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PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.
Dr. Fordyce Barker and Other Author¬
ities on Sea«lckn«M.
Dr. Prantzel, of Berlin, reporting on the ef¬
fects of immoderate smoking upon the heart,
says that smoking, ns a rule, agrees with per¬
sons for many years, although l»y degree*
cigars of a finer llavor ure chosen. But all at
once, without any assignable cause, troubles
are experienced with the heart, which compel
the calling in of the doctor. Common cigars
are not so liable to produce these effects as the
finer flavored ones. Nor can the charge be
laid upon cigarettes, although they produce
evils of their own. The troubles seldom be¬
gin till after the smoker is over 30 years of
age, and most usually uttack him at between
50 and 00. While it has not l>een determined
what it is that makes smoking injurious, it
appears certain that the effect does not de¬
pend upon the amount of nicotine.
Treatment in Sea 8lelui««H.
Dr. Fordyce Barker, of New York, who is
an experienced traveler by ocean, suggests
in Science a method for the treatment of sea
sickness. Ho advises that in making a short
passage over rough wa er a hearty meal
should bo eaten not more than two or three
hours before sailing, and that the individual
should, if possible, keep in the center of the
vessel, and lie down before starting, and that
he should avoid disagreeable sights and smells.
In making ocean voyages, ho should select his
berth with these same objects in view, and
should remain in bed for one or two days, and
cut regularly and heartily. He should take a
cup of coffee or tea each morning before ris
mg, nml should keep the bowels regulated. If
diarrhoea sets in, it should be controlled, by
the remedies usually given for cholera mor¬
bus. If the weather becomes rough, heshould
go to bed before becoming sick.
It may be of interest to note that a large
number of remedies has been recommended
from time to time by physicians and others
for sea sickness. Among them are the
bromides of potassium and sodium, hydrate
of chloral, opium chloroform, hydrocyanic
acid, alcohol, nitrite of amyl, cocaine, strong
coffee, Hoffman’s anodyne, bismuth, bicar¬
bonate of soda and nitro glycerine; for ex¬
ternal application, ice, stimulating liniments
of belladonna, chloroform and camphor, and
hot bottles to the feet. It is a safe principle
in medicine that when, for any given disease,
a large number of remedies is recommended,
the specific remedy, or that which will cure
all the cases of that disease, or the most of
them, has not yet been discovered.
Iturim niul Scald*.
The gravity of a burn, says a writer in
Good Housekeeping, is in proportion to the
surface involved. A deep burn is much less
serious than a superficial one twice the size.
Pain is a good sigu in severe burns; it shows
t hat there is still vitality to suffer. Cloths
dipped in a thick solution of common baking
soda in water laid over the burnt surface and
Imndaged with oilcloth or other material to ex¬
clude the air is advised. Scalds can be
treated in the same way. In slight cases
painting the surface with thick mucilage will
sometimes give relief, or pouring oil over it
and then covering it with a coating of flour.
Anything that effectually excludes the air
will relieve the pain. Persons suffering from
these accidents tiiould havo concentrated,
nourishing food and as much of it as they can
take with ease. Nature lias large repairs to
make and must bo provided material to carry
them on. Tho doctor will prescribe opiates
as needed; it is not safe for an unprofessional
person to meddle with them.
Valuable) Accession to Materia Med tea.
Reports arc current of the discovery of a
peculiar property in a plant, known iu India
ns tho gymnema Bylvestre, and which, two
or tbive of its leaves being chewed, absolutely
abolishes tho tongue’s power to taste sweet¬
ness. Its power to destroy the taste of any¬
thing sweet suggests its use to correct morbid
craving for sweetmeats—a source of dis¬
orders of digestion. It is also reported to
have been found that gymnema “abolishes
the power of enjoying a cigar.” Great ex
pee tat ions, says Science News, exist as to this
accession to modern materia niedica.
Eugene Field has been at work ror some
time on a novel which he expects to publish
some time fiuring the wintev. A collection
of his sketches contributed to The Chicago
Daily News has just been published by Tick
nor & Co., under the title of “Culture’s Gar-
HE WAS GREATLY MiSTAKEH.
A Maryland Reckoned Without
HU Host.
I live in the midst of the malarial dis
tricts of Maryland, near the city of
Washington, and am exposed to all the
dangerous influences of the impure air
and water of that region.
Being naturally of a strong consti¬
tution, I had frequently boasted that
no chills and fever or other malarious
complaint would ever trouble me.
This was my experience and the con¬
dition in which 1 found myself six
months ago. I first noticed that I did
not feel so sprightly and vigorous as
was my wont to do. I felt tired and
enervated. Soon I noticed a distinct
an d distressing back ache -would make
its appearance in the afternoon, in¬
creasing in severity if the exercise was
more than usually violent. Then a
stretchy feeling with profuse gaping
made its appearance. Then my 3 head, '
always clear as a bell, would feel heavy
and I began to have headaches.
The cold stage was marked with chat
tering of the teeth, severe rigors passed
over me, and no amount of clothing
*could keep me warm. The chill was
succeeded in turn by the fever, in which
I seemed 4 o be burning up, the con¬
gestion in my head produced a violent
pain in the frontal portion and a heat¬
ed sensation of the eyelids, with an in¬
describable aching of the lower limbs.
Nausea and vomiting occurred with
severe retchings, and when the parox¬
ysms passed off I was thoroughly pros¬
trated by a weakness that was felt in
every part of me.
I drugged myself with quinine, and
obtained some relief. But my respite
was of brief duration. I was now so
much reduced that I could hardly walk
or stand upright. My disease soon
culminated in a continued malarial fe¬
ver which kept me closely confined for
about a week. I became exceedingly
depressed and melancholy, so much so
that I lost interest in my work, and,
indeed, scarcely cared what happened
to me. A
During all this time, it must be un¬
derstood that I did not neglect medical
treatment. All the most powerful
remedies were tried, such as liquid ar¬
senate of potash, valerian te of iron,
mercury, bromide of potassium, chlo
ride of bismuth, chinoidine, chinchoni
dia, quinine and several others. All
this I did under the advice of eminent
physicians.
It was while I was in this deplorable
condition that the claims made for
Kaskine, the new quinine, as a specific
for malaria, were first brought to my
attention. I knew nothing of its value
to justify my having any confidence in
it, but as everything else had failed l
deemed it my duty to try it, so I began
its use, and its prompt and radical ef¬
fects were of the nature of a revelation
to me. Many people may think the
statement scarcely credible, but it is a
fact t } .t f e r y a few days’ use of
Kask, r!l i fading symptoms in
my C* ecidedly abated or
ceasec tit ; and in a few weeks
from ti A f • Qok the first dose I
was cu
This the first of January,
and since men I have experienced no
recurrence of the malarial symptoms
in any form. A remedy of such ex
ceptional virtue for the* cure of malaria
ought to be commended and univer
sally made known, I have therefore
urged it upon the attention of my
friends, several of whom have used it
with like good results in every case,
and it is with the greatest pleasure
and sincerity that I commend Kaskine
to sufferers from malaria everywhere.
Respectfully yours,
J. D. HlRD, B. A.,
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c» tv thanks for the ven liberal patronage
extended to me duTing'lhe year 1886, and
respec*fully solicit a continuance of same
tor 1887. J^cialtic8. Os stetiics, Chronic
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j C >rs in the practice of medicine to give
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Dr E. C. Hood’s time-tried and log
tdloc ive prescription, used l y him
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s«>me \i id> to the curative t owo ot
Eureka m* r* d? < ill and certainly thn
?i\ other remedy in u-t*. ft ha r been
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out doubt a perfect household medic
T X xjlJZ* AFU Torpid Liver,
Sick Headache?
TT HuO A AT\ ) 5 f! \ Indigestion, Constipation,
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FOR general debility < •>
depressed feelii \ g,
No remedy acts so delightfully and v .-ct
uaLy as a household remedy
as Hood's Eureka.
Hood’s Eureka is without a rival i
treatment'of all those affections, b
our confidence in the preparation tin' wt
challenge all competitors to coir
anything equal to it. Wherever t :
ha- given unbounded satisfaction, an ou
challenge is founded upon the txpei : -ue^
of intelligent pat ons.
Dr N. J Bussey, Piesidentof the ugi
& Phenix Mf’g Co., • f Columbus, Gn, ,iu.
writes : ‘*1 have used Hood’s Eureka tor &
number of } ears in my family, and i con
s der it a valuable family medicine, •*1
do not hesitate to say it is all he o’.•/•ms
for it.”
Me-srs M. D Hood & Co.—Gent 1
1 have tr ed Hood’s Eureka Liver M<
well and I unhesitatingly pronounce u
l>est medicine I have ever used bo nvs;
uable do I regard it that I keep a supply
on band all tire time I hereby cor mend
it to ail as a most efficient, satis : !< ory
and reliable househoh lemedv.
CLIFF B. GHIMES, May
Put up in liquid and dry form, and sold
by a'l druggists at 25. GO an i $1 a bottle
M. 1 ). HOOD J CO., Manf rs,
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