Health Hints.

Otago Witness, Issue 2690, 4 October 1905, Page 76

Health Hints.

If you need to drink hot water, pour it from one jug to anothei a' few times. This will aerate it, and remove the fiat, insipid taste so objectionable to most.

Don't neglect the 10 minutes' rest during the- day, with the feet raised. It gives the whole body a great sense of repose, and works wonders in femoo thing out the lines on the face.

CreooOte r s''ould never be put into a hollow tooth for toothache. It relieves pain, but inevitably destroys rhe substance of the tcoth itself, which breaks away soon after, leaving only the stump. Boil a potato in its skin, and after ifc is boiled take the skin amd put the inside of it to the corn, and lea>'o it for 12 h< urs. At the end of that period the corn, will be much better. The above useful and simple recipe has bean tried, and found to be a perfect remedy.

It is not generally known that equal parts of new milk and limo wat-ei constitute one of the best cures for influenza, and in ca«es where Ihere is fever the white of a raw egg will not only strengthen the patient, but will soothe the pain. Do not sivo. the yolk, as that would increase the fever.

It is a common mistake to count measles as a trifling complaint that need not be noticed, and few people realise how many hundreds of young- children die every year fiom it.. I£ mothers \youjd only, rcmeinbjr

lhat w-jrmth is essential, and that every child with measles mu-it be kept in bod, tbrro would probably be few fatal cates. As. it is, lio'vcver, this simple precaution if very often neglected, and the bronchi + \s or inflammation of the lungs that supermen e-3 is 010 of the comrron-est causes of denth iTet the parents would be a^tol; shed and horrified if it wen? pointed out to then thai tiny ha<l themsches caused tiK'ir child's death.

In the home treatment of mumps it :s ■\ery important to avoid exposure to draughts ai>d cold. Eod is not nocc^ary jn oulinary cases. If ihe pain and swelling of the jaw is vory great, considerable comfort will be given by applying a hoiiiiwed poulc'co to the part, or even thick ■flannel wrung- out of toiling water. "When this is removed, a lay?r of heated cotton wool should be apiilicd over the part, and covered with oiled silk ; the whole bandaged on with flannel. A 'ittle phosphate of Foda gi'-en 'n hot broth is as good as anything. Plenty of liquid nourishment sbouid be given, and a tonio during convalescence.