Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-09-12
BLOOD IS LIFE,
Nourishing Food Necessary to Healthy
Brains and Bodies.

SlOOO - LIFE.
Sourishing Food Necessary to Healthy
Brains and Bodies.
Science has done a great deal for this
day and generation, but in few places
has it wrought to more advantage than
where it has learned that many things
we once took for willfulness and sin
are in reality disease. This, however,
is not by any means an excuse TO the
victim of the disease, since most dis
eases are durable, and the sufferer has
to take steps to cure them.
1t is none the less a great thing to
know that our poor lazy boy, who
would not set one foot before another
If he had his way, and who never takes
the initiative in anything, and loves
his ease above all other considerations,
is really an invalid, and that his lazi-
ness is disease which has its seat in
certain nervous centers, and when
those nervous centers are in healthy
condition he will be as active and in
dustrious as his romping brother. In
deed, when those who all their lives
have been quick and alert find them
selves lingering about all their doings,
and full of Wis inertia, when other
wise apparently in usual health, they
may often recognize ar early symptom
of disease that needs the physicians
attention at once.
But much more serious matters than
Incidence and love of ease are now
known to be matters of degenerate
health, and were once thought to be
sin. Thus, in very many cases. the
drunkard-that is, the periodical
drunkard-is understood to be afflicted
with disease, which is as insufferable
to himself as to those who best love
him, and when he finds this out and
submits to treatment, as for disease,
he is more often cured than otherwise.
We lately read of case where
child developing kleptomania was
cured by a rich diet, with great deal
of sugar, the naughtiness being occa-
stoned by defect in the blood, for
which she was not responsible. We
ourselves have known an exceedingly
nervous and irritable child of poor pa
rents ordered, with good results, to
eat nuts in quantity, the system need
ing-the oil to be had in that way, and
to be had in such small portions al
time as to be easily absorbed and as
simulated, in order to feed and appease
the nerves. And we all know that
nervous patients are given rich food.
with much milk and eggs, and that the
modern treatment of the insane is of
the same character.
Many a forward and disagreeable
child might be transformed into gentle
amiability If all this were remembered,
and its food were made not merely di-
gestible, but nourishing to that por-
ton of its frame most in need of nour-
ishmentl A low state of the blood
seems to mean a low state of the whole
system, involving the mental and the
moral as well as the physical, and
often showing, in the first two rather
than in the latter, anamia-by which
we mean an insufficient supply of the
red globules of the blood, having i'm
poverishing effect upon one organ or
another, now those which minister 20
the merely physical wants, now those
that have to do with the moral life,
now with the brain and the nervous
and intellectual life.
Something of the consequences of
this evil can be frustrated by watch
full observance of the food we give our
children, and the result of this or that
pabulum. Some food, seemingly hearty
and sufficient, may be of a sort they do
not assimilate. and is therefore of no
use to them at all, and II is only by
observation that we can discover that
which makes blood and flesh for them,
and that from which they extract only
enough nourishment to support life,
leaving them prey to the ravages of
the enemy. Thus many child is re-
ally starving in the midst of plenty.
He is given everything that is hearty
and plain, but his system Graves the
sweetmeat; or he is fed on delicacies,
and needs grains and rich meat juices.
The mother who allows her little girl |
to hurry off to school after sip of tea |
or milk, carrying a bit of bread and |
butter in her hand, having provided |
herself with no fuel for the days fires,
and lets it go on so day after day, very |
likely with a sort of vanity in the |
child's lack of robust appetite, Will |
have occasion soon to feel a corre |
spending vanity in the child's delicate
look, and need not be surprised II her |
insufficient breakfast, eaten In nerv-
Gus haste, has laid the foundation of |
ailments that VIII harass their pos
SCISSOR for the rest of her life. What |
perhaps no doctor can cure, the mother
could have prevented by good break
fast eaten slowly, by a sufficient
luncheon, by an effort to find out
what it was that nourished the child
the most, by remembering that the
blood is the life, and seeing to it that
the blood shall be rich and red and |
strong. Bazaar.