The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1882-03-23
HEALTH INTELLIGENCE.
Iron Dr.. roo..'. H..i.A Mon.Aly.l


IT SEEMS singular that professional
men will continue to use chloroform
when ether is as efficient and 80 much
safer.
In and infammatory eye
diseases, the use of hot water thrown by
the hand against the eye Is recommended
by DIR. Leartus Conner as the best
remedy.
The Health Officer OF Providence,
r. L, reports that in that city typhoid
and intermittent fever do not occur dur
ing the same seasons, and appear to be
~antagonistic.
THE method of routing insects OF mag
gots from the ear by the use OF
anesthetics (ether or chloroform held o n
a sponge over the earl is said to have
originated with DIR. J. E. Blake. OF New
York City, in 1862.
The Chinese exhibit almost every
known form of skin disease, and are also
much subject to dyspepsia and lung at
fections; but their '~favorite" disease, If
it may BET so called because Of its preva-
lence, is rheumatism.
THE Baltimore Gazette relates that q
lady who had been vaccinated borrowed
a pair of earrings from a lady friend for a
day. The owner, on resuming their
use, was astonished to find that she was
thoroughly v~accinated In the ears.
In ACUTE sickness when milk and beef
tea disagree, the French hospitals,give a
preparation called A1bumen water, made
by dissolving the white of an egg in q
pint of water, and adding glycerine to
sweeten, and lemon juice to flavor.
THE editor of the Medical Call says
he has often been called to children in
spasms or suffering from vomiting or
diarrhoea, the whole trouble being due
to nursing from the breasts of a mother
or nurse that had had a eft of anger"
FORTY thousand dollars worth of
chewing-gum is gathered every year In
Maine, most of which is for school
children and factory girls; but even this
delicacy is subject to adulteraton, pine
gum being sometimes worked into the
spruce gum.
EXPERIMENTS made to test the muscu-
lar power of insects, prove that the
smaller the insect the greater proper
tionate muscular power. A bee is for
its weight thirty times stronger than a
horse, for a bee harnessed to a wagon
can pull twenty times its own weight.
The Cook County Hospital, of Chicago,
ILL.,, is to be placed in part under manage
ment of Homeopathic physicians, and in
part under REGULARS" It remains to
be seer whether by this arrangement
familiarity will breed more contempt, or
better acquaintance heal the breach be-
tween the two schools.
THOUGH consumption is very prevalent
in st. Petersburg, Russia, it is said that
professional singers never die of that
disease there. It is therefore inferred
that the exercise involved in singing and
the deep respirations which it neces.
states have much to do with maintaining
a healthy condition of the lungs.
ONCE more a regular" physician
announces in the Medical Record his
preference for the Eclectic Code O
Ethics which simply calls for the adop
ton of the golden rule and good manners
amongst medical men. The acceptance
of a letter making such an ayowal in 81
prominent an organ of the old schoo
shows that some leaven of progress il
~leavening the whole lump.
AN editorial in the Boston Journal O
} Chemistry about Boston water" attrib
utes its unpleasant 'ishy, cucumber
taste and smell" to a diseased condition
of fish which become coated with a Shiny
membrane when the water supply be
comes diminished by drought, this slime
sloughing off when a fresh supply O
water is afforded them. A mere flake O
this slime will contaminate a barrel O