Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-09
THE HOME DOCTOR.

FOOD AND MED1CME.-M Much of the
ill-health of professional and business
men comes from bad habits of eating.
Some eat so rapidly that the food, un-
chewed, overtaxes the power of diges-
ton. Others eat excessively, and, tax
ing little exercise, become victims to
dyspepsia. Liberal doses of medicine
are relied on to cure what common
sense in diet might easily prevent.
Chief Justice Parsons, of Massach usetts,
was lifelong sufferer from dyspepsia.
he imagined himself to be attacked by
an infinite variety of diseases, and took
enormous quantities of medicines for
immediate relief. But the chief cause
OF his trouble was over eating. His son
thus speaks of his injurious habits
He was fond of good eating, and had
no idea of dieting. He took medicine
often, and then INDUCED again freely,
and neglected all exercise. He was a
great hypochondriac, fanoying himself
sick, or in prospect of it, but always at
tending to duty. He had great Satur-
day dinners, to which any distinguished
strangers in the city were sure of an in
vitation. There was more fun and jol-
lily at table than is common now"
FEVER AND AaUE.-It will be useful
for poor people, and those in the coun-
try, away from drug stores and doctors,
to know, on the authority of DR.. Beach,
the botanic doctor, that a strong infu-
sion of yarrow (white tansy) and bone
set is a good substitute for quinine in
fever and ague, or other malarious COM
plants. The plants should be gathered
when in flower, and a double handful
of each stepped in one quart of boiling
water and drunk freely three or four
times day. The prescription was
given by Dominic Van Saxon, we'll
known missionary to China for thirty
years, who studied medicine and the
properties of herbs before going out,
as most valuable for usefulness among
the poor. Though not fond of "quack-
cry in an y shape, observation of the
effects of this medicine in oounteract-
ing summer debility and malarious
complaints among elderly people has
led me to sincere respect for the mis-
sionary's experience, and I shall risk a
smile for recommending herb teas,
knowing the use such homely wisdom
is to new settlers and those to whom
quinine, even with the tax removed, is
an expensive item. The small miseries
of life make sum SO truly formidable
that no one who has proved remedies
for them is excused from giving others
the beneft.-Neao York San.
SOME FACTS ABOUT SoARLAT1NA.-
is very infectious. The poison has
great tenacity. It is known to have
chung to clothing for years, and then
communicated the infection. Houses
that had been carefully disinfected
have communicated the disease to
families moving into them. The poison
can be fully destroyed only by dry heat
as high as 212 deg. A person may
have the disease very mildly, or very
severely. Yet the former may give it
to another in it's most malignant form.
One who seems to have it mildly may
suddenly die with it, through a par
alysis of one of the chief nerves. There
is q great difference in predisposition
to the disease, even in the same family.
Some whole families are strangely pre-
disposed to it; with others it is the re-
verse. A person, however, who may
be at one time exposed to it with i'm
punity, may at another time take it
from slight exposure. The suscepti-
bility of adults to it is generally slight.
The deaths from it are mostly of per-
sons under 15-more than nine tenths OF
all. The most fatal period is from the
LIST to the 9th year. Hence, if we can
guard children from it, they are com.
paratively safe for the rest of their
lives. AS general thing, person can
have the disease but once. Still, where