Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09

| about permanent cure. The rules are:
l, eat no beefsteak or roast beef-a little
beef well boiled or stewed may do; ,, the
lean of mutton we'll boiled may be taken
in moderation; 8, bacon in small quanti-
ties may be eaten; 4, eggs or butter must
be strictly tabooed 5, use neither fruits or
vegetables If your condition be bad
above all things keep clear of acid fruits,
melons, cucurnbers, radishes, cabbnge,
peas, ripe or shelled beans, and beets;
6, avoid rich biscuits and stale light
bread-plain cornbread is not Objections
able: 7, poultry well boiled or stewed
may be taken, but there should be no
rich dressing or gravy with it; drink no
iced water unless well accustomed to it;
s, sweet milk may be used; 9, all sweet
meats and pasteries must be rigid!y
avoided-Indeed, sweets of every charac-
ter must be entirely left out of the bill of
fare.
1t is more than probable that the ar
tesian water of the Fort Worth Waco ar
tesian area will eventually take position
as among the most wholesome general
purpose water in the world. A prom
inent microscopic tells US that, after two
weeks of exposure in AN open vessel, he
examined it carefully under an eX-
tremely strong magnifying power aud
could detect no kind of surface organ
isms in it. Rain water under similar
conditions would have been fairly
swarmiug. He holds that the small
quantity OF mineral elements (not at all
injurious TO man) renders the water
wholly unsuited as an abiding place for
the ordinary injurious microbes.
Professor RosenthaI of Vienna says
what we call taste is not equally dIstrib-
uted over the whole surface of the
tongue. There are three distinct re-
glons or tracts, each of which has to per-
form its own special Office OF function.
The tip of the tongue Is concerned
mainly with pungent aud acid tastes;
the middle portion is sensitive chiefly to
sweets or bitters, while the back or
lower portion confines itself entirely to
the fiavors of rich, fatty substances.
This subdivision of faculties in the
tongue makes each piece of food undergo
three separate examinations, which
must be successfully passed before it is
admitted into full participation in the
human economy.
Few indeed are the common people
who realize how much a really good ply
sician knows. They may understand
something OF the sciences he has studied
and mastered, but after all these are
scarcely the q, b, C, of his profession.
Prof. Huxley once said cit would be
simply manslaughter for doctor to treat
bis patients solely on the raw and I'M
digested principles Of physiology. D." The
successful medical practitioner must
therefore never be looked upon as q mere
scientist, for the reason that he Is much
more than this. The sciences are mere
framework upon which his wisdom
enables him to correctly place the
misunderstanding where needed. He Is
deep thinker and correct reasoner, and
he works these gifts through many
wakeful night for him, while we sleep,
when he has difficult case on hand.
There can be no doubt of the fact that
We do not, as rule, appreciate the
skilled physician to the extent entirely
deserved by him.
1t was once an old saying that q hog
could see the wind. Whether correct or
not nobody could tell, for the hog kept
all his secrets with reference TO the mat
ter; but there was one thing these people
Of past age did know, they themselves
couldn t see the wind, try as they might.
in rapid motion (wind) was
just as transparent, where not carrying
some foreign substance, as was atmos-
phere in dead calm. 1t remains the
same to the present day, and is likely to
remain the same through all time TO
come; yet. while we may never be able
to see the wind, something fell under
our observation the other night which
ed us to suspect that the wonderful new
agency, electricity, may open a way
hat will eventually enable us to make q
correct picture of it by photography.
We were at the Pickwick hotel in Fort
Worth. In the middle of the hotel office
hangs an electric lamp of great power.
Near the wall of the same room burns d
,as jet. The electric lamp casts upon
he wall a shadow of the gas lamp, show
ng not only the jet itself, but also the
waves Of heated air as they float upward
rom ii in obedience to well known laws
There was no smoke whatever escaping
rom the jet, and to the eye the atmos-
there above 1t appeared entirely as
transparent as was the atmosphere IN
my other part of the room, yet there,
n the wall, was the sharply marked
'icture of the air waves rolling upward
o the height of four or five feet. The
ne, and one well worthy the attention
f persons who like to think about such
hings.
A study of the small toe in man has
'een made in Germany by the great
Herr Pfitzner. IN thirty-hve
er cent. of the persons examined-the
proportion being greater among women
han men-this toe was found to have
My two joints, instead of the three sup
osed to belong to it. That tight shoes
ad not caused the union of two bones
7as shown by the fact that the proper
ion having the popularity was about the
anne among small children as among
dults. The investigator concludes that
BIZ small toe Is in course of degeneration,
nd is inclined to believe that man may
ventually become four-toed.