NEWS ITEMS.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 759, 5 September 1922, Page 8

NEWS ITEMS.

BRONCHIAL CATARRH. This very common complaint consists of inflammation of the mucous membrane of some portion of the air passages. It generally begins with a feeling of tiredness, heaviness in the head, slight shiverings, sneezing, watery nostrils, and stoppage of one or both nostrils, with a discharge of thin, colorless fluid. These symptoms are then often followed by a dry cough, hoarseness, sore throat, dryness, tenderness, and swelling of the nostrils, pains and soreness of the limbs, general weakness, more or less fever, great thirst and loss of appetite. Under careful treatment these symptoms will soon subside; but neglect may bring on bronchitis, pneumonia, quinsy, or even start consumption in a person who has a tendency for it. Causes.—Nothing induces cold so quickly as wearing insufficient clothing when the body is cooling after having been heated. It is better to keep on the outdoor things for some time after entering the house, if you have coma in feeling very hot, unless the room is warm.

It must be remembered that it is not when the body is hot, but when it ia cooling, that it is most susceptible. When the body has been heated or exhausted by exercise, the frame is not ible to react, and then the application of cold increases the depression. Damp beds, or prolonged bathing, or the passing from heated rooms to oold ones will often give cold. Treatment.'—-Cold may often be arrested, in its first stage, by putting the feet in water, with a little mustard in, just before getting into bed, and then having a basin of gruel when in bed. If the cold is very bad the patient should stay in bed two or three days, and it is very important to avoid atmospheric changes until it has gone. A nasal douche of salt and water is often beneficial. A teaspoonful of salt in a pint of water. This should be used morning and night. When there is much cough and throat irritation, the inhalation of the vapor from a. drachm of Friar’s balsam in a pint of boiling water often gives relief. The vapor should be inhaled from a jug, whilst the head and face are covered with a towel. A light, nourishing diet should b® taken—such as good satttton broth and plenty of mflfe. AN UN PARALLELED STAMPEDE. A wpst army of Tartars, somt 300.000 in number, under their chief tain, Akhmet, attempted an invasion of Russia in 1479., They passed from the, Volga to the Don, and ascended valley of this river, spreading ruin ntong a path many miles in width. At last they readied the banks of the Oka, where they were confronted by the Russians, 200,090 strong, under the Emperor Ivan 111. These two immense armies thus met face to face, with only the waters ot that narrow stream to separate them. For a fortnight the two armies fought on the opposite banks of the stream; hurling at each other all their missiles of war— arrows, javelins, etc. —-and each fearing greatly lest the antagonistic army should eifeet a passage. The weather came on cold and frosty, and by November 21 the stream was covered with ice. Then occurred an event which is unparalleled in the history of war, and one which; but for being well authenticated, would be rather hard to believe.

Some movement which was made in the Tartar ranks at midnight led the Russians to think that the foe was about to cross, the stream, and a panic spread from rank to rank. The nigh was pitch dark, and the tumult in the camp indicated, they thought, that the enemy was already upon them, and the whole Russian army, in a state of indescribable confusion, commenced its flight. The Tartars heard the commotion, and supposed that the Russians were coming upon them in a midnight assault, and terror spread also through their ranks. The wildest uproar arose, and, forsaking tents and baggage, they, too, commenced their flight. Thus 200,000 men fled in one direction and 900,000 in the other, those in the lead supposing the terror-stricken fugitives in the rear to he pursuing foes! It was a semi-barbaric age, and there were no facilities for the transmission of intelligence, so the Russians did not venture to breathe until they had retreated for 200 miles, and had taken refuge behind the walls of Moscow. The flight of the Tartars was not arrested until they reached their strongholds. 300 miles distant, on the banks of the Volga. Discarded on the opposite banka of the Oka, were the equipment of the two vast armies.