Show HEALTH HINTS AND THINGS WORTH remembering COMPILED BY MAC I 1 copy the following from dr jacksons periodical the lazes laws of dealta health s our platform godhan god has so created man and related him to life on earth casualties aside that in order to live free from sickness and die from old age he needs only to understand and obey the laws upon which life and health depend therefore as christians we insist 1 that sickness is no more necessary than sin 2 that the gospel demands that human beings should live healthfully as well as righteously 3 that within the sphere in which they are designed to operate physiological laws are as sacred as moral laws aud and that mankind are as truly bound to obey them 4 that obedience to physiological laws would afford security against the innumerable ailments which smite mankind from infancy to old ageana thus would do away with disease 5 that in order to recover from any curable disease one needs simply to be brought under the control of the laws of his organism 6 that therefore the best philosophy upon which to proceed to treat any sick person is to employ such means as had they been properly used would have kept aim from getting sick si cac himself il self accountable I 1 1 11 I have lived lon long enough to demonstrate beyond cavil cavil that sickness is in a very large measure unnecessary in this country with our people and that health catt can be easily had and maintained in such a large degree that very little sickness and that incidental inci denial need to exist it only requires that two or three things on the part ot of any one who Is born so as to have good health possible to him to live ft from bi birth ito death by old age without sickness it may be said therefore in general terms that whoever is sick to blame lor for it now let any person resolve to live in all his conditions of life true to nature eating drinking dressings ing working wor A or shipping prating playing exercising resting asso dating with others or isolating himself from them finding out by steady patient and prayerful endeavor what are to him not to others the laws of lud no matter what are his bis condl when he begins he may be gave prostrate on his bedi and sickness may have made him invalid for years he may have employed chally many physic physicians iano and have been nothing bettered bette redi bat have been made worse by their i drug medication if it be possible sible for him to have health he cannot fail to get it by obedience to the laws of life as a these are inscribed upon his own organism lp night airan air an au extraordinary fallacy is the dread of night air what ai air can we breathe at night but night air the choice is between pure night air from without and foul feul air from within most people prefer the latter art an unaccountable choice what will they say hay if it ib is proved to be true that ully fully f one half of all the diseases we suffer from are occasioned by people sleeping with their windows shut an open window most nights in the year cab nevi never er hurt any one in great cities night air is often of ten the best and purest to be had in twenty four hours always air your room then from the outside air if possible windows are made to open doors are made to shut a truth which seems extremely difficult of apprehension 1 fruit food good sound ripe fruit is by many physicians considered the most healthful healthy UL of foods surgeon evans in how to prolong life says the beneficial effects of fruit diet both in health and disease cannot be overrated it is mans best food if he truly desires a long life in fact he may live entirely upon it in better health than the majority of mankind enjoy good i ripe sound fruit is never a cause of disease d esse dr wallace in 1 says my experiments as well as those of others testify to the fact act that thata a broken down constitution may be rebuilt upon u fruit diet and that a healthy person can be retained in health upon the same thousands thousand of consumptive and other patients have gone one to grape countries and using the rape grape cure 11 have recovered health and vigor dr nichols of london tells us of his bis successful treatment of fever no medicines but grapes and oranges going down the patients throat another authority sais says s the luice juice of the orange taken in large quantities ha has s been found to be ai a specific for many descriptions of fever f ever it is natures remedy tand land an unsurpassed one 11 the fresh juice of other kinds of fruit has been found equally efficacious effects of beer the effects of beer come on surely and insidiously they are being marked in in i persons w who ho drink continuously and excessively the excessive ingestion of fluid causes plethora then li hypertrophy enlargement of the heart and fatty degeneration bof its muscle in munich for example the normal male heart weighs more than elsewhere and it is often found to be fatty since 1870 the consumption of beer in this country has doubled in new york the ratio of deaths from brights disease has changed from per cent on the total annual deaths in 1874 to per cent of the total deaths in 1884 11 two meals daily III 1 I have not adopted the plan p ian of two meals a day from any theoretical idea that it would wo aid be better but it has simply come about from a disinclination to partake of an evening meal and my cifes feelings on the subject harmonizing with my own we have for some months had only two meals daily as we think with manifest advantage to health and comfort we breakfast about nine and dine about two or three we are about 60 years of age and thinking there might be others about the same age to w whom hom our oar experience might be useful I 1 venture to write it vegetarian diet less meat at least in summer and more faith in the nutritious plentiful fruits and grains will mean better health quieter nerves more freedom from the cooking stove for the housekeeper housekeep erand and very likely money enough saved to give the family an otherwise impossible pleasure trip or a few weeks of delightful ha happiness pl for the children in the country the air vwe cure A child suffering from cholera iofan antum tum or summer complaint will be greatly benent bene fitted ted b by a ride in the open air through some shady grove or along the shore of some large body of water A ride on a boat is in still better the pure air and the cool breezes seem to have a peculiarly invigorating and soothing effect upon the sufferer recently a physician was called to see sec a child which seemed at the point of death with summer complaint the little patient had bad not slept for thirty six hours the vomiting and purging were frequent the moaning meaning and panting for baliff ul to witness the sunken eyes the retracted abdomen the shrunken limbs and the feeble pulse all prognosticated a fatal termination remedies seemed mohave to have no effect the child basor was ordered to oe be taken in a carriage to the park the effect of a drive through the park and along the lake shore wa was s remarkable the pure airoff air of the pak paik and the cool breeze from off the lake seemed to have a magic power in soothing the little sufferer within ten minutes after reaching the park the child fell asleep and slept scarcely without awakening for two hours hour after which food as was taken aud and retained A change for the better was manifest and during the next td days the child was driven for several hours through the park at the expiration of which time recovery seemed complete as rauch much to the delight ot ahe bici sass w to the food fond be rqn |