The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1882-03-04
than by observing. the following laws
and suggestions from good authority.
Care of the Feet

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The Scientific American saws:
Many are careless in the keeping OF
the feet. If they wash them once a
week they think they are doing well
They do not consider, that the largest
pores are located in the bottom of the
foot, and that the most offensive matter
is discharged through the pores. They
wear stockings from the beginning to
the end Of the week without change,
which become perfectly saturated with
offensive matter. Illlhealth is gener-
ated by such treatment of the feet.
The pores are not repellants, but abb
sorbents, and this fetid matter, to a
greater or less extent, is taken back
into the system. The feet should be
washed every day with pure water
only, as we'll as the arm.pits, from
which an offensive odor is also emitted,
unless daily additions is practiced.
Stockings should not be worn more
than day or two at time. They
may be worn one day if necessary"
The Science Of Health says: Never
go to bed with cold feet. Never try to
sleep without being perfectly certain
that you will be able to keep them
warm. To lie one night with cold
feet, gives such a strain to the system
as will be felt seriously, perhaps end
ing 10 fit of Sickness" Cold feet
show an unbalanced circulation. The
veEy best thing to do is to warm them
by Exercise, if that be practicable. If
not, Try dipping them in hot and cold
water alternately, two or three times,
and then using vigorous friction. If
that does not warm them, and keep
them warm, heat them before the fire,
drying them thoroughly, and then
correct your habits or improve your
health; for be sure that one or the
other is wrong perhaps both.
No part of the human body is so
much neglected as the feet. Possibly,
not over ten in each hundred, of even
the educated classes, properly cleanse
the feet and nails. Battle the feet
every night and morning with little
borax in the water. Ammonia and
bay rum, though cleansing, have
tendency to dry the skin and close the
pores. Frequent change of hosiery is
more necessary than changing any
other part of the clothing. After ply
steal exercise, remove stockings, bathe
the feet and anoint them, the ankles,
and the calves of the legs, with heal
ing oil and salve. Exchange the socks
worn through the day for clean ones
at early evening, and the brain will
quickly respond to the restoring in
fuence. 1t would be much better to
neglect to wash the face for an entire
month than to neglect to battle the
feet a single day. Pare the nails once
a week, and, only after softening by
bathing, remove the quick, which
gathers under the nail, every third
day, before it putrefies. Never use
cheap or highly perfumed soap, rs it
has q tendency to dry and parch the
skin, and SO close the pores as to prove
very injurious to health. CASTLE,
olive oil, and other vegetable Oil soaps
are the best for the iesh.-[E x.
Keep Your Feet Warm.
To keep these extremities warm is to
effect an insurance against The almost
interminable list of disorders which
spring out of a Slight cold" First,
never be tightly shod. Boots or shoes
when they fit closely, press against
the foot and prevent free circulation
of the blood. When, on the contrary,
they do not embrace the foot too
tightly, the blood gets fair play, and
the spaces left between the leather and
the stockings ale filled with comfor-
table supply Of warm air. The second
rule is, never sit in damp shoes. 1t is
often imagined, that unless they are
positively wet, it is not necessary to
change them while the feet are at
rest. This is fallacy; for when the
least dampness is absorbed into the
sole, it is attracted further to the
foot itself by its own heat, and thus
Precipitation is dangerously checked.
Any personsmay prove this by trying
the experiment of neglecting the rule
and his feet will become cold and
damp after few moments, but on
taking off the shoe and warming it, it
will appear quite dry.
If your feet sweat too much, battle
them occasionally liz tepid water to
which has been added teaspoonful
or two of spirits of ammonia-enough
to make the water feel oily. If this
does not cure you apply little fannie
acid instead of the ammonia, which
you can procure at any druggists.
Battle your feet in spirits of ammonia.
e that fails, use tannic acid. 1t is
highly recommended to harden the
feet and prevent excessive nersnira