The Jasper weekly courier., 1874-07-10
Seasonable Health Items.

searching Tor hyglenlc hcts IN all dlrcc-
tious. The members are founding a IL
brary, and hope through its instrumental
ity 10 disseminate health views. Perhaps
they will ind few good proverbs In the
following
Those who would have perfect digestion
should not drink anything at meals.
Drinking should always be done before,
after. or between meals.
/ Milk Is especially pernicious I'm all Of
those complicated and obscure cases OF in
digestion TO which the phrase ''nervous de-
bility" is usually applied.
/ One of the great and increasing evils OF
imperfect mastication Il decaying teeth.
I II Is law OF all vital organisms that every
structure or post must do It's own work or
die.
Corsets are the degenerators of one sex
as much as tobacco and liquor are the enc
mics of the other.
Ladies suffering from nervous debility
i'm summer should beware of over-exer-
cising. The fault with too many inyalidsis
that they overdo when trying to recruit,
and thus seriously retari their improve
ment.
Domestic animals that are permitted to
live normally never have decayed teeth.
Women healthily and happily employed
are not usually in ill-health. Hannah
More wrote eleven books after the age of
60. Sarah J. Hale Is now -, and Is still
editing.
The influence of Imagination on the vi
tai functions has always been recognized,
and il was this recognition that enabled the
ancient physicians 10 be so successful with
charms, amulets and incantations.
Parasols, except in the middle of the
day, during the cheated term.' are perni-
cious things. a. 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 Scrofulous by
sleeping In unventiated 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 commerce. More than
100000 have been found in single pound
of understandable" sugar.
The error of regarding dyspepsia as
local disease, instead of a constitutional
infirmity. leads to the mischievous prac-
tice of local medication. Dyspepsia is
but name for universal physical deterior-
alton.
Water drinking between meals should be
weak stomach with cold water on the
theory that ii is tonic. As habit. 1t is
well To take tumbler, or "A part of one. of
pure, ,sott water after dressing in the morn
ing.
The temperature of baths should always
be regulated by the temperature of the pa
tient.
IL is said by those who have taken pains
10 inform themselves on the subject that
there is no country in the world. civilized
or savage, where bad teeth are so generally
the rule, and good ones so rare AN excep-
ton. as the United States.
II stats were properly constructed, per-
sons would sit upright. for the reason that
IL would be the most comfortable position.
liz would be painful 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 accurately as well-madc 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 more modern and still more per-
nicious custom of loading the head with
false hair. or substances resembling il. j. 4
source of headache. and indirectly cause
of dyspepsia.
We have in the United States 10000 drug
shops and $1,000 physicians furnishing
the supplies and prescribing the doses,
hence. in view of this fact, il may be fair
question for debating society whether
there Is more dyspepsia produced by drug
medication than by all other causes com
bined.
Old cheese Is well known TO be one of the
most indigestible articles that was ever
swallowed in the name Of food. Says the
old distich:
Cheese is q surly elf,
Digesting all ihings but itself.'
Ii Is impossible for any child whose
mother has diminished her breathing ca
pacity by lacing to have sound and yig-
orous organization. If girls will persist In
running their vital organs as they grow up
to womanhood, and If women viii con-
tinue this destructive habit, the race must
inevitably deteriorate.
Erectness is one of the most obvious
laws OF the vital machinery. Yet almost
everyone Is crooked. blessed are the
upright" physically rs well as morally.
The only method which has ever proved
eflectual for preventing or curing con-
sumption is to keep the lungs expanded as
much as possible. For this purpose.
breathing-tubes. spirometers, blow-guns,
/ liftlng-machines. and other gymnastic con-
trivances 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 ap-
piles, or something similar, and eaten very
slowly.
! A dcleterious 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 al ninety have perfect teeth.
and seldom one under fifty loses single
incisor or cuspid, or even molar.