Show uses of ice in health no one ought to drink ice water for it has occasioned fatal inflammation of the stomach and bowels and sometimes sudden death the temptation to drink is very great in summer to use it at all with any safety the person should take but a single swallow at a time take the glass gliss from thelius the lips for half a minute and then another swallow and eo so on it will be found that in this way it becomes disagreeable after a few mouth fulls on the other hand ice itself may be taken as freely as possible not only without injury but with the most striking advantage in dangerous forms of disease if broken in sizes of a pea or bean and swallowed as freely as practicable without much chewing or crashing between the teeth it will often be efficient in checking various kinds of diarrhea and has cured violent cases of asiatic cholera A kind of cushion of powdered ice kept to the entire scalp has allayed violent inflammation of the brain and hr rested arrested feard fearful al convulsions induced by too much blood there water as cold as ice can make it applied frequently to the throat neck and chest with a sponge or cloth very often affords an almost mirace miraculous relief and if this be followed by d drinking copiously of the same salme ice cold element the wetted parts wiped dry and the child be wrapped up well in the bed clothes it falls into a delightful and life ilfe giving slumber all halare inflammations internal oa or external lare iare are promptly subdued by the he applications of ice or ice water because it is converted into steam and rapidly conveys away the extra heat and also diminishes the quantity of blood in U ha vessels of the part A of ice laid on the wrist N rist will often arrest violent bleeding of the nose to drink any ice fee cold coid liquid 11 uld at meals re tards digestion chills the boly boby and has been known to induce the most dangerous internal congestions congest ions if ice is put in milk or on butter and these are not used at the time they lose their freshness and become sour bour and stale for the essential nature of both is cliant changed ged gea when once frozen and then thawed dr IV IV hall |