New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-09-20
HEALTH AND DISEASE.

Na'eiNhi"S.-H aPpcars rom an ersp;,>s.
the recruits Of the English Army aai Nav 49,.
of eo,os2 recruits medically Inspected and 80
for service, 1912 bore marks OF smslL,o,. -
had marks OF vaccination, and :. SSi bo,a
trace a. either. BY the rules Of the servic. ,h,,s
would be immediately vaecinaesl; a,dea tn ,A-e
class, a total Of %, 200, or IS per cen, of -
would b. protected by vaccination; - Der car, s
senting the proportion If those protected bv =
smallpox. From further returns, il apsea,, 80
proportion OF cases Of smallpox lave been g -
deaths 8, in every 100 Geo men serving tS,o.-.&
army. Bu, the prevalence and mor.,y,v
different portions Of the force. Thus. n. a.,s.s
been four tines as rumerous among the trcoo-a !.
United Kingdom as in temperate sosuu,e, ,,s -
times as numerous as in tropical oolouiss. uh1.
greater dsproportion was found to e,s !, -
missions into the hospital. Comparative g.
of the proportion of smallpox, anaoas The 49,
and Europeans serving in tropical eo.cp., d.. 'N
eral epidcmics, shows that The disease ms,.nr
mated the black troops, while not sinr,. a.
CURED among the European soldiers serving ~.
came garrisons.
SIMPLE REMEDY FOR the AsTHsA.-The Pss,,,.
d. Pkdrracie gives the following simple rsssas =
al.
trate OF poiassa; dip finder into it, and then az,
TO dry. Procure wide-moUth val, the cork Of NJ.
has an aperture in the center, 5 to admit snv A.,
low tube whsteyer-s pipe closed a, the end d, .,
ample. Light the piece Of finder and place naa.
vial. Then canse the patient 10 iuhale the csss ".
are disengsgcd, either through the mouth or p,.t,2.
At the end of few respre,ions he will f.d No.
which will augment. 10 regard TO al explan.,ier a.
this mode OF treatment it is supposed that smslp,
ton OF oxygen, disengaged by the combustion Al II.
nitrate of pottassa, Is inhaled by the patient. r.,
known that in astbmatic patients the salgaroS,e,.
cul,tion is incomplete in the lungs, that the Sscd,
imperfecty regenerated that il is black, and lc ;.
burn It's excess Of carbon. BY tie oxygen absol.i
therefore, combustion may BE- facilitated.
HUMAN TEMPERATURE WITHIN THE TRoprcs-n
Davy has communicated to the Royal Society ,Ak.
suits Of his observations on the Temperature Of =.
during period Of three years and half ehsass
Barbados where the mean annual telnperslur,
the atmosphere, he states, ia eighty degrees, ELrs.
het and the range Of temperature Throughout the yea
from about ten 10 eighteen degrees in the opsa al,
The observations were made three times adsy a,
temperature of the body being noted With that o. Ia
external air, the pulse aud the number Of respisfu
per minute; all of which are duly set forth In slah
ate tables. DIR. ID. finds that the average tempssus
Of man within the tropics is little higher ny ~
degree, than in temperate climate, such as Ensxl
that, within the tropics as IN cooler regions, esn.
perstnre of the body is almost constantly Guctasiay
that the order Of fuctuating is different from ths
cooler climate, the minimum degree being earynA
morning after nights rest, and not at night; AuL
exertion, whether of body or mind, except abve
gentle, has frightening effect on the tempsrSus,
while passive exercise, especially carriage esers,
has lowering tendency; that heavy clothing, sY.
cally tight and close, tends to raise the empers
unduly, particularly under active exercise, and tx
close, ll-ventila,ed rooms, especially when crowded.
have in a marked manner the same tendency.
| STRUCTURE OF THE IRIs.-Sir. Bernard E. Brs.
hurst, NJ. X. c. s., in treatise the structure NJ
physiology Of the human iris, states that the ire
an active bro-ce!luar tissue, or it may be CONSIDERED
to be transition tissue from the ordinary ibr0-
cellular to the organic muscular; that il is Issue
differing from every other in the body, being Pcs-
sessed of q motor power exceeding that Of any chsi
tissue yet differing in construction and sppeSsnes
of fibre from those other tissues, the types of motion.
He remarks that the microscope shows that the fbres
of the iris differ essentially from muscular Abre,
whether striped or of organic life; they are pa.
easily separable and readily torn, but they resemble
in no essential particular muscular fbre-indeed ihs
effect of galvanism the iris is totally opposed
that produced on muscular fibre.
MEDICAL PRIZE MEaoIR.-Ths French AcsderJ
has awarded prize to NJ. Roger, for a Memoir % IL
Temperature Of OAldren. In the investigation d hl
subject the author has made more that thousaada
perments. Al the moment Of birth the tsmpeFsnn
of the infant is forty degrees centigrsde-tha Is si
to that of the medium in which it lived; but i s,s
decreases to thry-fve degrees. In the foloyy
years it varies from thirtysx to thirtyeight dsgres
The typhoid fever ID the sickness in which the temps
ture is the highest, varying from a25 II degrees
in pneumonia it is thrtynine degrees on go average
and in euptive evers 1t varies with the periods OF the
disease. In meaningless there the grea,est dner'
ences Of temperature, depending more upon the inai
viduas than upon the severity Of the disease In only
one disease, the hardening Of the cellular Tissue,
there very great decrease in the temperature 10
nineteen children the Thermometer under the srmPa
marked thirty degrees In seven less thsnven'y-
six; in two Others, twenty-tbree degrees, and s'ss
twenty-five.
LIEBIG's OPINION OF BEER As FooD.-Aceordmg v
chemical Investigations by Prof Lebig, beer worn.
less for food, 20 far as the blood il affected II ~
value only to support respiration and to sapfy
warmth The heterogeneous portion Of the barley "
comes soluble in brewing, passes of in the sweet br
and is separated partly by boiling and partly byk'
mentation, or lees. Beer serves to make people H
when they are thin in Hssh il has the same effect
starch in bread. II has it's value in supplying wsrn
bu, not n the formation Of blood. II has lie use no
as d Of enjoyment and as e stimulant 10 A
nerves. Chemically, the use Of meat may be recon-
mendei with bread instead Of beer.
EFFECT OF PEpEsTRiAs ExERCisE.-A celebrta
English physician says that pedestrian exercise PA'D
ulerly eahausts the spine and BRAIN and is, tbe'ss
the kind of exercise less suited TO intellectually BAN
working men. II Il on this account that borsbark "