Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-28
SANITARY PRECAUTIONS.
Points that May Save Doctors Bill
and Much Trouble.

From HqlFs Journal At HealM.
The foundation OF three fourths of all
the cases of consumption is laid before
the age of % years; in women, during
their teens.
The hereditary element is not ofspeciai
account as cause OF consumption, as
less than % per cent. of cases are clearly
OF cOnsumpliye parentage.
one of the ruling causes Of disease and
premature death in large cities Is found
in that eXhausting strain OF the menlaI
energies in the struggle Tor subsistence
a death race for bread.
Insanity runs IN families, but, as In the
case OF family likeness, 1t sometimes
OYerlaps a generation or more.
Personal resem blance entails like char
aCteristics Of mind and disposition.
A current OF the pureSt ar from the
poles for half an hour on person sleep
ing, sitting still, or OYerheated, is thou
sandlOid more destructive OF health and
fatal 10 life than the nOlsOmeness OF
crowded room or vehicle. or the stencil OF
pig-sty Cor thrice the time.
10 exercise in WEAKNESS, increased by
every step, is not only not beneficial, it is
useless and worse than useless; it is
positively destructive.
AS no good traveller, after having fed
but with a slow walk, grad lally increas-
ing his pace, so in getting up to address
an assembly for continued effort the
first few sentences should be uttered in a
low, slow tone, gradually intensified,
otherwise the voice Will break down in a
very few minutes, with coughing or
noaTseness.
A growing inability to sleep in sickness
is ominous of a fatal result; in apparent
health 1t indicates the failure of the mind
and madness: go, on the other hand, in
disease or dementia, a very slight i'm
prOyement in the sleeping should be
hailed as the harbinger of restoration.
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 al intervals for breath.
Intense thirst is sattated by wading in
water, or by keeping the clothing satura-
ted with water, even 1t it is taken from
the sea.
Water cannot satisfy the thirst which
attends cholera, dysentery, diarrhGa 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 per-
tcctly and pleasantly subdued by eating
comparatively small amount of ice,
swallowing it in as large pieces as prac-
tlcNble and as much as is wanted.
lntlammatiOns are more safely and far
more agreeably subdued by the applica-
ton OF warm water than of cold.
Very excessive effort in short space
of time, as in running or jumping 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.
No disease ever comes without cause
or without warning; hence endeavOr 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 disappeared, at least
for twenty-fOur hours; sUill remaining,
consult a physician.
The more clothes man wears, the more
bedclothing he uses, the closer he keeps
his chamber, the closer be confines him.
self to his house, the more readily Will he
take cold, as the more thrlItless youth
is helped the less able does he become TO
help himself.