Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1896-08-13
7aE FAMILY DOCTOR.

hot WATER FOR COLD9s--Or. 0eOrBo
r. Shephe l.. Hartford, Connecticut,
says, in respect to the use of hot water
as remedial agent in the treatment OF
inflammation of the mucous membrane,
Il have used hot water as u gargle for
the past six or eight years. In acute
pharyngitis and tonsilitis, and in coryza,
or cold in the head, if properly used in
commencement Of the attack, it con-
stitutes one of our most effective reme-
dies, being frequently promptly cura-
tive. osbe of service it should be used
in considerable quantity "a half pint or
q pint at time), and just as hot as the
throat will tolerate. / have seen many
cases of acute disease thus aborted, and
san commend the method with great
confidence" tfs
CHE HEALTH OF CHILDREN.-There
are very few newspapers nowadays
that are printed on the departments
plan, that 10 not have sanitary coll
umn. With the growing completely Of
our civilization, disease has become
more complex. Instead of being car
ried off in the old fashioned way by q
fever which runs its course with the
regularity of clock-work, people die OF
high-pressure nervous diseases with
new names. They drop down so sud
denly that the. sole remaining duty OF
the physician is to explain how it hap
pened and how it might have been pre-
vented. And so medicine, while it is q
curative art, is coming to be more and
more a preventative science. We have
much health literature; essays on 'the
little health of womcn;" columns OF
advice from the doctor, telling the over
worked business man which way lies
madness. In the midst of all this
there would seem tobe nothing of more
Importance than the health of the
children. and yet, when the perils of the
nursery are past, scarcely enough at
tention has been bestowed upon grow
ing children. Probably no one has
ever given more valuable information
on this subject than the noted physician
Edmund A. Parker, who died some five
years since.e His luminous definition
of health, shat it is not merely free
dom from bodily, pain, it is the capacity
of receiving pleasure from all surround
ing things, and from the employment
of all our faculties" denotes the mind
of the master. Writing of children, he
lays great emphasis on the necessity Of
frequent feeding. In the period Of
growth, he says, the utmost limit be-
tween meals during the day should
be four hours. The compaction of
all school works into the hours
from nine to one is far more for
the convenience of the teachers than
for the good of the children, and often
postpones the times for food. After
school life commences children do not
generally get deliberate meals often
enough. The food should mostly get
into the blood during the period of ex-
ertion and during growth; breakfast
and then gormandizing of education
is more than a breach of physical ETH
quette. He enumerates, after rapid
analysis of bodily wants, the kinds of
food that best supply those wants.
Nitrogen is the most important of the
physical basis of life. Therefore, eat
the foods that most contain it, as the
muscles of animals, fish, milk, the albu-
men of eggs and the gluten of grains.
Let boy from ID to Is eat meat morn
ing and noon, and for the rest oat meal,
rice, milk and cheese. He puts the
amount of meat at from ten to twelve
ounces, uncooked, and at pound for q
boy of Is. An ounce to year, from
five years on to twenty-one, is his gem
eral rule for meat-eating. He empha-
sizes the value of oat meal; one and q
quarter pound of it being equal in nitro
gen and fat to one pound of uncooked
meat. Indian corn is even richer in
these constituents. For bodily work
and for animal heat the starch and sugar
group are needed. Beginning with
youth, he would give eight hours to
sleep, four to meals, and the rest to ex-
ercise. OF the latter he says half the
time may be given to mental and moral
and half to bodily exercise. A refresh
ing freedom from materialism pervades
his writings. Otherwise he would
scarcely suggest regular hours for men
tai and moral exercise. The manual on
the Personal Care of HEALTH" from
which these extracts are condensed,
might we'll be text book And not
the least valuable of its statements is
this concluding one: ut cannot be
sufficiently known that young women
ought to be physically trained as care
fully as young men. They will never
have the same stretch, nor is it meant
that it should be so, but they ought to
have strong, firm. muscles and we'll de-
veloped chests and backs. These things
can never come without bodily labor (;
and I do not think that five or six
hours daily real exercise is not one min
ute too much even for them. "-DeS
Moines Register.