Domestic

New Zealand Tablet, Volume 13, Issue 7, 13 February 1908, Page 33

Domestic

By * Maureen*

Household Matters. Three even teaspoonfuls of dry material equal one even taiblespoCNotul. Four teaspoonfuls of liquid equal one even taLles^ioodful. Four tabl. spoonfuls .equal one- . half mil. Four gills equal one Pint. Eight gills equal, one quart. Four quarts eqjual one gallon. Eight quarts equal one peck. Eight gallons equal one bushel, sixteen tablespoonfiuls of liquid equal one cupful. iwfci.e tablespoonfuls of dry material equal one cupful. Two cupfuls equal one pint. Fo'ir cupfuls of flour equal 1 one - quart. Two cupfuls of solid butter equal one pound. Two cupfuls of granulated sugar equal one pound. Two and one ibalf cupfuls of powdered sugar equal one pound. One pint of milk equals one pound. One pint of water equals one pound. One large cofiee-cupful of dry brown sugar equals one half pound. Three and a half cupfuls of corn-meal eqiuals one pound. One cupful of raisins equals one half pound. Ten eggs equal one Found. ' Some Medical Fallacies. ' A -doctor was pointing out medical fallacies— the wrong idea about things medical that many people hold. One fallacy, he said, is that beef tea is nourishing. It is nothing but water in which certain pleasant and exhilarating, -meat salts- are dissolved. You would starve to death on beef tea, the same as on whisky or on coffee. ' Another fallacy is that alcohol— whisl'ey— warms the body. Alcohol lowers the temperature. It chills instead of warming. Hence it is of no use whatever as a guard against cold. A third fallacy is that cm egg contains as much nourishment as a pound of meat. Sick people without appetite think complacently that if they ta^e sn egg or two a day they are doing well. As a matter of fac+, they are doing anything but well. They must remember (if they are substituting eggs for meat) that eight eggs, not one, are required/ to ejual one meat pound. Treatment of Burns. A burn is such ■ a frequent accident '• and is withal so painful that any one who makes the slightest pretence to ' first-aitd ' wisdom should know what to do to relieve the sufferer until professional medical aid can be obtained. . t Writers of surgical wor''s usually divide burns into three degrees of severity. In the first there, is nothing ' more than increased redness of the skin, with more or less smarting of the affected part. In burns of the second degree the surface is still red, but it is also more or less covered with blisters of varial le " size and exlent. In the thjird class -are r laced the burns which are really burns— c ises in which the tissues are charred or completely destroyed. The danger cf a burn vari-s -in general with the degree. Thus a burn of the first der.ree, inducing only, redness without blistering, but involving about two-thirds of the surface of the body, has caused death, while the actual carbonization of an entire foot and part of the leg has been survived. The most desirable Ihing in the case of a burn of any extent or decree is to exclude the air and rtrotrct th«! part from pressure or rubbing,. • Cloths wet in a solution of ordinary washing-soda or cooking-soda and co ered by oile d-sitfc to prevent drying serve the purpose admirably ; and the soda has the further recommendation of reli-ning .the pain better thnn almost anything else. A mixture of equal parts of linseed oil and li-ne-water— the vfll-fcnown carron oil— is . a time-honor-ed remedy. If blisters have formed, the water may be l r t out by rnaVin"- a little snip of the raised skin near the edge of the blister, but great care must be taken not to tear off the covering sMn. If the burn has been severe the constitutional symntoms "may.be marked', and treatment may be needed to v 'a'd off ehneV and prevent collapse. If , the sVin has bern destroyed to a greatpr or less dent'h, antiseptic treatment will he npeSed to promote healinr and prpventin* pyln uptime suppuration, or even >an<rrn» Of course if the burn; is extensive or <deeo only « first-aid ' treatment should he etfven. Medical assistance should be secured as .<o->n as possible.