Bedsore • — There are cases in which the outer skin has been
taken off by long lying, or wearing wet compresses for a long time.
A large part of the body is reduced, as some would say, to “ red
flesh.” In reality it is reduced to inner skin deprived of its outer
layer. We have taken a few handfuls of well-wrought lather of
M'Clinton’s soap (prepared as if for shaving, but from toilet soap)
and spread it as lightly as possible over their fiery surface. There
was an instant change from severe distress to perfect comfort, and
healing began at once. This treatment may be applied to any simple
abrasions of the skin. Bedsores are not likely to occur if the skin is
sponged daily with this mild soap and rubbed with rectified spirits of
wine, to which a small piece of camphor has been added.
TRIED FA-VOVRITES COOKERY BOOK. 239
USEFUL TO KNOW IN SIGK-NURSING.
Hot SAjfDBAGS. — Get some clean, fine sand, dry it thoroughly in a
kettle or pan on the stove j malse a bag about eight inches square of
flannel✪ Hot Sandbags, fill it with the dry sand, sew the opening carefully togeth^ir,
and cover the bag with cotton or linen cloth. This will prevent the
sand from sifting out, and also enable you to heat the bag quickly
by placing in the oven or on the top of the stove. After once using
this you will never again attempt to ■vt'ann the hands or the feet of a sick
person with hot-water bottles. The sand holds the heat for a long time,
and the bag can be tucked up to the back without hurting the invalid.
An agreeable me(hod of changing the atmosphere in an invalid’s
room is to pour some Eau-de-Cologne into a soup plate, and with
a lighted match set fire to it. The spirit will make a pretty flame,
and impart a delightful refreshing odour to the air.
The best way to treat the eye with a cinder in it is to let that eye
alone, and rub the other one.
If you shut your finger in a door or bruise it in any way, put
it in water as hot as you can bear ; in a few minutes change it for
hotter, and keep it in water at least 15 minutes. If the foot is
bruised talre off the shoe and stocking and immerse it in hot water
from 16 to 30 minutes, adding hot water often.
The juice of a lemon before breakfast will often cure a bilious
headache ; but no sugar must be taken with it.
In severe paroxysms of coughing a tablespoonful of glycerine
in a glass of hot milk will give almost instantaneous relief.
Three strawberry leaves, eaten green, are said to be an unfailing
and immediate cure for summer complaints, diarrhoea and dysentery.
An application of brown paper steeped in vinegar is an old-fash-
ioned remedy for “a cold in the chest,” a soi-e throat, or a bmise. It
owes its efficacy to the heat-i’etaining properties of the paper. Paper
(thick brown) stitched between the lining and cloth of a waistcoat or
in the back of a thin coat will render it warm, as well as light. If the
poor only knew this, they would stitch strong sheets of tliick paper
to back of old quilts and thus render their families more comfortable,
because better protected from the bitter weather.
A good remedy for a cold is to spread a piece of brown paper
with pig’s lard, then sprinkle sidphur over, and wear over chest.
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Bedsore • — There are cases in which the outer skin has been taken off by long lying, or wearing wet compresses for a long time. A large part of the body is reduced, as some would say, to “ red flesh.” In reality it is reduced to inner skin deprived of its outer layer. We have taken a few handfuls of well-wrought lather of M'Clinton’s soap (prepared as if for shaving, but from toilet soap) and spread it as lightly as possible over their fiery surface. There was an instant change from severe distress to perfect comfort, and healing began at once. This treatment may be applied to any simple abrasions of the skin. Bedsores are not likely to occur if the skin is sponged daily with this mild soap and rubbed with rectified spirits of wine, to which a small piece of camphor has been added.
USEFUL TO KNOW IN SIGK-NURSING.
Hot SAjfDBAGS. — Get some clean, fine sand, dry it thoroughly in a kettle or pan on the stove j malse a bag about eight inches square of flannel, fill it with the dry sand, sew the opening carefully together, and cover the bag with cotton or linen cloth. This will prevent the sand from sifting out, and also enable you to heat the bag quickly by placing in the oven or on the top of the stove. After once using this you will never again attempt to ■vt'ann the hands or the feet of a sick person with hot-water bottles. The sand holds the heat for a long time, and the bag can be tucked up to the back without hurting the invalid.
An agreeable method of changing the atmosphere in an invalid’s room is to pour some Eau-de-Cologne into a soup plate, and with a lighted match set fire to it. The spirit will make a pretty flame, and impart a delightful refreshing odour to the air.
The best way to treat the eye with a cinder in it is to let that eye alone, and rub the other one.
If you shut your finger in a door or bruise it in any way, put it in water as hot as you can bear ; in a few minutes change it for hotter, and keep it in water at least 15 minutes. If the foot is bruised talre off the shoe and stocking and immerse it in hot water from 16 to 30 minutes, adding hot water often.
The juice of a lemon before breakfast will often cure a bilious headache ; but no sugar must be taken with it.
In severe paroxysms of coughing a tablespoonful of glycerine in a glass of hot milk will give almost instantaneous relief.
Three strawberry leaves, eaten green, are said to be an unfailing and immediate cure for summer complaints, diarrhoea and dysentery.
An application of brown paper steeped in vinegar is an old-fashioned remedy for "a cold in the chest," a sore throat, or a bruise. It owes its efficacy to the heat-retaining properties of the paper. Paper (thick brown) stitched between the lining and cloth of a waistcoat or in the back of a thin coat will render it warm, as well as light. If the poor only knew this, they would stitch strong sheets of tliick paper to back of old quilts and thus render their families more comfortable, because better protected from the bitter weather.
A good remedy for a cold is to spread a piece of brown paper with pig’s lard, then sprinkle sidphur over, and wear over chest.
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