24 TO AVOID OATOHINO DIPHTHERIA HEALTH IN BREATHINO. 



the disease is over, the patient should be kept isolated for ten days 

 after all the scabs fall off in smallpox, or after desquamation (that is, 

 "peeling" of the skin) is complete in scarlet fever. For the last week 

 of his seclusion, daily baths, each containing one ounce of strong car- 

 bolic acid, should be given, and every square inch of the body must 

 be thus carefully disinfected, especially the scalp, as the disease poison 

 is apt to linger among the dandruff at the roots of the hair. 



To purify the apartment, wash the furniture, woodwork, floor and 

 walls (scraping off the paper) with the carbolic acid solution and soap. 

 Then shut up tightly and burn in it a pound of sulphur for every 

 hundred cubic feet of space it contains and allow the fumes to remain 

 in the closed room for twenty-four hours. Lastly, open doors and 

 windows so as to ventilate freely for a week, at the end of which time 

 disinfection may generally be considered complete. 



TO AVOID CATCHING DIPHTHERIA. 



No. 1. A pan of raw sliced onions placed in a room where there 

 is diphtheria will absorb the poison and prevent the disease from 

 spreading. The onions should be burned or buried every morning 

 and new ones used. 



No. 2. To 1 drachm of MonseFs salt, add 3 ounces of water; 

 add 'sufficient sugar to overcome the taste of the iron. Dose: One 

 teaspoonful three times a day. When exposure to the contagion has 

 been of daily occurrence, give every three hours. For a child, see 

 table of doses for children, p. 611, Vol. II. Dr. Bennett writes that in 

 130 cases of exposure to this disease, not one took it who had used 

 this remedy. 



HEALTH IN BREATHING. 



Deep Breathing. Many cases of lung trouble and of other 

 afflictions are due to improper breathing, or rather to persons allowing 

 themselves to fall into bad habits of breathing. Nature intends that 

 a certain amount of oxygen must come from the air we breathe. In a 

 natural, joyous life, nature will cause anyone to breathe in an abun- 

 dance of this oxygen. But artificial habits of life, and especially de- 

 spondency and work that requires much stooping or bending over, are 

 apt to produce an apathy of the nerves and muscles that control 

 breathing, and hence an insufficient supply of the health-giving oxy- 

 gen. The remedy in such cases is easy and in everyone's hands. 

 Moreover, it costs nothing but a slight effort, continued long enough 

 until a correct habit is formed. 



How to Breathe. The most important item in breathing is 

 that it shall be deep and rhythmic, that is, that inspiration and expir- 

 ation shall be of equal length. Watch a person asleep and note his 

 breathing: it is as regular and rhythmic as the swish of the waves on 

 the shore, as regular as the ticking of the clock. That is the natural 



