The Osceola times., 1883-03-03
SCIENCE AND HEALTH.
DR.. roote,s Health Monthly.


A Maryland medical journal has re-
lated case of fatal tetanus, or Iockjaw,
following vaccination in strong man OF
forty years.
II is reported that club of business
men has been formed in New York,
pledged to slow eating at lunch. A good
movement.
Poor stock for brccding.-A couple liv-
ing near Reading, Penn, that have had
two dwarf children born blind and un-
able to walk or talk.
T.. c. Walker has become associated
with NJ. Harman in the editorial and
business management Of The Kansas
Liberal, published at Valley Falls, Kan
sas.
Signor Torelli who has published a
map illustrating the prevalence of ma
laria in Italy, ascribcs its prevalence to
the destruction of forests and the inter-
ference with drainage by railroads.
The council of public health Paris,
after studying into the question of the
digestive powers of children report that
cod-livcr oil and other such fatty prepa-
tions are of disadvantage 10 young chill
drcn; that they impair the digestive
functions and, being Of no use, are in the
way.
A IIindoo will not tell lie under the
sacred peepul tree and, accordingly, it is
related that at Ulwar the Hindoo shop
keepers refuse 10 take lodgings on a
street where the English government
propose TO plant rows of the peepul tree
for shade, asking: "How can we do busi-
ness under those trees?"
Oliver Wendell Holmes says there are
three times in mans life when he may
properly consider himself the centre of
attraction At his christening, his mar
riage and his funeral. DIR. Holmes has
retired from the professorship of Anato-
my.in the Howard Medical College after
occupying the chair for thirty-six years.
A German physician speaks highly of
the use of soft soap as local application
for sores or glandular swellings, assesses,
discharping canals and cavities. felons,
etc. 1t is not new remedy by any
mems, but one which seems likely 10 be
neglected where it might be of real ser
vice. Quite pleasant preparation can
be made by dissolving the soap in lit
tie cologne water.
A physician who has been using bovine
virus for vaccination for number of
years with what he considers average
success, complains of being annoyed by
the extensive Inflammation which IT
seems to produce. lie has seen large
sloughs with four or eight weeks of sup
puration and, in a few cases, with an ab-
scess in the axilla. But "what is still
more deplorable is the prejudice this oc-
casioned against vaccination, the parents
declaring in future it would be omitted,
they prefcrring the chances of small pox
rather than have their children thus
tortured"
NJ. Paul Bert saw at Geneva curious
specimen of humanity that would be
worth fortune to a Bowery museum or
travelling show. 1t was child five year.
old, or somewhat more than one child
for il had two heads, two chests and -four
arms, but only one abdomen and one
pair of legs, the fusion of the two bodies
into one occurring about the waist Each
head has control of the leg on its own
side. The two faces are much alike, and
the two intellects already understand
several languages. The food which one
takes does not satisfy the hunger of the
other, and they eat and sleep alternately
One has had fever without the other
being i'll.