Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1885-11-04
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
Truths Tersely Pvt.

Truths TerseIy Put.
l. The foundation of three-fourths OF
all cases of consumption is laid before
the age of 25 years; in women, during
their teens.
2. The hereditary element is not of
special account as cause of consump-
tion, as less than % per cent. Of cases
are clearly of consumptive parentage.
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-a death race
for bread.
4. Insanity rurs in families; but,
as in the clse of family likeness, it
sometimes overleaps 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 per-
son sleeping, sitting still, or over
heated, is 4 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.
7. 70 exercise in WEAKNESS, in
creased by every step, is not only not
beneficial, it is useless and worse than
useless; it is positively destructive.
s. AS no good traveller, after hay
ing fed his horse. renews 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 lie uttered in Il low, slow tone,
gradually intensified. otherwise the
voice will break down in a very few
minutes with coughing or hoarseness.
9. A growing inability to sleep i'll
sickness is Cminuus OF a fatal result;
in apparent health, it indicates the
failure of the mind and madness; so,
on the other hand. in disease or de-
mentia, 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 novice
can swim as easily as walk. and get to
shore readily by lifting the head at in
tervals for breath.
IL. 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. lnhammations are more safely
and far more agreeably subdued by
: the application of warm water than Of
cold.
IA. Very excessive effort in a 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 hy 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
a on the instant of any unpleasant
0 bodily sensation cease eating until it
Q has disappeared--at least for twenty
four hours if still remaining, consult
o a physician.
: 16. The more clothing man wears
@ the more bed clothing he uses ; thu
closer he keeps his chamber, the closer
y he confines himself to the house, th'
Q more readily will he take cod, as th'
r. more a thriftless youth is helped th'
d less able does he become to help him
l. self.