Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-01
THE HOME DOCTOR.
CAREFUL COOKING.

Even the longest used and best known
kinds of food, whether animal or vege-
table, should be carefully cooked
to insure health and strength
from the table. No matter what
the quality OF the food to begin
with may be, bad cook will invariably
incur heavy doctors bills and not less
inconsiderable "little account at the
druggists.
EPILEPSY AND FOOD.
Epleptics are, as a rule, enormous
eaters. We have known boy with this
disease eat twice as much as was really
necessary for his support. 1t is very
difficult to prevent this, as they had
about as soon die as not to crafty their
appetites. Now, what is the result of
this overeating? The stomach is taxed
to it's utmost to digest the food, and the
powers of excretion are also gravely
over-taxed. The blood becomes over
loaded with urea, carbonic acid, bile and
other excrementitious matters, and all
these things bring OH attacks of the dis
ease much oftener than they would
otherwise occur. The epileptic should
therefore eat less.-HerdJd of Health.
In Germany (where great care is OBJ
served in gathering statistics appertain-
ing to human ife) it has been found that
of one hundred children nursed by their
mothers, only eighteen died during the
first year; of those fed by wet nurses,
twenty-nine; of those artifcially fed
above fifty. And it has been further
found that of those brought up in chart
table institutions eighty of every hun
dred died. Such facts should receive
the serious consideration of mothers who
shrink from giving nurse to their babes
simply on the score of inconvenience or
prudishness. There are cases where the
life OF the mother may be sacrificed to
the child in consequence of her own
physical weakness and the baby's in
herited greediness. In such case there
can be no question as to the duty of the
mother. She should protect herself
put the babe on the best diet attainable,
for what is babe without a mother?--
DR.. Foote's Health Monthly.
BILIoUsNEss.
Almost every person is familiar with
this ailment, either as experienced in
himself or as seen in others. Yet the
best medical experts do not certainly
know It's nature or seat. People do not
die of biliousness, however long or
much they may suffer from it, and for
this reason post-mortem examinations
donot certainly reveal its origin. Proba-
bly,, however, it is a mild sort of iaun-
dice, due to some disturbance of the
liver. The liver is the largest gland of
the body, and one of its offices is to
strain the blood. It cannot, therefore,
be even slightly deranged without dis
turbing more or less the entire system.
All persons are not equally liable to at
tacks of biliousness. They are often
the result of certain inherited ten
dency. Says Sir Lionel Beale, "The
bilious habit seems to be due to an un-
usually sensitive, irritable stomach and
liver, which will discharge their func-
tions fairly in moderate degree, but
which cannot be made to do more than
this moderate amount of work without
getting much out of order. Most of the
organs taking part in the digestion and
assimilation of food seem to strike work
when the bilious attack comes on. IF
food be taken, the suffering becomes
greater. The fact seems to be that the
digestive organs require rest for time,
and if, when an attack comes Oh, this
rest is given, the bilious state passes off,
and then the patient fells extremely well
for considerable time" The same
high authority condemns for persons
suffering with biliousness, rich food, fatty
soups, fried dishes and most forms of
alcohol. He advises but little meat;
commends vegetables, fruit and vegeta-
BILE acids, particularly lemon juice, and
plenty of bread. Severe cases require
medicines for the liver Youths Com
p0aaio4a.