PREVENTIVE AGAINST SEA-SICKNESS.
Let your last day on shore be a day of perfect rest ; no shopping or
farewell calls ; let your body, which is likely to be pretty well tired by
previous fatigue, get thoroughly rested. At least twenty-four hours
before you sail, take as strong a dose, or doses if necessary, of cathartic
medicine as you can bear. Eat lighter meals than usual for two or
three days before sailing. Then, if the malady assails you on your first
day out, take twenty or thirty grains of bromide of sodium and repeat
if necessary.
250 MEDICAL.
THE MEDICINE CHEST.
First on the list is a good bottle of camphor (the gum cut with alco-
hol) for use in case of headache, faintness, or if one is hurt or stung by
bees ; taken in small quantities for pain in the stomach, it gives great
relief, but one must be very careful how they use it. If taken in too
large quantities, camphor, or the gum either, is very dangerous. Never
wet the hair with it for headache, or the result will be that the hair will
fall out, which would be very unpleasant, to say the least ; but bathe the
temples, forehead, and back of the neck with it (camphor), then wet a
cloth in hot water and lay over the forehead and eyes, also soak the feet
in hot water. Then keep the patient quiet. If your headache is not
very obstinate it will be persuaded to desist. This treatment will
greatly relieve sick headache, and sometimes cure, as the soaking of the
feet relieves nausea of the stomach.
If you have a sore throat, slight or serious, a piece of camphor gum
as large as a pea, kept in the mouth until dissolved, will give relief and
ofttimes cure. It is said by good authority, if the gum is used in season
you will never have diphtheria — it is a good preventive. The second
best remedy is magnetic ointment for outward application; for sore
throat, sick headache, earache, burns, scalds, cuts, wounds and inflam-
mation, etc., and it cannot be equaled.
Then there is the indispensable bottle of pain killer. There are sev-
eral kinds which are good. It is used for all kinds of aches and pains.
A teaspoonful taken two or three times a day in case of dysentery is
very beneficial. Also keep laudanum, quinine, and some mild cathartic
around. With the above one can feel quite safe, even in cases of
emergency. A small piece of cotton saturated with laudanum and
placed in an aching ear, or the cavity of an aching tooth, with a hot
flannel cloth placed to the face, often gives a good night's rest, which,
if omitted, would cause great suffering and loss of sleep.
One or two grains of quinine, taken just before each meal, will give
an appetite and often throw off fever, if taken in time (an ounce of pre-
ventive is worth a pound of cure any time) and when a person has a bad
taste in the mouth, feels a loss of ambition, chills creeping over them,
and a desire to yawn often, there is nothing better than quinine taken
as directed above. Always take a mild cathartic at the time ; this will
cleanse the system ofttimes, without the aid of other medicines. ✪ Mustard Poultice
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PREVENTIVE AGAINST SEA-SICKNESS.
Let your last day on shore be a day of perfect rest ; no shopping or farewell calls ; let your body, which is likely to be pretty well tired by previous fatigue, get thoroughly rested. At least twenty-four hours before you sail, take as strong a dose, or doses if necessary, of cathartic medicine as you can bear. Eat lighter meals than usual for two or three days before sailing. Then, if the malady assails you on your first day out, take twenty or thirty grains of bromide of sodium and repeat if necessary.
THE MEDICINE CHEST.
First on the list is a good bottle of camphor (the gum cut with alcohol) for use in case of headache, faintness, or if one is hurt or stung by bees ; taken in small quantities for pain in the stomach, it gives great relief, but one must be very careful how they use it. If taken in too large quantities, camphor, or the gum either, is very dangerous. Never wet the hair with it for headache, or the result will be that the hair will fall out, which would be very unpleasant, to say the least ; but bathe the temples, forehead, and back of the neck with it (camphor), then wet a cloth in hot water and lay over the forehead and eyes, also soak the feet in hot water. Then keep the patient quiet. If your headache is not very obstinate it will be persuaded to desist. This treatment will greatly relieve sick headache, and sometimes cure, as the soaking of the feet relieves nausea of the stomach.
If you have a sore throat, slight or serious, a piece of camphor gum as large as a pea, kept in the mouth until dissolved, will give relief and ofttimes cure. It is said by good authority, if the gum is used in season you will never have diphtheria — it is a good preventive. The second best remedy is magnetic ointment for outward application; for sore throat, sick headache, earache, burns, scalds, cuts, wounds and inflammation, etc., and it cannot be equaled.
Then there is the indispensable bottle of pain killer. There are several kinds which are good. It is used for all kinds of aches and pains. A teaspoonful taken two or three times a day in case of dysentery is very beneficial. Also keep laudanum, quinine, and some mild cathartic around. With the above one can feel quite safe, even in cases of emergency. A small piece of cotton saturated with laudanum and placed in an aching ear, or the cavity of an aching tooth, with a hot flannel cloth placed to the face, often gives a good night's rest, which, if omitted, would cause great suffering and loss of sleep.
One or two grains of quinine, taken just before each meal, will give an appetite and often throw off fever, if taken in time (an ounce of preventive is worth a pound of cure any time) and when a person has a bad taste in the mouth, feels a loss of ambition, chills creeping over them, and a desire to yawn often, there is nothing better than quinine taken as directed above. Always take a mild cathartic at the time ; this will cleanse the system ofttimes, without the aid of other medicines.
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