Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-08
TRUTHS rERsELv PUT.
How Sickness and Addiction May b
Avoided.

How Sickness and Addiction May be
Avoided.
/. The foundation of three.fourths Of
all cases of consumption is laid before
the age OF twenty-five years; in women
during their teens.
2. The hereditary element is not of
special account as a cause of consume
ton, as less than twenty-five per cent.
of cases are clearly of consumptive par
entage.
3. One of the ruling causes of disease
and premature death in large cities is
found in that exhaustive strain of
mental energies in the struggle for sub.
sistence, q death-race for bread.
4. Insanity run in families; but, as
in the case of family likeness, it some.
times overlaps a generation or more.
5. Personal resemblance entails eAI l;,-a
characteristics Of mind and disposition.
3. A current of the purest air from
the poles, for half an hour. on person
sleeping, sitting still or ovcr-heated, is
a thousand-fold more destructive of
health and fatal to life than the moi
someness OF a crowded room or vehicle,
or the stencil of a pig-stye for thrice
the time.
q. To exercise in WEAKNESS, increased
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 having
fed his horse, renews his journey in a
trot, but with a slow walk, gradually
increasing his pace, so in getting up to
address an assembly for a continued
effort, the first few sentences should be
uttered in a low, slow tone, gradually
intensified, otherwise the voice will
break down in a few minutes with
coughing or hoarseness.
3. A growing inability to sleep in
sickness is ominous of a fatal result; in
apparent health, it indicates the failure
of the mind and madness; so on the
other hand, in disease or dementia, a
very slight improvement in the Sleep
ing should be hailed as the harbineer
of restoration.
10. No n can possibly sink if the
heads thrust entirely under water, and
in this position a novice can swim as
easily as walk and get to shore readily
by lifting the head at intervals for
breath.
II. Intense thirst is satisfied by wad-
ing in water or by keeping the clothing
saturated with water, even if taken
from the sea.
IL. Water can not satisfy the thirst
which attends cholera, dysentery, diar-
rhGa and some other forms of disease;
in fact, drinking cold water seems to
increase the thirst and induce other
disagrceable sensations; but this thirst
will be perfectly and pleasantly SUBJ
dued by eating a comparatively small
amount OF ice, swallowing it in as large
pieces as practicable and as much as is
wanted.
13. determinations 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 jumping
a 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
by the more %infrequent breathing on
such occasions.
Is. No disease ever comes without
cause or without a warning; hence en-.
deavor to think back for the cause, with
a view to avoid it in the future, and on
the instant of any unpleasant bodily
sensation, cease eating until it has dis
appeared, at leastfor twcnty-four hours;
if still remaining, consult a physician.
16. The more clothes a man wears,
the more bed-clothing he uses, the
closer he keeps his chamber, the closer
he confines himself to his house, the
more readily will he take cold, as the
more a thriftless youth is helped the
less able does he become to help him.
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