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THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



Qiiif^cr-tcja, coninon tea, clove tea, or anv liot 

 drink, taken to make you sweat, is good. Warm 

 cIothin«r, such as woollen clothes, i>l;Uikets, 

 feather beds, and lying before ?. hotfirt^, vvith 

 your back to the beat, is good. A hot bath, if 

 you can have a real one for the whole body. i« 

 thfi best ot all. A good b^^d, with blankets only, 

 and healed with a warming-pan, is a good sub» 

 atitate. 



Perhaps the very best treatment for immedi- 

 ate use, is lying with your back to the fire, well 

 wrapped up in blankets, and drinking hot and 

 stimulating fluids, until you are hnt, and sweat. 

 Then begin Ani take tincture of bark, quinine, 

 or any other stimulating tonic, as fast as you 

 please. There are two very di.stinct substances 

 in the bark, quinine and cinchonine. We need 

 them both. 



Whee the fit of fever is over, whether from 

 remftdi-il causes, or natural ones, give plenty of 

 bark, quinine and good food, and if the person 

 can take it, ale, porter, wine or spirit, simply to 

 keep up the temperature. Daily, at the hour of 

 the expected or possible time of the cold stage 

 returning, repeat the hot applications in some 

 mode. 



We have forgotten one of the most effectual 

 modes of obtaining heat — the spirit-bath. Put 

 a couple of table spo^uls of alcohol, or any 

 other spirit, into r. sa'^«^ and place in the centre 

 under a wooden chair. Undress and sit on the 

 chair, wrapped round with a large blanket. Set 

 fire to the spirit with a taper, and cover your 

 head. You will soon be in a sweat. 



This much for yoarself. Now for the locality. 

 Fill up the marshy ground, or keep it covered 

 with water. Plow and sovv your land, or dig -and 

 plant it, so that it may have to grow something 

 wholesome. If you build your own house, and 

 may choose your site, select, if you can, some 

 spot where you can turn a stream into your 

 ground, and surround your house with a stream. 

 of running water, eight or ten feet wide. It is n 

 singular fact thai the peculiar poison that gene- 

 rates ague is absorbed by water; neither will it 

 pass from a swamp across a belt of trees. Build 

 your house, therefore, so as to avail yourself of 

 such protection, if possible: If you should con- 

 duct a stream of water round jour house, let i*: 

 be a running one. 



Mind you do not make a stagnant moat, and 

 if you can, prevent any one else from so do- 

 in? do, or having a stagnant pond or dam. 

 Water, to be useful to us, must like our blood, 

 circulate. Both live byconstant motion. Bath 

 dii by being still. Even the air dies, by being 

 shut up in some place of seclusioij. We go fur- 

 ther, even thou!?ht and feeling die from w?"* c!:' 

 use. The writing of this article is as good for 

 as as for you. We have more matter on a sub- 

 ject, at the end of an article than at the begin- 

 ning. 



So as for you, as readers — the more you read 

 us, the more you will want to read us. Weshall 

 be as necessary to your healthful existence, as 

 your newspaper is to your politica' existence. 



The first command ever given to man was "Be 

 fruitful, anc multiply, and replenish the earth, 

 and subdue it." The man who goes into a new 



part of the country should remember this part of 

 the command, 'Subdue tt" We are exceedingly 

 (lelif'itcd witlivhe work of any pioneer who obeys 

 this command. 



It is an inspiring thought, that man can sub- 

 due mouutains, riveis, seas and continents — aye, 

 and even fever and ague. 'I'here is a granduer 

 in the fVeling, while we pen these lines, (bat we 

 are lielping to fulfil our great destinj- — to subdue 

 the earth — its natural tvils and mal.idies. 



If fate compel you to live in a swampy coun- 

 try, never leave the house alter sundown if you 

 can help it : if you live in a valley wfcere ague 

 exists, never leave your house alter four o'clock 

 in summer, for by that time, in places that cool 

 rapidly from the absence of the sun, the dew be- 

 gins to fall, and dew is deadly to those who are 

 predisposed to igue from weakness : women and 

 children suffer terribly from moonlight walks : if 

 you must go out, wear a great coat and thick 

 boots, even in Augnst. Build fire in the sitting 

 room early in September, and close the doors and 

 windows. iVever mind what your ignorant 

 neighbors say; let them call you eccentric, crazy, 

 or what they please. Perhaps they will soon be 

 glnd to imitate you, when they find you in health, 

 and feel the ague twice a year. 



Live well — generously. Drink a little good 

 wine or found ale. Eat fresh meat — sever salt, 

 unless you cannot avoid it. Drink good cofiee 

 in the morning, and be exceedingly careful to 

 avoid ciiiiis from too little bed clothing. The 

 temperature of the human body always falls four 

 degrees towards lour o'clock in the morning. 

 Remember this, and have an extra blanket or 

 nnilt at hand. Nevtr sleep with your chamber 

 windows open afier ihejirst day of August; but 

 by no means clujie your door. Air you mus.t 

 have, but not September night air; it is deadly.' 

 — Neio York Scalpel. 



[There has been but little of the ague and fe- 

 ver in Illinois the last season; not as much as in 

 many localities in the Eastern States. Thearti 

 cle above ia a good one, and may be generally 

 useful, especially in some parts of New York.] 



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River watei contains about 28 grains of solid 

 matter to every cubic foot. Hence such a river 

 as the Rhine carries \.<j Lhe sea every day 145,080 

 cubic feet of sand or stone. 



Mole hills are curiously formed by an outer 

 arch impervious to rain, and an internal plat- 

 form with drains, and covered ways on which 

 the fair and young reside. The moles live on 

 vrorms and roots, and bury themselves in any 

 soil in a few minutes. 



Few insects live more than a year in their 

 perfect state. Their first state is the egg, then 

 the caterpiller, then the chrysalis or pupa, and 

 finally the precreative form. But in these chan- 

 ges there are infinite degrees and varieties of 

 transition, all of which constitutes the pleasing 

 and very instructive study of Entomology. 



The quantity of Avater discharged into the 

 sea by all the rivers in the world is estimated 

 at 39 cubic miles in a day; hence it would take 

 above 35,000 years to create a circuit of the 

 whole sea through clouds and rivers. 



