The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-01
Health Hints,
How to preserve and Restore the
Health.

How to preserve and Restore The
Health.
A Portuguese doctor asserts that b,
has cured eve cases of hydrophobis
by rubbing garlic into the wound, ant
giving the patient a decoetion of garlic
to drink for several days.
1t is only ten years since cholera wa,
epidemic in the United States. In
1843 it was very general throughout the
Mississippi valley, there being over 7,O0t
cases in nearly three hundred localities,
and less than half recovered. The New
York TIN. es says: Doubtless there is no
sufficient cause for any present alarm.
And yet it cannot be questioned that
the ways of cholera are even more
mysterious than those of yellow fever.
The poison is easily concealed and is
most portable, and there 10 no certain
limit of time to its vitality, SO that in
these days of easy travel and immigra-
ton no locality is entirely secure
against attack. Thus, in 1873, three
distinct centres of the disease were
established at so remote points as towns
in Ohio, Minnesota and Dakota from
poison brought by immigrants from
Holland, Sweden and Russia. The
ships were perfectly healthy, and so
were the people, until their goods were
unpacked in the heart of this country,
in the cool north and remote west.
Then the disease broke out in most
virulent form. The inference is that
not merchandise but luggage needs the
most careful attention. Cholera is
neither infectious, nor contagious, nor,
in this country, the result of local con-
ditions as, for instance, yellow fever
may be. The only way in which it is
expected to reach the United States is
by the importation of its peculiar
poison contained in the elections of a
sick person and carried in clothing, etc.
When the packages are opened the
dried particles which may have sur
vived during heat, cold, moisture and
lapse of time, may be breathed or
swallowed. Is can thus be seer what a
problem quarantine against cholera is.
Hot AND COLD DRINKs.-A cores
pondent of Knowledge calls attention to
of the disadvantages Of hot drinks.
Cold drinks, he says. are natural to man,
though most people nowadays are $ o
used to hot drinks, that they do not
feel satisfaction-really stimulation
unless they have them. Hot drinks are
injurious to the tongue, for they deaden
its sensation, and, after taking hot soup
drink, the tongue becomes quite
numb and unable to taste the finer
flavors of a dish. The teeth are greatly
INJURED by them, and many dentists say
carries decay is due to them alone,
They crack the enamel and thus allow
carries to set in. When carries has once
set in hot drinks are a common cause of
neuralgia. Hot drinks are especially
hurtftl to the stomach. They cause
irritation of the nerves of the stomach
and consequent mild inflammation of
that organ, so that after a hot drink the
stomach is red and c~ongested in time
debilitated condition is set up. A
temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit
also destroys the active feiment of gas
trio ju:ce-pepsin-and so leads to indi.
gestion. If the stomach is at all dis
ordered, hot drinks give rise to much
gripping pain. and in many cases to
vomiting. In cases of diarrhea, too,
hot drinks only increase it, while cold
ones tend to lessen it. Thirst is not
common in winter, unless sugary or hot
spiced foods have been taken. In cold
weather the air contains more moisture
than in hot, and in cold weather there
is less perspiration. Hot drinks in
crease the volume of heat in the body
and, if that is not required, it is quickly
got rid Of by the skin. Water is the
best thirst quencher, but if simple food
be taken the need of drinks will be
small. Many yegetarians drink moth
ing from month to month, the only
fluid they get being the juices of the
fruits which they eat. But pleasant
drinks, like tea, coffee, etc., may be
taken lukewarm for a long time with
little apparent damage. The least in
furious is cocoa, made with plenty of
milk and allowed to stand until nearly
cool. A good test is to apply the little
finger to the drink, and if it be not too
hot, then it may be safely taken,