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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., ci.™,i St M.ryUnd Agriculturalcou.g. P. S.—Should any one wish toad dress me as to the genuineness of the above , letter. T I wi.i -i< ^..<*u i • -ui. c *’ . t *>pond* j Other letters of a simila; character from prominent individuals, which stamp Kaskine as a remedy of un doubted merit, will be sent on appli cation. Price $1.00, or six bottles, $5 °°* Sold by Druggists, or sent by mail on receipt of price. The Kaskine Company, 54 Warren St., New York, and 35 Farringdon Road, London. - _____ j The finest line of Toilet ever exhibited in Hamilton just re¬ ceived at the Drug Store. tf ICEI ICE. Will be kept at the Drug Store for sale. Persons wishing it in quantifier please give notice in time to have it shipped. A CARD. I r«Tpo< tfullv tender the public my riu 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 and Piiyate Diseases. 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SfcAiSS Advertising Bureau (10 Spruce St. Iwhere advert in contract* may be made for it in KEW YORK FAULTLESS FAMILY MEM f | * I P « t P DR.HOOOS n :-y& n “4 i*a; EUREKA /-V LI^R -MiM A j Seuwwd ^Epiu HE GA, I ftp St | |jj £• A ■ _Jif wm m I V I 1 Torpid find inactive Liver, Billion, cev:, Duqn pm and indigestion in all its < Fee Sick h.-adae-« and stouweh. col ft ibiiirt when dependent u on indig•-u , liw j # disordered stomach Dr E. C. Hood’s time-tried and log tdloc ive prescription, used l y him ' c ‘S in prut tio*>» for disease of the Y\ . j It \ v mi.tly curt s and prevent* CO j PATION, howt-vt*. obstinate and ti wi .l 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 most effectively tested ‘or this,and r. with out doubt a perfect household medic T X xjlJZ* AFU Torpid Liver, Sick Headache? TT HuO A AT\ ) 5 f! \ Indigestion, Constipation, kk\J\JkJ KJ Dyspepsia, ri v* 11 r\ n ?r K fl ■ Chills and Fe'i LlKjkkkl H. r\ H. k\fkSick languor Stomach. and l " 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. 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