The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-03

| ment and How Anti-TO1in is
Made.
/ The following treatise on prophylasis,
1 or the art CT preventing disease, by Ut:
! Harry n. Mayo, at one time member ol
I The Herald staff, and now OF the ohiVer-
sity OF Maryland, is both interesting anu
! practical. 1t is we'll worth careful STUDY,
and rigid application OF the tenets lala
down would undoubtedly be toAioweu pS
most gratifying results:
prevention Better Than Cure
IAN ounce OF prevention is better thah d
pound OF cure" everyone dulllto, ~
lnere is always great reieStailce 49, 49,
taxing the nrsC named d05e, because oilS
,.ortauS 10 pld the cevA Soou HloIiuHS
before ne meets MIN. INV ey.Si' - ~ 60
! would try as earnestly to prevent ulotdSe
as they do TO cure III heiAaAAeS "ooAu
suffer inuch less ..,,u 1oodo many
Ihe saustacuon of eating ledds HIdut' !
IN the graIlnCdJlOn OF their aPPstleJ 70
load the stomach until they can narQly
breathe. Ane appetlte shooid always oe
held III allegiance 10 gOOd judgment, anu
where cniioren are concerned the parents
| should look Web 10 Inc amount they saI
as we'll as to the quality OF the 1ood. loo
! frequently children are called IN from
/ Inelr play and allowed TO gulp down food
half masticadng it They know they
/ liluDL eau CtIlu II ldhoO ilLtlC bOllPul0lNli
I 10 make them do 50, but they don't al
ways know when to stop.
! The taste is pleased by food one likes.
and it will be satisfied when sufficient is
! eaten if each mouthfil is Wei cheWed be-
( fore 1t is swallowed, for this sense is
! Ike other senses and can be satisfied
| with a suf11ciency ana tired with an ex-
I cess. A large norsel taken into the mouth
which plea5eS the taste, and swallowed
I quickly does not give its share of stimu-
laion to the sense of taste, and conse-
| Quently SO much is taken that the Stom-
ach, replete and distended is overloaded.
| The result is dySpnoea, and the sufferer
! generally IooSenS his Waistband to give
him more latitude, though even this does
I not give relief. The stomach by being
4 tllled rises two or three inches at its py-
i loric end, and the entire abdominal visce-
4 "a becames turged With blood to digest
the food The liver must also be some
| what di5tended, for the entire portal Cir
! culation passes by the portal vein through
: it. The abdominal Yiscera being oyer-dis-
tended, must enCrOach upon the thoraSic
cavity and lessen its volume, therefore
4 the lungs have not enough room to fully
Il 1nf1ate and perform their functions; hence
4 the feeling of suffocation, The heart is
also impeded by having insufficient space
} for normal action. Drowsiness IS caused
/ by the deficient blood supply to the brain.
After repeated eXoesses in eating, the
> stomach becomes deranSed; dyspepsia,
gastric ulcer and various other ailments
that tend to make the injudicious unhap-
Ply, follow.
Discrimination in Eating.
Time should be taken to eat a meal.
Thirty minutes is long enough. Every
article should be we'll cfleWed in order
that the taste may be sratifed and that
) the gastric and intestinal juices may act
5 upon them more readily. Ones condition
, has vast deal to do with what he may
eat. A hard working laborer may eat
articles of food that man in an Office
could not touch. Each mans Judgment
: and experience must be his guide. Some
3, stomachs will not stand fatty foods, 9th
ers do not tolerate sWeetnneats. Some
cannot drink milk, while others cannot
of lead, and the disagreeabIe taste in the
: mouth on rising the next morning, signi-
fies deranged digestion.
j Observation Of these few hints will do
away with many restless hours and I'M
happy days, and viii perhaps prevent the
ruin Of d good disposition.
Matter Out of Place,
i Surgery has made great advances in
the past few. years by a thorough obserV-
ance of prophylaxis in the way of asepGc
and antiSeptic principles. Look at the
records of the great hospitals during re-
cent wars. When hospital 5anSrene or
erysipelas started, it was a dreaded mon
ster that swept thousands into eternity
in a very short time. Now hospital sur
geons who would allow such infectious
criminal negligence.
A surgeon, before operating on a pa
tent. should be "surgically clean" This
means something more than clean in the
conventional sense of the word; yet the
true meaning OF clean must be ConSid-
cred as we speak of the similar adjective
perfect" If a thing is clean it cannot be
cleaner. any more than If something is
perfect it cannot be any more perfect.
an operator may be clean as regards
dirt but at the same time not be free
from dangerous bacteria. IL we accept
the meaning Of the word dirt. as some
, one has wisely said, as being matter out
, DE surgically clean, for bacteria, how.
ever small, would certainly be out of
place either on the operator, his instru-
| ments, assistants or dressings. for they
would surely be conveyed to the patient
and there multiply and set I'D the dis
ease of which they are the germs.
., ProphylaAis in one class Of injuries
alone, that OF compound fracture, has
reduced the mortality from Is per cent
to 2 per cent What could be a stronger
argument for its strictest observance
) tons on Joints. when formerly they were
considered sacred precincts against the
invasion Of the scalpel
, Vaccination the Greatest Pr0phy-
| Tactic Measure.
Perhaps the greatest prophyiactic mea-
| sure ever inaugurated is that of Vaccina-
, ton against varioIo. This disease has
: been a scourge upon civilization since
long before the Christian era. For three
: centuries it was the prevalent disease in
Z anu III IHG GlSHIeeDJl century
: one-twelfth to one-sixth of the mortality
9 was due to its raYages. The disease is
prOpQgated by contaglon ana can be pro-
, dueed only by its specific organism. and
IL is almost surely communicated to per-
sons who come within the influence.
: To Edward Jenner we owe the valuable
discovery OF vaccination. 1t is not my
object TO recite a history OF the origin Of
the different pr0phylactiC remedies or
their champions: but it will not be out of
place to recall to memory the trouble
Jenner had when he gave to the profess
L sion his scheme of incubation and vac
cination. He was made the brunt Of cpl
| thets and the subject of carioature by all
: of Europe; but in less than six years
a those VINO opposed and ridiculed him
. ! most became his ardent supporters.
viii not burden the mind of the read
e ar with statistics of the past or the pres
= ! ent regarding smallpox. 1t has been SC
. great that in q hundred years it has
dropped from the most prevalent disease
: to one Of the rarest.
Con5umptiYes Should Never Marry
e The knowledge attained in bacterialogy
: has done more for prophylaXfs than any
- other cause, BY learning the causes tc
: which infectious diseases are due, it is
= sometimes possible TO prevent the disease
< by eliminating the cause. The discovery
;, of the tubercle baeilli by Koch in 1SS
:, has no doubt diminished tuberculosis, a.
II all well regulated hospitals require tn,
sputun of tubercular patients to bt
Y. burned. This on fact alone has eertainl,
" prevented the spread of the disease to
= certain extent
1t is the fond hope of the theoriSt tina
v tuberculosis will some day be stampet
t lar patient shall be prevented from ex
reotOratinQ in the stTeetg public Ulaoec