Preventive medicine in the home; a plain treatise on hygiene, sanitation, prevention of sickness .. by Goltra John Nelson 1859-

Author:Goltra, John Nelson, 1859- [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Medicine, Popular
Publisher: New York and Chicago, Tomlinson-Humes, incorporated
Published: 1912-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

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HOUSEHOLD REMEDIES

one of the least irritating of fats, and one which does not readily become rancid. For the same reason wool soap, or any soap made from wool fats is excellent.

Those which contain rosin, or the "cold process" soaps made from caustic alkalies, the chemical affinity of which is not satisfied, so that they act too harshly upon the skin, are not advisable. The milder soaps cleanse just as well, and in the long run better because they do not roughen the skin. Oatmeal soap is bland and soothing. Palm oil soap, when made of a cheap palm oil, is crude, but the higher-priced is excellent. It may be set down as a rule that the cheaper soaps are too harsh to be good for the skin. A pinch of powdered borax added to the bath will help much, and will make the skin clean and free from that greasy feel left by many soaps.

In the so-called antiseptic soaps there is not usually »■» Anti-enough of the antiseptic to be of any use. If anti- dmm septic effect is desired some one of the liquid soaps to be had at the drug store is necessary. Creolin, which makes a milky mixture, is very good. Any one of these liquid antiseptic soaps will relieve a foul sore of its odor in a few washings if thoroughly used. Green soap was formerly imported from Germany, the green tint being due to the vegetable oils used in its manufacture. These oils are not used to make the article sold in this country, but the coloring is added to keep up the imitation. The latter is not antiseptic.

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Soap Babk, or Panama Bare is an expectorant in ten-grain doses, and is also a good destroyer of skin parasites. For this purpose it is used in the form of a strong wash.

Soda is found in nature in great abundance and in many compounds. The most usual is common gelt, which is a compound of sodium and chlorine, or the chloride of sodium. This is taken from the beds of the native mineral, from saline springs, and from sea-water.

Soda, Carbonate of, is used in the manufacture of baking soda, which see, also in many ways in the arts. In cooking, the bicarbonate is the compound used, and this is not for the soda element, as is generally supposed, but for the carbon dioxide which it contains and sets free. Washing soda is the sodium sulphate. Borax is the diborate, or, as it is sometimes called, the biborate of soda.

Soda-Mint tablets are a mixture of soda and spearmint. The mint has no particular medicinal value.

Sodium Benzoate. This drug has been widely discussed of late as a food preservative. Dr. Wiley's experiments to determine whether or not the drug is harmful to the system are valuable, but after all, that is not the real question. The real fact is that meats and other foods which contain benzoate of sodium are therefore admittedly not fresh. If the

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