Health Notes

Otago Witness, Issue 2687, 13 September 1905, Page 68

Health Notes

~\ To Restore a Lost Voice. — When the voice goes, from the effects of a bad cold) or much Fpeaking, a pleasant and simple remedy is made by beating up the white of an egg and adding to it the juice of a lemon and enough sugar" to make it palatable. Take a spoonful from time to time It will effect a speedy cure. Cure for Sick Headache. — The juice of , half a lemon in a teacupful of strong black coffee, without surgaa 1 , is an excellent cure for this distressing ailment. Sick Room Don'ts. — Don t go into a sick room when very hot, and don't sit between the patient and the fire, if there be one in ,the room, as the heat attracts any 1 infectious vapour. The Proper Way to Prepare a Pomentat;on. — How many people wring out a fomentation quite- wrongly ! The right way is as follows: Place a towel across a hand-ba«an, with the c! ds hanging over. Put on this a double pieoe of flannel, and fold the towel ovor fi-cm the sides. Tl-en pour on boiling water and wriag by tho ends. Talc© I the flannel out, give- it a shake, and apply , lightlj at ence. j For Sore Throats.— A sore throat should novei _be neglected especially in the time of epidemics. A cleansing- gargle is made by dissolving a heaped taltspoonful of salb and cai'bonate of soda, mixed in, equal quantities, in haif a tumblerful of water. ■ Please Your Patient.— When a patient Is I on light diet it is well to remember that •variety is pleasing. Evan if the food nuisr. be the same, Try to vary the cooking anr} arrangement of it. Let all food be well cocked and! daintily served, and ycur patient will be more easily tempted to cat. Home-made Bronchitis Kettle. — A bronchitis keirle is often needed in a hurry. An impromptu one is easily made with a piece of plumber's piping about 12in or 14in long.^. Flatten one end so that the steam is dis-~ tributed, and place the other end on spout) of kettle. It answers splendidly. — Hot Water ss a Remedy. — Headache almost always yields to tlio simultaneous application of hot water to the feet and back of ihe neck A towel folded, dipped in hot water, wrung out quickly and applied over the stomach, acts like magio in cases of oolic. A towel folded several times and dipped in hot water, quickly wrung out and applied over the seat of the pain, will, in mosfe cases, promptly relieve toothache end neuralgia. A strip of flannel or towel, folded several times lengthwise and dipped in hot water, then slightly wrung out and applied aboufi the neck of a child suffering with an acute attack of croup, will usually relieve the suffeied in the course of 10 minutes, if tLo flannel is kept hot. There is no domestic remedy that so promptly cuts short congestion of the luii2,-s, bore throat, or rheumatism as will hot. water when applied promptly antl I thoroughly.

Tell me not of diamond gems, Set in regal diadems; There's a priceless gem on oarta, Of riobor and of purer worth. 'Tis priceless, and is 'known to fame, And you, perhaps? may know its name. For coughs and colds the remedy sure t3t 3 known as Woods' Gbeat Peppermint CCBBs.