Don't sleep in a draught.

Don't go to bed with cold feet.

Don't stand over hot-air registers.

A bag of hot sand relieves neuralgia.

Warm borax water removes dandruff.

Salt should be eaten with nuts to aid digestion.

Don't eat what you do not need, just to save it.

Don't sit in a damp or chilly room without a fire.

Don't try to get cool too quickly after exercising.

Homoeopathy began in the United States in 1825.

Don't sleep in a room without ventilation of some kind.

Medicine was introduced into Rome from Greece 200 B.C.

Hippocrates, 450 B.C., is styled the "Father of Medicine."

It rests you, in sewing, to change your position frequently.

There was a foundling hospital at Milan, Italy, as early as 787.

Don't try to get along without flannel underclothing in winter.

Oxygen, the life element, was discovered by Dr. Priestly in 1774.

If an artery is severed, tie a small cord or handkerchief above it.

Don't stuff a cold lest you should be next obliged to starve a fever.

A little soda water will relieve sick headache caused by indigestion.

Well-ventilated bedrooms prevent morning headaches and lassitude.

Sprains and bruises call for an application of the tincture of arnica.

Tickling in the throat is best relieved by a gargling of salt and water.

Harvey, the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, made his earlier studies in Italy, where the science of anatomy had but lately been revived.

For bilious colic, soda and ginger in hot water. It may be taken freely.

A cupful of strong coffee will remove the odor of onions from the breath.

A popular proverb says that "a man is either a physician or a fool at forty."

Pains in the side are most promptly relieved by the application of mustard.

A cupful of hot water drank before meals will relieve nausea and dyspepsia.

For cold in the head, nothing is better than powdered borax, sniffed up the nostrils.

One in a faint should be laid flat on his back, then loosen his clothes and let him alone.

There were 48,930 blind people in the United States in 1880, and 33,880 deaf mutes.

There is a personal as well as a public hygiene - your business is to care for the former.

It is stated that but sixteen of the 134 scholars attending Amherst College use tobacco.

It was Galen, 150 A.D., who first applied experimental methods to the study of disease.

It is agreed on all hands that nicotine, the active principle of tobacco, is a powerful poison.

Consumptive night-sweats may be arrested by sponging the body nightly in salt water.

In 1874 all London houses were compelled for the first time to be connected with sewers.

A fever patient can be made cool and comfortable by frequent sponging off with soda water.

To beat the whites of eggs quickly add a pinch of salt. Salt cools, and cold eggs froth rapidly.

Whooping-cough paroxysms are relieved by breathing the fumes of turpentine and carbolic acid.

Nervous spasms are usually relieved by a little salt taken into the mouth and allowed to dissolve.

A drink of hot, strong lemonade before going to bed will often break up a cold and cure a sore throat.

Broken limbs should be placed in natural positions, and the patient kept quiet until the surgeon arrives.

Diphtheria is a specific poison and sometimes kills without any formation of the diphtheritic membrane.

It was Swift who asserted that "the best doctors in the world are Dr Diet, Dr. Quiet and Dr. Merry man."

More cases of consumption appear among needlemakers and file-makers than any other classes of laborers.

The scorpion is a total abstainer. If a drop of whisky be placed on one's back it will immediately sting itself to death.

Hemorrhages of the lungs or stomach are promptly checked by-small doses of salt. The patient should be kept as quiet as possible.

Sleeplessness caused by too much blood in the head may be overcome by applying a cloth wet with cold water to the back of the neck.

In Bacon's works we read: "A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health."

Wind colic is promptly relieved by peppermint essence, taken in a little warm water. For small children it may be sweetened. Paregoric is also good.

Sickness of the stomach is most promptly relieved by drinking a teacupful of hot soda and water. If it brings the offending matter up, all the better.

Men of marked ability in any line have usually one deep, perpendicular wrinkle in the middle of the forehead, with one or two parallel to it on each side.

Japanese doctors never present bills to their patients. They await the patient's inclination to pay, and then thankfully accept whatever sum is offered.

For stomach cramps, ginger ale or a teaspoonful of the tincture of ginger in a half glass of water, in which a half teaspoonful of soda has been dissolved.

The Roman houses and palaces were so imperfectly lighted that in many living rooms the inmates were forced to depend on lamps by day as well as by night.

Assuming the working age to be from twenty to thirty years, and counting only male workers, 440 persons in this country live on the labor of every 100 workers.

Naltknehoff, of Geneva, says there are 311,000 blind persons in Europe, mostly from fevers, and that 75 per cent would have kept their sight had they been properly treated.

The marriage rate of Germany rose 10 per cent in the year following the Franco - Prussian war. The same phenomenon was observed after the French war which ended in 1815.

Absinthe is an alcoholic solution highly flavored with wormwood. It is much drunk in France, particularly in Paris. Its abuse is productive of much evil to the nervous system.

Tracheotomy is the operation of making an opening into the windpipe. It was performed upon the late German emperor, Frederick, who died of cancer of the larynx, June 15, 1888.