. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . NATURAL AGENCIES It is the purpose of this chapter to give only a fewplain directions for giving such baths and other simpletreatments as may be applied in the home without theaid of a nurse or a physician. By careful study and observation, parents may readilylearn how to treat and ward of!f disease successfully in itsearly stages. In the common forces and products of na-ture procurable in every home, there is a great storehousefi
. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . NATURAL AGENCIES It is the purpose of this chapter to give only a fewplain directions for giving such baths and other simpletreatments as may be applied in the home without theaid of a nurse or a physician. By careful study and observation, parents may readilylearn how to treat and ward of!f disease successfully in itsearly stages. In the common forces and products of na-ture procurable in every home, there is a great storehousefilled with curative agents. By making intelligent use oPthese, severe sickness and heavy expense may usually beavoided. In eases of serious illness, however, persons unskilledin the treatment of disease should not rely too much uponthese home treatments without the counsel of a physician. HEAT AND COLD Heat is the king of all remedies for the relief of is a natural antidote, and may be applied to any partof the body by means of hot-water bags. If these arenot at hand, a cloth bag may be made and filled with salt,ashes, sand, corn-meal, or any other sub
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