Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1887 — 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 shaken together to use on burns and scalds, or for chapped hands. Frozen oranges a’-e 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 degrees. In dwellings in this country it has 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. Dujardin 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, and 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, or at 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 soirp. The oniy remarkable thing about tiiis is that the patient ever expected to derive strength nourishment from beef tea alone. Considering that we have Upwards of a hundred thousand doctors, and that a very large proportion of them are fully agreed that beef tea is almost valueless, except as a stimulant, ii is smmrisin. that- people continue to looi-. upon it as a food. Pork is good f-.-r nervous people, but is not easily digested. Wild game is excellent. Fish is good for nervous people, l.ggs boiled just,enough to harden die white are easily digested. It is a mistake about people eating too much. The majority do not. eat enough. Nervous dyspepsia comes from working 100 hard and not eating enough. When a man begins to suffei overwork lie should int plenty of good bread and butter drink two quarts of milk a dav, and eat plenty of good meal. When such a person resorts to a yegetabie diet he grows weaker and loses his nerve power.