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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1907
Page
20
The piece urges calm, crowd control, and practical aid for injuries from Independence Day celebrations. It outlines immediate steps for burns sunstroke and heat exhaustion, including protecting burned skin applying liniments or carbolic solutions, using ammonia cautiously for shock, and differentiating sunstroke from heat prostration with temperature checks.
The article lists step by step home remedies for choking drowning and injuries. It covers artificial respiration methods abdominal and chest pressure and Howard plan plus splinting bandaging and immobilization for fractures sprains and wounds. It also advises cooling for shock and purgatives and cautions travelers to carry first aid supplies.
A column offers home guidance on scar treatment and cosmetic changes. It advises against salves before deep wounds heal and suggests medical removal for flesh moles, plus exercise and tonics for waist hip reduction and hair darkening methods. It notes the Vaucaire bust remedy is a physician compounded prescription and cautions about bleaching hair with long term color effects.
A reader recalls a baby rickets treatment using saturated sea salt solution and leg rubbing, noting long lasting leg straightness. They also describe a home scalp remedy with quassia tea that avoids hair damage and praise the paper’s practical, rational articles.
Henna tea will not harm hair and can stain it a reddish brown. If it touches the scalp scrub with a tooth brush to remove stain. Effects are not permanent but long lasting and should be reapplied when gray returns. Shampoo hair thoroughly before applying the stain with a small sponge after drying.
Directions for walnut stain use walnut skins beaten to pulp with 16 ounces pure alcohol let stand eight days strain apply as a dye. Lemon juice whitens but is not a true bleach. Butter milk and hydrogen peroxide serve as simple bleaches. For peroxide apply a little to a saucer with a cloth then rub lanolin on skin to prevent injury.
A reader seeks reprint of a fat reduction formula once printed, describing a pomade with tincture of benzoin iodide of potassium and other ingredients. It suggests applying toward the bust with cloths dipped in pulverized alum and other solutions, then covering with oiled paper overnight.
A reader asks for a facial cleansing lotion to replace water once daily. They note soap irritates skin and hair growth prevents cream use. The responder mentions flour or cornstarch as possible substitutes but doubts any can truly replace tepid water. A cream that won’t raise hair after washing is promised.
The author states the Chinese eyelash stain is absolutely noninjurious and will not cause brow or lash loss. It can be used with vaseline without harm, but wait to apply vaseline until the day after staining to avoid interactions.
The note suggests soaking feet in tepid water with bicarbonate of soda morning and night. Dust talcum powder in stockings and use Lavender Foot Lotion made with distilled water and potassium bichromate with lavender essence. Brush lotion on feet after bath and when changing stockings, ensuring no toe gaps. In extreme cases place absorbent cotton bits between toes.
A regular reader requests republishing the orange flower cream formula described as the desired skin food. The note praises it as an excellent skin food and urges renewed publication.
A reader asks about an advertised electric treatment to stop hair growth and requests the treatment. The reply clarifies no advertising or treatment offering is provided, noting electricity may remove hair but no specialist is recommended and urges consulting a doctor or druggist for an address.
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