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For Woman's M ork.
SO MUCH MAY BE DONE.
There is much that may be done
While the glittering life-sands run;
If ye be but earnest minded,
If ye go not weakly blinded
By gay Fashion’s heartless folly.
Or a selfish melancholy,
By a momentary pleasure
Or a love of ease and leisure ;
Lured not by flitting beauty
From the narrow path of duty.
Much there is that may be done
By an earnest minded one.
There is much that may be done
By a gentle, loving one - !
Her’s sweet mercy’s prayer to breathe ;
Her’s the manly brow to wreathe
In fadeless garlands from above,
Gemmed with the dew of Heaven’s love ;
To soothe the care-worn, troubled breast,
To guard the weary pilgrim’s rest,
To close the eyes of age and youth,
To whisper of celestial truth"
Much —ah, much I —may e’er be done
By a gentle, loving one."
STAINBACK WILSON, M. D., ATLANTA, GA.
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RICE AS FOOD AND MEDICINE.
Rice is among the most nutritious of all
the articles of common diet. Indeed, there
are only two others containing more nutri
ment—peas and beans; and these have only
a fraction the advantage of rice. At the
same time, rice is more digestible than peas
and beans, requiring only one hour for its
digestion, while pea-sand beans require over
two hours. Ninety parts in one hundred
of rice are nutritive, while oatmeal, peas,
and beans, the only foods excelling in this
respect, are respectively 93 and 92 percent,
in nutritive elements. Beside; its value
in nutritiveness and digestibility, rice is an
excellent food on account of its heat-gener
ating properties. Hence, though regarded
as a very unsubstantial diet, it is really a
very sustaining one, affording abundant
and digestible elements for nourishment,
and at the same time serving as Idel to keep
up the heat of the body, which is no less
necessary to lite than nourishment. It is
said that one pound of rice will generate
more heat thaiWfour pounds of roast beef.
But while rice is not a very “cooling diet,”
it is a good one even in fevers,on account of
its nutritiveness and ready digestibility.
One of the very best combinations of food
in all cases of sickness is rice well cooked
and taken with milk. The dry or “ Caro
lina mode ” of cooking rice is even mere
digestible than when cooked with milk.
The following are the directions for this.
Take a clean stew pan with a close-fit
ting top. Then take a clean piece of white
muslin large enough to cover over the top
of the pan and to hang down nearly to; but
not quite in contact with the bottom. Into
the sack so formed put the rice, pour over it
two cupfuls of water, and put cn the cover
so as to hold up the muslin bag inside the
vessel. Place the pan over a slow fire, and
the steam generated by the water will cook
the rice. When thus prepared the grains
will stand apart whole as when put into
the vessel, yet they will be soft and more
digestible than the semi-fluid gummy con
coction served up in the common mode of
cooking rice. The steamers attached to
most stoves will answer in place o f the
muslin bag.
The object of these contrivances is to
prevent contact of the rice with the vessel,
and thus avoid burning or scorching; but
this can be done with care, without- any
thing of the kind. The only objection to
rice as a food isits insipidity or tastelessness
but this can be obviated by suitable season
ing with salt, or other ingredients.
As a medicine in looseness of the bowels
nothing is better than rice thus cooked; or
if more nourishment is required it may be
cooked with milk or put into the milk, hot,
after cooking.
Most cases of diarrhoea, when taken in
the beginning can be cured by this simple
prescription. Go to bed ; keep warm; drink
but little fluids of any kind, and eat noth
ing except rice cooked dry, or with milk.
But, ifthere is fever with thirst, drinks either
cold or warm may be taken in moderation.
It is a grievous error that all drinks should
be forbidden in diarrhoea. If fever is pres
ent cold drinks are necessary both for the
comfort and the restoration of the patient.
This thing of withholding drinks in fevers
of any kind is a barbarism which has hap
pily passed away among all intelligent
physicians and people.
Men are in the best health when they are
out of spir ts.
GOOD LIVING AND THE BRAIN.
It is a common opinion that good, or
rather high living is the principal cause of
dyspepsia ; but while the quantity and qual
ity of our food and the manner of eating it
doubtless has much to do with the behavior
of our stomachs, the state of our brains has
fully as much or more influence. Some of
the most healthy people eat as much of any
and all things as they desire without con
sulting any dietetic rules ; and others who
pay great attention to their diet are the
victims of dyspepsia; but in most of these
cases it will be found that these people take
but little exercise and over-work their
brains in reading, writing and the anxious
pursuits of business. They sit down to a
meal with minds absorbed and preoccupied
to such an extent that they cannot tell five
minutes after eating what they ate, or
whether they have eaten at all; and then
they rush off to their business or literary
work, thus divesting from the stomach to
the brain the energy which should be con
centrated on the stomach for the perfom
ance of its digestive functions. The brain
being the source and fountain of all ner
vous influence, the organ which controls
all the functions of the body, it is not
strange that people should be dyspeptic
when the blood and nerve forces which
should be concentrated to the stomach are
divested to the brain.
One of the most important rules for the
avoidance and care of dyspepsia is, to eat
with a quiet mind, and then to rest quietly
for an hour or two alter eating.
This simple rule with a reasonable re
gard to the quantity and quality of food,
will cure many cases of dyspepsia. It has
been truly said that head-workers need
more rest than hand-workers; and that
three hours of hard brain work are more
exhaustive to the nervous energies than a
whole day of ordinary manual labor.
Therefore above everything else, brain
workers need sleep, sleep through the whole
night, and a nap in the day, especially af
ter dinner. This is in accordance with na
ture as is manifested by the habits of the
lower animals, which lie down and sleep
after eating.
SALT AS A MEDICINE.
We are very apt to seek some far fetched
cure for our bodily ailments, and to over
look the simpler remedies, quite as effect
ive it may be, which are to be found even
in the humblest household.
Common salt is one of the specifics for
various diseases^-which many lose the bene
fit of because they are not aware of its value.
For sore or inflamed eyes, wash them in
a weak solution of salt and warm water.
This is also useful to remove the inflamma
tion caused by extraneous substances in the
eye.
For sore throat and a hacking cough,
take one salt-spoonful of salt, two teaspoon
fuls of vinegar, to halt a goblet of cold
water (iced- water preferable); sip this fre
quently and reliel will be felt at once,
this same preparation will remove nausea,
and settle the weakest stomach. It is also
beneficial in attacks of colic.
Nothing is more useful in sickness than a
small flannel bag filled with salt. For
toothache, colic, or any disease requiring
warm applications, it is invaluable, as it
retains its heat a long time; and it is great
ly to be preferred to hot, wet emollients,
which soon get cold and uncomfortable.
The bag and all can be put on a tin pan
and warmed in the oven ; but it is better
to rip a small hole in the bag, and empty
the salt out into the pan to heat. After it
is hot it can be put back with a large spoon,
and the hole sewed up in a moment.
We have recommended this to several
of our friends while they were suffering
severe pain, and we have had the satisfac
tion of knowing that they experienced al
most immediate relief from it. We
knew it prescribed years ago for a case
of severe colic. The effect was magical;
and ever since the salt-bag has held an
honored place in our domestic pharmacy.
A mixture of ice and salt, in proportion
of one to one-half, applied to the head fre
quently gives instant relief from acute
headache. It should be tied up in a small
linen cloth, like a pad, and held as near as
possible to the seal of the pam.
A teaspoonfwl of salt, dissolved in water,
and taken every hour or two, beginning
six or eight hours before .a chill, will often
prevent it, in intermittent, or what is
known as “ chills and fever.”
I once succeeded with this simple rem
edy in an obstinate case, where quinine,
arsenic, and all the ordinary means had
failed.
REGULAR BOWELS.
J .
Says a writer on health: “The health and
well-being of all the organs of digestion
and nutrition greatly depends upon t' e
.daily evacuation of the bowels. Regular
habits in this respect should be performed
and carefully preserved. Never delay
when nature prompts to this duty, for such
delays tend to produce constipation. There
is no rule of health more important than
this, and its neglect is productive of the
most serious consequences.”
The best remedies for constipation are
drinking cold water before breakfast,
kneading the bowels, and a fruit diet with
cracked vrtieat, oat meal, or Graham bread,
avoiding bolted or fine flour bread.
The only purgative known not requiring a
constant increase of dose, is the recently
introduced Cascara Sagrada. But all pur
gatives should be let alone as far as possi
ble. Proper diet, and regularity as above
advised, will generally over-come the diffi
culty.
CURE FOR DANDRUFF.
Mr. John L. Davis, in the Journal of
Pharmacy, asserts (having fully tested it
in his own case) that a preparation of one
ounce of sulphur and one quart of water,
repeatedly agitated during intervals of a
few hours, and the head saturated every
morning with the clear liquid, will, in a
few weeks, remove every trace of dandruff
from the scalp, and the hair will become
soft arid glossy. He says: “I do not pre
tend to explain the modus operandi of the
treatment, for it is well known that sub
limed sulphur is almost or wholly insoluble,
and the liquid used was destitute of taste,
color, or smell. The effect speaks for itself.”
ANSWERS TO CORRESPOND
ENTS.
Mr. S. G. M.—Advertisements under
French and Indian names, should be classed
with the blood purifiers.
Mrs. J. W.— The best remedy for cold
feet is to dip them in cold water every
morning, and then to rub well with a course
towel, and jump around briskly.
Mrs. N. G.—The best blood purifiers are
pure air, out-door exercise, fruit diet, and
frequent baths, followed by friction of the
skin with hands or coarse towel. There is
a vast deal of humbuggry about these blood
purifiers.”
Miss G. F. S.—“ Blackheads” are not
worms, but little fat glands which are ob
structed, and covered ;vith particles of dirt.
The remedy is fruit diet, active friction
with cold water and a coarse towel, fol
lowed, if necessary, by a wash made by
puttinga teaspoonful of spirits of hartshorn
to a half pint of water and rubbing it on the
affected parts.
Mrs. P. A. R.—Desires treatment for
“ torpid liver.” The liver is a much abused
organ. It is a scape-goat for the ignor
ance of doctors, who, whenever they are at
a loss to say what is the trouble with the
patient, tell him that his liver is torpid or
in some way out of order. It is the great
hobby-horse of quacks, on which they ride
into fortune with their “ liver regulators,”
“liver pills” and “liver pads.” It is the
source of ceaseless anxiety to the people,
who when they get sick from any cause,
are ready to lay it all on the liver.
Such ideas are doing great injury to
health by encouraging the use of all kinds
of purgatives to “ act on the liver.” In
most of these cases the liver is not at fault,
and the practice of constantly or frequent
ly stimulating it by the use of purgatives,
results in thetorper or inactivity for which
the purgatives are taken. The liver thus
goaded and stimulated is like a horse hab
ituated to spurs,-until he gets so that he
will hardly move at all unless the spurs are
freely applied.
Even admitting that the liver is sluggish
in its action, purgatives should be rarely
resorted to. The trouble can generally be
removed by active exercise, friction over
the region of the liver with the hands, a
light fruit and vegetable diet, and espec
ially apples, lemons, and other acid fruits.
The juice of a lemon every morning is an
excellent remedy, and so is the juice of raw
tomatoes taken freely during the day by
sucking the juice, without eating the skins.
Drinking cold water one hour before break
fast every morning is also a gotd remedy.
Fasting twenty-four hours will often re
move all trouble from the supposed disor
der of the liver.
It is said that in all the eight hundred
letters oi Cicero it is impossible to find one
in which he says a word about the dress of
the ladies of his time.
The girl with ugly skin must take a walk
of two or three miles every day, wear shoes
big enough fyg perfect comfort, and eschew
fats and pastry. At the some time she
must rub sulphur in a little glycerine-on
the face at night, washing it off in warm
'water and a few drops of ammonia in the
morning.
WORTHY OF TRUST.
You,have not to wade through a bog of
detail in order to find some feature of en
couragement and promise in the matter of
Compound Oxygen, since at the outset you
can fiXjyour minds on relief, with a reason
able hope that you will be gratified.
There is basis enough for Faith in the
evidence we have furnished so often in the
past; that is, if you have taken the time
to examine it.
It is no hazard to say that you often ven
ture on very serious business with less in
its favor than we provide daily for Com
pound Oxygen.
We speak of providing ; understand us,
we mean by that, we supply you with ex
tracts from the letters of our patients.
These make the testimonials you have
read endorsing Compound Oxygdfi; and,
if you recall the spirit of these, you will
be prepared for the instances given below.
Compound Oxygen would be neither
better or worse, in candid estimation, than
hundreds of other considerations, if it had
not so much endorsement of weight and
character; but, having this, it is entitled to
attention. *
We are pleased to add, it receives fair
measure.
It is needless to say these endorsements
are genuine in every particular; that is
plainly evident.
Nevertheless, if your skeptical mood has
the whip handle, for this time, you can
certify to your hearts’ content by direct
correspondence. Compound Oxygen is
good I Good for the relief and cure of des
perate diseases. Good to arouse hope and
to promote convalescence. How good you
can only tell, on the one hand, by personal
experience of it; and, o> the other hand,
you may judge by the experience of others.
Here’s hope and encouragement.
“Z have now used the Compound Oxyjen
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ing of God, your valuable remedy ' wilTre
store me fully. “Rev. E. E. Berry.
“Mifflintowh, Pa., March 29, 1888.”
“I am haypy to inform you that lam of
ihe opinion that your Compound Oxygen
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“Little Rock, Ark., March 30, 1888.”
“Both myself and family believe I owe
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“M. A. Cummings.
“Manchester, Me., Feb. 22, 1888.”
Rev. Charles W. Cushing, Rochester,
adds to former testimonial:
“The Treatment you sent my dauyhterfor
chronic ulceration of the throat, a year ago,
was very effectual. It was the first thing
which seemed to do her much permanent
good. «
“Feb. 14, 1888.”
“ I believe in the remedy and ean therefore
recommend it.
“Rev. H. T. Chreitzberg.
“Chester, S. C.”
“ For giving the system permanent vitality
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Compound Oxygen to be far in advance of
all medicine or treatment.
“H. H. Cook.
“St. Paul, Minn., March 20, 1888.”
“I commenced your Compound Oxygen
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“Nashua, N. H., Feb. 11, 1888.”
“ You have my heartfelt gratitude for the
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“Mrs. Frankie Edwards.
“Weatherlord, Texas, April 1, 1888.”
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