The Springdale news., 1889-08-23
A PHYSICIANS. HINTS.
Directions For the Preservation of Health
 and The HeIicf nf snfferinCA

and the Relief of Suffering'
 Tt 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 'don'ts" culled from the volume:
 1. Don't ask druggist to prescribe for you.
 2. Don't torture tho 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.
 7. Don't endeavor to rest the mind by absolute inactivity; let it seek it's rest in work in other channels and thus rest the tired part of the brain.
 & Don't neglect to constitute your self a 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 a variety of food.
 10. Don't pampcr the appetite with such variety of food that may lead to excess.
 II. Don't sleep in room provided with stationary wash-stands.
 II. Don't neglect to have your dent- ist examine your teeth at least once every three months.
 IS. Don't eat or drink hot and cold things immediately in succession.
 Ii. Don't pick the teeth with pins or any other hard substance.
 l5. Don't wear pointed shoes, which have d tendency to dislocato the 7ec- ond toe upwards and to produce ulcer ations, sometimes so severe that they demand amputation.
 l6 Don't wear shoe tho sole Of which is not broader than the outline of your sole when pressed by your full weight upon piece of paper and marked with pencil
 l7. Don't keep the parlor dark, un- less you value yogr carpet more than your and your childrcn's health
 1S 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 rationally indulge in the needed "sic-ta."
 l9. Don't dclude yourself into the belief that you arc 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 slecpD.
 2l. Don't continue to strive to earn money when you arc advanced in years; devote the remainder of your life to entertaining occupations. prof- crabIy for the benefit of humanity at large, and thus avoid premature death, or perhaps paralysis which may leave you helpless imbcciIe and a burden to others,
 r. Don't under any circumstances, believe the printed statements of wonderful cures" made by adyertis- ing quack., as they are the results of sclf deceit, deliberate fraud. entirely fictitious, or the consequence of de sire to see ones namc in print.
 23 Don't dccry irregular pranti- tioncrs as complete hnmbugs; remcm- bor the homcopathists showed Us thai most pneumoniae can be cured by sup porting the patient; the eclectic. taugh' us that if is not necessary to poi7or our patients with mcrcury and th, dosimetriat~ showed Us the value q active drugs given .a small doses .~ qucntly repeated.