Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-02-04
THE l,oDY AND ITS HEALTH

"a
person too long in one room without
taking him out and fumigating it. Put
sulphur in an iron or earthenware pan
that will stand the heat, and set it on
bricks placed in another and larger pan
containing water up to the top of the
bricks. Set the sulphur on fire; close all
the windows and crevices, so it cannot
escape. Loosen and hang upon chairs
all the' clothing to be freshened; keen
the door closed six or eight hours; then
open all the windows and doors and
freely ventilate the room for day.
Nothing rests a sick person so much as
to think of the pure, clean room he is
lying in.
LIMITATIONS OF MEDICINE Think
not that the doctor is omnipotent. In
an address to professional men, Prof.
Hermann Nothnagel, of Vienna, him.
self one of the worlds ablest physicians,
said that the various diseases of the
blood, ailments that pass through differ
ent phases and stages, the host of diseases
OF the nervous system. to this time have
furnished no more opportunities for real
cure than the soil of Alaska for the cult
walton of the date palm. Infectious dis
eases must run their course. Diseased
conditions may be arrested in initiatory
stages sometimes, but after they have
eliminated, never. Pain may be tenn
porarily relieved disease must heal it.
self. The painful symptoms are natures
efforts to right the system and put it to
working correctly. The doctor while
nature does this work, can only endeavor
to sustain the patient by dietetical, hy-
gienic and climatic influences, and re-
moval of excitants
AVAILABLE HINT CONCERNING JELLY.
-'My husband, said physicians wife
not long ago, "chanced to see one dav,
standing on shelf outside our kitchen
window, some molds of jelly cooling for
the dinner. They were uncovered, as
they were out of the reach of cats and in
full view of the cooks watchful eve.
But he questioned me about them, and
asked if it were our usual custom to leave
Jelly thus unprotected. | was obliged
to reply that, so far as | knew, it was.
Then he said: Don't you know that
when we medical men want to secure
minute organisms for investigation we
expose gelatine to the air or in places
where we have confined malignant germs2
The gelatine speedily attracts and holds
Them. I'm afraid your favored gelatine
does the same. Cool the jelly if you
must, but cover it with a piece of sheer
close muslin, Or better, if yol have it,
some pieces of glass taken from some
broken window pane And we have al
ways done that since then" 1t is to be
feared that kitchen processes are
sources of illness more often than
is imagined. In many city houses the
little kitchen annex, where stands the re-
frigerator, and where various eatables are
kept, is directly against drain and q
closet. Yet here stand daily uncovered
milk, butter, often custards and pud-
dings, and various other absorbents.
. The average cook is absolutely ignorant
OF sanitary cause and effect, and the eter
nal vigilance of the house mother is the
ssmily's chief safeguard.
INsENsIBILTTY TO PAIN WITHOUT EN-
IRE Loss OF CONSCIOUSNESS "A French
physician who has given much attention
70 the subject of administering chloro-
form and ether is quoted as stating, first,
that any one who is an9sthetized by
2hlorOform or by ether risks his life, and,
second, that the risk is five times less
With ether than with chloroform. At the
same time he found many disadvantages
connected with the use Of ether alone,
and in all operations of long duration
he gives simultaneous injection of one
sixth to one-third of grain of morphine.
He finds that this calms the patient,
notably diminishes the quantity of ether
necessary, and sometimes produces, after
few whiffs of ether, a remarkable con-
dition of analgesia, or inscnsibility to
pain, without loss of consciousness. The
latter condition is undoubtedly the ideal
anesthetic state. The injection is
given to the patient in quiet room, and
he is encouraged to Close his eyes and to
sleep. In about twenty minutes he is
carried to the operating table, where, in
quietness and without excitement, he is
etherized. Juliard narrates seven cases
of analgesia with ether and one case with
chloroiorm. In all these cases tbs
patient was conscious, but felt no pain,
and in several he was able to aid the
surgeon by voluntarily making
convenient movements. In conclusion
DR.. Juliard denounces the method
of giving concentrated vapor OF
ether at the beginning of tbs
inhalation with the view of producing
Qnethesia as being likely to cause any or
several of the accidents of ether admins
tration. lie also views with disfavoF
the method of giving chloroform at the
beginning and of continuing the anas-
thesia with ether, designating the metkqd
aG the combination of the danger ct
chloroform with the disadvantages -
ether.