Sometimes insects will find lodgment in the ear, causing grea pain.
Should this occur, turn the head on one side, and pour the ear full of
sweet oil. Insects breathe through pores in their skin ; the oil obstructs
these openings, causing their aeath. Children, and often those of larger
growth, acquire the habit of picking their ears with a pin, hairpin, etc.
It is a pernicious practice and should not be allowed. The drum of
the ear is a very delicate membrane and is easily injured ; inflammation
and deafness may be induced thereby. Sometimes foreign bodies from
the throat, such as a piece of meat or a large bone, can be removed by
blowing forcibly into the ear. It causes a powerful reflex action, dur-
ing which the foreign substance may be expelled from the windpipe.
Many persons are subject to nose bleed. In robust, plethoric habits
this is rather beneficial than otherwise, but in many cases it occasions
inconvenience and perhaps alarm. It generally yields readily to treat-
ment. Take a pledget of lint, moisten, dip in equal parts of powdered
alum and gum arabic✪ Nose Bleed Treatment and insert in the nose. Bathe the forehead and
nape of the neck in cold water. If alum and gum arabic are not at
hand, use the tea dust found in the bottom of the tea caddy.
BOW-LEGS AND KNOCK-KNEES.
There is no necessity for children to ever be deformed in this way,
for few, if any, are born in this way, but the child is thus distorted by
carelessness or inattention of the mother. A learned English physician
who has made a study of the care of infants attributes the distortion
known as bow-legs, to a habit some youngsters delight in of rubbing the
sole of one foot against that of the other. Some, as is well known, will
go to sleep with the soles pressed together ; they appear to enjoy the
contact only when the feet are naked, not attempting to make it when
thep are socked and slippered. The remedy, therefore, is simply to
keep the child's soles covered. Knock-knees the doctor ascribes to a
different childish habit, namely, that of sleeping on the side, with one
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knee tucked into the hollow behind the other — a custom familiar to the
observation of most parents, or standing the child's weight upon the
legs before they are strong enough to bear it. Here the preventive pre-
scribed is to pad the inside of the knees so as to keep them apart, and
let the limbs grow freely the.' own way.
NERVOUS DISEASES.
Until within a comparatively few years nervousness was considered
merely an irritability of temper, a mental quality. It is now recognized
by physicians as a physical disease. It makes itself manifest in many
ways. Among its more common symptoms are anxiety of mind, sleep-
lessness, neuralgia, nervous sick headache, nervous dyspepsia, rose cold
or hay fever, etc. Certain of these symptoms were formerly regarded
to be diseases of themselves, and were treated without regard to causa-
tion. The failure to obtain a cure in many cases, and a recurrence of
the symptoms, is often due to the fact that the symptoms were treated
and not the disease. The severity of the symptoms can be mitigated
and perhaps for the time entirely removed by the use of various reme-
dies, aided by moral treatment.
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Sometimes insects will find lodgment in the ear, causing great pain. Should this occur, turn the head on one side, and pour the ear full of sweet oil. Insects breathe through pores in their skin ; the oil obstructs these openings, causing their death. Children, and often those of larger growth, acquire the habit of picking their ears with a pin, hairpin, etc. It is a pernicious practice and should not be allowed. The drum of the ear is a very delicate membrane and is easily injured ; inflammation and deafness may be induced thereby. Sometimes foreign bodies from the throat, such as a piece of meat or a large bone, can be removed by blowing forcibly into the ear. It causes a powerful reflex action, during which the foreign substance may be expelled from the windpipe.
Many persons are subject to nose bleed. In robust, plethoric habits this is rather beneficial than otherwise, but in many cases it occasions inconvenience and perhaps alarm. It generally yields readily to treatment. Take a pledget of lint, moisten, dip in equal parts of powdered alum and gum arabic and insert in the nose. Bathe the forehead and nape of the neck in cold water. If alum and gum arabic are not at hand, use the tea dust found in the bottom of the tea caddy.
BOW-LEGS AND KNOCK-KNEES.
There is no necessity for children to ever be deformed in this way, for few, if any, are born in this way, but the child is thus distorted by carelessness or inattention of the mother. A learned English physician who has made a study of the care of infants attributes the distortion known as bow-legs, to a habit some youngsters delight in of rubbing the sole of one foot against that of the other. Some, as is well known, will go to sleep with the soles pressed together ; they appear to enjoy the contact only when the feet are naked, not attempting to make it when thep are socked and slippered. The remedy, therefore, is simply to keep the child's soles covered. Knock-knees the doctor ascribes to a different childish habit, namely, that of sleeping on the side, with one
NER VO US DISEASES. 263
knee tucked into the hollow behind the other — a custom familiar to the observation of most parents, or standing the child's weight upon the legs before they are strong enough to bear it. Here the preventive prescribed is to pad the inside of the knees so as to keep them apart, and let the limbs grow freely their own way.
NERVOUS DISEASES.
Until within a comparatively few years nervousness was considered merely an irritability of temper, a mental quality. It is now recognized by physicians as a physical disease. It makes itself manifest in many ways. Among its more common symptoms are anxiety of mind, sleeplessness, neuralgia, nervous sick headache, nervous dyspepsia, rose cold or hay fever, etc. Certain of these symptoms were formerly regarded to be diseases of themselves, and were treated without regard to causation. The failure to obtain a cure in many cases, and a recurrence of the symptoms, is often due to the fact that the symptoms were treated and not the disease. The severity of the symptoms can be mitigated and perhaps for the time entirely removed by the use of various remedies, aided by moral treatment.
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