Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
THE HOME DOCTOR.
OvERHEATED APARTMENTS.

DIR. William A. Hammond warns
against overheated apartments. He
says: can overheated apartment al
ways enervates it's occupants. It is no
uncommon thing to find rooms heated
in winter by an underground furnace up
to 900 Fights and murders are more
numerous in hot than in cold weather,
and the artifcially heated air that rushes
into our rooms, deprived as it is of nat
ural moisture by the baking it has un-
dergone, is even more productive of vi
cious passions. 1t is no surprising cir
cumstance, therefore, to find the woman
who swelters all day in such tempera-
ture and adds to it at night by superhu-
Gus bed-clothing, cross and disagreeable
from little everyday troubles that would
scarcely ruffie her temper if she kept her
rooms at 650 and open the windows every
now and then.
EVAPORATION AND HEALTH.
1t is an inherent property of liquids to
evaporate or become like air, or the
gases, under the influence of heat. On
abstracting the heat they return to the
liquid form. In the former case they
take the heat from the surrounding OBJ
jects, and make them, so far, cold, il
brought back suddenly to the liquid
form, they give out just the amount of
heat they had absorbed. This fact was
recognized in the construction of our
bodies. Millions of tiny streams con-
stantly pour out water on the surface of
the human body, thus regulating it's
warmth and keeping it in health at a
pretty uniform temperature The pores
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thus pour out less; they are dilated by
heat and pour out more. Thus the
sweat caused by hot day, or by too
much Matchmaking food, is conservative.
In fevers this water is not poured out;
hence the high heat and the need of fire.
quently sponging the patient with tepid
water. Hence, too, the danger of sitting
in wet Clothes Youths Companion.
HINTS FOR POOR sLEEPERs.
Poor sleepers will find it advantage
GUS often to raise the head of the bed
foot higher than the foot, and then to
sleep on tolerably thick hair pillow, so
as to bring the head little higher than
the shoulders. The object is to make
the work of the heart in throwing blood
to the brain harder, so it will not throw
so much. A level bed, with the head
almost as low as the feet, causes an
easy flow of blood to the brain and pre-
vents sleep.
Persons who find themselves restless
and unable to sleep at night, would do
well to place the head of the bed toward
the north, as it is undoubtedly a great
conducive to health. A hot mustard
foot-bath, taken at bedtime, is beneficial
IN drawing the blood from the head, and
thus inducing sleep. Sponge the entire
length of the spine with hot water for
ten or fifteen minutes before retiring.
This will often insure a good nights
| sleep. A hearty meal, and seat near
warm fire, after long walk in a cold
wind, will induce deep sleep in the ma
jority of persons, no matter how lightly
| they ordinarily slumber.
| Active outdoor exercise, and avoidance
| OF excessive and long-continued mental
exertion, are necessary in all cases of
| sleeplessness. Where these means fail,
such remedies as are known to diminish
the amount of blood in the head should
be resorted-of course, under the direc-
tion OF competent physician. Opium,
| chloral, etc., increases the quantity of
blood In the head, and are highly inju-
rious. Their use should never be re-
| sorted to-. II. Washington, M. d.