Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-10-10
HEALTH NOTES.

Pasteur's great discoveries, says the San.
aGridn, in cultivating the germs Of disease
until the latter growths become mild, and
then planting them in the system by inoc.
ulation, are abundantly proved. The prac-
teal results on animals show, for instance,
that out of $4,000 vaccinated sheep ex-
posed 20 disease called "charbon IN
France, only SIS died, whereas for the ten
preceding years the average was nearly
5000.
Mrs. II. NJ. Lewis, of The Weekly
FGrH.er, has written pleasantly and sug-
gestively of discouraged young woman,
who, having worse than wasted her sub
stance on doctors and druggists. at last
had the good fortune to meet true friend
of sense, who plainly told her she had
fooled away time and money enough IN
the demoralizlng atmosphere of medicine,
shut out from the fullness and life OF Gods
sunshine and pure air. So Horticulture was
prescribed as certain and pleasant
panacea "Try cultivating the petunia in
the highest style of art. Search the
catalogues and get the best seeds and
plants. After that. prepare the soil let
it be rich leaf mold and guano. Stir and
work it all yourself, and before the
summer you will be as well as any of us.
In sheer desperation, and with feeble
faith, she acted on this hint, advanced by
easy stages, and is now healthy and happy,
and, naturally enough, enthusiastic about
the chosen plant which was the agent of
her rescue. a friend who started in the
nursery business with one acre of land,
and now has 400 acres devoted to all man.
ner OF ornamental plants. said in recent
note TO US: "If women, and men, too,
would spend more time in the open air,
with little light labor, there would be
fewer doctor bills to pay. l should not
have been here to-day had led an indoor
life. OF this | am assured. u Weekly
Tribune.
Way oysters should be eaten raw is ex-
planned by Dr. William Roberts in his lee
ture on digestion" He says that the
general practice of eating the oyster raw is
evidence that the popular judgment upon
matters of diet is usually trustworthy.
The fawn-colored mass, which is the deli
cious portion of the fish, is its liver, and is
simply mass of glycogen. Associated
with the glycogen, but withheld from &C.
tuai contact with it during life, is its APP
propriste digestive ferment-the hepatic
diastsse. The mere crushing of the oyster
between the teeth brings these two bodies
together, and the glycogen is at once di-
gessed without any other help than the
diastase. The raw, or merely warmed
oyster is self-digested. Bat the advantage
of this provision is wholly lost by cooking,
for the heat Immediately destroys the asso-
ciated ferment, and a cooked oyster has to
be digested like any other food, by the
eaters own digestive powers. My dear
sir, do you want to ruin your digestion ,"
asked Professor Houghton, of Trinity Col
lege, one day of friend who had ordered
brandy and water with his oysters one day
in Dublin restaurant. Then he sent for
a glass of brandy and glass of Guinness
Xxx, and put an oyster in each. In short
time there lay in the bottom of the glass
of brandy tough, leathery substance, re-
sembling toe finger of a kid glove, while in
the porter there was hardly trace Of the
oyster TO be found.-[The Caterer.