Health in the Home.
* WHAT GOOD TEETH MEAN
To a certain extent they mean good digestion, and, consequently, good health. Tho teeth should be made to do their proper share of work by maV,. ticathnj; tho food well before it is allowed to pa.ss into tho stomach. This then can hardly bo expected to do if they aro not kept in good condition. i If you havo not a good digestion you must not expect to havo a good complexion, and that is what most women wish to possess. It is a most unwise thing to force tho stomach to do tho work which should havo boon done by tho teeth, and this is what hoppens generally when the teeth aro in a bad condition. The ministrations of tho dentist aro necessary for everyone ; tho oxpenso may bo a serious consideration at first, but a doctors bill is likely to *— bo more serious later on. But tho~J dentist cannot do all that is necessary, *
MILK FOR INVALIDS
Tho use of milk and egga as a diet or an aid to building tip a patient is often a trial for tho nurse. Many patients will take milk slightly warm, or even hot, and digest it readily, when cold milk causes distress. It is an excellent plan to rinse tho mouth with cold, cool, or hot water, as preferred, before and after drinking milk. Tho tasto left in tho mouth of many porhons after a drink of milk, especially a small quantity, often causes a patient to dislike it. Tho aocrct of success in giving milk and eggs to th 0,30 who would rather not take them is to prepare them in difforont ways. For a delicato stomach tho whtto of an egg, well beaten, added to" hot or cold milk, sweetened to tasto, will often provo tempting, when even tho sight of tho yolk with milk is unpleasant. At a timo a little of tho yolk may bo used, the white of tho egg being added last, and not stirred into tho milk, but left on tho top of the glass for ornament*
INFLAMMATION OF THE IRIS,
The iris may bo described as a movable curtain employed in regulating the amount of light admitted into tho eyes. .It lias a circular opening in its centre, and lies between tho cornea and crystalline lons. Its inner circumference has tho power of expanding and contracting according to certain influences, whilst its outer circumforonco is stationary.
The iris may be affected in different ways. Tranmatic or common iritis arises from somo injury, as a stab, cut, or blow. Rheumatic iritis is due to cold or the after-effects of- rheumatism. This is a very painful and common form of tho disease, and is apt to recur at *< intervals, unless skilfully treated in tho first instance. Anthritic iritis often accompanies gout. Scrofulous iritis occurs with' scrofula. In all tho abovo diseases the iris changes its color, and becomes dull. Tho pupil becomes smaller and irregular in shapo, and if tho eye is not attended to, or badly treated, the night will go. - Thoracis- also inflammation round tho cornea, burning neuralgic pains in tho eye, with somo aching in the forehead, which, is gonerally »x----trcmcly bad at night. This-', disoaso in every vase must bo treated by a doctor. Cold applications must be used, but dry, warm wadding applied to tho eye often relievos th* pain. «.,,,
BOILS. It is a generally accepted opinion that when a succession of boils appear the health of tho sufferer is below par. This h quite a commonsense view, because when the state of tho health is low the body's powers of resisting disease are proportionally lessened.' Hcnco tho general system must b© toned up by means of tonics, good food, and hygienic conditions, both M treatment, for tho malady itself and for preventing the trouble. Somo authorities say that a boil can bo arrested in its development if a very small drop of pure carbolic acid is carefully placed on tho top of tho boil, care being taken that tho acid is not spilled on to tho adjoining skin. This treatment ia, however, hardly likely to be successful in many cases, hence tho proper treatment, whon the boil is of a large character, is either to poultice tho boil, and thus tho sooner bring it to a head, when tho matter can bo evacuated by means of a needle whic'*-. *
lias been sterilised in tho flame of a spirit lamp, or the boil may bo treated by having applied to it constantly a mixture of equal parts of extracts of belladonna and glycerine, this application being applied on a picco of clean lint, which should in turn be covered with a small portion of oiled silk. All physicians agree that boiled onions should form the essential feature of tho diet of a person suffering from boils. Wo presume that as tho onion ia notable for> containing a fair proportion of sulphur, and as, besides, it possesses certain laxativo qualities, and thus tends to keep the bowls in ovdotv tho recommendation in .question liaa fairly solid foundation. Another remedy for tho euro of boils is found in tho chape of sulphide, of lime. Twentyfour grains of this snkstanco are well mixed with of sugar in milk, tho doso of powder being as much as will Ho on a sixpence: (or fivo grains) three times a day between meals in a little
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 722, 18 November 1914, Page 6
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