The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1888-06-28
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AMONG THE DOCTORS.
Important Information on . Variety o.


Important Information on . variety Of
Medical Topics.
DR. Underwood. the customs modic-
al officer at Kin.Kiang. attributes the
comparative immunity Of the Chinese
in that region from typhoid fever
Notwithstanding that most. Of the
factors favoring tho disease arc pres
cnt in abundance-to tho fact that
''cold, unboiled water. is rarely or
mover used when toa Can bo had"
The explanation is simple: A boiling
temperature destroys the typhoid
poison.
Having investigated sixty-thrpe
cases Of excessive use of tobacco. De-
caisne finds forty-nine to DO over fifty
years Of ago. In thirty-scven cases
the smokers pursued the habit fasting,
and in these vertigo was present,
especially In the morning. Sometimes
the vertiginous symptoms have been
confounded with those duo to cerebral
congestion, and even to heart disease.
injections of ether simultaneously
appeared TO stop the vertigo in few
minutes.
Vitally important rs tho knowledge
may be. 1t is not always easy in cases
Of wounds of the abdomen to deter
mine whether the intcstines havo boen
injured. DR.. Nicholas Sem. of Mil
waukeo, startled the surgical section
of the American Medical Associa-
ton with ono experiments in
tended to show the valuo OF
hydrogen in the diagnosis Of such
wounds. Eaemata of the gas were
given to the dogs for few minutes.
and It was then ignited at the animals
noses; stab wound was thon inflict-
cd. and it was ignited ut the point of
puncturc. In like manner a pistol
shot wound was diagnosti Gated. The
innocuousness Of the gas itself was
affirmed and demonstrated. The ex-
periments were looked upon rs Of tho
greatest significance, and DR.. Sonn
was heartily congratulated.
A subcommittee of tho American
Medical Association on the subject of
infant feeding offers tho following rs
useful rules: l. In the case of infants
deprived Of breast-milk the artificial
substitute should correspond as noar.
ly rs possible to human milk. 2.
Cows milk corresponds to breast.
milk in most respects. but its caseine
should be broken up. SO rs not to CO.
agulate in large masses in tho stomach.
A portion of milk should be fl rst pep
tonizod and then added to fresh milk.
8. Raw starch is inadmissible, and the
practice of adding 1t to fresh milk is
wrong. Fully-digestod food for either
adults or infants Is bad for the digcs-
tive organs. 4. All nursing bottles
should be boiled several times day
in order to destroy the germs Of do
composition. Desiccated (partly pep
tonizedD milk is ofton q convenient
and efficient substitute for mothers
milk.
For every death from small -pox in
the United States during tho last third
Of q century there have been six from
scarlet fever; and for every death from
cholera during the same period there
have been twenty-five from typhoid
fever. There is. 1t Is true, no such
known and tested method Of prevent
ing scarletf fever rs vaccin alton certain
ly furnishes for smallpox. but much
could be done to limit tho ravages of
the red pestilence than has yet been
attempted; and in the case of typhoid
fever-that is as absolutely prevent
able rs any contagion. 1t is rightly
called tho "typical filth disease" and
Its prevalence in community Is an
unerrinG indication of the most dis
gusting form of water pollution.
Sanitarians and health officers and
the exponents of preventive medicine
generally would do well tc devote
more attention to these diseases which
have become domesticated with us
rather than expend their energies
so exclusively upon tho exclusion of
Asiatic cholera, yellow fever and other
exotic pcstilences. Chicago NeiOs.