Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-01-14
THE BODY AND rTs HEALTH.

FoR BURNS AND ScALDs. THE best
way to stop the pain from a burn or
scald when the skin has been taken off is
to break an egg over the wound. The
suffering arises largely from the exposure
to the air. and the white of an egg forms
an Artificial skin or covering. which, for a
time, effeCtualy prevents contact with
the air, and so lessons the irritation Of
the nerves
PRECAUTIONS ~ REGARD 10 CsILDBE
The winter is the most irving and dan
gerouS time for child in the whole
year, and therefore every precaution
should be taken AT this time 10 promote
his safety; but in these precautions, as in
almost everything else, the middle course
Is the one 10 purSue-ueither TO coddle
him, nor to be ton careless. The great
precautions necessary are good. warm
clothing composed principally of wool
LEM; care in sending him out in damp or
foggy weather (the latter is more danger
Gus than rain, the doctors saw; good,
wholesome food, with a proper proper
ton of meat and fat, and a sunny nursery
that is heated 10y an open fire and no
furnace. With these advantages the
chances are that healthy child will get
through the winter in sutety,
SANITARY -" DoN'rs. The Boston
Transcript advises the following simple
precautions, which, it SAYS, may be the
means of averting serious disease; Don't
put any money in your mouth. 1t is
literally filthy lucre A doctor who is
in the habit Of disinfecting the money
that comes to him, calls it one of his
charities. Yet the coin or grcenback,
that at best is far from immaculate and
may be foul with disease, is held between
her lips by some girl while she searches
for a nickel to pay her car fare with or
struggles with her bundles If she could
see what it is she has placed in her
mouth, she would be cured of the habit
once for all Don't often put candy in
your mouth. Investigations in dentistry
show that decayed teeth are the work
of Il micro-organism that breeds and
6ourishes in just that particular acid
which the disintcgration of sugar pro-
duces. In proportion rs foods contain
starch and sugar are they likely to affect
of sugar is at the maximum, A pro-
minent dentist cites the cnse of u work
ing confectioner who, by the time
he reached middle life, had not
tooth left. His teeth were fragile to be
gin with, and he Ind been living in an
atmosphere most favorable to their
decay.
Don't put your bare hands in the straps
furnished in the street car for the over
flow of passengers, Turn one of these
straps inside out in any car not fresh
from the shops, and the reason will be
plain. Handled as they are 10y all sorts
and conditions Of men, they are ready
carriers of disease. The abraded skin Of
your finger may touch an infected spot,
or dangerous bacteria may be transferred,
at the next motion of the hand, to the
delicate tissues of the mouth or eyes.
Don't use public drinking vessels. Don't
use the towels provided for general use
in public lavatories, mems restaurants
and sometimes in schools A specialist
in diseases of the eye investigated the
towels furnished for the use of pupils in
the public schools Of Buffalo, with
view to discovering how far they might
be source of contagion A square foot
of toweling which had had moderate use
was found to contain from thirty-fve to
fifty million bacteria They included the
bacteria of several contagious diseases,
and among them those of a serious afTec-
ton of the eye. 1t is not generally
known that blindness is increasing in
this country four times as fast as the
population, and that the increase is due
largely to a contagious disease of the
eyes which is spread by just such means