Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-08-12
THE FAMILY DOCTOR.


 FooD has three aspects in which it must be considered in regard to health First, there is the kind or quality; sec ondly, the amount, and, lastly, the pre- paration or cooking.
 BRorL meat of any kind of food long enough and 1t will change to charcoal. After meat is heated through, every fur ther addition of heat advances its condi- tion toward the charcoal state. But its charcoal is entirely iDdigestible. Rare baked, fresh meats are far more easily digested, and furnish more real nutri- ment than those "well done" Habit will make one enjoy the rGre-cooked steak as more juicy end palatable, and it is certainly better as food.
 FooD FOR DYsPEPTIcs.-Beatu up on egg in a bowl add six tablespoons of cold water, mixing the whole well to- gether. Add two tablespoons of farina of potatoes let it be mixed thoroughly with the liquor in the bowl. Then pour. on enough boiling water to convert it into jelly, and mix 1t well. Take it alone, or add little milk where the stomach is facilitated or the person is consumptive. It is a light, delicate and nourishing dish, and excellent for dys- peptics.
 TAKE CARE WHAT You EAr.--Mauy people fancy it makes nospecial differ once what they eat. They do not dis like anything that's set before them. They tGke what comes, and think they gre satisfied. They have eaten enough. What moro would you have? Botween the cultivated f,.ohsh oues and the dweller in boarding houses, to whom everything has the flavor of hash, there IS . golden mean that may be summed up in four words: "Good food, good health." That what you eat makes what you arc. "If you drink beer you will think beer" Ham and eggs have favored many bad sermon, and too many pies have, no doubt, led to much domestic unhappiness. It IS not enough to be satisfied, to be merely filled. The boarder who said certain meal twas very filling at the price" was one of the most foolish of foolish kind. .--F0od aud Health.
 FROM m acorn weighing few grains, tree will grow for hundred years or more. not only throwing of many pounds of leaves every year, but itself weighing several tons. If an orange tniI i8 put in large box of earth, and that carih is weighed when the twig becomes tree, bearing luscious fruit, there will be very nearly the same amount-of earth. From careful experi- ments made by different scientific men. 1t is an ascertained fact that a very large part of tho growth of tree is de- rived from the sun, from the air, and from the water, and Q very little from the earth; and notably all vegetation becomes sickly unless it Is freely ex- posed to sunshine. Wood and coal are but condensed sunshine, which contain three important elements, equally essen- tial to both vegetable and animal life- magnesia, lime and iron. It is the iron In the blood which gives it its sparkling red color and its strength. It is the lime in the bones which gives them the durability necessary to bodily vigor, while the magnesia is important to any of the tissues. Thus it is the more per. sons are out of doors the more healthy the more vigorous they are, and the longer they will live.
 CLOTHING AND HEALTH-A lecture was given in Manchester, England. bJ Dr. .Haddon, who took for his subject "Clothing." Tn treating this subject Dr. Hsddon said that what he wanted was some light material which was baC conductor of heat, and which at the same time wonld allow free ventilation as regarded the surface of the skin, anC the nearer our clothing initiated the flu of the animal the better should we b, protected. Maternal made of silk or cot ton allowed more heat to pass througl than materials made of wool, and there fore the woolen material was the better Color was of great importance when ou clothing was exposed to luminous heat and light-colored clothes were the bcs for suinmer and black for the winter Az regarded ventilation of the skin clothing was generally considered neces sary to keep the mir from us, but it ha been proved that those clothes which al lowed most air, up to . certain point, { pass through them kept us warmesi Woolen fabrics were best suited for m derclothing, and, as a general principle the whole body should be covered wit flannel, varying in thickness as the sea son required.