Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-14
HEALTH NOTES.

Victor st. Paul has placed SIS, 900 at the
disposal of the Paris Academy OF Medl'
cine, as q prize to any person, whatever
may be his vocation or nationality, VINO
shall succeed in discovering an infaillole
means of curing diphtheria.
The Wisconsin State Medical Society,
during it's recent annual session, passed
resolution virtually declaring consumption
to be an infectious disease, and urging the
necessity of the proper isolation and disin.
lection of those suffering from it.
Quinine is said to be decreasing in de-
mand at the West prominent Chicago
firm reporting that weekly sales are nth
of those few years ago; circumstance
due to the disappearance of malaria as
farms are drained and land cultivated. Ma
laria is certainly increasing in New Eng.
land.I[ Boston Traveller.
The difficulty of dealing effectively With
| leprosy in India is that it is hereditary, and
| 1t was not until years that a rational sys.
TEN of treatment was adopted with the
lower order of natives. Now the isolation
which had been practiced with this terrible
disease since the days of Moses and proper
hospital care may in generation abate
the evil.
The temperature for a bath is the one
which feels agreeable and comfortable, and
not the one that feels hot or cold. vi
course these may be necessary in certain
cases. As rule a bath may last as long
I as it is agreeable. This may be one minute,
five minutes, or longer. Those who have
| accustomed themselves to hot baths may
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accustom themselves to cold or cool bath.
Herald of Health.
While Professor Tyndall's doctrine that
cholera germs are bred in the human in.
testines may hold good, DR.. William B.
Carpenter, the English Psychologist, shows
that such germs may have other breeding
places. He gives three remarkable in
stances in which the outbreak of cholera,
or at least of the almost equally fatal
choleraic diarrhea, was directly traced tc
offensive piggeries, to an imperfect drain
in marshy ground, and to compost heap
of unnamable filth in an unused yard.
DR.. Eastman, in the Western Medica
Reporter, beseeches the "doctors, philan
thropists, sanitarians, and all others inter
ested in humanity, to teach on all proper
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carrying load of feces in the bowel unit
it is absorbed and it's odor escapes
from the emunctories of the skin, or add
to the not infrequent unpleasant aroma o.
the human breath" 1t is proper here tt
add that, to sustain perfect health, every
human being should observe the above
hint and clear the body at least as often al
once in every twenty.four hours.
DIR. Brenner advocates exercise in thu
high, fine air of mountains as the bes
protection against the diseases contracted
in city life. The characteristics of tn
mountain climate are the low TEN
perature and air pressure the Low
relative humidity the high per cent
of ozone; the strong light and in
solation; the freedom from dust ant
bacteria. All these act well on the bodil,
health. The lungs work with create
strength, the heart beats faster, the bloot
circulates mere quickly, appetite is in
creased, Precipitation becomes freer, tn
muscles become more energetic, and tn
whole body gains in strength and endur