Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — A Physician’s Rules Of Health for the Heated Term. [ARTICLE]

A Physician’s Rules Of Health for the Heated Term.

Bise early; the morning air is pure and cool. Take a hand-bath, going over the whole person with water at its natural temperature. Any one can do this who can command the use of a basin and one or two quarts of water. Use nothing but the hand; once or twice a week put a few drops of ammonia in the water, to cleanse the skin, or use white caatile soap—avoid all others. Do this all the year round, no matter what the temperature of the weather is. Beginning now, the skin will become accustomed to it, and cold will not affect, but tone up the system, bringing the blood to the surface, and preventing colds from sudden changes; besides, not half the clothing will be needed. At this season do not discard flannel altogether, but wear thin ones without sleeves-, the best are made from white bunting, which is not heating, and yet absorbs the perspiration, and will last forever, if properly shrunk before being made up. On rising, if faint feeling and loss of appetite, take a teaspponful of charcoal stirred in a little water, and repeat the same at bedtime ; it must be the fine willow charcoal, and to be found (with twenty-five cents) at all apothecaries. This absorbs the gas from undigested food, and sweetens the stomach and prepares it for food, and should be taken at any time when there is any unpleasant fullness in the stomach before eating: Avoid ice-water, except one or two swallows; the habitual use lowers the temperature of the stomach, and prevents digestion. Soda water in immoderate quantities should also be avoided, certainly not more than a single glass per day. Let the diet be a generous one, but avoid mixtures; never more than two or three dishes at each meal, Pastiy

of all kinds should be especially avoided in hot weather. Plain yeast bread a day old, with good butter, sparingly, and ia hot weather with milk— when Fresh -teefl allays thirst when token fresh upon food. Go slow about your business or work. Never try to do two men’s work in one day. There is nothing gained by it. Keep on the shady side of the street if there is one; if not, cany an umbrella, if you can: if not, your handkerchief in the top of your hat; if in the country, green leaves. Finally, make haste slowly to get rich; re. member that without health riches are of no accoiint.— Boston Transcript.