The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-08-10
Air and Light "PrOmOte Health and Prevent
Disease.
BY DIR. PRICE.

According to tie purity or impurity of the air
we inhale so may we expect health or sickness.
The Almighty has wisely designed that labor
should be one grand means OF health to man
aud in harmony with his great plans, motion is
the principle of all creations health. All things
mt in motion die. The earth spins upon its
axis, the sea rolls in mountainous waves, and
the atmosphere roars in the whirlwind. If the
sea be not in continual motion, 1T will staguate,
aad the atmus phere without motion would soon
become offensive and hurtul. lnactlon Is one
cause of atmospheric impurlty, and motion is
one means of purihcation, There are other
causes which deteriorate the atmosphere and
renders il injurious those who breathe 1t. The
act of breathing throws much impurIty into the
atmosphere, the air is exposeG, when taken
into the lungs to a surface thirty times that of
the human body, or ITO, 0Oo, 900 of minute cells,
i'll which ii decOmposed and derri\ ed OF lts
oxygen aud then carbonc acid gar, deadly
poison is the produce of this wonderful laborG-
tory 1t is therefore apparent TO all that unless
there is a continual supply OF fresh air to the
lungs, person shut up in conhnet m
would soon be poisoned With his own breath. -
A terrible inst ance of this kind occurred when
the abob of Bengal thrust lao prisoners into
the Black Hole OF Calcutta, which was scarce
~ large to enough contain three persons, and
when out of the number stated, l23 persisted be-
fore morning amid the most dreadful srferings!
It's of the firstiimportance to beaith-the health
of our famihes-that every attention should be
paid to the ventilation of our houses, our public
buildings and to have q knowledge OF those
things which injure the atmosphere, Is just as
essential for Judging correctly OF what ventila-
ton we need as to know ;hstwlthOut lnhaDg at
nosphere at ali, life would soon droop, wither
and decay. Good pure air makes good pure
blood from which all parts OF the system derive
its nourishnent and support. Get plenty of it
night and day if you desire health and long
life Ii is calculated that two candles injure
the air nearly as much as human being, alb
sorbng the oxygen which is the supporter OF
c3m bGstion and eXpelng carboIic acid gas, the
principal ingredient of and tallow. New
or leave Ii candle or lamp burning during the
night in your sleeping room uness III case OF
sickness Fourteen gas lights will destroy as
much as five men, and from the pores OF the
skim three gallons of noxous fluid are thrown
off from 250 persons IN one hour, Whlle IRON the
ACCOMMODATION uf animal and vegetable matter,
there is a continual stream of noxious vapor
ascending and spreading.
Confined apartments murder more men and
women than war with all its attending evils
The direct cause Of all tevers Is atmospheric
| imuurity and consumption and great number
of other diseases can be traced indirectly TO the
same source There can be no doubt but that
| the least excess Of carbOnIc acid gas Is hurttul
| 10 the lungs, and when W take lulo cpnsidera-
| ton that a great number labor In confined rooms
| during the day, or sleep IN close apartments
during the night it is nothing more than
| should expect that a gradual destruction of life
noon a most gigantic scale should De going on
| Throughout the whole country, and by conSump-
| fion d disease tracea6le IN most cases to a
want of Tree exercise in the open air.
| There ls one thing tO which we would especially
| advert, viz: the necessity of having large bed
rooms 1t is no uncommon thing in the con-
struclion of our buildings TO set off place with
but single window III it, about the size of
decent box, and call II a bed room because 1t
| measures six or seven feet The place where we
i n of pur omit
| should he the largest, pleasantest, and Arrest
| room in the house. No sleeping room should
contain less than Que hundred and forty superb
cial feet, and never be less than seven aud u
half feet high, aud have a ventllator i'll the VIII
dow, ceiling, chimney, or what is better an open
| fire place All rooms should have flee access
to the sun any room ia which the sun is exc lu-
ded is not tit for human being to be in. The
| atmostphere should be freely admitted 10 our
| rooms SO that the impure air thrown off by the
lungs can pass away, and pure air supply It's
| place If you wish To preserve your health, be
| Tree from disease and pain, and engthen the du-
| ration of life, let your sleeping rooms be large
ard we'll ventilated, free from great quantity
! of furniture and situated to receive the in
aueace OF the sun at all hours of the day. Cur
tans before the bed are dangerous. Breathing
bad air tor a few nights may endanger lite. Ii
pure air is not breathed the blood is not puri-
| fed hence unfit for the support of life, and dis
ease and premature death is the inevitable re-
suit. In the city of Hamburg where many
live in cellars, it has been remarked by travel
ers, that blindness, anu all manner OF physical
| imperfectons prevail among the lower classes
| to an alarming extent. While the whole world,
| therefore, is busy inventing and producing for
the benefit of man, we must not neglect to pro-
| vide for the greatest OF all earthly blessing,
health Yet out-of doors plants, growing in the
shade, are usually pale and cOorlesa the more
| they are exposed 10 the light the more color they
| acuqire. House plants are never healthy.
Vegetables are not only indebted to the light for
their color, but their taste and smell are derived
| from the same source. The parts of birds most
exposed to the light are usually the brightest
| and deepest color. Animals become unhealthy
when deprived ot light, and even die. man
| after long confinement in u dark dungeon, though
| well aired, is saow in his complexion, becomes
| languId, pustules break cut on his skin, filled
with aueuous humors, and dropsy supervenes.
! BY this we sec that light and air are necessary
| tor the preserv alton OF living bodies and indi,-
| pensibie for promoting health and preventing
| disease. Without health there is no enjoyment,
ana we believe that with air, good water, and u
| plenty OF sunshine, no place need, he unhealthy
And with proper manly exercise out-of doors,
| our Anglo Saxon robustness of constitution
would be as fully preserved, and that dsteriora-
| ton OF muscular fibre and health be prevented,
| which now appears in sad contrast with the APP
| parent stalwart frames which the men of Seuenty
| sac possessed.
| treat exclusively Diseases OF crhonc Da' ure
| such Throat, Lung, Liver, Heart, Kidney,
| Stomach aud Blood Diseases, and cure such
diseases if durable, without medicines injurious
| 10 the constitution, the necessity of abandoning
| business or involving great expense. Many OBJ
| iect to call on me because travel and visit ap-
pointed places, having been imposed upon 30
often by travelling qlacks; l am not of that
| class OF pretenders as you will perceive by my
writings. | adhere strictly to the principles Of
| aonor and integrity. My visits have been made
| reg ularly for years, and will be continued.
| claim to ko more knowledge than may be
| acquired by any intelligent physician by the
same experience, time, and entire devotion to
| the treatment of this class OF diseases. The
great difficulty is, patients wait until they have
| tried every nostrum before they call on me
| their constitutions then run down, and il
embarasses a cure, but Notwithstanding these
retarGing influences, my success is unparalleled.
My system of treating diseases harmonic
wi tn nature, my first principle Is 10 remove the
cause, having done this in the early stages of
disease, there is no difficulty in effecting cure.
The sick are invited to call, an unbiased opIn-
ion invariably given. Consultation free and no
encouragement ola cure unless there ia a known
chance for recovery.
| shall be for consultation upon all chronic
diseases, on my next visit to Kenosha during
Saturday until O'Clock the ID OF September.
Office at the City Hotel.
Dr. " CLARENCE PRIc&.
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KenOsha Water Cure.-We clip the fol~
loving well deserved notice of one OF our lead
ing Institutions, from the Rochester MINI. Re
publican.
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