Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1886 — Health Hints. [ARTICLE]

Health Hints.

Milk contains all that is required by the body, and the proportion of mineral matters, is less irritating than other foods and better digested. Everyone should keep a bottle ready of equal parts of strong lime-water and sweet oil shaken together to use on burns aud scalds, or for chapped hands. Frozen oranges are regarded as the cause of some recent sickness at Palatka, Fla. The Herald of that place says the poison in the peel is driven into the orange by the frost. An experienced vocalist has, it is said, during fourteen years cured any number of cases of obstinate cough by prescribing the free use of oysters as a diet. The remedy is easily tried. Distressing palpitation, says the Medical World , may generally be relieved by bending double, the head down and hands hanging so as to produce a congestion of the upper part of the body. Cures of sciatica are reported as having taken place in Paris after a single application of Dr. Debove’s method of freezing the skin above the painful parts with a spray of chloride of methyl. The operation is said to be applicable also to facial neuralgia.— N. Y. Sun. According to Gen. Morin, the eminent French expert, the proper temperature in well-ventilated places is as follows: Nurseries, asylums and schools, 69 degrees; workshops, barracks and prisons,s9 degrees; hospitals 61 to 64 deSrees. In dwellings in this country it as been the custom to keep the temperature at 65 to 70 degrees. —Chicago Journal. Doctors say that women should be cautious how they call to offer sympathy to neighbors having sick children. Women’s clothing offers inducements to fugitive bacteria, and several instances have been recorded lately in which contagious diseases are known to have been brought about by germs carried into the household in the folds of heavy woollen fabrics. In a study upon the nature of hypnotics, M. Dujarnin Beaumetz concludes that opium and its alkaloids do not produce a condition of sleep. They stupefy the faculties and induce torpor, but the brain still remains in a condition of tonic excitement. Chloral will bring about true sleep, but in large doses it has a dangerous action on the heart, aud its ingestion often gives rise to gastric disorders.

The Sanitarian gives some sensible advice about the teeth. It says: Toothbrushes should always be soft and rarely used more than once daily, before breakfast, which is quite often enough to remove the insoluble particles of food which collect at the margin of the teeth. Use the soft brush with water only, pint most, with nothing else but pure soap in addition. Soap is not only more cleansing than anything else, but it leaves a sweeter and pleasanter taste, and is never followed by injurious effects. A writer in the People's Health Journal tells of a debilitated patient who did not do at all well on beef tea, but was easily restored to health on a diet of bean soup. The only remarkable thing about this is that the patient ever expected to derive strength and nourish* ment from beef tea alone. Considering that we have upwards of a hundred thousand doctors, and that a Very large of them are fully agreed that ea is almost valueless, except as a stimulant, it is surprising that people continue to look upon it as a food. Pork is good for nervous people, but is not easily digested. Wild game is excellent. Fishls good for nervous people. Eggs boiled .lust enough to harden the white ate easily digested. It is a mistake about people eating too much. The majority do not eat enough. Nervous dyspepsia comes from working too hard and not eating enough. When a man begins to suffer from overwork he should eat plenty of good bread and butter, drink two quarts of milk a day, and eat plenty of good meat When such a person resorts to a vegetable diet he grows weaker and loses his nerve power-*-