Connecticut western news., 1885-11-11
THE FAMILY PHYSICIAN.
Trutbx TerneIv Put.

Truths TerseIy Put.
 1. 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 her editary element is not of special account as a cause of consump- tion, as less than 9 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 TUT in families; but, as in the c lse 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 a thousane fold more de- structive of health and fatal to life than the noisomeness of a crowded room or vehicle, or the stench of a pig style for thrice that time.
 2. To exercise in weariness, 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. 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 con- tipued effort, the first few sentences should be uttered in a low, slow tone, gradually intensified, otherwise the voice will break down in very few minutes with coughing or hoarseness.
 g. A growing inability to sleep in sickness is ominous oi 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 hamburger 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.
 II. Intense thirst is satiated by wading in water, or by keeping the clothing saturated with water, even if taken from the sea-
 12. 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 1T as large pieces as practicable and as much as is wanted.
 13. Intlammations are more safely and far more agreeably subdued by the application of warm water than O. cold.
 IA. Very excessive effort in a shor space of time, as in running or jump ing rope, etc, has repeatedly caused instant death by apoplexy of tn lungs, the exercise sending the blooc there faster than it can be forwarde' to the heart and faster than it cal be purified by the more infrequen breathing on such occasions.
 15. No disease ever comes withou cause or without warning; henc endeavor to think back for the cause with view to avoid it in future, ant on the instant of any unpleasan bodily sensation cease eating until i has disappeared-at least for twenty four hours if still remaining, consul a physician.
 | 16. The more clothing a man wear: the more bed clothing he uses tn closer he keeps his chamber, the close he confines himself to the house, tn ) more readily will he take cold, as tn more thriftless youth is helped tn less able does he become to help him . self