The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1872-05-10
HYGTENIC NOTES.
IMPURE WATER.

traced to impure Waters-in- wells
Through imperfect sewerage, imper-
feet drainage, and other means of in
Producing surface water there in
water contaminated with the various
decaying substances always found
especially in cities, have always made
them hot-beds of miasma.
But it is the farmer that we wish
especially to caution here. Many
nay, nearly all of our population
have supposed that when they have
dug a well, and banked it sufficient
ly to prevent surface water from
running in directly from the surface,
that they were secure, and must ne
cessarily have pure water; but such
is not the case. The filter eventual
ly becomes foul, and ceases to act;
and SO, often, with the earth about a
well. It is simply a natural filter,
and therefore the drainage from the
barn yard, or other impure sources,
passing under the ground in the
line of the well, must eventually con-
taminate it. This may be ubviated
by understanding, and this should
always be one of the first operations
attended to, if the water in the well
proceeds from any such probable
source as has been here named.
AS fact bearing on this subject,
we may state that out of thirty-six
samples of water sent for examina-
tion to DR.. VCelcker, he found many
largely contaminated with seweage;
and he earnestly invited attention to
the serious injury which may be
produced to health by the use of
such impure water WeSterR Rural.
TURPENTNE IN HEADACHE.
DIR. Warburton Begbie (Edia6urg
Medical JoUrnal) advocates the use
of turp entine IN the severe headache
to which nervous and bisterical wo-
men are subject "There is, more
over" he says, "another class of suf-
ferers from headache, and this is
composed of both sexes, who may be
relieved by turpentine. I refer to
the frontal headache, which is most
apt to occur after prolonged mental
effort, but may likewise be induced
by unduly-sustained physical exer-
tion-what may be styled the head
ache of fatigued brain. A cup of
very strong tea very often relieves
this form of headache; but this rem
edy, with not few is perilous, for,
bringing relief to pain, it may pro-
duce general restlessness and
worst of all-banish sleep. Turpen-
tine, in doses of twenty or thirty
minims, given at intervals of an hour
or two, will not only remove the head
ache, but produce in wonderful
manner, that soothing influence to
which reference has already been
made"
HASTE AND HEALTH.
It is not at all wholesome to be in
a hurry. Locomotives have been re-
ported to have moved q mile a min
ute for short distances. But loco
motives have often come to grief by
such rapidity. MulhUudes in their
haste to get rich every year. The
men who do things matnrely, slowly,
deliberately, are the men who often
est succeed in life; people who are
habitually in q hurry generally have
to do things twice over. The tor
tots beat the hare at last. Slow men
seldom knock their brains out
against a post Foot-race are inju-
rious 10 health, as are ali forms of
competitive exercise; steady labor in
the field is the best gymnasium in
the world. Either labor or exercise
carried to exhauition or prostration,
or even great tiredness, expressed by
Gagged out, always does more harm
than the previous exercise has done
good. All running up stairs to
catch up with a vehicle or ferry boat,
are extremely injurious to every age
and sex and condition of life. It
ought to be the most pressing neces-
sity which should induce a person
over fifty to run over twelve Or fif-
teen yards. Those live longest who
are deliberate, whose actions are
measured, who never embark in any
enterprise without sleeping over it, "
and who performs all the everyday
acts with calmness. Quakers are
proverbially calm, quiet people; and
Quakers are a thrifty folk, the
world Over.-Dr. Hall.
CATARRH.
The best "cure" in the world for
catarrh is accomplished by doing
two things-only two; it viii cure
three cases out of four, infallibly:
First, let your nose alone; second,
avoid taking cold. Catarrh is cold,
settling IN the head or nose; and
as long as it remains there, preserves
the lungs from danger. Ifyou shuttle
anything whatever up your nose, IN
proportion as it arrests ordiminishes
the running from the nose, or eyes.
or throat, it Is certain to show itself
IN the lungs, within very few days,
and even in very few hours, some
times.-J0nTHaL Of Health.
PREVENT WOUNDS PROM NOTIFYING.
Sprinkle sugar on then. The
Turks wash fresh wounds with wine
and sprinkle sugar on them. OBJ
stinatc ulcers may be cured with su-
gar dissolved IN a strong decoction
of walnut leaves.
OFFENSIVE BREATH.
For this purpose, almost the only
substance that should be admitted al
the toilette is the concentrated So
luton of chloride of soda. From
SIX to ten drops in wine glass full
OF pure spring wates, taken imme,
diately aftgf the operatio'e@ "f +hl