Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-25
HEALTH NOTES.

Among the last acts of the HYGIENE
Congress was a denunciation of the modern
system of education and competitive ex-
aminations as eminently prejudicial to the
health of those subjected to it.
From the report Of smallpox hospital
near London it appears that an unvacci-
mated child runs a risk of death from
smallpox more than six times as great as
the child who has undergone the harmless
operation necessary to protect him from
that disease.
If in the window shutter of dark room
you open 4 small aperture and look in the
Jet Of light as it streams through the room
you will discover that the air is full of
floating notes. The air OF our houses, says
bio Lewis, is always crowded with them.
In their ordinary condition they are not
mischieyous, but after they have been ex-
posed to contact with a heated surface they
do poison Us. Millions of these carbonized
particles come from the stove or furnace to
poison our lungs and blood
DR.. DUBUQUE, OF Pau, recommends as a
preventive of cholera the strengthening OF
the endothelial and epithelial systems by
the daily administration Of two doses OF
| % grain Of pure tannin prepared with
ether. His curative method consists in re-
storing the circulation by copious intrave-
nous injections Of an artificial serum tc
which should be added one grain per liter
Of pure tannin. Perhaps his views were
the most important of those communicated
on the subject Of cholera to a recently ap.
! pointed special committee of the Academy
OF Sciences Paris.
The importance and necessity of venti-
lation Is illustrated by the following cx-
pertinent of Bernard's: A sparrow was
placed in glass globe, Theoretically sealed
| For an hour there was no change. but al
the end Of that time it began to show thai
| il was suffering from breathing air thai
had already passed through its lungs
/ After another hour n second sparrow wa
placed in the globe 1t seemed stunned
and died in q few moments. The first bird
at the end of the third hour, dropped APP
parently dead. Taken ont into the fresl
air and sunshine it revived, but bein.
again placed in the globe it instantly tot
tered aud died. The process OF asphyxia-
ton in badly-ventilated rooms is gradual
if it were sudden people would die, as did
the second sparrow.
The cry for rest has always been louder
than the cry for food Not that it ismor,
important, but it is often harder to obtain
The best rest comes from sound sleep. Q
two men or women, otherwise equal, thI
one who sleeps the best will be the mos
moral, healthy and efficient. Sleep vii
do much to cure irritability of temper
peevishneSs and neasineSs, viii restore t.
vigor an oyerworked brain. 1t will builC
up and make strong weary body. ltwil
cure headache. Indeed, We might maxi
a long list Of nervous and other maladie'
that sleep will cure. The cure of sleep
lcssness requires n clean, good bed, suffi
Gent exercise to produce WEAKNESS, pleas
ant occupation, good air and not too warn
Il room, a clear conscience, and ayoidanc,
| of stimulants and narcotics For thos'
who are oyerworled, haggard and nervous
who pass sleePless nights we commend the
adoption Of such habits as shall seeur,
sleep; otherwise life will be short, ant
what there is of it will be sadly imperfect
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