Oatmeal for the Complexion.

Otago Witness, Issue 1834, 14 January 1887, Page 35

Oatmeal for the Complexion.

It would not be easy to find handsomer women anywhere than the oatmeal-cators of Edinburgh, and the ouly ladies who equal them in roseate health and classic beauty .of figure, so far as has been observed, are found, in the interior districts of Ireland' .Oatmeal would seem to have something to dq with it, and everyone may remember tho .reply of tho Scotchman to the' taunt of Dr Johnson* that the horses in Kngland ate the same kind of meal as the men 'in, Stfo.tjland.f, ;" Ah !" said fcpotchie, " bul such horses and such men !"

Ventilating a Room. -.- According to Gen. Morin, the eminent French expert, the proper temperature in well-ventilated places is as follows : —1\ urseries, asylums, and school?, (Wdeg; workshops, barracks, and prisons, r>Odcg ; hospitals, b'ldeg to 64deg ; theatres and lecture rooms, ,'£fldeg to <J9deg. In dwellings in this country it has been the custom to keep the temperature at 6odesr to 70deg. ' t A new disinfecting compound for purifying the atmosphere of the sick room has just been presented to the Berlin Medical Society. Oils of rosemary, lavender, and thyme, in'the proportion of 10, 2h and 2^ parts respectively, are mixed with nitric acid ,in. the proportion of 30 to I£. Thebotile should, ,be shaken before using, and a sponge saturated with the compound and left to diffusely evaporation. Simple as it is, the vapour of this compound is said to possess extraordinary properties in controlling the odors and elliuvia of offensive and infectious disorders.

" Grape cure" is practised in France and Germany in the autumn, and is regarded as * a cure for roanj diseases due to high, feeding. The patient is given a pound of 'grapes to eat, the first day. This amount is added to. until ', the person can eat five or six pounds a day. The food is gradually lessened, and the' diet at last consists entirely of grapes. It cures obesity and many other complaints, -and starts the person off on a new lease of life. Fruit is a necessity in a rational diet, and of immense value in dietetic medicine

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