Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1885-11-13
TIE FAMILY PHYSICIAN

Truths Terseiy Put.
/. The foundation of ee-fourths OIL
all cases of consumption is laid before
the age of 25 years; in women, during
their teens.
?. The hereditary element is not oi
special account as a cause of consumP-
tion, as less than 25 per cent. of cases
are clearly of consumptive parentaSe'
3. One of the ruling causes OF di-
sease and premature death in large
cities is found in that exhaustIng |
strain Of the mental energies in the
struggle for subsistence dealh-race
for bread.
A. Insanity rurs in families; but
as in the Use of family likeness, II
sometimes overleaps a generation or
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 a thousane fold more de
structive of health and fatal to life
than the noisomeness of crowded
room or vehicle, or the stencil of a 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 hay
ing fed his horse. rcnews his journey
in trot, but with a slow walk, gradu-
ally increasing his pace, so in getting
up to address an assembly for con
tinued effort, the first few sentences
should he uttered in a low, slow tOne,
gradually intensified, otherwise the
voice will break down in a very few
minutes with coughing or hoarseneSs.
8. A growing inability to sleep III
in apparent health, it indicates the
failure of the mind and madness; 50.
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 il
the head is thrust entirely under
water, and in this position novice
can swim as easily as walk, and get 10
shore readily by lifting the head at in
tervals for breath.
IL. Intense thirst is satiatrd bv
wading in water, or by keeping the
clothing saturated with water, even il
taken from the sea.
II. Water cannot satisfy the thirst
which attends cholera, dysentry, diar
rhpa 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
a as large pieces as practicable and as
> much as is wanted.
49, Innammations are more safely
Q and far more agreeably aubdued By
:. the application of warm water than o
. cold.
:, ID. Very excessive effort in a shor
space of time, as in running or jump
Il ing a rope, etc, has repeatedly cause.
instant death by apoplexy of th
lungs, the exercise sending the bloo'
" there faster than it can be Forwarded
to the heart and faster than it cal
:, be purified 10y the more infrequen
breathing on such occasions
l, Is. No disease ever comes withou
a cause or without warning; henc
- endeavor to think back for the caus'
with a view to avoid it in future, an
10 on the instant of any unpieasan
~ bodily sensation cease eating until
70 has disappeared--at least for twenty
!, four hours if still remaining, consul
le a physician.
{. 16. The more clothing a man wear
Ia the more bed clothing he uses; II
closer he keeps his chamber, the clost
9y he confines himself to the house, II
le more readily will he take cod, as II
r. more thriltless youth is helped Il
I'd less able does ne become to help hin
s. self