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
=Corns and Bunions= are caused by tight, ill-fitting boots and shoes.
The way of preventing them is, therefore, manifest. Thrusting the toe
into a lemon, to be kept on over night, will make the removal of a corn
easy. Two or three applications will suffice for the worst cases. Soft
corns may be relieved by dissolving a piece of ammonia, the size of
three peas, in an ounce of water, and applying the solution as hot as
can be borne. It is beneficial to place blank newspaper between the
toes. That will keep them from scalding, and hence softening, so that
corns will easily form. We have already referred to this paper method
for cold feet. Paper is a non-conductor and thus has the proper effect.
=Croup=.--The following prescription, to be used as a gargle, is not
only excellent for croup, but will _absolutely_ keep anyone from choking
to death from phlegm in the throat, no matter what the cause, so long as
they have any portion of a lung left. It consists of the yolks of two
eggs thoroughly beaten, in half a pint of good cider vinegar, adding two
tablespoonfuls of honey. I have known two different patients, given up
by their physicians, to rally in thirty minutes under the above
treatment, and finally get well.
=Diabetes.=--A prominent French physician advocates a coffee remedy.
After having continued to use the remedy for upward of a third of a
century in many hundreds of cases, he again appeals to the profession to
give it a trial in those cases of liver and kidney troubles which have
resisted all other treatment. His habit is to place twenty-five grammes,
or about three drachms, of the green berries (he prefers a mixture of
three parts of Mocha with one part each of Martinique and Isle de
Bourbon coffee) in a tumbler of cold water, and let them infuse over
night. The infusion, after straining or filtering, is to be taken on an
empty stomach the first thing after getting up in the morning. He cites
many cases of renal and hepatic colics, diabetes, migraine, etc., which,
although rebellious to all other treatments for years, soon yielded to
the green coffee infusion. It is worth a trial at any rate.
Bethesda water from the Wakeshaw Springs, in Wisconsin, will cure three
out of every five cases of diabetes and help the other two. Drink it as
you would any good water.
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