Medical and Sanitary.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 227, 5 November 1887, Page 3

Medical and Sanitary.

The Usks of CnvKCou,. — Charcoal as a substance to arrest decay and decomposition ot animal substance is very valuable in the hou«e. Meat or poultry may be sent Ion 5 distances in hot weather, and will anive in pood condition if packed in charcoal broken small. Charcoal powder is also very useful in illness— to arrest the piogross ot putiid sores — when laid loosely in a little cotton wool above thesoies. It is u-r'iited also to give &reat relief taken A\ith water in ca<-cs of dyspept-ia Tiays of freshly-heated charcoal will perfectly decdoiise a room. No better tooth powder can be u^cd, althougli many object to its colour. Vessels that have contracted an unpleasant smell may, by rinsing them with pondered chaicoal and water, be rcndcied quite sweet. Fish and meat that have become tainted may be made sound ard fresh by boiling charcoal with them. Thu-* the housewife will see how necessary and useful an article charcoal is, and how desirable it is to be always provided with some.

Ki'MrniKs tor Scvld^.— We often read of ca-e% and .some of us who are what ig called dhtiict victors meet with them in pei son, where little children succeed in scalding themselves to death, either by falling into tubs of boiling water, or by pulling over vet-sels of boiling wnter upon them-elvc*. "We lately heaid of a child who drank from the spout of a teapot of boi ing water, befoie it could be hindered, Fustjining fearful injuries ; and it may be v, oil for our readers to know what to do if a similar case should turn up in their own experience. Cod-liver oil and lime water, mixed in equal part?, i* to be administered, a teaspoonful at a time, to the scalded throat, once an hour, given slowly, so that the healing mixture trickles down almost of itselt. This not only heals the injured pait, but supports the strength of the chii I, as tood would do, until other nourishment can be taken. For external scalds and burns theie is nothing at onro so cooling and curative as the ointment of oxide of zinc ; but as everyone doe" nob ha\e this in the liou c -e, it is as well to plunge ihe injured part in ice water as to tlo an) thing eKe, whenever the plunge is p'acticable, and when ib is nob, to keep cloths wrung out of ice water. This exclude* the air, at any rate, and allays the pi in, and allows the strength to lally, while it is within the reach of everybody.

£\t iicisK Nkckss \ry ronTirr. Aokd. — " I protest against the oft-repented adage that old age is the ago of rest. Tina sentence has led to very gieat error in hygiene. The regular, general exercise of all the organs of mitiition and of locomotive is necessary to poisons of all ages. The greatest attention on this point is all the more necessary that the tendency to rest brings on giadual diminution of the strength. If the old man does not resi-t, his strength will visibly and progressively diminish. In proof that regular daily exeicise is beneficial to the aged, one has only to observe the result 5 ? in some of the handsomest old men, v. ho take little or no rest. Moderate exercise, particularly walking, should be the leading precept of the hygiene of the a<4ed, without which, longevity is well nigh impossible."— M Bouuhariut, Professor of Hygiene.