HEALTH COLUMN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2389, 14 December 1899, Page 54

HEALTH COLUMN.

1 lie Dangers of Prolonged Sea Untiling. Several instances of illness due to excessive bathing in the sea have come under our notice. In each case the patient suffered from pains in the limbs, depressed circulation, and prostration, with general symptoms of malaise and J'chill." The duration of the illness was in some instances three weeks or more, showing that the nerve centres had received a severe shock. Inquiry proved that on teveral successive days the sufferers had remained in the sea for at least an hour under a. scorching bur. The unwisdom of euch a proceeding in persons who are not accustomed to prolonged baths and to violent muscular exercise is all too apparent. A young man fresh from college training can swim for an hour with ease, and afterwards be none the worse for it. But how wide the difference between experience and that of a woman who, perhaps, takes a morning sponge bath and little or no active exercise ! Can die be expected to face the extremes of temperature 'involved in an hour's sea-bathing, to ray" nothing of the sheer hard muscular exertion of paddling, floating, swimming, and moving about in a tidal.w ater? The proper length of a 6ea bath for a novice should not be more than five or ten minuter, gradually lengthened as tolerance is acquired. Even a man who has been a strong swimmer needs to begin sea-bathing cautiously after a long abstention. Many a whilom athlete has met his death by trusting to his former prowess. Yet sea-bathing, properly used, is undoubtedly a most valuable means of restoring- health and tone to the debilitated. — Medical Press.

Treatment for Typhoid Fever. — Where a doctor is not available the following might be tried without injury to the patient even if it does not effect all that is claimed for it. It is sent us by a correspondent, who cut it from the Pictorial News of October 4, 1890 : Here is a f,p«edy and effectual cure for typhoid fever, writes a correspondent, which h often attended with pneumonia or congestion or both. This cure does not leave the patient broken down by some other disease by soaU-cring it. It eradicate)* the fever. I have caved the lives of a great- many of my friends and acquaintances by its v.te. The fever is a. granular disea&e and blood poison. Any cause which produces inflammation of the solar plexus and semi-lunar ganglia, two plexus which are immediately above the mouth of the colon, closes the peyer's glands, located in tho colon, and the poison which these 3mall glands secrete pushes into the circulation and poisons it.

Treatment: Take ■a teacup half full of whisky, and set the cup in a vessel of boiling hot water, and thud heat the whisky to its boiling point. Rub the patient all over with the whisky boiling hot, and be sure that you do not mies any ,part of the patient's body, and rub well in. ' The boiling -whisky will not burn or blister. After the rubbing with whisky anoint all over with cold-pressed castor oil, and rub in well. That which will not bo absorbed by the pore 3 rub off with a cloth. No other oil but castor will answer. Treat the patient as above stated once a day for three days consecutively, and the fever is broken, whether typhoid or typhoid and congestive. If pneumonia attends, use from three to ten drops at a time of tincture of lobelia, given every hour or often until the inflammation is reduced and the circulation is equalised. In curing typhoid fever any mild vegetable medicine may be given in quantity sufficient to keep the bowels open. . The pores of the skin are glands. The whisky cleanses them and brings them to a healthy condition.

Castor oil is very penetrating ; so much so, that if rubbed over the bowels an operation will be produced quicker than by swallowing it. Thß castor oil removes, completely, tho inflammation from the two plexus, aforenamed, when the peyer's glands will open and secrete. At thiß stage the fever is broken, leaving no bad results. I lwive cured several persons whom the doctors gave up to die.

— Getting Particulars. — " Yes, your honor ; this is the lady who claims that the dog bit her." "Well, where is the dog who claims to have bitten the lady? "

— Nearer Home. — Mrs Hennypeck (in the midst of her reading) : "I see that a man up in P has got into trouble by marrying three women." Mr Hennypeck (under his breath) : "I know a man a good deal nearer home who got into trouble by marrying one woman."

—Ye Poet: "Would that my muse might B-oar aloft, and, cleaving the empyrean blue, find words to sing Xhe glorious glory of your hair of burnished gold ! ' Ye Maiden (redhaired and prosaic): "That sounds very pretty, Mr Scribbler, but do you know the difference between your poems and my hair? " Ye Poet: "Ah, a conundrum! I give it up. What is the difference, 0 fan-eat of your eoi? " Ye Maiden^. " W&XL. Blj; hair's read."

A DOUBLE SACRIFICE. A maiden sat beside the stream, - And wopt hot tears „ Upon a picture. Alas! her dream > v And hope of years Is blighted past all human aid, Aud she is left to grieve and fade. "* Her lover was a soldier loyal, Who scorned alarms — Had willingly obeyed tho call:! "To- arms! To arms! And fight for honour^ liberty — For the flag that floats o'er land and set. "The flag that floats upon the breeze, And proudly waves - O'er Britain and her colonies I" There are no slaves Beneath the Red and White "and Blue Where men have equal rights and true."' A call for aid rang out, and fears O'erwhelm the^ weak — To such no Christian turns deaf ear3j ■ But swift will wreak A vengeance just upon' the foe Who dares to lay a brother low. • A cry for help! Thousands respond Across the sea, United by the common bond — Humanity! All eager to defend the right With life-blood, should the, spoiler fight. War is declared, and Britain's sons Kight loyally '• '.•;.*.-.-. ..-,'. Shoulder their muskets,. man their guns, Eager for th' fray. Their mothers, sisters, fondly trust In God, own His disposal just. But hark! Across the solemn sea Tho spirit stirs Of patrioticchivalry! "lioyal volunteers Are waiting, all in readiness — Givo U6 a share in the redress Of. wrongs, your Majesty!" Is fleshed along the line to "Home" From colonies, ' And'th' Mother Country ' welcomed them, Who claimed to be Her eons, her soldiers, and her glory, Alike with veterans .wreathed in story ! New Zealand, foremost with her claim t A company Of bravo and stalwart men did name, Destined to be 'Mongst. soldiers wounded, warriors killed, Heroes of Afric's battlefield! And soon they mustered for the fray, In valour wrapt; History shall laud the gala day When they embarked Upon Britannia's sunny sea, Away to fight for liberty! Ono soldier's was a sad farewell— • His lady fair Wept bitterly. She could not tell The reason there, > . That haunted with a sad forebfiding; Bfc she, courageous', stood, tuiyielding! "Where duty calle," she softly said; "One fearless goes, . , z- ■ i > And treads on hallowed ground, when led By holy vows 4 , : Of love.* of fnith, of loyalty To his Queen, his country, and to me! " 'Tis hard to part, but we must trust In God alone; Tho destiny of soldiers must Be from His throne! Ho notes the sparrow's fall — will save The soldior or will mark his grave." He answered not, but fondly pressed Her to his soul In paseionsite embrace, and kissed His fond farewell. , The rolling drum's dread monotone Rang out, and she was left alone. i Expectant wait a multitude — The nations all Stand av,-ed of strength, resource, and blood On British soil! i Impatient wait the issue vast, And tremble at the trumpet's blast, j Tho battle's over, lost and won, Loyal to the "Jack" Are eoldiern all, iho nations own There is no lack. Zealandia end Australia join America at Britain's shrine! 'Britannia, united now On land and sea — Her fathers, sons, and cousins vow For liberty! With keys of oceans in her hands, She guards the earth's remotest 'lands The maiden scans the list of slain— • She swoons away. Alas! alns! to wake again Add rue the day That wooed a faithful heart to war,And left it in South Africa! And now, beside the rippling stream, The maiden grieves For love amongst the slain, and dreamt Fond memories; But will not tarry long to grace Th' solitude of their trysting place. —H. A. COBBLBDICK. Otautaw, December 1899. Pieton, N.Z., September 18^ 1899. ■ I have much pleasure in recommending Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. I have used it t whenever necessary during the laet few years, and have always found it give immediate relief. It alwaya breaks up a. cough or cold, and experience has taught me that to obtain a speedy cure is to commence taking Chamberlain's Cough' Remedy at the verycommencement of a cold. I always keep a bottle of it in the house.— Yours faithfully, J. BLIZZARD, J.P., Town Clerk. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy sold by all dealers. Price, Is 6d, 3s. — tf— — — — « — The German Emperor's new stables are to cost about £400,000, and will accommodate 270 horses and 300 vehicles. There will also bo lodging rooms for 5.0 married grooms and coachmen and their families, and for 80 single ostlers and other servants. Two riding and racing courses., both under cover, will also bo built. — A colossal meteor recently fell into the sea off the coast of Russia, penetrating a bed of clay for a distance of 25ft. An attempt will be made to raise it for the value of its iron and other elements. Two meteora also fell in Indiana, U.S.A., on May 1, but these seem to be of a rocky rather than a metallio nature.