The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-11-05
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.

Truths Terseiy Put.
!. The foundation of three fourths Q
all cases of consumption is laid befor
the age of 25 years; in women. durin
their teens
| 2. The hereditary element is not 0
special account as cause of consump
tion, as less than 25 per cent. of case
are clearly of consumptive parentage
3. One of the ruling causes of di
sease and premature death in larg
cities is found in that exhaustins
strain of the. mental energies in tn,
struggle for subsistence-a death rae,
for bread.
4. Insanity rur in families; but
as in the case of family likeness, i
sometimes overleaps a generation o.
more.
5. Personal resemblance entails
like characteristics of mind and dispo.
sition.
6. A current of the purest air from
the poles. for half an hour, on a per.
son sleeping, sitting still, or over
heated, is thousane fold more de.
structive of health and fatal to life
than the noisomeness of crowded
room or vehicle, or the stencil of pig
style for thrice that time.
z. To exercise in WEAKNESS, in
creased by every step, is not only not
beneficial, it is useless and worse than
useless; it is positively destructive
8. As no good traveller. after hav-
ing fed his horse. renews his Journey
in a trot, but with a slow walk, gradu.
ally increasing his pace, so in getting
up to address an assembly for a con.
tinued effort, the first few sentences
should he uttered in a low, slow tone,
gradually intensified. otherwise the
voice will break down in very few
minutes with coughing or hoarseness.
9. A growing inability to sleep in
sickness is ominous OF fatal result;
in apparent health. it indicates the
failure of the mind and madness: so.
on the other hand, in disease or de-
mentia, a very slight improvement in
the sleeping should be hailed as the
harbinger of restoration.
10. No one can possibly sink if
the head is thrust entirely under
water, and in this position a novice
can swim as easily as walk. and get to
shore readily by lifting the head at in
tervals for breath.
II. Intense thirst is satiated by
wading in water, or by keeping the
clothing saturated with water, even if
taken from the sea.
IL. Water cannot satisfy the thirst
which attends cholera, dysentry, diar-
rhea and some other forms of disease
in fact, drinking cold water seems to
increase the thirst and induce other
disagreeable sensations but this
thirst will be perfectly and pleasantly
subdued by eating comparatively
small amount of ice, swallowing it in
as large pieces as practicable and as
much as is wanted.
Is. lnfammations are more safely
and far more agreeably subdued by
the application of warm water than Of
cold
IA. Very excessive effort in short
space of time, as in running or jump
ing rope, ETC., has repeatedly caused
instant death by apoplexy Of the
lungs, the exercise sending the blood
there faster than it can be forwarded
to the heart and faster than it can
be purified by the more infrequent
breathing on such occasions.
Is. No disease ever comes without
a cause or without warning hence
endeavor to think back for the cause,
with view to avoid it in future. and
on the instant of any unpleasant
bodily sensation cease eating until it
has disappeared-at least for twenty
four hours if still remaining, consult
a physician.
l6. The more clothing a man wears,
the more bed clothing he uses the
closer he keeps his chamber, the closer
he confines himself to the house, the
more readily will he take cod, as the
more thriftless youth is helped the
less able does he become to help him
,elf