Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-05-11
HYGIENE NOTES.
IMPURE WATFR.

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Many Of the forms Of typhus icyers
IN cities and villages have been
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 cautionshere. 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
ceBsarily 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. 1t is simply natural filter,
and therefore the drainage from the
barn yard, or other impure sources,
passing under the ground in the
line Of tho well, must eventually con.
taminate it. This may be obyiated
by understanding, and this should
always be one Of the first operations
attended to, if tho water in the well
procee%s from any such probable
source as has been here named.
As Il fact bearing on this subject,
we may state that out Of thirty-siI
samples of water sent for examina-
ton to DR.. Vcelcker, he found many
largely contaminated with seweaga;
and he earnestly invited attention to
the serious injury which may be
produced to health by the use Of
such impure wator.-Jteste~ Rural.
TuRPENTINE N HEADACHE.
DR.. Warburton Begbie (EdmJprg
Medicd JOrrnaD advocates the us2
of turrentine i'll the severe headache
to which nervous and bisterical ~.
men are suhiect.-"Ihere is, yaore.
over he says, another class Of suf.
fercrs from headache, a2d this is
composed Of both sexes, vbo may be
relieved by turpen6nc. l refer tc
the frontal headache, which is most
apt to occur after prolonged mental
effort, but may likewise be induced
by unduly-sustGined physical exer-
tion-what may be styled the head
ache of q fatigued brain. A cup OF
very strong tea very often relieve.
this form of headache; but this rem
edy, with not Il 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
OF two, will not only remove the head
ache, but produce in a wonderful
manner, that soothing influence to
which reference las already been
made
HASTE AND HF ALTU.
1t is not at all wholesome 60 be in
a hurry. Locomotives have been re-
ported to have moved mile min
ute for short distances. But loco
motives have often come to grief by
such rapidity. Mulhcudes 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
habituqlly in 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 iniu-
rious to health, as are all forms of
competitive exercise steady labor in
the field is the best gymnasium in
the world. Either labor or exercise
carried to exhauition CT prostration,
or even great tjredness, expressed by
Gagged out, always does more harm
than the previous exercise has done
good. Ali running up stairs to
catch up with a vehicle or ferrybout,
are extremely injurious to every age
and sex and condition of life. It
ought 70 be the most pressing neces-
sity which should induce a person
over fifty to run over twelve or if
teen yards. Those live longest who
are delib crate, whose actions are
measured, who never embark in any
enterpris Sc without sleeping oyerit,'
and who performs all the everyday
acts 'cith calmncss Quakcrs are
proy'rbially calm, quiet people; aud
Quakers are thrifty folk, the
warll oycr,-Dr HaN.
CAfARRU,