Show PRACTICAL considerations it is not within the purpose of this article to discuss the numerous remedies and plans for treating apoplexy that are recommended by physicians and to be found in medical books but there are some things that can always be done d which n view of the theory of the disease we have adopted must commend themselves to common sense while they are always available cold applications may be made to the head and warm ones to the feet both processes tending to divert the blood from the head towards the lower extremities es an abundance of fresh air should be supplied in warm weather fanning the patient is useful the bowels should be freely moved by means of enemas of tepid water andia and if the skin akin inclines to be hot or feverish it i should be sponged with tepid water and afterwards rubbed gently with soft dry cloths claths if the surface inclines to coldness hot fomentations should be applied to the abdomen meanwhile the head should be moderately raised on pillows not feathers and all clothing or neckties neck ties removed from the throat but it ia is preventive me measures asuras to which I 1 wish especially to call attention and here diet dietetic etlo reform is the most important a consideration itis it is not necessarily gluttonous or gross feeders who become fat plethoric or apoplectic it is enough that the food be constipating or ming mingled ledwith with impurities that damage the blood salted pork fresh fermented bread old strong cheese pickled clams fried eggs hot buttered biscuits and greasy pastry represent the grosser class of dietetic abominations while a very free use of candies confections confect ions pound cakes muffins fresh rolls butter and sugar will produce an equally foul and bilious condition of the blood and on this point all writers from the mort moat conservative of the old school to the most radical of the Health formers reformers Be seem beem to agree it seems to be the common sense common observation and comman common experience of all persons alike physicians and people literate and illiterate the only troubie trouble trouble troubie is the theory is repudiated in practice first of all then among the preventive measures is a plain dietary no teatter what other qualities it does or does not possess if it it is intended not to predispose to apoplexy it must not be constipating business men in this go ahead age and country havea habit of lunching hurriedly during business hours and dining heartily at six pm or later two evils result from this habit the food taken at lunch is either indigestible under the circumstances or it is imperfectly mas tica ted it provokes thirst demand demanding I 1 ng a large amount of iced water or ice cream ihnot if not worse things and it r renders e n the tho sleep unsound and nothing is more destructive to the brain tissue and nothing more conducive to apoplectic deficient or imperfect sleep late meals like indigestible and noxious viands induce nightmare horrid dreams dream s starting snoring etc all of which are evidences of cerebral congestion and premonitory symptoms of apoplexy probably no one agency of the I 1 ivos vis serva trix frix natures is so undervalued by the american people as calm natures sweet restorer balmy sleep physiologists know how rapidly the brain structure dis organizes under protracted wakefulness very few persons can endure privations of sleep more than two or three days without becoming delirious all persons who do not sleep enough have a constant condition of congestion of the brain this is why so many inventors schemers politicians editors and literary men who force their brains during the day with stimulants and go to bed to plan and cogitate for the next day instead of resting the mind organs so that the vital machinery can repair the worn and torn organism are so liable to fatal congestions congest ions lons of the brain and sudden deaths the brain structure can only be nourished during sleep every thought every feeling every mental act or emotion is attended with a loss of brain material and this can only be re sup plied and properly assimilated when the brain organs are in a state of complete repose if sleep is disturbed by the irritation of a loaded stomach or an enlarged ilver liver or by a rush of blood to the head consequent on a aate supper and night work it must of necessity perish erish or wear out prematurely if it nes zes does not end in apoplexy and sudden death longevity and sound sleep are terms but one person whose excreting creti ngor organs ans are in woodworking good working order may do ail all all ali the sleeping he requires in six 0 or r eight hours while another whose vital machinery is so clogged that his rest is unquiet and broken may not sleep sufficiently if he lies in bed ten or twelve hours |