Health Tips

Health Promoter

Health Deterrent

1.      "eat those things which will be… very best good physically"

"very unwise thing to enter a cool room when in a perspiration"

2.      "take special care to have… clothing such as will conduce to a healthful circulation of the blood"

"unwise steward to allow …self to sit in a draught"

3.      "not deprive …self of exercise and air"

"unwise to sit with cold feet and limbs and thus drive back the blood from the extremities to the brain or internal organs"

4.      "get all the sunlight that it is possible … to obtain"

"always protect… feet in damp weather"

5.       

"eat regularly of the most healthful food which will make the best quality of blood"

6.       

Do "not work intemperately"

General

"Draughts of clear, hot water, taken before eating (half a quart, more or less), will never do any harm, but will rather be productive of good."

Nerves / Anxiety

"A cup of tea made from catnip herb will quiet the nerves."

Difficulty Sleeping

"Hot tea will induce sleep."

Stomach Pain

"Hot poultices over the stomach will relieve pain."

Weak, Paining, or inflammed Eyes

"soft flannel clothes wet in hot water and salt, will bring relief quickly"

Head Congestion

"if the feet and limbs are put in a bath with a little mustard, relief will be obtained."