Miscellaneous Items.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1640, 20 February 1886, Page 4

Miscellaneous Items.

There is no remedy of such general application, and none so easily '^attainable as watar, and yetf nine „,; persons ,m ten will pass it by m an - --r.. emergency to seek for something; of -:'> less efficacy. There are but fow cases of illness where water should riot •'? occupy the highest place as a remedial |. , fcgent.' A strip of flannel or anapkin ,. ■'. folded lengthwise and wrung out jof ',-v hot water and applied around the ,i s neck of a child, that has croup will }■■. usually bring relief m ten minutes. .'■'■ A " towel folded several time's and qxiickly wrung out of hot waterand' ' applied over the seat of the pain m „„. toothache or neuralgia will generally prompt relief. 'There 'is : nothing' that will so ... proof pty put ■ short a congestion of the lungs, spre throat, or rheumatism, as hot water 3 when applied prompty and thoroughly. ; Pieces of cotton battingdipped m hoc water, .and kept applied to all sores J. and cuts, bruises and sprain ?, is the ,!•• treatment now generally adopted m '•■'■■■ hospitals. Sprained ankle has been i.-. cured m an hour by. showering it with hot water poured from a height of 10 feet. Tepifl water acts promptly '/■as an emetic, and hot water taken ■ freely half an honr before bedtime is the beat of cathartics m the case of constipation, while it has a most soothing effect on the stomach and bowels. A young physician of Nimes, [Dr P , was lately consulted by a female ■■■■> patient m regard to «ome trifling aii» ment. He took from a glass case a box containing some white powder, and gave it to her with directions /or use. Mme. K. the patient, took a v small pinch of the powder, and finding ib very bitter expressed some, doubts 'to ' the doctor. He, lo quiet "her feelings swallowed a good sized dose of the powder m her presence, ~ and dismissed her. Shortly after, : before reaching her honse, slio fell m a faint and was carried home by neighbors who called another doctor. Emetics were administered, and she was soon' out of . danger, when she : ; related what had occurred m Dr P.'s office. The physician at once rushed to the house of his brother practitioner, hut found him lying on the floor dead. The white powdrr was strychnine. This painful accident shows once more the wisdom of the French pharmacy laws which forbids physicians to dis- . pense their own medicines, and direct pharmacists to kee > all poisons' yb themselves m a locked closet, the key of which must never leave the dis- ! penser's possession. A curious prosecution under the Criminal Law Amendment Act was brought before Mr Justice O'Brien at the Assizes at Cork. A man named James Hodnett was charged with the abduction of a respectable girl named Elizabeth Long, 15 years of age. The curious aspect of the case that the prisoner had always endeavored to prevent the girl following him, but that she insisted on accompanying him. : She ga ve her evidence m CnoTt m a very jaunty manner, admitted, m reply to the prisoner, that he told her lo go home about half-a-dosen times whenever she wont to his house. She also admitted that she told Hodnett *he had obtained her mother's consent to visit him. Mr ! Justie O'Brien, m charging the jury, said that Hodnett was still responsible ,