The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-09-28

Dl0od mas nOth1ng more TO dc with q
boil than with q corn.
Thousands of people have died from
taking medicine for cancer. II there
Is any thing well established in medi-
cine 1t is that medicine can not cure
cancer, whether taken internally or APP
piled externally. The only cure for can
Ger is the knife. aud even this must be
used early. 1t is possible that some
medicine may be.found in the future
that will cure this disease, but it has
not been found yet.
One OF the strangest beliefs is that
natural doctors" are better than the
doctors that have been through regu-
lar courses of medical study. No ore
thinks OF taking his watch to II mat
ural" Matchmaker; one that has had
no experience nor apprenticeship in re-
| pairing watches and knows nothing of
| the works OF a watch How can u 'bone-
setter who never saw the inside of n
joint and knews nothing of anatomy
| set II bone or joint better than sur
geon? Railway companies do not en-
ploy as locomotive engineers men that
don't know the parts of an engine. Of
course, such man might run an en-
gine successfully for few miles, but
one would scarcely prefer to travel be-
hind him.
Speaking of cancer, a great many
people think it is blood disease. and
you often hear people speak of diseases
getting into the blood or of diseases
striking in" Diseases don't strike
in. People speak of catarrh going
into consumption. What is ordinarily
called catarrh has nothing to do with
consumption. 1t is disagreeable
thing to have, but you can't get con-
sumption from it any more than you
can get lock-jaw from gum-drops or
typhoid fever from collie. But don't
think you can't take consumption from
another person. A healthy person and
certainly sick one should not sleep in
the same room with a consumptive
When people come to look upon con-
sumption in it's true light. as disease
that is distinctly communicable, there
will be less of it.
1t is only silly people that arc preju-
diced against vaccination. 1t is a safe
thing to say that all the diseases that
have ever been communicated by vac
cination were due to the use OF human
lied virus. There is plenty of cow
virus to be had without running the
risk of getting some disease that will
cti iplr
one to use vaccine point that has any
color on the vaccine end, such as yellow
or red; such color is due to pus or blood
and will almost surely give you a very
sore arm. Don't be content with being
vaccinated in one place; be vaccinated
in three or four places. 1t is the rarest
thing that one has u bad arm from good
vaccine matter.
Avery foolish thing for n person to be-
lieve is that drink of whisky or other
alcoholic liquor will warm him up in
cold weather. Alcohol lowers the tenn
perature of the body, and if you will
think a moment you will remember
that the majority of people found frozen
to death were under the influence of
alcohol when they died.
A great many people think that sick
people should not have the food they
crave. Why notP Doesn't nature, as
rule, know what she wantsP
The voice of nature is the voice of
God, whether people are sick or we'll,
as a general rule. But there are ex-
ceptions; after an attack of typhoid
fever a person should not eat any kind
of coarse food, however much he may
crave it. Parents often err in making
children eat fat meat, especially when
they don't like it. Young children can
not digest fat easily; sugar is easily di-
gested, and answers the same purpose
for children that fat meat does for
adults. Children's teeth are not in
jured by sugar, nor by eating hard SUI
gar. The tendency of civilization is
to soften ali kinds of food so that the
teeth are not sufficiently exercised.
But don't give candy to a child, excep.
pure, uncolored sugar candy, and cam
died fruits. Most candy is adulterated
and colored with injurious substances,
and it is best to taboo all colored can
dies.
When person faints lay her or him
out fiat, and with the heels higher than
the head, and loosen the clothing about
the neck and chest. If the fainting per-
son is to be carried anywhere, carry
her on your two arms if you can, with
the head hanging down over one arm.
But under no circumstances let the
head be higher than the body, for if it
is the blood can not get into the head |
and the person may die. Natures |
method of restoring fainting person
is to cause her to fall. In this way
blood runs into the brain by gravita-
tion and stimulates the part that con-
trolls the heart, thus exciting the heart |
to action. So, when person has fit
lay him out fiat and loosen the cloth
ing about the neck and chest. But
when person is shot or stabbed, and
is bleeding profusely. hold him up until
he faints. The fainting stops the action
of the heart momentarily, and this
gives time for clot to form. But if
laid out flat the person bleeds away,
and will not faint until he is almost
dead.
Don't attempt to meddle with your
liver, The number of drugs that affect |