Health, Happiness, and Longevity: Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevityMcCarty, Louis Philippe
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Health, Happiness, and Longevity: Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity
McCarty, Louis Philippe
Hygiene
=Snake Bites.=--Tie a string or ligature hard around the injured limb
and above the bitten place; suck the wound, so as to extract the poison,
but be careful to see that the person who performs the sucking has no
open sore in his mouth; wash with warm water and apply caustics, such as
carbolic acid or concentrated liquor of ammonia; give five to ten grains
of carbonate of ammonia, in water, every hour, and stimulate the patient
with whisky or brandy; rub the limbs with pieces of flannel dipped in
hot whisky or diluted alcohol. Medical attendance should be secured as
soon as possible.
=Tape-worm.=--Recently attention has been called to cocoanuts as a
vermifuge. Professor Paresi, of Athens, when he was in Abyssinia,
happened to discover that ordinary cocoanut possesses vermifuge
qualities in a high degree. He took, one day, a quantity of the juice
and pulp, and shortly afterward felt some gastric disturbance, which,
however, passed off in a few hours. Subsequently he had diarrhea, and
was surprised to find that there had been expelled a complete tape-worm,
head and all, quite dead. After returning to Athens he made a number of
observations which were most satisfactory, the tape-worm being always
passed and quite dead. He orders the milk and pulp of one cocoanut to be
taken early in the morning, fasting, no purgative or confinement to the
house being required.
=Teeth.=--For toothache rub a little essential oil on the face, at the
hinge of the jaw, on the side that aches.
=Tobacco.=--Probably no subject in our book can interest the majority of
persons more than this great question of the use of tobacco. We have a
collection of opinions from the best authorities:--
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