Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1907 — THE FAMILY DOCTOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE FAMILY DOCTOR

Watery Eyes.—Relief may be obtained by bathing the eyes several times a day with a wash consisting of ten grains of pure borax and two ounces of camphor water. Rheumatic Knee.—-Try salicylate of soda, five drams; tincture of nux vomica, three drams, and essence of pepsin enough to make four ounces. The dose for an adult is one teaspoonful every two or three hours.

Superfluous Hair.—A growth of hair Is annoying to a girl who wears short sleeves. Depilatories arc dangerous and electrolysis, the only sure cure, is an expensive treatment. To minimize the trouble dark hairs may be bleached. Wash the arms with a weak solution of ammonia and water. Then pour a little peroxide of hydrogen In the water and apply with a piece of linen. The bleaching process will have to be repeated from time to time, but peroxide Is harmless to the skin. Nasal Catarrh. —In the treatment of this persistent and often Intractable disorder, good results have been obtained by the Internal administration five or six times each day of oue-half teaspoonful doses Tn one-half ounce of water of a mixture of one ounce of specific echinacea and two ounces of stilllngia. The latter Intensifies the action of echinacea In Its Influence upon the mucous surfaces. Tincture of gelscmlum, two drops every hour during the day, pushed to a physiological point, will abort a catarrhal cold. Three grains of salicylate of strontium, added to each dose, reinforces It If rheumatism is suspected. Neuralgia.—ls the neuralgia is in the right side of the face the left hand should be placed in a basin of water as hot as can be born; or If neuralgia Is in tbe left side of the face, tben tbe right hand should be placed iu the.hot water. It Is asserted that In this way relief may be obtained In less than five minutes. ‘The two nerves which have tbe greatest number of tactile eudlngs are the fifth and the medium nerve. A• the fibers of these two nerves cross any Impulse conveyed to the left band will affect the right side of the face, pr If applied to the right baud will affect the left side of tbe face. This Is on account of the crosslug of the cords.