Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-23
Into the Mysteries of the Brain and
Its Relation to Body.
PARALYSIS FROM MAKING PIES.
Is Drunkenness the Result Of Nervous
Disease or the Cause?
ARTIFICIAL BRANDY IS THE BETTER.
WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH,


hold for its sincere students. At least to-
night the.gondoliers with their Venetian
spendor of scene, costume and wit NAV 60
by, while the snowfakes fall and one finds
| good company in the delightful Medical
| Annual.
1t suggests the width of the world and
the advantages of an out-ofthe-way life ior
thoroughly trained observer, to read the
| profound articles from men living at the
| ends of the earth. DR.. Neve, of
Kashmir. India, writes on aneurism,
one of the most suggestive contributions
| ever made to the study of that disease. DR..
Levi, of the Virgin Islands, reports on ma
| larial fevers. and we have reports from Prof.
| Osaka, and DR.. Kroonenburghs. OF Fam
bezi, South Africa, write an interesting re-
| port on malaria caused by bathing, which
| people at Atlantic City and Asbury Park
and the interior lakes will be wise to heed.
Bright, ambitious intelligence whoever you
are, fancying yourself shut away from the
world, remember it is not forbidden you to
concentrate yourself on the phenomena near
est you, and make closer scrutiny and more
achievement in your branch of knowledge
than is possible to men divided between Sci
ence and society, where one fritters half his
life away in civilities and neglects attain
POISON IN THE FLOUR.
OF interest TO ali who eat is the case of
poisoning from -four. In 1887 upward of q
hundred persons in French town were
attacked by collie of great severity. The
water supply and various articles of food
were examined for the cause when it was
found 60 patients bad eaten flour from a
particular mill. where the grain was car
ried to the millstones by an elevator, with
buckets of tinplate, containing good deal
of lead. Tie -four which passed through
these buckets had not less than five ounces
of metal which had rubbed off into the
grain, and persons who ate this -four suf-
fered severely, while those who used -four
from another elevator were not attacked.
DR.. Lindt relates a fatal case of a woman
employed only six months in type foun-
dry, who, in spite of warning, ate with I'M
washed hands, and died of amaima, collie
and convulsions. Lead poisoning also oc-
ours in workmen who finish furs dyed with
preparations of lead. Women should de-
mand furs prepared without poisonous dyes,
for their own safety as we'll as that of the
workers who handle them.
The report of DR.. E. G. Seguin on brain
and spinal diseases Is marked by the brill
lance and ability of all his work, and con-
tains facts most interesting to general read
ers. The cure of water on the brain IN chill
dren by exposure of the child's head to the
direct rays of the sun every day sor a month,
first from Is minutes to half an hour, after
ward for 40 or so minutes is cited In
paralysis by exhaustion the case is noted of
girl of IA who had leit-sided paralysis
from excessive piano practice, A smith had
right-hand paralysis from overuse of his
hammer. personally knew of a case where
the use of the hands was nearly lost by over
work in rolling out pie crust, the patient
making go pies daily for a household of
summer boarders. The testimony of the
early settlers of Michigan shows that ma
larial paralysis was not uncommon, and sim
silar evidence comes from India. The Mich
igan folk called it ''quinine settling in the
bones"
TREATMENT OF NEURALGIA.
As to neuralgia, from which probably as
many persons suffer all the agonies of gun
shot wounds as fall in battl every ten years,
and which is a settled modern scourge OF the
human race, DR.. Gray gives very good
summary of the latest methods Of treat
ment. In 27 cases of obstinate neuralgia,
chronic constipation was regarded as the
cause of the disease. Against this the treat
ment was principally directed, In shape of
moist, warm packs about the abdomen, mas
sage, rubbing with cold water and enemata.
- six ,rooIs tba AZ. ha;no, oorot;,Ii,. % w.
lated and aided in some cases bv caiy,nis,u
massage and nerve stretcbing Ont of tho
81 cases 15 were cured by these means and
nine improved. Stretching the nerve is
recommended for cure of chronic neuralgia
in place of the more acute operation of
severing the nerve, which last leaves de-
gree OF paralysis and want of all sensation
use of antipyrin for neuralpia and sciatica
ia also bioh}v recommended Doses Of 15tn
Ok Grains iniected at time on1y five Grains
in one nlace. rendered the skin insensibIa
for TX to "a bours and gave great relief
The persistept headaches of children ,c.
COMMANDED with sluppisbness Of mind nor
yous irritabiIity and nightmare are due to
overnressure and bad ventilation in school
errors of refraction in the eves and nasal
disease. DIR. Corning wisely advises the
treatment OF chorea by giving the natients
os much sIeen as nossible and IN many ooSes
tbev can aconire the habit of sleepin@ IA
hours a dav If naturaI sleen cannot ba oh. |
tanned bv warm baths and nuIet bromides
should be used. The value of this simnIe |
natural treatment in many forms NJ nervons
diseases is bevond ouestion.
sTATIsrIcs ON INsAN1rv
The report of mental diseases has sinpular
interest. The census shows. ACCORDING to |
DIR. Andrews. that we have one insane ont |
of everv f1S native born while the .oraion
has one insane in every 25O |
tgnres which should receive tbouobtfni CON,
sideration. The census shows i'm 1850 nearly |
40 600 insane in asylums and bospitals. now
increased to upward of 60. 600. AS to re. |
straint necessary for the insane DR. SAVAGE
of The celebrated Bethlehem Hosnitai in
Iondon. the ORIGINAL BedIam. saws that '.bs
bopes no one will be listened to narrow.
minded enough to say it is impossibie |
that restraint should ever be necessarv