Show HEALTH HINTS ETC I 1 COMPILED BY MAC out cut out these 1111 jefts Jf ts ints and keep them A hot strong lemonade tak taken en at bedtime will generally break up a cole cold though I 1 health may bei be enjoyed without agrati gratitude cude it can not be sported with without loss or rega regained ived by courage health is capital as truly as money is the man who so bo regards it will be as careful in its expenditure as cautious in its investment as prudent in husbanding hui hus banding its it resources as the finan anan cier is in the management of the he principal which yields his income I 1 quackery the new idea in nos truths is ii i i not to pretend I 1 hat a ar medicine will cure all maladies maladie sut but ahat list it will positively and completely feure the one disease lor for which ellit lt is designed the clear sighted student of human nature who discovered this slant is said to he be on the a fortune medical record ecord ll poor booi you have lost your baby I 1 hear said done lone gentleman to another yes poor little thing it was only five months old we had tour four doctors doctora blistered its head and feet put t mil mustard poultices all over it gave itu it nino nine calomel powders leeched leechen its temples had it bled and gave it lobella lobelia and all kinds of medicines and 3 et aft after er a weeks illness it died anointing with oil A Ito reign paper gives this advice e when a child or an adult L a cold which settles on the chest cheat or the throat orin or in the head in th the reg region 10 n of the kupse one of the first things to be done is to anoint the parts affected with olive oil the oil should be warmed which it can be easily by pouring a little into an iron spoon and holding the latter over the tiame name ot of a lamp for a minute and then rubbed luto th the skin of the patient with the hand do this tais always alwa s at night and at other ti the aay day when the case is a severe one it is a certain relief and will do not a little towards a ure cure incipient influenza and croup may not infrequently be warded off in this way drugs A prominent physician recently said the habit of taking druss and no strums is beyond comprehension it partly comes from mothers dosing their dabies with soothing syrup hive syrup paregoric worm lozenges and druggists and d proprietary medicine c companies iii ani distributing naming flaming bills ch chiomos romos os and a ir free samples of nostrum no strums from ro in et e to house the prevention is to e edjus the peppie pl in the injurious us e drugs there should be less e taken TA A doctor is seldom cap calabi aBi prescribing for himself when 1 ju 11 let less t the e laity who know nothing of t the aati action of drugs A physician having directed one of his patients to bathe a wound in tepid water the patient sent his little girl to the drug drugstore store with a note saying 11 please sell bearer one half pint of tepid water yo no commandment 01 oto gerleman gentleman Cp putting utting a lew few questions now ba boys vs ah can an apy any of you tell me what commandment adam broke when he be partook of the forbidden fruit small smal scholar cholar ti like a shot plea please pe sir th borut no command commandments commandment men t then sir there are people who ima imagine ine that there are no commandments now at least none which relate to eating and allow themselves to 10 indulge every fancy of their perverted palates without stint but like adam they are sure to find retribution following hard after them and no account of dodging around among the bushes bushe of ignorance and aad self decap tion will save them from the consequences of their sins good health treatment for diphtheria take equal parts eay two tablespoonfuls ot turpentine and liquid tar put ut them into a tin pan or cup and set fare fire to the mixture taking care to have a large pan under it at as a safeguard against the nie A dense resi resinous smoke arises making akin the room dark the patient m immediately seems seema to experience relief the choking and the rattle stop the patient lalla falls into a slumber number and seems to inhale the smoke wita pleasure the membrane soon becomes detached and the patient coughs up microbes mic robes in the course of three days the patient entirely recovers this is the prescription successfully employed employed for many years by sir james Ba resley at 1 p inspector general ot ho hospitals altal india I 1 lefor effects acts of borsets corsets the chest may be ue formed meg by corak during infancy and and by many of the injurious practices of mothers and nurses but the chief agents in distorting this part of the skeleton tou are the various kinds of corsets it is especially from the sixth to we last rib that this pressure is exercised these from their greater flexibility are pressed inward and all the organs within thern them lungs heart stomach liver etc are more or less changed in their position and form the amount 0 of air introduced into the lungs is lessened the circulation c cu of the blood through the h heart eart I 1 is impeded the stomach cannot perform P properly ant r 0 erly its functions of digestion ana the liver 1 is displaced d downward d and presses upon the into intestines laying the foundation for diseases of the chest consumption heart disease dyspepsia constipation and many other ills which shorten and embitter the lives of women ventilation henry leason MD MD says if we may be permitted to define c cant nt as the current expression of unintentional intentional Lin sincerity 1 we believe that there is no species of cant more universal than that which people talk about ventilation go where we may whether arito the houses of the or idao iato the miserable dwellings of the poor we hear bear the same cry about ventilation and its advantages but in no cases or at least few do we see any reason to think the cry a genuine enuine one how many people tell U us s of the healthy influence of pure fresh air but how hew few ever take proper steps to introduce it into their homes how seldom do we see anything like a rati rational oval system of ventilation in public and where are tile the private which vitiated boath baa th ing air is not abundantly patent medicine abedi cin sugar and slops are sold to a too confiding public as great medicines by unscrupulous i schemers some patent medicine proprietors prie tors who brag the loudest and claim the most are unscrupulous in proportion the american its is but authority hority lor for the statement that a debr nerve food to ie merely oil and water with some bitter substance to give it amedi a medicinal cival taste tot it con contains contacts tAfts no active p principle ra ciple of any drug or vegetable and that the sole property to which this mixture COD can lay claim is 12 that of a milded mild and entirely inoffensive tonic forming for mingan an agreeable drink for quen quenching cing thirst rat and incapable ot of ex slightest action upon brala brain or nervous sy systems stess 1 ather proprietary medicine is advertised as a great new mw beina d very at 0 miraculous power but the result of analysis shows that it itis it is almost entirely made up of globules glo bules of sugar abgar flavored slightly bitter bitted awl aud it there is any medicinal ingredient it to Is too homoD homeopathic to make itself known in chemical analysis energetic push and big brag wall bring large profits to te the abe venders benders ol of bitter water and flavored gogar agar and wh whatever iRever supposed benefits are derived from the use of such medicines are entirely due to the principle of faith cure the bold claims of abe have more influence in such cures than the inert substance sold at 51 1 per bottle bottie but the abe cures after all are very fey in number and it does not nay ky to ran such schemes very long by y the time abe public has found out by experience per peri lence ence that there is no virtue to in the preparations the schemers have made a sugg snug little pile and are ready to run bonk some other worthless slops slope under a other name ano and fool lem em again 1 so we see the papers booming some new discovery every year while those of a year ago are lost slat sight of but if 11 we bould know in every instance abe men who originate manio manipulate and proof profit by these schemes we should often find 1 the same manor men behind several of them dr footes health monthly 0 A newspaper that indents patent j medicine advertisements in its colm dumns is in that respect an enemy to its confiding readers what sickness costs devent seventy four thousand doctors think of TZ it all this number in our country according to abe present census unless the newspapers inform us falsely ought not these figures to give us pause palls ea reflect a moment ahat an army they would make even in this day of big armies ur or what a city they would form larger than any in many of the oldest states or look at it again from another point ot of view what a mint of binney intakes it takes to support this army I 1 pro bably we are the mark when we calculate that the average income of the from practice to is a thousand dollars a 4 year each this makes a year which the e sic sick pay a for medical advice for their me medicine it is safe ale to say thet they pay a year in it this calca calculation aaion we kave have left altogether ako gether out of the account the tons and hogs heads of quack medicines which these misguided peaple pour down their th throats roots we can safely estimate that at a year more it is no exaggeration to place the value valre ol of the time lost in consequence of sickness as equal to the whole of ef these amounts 0 it ma making king a grand total of 00 te representing p the abe cost to the al american r people 0 ot one years sickness 10 1 let the people study hese figures 86 while and then reflect that probably p 0 ably one half hail is incurred by a deliberate aerate infraction of he be laws of health that it if they tippled ss smoked leab owr over worked legs lees were less given to lechery and wantonness ate slower were less last fa andl self indulgent they would save a year 25 tracts on health topics for loats A book about what and how BOW to cook and eat for health healt tr loats mailed by D M mcallister mcallister of 06 centre st salt liki laks city |