Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-07-02
THE HERALD.
Health Items.
From the Brooklyn Uniou.l

eemlnate nealtn views. eIhapo
they will find few good proverbs in
the following:
Those who would have perfect
digestion should not drink any
thing at meals. Drinking should al
WAYS be done before, after or between
meals.
Milk is especially pernicious in all
of those complicated and obscure
cases of indigestion to which the
phrase "nervous debility" is usually
applied.
One of the great and increasing
evils of imperfect mastication is de-
eayed teeth. 1t is law of all vital
organisms that every structure or
post must do its own work Or de-.
Ladies suffering from nervous de-
bilitv in summer should beware OF
oyer-exercising. The fault with too
many invalids is that they overdo
when trying to recruit, thus serious
~ retard their improvement.
Parasols, except in the middle of
the day during the cheated term"
are pernicious things, as are tho wells
with which so many fashionable
ladies shade their faces.
The most prevalent error in pri-
vate houses is insufficient ventilation
Of bedrooms. Young children and
infants, though born with fair organ
izations, are often rendered puny and
scrofulous by sleeping in unventilat-
ed rooms.
The sugar insect which is the cause
of that tormenting skin affection
known as "grocers' itch" is found in
nearly all the brown sugars of COM
merce. More than 100000 have been
found in single pound of merchant
able' sugar.
The error of regarding dyspepsia
as a local disease instead OF constl-
tutional infrmity, leads to the mis-
chievous practice of local medication.
Dyspepsia is but namo for unlvers-
oil physical deterioration.
Water drinking between meals
should be according to thirst. 1t is
u mistake to load a weak stomach
with cold water on the theory that it
is tonic. AS habit it is we'll to
take a tumbler or part of one, of pure
soft water, after dressing in tho morn
ing.
The temperature OF baths should
always be regulated by the tempera-
ture of the patient.
If seats were properly constructed
persons would sit upright, for the
reason that it would be the most COM
Portable position. 1t would be pain
ful to SIT otherwise. The chairs,
benches, sofas, pews, or other seats,
should fit the small Of the back, the
curves of the hips, aud the whole
length of the thighs, as accurately as
we'll made shoe is shaped to the
foot, or harness TO the body Of .
horse.
The prevalent custom on the part
OF most women of wearing the hair
twisted into mass on the top or
back of the head, and the moro mod
ern and still more pernicious custom
of loading the head with false hair,
or substances resembling it, is
frightful source Of headache, and in
directly of dyspepsia.
We have in the United States 3d.
900 drug shops, and 70, 900 physicians
furnishing the supplies and perscrib-
ing the doses, hence, in view of this
fact, it may be fair question for a
debating society whether there is
more dyspepsia produced by drug
medication than by all other causes
combined.
Erectness is one of the most OBJ
vious laws of the vital machinery.
Yet almost everyone is crooked.
BLESSED are the upright" physically
as we'll as morally
The only method which has ever
proved etfectual for preventing or
curing consumption is to keep the
lungs expanded as much as possible.
For this purpose, breathing tubes,
spirometers, blow-guns. lifting ma
chimes, and other gymnastic contriv-
ances have been found useful.
All kinds of food which are only
semi-solid, or composed of solid par
ticles diffused in water, as buildings,
stews, mushes, gruels, soups, etc.,
should always be taken with dry
bread, hard crackers, and green APP
pies, or something similar, and eaten
very slowly.
A deleterious practice common in
our large cities especially is the ex-
cessive use Of ice-cream and soda-wa-
ter.
Tobacco using directly and fearful
ly lessons the breathing capacity.
This is one reason why tobacco users
require more sleep than others, other
circumstances being equal.
Tobacco using, in young persons,
has the same effect in diminishing the
breathing capacity that tight-lacing
has. Examples are, indeed, sadly
frequent on the thoroughfares of our
great cities of young ladies who have
destroyed more than one-half of their
breathing capacity by this Disgrace
full habit OF tight-lacing. Their wan,
expressionless faces, harsh, contract
ed features, with bilious discolora-
tions of the skin. proclaim in Ian
guage that cannot be mistaken, def,
cient respiration. And the counter
part of these appearances and indica-
tions may be seen in numerous young
meo who promenade the streets be-
mind lighted cigars.
For bathing purposes, as for drink
ing and cooking, there is great diff
ference between pure and hard water.
A prominent cause of the prevail.
ence of indigestion in this country is
the excessive use of cathartic medi-
cine in the form of pills. One estab.
Iishment in New York turns out by
the aid of steam no less than ten bar
rels per day, and others greater
quantities, so it may be imagined
how many are hou0ht nm IT ia ast;