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the work room, it is a good plan to wear a mask to prevent its being drawn 

 with the breath into the throat and lungs. 



It has been said that those who eat freely of fat meats, butter, and other 

 oily substances are not attacked by the disease, though exposed to the poison. 

 I know not what protection this can give, unless the skin is in this way kept 

 more oily, which prevents the absorption of the poison. This would seem to 

 afford a hint in favor of anointing the whole person once or twice a week 

 with sweet oil. 



STITCH IN THE SIDE. — This is a spasmodic affection of the 

 muscles of the chest, and is rheumatic in its origin. With this there are not 

 the symptoms of inflammation nor the difficulty of breathing, except that 

 caused by the pain or stich in the side. Exposure to cold or violent exercise 

 will also cause this. Apply warm applications, mustard poultices, or stimu- 

 lating liniments. The best medicines in this case will be pills of colocynth 

 8 grs., with ex. of colchicum }^ oi a. gr. in each, taken every niglit; and 3 

 times a day a seidlitz draught, with 15 grs. of wine of colchicum and 6 of 

 laudanum in each. 



PROUD FLESH. — The granulations which arise when a sore is in 

 progress of healing, sometimes project beyond the level of the surrounding 

 parts, and form a red excrescence very irritable, easily made to bleed, and 

 sometimes growing fast in spite of all that can be done to prevent it. Caustics 

 of various kinds, as lunar caustic, or the blue vitriol, are to be applied, or red 

 precipitate of mercury, and occasionally pressure, by straps of adhesive plaster 

 or other bandages, is found useful. 



1. BED SORES.— The constant pressure of certain portions of the body 

 upon the bed or mattress frequently produces in invalids excoriations, which 

 nre known bv the above name. 



Treatment. — When the skin becomes red and inflamed, and painful to 

 the touch, immediate steps should be taken to prevent if possible an abrasion 

 of the skin. Mix two tea-spoonfuls of brandy with a wine-glassful of hot 

 \vater, with 30 drops of tincture of arnica. Dab the part with this, and dry 

 with violet powder. Or, either before or after the skin bieaks, dip a camel 

 hair brush into collodion, and brush the inflamed surface over, repeating the 

 operation from time to time until the part is healed. 



2. Saturate cloths with alcohol and apply; not painful and effects speedy 

 cure. 



3. Bismuth powder is also good, and is just the thing for chafing. Cover- 

 ing the sore with clay dust or "mineral earth " is recommended also. 



FITS OR CONVULSIONS IN CHILDREN.— Most persons 

 have seen a baby in fits; and it is. a sad sight, — its little face all distorted and 

 livid; its eyes rolling and squinting frightfully; its hands clenched, and arms 

 bent, and legs drawn up, and body arched backward, and limbs twitching 

 violently, — itself insensible, and unable to see, or swallow, or move. After a 

 time the fit ceases, sometimes by degrees, at other times suddenly,— the child 

 fetching a deep sigh, and then lying quiet and pale, as if it had fainted. 



