Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1890-04-19
WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE.


Miscellaneous Advice.
On going into drug store. or looking |
through the advertising columns OF q
newspaper, one wonders why any body, I
except out Of pure willfulness should /
ever die. But when, on the other hand
one nossces 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 underfannel. But
II he lays to heart the different yarie-
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 tells
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
and fieeced, why-the logic is plain.
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. Dr. 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 a 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
How would IL do TO get up composite
suit of underrlothing and get the benefi
OF all the different varieties?
} But this is only an illustration of ,
larger problem. am not yet aged, bu
within my memory nearly all kinds o
5 food have in turn been declared dan
Q gcrous. IL not fatal. The same is tru
y of all the drinks. Fleeing from tn
I threatening qualities OF Cochituate,
o am confronted with the magniiied form
of death that lark in the insidions boi
v tie Of Apollinaris. And then ! al
G startled by an array OF statistics pre-
n pared by an English medical comm''
Y sion, wherein il is conclnsively show
g that all water is dangerous. At an
). rate. these figures are said TO prove tina
y in the tables OF longevity. the total a
Ie stinencen man stands lowest.
II begins to look as II there was
10 good deal OF human nature" in doctor
N As man reads the Bible, and sees q
~ texts that make for his opinions al
!" treats the rest as ''iguratiye,' so mi
4" IL not he with others besides theolol
y. ans? There Is such seductive tende
II cy in men to make their foot-rule Z
:" measure of the universe.
1t seems to me Just possible that the
n is grain OF truth in the old proyei
or What is one mans meat is anoth
III mans poison" Those who, logical
ir ought TO die as matter of fact Ike
ON right on living and those who ought
- live do die. Perhaps little indiyi'
he ality should come in here, as In sol
m. other things II a man has not SET
m. enough 10 find out what kind of "a
no and drink and clothing agrees with hi
,s. and TO govern himself accordingly, tn
en- perhaps IL is just as well for the wo
Iss for him not 10 stay here. Let him
ON. and save the fool-killer trouble.
IL he has any sense, then experieI
will become his teacher. The ol
safe" person in this world is the ,
ne who has learned his own personal LEST
as to how to live. M. j. Savage, in II
- =. ton Globe.