The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-09
Health Hints and
Rules Of Hygiene
Suggestions That May Save You Many
Doctors Bill.
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.


There's cunning young bacillus and
natty little germ,
Or some frisky datoma or microscopic
worm,
Or some scientific wonder dragging round
Latin term,
In our food and air and water and. by
jings 1T makes me squirm.
And the sun will be much colder In about
million years,
And portion of earth's moisture slowly
dries and disappears,
And its crust is slowly cooling and eX-
cites our human fears,
So, by jings! you needn't wonder If 1t fills
my eyes with tears.
In a hundred generations man will have
no teeth at all,
And his skull will be as naked as a shiny
blliard-ball;
His superfiuous toes will vanish, he will be
but four feet tall,
So by jings! you cannot wonder If my
flesh begins to crawl.
He will travel with electrlcs, bicycles and
cable-carS,
With his airships he will wander like a
meteor mid the stars;
He will open navigation on the water
ways of Mars,
And, by jlngs! where will you stop him
when he once let's down the bars?
And now Edisons inventing patent food,
and III be blessed
If 1t won't knock out the farmers and
the wheat-nelds of the West
And this baby incubatOr-and DerhaDS
that way Is best,
But I'll go to Philadelphia, where my
brain can take a rest. Judge.
You wouldn't have thunk it, Of course,
and no more would we. But unless
Norman Kerr, the English toxicologist,
is very much mistaken alcohol Is
perhaps the least dangerous originator
of jags with which fallible humanity
Is beplagued. DR.. Kerr enumerates
among the things that make drunk
come,' as the Indian expresses it, ether,
cocaine, eau de cologne, iodine, opium,
hasheesh, paraffin kerosene, and even
such seemingly innocuous substances
as cod liver oil and castor oil. 1t would
seem almost incredible that there could
be such thing as kerosene inebriety
or cod liver oil intoxication, but the
records of scientific research, as set
forth by DR.. Kerr, are not to be dis
puted. The fact seems to be that over
indulgence in any one of the numerous
substances known generally as para
triples, begets cumulative appetite,
and that this Is accompanied in time
by functional arrangement, and worse
still, by slackening and weakening of
moral fibre. Tea, coffee, and tobacco,
while less injurious to most people than
alcohol or opium or ether, serve to IL
Illustrate the familiar saying that the
appetite grows by what it feeds on.
The tobacco habit, the coffee habit, the
tea habit may grow on one until what
was once a want becomes an actual
need, and each is as necessary to the
comfort IL not to the health of the
devotee as food itself.
Success, in treating burns, says a
writer in Youths Companion, depends
upon the completeness with which the
irritation is arrested and the air ex-
cluded. If caused by heat the part
should Immediately be wrapped Ia
some substance that will effectually ex-
clude the air, which becomes n source
Of irritation to the raw flesh. This may
be done very simply and easily by cot
ton wadding soaked in carron-oil; or, II
these articles are not at hand the burn
may be sprinkled literally with baking
soda, starch or even -four, with just
enough water added afterward to make
thick paste. All blisters should be
slightly pricked before the part is
dressed. After the wound has been
smeared with some one of the above
preparations 1t may be lightly covered
with cotton wadding. The dressing
should be removed daily, and the part
carefully washed with weak solution
of carbolic acid-say from three to five
per cent and re-dressed. Burns
caused by acids or other irritating sub
stances should be Immediately i'm
mersed in running water, that the irri-
tant may be diluted and carried off
If the burn Is severe or extensive there
will be symptoms of a constitutional
disturbance Of proportional severity
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or collapse which should be treated
with stimulants and hot applications to
the heart and extremities. Within
forty-eight hours the stage of reac.
tion and Inflammation usually occurs
and we have as accompanying symp.
toms, fever and inflammation of any
of the organs of the body IL the trouble
grows worse, after about fortnight
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