The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-09-13
A PHYSICIANS HINTS.
Directions For the Preservation OF Healt
and the Relief of Suffering.

Directions For the Preservation of Health
and the Relief of suffering.
at is not so much what to do as
what not to do" is the maxim in the
title page of "A Doctors Don'ts." Be-
low are few .sdon'ts" culled from the
volume:
l. Don't ask druggist to prescribe
for you.
2. Don't torture the body with
heavy clothing in summer.
3. Don't forget that moral defects
are as often the cause as they are the
effects of physical faults.
f. Don't read medicine books except
those that teach the intelligent avoid
ance of disease.
5. Don't direct special mental or
physical energies to more than eight
hours work each day.
6. Don't allow your servants to put
meat and vegetables into the same
compartment of the refrigerator.
Z. Don't endeavor to rest the mind
by absolute inactivity; let it seek its
thus rest the tired part of the brain.
8. Don't neglect to constitute your
self public protector by thrusting in
| to the gutter every banana or orange
| peel you may encounter on the side
walk.
9. Don't neglect any opportunity to
| insure variety of food.
10. Don't pamper. the appetite with
such variety of food that may lead to
| excess.
IL. Don't sleep in room provided
with stationary wash-stands.
IA. Don't neglect to have your dent
ist examine your teeth at least once
every three months.
Ii. Don't eat or drink hot and cold
things Immediately in succession.
| IA. Don't pick the teeth with pins
or any other hard substance.
| Is. Don't wear pointed shoes, which
have tendency to dislocate the Sec
ond toe upwards and to produce ulcer
atiOns. sometimes so severe that they
demand amputatiOn.
| Is. Don't wear shoe the sole of
which is not broader thin the outline
of your sole when pressed by your
full weight upon a piece of paper and
marked with pencil.
II. Don't keep the parlOr dark, un-
less you value yonr carpet more than
your and your children's health.
Is. Don't hesitate to avail yourself
of every opportunity to rest at mid
day during hot weather. Follow the
example of the denizens of hot regions,
who quite nationally indulge in the
needed 'siesta."
10. Don't delude yourself into the
belief that you are an exception as far
as sleep is concerned; the normal aver
age of sleep is eight hours.
20. Don't miss an opportunity to
sleep from 10 at night to 6 in the morn
ing (''beauty sleepy.
81. Don't continue to strive to earn
money when you are advanced in
years; devote the remainder of your
life to entertaining occupations, pref
erab'y for the benefit Of humanity at
large. and thus avoid premature death,
or perhaps paralysis. which may leave
you eIpless imbecile and a burden
to others.
%. D0n't, under any circumstances,
believe the printed statements of
wonderful cures made by advertis-
ing quacks. as they are the results of
self deceit. deliberate fraud. entirely
fictitious, or the consequence of de-
sire to see ones name in print.
%. Don't decry irregular practi-
TONERS as complete humbugs; remem-
Der the homeopathists showed us that
most pneumonias can be cured by sup
porting the patient; the eclectics taught
us that it is not necessary to poison
our patients with mercury; and the
dosimetrists showed us the value of
active drugs given in small doses fire.
quently repeated.