The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1897-11-07

rcheclth li any one how
lml sable O. Asa matter
9t Ia ihc e. in pace by no
fewer tirn .A muscles. and. IN
.rrder '0 turn "a IL OF The socket, al
teas IoW OF o. YOU have 90 be
,ut thfcnEh. a.. u 90 connected
with ihc .r'Ii ,lica nerve which
iani To- str, and II Ga also con-
oeci VI m "a, de OF tie skull by
blood vessels. AL n these were cut
they would never be reunited Per-
haps a time viii come when q dead
man can De- re- red 20 life: but you
may feel poriec sure that the re-
moval and restoration Of the eye Is a
surgical feat THAI will never be per-
formed
hSher extraordinary popular be-
hef u thr respecting the nature Of a
common cold. You will hear the most |
Intelligent men saying that II IL due to
an exc o. cold inside your body. and |
they Will advise you TO use a mustard |
plaster 10 draw out the cold In re- |
aliiy. the cold Ia simply an excess OF /
heat inside and the mustard plaster h |
Intended TO draw out the heat. what |
happens when you SET cold IL that |
the cooling Of the outside Of the body
squeezes the blood vessels and forces
Tot more blood into the lungs than
can be accommodated. They become
regularly aooded and gorged. and the
result Is really fever. though We call
Il cold.
IL seems a small thing 10 make
mistake about the value Of beef tea 10
sick man. but ! can assure you that
hundreds Of lives have been lost
\ through the popular error that beef tea
- nourishing food Il Is nothing
~ 4 than WatCr In which the pleasant
Stimulating salts ~ the beef are
solved and has the same effect az a
lnlriure Of whisky and China tea. hut
has scarcely a particle Of nutriment
and both doctors and public have
starved 10 death more people than IA
NE 70 state through believing that Il
has
Very similar Is the belief that an
sgg d a. good a. a pound Of beef n
yon feed yourself on eggs. according TO
this absurd theory. you will simply
shflvel up into skin and bone The
real value OF an egg Is its weight IN
good beef. 10 that u would take eight
eegs of the average size 90 supply the
place of a pound Of meat.
Then there Is the universal fallacy
about the ,liyer. ! dare say that mill
.cioa Of IAney H. spent every year on
ihe nvers Of this country and about
0lno hundred thousand OF that sum
ioes harm Instead Of good Tho liver
b subject 10 about one hundred dis
y saeos and the cure Tor any one OF these
shay intensity the other OF the ninety
alne To take one ease AS an example
The liver may be- making too much
ollie. or u may be- making too little
Obviously. the remedy for one Of these
disorders would make the other wors,
han ever SO that when a person rec
Smmends something a. being good Tor
ne liver just think that q may b,
god Tor bic liver. but not Tor yours.
Women are Gar worse than men Ia
their beliefs about the body and rs all
ments ] am quite sure that out Of
every 100 children who dies under
year old ATTY are actually kille,
through the mothers belief that food Il
DOT uourlshing unless Il Is solid The
don't understand that milk has an I'm
nense amount OF solid matter dlssolv
"a In Il. a. sugar Is dissolved In water
and 20 they give the unfortunate chill
aren corn -four and bread. which the,
can no more digest than they could al
Fest iron nails. The result Ia a shor
life OF misery and then death. Will
those Of rs who manage 90 surviv
are made martyrs TO dyspepsia all on
days
Many beliefs are merely ahsur
without being dangerous Hair. Cor IN
stance. Il composed Of almost the sam
material a. the anger nails and Il
perfectly dead. Cutting the ends Of
cannot possibly make Il grow. Al
though u does prevent the hair froI
splitting up; nor can the hair becom
white In a night any more than a vii
when noyelists, too, by he way. d
scribe a persons hair as standing o
md they speak OF a phenomenon thi
- perfectly impossible Many Of N
lower animals have little muscles a
,achcd TO the hairs by which they ca
erect them. but human beings have q
such muscles. nor any other means
making the hair stand on end excel