • •*'.