The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-25
RANDOM REMARKS ON
HEALTH AND HYGIENE

RANDOM REMARKS ON
HEALTH AND HYGIENE
There's n cunning young bacillus and
natty little germ,
Or some frisky diatoma or a microscopic
worm,
Or some scientific wonder dragging round
Latin term.
In our food and air and water and, by
Jings' 1t makes me squirm.
And the sun will be much colder in about
million years,
And a portion of earth's moisture slowly
dries ard disappears.
And its crust is slowly cooling and excites
our human fears,
So, by jings! you needn't wonder IL II fills
my eyes with ;ears.
In a hundred carnations man will have
no teeth at all
And his skull will be as naked as a shiny
billiard ball;
His superfluous toes will vanish, he will
be but four feet tall,
So, by jings! you cannot wonder If my
flesh begins to crawl.
He will travel with electrlcs, bicycles and
cable cars;
With his airships he will wander like a
meteor mid the stars
He will open navigation on the waterways
of Mars.
And by jings! where will you stop him
when he once let's down the bars?
And now Edison's inventng patent food,
and I'll be blessed
If it won't knock out the farmers and the
wheat fields of the West;
And this baby ncubator-and perhaps
that way is best,
But I'll go to Philadelphia, where my
brain can take o. rest.
"A. T. Worden, in Judge.
For burns nothing can equal lime and
lard. Take sifted air-sacked lime and
mix with lard. Spread on a cloth. If
the burn is deep, must make another
plaster at once to lay on. AS soon
as the lard gets warm it will begin
to burn again. Scrape the plasters o.l
and mix in more fresh lime. After the
wound quits burning the plasters
should be kept on and will heal the
sore. Air-slacked lime is valuable and
should be kept in the house at all
times, as it affords instant relief for
burns.
The appetite for alcohol can be diss-
pated by eating apples at every meal,
says a physician. Apples, if eaten in
large quantities, possess properties
which entirely do away with the crav-
ing that all confirmed drunkards have
for drink. The doctor says under his
notice he has been able to effect a cure
by this means, the patient gradually
losing all dPSira for al
o
Professor Snellison says that only 900
persons in 100000 according to med
ical authority die from old age, while
1,2O0 succumb to gout, Is, 400 to measles,
2,1OO to apopleXy, 1000 to erysipelas,
$500 to consumption, $4,000 to scarlet
fever, $4,000 to whooping-cough, 10000
to typhoid and typhus, and 1000 to
rheumatism. The averages vary ac-
cording to locality, but these are con-
sidered accurate as regards the pop
ulation of the globe as a whole.
o
DR.. Donlin, in speaking of a man
VINO recently dropped dead while riding
on his wheel, said: ! found that the
immediate cause. of death was heart
disease, but 1 am of opinion that If he
al WOul0
be alive today. Bicycling is apt to be
a violent form of exercise, and no
person suffering from heart disease
should ride a wheel"
Professor Bilslik says: Linseed oil is
| a good thing for corns. A piece of
lint damped with the oil should be
wrapped round the part and kept con-
stantly applied. 1t gives great relief
where the corn is soft, and is not long
in eradicating it.
Middle-aged and all old persons and
those with weak hearts and impaired
lungs have often experienced a feeling
| of suffocation when there is too much
water in the atmosphere Those who
| breathe 1t are, to a certain extent, de-
| prived of their due supply of oxygen.
| The air of bed rooms is exceedingly
| liable to be oVercharged with watery
Vapor, the most obvious reason being
| that many bed rooms are never
warmed with fires, and that their win
dows are often left open until dusk, and
sometimes even to the hour of going
to bed. A delicate or an aged person
| leaves, say, at IL 80, a sitting room in
| NlllSi pllC lSlilpCldlult was 90 utSISeSt
and enters a cold damp bed room
with a temperature of say 3S degrees.
The air in the sitting room was dry,
perhaps a little too dry. The air in
the bed room is loaded with cold, wat
cry vapor. So soon as the person en-
ters the bed room he chol1es and gasps
and coughs for half an hour at least,
and sometimes brings ON such an at
tack of asthma, or, as he calls 1t
"stuffness" OF the chest. that he can
hardly breathe at all. He may even
lose his nights sleep, and be i'll for
some days after such an exposure.
Common sense says Make am effort
to bring the atmosphere of the bed
room nearer in point both Of dryness
and of warmth to the atmosphere of
the sitting room, and then the occupant
will neither gasp nor choke nor cough,
but will 60 to sleep with ease and
| comfort"
meteorological science has, says the
| New York Tribune freed the world