Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1887 — In Brief, and to the Point. [ARTICLE]

In Brief, and to the Point.

Dyspepsia is dreadful. Disordered Ever is misery. Indigestion is a foe to good nature. The human digestive apparatus is one of tne most 'complicated and wonderful tilings in existence. It is easily put out of order. Greasy food, ton h food, sloppy food, bad sookery, mental worry, late hours, irregular habits, and many other things which ought not to be, have mode the American pec pie a notion of dyspeptics. But Green’s August Flower has done a wonderful work in reforming this sad business and making the American people so healthy that they can enjoy their meals and be happy Remember:—No happiness without health. But Green’s August Flower brings health and happiness to the dyspeptic Ask your druggist for a bottle. Seventy-five cents.

Nursing Scarlet Fever. —The child should be nursed by one who has all the details of the case under her charge, who shouM wear the simphst kind of clothing, a id that can be daily changed and washed or aired. She should have an adjoining room in which to keep her clothes and m?.v e her toilet. — Everything that comes in contact with the child, such as towels, brushes, blankets or sheets, should be kept rigidly separate, and thoj - oughly boiled and aired before being taken from the premises. Th ? room should be kept thoroughly ventilated, either by keeping open a window in the adjoining room or by some arrangement attached to the window of the sick room, which will allow the ingress and egress of air without a draught; its temperature should be kept at about 68 degrees and regulated by a thermometer. If the room receives its heat from a furnace, the hot air should be made to pass over a pail of water containing either Labaraque’s solution 01 Platt’s Cholrides, a towel with one end dipped in such a solution should be tacked over the register. If there be a stove or, better than all, an opet_ grate, these solutions can be placed near by, so as to be readily evaporated and distributed throughout the room. The chamber should always contain some such solution in which to receive the excreta. A small quantity of urine should daily be collectd in a clean vessel for the doctor’s examination. It is usual to anoint the child with some greasy sul stance; this allays the intense itc .ing or prickling, which is most annoying; it softens the skin, which is inflamed or swollen; it depresses the fever to a certain extent, and it serves to collect the scales of the skin, which, if shed, serves as carriers of contagion, and which are usually shed in flakes. The child s ould have its mouth washed once or twice daily, as also other parts of the b<rdy, for purposes of cleanliness, and the water used can contain either Labaraque’s solution or vinegar Listerine, and possibly the doctor will order the frequent vse of the hand spray, such as is employed with cologne, using some good disinfectant for the throat in these cas • s. Scarlatina, as far as we know at t e present time, only comes from previous cases of the disease Cleanliness not only lessens the danger of serious complications which are often fatal, and mitigates the severity of an attack, bnt it is the great germ-destroyer and prevents the spread of this dread disease in households.—Dr. F. M. Keating, in Babyhood.