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don of wind to the breast, keep the parts warm, and also impari the medical 

 properties of the pitch, by absorption, to the system. About equal parts of 

 tallow and pitch will be proper, or tallow enough to prevent it from sticking to 

 \he skin, as common plasters do. 



8. Croup, Diphtheria and Sore Throat, to Avert.— The New 

 Vork Evening Post recently made the following sensible remarks upon the 

 necessity of watching the childrens feet. It says: 



"A life-long discomfort or a sudden death, often come to children through 

 the inattention or carelessness of the parents. A child should never be allowed 

 to go to sleep with cold feet; the thing to be last attended to is to see that the 

 feet are dry and warm. Neglect of this has often resulted in dangerous attacks 

 of croup, diphtheria or a fatal sore throat. Always on coming from school, 

 on entering the house from a visit or errand in rainy, muddy or thawy weather, 

 the child should remove its shoes, and the mother should hcT^elf ascertain 

 whether the stockings are the least damp. If tnej' are, they should be taken 

 off, the feet held before the fire and rubbed with the hands till perfectly dry, 

 and another pair of stockings and another pair of shoes put on. The reserve 

 shoes and stockings should be kept where they are dry, so as to be ready for 

 use on a minute's notice." 



1. HEADACHE, TO CURE.— Take a quart bottle and nearly fill it 

 with water, then put in spirits of hartshorn and spirits of camphor, each 1 oz., 

 and 1 table-spoonful of salt; shake well to dissolve the salt; then wet cloths 

 with this and apply to the head, and renew as often as they become hot until 

 relieved. If the stomach is sour, causing the headache, taking a little bi-carbon 



' te of soda (baking soda) in water, may help in its cure. 



2. Sick Headache, Tea and Coffee Often the Cause. ~A dis 

 Anguished doctor of New York, a man of wide experience, says of sick head 

 Tiche: 



" Not a case of this disease has ever occurred within my knowledge, except 

 with the drinkers of narcotic drinks (referring to tea and coffee), and not a case 

 has failed of being cured on the entire renunciation of those drinks. Whatever 

 may be said of the violations of physical law in other respects, tea and coffee 

 may claim sick headache as their highly-favored representative." 



Dr. Alcott, in writing on this subject, says: " We are driven to the conclu 

 sion that no person can use the smallest quantity of tea or coffee, or, in fact, of 

 any drink but pure -water, without more or less deranging the action of the 

 stomach and Uver, and ultimately, through these, the nerves and brain, of 

 the whole system. Nay, we are driven t^ a position stronger still, which is, 

 that no peison can take these poisons at all, without, in a greater or less degree, 

 abridging human happiness and human life." — Christian Advocate. 



Remarks. — That the above is the general opinion of our best physicians, 

 and other scientific men, there is not a doubt. For my own part I know that 

 «he giving up of tea and coffee, and substituting half milk, and half water, foi 

 a few weeks at one time, did me much good. For great lovers of tea and 

 coffee, among my patients, I have insisted that they take them of only half the 

 usual strength, especially with those who have frequent headaches, and I claim 

 \X would be better for all; but I do believe that some warm drink, foi genera! 

 use, and taking tea or coffee of half the usual strength, as I now do, may be 

 allowed, if not more than one cup is taken at a meaL 



