35° --^ Modern Bee-Farm 



a piece of linen of suitable size, cover one side with honey 

 and bind it on with strips of linen and flannel sufficient to 

 keep in the warmth. Chilblains treated in this way will 

 •disappear as if by magic. 



Correct versus Incorrect Application. 



Will our friends of the medical fraternity ever understand 

 "the true principles of applying poultices, wet packs, etc., 

 to the poor human body ? Under their treatment we nearly 

 always hear of the poultice to be put on as hot as possible, 

 and to be renewed as soon as it cools. Now as a matter 

 of fact, a poultice whe7i correctly applied never does get 

 ■ cold ; and should be so covered up by flannel or other 

 bandages, not too tightly, that the natural heat of the body 

 responding to the soothing warmth of the poultice, keeps 

 all at a moist blood heat for so long as it is desirable to 

 remain on. This principle may the more readily be under- 

 stood when I state that a person of strong constitution may 

 just as well use cold water for the wet throat pack, for the 

 simple reason that its temperature will at once begin to 

 rise, and the pack will even appear warmer than if he had 

 used tepid water. 



In all Cases of Fever 



the application of moist warmth, either by a process of 

 wet-packs, or bathing, is a God-given remedy for which 

 the thirsty, choked skin ever craves, but seldom gets under 

 the usual allopathic systems. And what is more remark- 

 able where the soothing hydropathic treatment is carried 

 out the skin does ' not peel off as is always the case with 

 the destructive drug treatment. The skin is parched 

 because the heated blood has no moisture to spare it, its 

 own circulation being already impeded for the want of 

 -sufficient water. It can readily be seen therefore, how 



