St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1884-11-06

Her friends reproved her for sleeping
in the same room with her plants; but
the years came aud went, and she was
still found moving among her flowers
in her S0th year, surviving those, who
for many years before predicted her
demise. as the result of her impTudence.
Who will say but what the exhalation
from her numerous plants increasing
the humidity of the atmosphere in
which she lived prolonged her life 7
The above is bat one of many cases i'll
which tuberc lar consumption has
been arrested aud sometimes wholly
cured by working among plants for Il
considerable time. We know of cases
in which druggists, ministers, and stu
dents from school, were compelled to
relinqush their chosen vocation on ac-
count of failing health, resOrted to the
nursery or hOt-house. In almost ev-
cry instance restoration to. vigorous
health was the result. We contend,
therefore, that this old superstition
that house plants are injurious To
health, is nothing but a myth. James
Sheelan in American Agriculturist.
1t is true that many infants are un-
dertcd. This may occur from poverty,
or from any other cause that hurts the
quality of the milk that is given. But
more are hunt by too much feeding
than 10y too little feeding. Systematic
moderation in feeding is as beneficial
for the infant as the grown person. 1t
lessons their digestive troubles, and,
consequently the great mortality that
is due III considerable part to the diar
Iheal and other diseases caused by eX
ccssive feeding. We have in this
country no effective birth registration
upon large scale, so that we cannot
tell what proportion of infants survive
their first year. But in New York city
! the, death registration, which is care
| fully made, shows that in any given
year from one-third to fourth of
| the whole number of deaths are of in
: fantS less than one year old. During
/ the five years 5000 more than half
of the deaths in Philadelphia were of
children under one year. Now more
! than Il half of the infant deaths i'll New
aud Old England are caused by dis
eases of the digestive organs and the
argument derived from the practice of
/ those who have tried the plan of regu-
lar feeding is 4 strong one, for they
report immunity from disease as IL re-
suit. No hard aud fast rule, of course,
can be laid down in these matters. y
! good approximate rule is five or six
feelings in the - hours, one late at
night and one early in the morning 4;
but no night waking and no broken
sleep for the mother on this account.
have seen the happiest results follow
this system i'll practice, As to the
measured amount that may be given,
two or three cups per day are enough
for most infants until they are five OF
six months old, this much will be per
frctly digcStcd more may be, but two
or three cups is Il safe average Ii
tus Mumson COan i'll llarper's Weekly.
TO increase the power of resistance
of the human organism To the attacks
of malaria, So that the suhduing of ma
larious soils might not prove fatal to
those engaged in it, has been the prob
lem to which for several years DIR.
Crudcll, professor of hygiene i'll the
university of Rome. has devoted him
self He has for the last three years
employed arsenic in very minute doses
with satisfactory results, as have also
other physicians associated with him.
The general testimony of all the facts
collected tends to prove that when the
administration of arsenic is begun
some weeks before the presumed sea-
son for the appearance of the fever,
and continued regularly throughout
the whole of this season, the power oi
resistance of the human organism ia
malaria is increased. Many individu-
ais gained thereby IA complete immnnl-
ty, others partial immunity, and
though sometimes attacked by the
fever, it never assumed il pernIcious
form, and was easily subdued by very
moderate doses of quininc. This mode
of treatment is safe only in the hands
of an intelligent and skiltul physician
The lemon has for generations beer
used 10y some Italian families for cur
ing malarial fever. one lemon, peel ant
all, is cut into thin slices, put in three
glasses of water and the whole boiled
down to one glassfu. 1t is strained
through linen, cooled, and the whole
amount of the liquid is taken fasting
In Italy, Greece and North Africa
lemon juice of the decoction of lemon
seeds is used rs IA remedy in malaria
tevers of moderate intensity. In eau
daloupe decoction of the bark of the
roots of the lemon tree is used for the
same purpose. A distinguished medi-
cal practitioner tried the first prepare.
ton of the lemo.i as above described
and succeeded in promptly curing III
obstinate malarial fever which haC
: resisted the action of quinine.- Sci
entiiic American.