. 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 .. . g, severalsimple remedies may be employed. Drinking hot salt waterwill often give relief. Apply heat and cold to the stomachor to the spine. Put ice in an ice-bag, or wrap small piecesin a cloth and apply to the throat and back of the the patient to swallow bits of ice. HICCOUGHS A few swallows of cold water, taken while holding thebreath, is generally effective. Sugar mixed with vinegaror water and taken in small quan
. 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 .. . g, severalsimple remedies may be employed. Drinking hot salt waterwill often give relief. Apply heat and cold to the stomachor to the spine. Put ice in an ice-bag, or wrap small piecesin a cloth and apply to the throat and back of the the patient to swallow bits of ice. HICCOUGHS A few swallows of cold water, taken while holding thebreath, is generally effective. Sugar mixed with vinegaror water and taken in small quantities is a good remedy. CONVULSIONS If there is plenty of hot water, place the patient atonce in a hot full bath, with cold applied to the head. Useice if it can be obtained. When there is not hot waterenough at hand for this treatment, give a hot foot-bath,always keeping the head cool. Discover the cause of the convulsions if possible. Ifit is a result of constipation, give a copious enema of warmsoap-suds to relieve the bowels. If the trouble is in thestomach, give an emetic. A part of a cup of salt and watermay be given as soon as the patient can of NinorDiseases A GOLDEN TREASUBE Good health! What a rare golden treasure! We mourn it the moment its gone;We compass the world to reclaim it, And, failing, are wretched, undone.^ When with us, we value it lightly,We treat it as though it were clay; Too often, a slave to our pleasure,We bind it and fling it away. A servant most faithful we find it; Its laws are a boon in disguise;But dear is the price we are paying When its precepts we deign to despise. Yet always twould give us good serviceIf its laws we would only obey; But by constantly breaking its wilfully drive it away. -Health CAUTION The suggestions given and simple treatments recom-mended in this chapter are not designed as a substitutefor skilful medical advice and care. Many diseases maketheir first appearance in some light, incipient form, andcan
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