Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1872-10-04

And Brown Eyes listened, with footsteps
stayed
Waited to hear the song beguiling,
Listened and laughed through the sunny day !;
And earth and sky fell to merry smiling
As hand in hank they wandered away.
The Laws Of Health.
1t is not always we can find it in
our conscience to commend books
on the subject Of health. They are
often written either by ignorant
quacks or theorists-men who have
hobbies and ride them to the public
disgust. We are glad to be able
heartily and unqualifedly to COM
mend the volume by DR.. J. B. Black,
entitled ''The Ten Laws of Health,
or How Disease is Produced and
Can be Prevented" The author is
= practical physician, and a man of
substantial scientific attainments.
He has what is too rare in those
who assume to teach the public
common sense. He is not a theorist,
and does not bore the reader with
tedious homilies about diet. He ex-
plains, aud very learnedly, the laws
Of health; tells how to preserve it.,
aud how to resist the assaults Of
disease; how. by wise and tempe
rate life, one may live long and hap
PLY. We need hardly say that
among the first conditions of health
the author insists upon pure air and
plenty of it; good ventilation, abunr
dant exercise and = generous diet.
He denounces alcoholic stimulants
Of all kinds. We give some ex-
tracts below:
IMPURE.
The habitual breathing of even
the most moderately fouled air of a
house has a constant tendency to
undermine the health and vigor.
Aided by other causes, it is almost
certain to do so; the condition of
body which it produces rendering
what otherwise would have been a
very slight affection, very danger
GUS one. Any change from ordinary
habits, or the occurrence of trifing
Accident, serve to disturb the har-
mony of the system, and develop
consumption or a fever. The blood
is in a condition similar to ferment-
able substances, ready to undergo a
kind Of decomposition the moment
that circumstances favor,
Those who feed their lungs and
blood on air more or less made up
of the offscourings from the lungs
of others, cannot be strong and
healty. The pale cheek, the lustre-
less eye, the white lips, the dull,
heavy, stupid languor teUa different
tale. The clergyman's blue Mon
day, the scholars pallor, the teach
er's headaches, and the tedious suf:
| ferings of thousands very delicately
constituted, are the common results
of breathing imprisoned, doubled
and trebled, secondhand air.
ABOUT CHILDREN TAKING COLD.
Everywhere there prevails an ILL
Judged fear about children taking
cold. Very many mothers, by their
anxiety on this point, are frightened
into keeping their children closely
housed during cold weather. The
results have wrung many a heart
with anguish. For the false notions
on this subject there is no doubt
that the physicians are largely to
blame. "What, doctor, is the cause
of my child being worse this morn
ing?" "Oh, he has taken cold, and
you must be more careful in the fu-
ture." Such an answer betrays
great carelessness, if not positive
ignorance, by the physician. 1t
teaches the mother. who has impli-
cit faith in her physician, to dread
the pure air of heaven, to shut quick
ly every open door, to hang heavy
curtains over each window, rs II
every breath of pure air from with.
out carried with it pestilence and
death. With the body weak by too
little exercise, and the blood impure
by breathing polluted air, no degree
Of care can save little ones from TAX
ing cold. 1t is those most closely
housed that are most subject to colds,
and that suffer by them the most
severely. Get the blood pure and
strong by good lung food, day and
| niuht and from birth IN manhOOd
or womanhood, and extraordinary
exposure will be required to produce
a cold. Even then, the purity and
strength Of the blood render q cold
. small matter, which nature will
remove Of herself in a day or two.
In carrying out these views in my
own household with several children
ranging from ten months up to
eighteen years of age, many mothers
have expressed great surprise
"What, take your child out on such
day as this!" "What! do you
sleep with your bedroom window
open all winter?" eyes, and al
though the cold Of this winter (ls72)
has been more protracted and severe
than usual, not = single child has
had cough or . cold"
WHY SOME ARE ALWAYS TAKING OLD
If the supply Of air which the hu
man lungs used every hour to feed
and cleanse them, is impure or i'm
DOyerished by repeated use. or by