The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1885-04-02

A physician connected with one of the
hospitals in New York where children
receive special attention, says that many
of the cases of spinal trouble brought to
his notice are the direct result Of the
careless handling of baby carriages. The
matter of how nurses and others handle
| these little vehicles is one to which par
ents may we'll pay attention.
A New Orleans doctor calls attention
to very simple fact which merits atten-
ton from medicine takers. If the medi-
cine is mixed with very cold water, and
few swallows of the water be taken as
preparatory dose. the nerves of the
organ of taste become sufficiently be-
numbed to make the medicine nearly
tasteless. The method will not disguise
bitter taste, but acts well in oils and
salines.
"Undoubtedly the oldest apple trees
west of the Missouri river" says the
Lewiston (Idaho) Neus fare those on the
Alpowai. Some of them are over foot
in diameter. These seeds were brought
out by the Rev. Mr.. Spaulding, the mis-
sionary who was stationed at Lanwai
many years ago, and the father of Mrs,
Eliza Warren, the first white children
born on the Pacific slope, and who visited
this city last fall, in the year 1885,"
That standard publication, the Gal
manack de Gotha," for 1885, shows that
Norway has the smallest number of in
habitaIts to the square mile, with Rus
sia second of oil the countries of Europe
Portugal has !, ,084 women to every 900
men, the largest preponderance Of any
country. Germany comes next with
1929 women to every! 1000 men. The
greatest surplusage Of men is found in
Greece, where to eveEH /, 900 men there.
art. only DOG EFomen.rsft = '-'-e, - - :
Some speculative individual has pro-
| mulgated queer story about eyes, bv
| which one can be made to see without
them. His theory is to place piece OF
copper above the tongue and one OF zinc
beneath it, and then by closing the eyes
and letting the tips of the pieces of
metal touch each other flash of light
can be detected. The eyes do not sec,
but the sensation of seeing is a vivid
one, and the impression thus transmitted
to the optic nerve, and thence to the
brain, would, with blind persons, answer
the same purpose as eyes.
When Grover Cleveland became Presi-
dent of the United States he lacked
fourteen days of being forty-eight years
old. Only one younger man has been
inaugurateG President, and that is Grant,
who lacked some six weeks of being
forty. seven years old when he entered
the White House. Franklin Pierce was
three months over forty-eight, and Ar
thur and Garfield were each trifle less
than fifty. All the other Presidents have
been older, William Henry Harrison,
with his sixty eight years, being the
oldest of them all at taking the oath of
Office.
A young American surgeon has lately
received high honors in Belgium. This
is Francis w. Strain, graduate of the
Jefferson Medical college. of Phiiadel-,
phia, and surgeon of the Red Star
steamer Nordland. He lately removed
from the face of q lady connected with
the court of Brussels tumor which had
defed the skill of the royal physician.
In recognition of his skill, the young
surgeon has been elected an honorary
member of the Royal Society of Surgeons
in Belgium, and has been presented with
a royal gold medal, appended to a fac
simile of King Leopold's crown and
colors.
Mrs Alice n. Lincoln is one of the
most energetic, practical and business
like women in Boston. She is also one
of the wealthest. She has magnificent
home in Commonwealth avenue and
possesses an income of about ST., 900 a
year. She has always taken great in
tcrest in sanitary matters and since the
newspapers began their crusade against
filthy tencments she has been running
tenement houses in the worst parts of the
city. The places were about 10 be
vacated by the board of health on ac-
count of their unhealthy condition, when
Mrs. Lincoln rented them, made needed
repairs and improvements, and let the
apartment to respectable poor people.
| While in one sense the work is Il bencvo-
lence, she conducts her houses on strict
business principles, visiting them fire.
quently and making all the rent collec-
tions herself. Thus far she has come
out with fair profit. The scheme is
now hobby with her, and she is bar
| gaining for the notorious Crystal
palacc."a very ancient and filthy bar
racks in the South Cove, where thieves,
hoodlums and debauches make their
headquarters.
A hospital intended for the charitable
treatment of ali forms Of nervous disease
and such mild forms OF mental disease rs
can be rescued by medical skill from the
horrors of an insane asylum, has been
started in Brooklyn. Singular to say, it
is the first institution of the kind in the
world. The study of nervous and men,
tai diseases is the latest of all the
specialtics. The importance and fire.
quency of the diseases have been over
looked by the public and even by the
physicians. Curious as it may seem, the
most frequest cause, among persons who
have had their lives insured is from
nervous disease In other words, nervous
disease is the most frequent or the Sec
ond must frequent cause of death among
the most industrious. provident and in
tclligcnt of the community, being only
surpassed in fatality by zymotic, tuber
cular and respiratory diseases. Not
only do deaths from nervous disease oc-
cur most frequently among the indus
trious and healthy, as the experience of
the life insurance companies would seem
to demonstrate, but they also occur with
increasing frequency during the most
active years of life, the curve of fire.
oucncy rising between the a5th and 3Qth
! years and continuing to riss to 70.