The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-06-27
Health Items.

THOSE who would have perfect dlgeS-
ton should not drink anything at meals.
Drinking should always 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 nlastication is decaying
teeth. 1t is a law of all vital organisms
that every structure or post must do it's
own workeor die.
Corsets are the degenerators of one sex
as much as tobacco and liquor are the
enemies of the other.
Ladies suffering from nervous debility
in summer should beware of over-exer-
cising. The fault with too many invalids
is that they overdo when trying to re-
cruit, and thus seriously retard their i'm
provcment.
Domestic animals that are permitted to
live normally never have decaying teeth.
Women hcalthfully and happily en-
ployed are not usually in i'll health.
Hannah More wrote eleven books after
the age of sixty. Sarah J. Hale is now
eighty five, and still editing.
The influence of Imagination on the
SlC0l 1uHCtIOuS uiS always UCCA 1CNOS-
uized, and it was this recognition that
enabled the ancient physicians to be so
successful with charms, amulets and in
carnations.
Parasols, except in the middle of the
day during the cheated tcrm," are per.
nicious things, as are the wells with
which so many fashionable ladies shade
their faces.
The most prevalent error in private
houses is insufficient ventilation of bed
rooms. Young children and infants,
though born with fair organizations, are
often rendered puny and scr0fulOus by
sleeping in unventilated rooms.
The sugar insect (which is the cause of
| that tormenting skin affection known as
"grocer's itch') is found in nearly all the
brown sugars of commerce. More than
1OO, 600 have been found in single pound
of merchantable" sugar. =.
The error Of regarding dyspepsia as a
local disease instead of constitutional
infirmity leads to the mischievous prac-
tice of local medication. Dyspepsia is
but name for universal physical dete-
rioratiOn.
Water drinking between meals should
be according to thirst. 1t is a mistake to
| lOdu d. WCdh SGOudNA "AGA NO1U "oVCA o4
the theory that it is tonic. As habit
| it is we'll to take tumb1er, or part of
one, of pure, soft water after dressing in
the morning. =.
The temperature of baths should al
ways be regulated by the temperature of
the patient. =,
It is said by those who have taken pains
to inform themselves on the subject that
there is no country in the world, civilized
or savage, where bad teeth are so gener.
ally the rule, and good ones so rare an
exception, as the United States.
| If seats we're properly constructed per.
sons would sit upright, for the reason
that it would be the most comfortable
position. 1t would be painfnti'to sit
otherwise. The chairs, benches, sofas
pews or other seats should fit the small
of the back, the curves of the hips and
the whole length of the thighs as accu
rately as Xell-made shoe is shaped
to the foot, or harness to the body of 8
horse.
The prevalent custom on the part o1
most women of wearing the hair twisted
into q mass on the top Or back Of th.
head, and the more modern and still
more pernicious custom Of loading tn,
head with false hair, or substances re
sembling it, is frightful source of head
! ache, and indirectly cause of dyspepsia