The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1874-08-07
The Dangers Of Paris Green.

AS the handling and using of dry Pari
green, espec tally by persons unaccustOm
ed tOltS use, lsattended with considerable
risk, and Often followed by serious con
sequences, we make the following sug
gestlOns, founded on our experience az
manufacturers:
All packages, whether large or small
should be plainly marked poison.
There is great danger in the mixing
of this green for potato bug and cotton,
WomrpolSYon, owing to the fine dust whicl
arises III the process, which is inhaled
and so rapidly absorbed by the pores OF
the skin, especially if the person using
It should be in a state of perspiratiOn
| 10 guard against this, the hand and face
particularly nostrils) should be protect
ed as much a possible, and should be
carefully washed after working in it, Oh
IN amy OF the preparations of which it is
an ingredient. AS it penetrates or poi
sons. wood, gets into the seams and
| creVlces of articles made of metal, and
even into earthenWare that is at all
porous, all household utensils, or any
thing III barns or stables which cattle
or horses could have access to, in which
the article may have been mixed, or
from which it has been used, should be
carefully set aside and never again used
for any other purpose.
Malignant sores are not infTeUuently
caused by scratching the skin when itch
ing or irritated from handling the green.
1t should be constantly borne in mind
that it is more dangerous and deadly
poison than arsenic and farmers, and
planters and others should be duly
cautioned to exercise the utmost care
in using it.
AS a remedy for the poison, the free
use Ofmilk as beverage is recOmmen-
ded, but we have found hydrated per-
oxide OF iron, a simple, harmless remedy,
the best antidote. Sores caused by the
green should be well covered with it,
asWith an ordinary salye, and teaspoon
ful IN Il wine glass of water should be
taken twice Il day Internally, while work
ing with the green. This remedy can
be obtained from any druggist or chem
ist.
The consumption of Paris green has
largely increased within Il few years.
and the article is now applied to such
variety OF purposes, that carelessness
OF its use or ignorance of it's highly dam
gerOus properties ON the part of those
who use it, cannot fail to produce the
most deplorable results.-[ Paint and Oil
Journal.
WEAK BACKS AND BAD SEATs-The
small OF the back is weak or strong point
Of every person. 1t is the center of vOlun-
tary motion. Nearly three hundredmus
cles are directly or indirectly connected
with the motions of which the small of
the back is the pivotal center. Hence,
While those who are strong, and whose
mi mi An1I =,
know nothing of spinal weakness or YER
tebral distortion, invalids are forever
complaining of this part of the body.
One very prominent cause of weak
backs and crooked spinesis, the unhygi-
enic and unanatomical seats and benches
OF our schOOl-house, churches and halls;
nor are the seats and benches provided
on steam boats, railroad cars, or at sta
tlons or ferry-hOuses any better. 1t is
impossible for any person to occupy
these seates long without being forced
out of shape. And when school children
are cOntineed to them for several hours
a day for months and years their backs
will inevitably be more or less weakened,
with corresponding deforihity. of body,
for life. &" '.'''''''s
If we go intoprivate families, even in
to the places of the opuleht, we find the
seats made more for show than for use.
Girles suffer much more by using such
seats than boys, for the reason that boys
are taught to run, jump and exercise
themselves all over and all through,
while girls are expected to keep still
and be pretty. '.' ~ :.i :. ''..
1t is certainly one of the strangest
problems of the nineteenth century that
no parent, teacher or mechanic, will give
any attention to anatomy or physiology
in the construction of seats for the hu-
man body. Must our chairs, and sofas,
and settees, and divans, and tete-0- tetes, |
and pews, forever be dictated by fashion,
and never conformed to nature ? Must |
our tortured bodies forever be compelled |
70 shape themselves to the seats, instead |
lf the seats being adapted to our bodies? |
60 through all the great chair factories |
IF the country, and you will not find a |
singel article that is not put together in |
gross violation of the rules of health or |
comfort If some Cooper, or Peabody,
or Stewart, or Vanderbilt, or Astor, |
would invest little million of dollars in |
an immense chair factory |
on strictly hygenic principles" he
would do more to improve human health,
promote longevity and remedy the back
tche, than any medical college in the
and.--[FrOm Backache," in Science Of
Health.
THE CARS EXCLUSIvENEss.-T
tZar is q parsonage about as easv of |