Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-12-15
Hygienic Hints.

Halls Journal of Health says that person
born scrofulous or becoming SO after birth, need
not remain 50 to any specially hurtful extent.
If " white swellings or " runnings" do not
relieve the the system of ill-humors, the disease
may be worked out of the system by a change
in the habits of life-such a change as involves
large outdoor activities for the greater part of
every day. The same thing may be accomplish
ed, to a great extent, indoors, as where
sedentary life is followed, by spending large
portion of each day in active employment on
foot. More decided results will follow if the
aid is given, meanwhile, of judicious personal
habits, as scrupulous cleanliness of body and
clothing, of rugular, full, and sufficient sleep;
of plain, simple and nutricious food, eaten at
regular intervals off five or six hours and nothing
between, with that daily regularity which is
essential to health under all circumstances. A
scrofulous person should eat fresh meats large
ly, and bread, fruits and berries of every
description, using vegetables sparingly' In
short, whatever promotes high bodily-health,
promotes the eradication of scrofulous taint In
regard to internal remedies, one of three things
is the uniform result First, the medicine
gradually loses its power second, the system is
benefited only while it is taken; or, third, the
remedy gradually poisons the system, or impairs
the tone of the stomach, and hastens fatal
result. No medicine ever eradicated scrofula,
or kept it under any longer than while it was
taken under certain conditions scrofulous
person has a greater chance oflong life than one
who is entirely free from it, because being con-
scious of a slenderness of constitution, greater
care is taken to avoid causes of sickness
The tendency of India rubber shoes is to make
the feet cold, thus endangering the health
hence they are useful only in walking when the
ground is muddy or sloshy with melting snow.
In these cases they are invaluable. When rub
bers are on the feet persons should keep moving
moving and remove them on entering the house
II the rubbers have been on the feet several
damp by the condensation and confinement of
the perspiraton therefore all should be removed
and the naked foot held to the fire till warm
and dry in every part. The same rule holds good
in relation to leather boots and shoes made
water proof For common purposes leather
boots and shoes are the best kept well blacked,
with several renewals of dry socks during the
day if the feet perspirc profusely.
If a man begins to cough, as the result of
common cold it is the result of nature herself
attempting cure, and she will effect it in her
Town time, and more effectualy than any man
can do if she is only let alone. and her instincts
cherished. What are those instincts? She
abhors food and Graves warmth. Hence, the
moment man is satisfied that he has taken a
cold, let him do three things lst, cat not an
atom I'd, 60 to bed and cover up in a warm
room Sd, drink as much cold water as he
wants. or as much hot herb tea as he can, and
in three cases out of foor, he will be almost
entirely well within thrty-slx hours. If he
does nothing for his cold for forty-eight hours
after the cough commences, there is nothing
that he can swallow that will, by any possibili-
ty, do him good, for the cold, with such start,
will run its course of about a fortnighc, in spite
of all that can be done, and medicine will only
hinder cure. Feed cold and starve
fever it is mischievous fallacy. A cold al
ways brings fever the cold never begins to
get well till the fever begins to subside; and
f every mouthfut that is swallowed feeds the
fever.