The Opelousas courier., 1883-11-10
MATTERs.

4 indian girl named Olive Chew,
.ebtsen years of age, living on the
~ssoarora reservation in Erie county,
!, = has recently gained her sight
.s.o,,oh asurgical operation performed
: n. Kittinger of Buffalo. She had
saen blind from birth. While yet the
saife was being used, she exclaimed:
.q,ahtl light light I can see" In
,ttsr bewilderment she gazed at her
s.,ds and then at those about her, as
..onrh she had been transformed into
s.other world. Then she was allowed
J. consult a mirror to see. how she
,,,ked. She seemed perfectly dumb
mnnded. and stood in speeches. aston
,shment looking at herself, until for
ia own good she was forced to refrain
rom taxing her eyes and have them
bandaged.
were health associations to effect
Mi Of that which they profess to
undertake, says the New York Nail,
IA sanitary condition Of the civilized
world would be almost perfect. 1t is
hecsuse they effect SO little that no
rest confidence is felt in the utility of
tha proposed international sanitary
commission. The subject of inter-
national cooperation for the prevention
II the spread of contagious diseases
might properly be considered by the
association for the reform and codifca-
son Of the laws of nations at its meet
inc at Milan. After it's investigation
ii Che question a better judgment as
ID the organization of the proposed
eonmission could be formed. If there
Is TO be such an organization at all, it
should be so constituted that it will
have some practical value.
The medical journals publish di-
rections for obtaining sleep on a rail
road train. They are those Of a
German physician, DR.. Outten, who
saws that if a person lies with his feet
toward the engine, the movement of
the car tends to draw the blood from
the brain to the feet, cerebral anamia
is produced, and then sleep; but if he
lies with his head nearer the locomotive
las is the custom in Germany, there
Is produced a cerebral hyperemia,
Incompatible with sweet repose. DIR.
Mcbride of the Milwaukee Insane
Asylum advises exactly the reverse.
He holds that with the feet toward the
engine the blood tends to the head.
In the starting of a train momentum
is first given to the car. Bodies in the
car resist for a moment, and then acquire
the same momentum: but on the least
increase of speed they offer resistance
-they are not disposed to 60 as fast
as the car. A round marble placed on
i board will roll back when the board
il moved rapidly, and he thinks it Is
Ha&
reasonable to suppose that in a human
body the blood constantly offers resls-
lance to the motion of the train
Therefore, with the feet to the engine,
lie blood viii seek the brain. Fol
this reason DR.. Mcbride urges sleeping
with the head toward the engine.
Some of those individuals who are
constantly denouncing as unfit fol
human food articles on which mankind
have thriyed for centuries, have now
discovered that salt is a dreadful thing
to take into ones stomach, and declare
their intention of abandoning its use
70 these persons the London lance
devotes a paragraph, doubtless fearing
that. unless promptly suppressed, theJ
xin organize a society and hold annua
conventions. Common salt" says thu
Lancet lis the most widely distributed
substance in the body; it exists il
sFery fluid and in every solid; and no
only is it everywhere present. but il
almost every part it constitutes TN
largest portion Of the ash when an.
tissue is burnt. In particular it Is
constant constituent of the blood, ant
ltnaintains in it a proportion that !
almost wholly independent of tn
quantity that is consumed with TN
food The blood will take up SO mucl
and no more, however much we ma,
lake with our food; and on the othe
band, If none be given, the blood part
viii Its natural quantity slowly an
uAwillingly. Salt. being Wholesome
aaa indeed necessary, should be take
ihmoderate quantities, and abstentloI
ffem it's likely to be injurious.