Home Doctoring
Mothers of small children are noticing the prevalence of skin eruptions, boils, styes and suchlike. "Tt’s the Spring .. ." they say. It’s true that these disorders do appear to be seasonal, but all the same, a good deal can be done to relieve the small person’s wretchedness. A stye, for instance, is a small boil at the root of an eyelash, and it can be very painful. The thing to do is to pull out the affected lash, carefully and swiftly, with tweezers, and then bathe as frequently as is convenient with boracic lotion as hot as you can bear it. A little dilute mercury ointment rubbed into the edges of the lids night and morning will help also. In general, these things indicate poor health"he’s a bit run down "’-or wrong diet. All the foods in which Vitamin A is present are important: cod
and fish liver oils, fish roe, liver, egg yolk, milk and butter, and plenty of greens, as well as carrots and tomatoes. These last are, of course, much more valuable in their raw, or near-raw state. A quite general health rule is-in and out of season-plenty of fruit,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 14, 29 September 1939, Page 12
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194Home Doctoring New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 14, 29 September 1939, Page 12
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