The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-19
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.
FOR THE HOUSEHOLD

Do You Any Harm.
Alphabet Guide to Health:
As soon as you are up shake blankets and
sheets;
Better be without shoes than Sit with wet
| feet;
Children, If healthy, are active, not still;
Damp sheets or damp clothes will make
| i'll;
Eat slowly. and always chew your food
well;
Freshen the air In the house where you
| dwell;
Garments must never be made to fit tight;
| Homes will be healthy IL airy and light;
If you wish to be wel-as you do, I've no
| doubt
Just open the windows before you go out;
Keep your room always tidy and clean
Let dust on the furniture never be SEEM
Much Illness is caused by the want of pure
| air;
Now to open your windows be ever your
| care;
Old rags and old rubbish should never be
| kept:
People should see that their floors are well
swept;
Quick movements in children are healthy
and right;
Remember the young cannot thrive with
| out light;
See that the cistern is clean to the brm;
Take care that your dress is all tidy and
Use your nose to find out if there be n bad
| drain;
Very sad are the fevers that come in its
train:
Walk as much as you can without feel
ing fatigue;
Xerxes could walk fully many league;
,,..l,
| wisdom must keep:
Zeal will help good cause, and the good
you will reap. Exchange.
One of natures cheapest specifics is
plain hot water. IF / were asked
what woman's best friend is" said one
doctor recently, Il should say hot
water If she drinks hot water an
hour before her breakfast she will be
able to ward off dyspepsia. If she
drinks hot water Favored with lemon
and sweetened with sugar when she has
been out in the cold she will ward off
chills. The same agreeable medicine
taken early enough in the progress of
q cold will stop it. When a nervous
headache makes the forehead throb
and the back of the neck ache hot
water will relieve the pain For tired
eyes, inflamed eyelids and styes," con-
tinued the doctor nothing is so good
as hot water. The eyes should be
sopped with cloth dipped in boiling
water Sprains may be relieved greatly
by soaking the afflicted member in hot
water for half an hour at u time and
then binding it with a flannel .bandage.
Bruises yield to much the same treat
| Ipru king ig ~
necessary. Wounds and sores may be
treated by pouring hot water on them
for a few minutes at time. Very hot
water applied to bleeding cut Will
stop the flow of blood frequently. Then
for mere comfort" he went on, rev
things equal hot water a rubber bag
full of it makes one Indifferent to cold.
Wrapped in flannel and put on the
floor of a carriage it is invaluable she
who suffers from cold feet at night has
but to fill q hot water bag to know what
comfort is. Sufferers from sleepless-
ness find themselves deliciously drowsy
after a hot bath. Wrinkles flee before
II. and blackheads vanish before its
constant use. Great is hot water
French sanitarians are just now con-
siderably agitated over the question OF
bedbugs. DR.. Felix Bremond argued be-
fore the Commission of Hygiene that
the bedbug is a nuisance and cause
of disease, and so thoroughly convinced
the commission of the correctness OF
his ideas that the determination OF the
bedbug in infested lodging houses was
ordered forthwith. But the lodging
house keepers had become so much at
tached to the society of this cheerful
pet that they entered q vigorous pro-
test to the demands of the commission,
and contested the decision in the courts
and with the result that the municipal
council and the state council reversed
the decision of the commission of hy-
giene, and thus the bugs were delivered
: from the imminent peril which threat
! ened them, and the tenants of cheap
lodging houses in Paris still furnish
food for these hungry phlebotomists
: Drs Bremond and De Wevere have
T made careful study of the relation OF
/, bedbugs to health, and have shown
! that this loa thsome insect is a menace
to health, not only by reason of the
loss of sleep and Of blood directly at.
/, tributable to its rawlings, but alsc
' through its becoming the means OF
transmitting the microbes of tubercu
losis. This is question which, in the
opinion of the Medical News, ought tC
\ receive the attention of the sanitary
!, authorities In our great cities. 1t ha:
Q long been known that flies may com
q municate cholera, charbon and othei
I infections, as erysipelas and possibl!
yellow fever. 1t has also been known
J. that earthworms are a means of dis
pcnsing chabon infections. Mosquftoe
convey certain animal parasites as ia
larla; possibly also the parasites o
malaria. 1t Is possible that many in
Gus activity. This is matter t
which sanitarlans may well give con
sideration.
To avoid illness while on q holiday
! the following hints will be useful: /
: on long holiday, and frequentl
changing your hotel, take, your owI
sheets with you, say two pairs, al
wool. They do not take up much room
e in your boxes, and they are a YER
] great safeguard and comfort. Yo
may then bid defiance not only I
colds, but rheumatism and even fever
n At the majority of hotels they are no
even particular in airing the sheets
Sometimes they put little starch 4
them. You might as well sleep unde
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