Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1849-08-03
The last that was seen of friend McMingle,
he was making the talEest kind Of strides for
some more favorable diggings. S.
Town OF DueUP, July, 1919.
IRON the Scientific Americana
USE AND ABUSE.

| There is always more sickness during this.
than any other season of the year. Disease
| too is more rapid IN It's work, and hence we
have more deaths. Many causes contribute
to produce these results. The extreme heat
of the weather is no doubt the principle one.
Putrid gases, the product of animal and veg
etable decomposition, are injurious to the hu-
man system, and these are evolved with as
tonishlng rapldlty in an atmosphere above
fermenting heat. In summer the atmosphere
IS continually above this heat, hence malaria
poisons pollute the atmosphere we Breathe
The delicate framework of the lungs is easily
attacked with some gases, but our knowledge
OF the nature of malaria is very limited, vet
when we know what fearful results may be
produced in mixing our atmosphere with an
other gas, or changing its component parts. we
may well say of man, in the language of Job,
she is crushed before the moth.''
In large cities the atmosphere is contamina-
ted at every season of the year, but more es-
Pecially in warm weather. Then we have
exhalations from sinks and drains, and every
stagnant pool sends forth its maIaran pro-
ducts and clouds Of poisonous insects, which
many suppose are inhaled while we breathe,
and are the real causes of disease.
1t is Il we'll known fact that mountainous
regions are always more healthy than others.
| Cities that are built on hills produce the
cleanest bills of health. One cause no doubt
Is the difference in temperature, but the prin-
clpal causes are good drainage and ventilla-
ton. The absence of stagnant pools, and the
! better circulation of pure air around dwell
lings that are built OH uneven ground, are the
prime causes of better health in high than in
low situations. To make our cities healthy,
we should be guided by sound sense in hav-
ing good system of drainage, a plentiful
supply of water, and room to breathe. On le-
vel ground, it is difficult to have an effectual
drainage. IN this case art should step in and
apply the effluvia trap to keep the drain open
ings always shut, excepting to receive the
DRAWINGS from above. Spirited cities will al
ways provide plenty of water, and surely
houses can be built with room enough be-
tween each for good circulation of air, and
surely we might expect, that when common
sense and the dictates of humanity point to
this as one grand means of health, it would
not be abused by selfshness. But the houses
in our city, at least, are stuck together, almost
like prisoners in the black hole of Calcutta,
and at the present moment, were it not for the
abundant supply of water which we have,
our city would be vast charnel house. As
it is, we cannot attribute its present healthy
state to any thing else than a good supply of
water. The highest number of deaths from
cholera IN one day, So. This number out
OF pOpuldllOn OF nail a mllIlon, Is only L IN
5000. This is the time when vegetables in
great quantities are brought to market, and as
the stomach is more weak in warm than in
cold weather, many seek to crafty epicurean
desires, by stuffing the body with salad and
other indigestible vegetables. The result is a
disordered system, affording an easy entrance
to the shaft of the destroyer. Many people
become so alarmed during special visitations
of disease, that they adopt new regimen to
prevent it, and thus change the system, max
ing it an easy prey to disease. We have
known few cases of this kind. 1t is not in
the using of common food that the evil lies,
it is in the abuse of it, and this at any time is
sin. 1t is good TO be prudent to avert dis
ease, but who can by any specific defy dis
ease. We believe that many good people use
too much precentiue drops of brandy, which
may create in them disease more direful
than the cholera. In its own place, brandy
may be good to cure disease, but we are
afraid that few discriminate between use and
abuse.