Show HEALTH HINTS AND OTHER THINGS WORTH REM remembering M COMPILED BY MAC children who drink tea and coffee are delvous and freta fretful ul and lose their appetite for substantial food they have less ability to resist disease and become stunted in growth dr jacksons arguments in favor of only th two 0 meals per day are in brief that t this I 1 s plan gives both the wo women men ol of the family and the stomachs a chance to have the rest they need it Is not wise nor in the long run economical to turn down the lamp when leaving the room when buru burning n low ow foul gases are generated and there is much more danger of explosion keep the lamp well filled the shakers besides avoiding the use of stimulating drinks including i alcohols tea and coffee have for f or thirty years rejected ewines flesh and believe that they are on this account less subject to fevers and consumptive ois diseases eases A cold bath as a tonic can be safe ly used all the year round by those who can bear it at all if one will remember that the temperature of the water should be uniformly about 60 leg deg F and not take it as it comes cool in summer and way down toward freezing in winter anatomically and physiologically it Is a complete mistake to have the heel of the oot foot f raised from f rom the ground beyond the level of the dalm of the foot 11 ahe he moment the heel is raised the plan of the arch is deranged and ana toe the elastic wavelike wave like motion of the toot impeded the arch always ought to have f full all play by the ignorance and carelessness of the attendants in charge of an orphan han asylum in brooklyn N Y 1 a large large number of boys became affect affected ed with a contagious contagions conta gions disease of the eyes by wiping indiscriminately on the same towel tewel dr F barker who has had many years of medical experience in this ayearst city itye thinks inks there is abundant evidence to prove that the poison of scarlet lever bever can be preserved in houses bouses in clothing etc for weeks months or even a year and finally develop its f full all effects on any person in a favorable condition to receive it this fact sho shows WS the necessity of thorough of all rooms in which contagious diseases AS es have been prevalent dr anders writing in the philadelphia medical times argues that house plants are not unhealthy in sleeping rooms he thinks that t the be moisture they throw oft off is beneficial and after a number of enquiries among gardners gardeners gard ners and florists he be thinks it probable that living in a room with plenty of plants tends to lessen the predisposition to consumption in those who have a hereditary tendency thair way he says the plants should have sort soft thin leaves with extensive leaf surface but should not bear flowers with heavy perfume nine whisky there is nothing like whisky in this world for preserving pre servings a man when he be is dead but it is one of the worst thi in the world for preserving a men man when he be is living if you want to keep keel a dead in man w put him in whisky it you faint to kill km a living man put whisky JAW into mm it 11 was a capital thing for preserving the dead ead admiral when they put him ill a rum puncheon but bat it was a bad thing for the sailors when they tipped the cask and drank the liquor till they had left the admiral as he had never left his ship high and dry A E R grote tells us that lin inserts on a blade of grass or a fallen bough are carried down a river by the current to found colonies for the race far from their our origin and specialists in skin affections inform us that the migratory and restless cat and the amiable but inconstant lap dog are often the abode of animal and vegetable parasites that are thus enabled to establish new colonies in the children of families that kindly take them in and are la in return taken in by them indeed this is a common source ol of the parasite rin ringworm beware of tramps the question arises Is there any connection between the tiresome tire seme and unvarying drudging of the life of a farmers wife and the meaningless jabber of an insane asylum as lor it is well known that farmers wives form no small proportion of the unfortunates found in insane asylums it is certainly fair to presume that the question should be answered in the affirmative firma tive I 1 for endless monotony will wear the fiber of any mind and cause aberration or else react on the body and create disease and such a result is all the more likely if overwork be added addea to monotony and drudgery boys who are about to run braces ii races or to leap put on a belt and strap it tightly in order as they say to hold in their wind or breath workmen who are about to lift weights or carry cany burdens put on a belt for the same purpose their declaration being that it gives ives support actually there is not a it ament ent of truth in this belief the belt 11 like e a womans comans corset impedes respiration compresses the abdominal muscles com compresses presses the muscles of the back subjecting them to unnecessary friction and actually impedes motion besides the other injuries the use of the belt frequently causes hernia or rupture doctor is tight lacing injurious of corset is madam among the young particularly much mischief arises from from the use of unripe fruit the crude acids of undeveloped fruit are liable to irritate the alimentary canal and the hardness and toughness of the unripe fruit cell greatly tax the digestive machinery anen again fruit which is over ripe when fermenting processes are arc going on is equally unsuited to the stomach and alimentary canal this too possesses irritating properties if partially decayed fruit is to be eaten at all the decayed portion should be carefully removed and that which is to be used thoroughly cooked decay place in a measure affects every part of the whole SELF CURE the body to a large extent is a machine which when disarranged repairs itself physicians tell us of the vis ris me medica dica trix the power to heal inherent in nature it is natural to get well the blodys recuperative resources are not equal to every need but they are very great it is because of this even that the well man tends to keep beep well if he conforms to natures lawa aws for the system la Is ever full of poison olson from its own waste the disposal osal of which nature has provided f for 9 r etter better than any city has for the disposal of its deadly sewage take the case of an ordinary wound it needs only to have its disrupted parts brought together and nature does the healing and even in many cases where the parts are not brought together nature fills up the space with new flesh so nature will mend a broken bone on the simple condition that the adjusted parts be allowed the requisite rest dyspepsia whether induced by ims roper eating the neglect of exercise grain rain overwork over work or care worry and fret will in time wholly disappear on removal of the cause and compliance with the laws of nature the best physicians now freely admit that typhoid patients in the great majority of cases would recover without a drop of medicine that they need medicine mainly to promote ease and comfort and that pure air is better for them than all drugs the same is true of some other diseases more and more is it being admitted that in no case do drugs have any curative power but only aid nature as the surgeon aids in the case of a badly broken limb by removing irritating bits etc and securing the proper adjustment and fixation of the parts the old time doctors greatly overdosed people in multitudes of cases literally dosed people to death within less than twenty years a personal friend called to watch with a neighbor far gone in consumption was shown eleven different medicines each of which she was to administer during the night according to the symptoms it cannot be too strongly emphasized that those who observe the laws of their physical nature are likely to keep well and even infectious diseases have little power over such persons and would wholly diss disappear appear it if all would observe these laws aws to be continued |