Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-07-18
Consumption.
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BY DR.. r. K.
NO. III.

} N1hodv will doubt that the lungs of an en-
cooh,oa hodv must be feeble too, and in
tb of lime could not resist bad inf1u-
enres How should we treat our body
Orr BODY consists of many elements and
chemical com inations which all are used
mn hv the process of life, and have to be
restored by nurishmehts, which should con-
| tain those chemical principles. Is there
on an average enough regard paid to the
proper variety and changes of vlctuals? 1t
| NAV be so with educated and well-to- do
people, but look at the poorer classroom
bread and bacon, and bacon and corn
| bread in inyinituna, and coffee, coffee,
coffee Can there be any regular resttu-
| ton of lost substance2 Poor stomacne,
what amount of chemical work and
chemical ingnuity must take place
| in such q poor stomache to change
those victuals SO that they only
approximately would do, to replace lost
| su distances. There are some nourishments
which hardly deserve the name, and
which, instead of being used as agreeable
and small addit ons to our food, are much
| to the detriment of nutrition occupying the
first rank in our meals and used in immense
quantities. How much nourishment can
there be in those large pots of coffee or
tea? Not as much as In bit of bread, al
| though they inundate their stOmachs with
it in preference to substantial food. The
tea, tobacco, alcohol, opium, morphine.
etc.. is the increasing desire for them, and
a sensation OF satisfaction IN the stomach,
which takes away real good appetite and
a healthy digestion. for lost substance
you must give su bstance, and there Is but
little in tea and coffee; such things should
be used like spices, in small quantiti S.
Still worse it is with tobacco and alcohol
used to excess. Mind, every thing in crea-
ton is useful in its place, and, while l
think that a pipe of tobacco, or glass of
light VINE or beer once in while are ex~
hIlerating and mild stimulus, very appro-
pirate In our exhaustlng mode
of living, I am very much OPP
| posed to the excessive use of
| them. Tobacco in excess, and used as
chew or snuff, will not only act as mar
cotic, but affect and exhaust your saliVary
| glands. weaken your appetite and diges-
! tive pow they will affect your brain and
nervous system, and will bring on disor-
ders in the heart and lungs. How disgust
ing to iOok on young lady, with her
stuff box always ready, introducing guam
titles of snuff into her mouth, which is
brown, filthy and sinking, splitting con-
| tinually, nervous and dyspeptic, old at
twenty-four, and good for nothingl If
this is disgusting, that of our alcohol vic
tins is shocking, because it is not only the
individual which suffers, but the whole ma
ton. Just consider those thousands and
thousands of dilapidated cripples, the vic
TINS of alcohol, candidates for chronic dis
eases and consumption. And where is
help for it, Hardly any, if not in some
few instances an admirable strength of
mind and self-wIll would recover the VIC
tim. Before such q man would stand up,
erect present arms. touch nay cap, and
say: General, you fought hard battle,
and won lV' Will all the enormous efforts
| 5Nf off,
thing2 Something, but not much. Money
| will get alcohol in spite of any prohibition,
| and If the last barrel of whisky was in the
center of the globe they would dig
| hole to the center of the earth
to get it, How easy it is
some of those celebrated bitters, excellent
whisky in it, finely favored, not much Bit
ter so that fellow Can take two or three
tum blers full every day and become nice
candidate for a drunkard. such hypo-
crlsm is inexcusable, inexcusable for the
man who uses it, and still more so for the
| firm who spends many thousands of dollars
| to announce their Internationally. For
few cents anybody can get roots and
! herbs just as good as those in the hitters,
! and make tea of it, much more wholesome
for The want Of the great quantity of
whisky.
1t is not prohibition which will prevent
or cure drunkenness, but one thing l OBJ
served which Is almost an absolute proven
| tative, it is good education, education of
heart and mind. Parents who are the best
playmates of their children are the best
! friends and the best educators of them.
Make home agreeable, keep loud joyous
house, have plenty Of harmless fun, and
the children will love you, will love each
other, will love home, they will not hunt
up bad company and become loafers. To
! no ia a al iDsfinat aDH laniti-
mate one, and much happiness can be
created by wise parents in spite of many
| universities. Show the children that good
only brings good, and love only brings
love, and If they grow up with such max
inns they will be- substantial men and
| women. .'S'-r -@'
One of the greatest inducements to use
alcoholic liquors is dissatisfied stomach.
If our good housemothers would know and
take the pains TO make your meals saVory,
without killing the fine natural flavor OF
our victuals with immense quantities of
spices and red pepper, If they would
change about a little, your stomachs Won d
not crave for other and stronger things.
Good cooking is a science. There Is as
much chemistry in a kitchen as In Our
stomach, and lady who understands how
to prepare good, substantial meal out OF
common, good victuals, is of more practi-
Cal use tor health and life toau any woman
who understands Lain and Greek but not
cooking. There should be no graduation
without the science of cooking and keeping
hou g. A great influence on our general
health and SO also on our lungs is exerLed
by the water we drink Good cisteru
water, kept puro and clean, is, on an aver
age, the best, because there are not Sc
many impurities in it as there, on an aver.
age, are in spring or we'll water, who take
up all the little streams of water which
. sink through the soil, and take up all the
9 impurities, chemical and organic, as fol
instance, limestone and other salzee?, OIL
: even the products of putrefaction, Of deaC
? bodies, malaria and germs of diseases lik
: cholera, typhoid, yellow fever, etc.
Never mind how clear and crystal-lik'
such spring waters sometimes look, scienc
9 has proven beyond doubt that they Otter
! contain the invisible germs of diseases
when they are near to decaying substan
ces-privies, sewers, gFaveyards. etc,
!, Bodily exercise in open fresh air is al
g most indispensable to strengthen our lung
and general health. How can it be expec
ted that the poor laboring class, who al
the week long are shut up between fou
walls, in unhealthy NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., fac
tories, etc., should keep healthy, if the,
even on Sunday should sit at home. silen
/ and depressed, instead of being out in tn
country, the woods, in God