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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAIj. 



Our Bocwrs Hiets. 



By F. L. PEIRO. M. D. 



McVicker's Building, Chicago, III. 



Asthma— Prevention and Treatment. 



If I had an enemy, and I cordially bated 

 him, I would, notwithstanding, pray for 

 his deliverance from asthma! Only those 

 who have suffered it— or have seen great 

 suffering from it, as I have, can form any 

 idea of its terrible character. Suddenly 

 the sufferer is awakened out of compara- 

 tive slumber, with a sense of suffocation, 

 as if one's throat was grasped by a power- 

 ful hand, and the grip so tightened as to 

 exclude respiration. 



A feeling of oppression in the chest pos- 

 sesses him, his lips are blue, face an ashy 

 color, eyes protruding, and every gasp is 

 one of determined effort to obtain air— air 

 to keep from choking to death ! 



If only the lungs would loosen, if that 

 tight feeling under his breast-bone would 

 relax ! O if he could only expectorate, 

 then, ah, tJie/t he would feel blissfully re- 

 lieved! But there is the difficulty. Neither 

 of these greatly desired results will take 

 place unless, in some way, the troubles that 

 occasion these symptoms are removed— at 

 least temporarily. And what will the 

 sufferer not do to obtain this surcease from 

 so horrible oppression ? 



But before any treatment is considered, 

 certain facts should be stated with a view 

 to the prevention of these attacks. 



He who knows himself a victim to this 

 trying condition, termed Asthma, should 

 remember how much depends upon himself 

 for immunity from it. His diet at evening 

 should be light. If experience has taught 

 him that certain food is conducive to an 

 attack, he should, of course, abstain from 

 its use. He should wear light or heavy 

 flannels, according to the seasons, to avoid 

 the evil results of sudden changes in tem- 

 perature. He had best keep out of the 

 cold, damp night air; if compelled to be in 

 it, he should protect himself by adequate 

 clothing. 



The treatment must be largely preven- 

 tive. With this end in view, the brisk fric- 

 tion over the chest and back, night and 

 morning, with a towel wrung out of cold 

 water is excellent; but it must be rubbed 

 hard, and the skin made red. if an attack 

 is feared, a few drops of spirits of camphor 

 dropped on a piece of sugar and taken, is 

 likely to prevent serious trouble. 



Or, if you have the remedies at hand, 

 contained in the Family Medicine Case, ad- 

 vertised in the Bnn JouiiNAi,, take the 

 remedies there directed for Asthma, and 

 good results will follow. If the feet are 

 placed in hot water, with a handful of salt 

 added, all the better. 



But from abundant observation, I know 

 of nothing so effective, not only as a pre- 



ventive, but oftentimes a positive cure, as 

 the inhalation of oxygen, prepared by the 

 American Oxygen Co., of Chicago. Children 

 and young people are often cured of asthma, 

 and it is at these tender ages that greatest 

 success attends proper treatment. At more 

 mature time of life relief, more or less 

 permanent, only can reasonably be ex- 

 pected. 



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CONDUCTED BY 



MRS. JENNIE ATCHLEY. 



Beeville, Texas. 



PROFITABLE BEE-KEEPING. 



Ijesson No. 



(Continued from page 334.) 

 HOW TO PREVENT SWAKMING. 



Now after I tell you how to keep your 

 bees from swarming, and you think it is 

 too much trouble, why then let them 

 swarm. If you do not desire any more 

 bees, or any more colonies, and you are 

 bent on keeping down swarming at all 

 hazards, cage your queens and let them 

 remain caged in their hives until the 

 brood all hatches out. Keep down all 

 the cells for eight or ten days, or until 

 they have no chance to start any more, 

 and if you are determined to stop the 

 swarming, you rmist not overlook a 

 single cell. Then, when the brood is all 

 hatched, turn loose the queens, and I 

 will guarantee that your bees will not 

 swarm naturally any more until they get 

 sealed brood, and by that time your 

 honey-llow or the swarming-fever will 

 likely be over. But if they show signs 

 of swarming, starting queen-cells, then 

 cage again, and I will go you a nickle 

 that they will be so reduced by the time 

 you get through the second round that 

 they will be content to stay at the old 

 home for the rest of the season. 



Now, this I know is a heap of trouble, 

 but I give it as a remedy to prevent bees 

 from swarming, and it will surely do it, 

 for I have tried it, and when you put 

 out a long grin, and doubt my remedy, 



