Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-07-31


From Halls Journal of Health.
The foundation OF three-iourths of all cases of
consumption is laid before the age of 25 years;
In women. during their teens. The hereditary
element is not of special account a cause of
consumption as less than % per cent of cases
are clearly of consumptive parentage.
One of the ruling causes of disease and pre-
mature death in large cities is found in that
exhausting strain of the mental energies in
the struggle for subsistence-a death-race for
bread.
Insanity runs in families: but, as in the case
OF family likeness, itsometimes overlaps gen.
Grafton or more.
Personal resemblance entails like character
lstlcs of mind and disposition.
current OF the purest air from the poles for
half an hour on a person sleeping, sitting STILL
or overheated, is a thousandfold more destruc-
tive OF health and fatal to life than the
noisomeness of a crowded room or vehicle or
the stencil of a pig-sty for thrice the time.
To exercise in WEAKNESS increased nv every
step, is not only not beneficial is useless and
worse than useless: 1t is positively destructive
AS no good traveller, after having ted his
slow walk, gradually increasing his pace, so in
getting up to address an assembly for a contin-
ued effort the first few sentences should be
uttered i'll a low, slow tone, gradually intensi-
fled, otherwise the voice will break down in a
D Dels few minutes with coughing or hoarse-
A growing inability to sleep in sickness is
OminOus of a fatal result; in apparent health
1t indicates the failure of the mind and mad
ACSo, So, Ou tIc OGueI MANU-, III UlScstSc or de-
mentia, very slight improvement in the
sleeping should be hailed as the harbinger OF
restoration.
No one can possibly sink If the head is thrust
entlrely under water, and In this position q
novice can swim as easily as walk, and get to
shore readily by lifting the head at intervals tor
breath.
Intense thirst is satiated by wadirg in water
or by keeping the clothing saturated with
water, even ii it is taken from the sea.
Water cannot satisfy the thirst which attends
cholera, dysentery, diarrhea and some other
forms of disease; in fact, drinking cold water
seems to increase the thirst and induces other
d1sagreeable sensations; but this thirst will be
perfectly and pleasantly subdued by eating
comparatively small amount of ice, swallow
Ing 1t in as large pieces as practicable and as
much as is wanted.
determinations are more safely and far more
agreeably subdued by the application of warm
water than of cold.
Very excessive effort in a short space of time,
as In running or jumping q rope, ETC., has re-
peatedly caused instant death by apOplexy of
the lungs, the exercise sending the blood there
faster than 1t can be forwarded to the heart
ana Iaster than 1t can be purified by the more
lnITequent breathing on such occasions.
NO disease ever comes without q cause or
without warning; hence endeavor to think
Dack IOr the cause, with u view to avoid it in
future, and on the instant OF any unpleasant
peared, at least for twentyfOur hours If still re-
manning, consult a physician.
Inc more clothes a man wears the more bed
clothing he uses, the closer he keeps his cham
Der, the closer he confines himself TO his house,
the more readily will he take cold, as the more
thrlftless youth is helped the less able does he
become TO help himself