The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-22
Health Hints and
Rules Of Hygiene
Suggestions That May Save YOu Many
a Doctors Bill.
NLSDON FOR THE HOUSEHOLD
These Hints Don't Cost Much, Arc Not
Copyrighted. and if They Don't DO
You Any Good. They'll Not
DO You Any Harm.

you Any Good, Ihcyl NOT
DO You ANY Harm.
/ fear thy kisses gentle maiden,
Thou needest not fear mine,
With pathogenic microbes laden,
Thy kisses l decline.
! i fear Zymotic germs infection,
On lips, at any rate,
For none can say (hence my objection)
How long they incubate.
st James Gazette.
A practical unanimity of opinion may
be said to prevail al present among ply
sicians and chemists, says the Phila- |
delphia Record, that the following
methods of disinfecton have proved the
most effective and trustworthy: All fa-
brlcs which will not be injured in the |
process are to be boiled in water for at
least four hours, and fabrics which will
not stand this treatment require to be
subjected to the action Of dry heat for a
much longer time. Furniture, ETC., may
be treated with four-tenths per cent |
solution of carboic acid. All articles
which have been in actual use by pa
tlent are to be burned, the walls of the
room must be thoroughly rubbed down
with bread, which Is afterward to be
burned, and the sputa and excrements
of the patient treated at once with
chloride of lime German authorities ad-
vocate the employment of steam and
| heat, maintaining that these are cheap
and efficient agents, being also highly
! penetrable and at the same time are
| dangerous to but few household articles
Of the three chemical agents destructive
of disease germs, viz: carbolic acid, cor
rosive sublimate and chloride of lime,
the last is the least expensive and dan
| gerous.
To Sir Andrew Clark we are indebted
for this excellent advice: Worry is
killing. 1t is bad management that
kills people. Nature will let no man
overwork himself unless he plays her
false, unless he takes stimulants at ir-
regular times, smokes much or takes
opium. If he is regular and obeys the
| laws Of health and walks in the way
/ of physiological Righteousness, nature
will never allow him or any person to
work too hard. / have never yet seen
a case of breaking down from overwork
| alone, but | admit that 1t Is necessary
above all things TO cultivate tranquility
of mind. Try ITO exercise your wills in
regard to this-for will counts for some
thing in securing tranquility-to accept
things as they are and not to bother
about yesterday, which Is gone forever;
not to bother about tomorrow which is
not ours; but to takethe present day and
make the best of it. Those women
who will continually peer into what lies
beyond never have any present life at
all-they are always grizzling over the
past or prying into the future, and this
blessed today, which is all that we are
sure of, they never have"
Few people drink enough water. A
reason says a physician, why l often
prescribe one of the mineral waters for
my patients and have them take 1t
daily in considerable quantities is SIM
ply to give them sufficient water. 1t
is an error committed by many other
wise sensible and intelligent per-
sons that drinking much water
interferes with digestion. One of
those persons said to me lately:
II rarely drink a swallow Of water;
cup of coffee with my break
fast, cup of tea or chocolate with my
luncheon, and an after-dinner cup of
coffee with my dinner, which is prac
tically all the liquid take" Uhis with
an air of conscious recttude). To be-
gin with, tea, coffee, chocolate, or beer,
wine, and the like are not substitutes
for water, which is one Of the most i'm
portant of all substances required for
the nourishment of the body. Don't
drain a half-pint glass of iced water
just as you sit down to eat; that is
palpably injurious; but do have a big
glass of water that has been boiled and
cooled brought to you on waking, and
by the time the bath and toilet have
been accomplished and breakfast Is
to be taken the water will not be an
interfering agent. About three pints
of water a day should be regularly
taken; fully this is needed by the sys-
tenn.
WIIllllS VI anu ITO liCdt-
ment, DR.. Andrew Wilson says: Moth
ing Is more absurd, to my way of think
ing, than to sec people swallowing dose
after dose Of quinne, in the hope of
stopping neuralgia, when the true way
to get at the root Of the trouble Is a
visit to the dentist, or some reform In
food. Quinine Is an invaluable medi-
cine and we should be lost without it
in the treatment of many diseases; but
like everything else it must be properly
used If it is to do good in neuralgia or
any other ailment; and 1t is clearly Of
little or no service where the patients
habits, food, or other details require
alteration and improvement. Neural
gia, besides Is an affection which seems
to attack rich and poor indlscriminate-
ly, and one may not be very far from
the truth IL one says that over-feeding
and under-feeding alike dispose to it
in those who are at all liable to its
invasion. Again, believe 1t Is well es-
tablished that there is such a thing
as neuralgia habit" BY this mean
that once a person has suffered from
the affection and been cured, anything
lowering TO the system, or irritating,
will in all likelihood bring on the at
tack again.
wish, writes a frank physician. I
could make tired, nervous women be-
lieve that what they need Is proper
exercise, amusement of an innocent ma
ture, and rest from ceaseless worry, in
stead of drugged nerve tonics. There
is not such tonic sold that does not
contain the germs of poison to some
systems. Most of them have arsenic in
them, and that Is poison that should
be administered only by ones family
physician. Others are full of opium
and morphine, while they all have
liquor as a part of their composition.
They ought to be labeled body and
mind destroyers, instead of builders.
The common drug Is arsenic. 1t Is
efficacious in skin diseases and malarial