Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-23
BODY AND BRAIN.
Discoveries by Doctors During the
Year--PoisOning by Lead.
Curing Observation-Disclosures Treat
ment of MISUNDERSTANDING
Remedy for Drunkenness.
Cocaine Habit Worse Than the Morphine Habit
Doctors on Alcoholic Drinks-Artifcial
Brandy Better Than the Genuine.
BY SHIRLEY DARE.

For the Gazette.
Whether, all things considered, I had
rather read medical reports or go to see
1.-The Gondoliers" is question I'M
solved. 1t is not by any manner Of
means a sIur on the gondoliers, but
rather expresses emphatically the inter-
est which medical science may hold for
its sincere students. At least tonight
the gondoliers may go by with their We
netian splendor of scene, costume and
wit while the snowfakes fall
and one finds good company in the de-
lightful Medical Annual. 1t suggests the
width of the world and the advantages
of an out Of the-way life for a thor
oughly trained observer, to read the
profound articles from men living at the
ends of the earth. DR.. Neve of Kash-
mir, 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
malariaI fevers, and we have reports
from Professor Paelz of Toxic, Japan
and Dr.. Lanlng of Osaka, and DIR.
Kroonenburghs of Zambezi, South At
RIGA, writes an interesting report on ma
laria caused by bathing, which people at
Long Branch and Ashbury 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 for
hidden you to concentrate yourself on
the phenOmena nearest you, and make
closer scrutiny and more advancement
in your branch of knowledge than is pos
sible to men divided between science and
society, where one fritters half his life
away in civilties and neglects attainment
because it is so ready at hand.
OF interest to all who eat is the case of
poisoning from -four. In 1887 upward of
hundred persons in a 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 sixty patients had eaten
-four from particular MILL where the
grain was carried to the millstones by an
elevator with buckets of tInplate, con-
tanning good deal of lead. The -four
which passed through these buckets had
had rubbed off into the grain, and per-
sons who ate this -four suffered severely,
while those who used flour from another
elevator were not attacked. DR.. Lindt
relates fatal case of q woman employed
only six months in type foundry, who,
in spite of warning, ate with unwashed
hands, and died of an@mia, colo and
commissions. Lead poisoning also occurs
in workmen who finish furs dyed with
preparations of lead. Women should
demand furs prepared without poisonous
dyes for their own safety as well as that
of the workers who handle them.
The report of DR.. E. G.. Seguin on
brain and spinal diseases is marked by
the brilliance and ability of all his work,
and contains facts most interesting to
general readers. The cure of water on
the brain IN children by exposure of the
ohild's head TO the direct rays of the sun
every day for month, first from if
teen minutes to half an hour, afterward
for forty or fifty minutes. In paralysis by
exhaustion the case is noted of a girl of
fourteen W no had left-sided paralysis from
excessive piano practice. A smith had
right-hand paralysis from overuse of his
hammer. personally knew of case
where the use of the hands was nearly
lost by overwork in rolling out pie crust,
the patient making sixty pies daily for a
household of summer bosrders. The
testimony of the early settlers of Michi-
gan shows that a malarial paralysis was
not uncommon, and similar evidence
comes from India The Michigan folk
called it "quinine settling II the
bones. ~
As TO neuralgia, from which probably
as many persons suffer all the agonies Of
gunshot wounds as fall in battle every
ten years, and which is settled modern
scourage of the human race, DR.. Gray
gives very good summary of the latest
methods of treatment. In twenty-seven
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 abdo-
men, massage, rubbing with cold water
and enemata. This was carried out con-
tinuously from two to six weeks, the
diet being carefully regulated, and aided
in some cases by galvanism. massage
and nerve stretching. Out of the TWEEN
ty-seven cases fifteen were cured by
these means aud nine improved. Stretch
ing the nerve is recommended for cure
of chronic neuralgia in place OF the more