Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-02-26
CARE OF THE HEALTH.

USE OF LEMONs.-Hot lemonade is
one of the best remedies for colds, as it
acts promptly and efficiently, and has
no unpleasant after-effects. One lemon
should be properly squeezed, cut in
slices, put with sugar and covered with
half pint of boiling water. Drink
just before going to bed, and do not ex-
pose yourself the following day. The
remedy will work off an attack of chills
and fever if it is properly used.
CAUTION TO BATHERs.-An authority
in the London Lancet emphatically
points out the danger of the morning
tub used in cold weather without discre-
ton. He cautions the old, and the
weakly of any age, from the danger of
too sudden or too prolonged cold bath
ing; he exposes the absurdity of the
blind faith in reaction; he explains how
persons are deluded by producing a
Fictitious redness by hard rubbing with
a coarse towel, for the circulation thus
excited is only temporary, and the effect
of cold on the nerve-center is masked,
not changed, by the device; and, finally,
he declares that it is better by far to use
warm water to wash with, and to sprin-
kle the cold lightly, in such quantity as
may be most agreeable, if cold effusion
does not at once cause ford redness
and defined and proper glow. As to
cleanliness, it must be patent to every
body who observes how dirty the hands
become in cold weather that the cold
bath is a mistake. The Lancet points
out that ga good wash in slightly warm
water, with plenty of soap, is far better,
and has the special advantage of being
safe.''
TYPHoIDE FvER.-Typhoid fever is
of all diseases, pre-eminently flM dis
ease, traceable with as much certainty
as fire from smoke. Wherever it exists
it points unequivocally to unremoved
filth; and is a disease, therefore, alto
gether and wholly preventable by prop
er sanitary measures. Notwithstand-
ing, during the census year of 1870,
there were, in the United States, %, 1877
preventable deaths from typhoid fever
But, had there been the same ratio to the
total population of the United States as
in Philadelphia during Centennial year,
the mortality from this cause would have
been over $1,000. And this was far
from being all, as regards Philadelphia
All over the country fatal cases of
typhoid fever, and 9th diseases nearly
allied to it, were attributable to the Gen.
tennial visitation-the neglected drain
age, criminal insufficiency of water
closets, and bad plumbing. These con-
ditions, so prominently manifest at the
Centennial, and apparently to an extra
ordinary degree in Philadelphia even
yet, as judged by the prevalence of
typhoid fever, are, of all causes of NOR
tally, the most criminal, because the
most easily preventable. Universal ex-
perience attests that water-closets mad
e9uatcly provided with means for speedy
and complete cleansing and aeration are
prolific sources of typhoid fever and
kindred affections in all temperate lati-
tudes, and, with prevailing high tenn
perature and moisture, of the still more
deadly disease, yellow fever. And all
the more dangerous are these conditions
because they are not infrequently the
means of spreading that disease to dis
tant places. The existence of typhoid
fever or allied diseases in any place is
prima facie evidence of filthy surround
ings.-Sanitarian.
KEEPING THE TEETH CLEAN.-Mr.
G. A. Mills gives in Dental Cosmos some
sensible advice about cleaning the teeth.
While there is, he says, a general use of
tooth-brushes by the people, there is, al
so, not uncommonly an abuse of them
getting to be better understood by both
dentists and patients now than formerly
that crosswise brushing is not wise,
but that the upper teeth should be
brushed downward, and the lower teeth
upward. 1t is common mistake not to
brush thoroughly the cheek and pos
terror surfaces of the third molars and |
the lingual surfaces of the lower front |
teeth. 81 am sure," says Mr.. Mills,
" that nothing like an adequate amount
of care is given to this service. 1t can |
not be too strongly impressed on the
minds of the guardians of children that |
the practice of brushing the teeth thor
oughly should be begun as early as pos
sible. Straight brushes are utterly i'm
practicable on the surfaces to which l |
have referred as the ones most neglect
ed. Curved brushes with tuft end, |
bud-shaped or convex, are the best. |
There are several efficient forms.n The |