Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-07-18
A FEW DoNT's.

| Don't smoke Immediately after meals
4 Don't take animal food more than twice
tally
Don't fear to open your eyes under salt
| water
Don't read in stree, cars or other jolting
/ vehicles
1 Don't drink green tea. and use black tea
Moderately.
! Don't average more than twenty-fou
ounces Of fluids daily.
| Don't let your entire food exceed thirty
four ounces in twenty -four hours
! Don't nurse child under month Of age
oftener than every hour and half
Don't feed a child 3 months old oftener than
every three hours and twice at night
Don't attempt to clean the ears with any
thing but the tip OF the little finger
Don't imagine that the eyes can be benefited
by holding them open under fresh water
Don't forget that healthy persons generally
lose weight in winter and gain in summer
Don't read. write or do any delicate work
unless receiving the light from the left side
Don't eat much meat, and increase its guam
tity only gradually, when convalescng from
fever.
Don't allow your servants TO put meat and
vegetables into the same compartments Of tho
refrigerator.
Don't infer that chewing tobacco Is the
most injurious method Of using the weed: the
contrary u true
Don't wear high heels; women who wear
them publicly advertise the fact that they
seek or wish to maintain serious internal
troubles
Don't conclude that a child needs food each
time it manfests hunger. Try to assuage
thirst by several teaspoonfuls Of boiled and
cooled water
Don't hold a child in commissions in your
arms, but strip it quickly and mmerse it in
hot bath to which a tablespoonful Of mustard
has been added
Don't seek relief for burns by the use OF
cold water; if nothing else is obtainable use
warm water; better still. keep the part wet
with sweet oil.
Don't believe that your baby mus. be sick
during its second summer; II you take proper
care of it its second summer should be more
satisfactory than its first.
Don't allow a patient with collie to suffer
until the physician arrives: give large injec-
tons two quarts Of warm water with ten
drops-edult dd>e-of tincture Of opium
Don't permit child under 5 to remain out
Of bed AFTER p. IN, even II you have to
forego your most sacred social duties or miss
most brilliant first night at the theatre
Don't wear dark clothes in very cold
weather because Of the readiness with which
they eliminate body heat; the Russian and
Siberian great coat is invariably Of light
gray color
Don't imagine that sunstroke heat prostra-
.iOul follows exclusively exposure 70 the sun
The same may be produced by excessive heat
even ut night, especially when the person is
much fatigIed
Don't mistake weight for warmth In cloth
ing; feeble people NAV be worn down by
heavy clothing and yet be less sheltered than
those who wear light WOODEN fabrics, both az
Inner and outer garments,
Don't eat pork When it is absolutely un-
nvOidable 10 do 80. it should be rendered
harmless b. being exposed to strong heat
long enough to he converted into A decided
gray color, even to its innermost part
Don't believe that one attack of q cnmmuni-
cable disease protects against another The
writer treated gentleman, aged n. who had
two distinct sets Of smallpox pits. and this
third attack was Of a cJnhuent characterJ
Don't lose your head when with cases Of
bleeding from the lungs; they very rarely
prove immediately fatal Prop the patient up
10 bed and give him small pieces Of ice TO
swallow and . quarter Of a teaspoonful Of
tincture Of ergot every hour until your ply
sician arrives-From six Hundred Medical
Don'ts~