The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-09
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the cauisteTs He tested the snuff. ana
discovered that the fire had largely i'm
proved it's pungency and aroma. he Sc
cured another shop. built himself lot
Of ovens. subjected the snum 10 a heat
ing process, gave the brand a particular
name, and in a few years became rich
through an accident
in the British Medical Journal a Paris
correspondent says that at least $3.50 ply
sicians in France are battling with star
walton, and he adds that physicians them
selves are largely responsible for this
state OF affairs They have taught
lady patrOnesses Of different societies to
lagnOSe diseases to dress and bandage
wounds. 10 vaccinate their own children,
and those Of their neighbOrs- Medical
science is vulgarized in every way Doc
tors write in important daily papers eX-
planning how bronchitis and cramps of
the stomach are 10 be cured, and IN FASH
ion journals they teach how to cure PIN
pies and avert headaches Furthermore,
they have urged that hospital treatment
be paid at the rate Of Is. ID. per day; the
middle classes profit by this tariff to be-
come hospital patients, their conscience
at ease since they pay. Five hundred
thousand gratuitous consultations are
given yearly in Paris dispensaries, and in
this way large amount of fees Is d.
verted from the medical profession"
The seventy-two races inhabiting the
world communicate with each other in
3.00i different tongues. and confess TO
1000 religions saws the Medical Record.
The number of men and women is very
nearly equal. the average longevity Of
both sexs being only thirty-eight years,
about one-third of the population dying
before the age of II. Moreover accord
ing to the most careful computation. only
one person in 100000 of both sexes attains
the age of 100 years, and only 6 to in 100
the age of 81. The total population of the
earth is estimated at about 100. 600, 900
souls. of whom 322l4,OO die annually. e.,
an average of S,S4S "A day, 1920 an hour.
and 81 a minute. The annual number of
birth, on the other hand, is estimated at
Sb,ty2Wc-i. e., an average of 100,S00 a day,
AGO an hour, and 20 a minute Generally,
taking the entire world, married people
live longer than SINGLE and those who
have TO work hard for their living longer
than those who do not. while also the av-
erage rate of longevity is higher among
civilized than uncviliZed races. Further.
people of large physique live longer than
those of small, but those of middle size
beat them both.
1T is not so many years." said the pro-
fessor to the New York Press, "since the
idea was generally prevalent that our
dogs are simply domesticated wolves. We
now know that this is wrong. AS he is
to-day the dog is most thoroughly the
creature OF man. Originally, of course
he was a wild animal, but always dis
tinctly a dog. He is comparatively re-
cent in his appearance, but he is well de-
hned even in his earliest state. Fossil re-
mains of him have been found in France
and Belgium, and the biologists of the
United States geological survey in the
cies, ranging in size from one so small
that is could curl up in ones hand to an
other as large as bear. The belief that
a dog howls around a house just before
the death of an inmate is one of the re-
mains Of the old star worship of primeVaI
times. Then II was said that the soul of
men Travelled along the Milky Way toward
the home af the bleSt under guidance OF
big dog. And all dogs watched for the
departure of the soul The spectral dog
is heard of everywhere and under a great
variety of forms. He is wild and shaggy,
and at times one can hear him rushing
through the air uttering unearthly howls,
particularly when the wind is high. But
wherever you find the dog, he is al
ways more the companion than the SER
want of man. He lives with the family,
and the hearthstone is his throne; for it
| he fights fearlessly."
-One of the contingencies of modern
civilization which is almost entirely new
and is wholly dependent upon the devel-
| opment of modern industry is the treat
ment of accidents from electric shocks,
says the Medical Record. The matter has
been discussed quite thoroughly by physi-
clans in this country, but 1t. has been
worked out perhaps more systematically
| by DIR. D'ArsonVal of Paris, who has re-
Gently made a report to the Academic de
Medicine of Paris upon the method of
| treating persons injured by electrical
| shocks. D'Arsonval states that electricity
| causes death sometimes by disruptive and
electrolytic effects of the charge on the
| tissues. This death is final. 1t sometimes
however, causes death Indirectly by arrest
of respiration and syncope, caused by
| stimulation of the nerve centeTs. Under
| these circumstances a person may be re-
| ViVed If proper measures are applied. The
formula for reviving the victim of electric
shock is that: The person so disabled
should be treated like one drowned; in
| other words, he should be laid upon the
| back and artificial respiration performed
in the way that is ordinarily prescribed
| Some further practical advice, however
| is given to those who are called at once
| to the scene of the accident and at the
| time when the person is perhaps still in
contact with the wires. OF course tine
| first thing to be done is to stop the cur
rent or break the contact In doing the
| latter one should not touch the victim
| on the face or hands, or any naked part of
| the body. 1t is better to lift him by the
| coat-tail or to throw a blanket over him
| and pull him by this. Nothing that is
| wet should be thrown upon him and if his
| clothes are wet, the hands should not be
| put in contact with them. A piece of dry
| wood can be placed under the body and
| he can then be lifted. The further treat
| ment of the case is the familiar one an
| piled in attempting to restore the drowned
| The arms are worked and the tongue is
| kept drawn out; the body may sometimes
| be rubbed thoroughly with cloth OF.
brush ls IN IN order to increase the circulation
| OF the blood. Oxygen and perhaps slim
ulant may be employed
The shrimp is a scavenger; it will eat
almost anything, says the New York Sun
seen in aquarium tanks to seize a niece
of food weighing more than itself. If
this scrap should be lying on the bottom
the shrimp in its first effort upon sWoop
ing down upon it might raise it clear and
| then be compelled to drop it, or to sink
! with 1t again to the bottom, there TO at
| tack it piecemeal The shrimp is often put
in aquarium tanks to help keen them
clean; it seeks out and eats neglected
scraps and little bits of food put in for
other marine animals but which the 9TH
ers may have missed, and which may have
settled down into crevices or other bv
places. But while the shrimp is thus use
full as scavenger it is necessary at
| feeding time to see that it does not get also
| the food intended for other animals: the
shrimp is exceedingly quick in movement.
and it may dart down and seize the food
out of the grip of an animal much larger
than itself, and it would be equally ready
to take food from a helpless sea anemone
or the fighting crab. A tiny shrimp would
not for moment hesitate to feed upon
dead fish held in the grasp of a lobster.
trusting to its agility to escape if the
lobster should resent the intrusion. But
while the shrimp is able and does hold its
own remarkably well for one of its size.
life is Dy means all plaina SafIirer for A.