The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-20
Health Hints and
Rules Of Hygiene
Suggestions That Nay Save You Many
a Doctors Bill.
NISDOM FOR THE HOUSEHOLD

WISDOM FOR THE HOUSEHOLD
These Hints Don't Cost Much, Are Not
Copyrighted, and If They Don't Do
You Any Good, They'll Not
Do You ANY Harm.
Good children, says a discriminating
writer IN the Washington Star, are the
hardest OF all crops to raise. Revert
ing to natures laws, it will be found
that here, as in the agricultural world
1t Is impossible to rear crop of any
thlng but weeds on impoverished soil
II parents are lacking in mental OF
moral stamina, but through the re.
strlctions of society have been able to
keep 1t hidden, you may be sure that IL
VIII crop out In their children. There is
more truth than poetry in the remark
that mothers so often make, that it
seems to them that their children were
born bad" To have been born so is
certainly a misfortune, but not the
fault of the child; it is rather that OF
the parents or of the more remote an,
cestors, who were noted perhaps, as
wild, undisciplined creatures, whose
only use for the law was to break it.
II grand juries might sometimes sit in
judgment upon the fathers of the
criminals within their jurisdiction they
would, nine times out of ten, be obliged
to bring in true bill against the par.
ents as accessory before the fact. The
wise parent will study the laws of he
redity and as far as lies in his power, at
OF 70,
that has defrauded him, seeing to IL
that his own offspring has a fairel
chance so far as he is concerned. When
mothers and fathers begin to realize
their moral responsibility, and their ac.
countability for the acts of their chill.
dren, then the world will grow better
for children will come into the world en-.
dowed with a greater sense of dis
elimination between right and wrong
and greater strength to resist tempta-
ton.
If you would keep the little ones
healthy through the cool mornings Of
the coming autumn season clothe their
little bodies in wool. A wooden under.
shirt over gauze one, and a flannel
skirt with the legs and feet kept dry,
will probably save you much anxiety
and a goodly sized doctors bill. Until
about u o'clock the flannel should be
worn. When you go to dress them for
the afternoon, leave the undershirt on,
but you can safely remove the other
heavy clothing. Put on the thick cloth
ing when the sun gets low, and you will
have no malaria in your family. The
same plan would hold good with adults,
DR.. E. o. Shakespeare, Of Philadel-
phia, has recently returned from Ber-
lin, and is greatly pleased at the sue.
cess of the new diphtheria cure on the
other side. He says that the use oil
diphtherine, the name given to the ma
terial, had lowered the mortality from
diphtheria in Paris and Berlin fully so
per cent. THAT is to say" said he, "the
deaths from this disease are nov
scarcely half the number in any given
period that they were previous to it's
| use. Diphtherine is made from an arti-
fetal culture of the diphtheria baccllus.
This Is injected into the goat or horse
both Of which enjoy natural immunity
from diphtheria and tuberculosis. In.
oculating this animal q number of
times with this culture creates an arti-
fetal immunity against diphtheria. At
| ter this Is established the animal is
bled and an extract of his blood is
made, which Is found to have curative
virtues for diphtheria in human beings.
The portion of the blood used Is the
serum, and hypodermic injection of
fraction of a centimetre of this dlph-
! Uterine has the result, as has been
shown conclusively In Paris and Berlin
hospitals, of dividing the mortality, that
is to say, 1t is scarcely half what it was
under other treatment. Diphtherine is
also successfully used as preventive.
For instance, If case occurs In house
all the members of the family are in
| oculated and the spread of the disease
Is stopped. The principal reason we
| have not used ii here" said DR.. Shakes
| peare in answer to question, ''is that
1t Is a new discovery. 1t was discov-
cred about three years ago and has been
In use in BERN about one year, and In
Paris about two years. 1t is common
law Of medicine that the serum form of
blood of an animal which has been
rendered immune from a disease is q
| specific for that disease. This Is so in
diphtheria, cholera and tentanus. 1t is
also said to be true of typhoid fever
and 1t has been found to be q general
| law in contagious and infectious dis
|
al that has had such disease, either arti-
disease. Experiments have not gone
far enough however, to determine
about scarlet fever"
Dr. Shakespeare was then asked how
long immunity from diphtheria could be
secured by incubation with diphther.
inc. Observation has not gone fai
enough yet" said he, "to determine the
period. OF course, it must be under
stood that one incubation will give i'm
munity for limited period only TAX.
| ing smallpox, for instance incubation
or vaccination for which Is well under.
! stood, the period for which one inocula,
ton will give immunity is about seven
years, when vaccination should again
be performed DR.. Shakespeare eX-
pressed the opinion that Philadelphia
! and in fact every other large city
| should at once establish municipal
| laboratory of hygiene and preventive
medicine, and conduct experiments OF
it's own in bacteriology, etc. Diphther-
| inc could be made here, he said, as well
as anywhere else. There was no secre,
about it, the results of all experiments
with 1t abroad having all been made
| public. The fact that successtul expert
ments could be made here was, nc
thought, fully demonstrated by those
under the Agricultural bureau In Wash
ington with tuberculine, as diagnos'
tic for the discovery of tuberculosis In
cattle, which were the most successfu
in the world, the department making
it's own tuberculine.
It has lately been pointed out thai
man, after ALL is not the only anima
who INDUCES in stimulants, Certain
animals also indulge themselves in this
manner with fatal results, the vehicle Of
intoxication in the case Of the lower
order Of beings being creeping Vetcf
called the "loco plant" This Is an in
habitant of the Texan Panhandle
and is a source of serious danger tc
horses and cattle. To them 1t has al
the allurements which are possessed
by absinthe and gin for beings of an
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