HOUSEHOLD AND DOMESTIC.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3292, 10 July 1879, Page 2

HOUSEHOLD AND DOMESTIC.

Oatmeal Diet. —Undoubtedly one ol| the most healthful and nourishing artiples, of diet is oatmeal. When properly cooked, and eaten with sugar and cream it forms; a dish which most people relish hotter than meat for breakfast, and is .very, much cheaper. Liebig ha 9 chetnicallyj demonstrated that oatmeal is.,almost as! nutritious as the very best English beef,! and that it is richer than wheaten breadin the elements that go to form bone and; muscle. Professor Forbes, of Edinburgh] during some twenty years, meaauredj the breadth -and. .height,. and;Halsoj tested the strength of both armsj and loins, of the.Bludehts pf ;tr>,«rUniver-j g ityl_ a ' very numerous class and ofi various nationalities, drawn to Edinburgh by the fame of his-teaching. He found that in height, breadth of chest- and' shoulders, and strength of arms and loins,t the Belgians were at the bottom of the, list; a' little above them the English ;! and highest of all the Scotch, and! Scotch-Irish from Ulster, who, like the! natives of Scotland, are fed in their early! years at least one meal a day of good. oat-| meal porridge. ' ' j Kest poe Headaches.—Pr Day says,' in a late lecture: —" Whatever' be "fee! plan, of treatment decided upon;l>est is I the first principle to ..inculcate in every! severe headache. Rest, which the busy; man and the anxious mother cannot obtain; go long as they can manage to keep about,' is one of the first remedies'for every; headache, and we should never cease to I enforce it. The brain, when excited, as much needs quiet and repose as a frac- \ tured limb or an, inflamed ,«ye, and. it is obvious that the chances of shortening the seizure and arresting the pain will depend on our power to;'havei this carried out i effectually. It is a practical lesson to be j steadily in view, in that there may lurk behind a simple headache some lesion of unknown magnitude which may remain stationary if quietude can be maintained. There is a ppfht worth attending to in the treatment of all headaches. See that the head is elevated at night, and the pillow haird: for, if it be soft, the head sinks into it and becomes hot, which with sonic people is enough to provoke an attackin the; mornings if; sleep has been long,and heavy.",,. ..,.„, , ; ,.,, ..,,.. .... ■ ..:r^- , lU ,,j\;X