Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1884 — THE FAMILY DOCTOR. [ARTICLE]

THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

Canceb.— A change of diet, air, and habitation, with a vegetable tonic and blood purifier, will ears all curable cases. > When dining, have some oheerfnl conversation. It is not only a powerful appetiser, bnt is also an adjuvant to stomachal digestion. The Wabm Foot-Bath. —ls the observations of Dr. SJciolcowsky are to be credited, our usual notions about the action of a warm foot-bath on cerebral hyperaemia are erroneous. He used water at a temperature of 92 to 97 deg., aud found that while tjie temperature in the rectum fell, that in the axilla and external apditofy meatus was increased.' Curative Gymnastics.— ln one of onr English exchanges Dr. Wahltucli points out the value of modern gymnastics and massage, if executed by competent and skillful manipulators, in predisposition to phthisis, in sluggishness of the abdominal muscles and digestive organs, in strumous disease, in rickets, in spinal curvature, in uterine affections, in hysteria, and in paralysis. Tbeatment of Wabts.— A plaster of black soap applied each night for a fortnight, according to Mr. Vidal, will soften a wart so that it may be scraped off.. The treatment by M. Cellier is to transfix the principal wart with the point of a pin, the head of which is to be held in the flame of a candle until the wart is destroyed; it will drop off in a few days. The remaining warts will then usually disappear. Remedy fob Cold Feet.— All that is necessary is to stand erect and very gradually to lift one’s self up on the tips of the toes, so as to put all the tendons of the foot at full strain. This is not to hop or jump up and down, but simply to rise —the slower the better upon tiptoe, and to remain standing on the point of the toes as long as possible, then gradually coming to the natural position. Repeat this several times, and, by the amount of work the tips of the toes are made to do in sustaining the body’s weight, a sufficient and lively circulation is Bet up. A heavy pair of woolen stockings drawn over thin cotton ones, is also recommended for keeping the feet warm, aud at the same time preventing their becoming tender and sore. VAkicose Veins.— Enlarged veins are best treated by constitutional remedies. Local treatment will be more speedy in its effects, but the benefits which result from it are very often only temporary. Varicose veins usually appear on the legs, below the knee, and sometimes end in a painful ulceration. —In this condition the invalid should take: B.—FI. Ext. I is V r i 010 ox. 111. Fi Ex . Gaseara Ba jratla. . .oz. i.

, Aq a .07. xtl, rlG.—©ae:e a oontui thr-e t ines daily. There should also be applied a poultice of pulverized golden seal one part, and pulverized slippery elm two parts; which should be renewed every six hours, —when the veins become reduced, the poultice should be discontinued, and the limb placed in a bandage, with a piece of oiled silk over the surface of the ulcer till well. —Health and Home. New Remedy f.ir Burks. —During a recent visit to a patient in an adjoining town, I was hastily summoned to see a woman badly burned (while lighting a fire with eoal oil), on the hands and around the body where her clothes were fastened to her person. Not having any of the remedies at hand, except cold water, which, en passant, is one of the best where it can be properly applied, I mixed hog's lard with four times its weight of common bread soda (bicarbonate), which is used here in the homes of many for mixing with the dough in bread-making, and applied it as a salve to the burned parts, and I never saw a case of the kind do better under any treatment. The wounds were kept well covered with it, and they all healed very nicely without inflammation and with very little suppuration. Indeed, they seemed to dry up under it. I shall try it in the future in all similar cases, until I find something better.— Hearth and Home.