Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — THE FAMILY DOCTOR. [ARTICLE]

THE FAMILY DOCTOR.

A pretty way to vary the baskets made of seine twine is to crochet them in strips like the tidies, so that ribbon can be run in. If you wish the basket to be particularly ornamental, and to put it in the guest chamber, take three round poles, paint them or gild them, tie them together at the top with ribbons and hang the basket within, after the fashion of a Gypsy kettle.

A man was suffering from gangrene of the lungs, with cough, difficulty of breathing, and fever. The patient was put upon the mixture containing carbolic acid, but as no improvement followed. tincture of eucalyptus was substituted for the acid. In two days after the use of the last prescription the odor of the breath was much less disgusting. and in less than two weeks the man was discharged cured. The beneficent work was attributed to the action of the eucalyptus by Dr. Bonamy. The Chicago Druggist recommends the following remedy for severe scalds and burns: Cover the injured parts freely with soft soap. If the burn be severe, apply soon after linseed oil, with a plentiful dressing of flour. This cakes, and fresh oil and flour can be added. When this covering falls off a new skin will have formed, and no scar left. The same journal say carron oil is one of the best remedies where the skin is unbroken, care of course being taken to exclude the air from the injured parts. Paste in Your Note Book.—There is no remedy of such general application, and none so easily attainable, as water; and yet nine persons out of ten will pass by it in an emergency to seek for something of far less efficiency. There are but few cases of illness where water should not occupy the Richest place as a remedial agent. A strip of flannel or a napkin folded lengthwise, and dipped in hot water and wrung out, and then applied around the neck of a child that has croup, Will usually bring relief in ten minutes. A towel folded several times, and dipped in hot water and quickly wrung out and applied over the seat of the pain in toothache or neuralgia, will generally afford prompt relief. This treatment in colic works almost like magic. I have seen cases that have resisted other treatment for hours yield to this in ten minutes. There is nothing that will so promptly cut short a congestion of the lungs, sore throat, or rheumatism, as hot water when applied promptly and thoroughly, Pieces of cotton bat ting dipped in hot water and kept applied to old sores or new, cuts, bruises, or sprains, is the treatment now generally adopted in hospitals. I have seen a sprained ankle cured in an hour by showering it with hot water, poured from a height of three feet.

Tepid, water acts promptly as an emetic; and hot water taken freely half an hour before bed time is the best cathartic in cases of constipation, while it has a most soothing effect on the stem ach and bowels. This treatment con tinned for a few months, with proper attention to the diet, will cure any curable case of dyspepsia. Headache almost always yields to the simultaneous application of hot water to the feet and the back of the neck. It is an excellent plan to record facts like these in a note book, which should be always at hand when wanted. In the anxiety caused by accident, or sudden illness in the family, one becomes confused and is not apt to remember quickly what should be done; hence there may be prolonged and unnecessary suffering before proper remedies are applied.