Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-23
HYGIENIC NOTES.
CURE FOR CORNS.

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brown sugar; mix well. Take piece O
an Old kid glove and spread plaster OF
1t the size OF the corn and apply to thu
part affected; bind on and leave two OF
three days and then remove, and the
corn will come with it.
TIMELY HINTS. ,.-
Remember air in motion is much cold
er than at rest. Wear your winter
wraps this month even If the thermome
ter invites you out in spring clothes.
Never go to bed with cold, damp feet.
A warm drink is good when coming in
from the cold, but quite otherwise when
gong out. An amount of blood equal
to the whole quantity of the blood passes
through the heart every minute. Look
out for colds. No month in the year is
more trying in the northern and middle
states than March.
CONSUMPTION.
physician writing communication
to the Medical and Surgical Reporte,
ON the relation of sex to the consumption
OF the lungs gives figures which show
that IN the United States there are about
twice as many deaths from consumption
among females between the ages of fif-
teen and twenty as there are among males
OF the same age. He thinks the mode of
life is the main cause of it, that young
women have less outdoor exercise, fresh
air, sunlight, and the activity of mind
and body which is necessary to health.
HYGIENIC MENUS.
BY adopting an absolutely non stimu-
lating and chiefly vegetable diet, COM
blned with active exercise in the open
ar, the most dyspeptic glutton can cure
himself in the course of single season.
and by the same means every boarding
school might become d dietetic SANTA
rum. The following list of hygienic
menus is arranged in the order of their
dlgestibility and wholesomeness:
Milk, bread and fruit. Eggs (raw or
whipped), bread and honey. Boiled
eggs, bread, and apples (ancient Rome. }
Bread and bEGter, rice pudding, with
sugar and fresh milk. Corn bread, or
roasted chestnuts, butter, honey, and
grapes (the usual diet of the long lived
Corsican mountaineers.) Fish, butter,
oatmeal porridge, and fresh milk DAN
ish islands.) Pancakes, honey or new
molasses, poached eggs, boiled milk and
bread pudding. Vegetable soups, baked
beans, potatoes (baked or mashed), but
ter, biscuits and apple dumplings.
Popular Science MOnthly.
SLEEPING ROOMS.
There is prevailing belief that Sleep
ing in cold room is healthy, but facts
accumulated prove that it would be safer
to say sleeping in the cold does not
generally do harm. If any person wants
to sleep safely in cold room he must
have a large space, or else the room
must have bad windows and doors or
very porous walls. In order to keep the
atmosphere OF a room good there must
be continuous change of air equal to
about 2, 200 cubic feet per hour for each
person. Experiments made in rooms
with brick walls show that with a diff
ference of temperature of $40 Fahrenheit
60o Id and 800 out doors, the air changed
at the rate of $500 cubic feet in one
hour, but with difference in tempera-
true of Z Fahrenheit the change amount
ed to only $50 cubic sect per hour, and
the opening of a window of eight square
feet could raise the change to no more
than ,060 cubic feet. These quantities
are instructive. They show that a diff
ference OF 81 In temperature, with care
fully shut openings and crevices, is of
greater influence than large communica-
lions with the outer air at small diff
ference of temperature.
CONSTIPATION.
Halls Journal of Health thinks it
doubtful it consumption numbers as
many victims as are stricken down by
the various diseases that result from hab-
ltual constipation. True consumption is
an inherited disease. 1t may remain al
ways dormant, but when aroused to ac-
t1on, decay commences at point circum-
scrlbed, and gradually extends, unless
arrested-until SO much of the lungs be-
come involved that vital action ceases.
The evils of constipation result from in
attention to the calls of nature. and
usually commence with children whose
habits are not closely looked to by their
parents. The processes of nature are
always active while life lasts. When
efete matter is retaineda moment beyond
the time it's expulsion is demanded the
system commences it's efforts TO get rid
OF 1t. When the natural egress is
checked the absorbents carry the more
fluid portions of the poisonous mass into
the circulation and it becomes diffused
throughout the body. The more solid
and clay-like portion is forced into the
lower rectum, where it becomes firmly
impacted, thus cutting off the circulation
in the small blood vessels, causing pain
full, engagements known as piles or
hemorrhoids. A continuance of these
troubles, often result in assure, fstula,
or cancer. The trouble is seldom con-
fined here. AS a result of the blood
poisoning we almost invariably find
more or less dyspepsia, with decided de-
rangement Of the functions of the heart.
liver and kidney, accompanied by head
ache and nervous debility, often verg1ng
on paralysis. Scientific american.
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