The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-21

Ties. The small arteries of the brain are
also subject to calcareous degeneration,
become brittle and in certain cases,
burst. and give rise to hemorrhage,
causing apoplexy and paralysis. Nor is
tnls all: The partial obstruction of the
circulation in the small arteries of the
praln, due to Qualification, is supposed.
IN many cases, to give rise to non-infam-
matory softening of the brain, by directly
4 sary for its healthy nutrition. Calcare-
Gus deposits may also occur in the large
arteries and in the heart. In the latter
ssiuatlon they produce serious valvular
known to medical science.
| GoITRE IN THE CHALK DISTRICTS.
Hypertrophy of the thyroid gland, or
pronchocele, as it is called, is another
anection attributable to the constant use
Oh caicareous, or hard water. When of
convenience, except occasional headache
| OF sight difficulty in breathing in a
STOPPING posture; but when very large, it
may produce great difficulty in breathing
and swallowing, and congestion of the
pIain, py pressing on the trachea, oeso-
Pnagus and jugular veins. 1t is an en-
aemlc disease, that is, one which is, con-
Stantiy prevalent in certain localities.
II AFFECTS females more frequently than
males, and no age is exempt from it.
II prevails in limestone districts. In
/ england 1t is called 'Derbyshire neck"
and is prevalent in Derbyshire, Noting
nam and other chalky localities. In Swift
zerland and the eastern part of France,
II is called goitre. 1t is tolerably prev
| renee, and in some other limestone re-
gions of this continent. 1t is scarcely
amenable to either medical or surgical
treatment. The latter has sometimes
succeeded, but has oftener proved fatal.
Inc exterpated gland, when examined
mlcroscopically, is always found to con-
s sh emery OF chalky concretions. which
SHOW tnat It's development, to some ex-
tent at least, is due to an excess of cal
| careous matter in the system.
| ICE WATER PRODUCTIVE OF
| BRIGHTS DISEASE.
certain diseases of the kidneys and
some forms of urinary calcuti can be
traced to the same cause. The so-called
/ OF lime, is as hard as a rock and can only
pc removed by dangerous surgical OPP
leration; Albumenuria, or Bright's dis
ease of the kidneys, is another affection
which may, to a. slight extent, at least.
De aggravated by the use of hard water
hnis disease, which appears to be on the
OF cases, to the excessive use of ice water,
large draughts of which give the system
a shock which reacts on the heart or
hiapsyss thereby favoring the develop
Iorgans, of which Bright's disease may be
set down as one. Ice water is deficient in
1oxygen. and therefore does not possess
the stimulating property of water con-
lalnlng a normal amount of that gas
This oxygen is taken into our system and
serves the same purpose as that taken in
| py the lungs, viz, the removal of the ex-
cess or carbonaceous matter in the form
lof carbondioXide.
From all these. considerations it is quite
Ievident that calcareols water is NOT 70
be recommended for drinking and domes-
tic purposes. When used for long time
| 1t is capable of producing very serious af-
Elections. as we'll as the fastening of Sc
nifty or premature old age. BY the con-
| tinuous use of soft water, the skin pre-
| serves 1tssoftness, supleness and rosy tint
to the last; the hair receives it's proper
amount of nourishment for it's norma |
growth; the sbones do not become abnor-
mally brittle; the small arteries of the
brain and lower extremities preserve their
carber,- elasticity and function unimpar-
ed to the extreme old age. and calcerous
deposits on the valves of the heart, in the
thyroid gland and other organs would no
tirely unknown. Everyone, then, who de-
lsires to maintain the various organs and
tissues of his material organization in
their their normal integrity and to retard as
characteristics of presenility, should alb
| stain from the frequent and continued use
of hard or calcareous water. Soft water
ing. 1t is really one of the foundations of
youth.
| Rain water, filtered and cooled to an
agreeable temperature is decidedly the
best for both internal and external use
1t is the purest water easily obtainablc.
and possesses :. al, normal amount of air or
eagsn as good but Watft should be s
cooled and exposed long enough to the
i air in order to absorb all the oxygen it is
capable of dissolving. The water of GER
tain springs, and in general the water of
wells and rivers in granite districts, con-
| tainS very little calsareous matter, and
may be safely employed Ordinary river
and we'll water should first be boiled to
iprecipitate mineral and destroy organic
matter. then cooled and exposed to the
air before using. Boiling. however, does
not precipitate all the calcereous matter
by any means. Pure distilled water pos
lsesses marked medicinal properties. AL
bumenuria- or Bright's disease. has been
and there is no doubt but that the. free
and unlimited use of it would retard the
progress of any calcareous degeneration
| of the tissues as well as the formation of
any deposits in the heart, kidneys and
other organs.
A LONGER SPAN OF LIFE IN PROS
PECT
| When disease-producing cause like
| this operates continuously for several
successive generations there is no doubt
ceeding generations a diathesis or predis-
position to certain diseases which are
those regarded as inherited. and which do
not at once cease on tne removal on [ or
ganic diseases of the heart and kidneys
may have been transmitted from genera
ItlOn to generation ana nave now come 10
be regarded as hereditary. The time is
mot far distant-perhaps century hence
when all such subtle disease-producins
causes will be better known and appre-
ciated by both people and physicians;
l. when everyone will be familiar with the
chemistry of most diseases, and with
/ the organic or inorganic poisons
THAT produce them; when physi-
CLANS will be able to stay the
lravages Of tuberculosis or pulmonary con-
| consumption, blot out all fears and in
| f1amma tons, destroy all morbffic germs
and ferments, and all the deadly infiu-
ences of malaria, cholera and other sep
| tic diseases; when our sanitary and n.y.
gienic conditions and laws will have
| been changed and enforced by state leg
| islation, so as to prevent all contagious
diseases from being communicated, ana
| to remove all causes OF sickness that can
| be removed and thus, by these and varl-
Gus other means. to retard as much as
possible, PRESENTLY and to lengthen the
average duration of human life. When
these improvements shall have been &C
complished-and there is certainly moth
| ing in them that can be regarded as i'm
possible nothing which at all rivals the
progress in science during the last half
century-man will, to some degree, regain
his pristine vgor. and instead of being
old and feeble at "three score and ten,
will be a mere youth at 100 years.
A LONDON REFORM SUNDAY.
from the London Daily News.1