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

shops and $4,000 physicians furnishing
the supplies and prescribing the doses;
hence, in view of this fact, it may be q
fair question for a debating society
| whether there is more dyspepsia pro-
cured by drug medication than by all
other causes combined.
Old cheese is we'll known to be one
OF, the most indigestible articles that was
ever swallowed in the name of food.
Says the old distich:
Dfeesting ali things but ITSELF
It is impossible for any child whose
mother has diminished her breathing Ca
pacity by lacing to have sound and
vigorous organization. If girls will per-
sist in running their vital organs as they
grow up to womanhood, and if women
will continue this destructive habit, the
race must inevitably dcteriorate.
Erectness is one of the most obvious
laws of the vital machinery. Yet almost
every one is crooked. "Blessed are the
upright" physically as we'll as morally.
The only method which has ever proved
effectual for preventing or curing con-
sumption is to keep the lungs expanded
as much as possible. For this purpose
breathing tubes, spirometers, blow-guns,
lifting machines and other gymnastic
c0ntrivances have been found useful.
All kinds of food which are only semi
solid, or composed of solid particles diff
fused in water, as puddings, stews,
mushes, gruels, soups, ETC., should always
be taken with dry bread, hard crackers,
green apples, or something similar, and
eaten very slowly.
A deleterious practice, common in our
large cities especially, is the excessive use
OF ice-creaM and soda water.
Everybody has fine teeth in the East.
Women there at ninety have perfect
teeth, and seldom one under fifty loses a
single incisor or cuspid, or even a molar.
Tobacco using directly and fearfully
lessons the breathing capacity. This is
one reason why tobacco-users require
more sleep than others, other circum-
stances being equal.
Tobacco using, in young persons, has
the same effect in diminishing the breath
ing capacity that tight-lacing (Which is
alarmingly on the increase again) 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 disgraceful habit of tight-lacing.
Their wan, expressionless faces, harsh,
contracted features, with bilious discolor-
ations of the skin, proclaim, in language
that cannot be mistaken, deficient respi
ration. And the counterpart of these
appearances and indications may be
seen in numerous young men who
promenade the streets behind lighted
cigars.
For bathing purposes, as for drinking
and cooking, there is a great difference
between pure and hard water.
A prominent cause of the prevalence
of indigestion in this country is the ex-
cessive use of cathartic medicine in the
form of pills. One establishment in New
York turns out by the aid of steam no
less than ten barrels per day, and others
greater quantities, 50 it may be imagined
how many are bought up. 1t is estimated
that one hundred barrels each day are
made by all the establishments collect
lively
If mel should dress as the majority of
women in fashionable life do, there
would be ten cases of consumption
among them where there is only one
now.
Not one growing child in ten can be
confined in a school more than three
hours day without suffering more or
less debility and endangering life.
Most Of the school-houses in our cities,
and not few in the country, are pest
houses, very much in the sense that ten
ement houses are.
Perhaps no country furnishes such
multitudes of peevish, fretful, nervous
women as the United States.
The most prevalent complaint among
ladies at the present day is headache :;
and careful investigation will prove that
this trouble has rather increased than di-
ing hair came in vogue-involving as it
does, the loading of the head with such a
quantity of foreign material.
The dyspeptic person should avoid
hard water as he would hard drugs, for
all the hard waters on earth are only
drugs in solution.-Brookzyn IN. "
Union.