Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-09-15
TIE FAMILY DOCTOR.

DYSPEPSIA simply means poor
digestion. 1t is far easier to prevent this
horrible disease by regularity OF meals,
eating slowly, chewing faithfully, and
by the use of q moderate quantity Of
plain, simple and well-cooked food, than
to cure it by drugs.
The SPARE RooM--This room, long
vacated, dark and damp, the bedding
almost noldy, may be good enough
for pirates, whom we may wish to rid
the world OF, but not for our dear friends.
And yet thousands are annually slain
by being kept for night IN such damp
beds, contracting colds too severe to
yield to ordinary treatment.
APPLEs.-A more extensive use OF ap-
pies as food at our meals, remarks DR..
J. 81. hanaford, will do much to dirnln-
ish dyspepsia and biliousness. They are
"looaening," and, therefore, tend to re-
move constipation-a prominent cause
of digestive arrangement. The acid Of
this fruit-one of the very best known in
aud OF digestion-acts favorably on the
liver, causing it to secrete the bile, which
Is natures cathartic. thus preventing
this constipation. While eating them
between meals must derange the stom-
ach-like the use of all food at that
time-they are really . very valuable
food, demanded especially in warm
weather. They may be too cooling in
the coolest weather, while the more
acid berries are better in the spring and
summer.
EAT Your BREAKFAsr FIRsT.-Dr.
Hall Ii authority for the following
thoughts upon breakfasting before much
exercise IN the open air, particularly In
districts where fever and ague are
abundant: Breakfast should be eaten
In the morning before leaving the house
for exercise, or labor OF any kind; those
who do it will be able to perform more
work, and with greater alacrity, than
those who work an hour OR two before
breakfast. Beside this, the average
duration of life of those who take break
fast before exercise or work will be o
number of years greater than those
who do otherwise. Most persons begin
to feel weak after having been engaged
five or six hours IN their ordinary avoca-
tons; a good meal reinvigorates, but
from the last meal of the day until next
morning there Is an interval of some
twelve hours; hence the body, in a
sense, Is weak, and IN proportion can
not resist deleterious agencies, whether
of the fierce cold of mid-winter or
of the poisonous miasm which
rests upon the surface of the
earth wherever the sun shines on blade
of vegetation or heap of offal. This
miasm is more solid, more concentrated,
and hence more malignant, about sun
rise and sunset than any other hour OF
the twenty-four, because the cold of the
night condenses it, and it is on the first
few inches above the soil in its most
solid form but as the sun rises it warns
and expands and ascends to point high
enough to be breathed, and being taken
into the lungs with the air and swallowed
with the saliva into the stomach, all weak
and empty as it is, it is greedily drunk
In, thrown Immediately into the circula-
ton of the blood and carried to every
part of the body, depositing its poison
GUS influence at the very fountaap-head
of life. IF early breakfasts were taken
In regions where chllIs and fever and
ague prevail, and if, in addition, brisk
fire we're kindled IN the family-room fol
an hour, including sunrise and sunset,
these troublesome maladies would dimin-
ish in any one year, not ten-fold, but q
thousand-fold, because the heat of the
fire would rarely the miasmatlc air in.
stantly, and send it above the breathing
point. But it is troublesome" to
build fires night and morning all sum-
mer. It being no ''trouble," requiring
no effort to snlver and shake blythe hour,
weeks and months together.
IT appears from Parliamentary re-