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
We now give our own cure, which we claim is of great value, at least it
is worth trying, for it cured the author of consumption of twenty years'
standing in one year. This disease can be cured by "cold packing" the
lungs and throat, and following the rules in general for health stated
in the first part of this work. You must understand a cold compress or
pack, otherwise you are likely to increase the malady and hasten your
death. Some persons cannot warm one ounce of cold water in twenty-four
hours. Such we advise to go very slowly. First adopt the formulae for
cleanliness and regularity already given. Then when a little more blood
is infused through the system and hence more heat exists, commence the
cold pack. Use simply a moistened cambric handkerchief, placed upon the
lungs; envelop with at least two thicknesses of linen and one of
flannel; wrap up warm and go to bed. Do not attempt to cold pack any
part of your body and then expose it to a moving atmosphere. After one
week you can increase the moisture of the pack at least 50%. Then add
to the thickness and moisture 10% each week, as long as you can succeed
in warming it and causing it to sweat that portion of the body packed.
If you should wake up in the night and find the pack dry, remove the
portion previously moistened and retain only the dry covering, viz., the
linen and flannel. In the morning, before arising, thoroughly rub the
lungs with a dry linen towel. This, then, is all that is necessary to
get rid of this incurable (?) disease, if you will only follow the rules
already given for health, happiness, and longevity.
=Convulsions, Fits.=--When a child has a convulsion, or what is commonly
called "a fit," attention should be given to the urinary secretion at
once. If there is suppression of urine, the child should be put into a
warm bath and made to sweat as speedily as possible. In many cases in
which children die from a succession of convulsions, the real cause of
death is suppression of urine (a fact which is probably not so generally
known as it should be), so that the child really dies of poisoning
through the retention of the urinary secretion. When a child is subject
to attacks of this character, care should be taken to dress it warmly in
flannels, so as to keep up a degree of perspiration most of the time,
and hot baths should be administered frequently. Give a glass of
Bethesda water from three to four times a day, and the disease will
disappear.
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