Milk As A Remedial Agent

Uonsiciorablo bas latoly boen said in medical joumals ooncerning the yaluo of nilk as a remedial Hgent iu certuin disBes. An interosting article upon this ubject in the Lomlon Milk Journal, stat(1 on the authorifcy of Dr. Benjamin Jlark, that in the East Indie3 warm milk ust-d to ft great oxtent as a specifio for iarrhoea. Á pint fouv hours will hoek the most violönt diarrhoea, stomach ehc, incipient oholera afid dysenU'ry. 'he milk sUould nevor be boiled, but only ïcated sufficietly to bo npcreeably warm, ot to hot too drink. Milk whicb. has been boiltd, is unfit for use. ïhis tvriter gives eevoral instances to show the valuo of thig simple gubstanco in arresung mis aisca.-e, ainong wuicn ia tho following. Ho sayg . - " It has never failed in curing mo in six or twelvo hours, and I have tried it, I should thlnk, fifty times. I have also givcn it to a dying mau who had boen subject to dysentery eight monta?, latterly accornpunied by diarrhcea, and it aoted on hirn like a cUarm. In two days his diarrhoea was prono, in Ihrco weeks he becaine a halo, fat :nan, and ncw nothing that muy heroaftei oceur will over shtiko his faith in hot milk." A writer alo communicates to tho ■ , u statement of tik in twenty-eix cases of typhoid foyer, iu overy one of whioh its 9 apparent. Itoheoks diarthooa, and nourishes and eool:; the body. ig frora disease n ijuire food quito is much as thoso in health, and muoh inoro so in cortain dise;is,'.i wheré item. Prequontly all on!' in nertain li;jeases ist . by the stomaoh, and even loathod by the patiënt; but nuturo, over Beent, hae furnished a food that in nefieia! - in somü directly curativo. Such a food ia mi k. writex i:i the Journal last quotod, íáet Talo, after giving particns iipon the points Loned, viz. : its action in checking diarrhoea, its nourishing proportie , its tiotiou in cooliiisi thu body, taya : " We belief fever, proirds off delirium, ana. in qua non in typHoid I We hare also lately tested the valuo of in soarlet . that it is now recomí by tho medical faculty in all cuses of Ihis often dist r children's i - dl the milk the patiënt will tuke ; even during the period of t!.. I fevor, it kooj-s up tlio woll tpon b, and in every way is a ed thing in thi - Pai ita, rodo not foar to givo it if your ., ;ro aíllotod with th3 disA Lidy frotn tho country entered one of 1 9 and asksd the clrk if inted to purchase any ohickena - a couplo of thoin - at tho samo timo tlirowing n couplu of live ones on tho counter. lerk replied that ho did, and as the tied pair showed con i nxiety to i trom their uuplcasant íix, he asked if they wou!l lay -meaning I thyy lio a few monionts on thu counter until ho could attend to thera. "Lay thoro?" indignantly asked tha old ady; "of courío not - tlioin'a roosters, :hey won't lay novi i ." Hero is a very genteel and amiable roung' msn. But he is now insano. Ho splits his hair in tlie middlo. Tho other dny, in combing his hair, he chanco l to Kot two more hairs on ono sido t lian on ho other. This destroyod tho balanoe of hia hfiad and overturi brain. Je makfcs a very gentío lauatio, howovcr.