The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-05-09
HYGIENIC NOTES.
IMPURE WATER,

imiOhE WATER.
Many Of the forms Of typhus iev,rs
N cities and villages have been
TT ICED to impure waters in wells
Though imperfect sewerage, imper-
feet drainage, and other means Of in
Producing surface water there in
water contaminated with the various
Gecaying substances always found,
especially in cities, have always made
them hot-beds of miasma.
But it is the armer that we wish
especially to caution.here. Many
nay, nearly all of our population
have supposed that when they have
dug 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
well. 1t is simply q 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 obviated
by understanding, and this should
always be one Of the first operations
attended to, if the water in the we'll
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 exalnina-
ton tO'Dr. V,elcker, he found many
largely contaminated with soweage;
and he earnestly invited attention to
the serious injury which may be
produced TO health by the use Of
such impure water r.-IIcSicrn Rurul.
TURPENrINE IN HEADACHE.
DR.. Warburton Begbie (EdiNJug
JIcdlcM JocrnaD advocates the use
OF turEcntine i'll the severe head ache
to which nervous and bisterical wo-
men are subject.-"Ihero is, more
over" he says, "another class of suf-
ferors from headache, and this is
composed OF both sexes, who may be
relieved by turpentinc. | refer to
the frontal headache, which is most
apt to occur after prolonged mental
effort, but may likewise be induced
by uuduly-sustained physical exer-
tion-what may be styled the head
ache of fGtigued brain. A cup of
very strong tea very often relieve
this form Of headache; but this rem
edy, with not IL few is perilou-, 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 houl
or two, will not only remove the head.
ache, but produce in wonderful
manner, that soothing influence tC
which reference las already been
made"
HASTE AND HEALTH.
1t is not at all wholesome to be in
q hurry. Locomotives have been re-
ported to have moved a mile min
ute for short distances. But loco
motives have often come to grief by
such rapidity. Multltudes Ill their
haste to get rich every year, The
men who do things maturely, slowly,
de iberately, are the men who often
est succeed in life; people who are
habitually in a hurry generally have
to do things twice over. The tor
tois beat the hare at last. Slow men
seldom knock their brains ont
against post Foot,race are inju-
rious TO health, us arc all forms of
competitive exercise; steady labor i'll
TIE field is the best gymnasium in
the world. Either labor or exercise
carried to oXhauition on prostIation,
or even great trodness, expressed by
Gagged out, always does more harm
than the previous exercise has done
good. All running up stairs to
catch up wi,h.a vehicle or fcrryboat,
arc extremely injurious to every age
and sel and condition Of life. 1t
ought 70 ,e the most ressirg recos-
sity whir, shoud induce IL person
over li'tv To run over twelve o. IiE-
teen yards. tn, Sc live longest who
are deliberate, whose uc IONS are
measured, whp never embark III any
enterprise without 'slo2pi, & overit,
and Nhoptri rms III! the everyday
acts with c.lmnes5 On Ecrs are
proyerbially calm, quiet people; and
Quakcrs are u thrifty folk, the
worl! oycr--Dr. W1H.
CATARRu.
The best "cure" in the world for
catarrh is accomplished by doing
two things only two; it will cure
three cases ont of four, infallibly:
, First, le. your nose alone; second,
avoid taking cold. Catarlh is Il cold,
settling i'll the head or nose; and
as long as it remains there, preserves
the lungs from danger. lfyOu shuttle
anything whatever up your nose, in
, proportion as it arrests ordimin'shes
y tue running FROM the nose, or eyes,
= or throat, it i, certain to show itself
in the lungs, within very few days,
and even III a very few hours, some
tmes.-Jonrnal Gf Heath.
PREVENT WOUNDS FROM MoRrlFllS".
f Sprinkle sugar on them. The
g Tuk, wash fresh wounds with wine
Y and sprinkle sugar on them. Oh