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Don't eat what you do not need, just to save it.
Don't try to get cool too quickly after exercising.
Don't sleep in a room without ventilation of some kind.
Don't stuff a cold lest you should be next obliged to starve a fever.
Don't sit in a damp or chilly room without a fire.
Don't try to get along without flannel underclothing in winter.
DIPHTHERIA.
A gargle of sulphur and water has been used with much success in cases of
diptheria. Let the patient swallow a little of the mixture. Or, when you
discover that your throat is a little sore, bind a strip of flannel around the
throat, wet in camphor, and gargle salt and vinegar occasionally.
COLDS AND HOARSENESS.
Borax has proved a most effective remedy in certain forms of colds. In sudden
hoarseness or loss of voice in public speakers or singers, from colds, relief
for an hour or so may be obtained by slowly dissolving, and partially
swallowing, a lump of borax the size of a garden pea, or about three or four
grains held in the mouth for ten or fifteen minutes before speaking or singing.
This produces a profuse secretion of saliva, or "watering" of the mouth and
throat, just as wetting brings back the missing notes to a flute when it is too
dry.
A flannel dipped in boiling water, and sprinkled with turpentine, laid on the
chest as quickly as possible, will relieve the most severe cold or hoarseness.
Another simple, pleasant remedy is furnished by beating up the white of one egg,
adding to it the juice of one lemon, and sweetening with white sugar to taste.
Take a teaspoonful from time to time. It has been known to effectually cure the
ailment.
Or, bake a lemon or sour orange twenty minutes in a moderate oven. When done,
open at one end and take out the inside. Sweeten with sugar or molasses. This is
an excellent remedy for hoarseness.
An old time and good way to relieve a cold is to go to bed, and stay there,
drinking nothing, not even water,for twenty-four hours, and eating as little as
possible. Or, go to bed; put your feet in hot mustard and water; put a bran or
oatmeal poultice on the chest; take ten grains of Dover's powder, and an hour
afterwards a pint of hot gruel; in the morning, rub the body all over with a
coarse towel, and take a dose of aperient medicine.
Violet, pennyroyal, or boneset tea, is excellent to promote perspiration in case
of sudden chill. Care should be taken next day not to get chilled by exposure to
fresh out-door air.
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