The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-22


With marriage. There is also a strong
prejudice against marriage into families
tainted with insanity; il is not unreason-
abe to hope that eventually as strong a
prem dice will exist against marriage into
families tainted with consumption and
idiocy.
UNHEALTHFUL MARRIAGES.
This matter of preventing unhealthful
marriages and the ensuing perpetuation in
posterlty OF parental disease is one very
intimately affecting the future of the
human race and one of the greatest prob
lens with which the physicians of the
future will have TO grapple it is only
reasonable TO say that a man has no more
right TO marry q wife who will bear I'M
| healthychildren and thus spread her dis
a luCleS through as many coming lines as
she has aspiring, than he would have
(were such thing Tossible) to put poison
IN the drinking water of the future gem
erations And the obligation of a woman
10 choose healthy father for her chill
dren is no less serious. The only excuse
Tor the thousands of unsanitary mar
TlageS that now occur is ignorance A
man or woman who knows the truth and
| dIsregards it is a criminal.
What would help more than anything
! else IN The study of consumption would
! De government laboratories and indie
| pendent incomes for Investigating scien-
| lists. More important than bureaus for
| DIS ributing seeds TO farmers would be
! bureaus for killing the seeds of disease"
cArARRH TO BE ERApIcATED.
"And catarrh DR. Shrady. 1t is said
! thatO more Americans suffer more
and longer discomfort from it than from
! any other one disorder VIII it be done
! away with. too 3d..
~ es, eventually. II is a complex
| trouble and is caused chiefly by want of
| ability to resist unfayora BILE environment.
1t is largely matter of climatic condi-
! tions; but the men Of the future will be
| strong enough TO triumph over any Ordi-
| nary climatic conditions. It's almost en-
| tlrely matter of temperament now. For
instance, one man may go into a horse
| car ana be eXhilarated by the draught
| from an open window, which would give
| another man pneumonia. And again, il
/ you are overwOrked and tired you will
! take old where you would remain I'M
! affected were you fresh and vigorous
! And here the matterof herediJy cores in,
! even in catalrh. Many, many are horn
! overworked and tired. That is literally
! true. And such, naturally, are more
| likely to yield to catarrh producing in
| t1uences, even if the disease itself is not
| transmitted TO them by their parents,
than those who obtain from their parents
| a Legacy of health and strength But the
| better how to understand and combat
this predisposition than we do now"
BRIGHT's DISEASE WILL YIELD.
"Will Bright's disease of the kidneys
! yield also, DIR. ShradyH' / asked.
| 1T IS another complicated and dread
full disease and its position has been COW
! cred to some extent in what / have
| already said. Civilization a ways makes
| one spot of the man weaker than any
| nj If that lie 40 no
| is predisposed toward consumption: if it
be the nose and head, then toward ca
tarrh; if the kidneys, then toward
| Bright's and other diseases of those or
! gans. We are never like the one boss
shay so equally constructed that when
we fall we 80 all to pieces at once. He
redity's influence on Bright's disease is as
| strong as on consumption. In reference
to either malady we can even now predict
the fate of family with almost complete
| accuracy by studying the health and dis
ease of its ancestry Fri hts disease
| will probably not be wholly eradicated,
but by the perfection of the race, and the
| increase Of general knowledge of the laws
of the disorder il viii be rendered both
less common and less serious.
TIE ONLY INoURABLE DISEASE.
ave shall never be able to change the
laws of nature. We can only discover
them and learn how best TO abide by
them. 1t is the same with many things
as it was with Appendicitis. They have
| existed since the stars sang together, but
| we have not found them out AS we find
| them out we hope TO be able to make men
! slronger-so strong that they will be able
to laugh at consumption, catarrh, Bright's
| disease or what not. One trouble alone
will remain unconquera ble-valvular
| disease of the heart. The heart differs
from all other parts of the human body
in that it cannot be dire thy treated. 1t
is an engine that cannot be stopped for
| repairs. But strong men will nave strong
! hearts,"
THE MOST HEALTHFUL LIFE.
"What manner of life. DR.. Shrady, do
you think is most favorable to perfect
health"
"A moderate life. Take plenty of sleep.
| Take plenty to eat. Take plenty of eXer-
else We need more walking philosophers
! in this world. Keep n cOntented mind
! Remember that the man who wants little
is always rich, and the man who has much
| isn't. always. Sometimes a man owns d
| house, but sometim S the house OWES the
| man 1t is better for the man to own the
house and to Gear in mind that very big
man can live in q very little house. l need
| not say that little men often live in big
houses. This life can only give man at
best one -contentment.
AN ANECDOTE WITH MORAL.
II once had a summer place named
Pine Ridge, seven or eight miles north
of kingston There were pleasan. roads
| 70 nd-a bout, and almost every day l went
out with team, driving myself. Ore day
| when driving alone on Albany avenue,
| Kingston, butchers boy, MISLEADING me
for coachmau, and seeing that had no
| companion, hailed me, shouting:
Say, John, can't you give fellow a
lift?'
How far are you going2' l asked.
"'Only out to Gen. Smiths, replied the
boy.
THE urchin sprang to my side when I
nodded my head, and after we had
started, said:
''Whosc rig is this2'
"'Dr Shrady's, / replied.
'.'Oh. yes. that Teller from New York
He lives in Pine Ridge by the river. Do
YOU work for him!'
Yes
How much does he give you"
"sMy BOARD and Clothes
"'Golly! Is that all? Well, he gives
pretty good clothes, but you could get
morn that. Maj. Cornell's coachman gets
his toard and clothes and $50 mon III be-
sides How long have you been workin'
for this man Shradyp
"'Ever since l was a boy
" Never worked for anybody else
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