Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners: A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And MarriageJefferis, B. G. (Benjamin Grant)
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Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners: A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage
Jefferis, B. G. (Benjamin Grant)
Marriage; Medicine, Popular; Sexual ethics
CURE FOR WARTS.--The easiest way to get rid of warts, is to pare off the
thickened skin which covers the prominent wart; cut it off by successive
layers and shave it until you come to the surface of the skin, and till you
draw blood in two or three places. Then rub the part thoroughly over with
lunar caustic, and one effective operation of this kind will generally
destroy the wart; if not, you cut off the black spot which has been
occasioned by the caustic, and apply it again; or you may apply acetic
acid, and thus you will get rid of it. Care must be taken in applying these
acids, not to rub them on the skin around the wart.
WENS.--Take the yoke of some eggs, beat up, and add as much fine salt as
will dissolve, and apply a plaster to the wen every ten hours. It cures
without pain or any other inconvenience.
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HOW TO CURE
Apoplexy, Bad Breath and Quinsy.
1. APOPLEXY.--Apoplexy occurs only in the corpulent or obese, and those of
gross or high living.
_Treatment._--Raise the head to a nearly upright position; loosen all tight
clothes, strings, etc., and apply cold water to the head and warm water and
warm cloths to the feet. Have the apartment cool and well ventilated. Give
nothing by the mouth until the breathing is relieved, and then only
draughts of cold water.
2. BAD BREATH.--Bad or foul breath will be removed by taking a teaspoonful
of the following mixture after each meal: One ounce chloride of soda, one
ounce liquor of potassa, one and one-half ounces phosphate of soda, and
three ounces of water.
3. QUINSY.--This is an inflammation of the tonsils, or common inflammatory
sore throat; commences with a slight feverish attack, with considerable
pain and swelling of the tonsils, causing some difficulty in swallowing; as
the attack advances, these symptoms become more intense, there is headache,
thirst, a painful sense of tension, and acute darting pains in the ears.
The attack is generally brought on by exposure to cold, and lasts from five
to seven days, when it subsides naturally, or an abscess may form in
tonsils and burst, or the tonsils may remain enlarged, the inflammation
subsiding.
_Home Treatment._--The patient should remain in a warm room, the diet
chiefly milk and good broths, some cooling laxative and diaphoretic
medicine may be given; but the greatest relief will be found in the
frequent inhalation of the steam of hot water through an inhaler, or in the
old-fashioned way through the spout of a teapot.
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Sensible Rules for the Nurse.
"Remember to be extremely neat in dress; a few drops of hartshorn in the
water used for _daily_ bathing will remove the disagreeable odors of warmth
and perspiration.
"Never speak of the symptoms of your patient in his presence, unless
questioned by the doctor, whose orders you are always to obey _implicitly_.
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