Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-01-17
PREVENTABLE PAINS.
PHYSICAL SUFFERING BROUGHT ON
BY OUR CARELESSNESS.

BY OUR CARElESSNESS.
Headaches and Their Cause-Colds in the
Head-Tortures of the Toothache-Ca-
tarrh and Throat Trouble-The Amer
lean Misunderstanding Bad Air.
How large proportion of our pains
are unavoidably necessary? 1t is not eX-
travagant to say that folr-tifths of all
Che aches and pains of humanity are
brought on US by our recklessness and
heedlessness. / would set down one
half Of these to bad fashions, and the
other half to carelessness in our habits
Suppose we begin at the head and go to
the feet. Headaches are rarely, if ever,
known by savages. They are rarely, II
ever, known by children brought up on
fruit and cereals. They are mostly de-
pendent on impaired digestion, over
loaded stomaclls and kindred abuses; or
to hot, close rooms, and breathing car
donated air. \ cure for headache is ra-
tional diet, abundant exercise, good ma
ture and pure air. should add one more
cause.-the habitual exhaustion of the
system by abuse and intemperance.
| have tried the experiment with chill
dren, and find that if from their infancy
they are prevented from mdulGIng In
cakes and pastries, and are Induiged N
an abundance of ripe fruits, cereals.
milk and pure sugar, they never know
what headache is. The sitting and
poisoning effect of bad air, Of close and
Overheated rooms, is understood better
than it was one generation ago. Colds
in the head are not caused by a draught
OF cold air if we are not first overheatcd,
and made unduly sensitive to common
fresh air. In addition, or in connection
with the causes above named, our liter
ary classes also are compelled to endure
a vast amount of brain trouble from the
lack of good sense in their habits Oh
study They should simply let their
brains rest while their stomachS are at
work, and their stOmachs rest while
their brains are at work.
TooTHACHE AND DYSPEPSIA.
But we cannot leave the head when
we leave the brain case, for there are
years Of agony in nearly every man
mouth history. The decay Of teeth ma :
not be wholly preventable with cur pres
ent heredity, but | am positive that nine
tcnthS of our tOOthacheS are preventative
By proper care from the outset. Decay
in teeth begins at a very early age, and
plest means. The cause is not always
neglect of cleanliness, but it is aciditY OF
the stomach, caused by improper food.
A thoroughly sound digestion should lie
secured for every child. 1t is the one
duty that precedes morals, because a dys-
peptic child cannot be a saint. Church
and Sunday school should be preceded
by the toothbrush, and catechism Is moro
than counterbalanced by cake and pas
Try.
The majority of Americans suffer from
catarrh The disease is preventablc.
even in our worst climates, like that ci
Boston. It is almost invariably the con-
sequence of q neglected cold. Throat
diseases follow in the same line. The
throat should be clothed. Notwithstand,
ing what many physicians urge to thc
contrary, there is no reason why tho
neck should go bare, except when swad
died for ride in winter. Cur A1neri
can typical neck is q long one. 1t car
close to the surface. The ordinary scarf
and collar leave the neck almost eli
tirely uncovered. The old Fashioned
stock was better. The modern linen col
lar is little better than nothing; it SHOULD
be dispensed with.
WOODEN FOR THE NECK.
Wooden is quite as necessary for tht
neck as for the chest. The same tubes
reach through, or into, both. Why
should the lower end be abundantly
clothed, and the upper end exposed
Consumption generally begins at thu
throat unless it be caused by general de
should demand of our clothiers is class O
wrappers and shirts that can be brough
we'll up about the throat. From the Is
of October to the list of June | wear al
extra flannel collar, made to button Owe
the other flannel shirt collar and theI
turned down over a scarf. 1t thorough.
protects the throat and meets every re
quirement of the case; is both soft ant
warm, and neat. 1t is all important tina
the throat be relieved from the gross IL
ritation of fashionable collars which
scratch and poke at all points. Indeed
if you will consider, there is not q par
of the body SO roughly and unkindl,
heated as the throat. Starched neck
wear is fit only for fools.
Our lungs viii easily take care of them
selves, and of all the rest of the body
if warmly clothed with wooden and pro
tected from foul air. l am compelled, a
n physician, to breath air that woul'
not be able to live in by the hour. On
house in ten is properly mountaineering
more than that. Country houses MANI.
depend on the opening of doors. Wors
of all is the air breathed at night. Eithe
the room is kept closed, and the foulnes
is breathed over all night, or.the window
is left open. and the lungs must use Arc
tic air at night while all day accustome'
to the hot atmosphere from stoves. Oh
no account should the lungs be compellet
to brace themselves to frigid air at night
Very many colds are caught by these ex
treInes. and one may count to Ger
tainty that, if practiced. the end will b
catarrhs, bronchitis or consumption
81. Maurice, NJ. d., in Globe-Demccrat