The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-06-09
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0t az things SAD the iaitiily pllysi-
ctan'to q young married woman OF my
acquaintance solieitous ABOUT tie wei.
fare Of her offspring Of ali things
never take the advice q experllsene'esl
mcthefs IN the inst place, no Two q,
them VIII agree ABOUT anyining ana
your mind VIII be kept iirsettied ai the
time, Then, 4 they DO agree, what g
true o. Their children may not e ~ ~
uueloiiyoars Hut she pleeqqeds are
mot measles and tnimI and whepplni
cough, and oil those dreadful things very
muchithe same N nil cases (, they aie
never precisely tho sane, ne INSISTED,
i'm any two case, either as 70 origin, o.
symptcnis, or treatment Indicated uo
not you know be added. Ethat what 4 (
one ntens meat y another mana
polsonr Hi9
lssonetimes scum as 4 'inssead OF llie
Old neiicalm cast'iron, we Ind
come upon new method soI nninig
VARIATION each doctor asks his patient
50 many questions and consalh me IN
diridual pecuhahties 50 much, that he
seems almost 70 request i a. 2 favor OF
eachi INST 70 mdicalsi what medicine
ne needs and then TO take 4 AS civili-
Satlon advances, indiyiauahtles develop
ana science grows more humelei y
studies instead Of debating, On my
eauaoning alady AZ a party me other
evening against a second cup oi strong
cotee, and advising chocolate as bet
Ter sleeping drapgllt she informed mo
that she was 50 constituted as TO 90 kept
awake Dy chocolate ana put % sleep py
coffee She too has a family OF young
children, part ol whom probably inherit
thls trait, and tlie othen tile more ordln-
ary habit and such a direct diSergenese
might wei run through the whole
physical structure How then, can any
one method Of treatment possibly suit
them all!
It's really very tnconvcnient. ltwcild
be mich easier u everybody needed the
same tmng, was reached BY the same
medicine, Needed the same advice but
what are we to do about III ! knew o
conscientious mother who had two chill
dren o. about the same age, and both IN
the high school-a boy and girl. the
boy hated study, and the girl studied
herself I'LL; yet they were inseparaole
companions Ut home and could rarely
oe caughtapart TO lecture them separately
when ! dwell said the poor
mother, "on tic Importance Of study,
do II Tor Eddies benefit but he never
heeds II, and Emily takes 1t 20 heart
and studies harder than ever. u re.
nlohsuate with her on the danger OF
oyerwors, she keeps on Just the same,
but Eddie takes that part OF the advice
to himself, and assures me that he viii
never hurt himself with books The
meat for one was the poison Tor the
other. a3. 8
The the stress laid Of late years on
what It Is now the fashion to call -hered-
ity' comes In to limit the value Of the
best advice that we could give one an
other. In one Of Bret Harte's burlesque
novels be makes Victor Hugo lay Il down
as the key 70 human progress, Educate
yoltf gtandh'otherI' and we allncw rec
ognihe the need OF adapting the training
Of each person to his or her inheritance.
FOR young girl whose parents died OF
consumption we prescribe an outdoor
life instead Of indoor needlework.
a young man whose father and grand.
father died Of heartdiSease would
te cautioned against rowing boat
mces. On the same principle you can
not deal with o boy who has IN his very
Dl0od the hereditary craving after strong
drinS as you would deal with the scion
u sober race The heaven that lies
about US IN our infancy does not spread
rs tnil heaSenliness over the poor, terri
DIE little jesse Pomeroys born with tho
hotnlcldal mania strong IN them. Just
when the world too hastily fancied itself
outgrowing what tho pious Scotch
woman called the glid aud doctrine %
original SIN, the fact itself looks at US
Unexpectedly in the recorded history Of
the Jlikes family, with its 200 criminals