Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1884-03-21
w. P. WALTON.
HEALTH NOTES.

Milk and blood are nearer alike than
any other two fluids large proportion
If each is water. After milk, bread
gtuffs and vegetables are the best diet,
and, in warm climates, FRAT; then
meats. Sugar and fat go into the body,
DOT SO much to nourish it as TO be a fuel
10 give il warmth. Meat contains much
heterogeneous matter, and, if we eat too
mneh of it, there will be, as / have al
ready said, more than the kidneys can
throw Off, 1t is a question whether
Bright's disease is not, to some extent,
attributable to the undue quantity of
meat that is eaten in this country. The
blood should be made of material suited
10 the occupation. Men working in the
woods can throw off anything.
"Cleanliness has been classed as akin
10 godliness. 1t certainly takes high
rank in equalizing the circulation. The
Jockeys appreciate its importance. How
regularly and carefully they groom their
horses Is not man as precious as the
horse? Every man should groom him
self every morning-sponge himself
from head to foot with water the tenn
perature of the room in which he sleeps.
The purpose of wetting the surface is
merely 10 make the friction of a rough
towel more effective as it is rubbed over
the person. You should not sleep in any
garment that you wear by day, and the
room in which you sleep should be per-
fectly ventilated by a fireplace and a
partly-opened window if possible.
"If, after you have observed the rules
of hygiene to the extent that L have in
Dictated, you still have cold feet and
limbs and indigestion and q tendency to
vertigo, plunge your feet in the water as
hot as you can bear it, and keep them
there five minutes. Then put them in
to cold water for second-I don't care
If it is ice-cold. Do as have pointed
out, and keep the bowels open, and you
may safely walk the streets even in the
slush of a January thaw, and bid de-
Gance to the sudden crispness of atmos-
phere that freezes other mems feet"
"Cool head, free bowels and warm
feet" is the old aphorism. If you suf-
fer your feet to get cold you are in
danger Of apoplexy of the brain or OF
the lungs. Cold feet are very likely to
be associated with a sluggish state of
the bowels. The feet are cold because
there is too much blood in one place and
too little in another. Cold feet follow
tho breaking of an equilibrium of the
circulation. Sedentary occupations are
provocative of cold feet If you keep
the skin clean and the bowels free, and
take moderate exercise you will main
tain an equilibrium of the circulation,
and this equalized circulation will keep
the feet warm. When the feet are cold
il is better to warm them with exercise
than at a fire. Look at the woodchop-
per, swinging his arms so that his hands
slap his sides. Thus he carries the
blood to his hands, and it warns them.
That is the best warmth for either the
hands OF the feet.
Why should not men take care OF
themselys at all times-not only in
yellow-fever time and in weather like
that of an average January or February,
but at all times? There is a vast differ
ence between the longevity of men who
take care of themselves and of those who
do not 1t is, as the life-insurance com
pnnies' tables show, as thirty-five is to
about seventy. The man who bows Ia
all the known laws of hygiene not only
lives longer, but is able to enter into all
the joys of life without aches and pains
that insulted nature imposes when in
rebellion.