Show A LESSON IN HYGIENE san Pran francisco cisco chronicle if people knew how theat to eat and drink properly or were willing to confine themselves to articles of food suited to their digestion and would take tak just ejust the amount of exercise necessary to facilitate the digestion the lives of the greater part of the human race would be indefinitely prolonged there would have to be excepted from this sweeping assertion cirtain certain di diseases sea s like those of the throat t and lunge that cannot always be voided avoided but which nevertheless in many cases can be limited in their ravages by prudence the statement as made to ie a truism and has been known to sensible persons since the dawn of civilization and the origin of gourmands and epicures epi cures some old persian writer no matter which placed the whole secret of health in the ability to leave oft off eating before the apperti e was entirely satis fied bed and the wise men of greece and rome never ceased to preach similar truths both by precept and example these things they had learned not from works on hygiene which did not abound in ancient times time nor from family physicians who were far from being so plentiful as they are now but from a simple observation the apostles of a vegetable diet die have usually been fanatics but there has always been a grain of truth in their doctrines for it is true that the greater part of diseases are caused especially among the rich by the excessive use of meats it is only a few years since the nourishing qualities of milk and its hygienic v value alue began to be properly appreciated every one was aware that the young of the human race and odthe of the lower animals using it as their only diet flourished and grew strong alike in bone and muscle it i appeared to be easily and seemed to contain all the elt elements mento that the body seemed to least in the early stages of its growth adults at in civilized countries despised it and would have considered th doomed to an early death bad they found themselves confined to a milk regimen gimell re the same opinion has fortunately not dot prevailed among certain savage ar or semi civilized tribes of pastoral habits babits who have maintained a healthy existence from time immemorial on milk and its products medical science aided by chemistry has for some years past been working a gradual change in those these ancient prejudices ju the chemists have discovered that milk conta contains insi all the elements necessary to make blood bone and muscle it adapts itself to the most moot difficult digestion A man can live and enjoy perfect health on milk and its products alone for his system finds in it everything needful fatty matter ca albumen and especially phosphate of lime for building up his bony framework doctors prescribe it for patients patten tn tm suffering from low fevers if a person finds himself suffering from torpidity torpidity of the liver trouble 0 of the kidneys or a tendency to indigestion let him drink milk freely say two or three quarts a day and abstain from meat and he will almost invariably find himself cured speedily it may maybe be said of diseases of the liver and kidneys and of the dyspepsia that they have invariably been brought on by ignorance or disregard of the laws of hygiene and no one need ever have th ni unless he Is obliged to live in the tropics or has by chance been so situated that the choice of his diet was beyond his control it has in all ages of the world been found difficult to make any considerable num number berof of human belongis observe the laws of temperance in eating and drinking if the means of indulgence were at their disposal it is much more difficult to infuse a little hygienic good sense into the average american of today than into the luxurious roman in the time of lucullus and nowhere in inthe the world to is self restraint more nece necessary esary than in california where the climate constantly stimulates the appetite while at the same time certain latent qualities of the atmosphere mo sphere seem to render digestion difficult while milk in its perfect state is capable of such infinite service to the health it has at the same time an extraordinary tra facility in transmitting omitting disease A great part of that consumed in large cities is from cows kept in stables and fed often on unwholesome food when diseases become too common among these animals the newspapers ventilate the matter and the health officers show a temporary activity but the evil continues ic la is more trying from the fact that diseased milk is largely used as nourishment for young children if the purity of milk is suspected however it only needs to be remembered that the noxious germs it contains may be destroyed by boiling in Eu england gland where the milk Is rarely boiled there have been occasional local epidemics caused by the use of milk from diseased tows cows in 1870 an epidemic of typhoid fever at Is lington w was propagated in this manner epidemics 4 rf croup and have alaio in england been attributed to the same cause the nutritive and hygienic nic qualities of milk and its tendency to transmit disease have for the last ten years been frequent subjects of discussion at the sessions of the paris A academy cade of medicine tiie the matter is sum clentry practical and important to at tract the attention a little oftener of medical associations in america |