The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-08-14
Health--Physiologioal Aphorisms.

all cases of consumption, is laid before
the age oftwonty.fve years; in women,
during their teens.
2. The hereditary element is not of
special account, as cause Of consump-
ton, as less than twenty-five per cent
of cases are clearly of consumptivo par.
entage
3. One of the ruling causes of dis.
eases and premature DEATH in large cit
les, is found in that exhausting atrain
of the mental energies, in the struggle
for subsistence-a death race for bread.
4. Insanity runs in families, but
as in the case of family likeness, it
sometimes over leaps a generation or
more.
5. Personal resent blance entails
like characteristics of mind and disposi.
ton.
6. A current of the purest air from
the poles for half an hour, on a person
sleeping, sitting still or overheated, is
a thousand-fold more destructive of
health and fatal to life, than the moi
someness ofa crowded room or vehicle,
or the stencil of pig-sty, for thrice the
time.
z. To exercise in weariness, increased
by every step, is not only not beneficial;
it is useless and worse than useless; it
is positively destructive.
8. AS no'good traveller, after having
fed his horse, reuews his journey in a
trot, but with a'slow walk, gradually
increasing his pace, 50, in getting up to
address an assembly, for a continued ef-
fort, the first few sentences should be
uttered in a low slow, tone, gradually
intensiied otherwise the voice will
break down in a few minutes, with
coughing or hoarseness.
9. A growing inabilaty to sleep in
sickness is ominous of fatal result; in
apparent health, it indicates the failure
of the mind and madness; so, on the
other hand in disease or dementia, a
very slight improvement in the sleeping,
should be hailed as the harbinger of res
toration.
10. No one can possibly sink, if tle
head is thrust entirely under water, and
in the position novice eau swim as
easily as walk, and get to shore readily,
by lifting the head at intervals for
breath.
II. Intense thirst is satiated by wa.
ding in water, or by keeping the cloth.
ing saturated with water, even if it is
taken from the sea.
II. Water cannot satisfy the thirst
which attends cholera, dysentery, diar,
rh@a, and some other forms of disease,
in fact, drinking cold water seems to in
crease thirst, and indure disagrceable
sensations; but this thirst will be per.
fectly and pleasantly subdued, by eating
a comparatively small amount of ice,
swallowing it in as large pieces as prac.
icable, and as much as is wanted.
13. Inhammations are more safely,
and far more agreeably subdued, py the
application of warm water than of cold.
IA. Very excessive effort, in a short
space of time, as in run ming or jumping
a rope, etc., has repeatedly caused in
slant death, by apolexy of the lungs,
the exercise sending the blood there
ia ster than it can be purified by the
more infrequent breathing on such oc-
casions.
10. No disease comes without cause
or warning; hence, endeavor to think
back for the cause, with view to avoid
it in future, and on the instant of any
unpleasant bodily sensation, cease eat
ing absolutely, until it has entirely dis
appeared, at least for twenty four hours;
if still remaining, cosult physician.
l6. The more clothes a man wears, the
more bed-coverng he uses, the closer
he keeps his chamber, whether warm
or coldj the more numerous and warm
his night garments, the more readily
will he take cold, under all circumstan-
cesi as the more thriftless youth is
helped, the less able does he become to
to help himself Halls journal of
Health.