Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-22
A DOCTORS DON'TS.
flow to Preserve Health and to
 Relieve Suffering.

Don't Eat Pork-Don't Drink Groen Tea- 1 Don't Tako Animal Food Oftoner Than
 Twico a Day-Don't Road | After Dinner.
 From "Six Hundred Medical Don'ts," by | Fred C. Valentine, NJ. D.: Don't give Q child any sweets, except molasses candy or chocolate caramels, and these only very rarely.
 | Don't permit child under five to remain out of bed after eight D. m., even if you have to forego your most sacred social duties or miss Q most brilliant first night at the theater.
 Don't nurse a child under one month of age oftener than every hour and a half.
 Don't feed a child three months old oftener than every three hours and twice at night.
 Don't conclude that child needs food each time it manifests hunger. Try to as- suage thirst by several teaspoonsful of boiled and cooled water.
 Don't believe that your baby must be sick during it's second summer; if you take proper care of it it's second summer should be moro satisfactory than it's first.
 Don't hold child in convulsions in your arms, but stripit quickly and immerse it in a hot bath to which a tablespoonful of mus | tara mas been aOQeO.
 Don't allow a patient with colic to suffer until the physician arrives; give large in- jections (two quarts of warm water with tenhrops ps-adult dose-of tincture of opium)
 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 lose your head when with cases of bleeding from the lungs; they very rarely prove immediately fatal. Prop the patient up in bed and give him small pieces of ice to swallow and quarter of 8 teaspoonful of tincture of ergot every hour until your phys sician arrives.
 Don't imagine that sunstroke (heat pros- tration) follows exclusively exposure to the sun. The same may be produced by ex- cessive heat even at night, especially when the person is much fatigued
 Don't eat pork. When it is absolutely unavoidable to do so, it should be rendered harmless by being exposed to strong heat long enough to be converted into decided gray color, even to it's innermost part.
 Don't drink green tea, and use black tea moderately.
 Don't allow your servants to put meat and vegetables into the same compartments of the refrigerator.
 Don't eat much meat, and increase it's quantity only gradually when convalescing from fever.
 Don't take animal food moro than twice daily
 Don't average more than twenty-four ounces of fluids daily.
 Don't let your entire food exceed thirty four ounces in twenty four hours.
 Don't infer that chewing tobacco Is the most injurious method of using the weed the contrary Is true
 Don't smoke immediately after meals. Don't forget that healthy persons gen. erally lose weight in winter and gain in summer
 Don't wear dark clothes in very cold weather because of the readiness with which they eliminate body heat; the Rus sian and Siberian great coat is invariably of a light gray color.
 Don't wear high heels; women who wear them publicly advertise the fact that they seek or wish to maintain serious intern al troubles.
 Don't mistake weight for warmth in cloth ing; feeble people may be worn down by heavy clothing and yet be less sheltered than those who wear light woolen fabrics, both as inner and outer garments.
 Don't believe that one attack of a com municable disease protects against an other. (The writer treated a gentleman, aged seventy-two years, who had two dis tinct sets of small pox pits, and this third attack was of a continent character.) Don't read, write, or do any delicate work unless receiving the light from the left side.
 Don't read in street-cars or other jolting vehicles.
 Don't imagine that the eyes can be bene- 6ted by holding them open under fresh water.
 Don't fear to open your eyes under salt l water.
 , Don't attempt to clean the ears with any thing but the tip of the little finger.
 Don't attempt to remove hardened ear wax by picking it out. If you can not reach a physician when hardened ear-wax be- comes troublesome or painful you may gently inject (preferably by means of Q fountain syringe) large quanties of warm water, to each pint of which half an ounce of bicarbonate of soda has been added. This will convert the wax into a soap, which will run out with the water Don't administer baths to patients under SS nor over 9S degrees, unless by special or. der to that effect.
 "Don't read even the address on an envel. ope after dinner'' Spanish proverb, in tended to urge absolute physical and mental activity after the principal meal of the day)
 Don't allow yourself to grow habitually constipated. Coax intestinal action by reg ularity of habit, exercise, fresh and stewed fruits, and the avoidance of constipatine food. Take drugs only under physician's directions.
 Don't endeavor to check Q diarrhea sud denly.
 , Don't believe that eating fat will make , you fat; quite the contrary holds true.
 Don't eat gamey meats; remember that "gamey" is the hyper refined word for rot ten.
 "Don't pour mouthful of coffee into the empty stomach. even if you must tear a button from yoLr coat and swallow it be. fore," says an Arabic proverb. This applies to tea as well. Don't drink coffee when suffering with 8 diarrhea.
 Don't attempt to remove foreign bodies from the upper part Of the windpipe by en- deavoring to reach them with instruments of any kind. Try giving 2 violent blow on the back immediately af:er the accident. If this does not succeed have the patient held suspended by the feet, head downward, and moved rapidly from side to side while