Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-05-19
HEALTH NOTES.

To relieve severe coughs, mix equal parts
of hoarhound, elacampane root, comfrey
root, spikenard and wild cherry bark. Boil
in one gallon of soft water down to one
quart, then strain and add one pound OF
honey. Take tablespoonful three times
a day, or when the cough is troublesome.
We notice that the members of Bicycle
Club in Los Angeles exercised themselves
recently in journey to Santa Monica, sew
enteen miles distant, and performed the
ride in an hour and quarter. We have
nothing to say against moderate exercise
on the bicycle, but the club went too fast
and too far for good on the occasion cited.
If frequent excursions of the kind are in
contemplation, the club had better alter its
name to the Grave Yard Club, or Death
Race Club, or something of the kind.
Pacific Medical journal.
The Sanitarian recommends for the puri-
fication Of the air in the sick room to
place in the bed small basket or other
porous article, containing wood charcoal
for the purpose of absorbing the foul air,
which, if diffused throughout the surround.
ing atmosphere, would be constantly re-
turned to the lungs and cause the patient
to die OF auto infection. q In sick room
in which infants are sleeping, it is necessa-
ry to put box or basket containing quick
lime and some wood charcoal, for the pur-
pose of fixing the carbon;c acid exhaled
from the lungs and of absorbing all the foul
air generated in the system and given off by
exhalation from the skin or otherwise"
The aim of exercise, says the London
Lancet, is not solely to work the organism
10 int ifrJ fhnunh that
is one, and very important, part OF the
object in view, because as the living body
works it feeds, and as il feeds it is replen-
ished but there is another purpose in ex-
ercise, and that is to call into action and
stimulate the faculty of recuperation. The
difference between being accustomed to ex-
ercise and able to work without feeling
it," and being barely able to accomplish a
special task, and having il taken out" of
one by the exploit, whether mental or
physical, is the difference between possess.
ing the power of rapid repair by nutrition,
and not having that power in working or
der-so that some time must elapse before
recovery takes place, and during the inter.
val there will be fatigue" and more or
less exhaustion. Exercise with view to
recuperation should never so much exceed
the capacity of the recuperative faculty as
TO PROSTATE the nervous energy. The work
done ought not to produce any great sense
of fatigue. If Exhaustion" be expert
enced, the exercise has been excessive in
amount. The best plan to pursue is to be-
gin with moderate amount Of work, con-
tinued during brief period, and to make
the length of the interval between the cas-
sation of the exercise and the recovery of
a feeling of " freshness" the guide as to
the increase OF exercise. We do not mean
that false sense Of revival which is some
times derived from the recourse to stimu-
lants, but genuine recovery after a brief
period of rest and the use Of plain nutriti-
Gus food. II this simple rule were carried
into practice by those who desire TO grow
strong" there would be less disappoint-
ment, and generally better result, than
often attends the eadeavor TO profit by ex-
ercise uninteiligently employed.