Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-07-03
ILLS THAT FLESH is HEIR Tn.
Some Notes Regarding the Prevention
and Cure Of Disease.

Drainage is said to have diminished deaths
from consumption in Vermont one-halI
The peculiar acid which exudes from the
pores of the body acts directly upon leather
and takes the ''life" out, rendering it stiff and
hard. In q pair OF shoes recently returned to a
prominent manufacturer the uppers were
moist with sweat, the soles dry. The kid
leather. when it hardened, was SO brittle that
It could be torn and cracked like paper The
destruction was caused by Precipitation of the
feet New shoes from the same maker and of
the same material, were perfectly sound and
Protective incubation against yellow fever is
being tried extensively In the Mexican army.
a MI. Barnes writes to the London Standard
OF his being cured of eczema by applying snails
to the part affected.
geoD, urgently recommends cremation. So
does Sir Henry Thompson.
Duke Karl Theodore, of Bavaria, is q skilled
among poor people gratuitously. Among the
rest he has attended to 137 cases OF cataract,
In the Bulletin Generate de 7herape,sio,... DIR.
pecholier points out the remarkable fact that
the half dozen drugs generally regarded by
more nor less than germicIdes. such conciu.
sion, II fully demonstrated, would be consid-
cred strong conhrmatory evidence in favor OF
the germ theory Of disease. The specifics named
by Pccholier are iodine, mercury, Quinine, sui
phur and arsenic.
In a recent address before the American Medi.
cal association, DIR. Didama, while giving due
credit to investigators believed that bacteriol-
oSy bad furnished little help to the art of heal
been even modified by the discovery OF the
bacillus, and the former still carries off one.
BEEN M bv fhs ME new remedy had
micrcbe. The acid treatment OF cholera was
employed with some success years before it
shaped like comma. Ague yielded to Jesuits'
bark ages before the bacillus malaris was
dreamed OF, and the knowledge that germs
N has mot 11nd,
to our ability to manage it.
A London doctor has published some curious
lie and professional men. He found that the
average age at death Of the TWENTY-FIVE most
prominent American statesmen during the last
number OF English statesmen was 20 years
practically the same. He thought the latter did
more IN work ~ e. an advanced age The difference
can political life was brought out by comparing
the ages at death OF members OF THE British par
gress who died between 1850 and 1854 Ofour
senators, 50 gave an average of 81 years. 146
ass averaged 55 years, and the av
parliament averaged 90 years at Death.
1t VIII be remembered that q Paris physician
secrets, because, in defending the Character of
q. aead patient, he explained the true cause of
his death; The same physician was more re-
give the usual certificate of the cause Of death
In one OF his patients. This he declined to do
ssbetray
fessional secret" AS it stands the quarrel is an
interesting one,
:, Il does not appear that the moderate use of
Opium eaters there are 1t is true but they are
few. Opium smoking is almost unknown: nd
OPIUM OPIUM when smoked Is as a rule. smoked by q
box, q uny box OF silver, Is as common in Persia
as the snufi,box was once with u.s. Most men OF
They take from a grain to a grain and a hair
divided into two pills, one I'm the AFTERNOON and
one ct night. Travellers, too, almost invariably
The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal re-
lates that a man suffering from Indigestion tried
being npon 20 to n s5p% Put
be tossed I'm blanket every other morning for
q Fortnight he recovered his health. The Iedi-
old J0fh Jacob Aston, when too feeble to stir
aronA4 was regularly subjected TO this treat
Deaths. nom consumption in England and
" aaeS ate on the decrease. The number from
lS8U, % 1870 averaged over 5000 annually,
Population Of q, AIS S. SCI. 0e' was A'''io In
sr the eminent
people, that three-fourths of the nutriment
matters they eat are from the animal Kingdom
one-fourth only from this source and three,
Iourthg from vegetable s0urces--would "tend |
TO maintain . cleaner palate, q lighter and |
ious employments OF active life.n
some french green grocen have just been
convicted and fined for using . dye called /
eosine 70 make their stock OF tomatoes Q deep
rel Tb en G snscs'S,s; NOR ss saI.his
thing anomalous IN an age which Is at one time
charged with cultivating muscle at the expense
Of mind, and At another with forcing the brains
end neGleottng the bodies q the rising genera.
tion." A yudtctous care Of both brain and mus
Gle would be common sense solution OF the
difficulty.
Dr.Zulinski hes published in Warsaw medi-
cal journal the result Of long series of expert
ments made by him on both human beings and i
animals, witn view OF verifying the physio.
logicai eneco OF tobacco smoke. He found
that II ts distinct poison, even in smail doses.
Upon men IT'S actaon q very slight, when not
become powcrfultf the snoker got into the
habit, Is some DC, Of swallowing the smoke.
The cigar smoker abeorbs more poison than the
cigarette smoker, and the latter than those who
smoke pipes while the smoker who takes the
peecauuon q using nasghilie, or any other
Apparatm which conducts the smoke through
wster, reduces The deletsnous efects 70 . mimi