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petve and dried. Smoking these in a pipe, and at th», same time 

 toasting the feet at the fire, will almost immediately relieve asth- 

 matic attacks. 



Hearxjjurn, caused by acidity of the stomach, is relieved by 

 taking a teaspoonful of chalk or saleratus in a tumbler of water. 



Cholera Morbus is usually a sudden attack of griping pains 

 followed by purging or vomiting, thirst, and heat, succeecled by 

 cold sweat. Apply a mustard poultice over the bowels and the 

 pit of the stomach. To a tumblerful of water add a teaspoonful 

 of saleratus and twenty drops each of laudanum and spirits of 

 camphor. After a little quiet give a dose of castor oil. 



CosTiVENESS. — Some persons are constantly inclined to costive- 

 ness, which in time is the cause of various diseases. To such 

 persons we must secure a daily discharge from the bowels, even if 

 at times they have to reduce themselves to a liquid diet. Cheese, 

 spices, pickles, and other articles tending to constipation should be 

 avoided, and ripe fruits, figs, honey, and other laxative articles of 

 food used in their stead. If a day goes by without a passage from 

 the bowels, the next morning inject warm soapsuds. 



Headache is most frequently caused by constipation or indiges- 

 tion. Man}- persons who now sufli'er almost conscantl}^ from 

 headache would be relieved if they would use the means described 

 under the head of Costive^iess for keeping the bowels regular. Late 

 suppers and also improper food at supper is the potent cause of 

 much pain in the head. We have little sympath}'^ for headaches 

 caused by such foolish indulgences. Every person who can read 

 may know what food it is proper to eat, how to have it cooked, and 

 when it is proper to eat it. An hour of indulgence at the table, 

 followed by a night and a day of sick headache, is a sijecics of 

 enjoyment we do not appreciate. PrescrijAion No. 6, if given as 

 directed, will usually relieve sick headache. Nervous headache 

 requires exercise, cold baths, dieting, regularity in the bowels, and 

 some tonic, as a teaspoonful of French brandy hourly for a week 01 

 ten days. 



Dyspepsia. Indigestion.— Dyspepsia is attended by a groat 

 variety of unpleasant symptoms, such as oppression in the stomafch, 

 variable appetite, uneasiness, nervousness, low spirits, acidity of 

 the stomach, vomiting, foul mouth in the morning, heartburn, an 

 all gone feeling, even when there is no hunger, a sinking feeling, or 

 fluttering at the pit of the stomach, etc. 



Dyspepsia renders the person liable to succumb to the first 

 attack of fever or any acute disease. The best cure for dyspepsia 

 is not to have it, which is accomplished hy ohexjing the plain laws 

 of health in regard to eating, drinking, sleeping, exercise, etc. 

 Eat digestible food at proper times, masticate it thoroughly, 

 exercise regularly in order that it may digest, drink moderately 

 before or after eating, but never while eating, and you will no^ liavo 



