The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1872-05-10
A Chapter on Health.

The healthy laborer, whistling at his
work, enjoys life much more than the
pale-taced dyspeptic who rides by in his
carriage. "A contented spirit is con-
tinual FEAST Health brings content
there can be no content without it. An
ounce of prevention is worth ten pounds
of cure; good health is very easily lost,
once lost il is not easily regained. Daily
care, little trouble, doing things that
cen easily be done, will save you from
days, weeks, perhaps months OF idleness
and languishing on sick bed, and ma
terially prolong your life. Two-thirds
Of the diseases TO which, especially in
cities, YOU are subject are caused by bad
air. impure water and filth, and may be
prevented by free use of pure air, pure
water, and strict attendance to personal
cleanliness. Says the report of the
Metropolitan Board of Health for 1867:
:" Fresh air and pure water, constant
ventilation and thorough cleansing, are
natural means of preventing and de
stroying the causes Of infection and dis
ease The human body throws off, by
the skin and the lungs, every four hours,
from three to four pounds of refuse,
which is poisonous. The eXcremental
action through the pores OF the skin
REPORT, 1870 covers the body with
filth, which, if not removed, becomes a
source of disease and contagion; ! and
il should be removed at least once in
every twenty.foW hours. and all the
clothes worn during the day should be
thoroughly aired during the night.
There cannot be sound health without
pure air; and the air cannot be pure If
1t is contaminated by exhalation from
the lungs. Could the breath that ha~
been eXhaled by a person in clos
room b. tinted with some coloring ma
Ter. all, made darker in proportion 10
lis increasing unttness for reinhalation.
we should, in crowded and ill-venti-
lated assembly, find ourselves enveloped
in dense cloud, whose visible appear
ance would cause us TO fly from danger
SO apparent. Bear in mind that each
breath you exhalc contaminates II cubic
foot of air, which must be replaced 10y
pure ar or else you reinhale the ex-
hailed air and poison the blood Is is at
night, IN sleeping apartments, that the
system receives its greatest detrnent
from impure air, for II is then that the
blood lays in its extra store for the days
consumption. Sutfocation In the foul
air of an unventilated tenement Is the
provoking cause OF many death. Says
the Metropolitan Board of Health, 1867:
THE fact is becoming every month
more and more apparent that fully one
half of the acute diseases of the lungs,
and much more than half of the deaths
by congestion of the lungs and bron-
chitis in New York, are chargeable TO
the foul and stagnant atmosphere OF
the unventilated, improperly heated
rooms in which the great majority OF
the people spend their days and nights.
Upon no subject is popular information
and common sense more needed than
in regard to the purity and amount of
the air which human beings should have
every minute in the twenty.four hours.
a great life-giver. The experience of
patients in hospitals is, that those on
the sunny side of the wards stand bet
ter chance for recovery than the others
every way, whether in cases of ordinary
sickness or of pestilence, or of wounds
and surgical operations.
After securing pure air, pure water,
and general cleanliness, the next thing
is wholesome food do not buy stale fish
or vegetables of the huckster because
they are cheap such food is dear if got
for nothing. There is no excuse for
buying them, so long as body can
laugh and grow fat on oatmeal, barley,
and unsilted wheat Take as much
sleep as you want; it is 1.-THE foster
nurse of nature" Do not keep steadily
in pursuit of health, disciplinlng your
self with dumb bells, New Zealand clubs,
sand bags, and other athletic exercises.
Not every man is born to be pugilst;
do things III moderation; and do not
cultivate one part Of your body at the
expense of the rest. Keep your finger
off of your pulse; do not carry pocket
looking-glass 70 examine your tongue
by. Do not keep perpetually distress.
ing your insides with polite attention
forget that you have such things as
stomach, liver, kidneys, pulse they will
be all the better for it, and so will you.
Oftentimes, when you feel oppressed,
taking good long breaths of air, through
your nostrils, Will relieve you-it is
something like blower to the furnace,
starts the fire atresh and blows out the
fues. The healthy man is contented,
happy, with little; the sick man-all
the riches in the world will not make
him happy man or prevent his envy
ing the robust, ragged urchin of the
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