The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-10-31
HEALTH HINTS
For Old and Young.
By FELIX L. OSWALD, NJ. D.,
Author Of "Phyaical Fducation"; Household
Remedies"; THE Bible of Nature" etc.
CHAPTER xxx.

ASTHMA.
There is story of German skeptic who
denied the Intoxicating properties of lager beer,
till a bowling spree landed him in the Gala
| boose, and with a similar conclusveness of evil
| dcnce certain nervous disorders are apt to re-
move any doubt in the physical after-eiiects of
| mental emotions. In sober, prosaic persons,
| enjoying an abundance of vital vigor nay even
| in animals, where the Influence of imagina-
| ton was wholly out of the question: n parox-
! ysm of rage has been known to produce fatal
disorders. and in some well -attested cases even
| instant DEATH
EFFECTS OF EMOTION
| A few years ago ex-Gov. Pacheco, Of Califor-
! MIA, was out on hunting expedition in the
| foothills of the Sierra Nevada, when he came
| upon "A big grizzly bear that had taken refuge
upon an isolated rock, and by the time of the
hunters arrival had been completely surround
| ed by pack of bowling dogs. Seeing the
| brutes prcdicament the hunter galloped back
| TO a valley where no had left number of herd
| ers gathering in their cattle, and with the CO.
| operation of those assistants soon managed to
put two lariats around the waist of che mon
| ster, which, ut the approach of its new assail-
ants had risen up like man, OH its hind legs.
| Two horsemen laid hold of the end of each
lariat aud in spite of his desperate resistance,
| the bear was pulled down from his vantage
! ground and dragged along, bowling and snap
! ping, toward tho valley, where Mr.. Pacheco
intended to chain il up in barn on his moth
er's farm. AT the gate of that barn big Span
ish wolfdog rushed out and managed TO fetch
| the grizzly a snap-bite in tho rump-a mere
| fiea-bte for brute of that size; but on turning
| fercely to smash his aggressor, the bear found
himself checked by the double lariat, and in
the next moment broke down dead-killed by
rage efiectualy as if by rile-ball, or rather
by score of rifle balls. for pound of lead does
n tnlty irin far I'D riv
ely. The lariats had caught him around the
waist. and could not possibly lave chOxed him
10 death, and only minute before entering
the farm. gate he had demonstrated his vigor
by tearing big piece of bark from tough old
liveoak tree Mt the roadside.
strangely similar case was reported in 1855
from Temesvar, in southern Hungary, where n
hotheaded young peasant had been arrested on
suspicion of completely in some Rgrarian out
rage involving the murder of landed pro-
prietor. The defendant, however would have
been released for want of positive evidence if
IL had not heen for the testimony of witness
who probably in tho hope of earning the offer
cd reward) affirmed under oath that the &C
cused had left his home with n shotgun on the
night of the murder. In spite of a pathetic
denial, tho defendant was then formally in
dicted; but on being removed from the court
house came face TO face with his accuser and
at once spraug forward with rush that knock
cd over the prison-guards, and in the next
moment would have had tho periurer by the
throat f his (tbe defendant's1 own brother had
not seized him in the nick Of time and flung
him back by main force. but withal with an
ease which rather surprised him till he found
that the silent man in his arms was a corpse.
DIR. A. p. Combe in his treatise on Tho
Management of Infancy" mentions the case Of
a woman whose husband fell into quarrel
with soldier blieted in his house. and was
set upon by the latter with his drawn saber
II wife mt first trcmbled from fear aud terror,
and then suddenly threw herself between the
c0mbatants wrested the saber from the soldiers
hand, broke IL into pieces and threw it away.
During the tumult some neighbors had como
In md separated the men. While in this state
of strong excitement the mother took up her
child from the cradle, where IL lay sleeping
aud in the most perfect health, never having
known a moments illness. She gave IL tho
breast. aud in so doing scaled it's fate. In a
few moments the infant left of sucking be-
came restless. painted anl sank down dead
upon its mothers bosom. The physician who
WAS instantly called in found the child lying
in its cradle rs IL asleep. aud with it's features
undsturbed, but all his endcayoFs wero fruit
less. IL was irrevocably gone"
Nervous disorders are unqucstionably apt 20
be aggravated by the effects of mental emotion
The famous English anatomist Hunter was No
well aware Of his own liability 10 suffer from
an extreme, though, as the event proved, not
supeTau0us caution, and often abruptly left
room FOR fear OF being betrayed into an angry
alteration. Heart.disease," he wrote 10 q
friend. hangs over my head ike a sword sua.
pended by hair aud every scoundrel has 10
in his power 10 cot that hair" In an assembly
OF his colleagues the doctors statements were
once positively and rather roughly contra
dicted by another physician. aud DR. Hunter
at once turned deadly pale aud staggered from
the room as If rceing under "A heavy blow.
The controversy. IL seems. had been purely
professional. but tho doctor was taken sick
with fainting fts and Il short while after sue
cumbod TO the long dreaded complication.
In my Georgia Winter home WAS once call
ed TO the bedside OF poor moantaineer, whom
/ had known for years rs a self possessed
though rather toll worn man. but who was
suddenly taken sick on learning that his land
owner refused 20 renew his tenure 10 little
farm which lac aud his son had reclaimed from
the wilderness OF tho mountain forest. lilo
complained Of a headache about half an hour
after Billy came back empty banded" his wife
told me, "and In afraid he has lost his hold on
life the way he looks and acts" Her husband
never spoke again, aud died in his sleep few
days after.
THE CAUSES or Asthma
At. II. Il.