Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-03-14
WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE.
The Difficulties Man Has In Following
Miscellnneous Advice.

| The Difficulties Man Has In Following
Miscellaneous Advice.
| On going into drug store, or looking
| through the advertising columns of a
newspaper, one wonders why any body,
| except out of pure willfulness, should
| ever die. But when, on the other hand
one notices the different things that are
regarded as fatal by the doctors, he be-
gins to wonder that any body should be
SO illogical as to continue to live.
For example, as the winter APP
proaches, man begins to consider the
practical problem of underflannel. But
| II he lays to heart the different varie-
| ties of medical advice he will find him
! self in the condition of the celebrated
long-eared animal between the
two bundles of hay. He may not
starve. but he will be in serious dan
ger of freezing. | have been looking
up the matter. Germany has famous
professor---of flannel. DIR. Jaeger tel'a
all the world that il must dress in wool
the pure, natural, uncolored article. 1t
Is good for sheep, and since the ira
| ditional view is that the human race is
only flock of sheep to be shepherded
| But famous Boston doctor tells us,
on equal authority, that cotton Is the
! only wear" do not recall his reason.
/ Perhaps 1t is part OF a universal system
of vegetarianism.
On the other hand, DIR. Felix Oswald.
Of New York, loudly proclaims that the
only thing that ought to touch the out
side of civilized being is linen
Meantime what is distracted man to
do as the cold weather comes on? Prof
Blot used to say that the best cur
OF coffee was the one that contained a
mixture OF the largest number of kinds
suit OF Undertaking and get the benefi
of all the different varietiesP
But this is only an illustration of 1
larger problem. | am not yet aged, bu
within my memory nearly all kinds o
food have in turn been declared dan
gerous, il not fatal. The same is tru'
of all the drinks. Fleeing from TIN
threatening qualities OF Cochituate,
am confronted with the magnified form
OF death that Turk in the insidious bot
tie of Apollinaris. And then | an
startled by an array OF statistics pre-
pared by an English medical comm's
sion. wherein it is conclusively show
that all water Is dangerous. At an
rate, these figures are said to prove thai
, in the tables OF longevity. the total al
stinence" man stands lowest.
1t begins to look as IL there was $
good deal of human nature" in doctors
As a man reads the Bible, and sees a
texts that make for his opinions an
, treats the rest as ''fgurative," so ma
a il not be with others besides theolog
, ans? There is such seductive tender
a cy in men to make their foot-rule I'll
a measure of the universe.
a 1t seems to me Just possible that thel
a is grain of truth in the old prover
"What is one mans meat is anoth
mans poison" Those who, logical
= ought to die, as matter of fact ket
!, right on living, and those who ought
a live do die. Perhaps little individ
"a ality should come in here, as in son
). other things. II man has not sen
L. enough To find out what kind of fo
"a and drink and clothing agrees with hin
q and to govern himself accordingly, TIN
. perhaps it is just as well for the wor
ir for him not to stay here. Let him
" on, and save the fool-killer trouble, h
IA If he has any sense, then experien
a will become his teacher. The on
n. 'safo" person IN this world is the o
~ who has learned his own personal less
y. as to how to live, M. j. Savage, in b