Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-07-27
A PHYSICIANS HINTS.
Directions For the Preservation Of Health
and the Relief of Suffering.

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and the Relief of suffering.
at Is not so much what to do as
what not to do" is the maxim in tho
title page of "a Doctors Don'ts" Be-
low are a few "don'ts" culled from the
volume:
/. Don't ask druggist to prescribe
for you.
2. Don't torture the body with
heavy clothing in summer.
g. Don't forget that moral defects
are as often the cause as they are the
effects of physical faults.
T. Don't read medicine books except
those that teach the intelligent avoid.
ance Of disease.
D. Don't direct special mental or
physical energies to more than eight
hours work each day.
g. Don't allow your servants to put
meat and vegetables into the samc
compartment of the refrigerator.
I. Don't endeayor TO rest the mind
by absolute inactivity; let it seek its
rest in work in other channels and
thus rest the tired part of the brain,
9. 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.
TO- Don't pamper the appetite with
such variety Of food that may lead to
excess
II. Don't sleep in a room provided
with stationary wash-stands.
II. Don't neglect to have your don't
lst examine your teeth at least onca
every three months.
l3. 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.
10. Don't wear pointed shoes, which
have a tendency to dislocate the Sec
ond toe upwards and to produce ulcer
ations, sometimes SO severe that they
demand amputation.
l6. Don't wear shoe the sole oil
which is not broader thpn the outline
of your sole when pressed by your
full weight upon piece Of paper and
marked with pencil.
H. Don't keep the paror dark, un.
less you value yonr carpet more than
your and your chidrcn'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 denizen5 of hot regions,
who quite nationally indulge in the
needed "sicsta."
10. Don't delule 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
s'ecp from 10 III night to in the morn
ing ("beauty s.eep').
2l Don't continue to strive to earn
money when you are advanced in
years; devote the remainder of your
life to entertaining occupations. pref
crab'y for the benefit of humanity at
large, and thus avoid premature death,
Vi l'O1 n"lto l',,I ,t's 90 "HlCH may lcdfc
you helpless imbeeile and Il burden
to others.
%, Don't, under any circumstances,
believe the printed statements OF
"wondcrful cures made by adyertis-
ing Quacks, as they are the results OF
self deceit, deliberate fraud, entirely
fictitious, or the consequence OF a dc
sire to see ones name in print.
%. Don't decry irregular practi-
TONERS us complete humbugs; remem-
Der the homeopathists showed us that
most pneumonias can be cured by sup
porting the patient; the cclcctics taught
us that II is not necessary to poisor
our patients with mercury; and the
dosimetrists showed us the value o
active drugs given in small doses fire
uuently repeated.