HEALTH HINTS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 15, 17 January 1914, Page 15

HEALTH HINTS.

ST. VITUS' DANCE. St. Vitus' dance or chorea in a mild form should be susceptible of relief and cure if taken in time and treated with intelligence. It is really a manifestation of rheumatism, and hence a diet not likely to induce this disease should be selected. The child should go to bed and be given salicylate of soda in five grain doses three or four times a day. After a few- days of this and a milk diet cure should take place. LEGS. Ulcerated legs, no matter how severe, can be cured. All .that is necessary is to obtain some comfrey leaves and poultice them, or better still, go to the chemist and get some Allantoin solution. Soak this on to a ipiece of rag and apply .to the ulcer. Then purchase a pure rubber bandage, and apply to the leg on the top of the comfrey application. Change thes night and day and a enure shoud arise. HOT Alrß "FOR DIPHT.HERIA. Dr. Rendu, of (Paris, has discovered a novel and seemingly successful method of treating dipbthenia by inha-atrons of hot air. Having proved that the microbes of diphtheria ore destroyed by exposure to a heart of 140 degrees F. for five minutes, or 158 degrees for two minutes, he tried the effect of arr at such temperatures- upon the disease itself. He found that he could inhale di-y _ir at 212 degrees F. lot two minuteß, and at 140 degrees for half an hour. It was. of course, necessary to protect the lips and the rest of the face. Having proved what tbe human throat could bear, Dr. Rendu tried the hot-air treatment upon thirty-three diphtheric patients, at tbe same time treating thirty-three others with the ordinary anti-diphtheritic serum. The results were identical, the! mortality being .15 per cent, in each case. A PEER AS 'M"f>il)-HEAX._R. A remiarktibile istaltemrcenit regarding cures which he bad himself effected bymeans of "suggestion" was mrade by Lord Sandwich at a meeting held under his presidency at University College, London, to inaugurate a medico-psycho-lbgical clinic in London for the treatment of certain diE-eases by means of psycho-therapy. Lord Sandwich, who, by the way, bas served in tihe Army and is now 74, said there could be no doubt as to tbe immense power of the mind over the body, and the further the subject was investigated the greater th© results we slhouid get. He did not pretend to medical or surgical science, but ■he liad bad great experience in healing. After tbe South African war he had some sixty wounded officers at his country- borne, and there was never a doctor or nurse in the bouse. He acted as both to the wounded men, and he was gratified at the success obtained. There were few serious maladies he had not treated with success. He thought he -might say he had never failed to relieve people in agonies of pain. He bad attended people in palaces, in cottages, in hospitals, and in homes, and his patients had included a Hindu monk in bis monastery, a 'Moba.nimedan in his mosque, and a -Hrndru Princess who was brought 600 miles by her husband to see him. There were people who dubbed "rim lunatic, impostor, and liar, possibly, but that 'was a matter of indifference to 'him, as he knew pain had been alleviated and the sick healed. He bad been asked to explain his power, but he had nothing to explain; he only knew what happened.