Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-06-09

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of aerial origin, but the foremost in
vestigations now attribute it also to
stagnant water containing an album
dance of decaying vegetable matter.
! The celebrated case of the Argo, and
the Investigations made by DR.. Rich
! ard II. Lewis of North Carolina, and
others, show in many case the water
origin of this disease; and malaria is
| liable to exist wherever the tempera
/ ture is high, the vegetable growth
large, and the country low and fiat.
| Cheese, says the London Family
Doctor, is very rich and valuable
food, likely to form a large constituent
in the future, and, especially for the
workingman, be yerr extensively
used There is a difference in stomachs
III their ability to digest this article.
| The writer is able to make an entire
meal of cheese with very little bread,
and digest it more easily than rice
or oatmeal; but in most stomachs it
is less digestible, in some, extremely
so. Each person must learn for him
self. 1t is a convenient form of ami
NAL food and, when good, particu-
lary agreeable. There is a great
difference in the composition of
cheese both in it's water, fat and nj
trogenous matter. In general how
ever, 1t may be remarked that every
variety contains large amount of
heterogeneous matter, and it is for this
that it is especially useful as food.
! Skim milk cheese is especially rich
in this constituent, but less rich in
| fat. Those who abstain from flesh
food will find in cheese abundance
! of heterogeneous matter to take the
place of that found in flesh.
The idea quite generally prevails,
says writer in Modern Medicine,
! that the milk of the goat is more
readily digestible than that of the
COW, and that the goat may render
valuable service in cases of bottle
fed infants with whom cows milk
does not agree. Goats milk differs
from cows milk not in being more di-
gestible, but in being less digestible
and less nutritious, although it con-
tains larger amount of solid matter
than cows milk. 1t is indeed the most
indigestibe of all milk. 1t has a
peculiar and unpleasant odor and
| flavor, due to heroic acid or herein.
| l. contains an excess of fat, and is
| therefore altogether too rich for an
infants diet, being very likely to give
rise to diarrhoea, vomiting and other
! symptoms of indigestion. Its in
! digestibili y is due TO the fact that it
forms exceedingly hard and tough
| Curds. The cream of cows milk, well
steriI2ed and properly diluted via
water, is much to be perferred to the
milk of goats, which Is employed in
stead of cows milk only in coun-
generally introduced or cannot be
easily maintained, and among those
who, on account of poverty are un-
able to keep a COW.
OF the various theories advanced
| to account for appendicitis, writes DR..
George Heaton in the Lancet, the
most probable is that which regards
the appendix as a diverticulum which
readily allows of the accumulation
and stagnation of faecal matter This,
/ mingling with the secretion from its
mucous membrane and undergoing fer
mentation and putrefactive change,
sets up catarrhal inflammation
which may be followed by liberation
and perforation or by thickening of it's
walls, the latter condition being the
/ most commonly met with in the
lecurrent form of the disease. The
faecal concretions found in its inte-
rior are probably the consequence, not
the cause of the Inflammation, being
due TO inspissation of it's contents;
! but, once formed there, they no doubt
! tend to excite and keep up the re-
| current attacks. Though foreign
bodies rarely lodge in the appendix,
in one of the cases mentioned an alb
scess formed, and at its bottom was
found a pin.
Some uses of the simple remedy,
water, are thus detailed in the Bull
letin of Pharmacy. A strip of fan
mel or soft napkin, folded length
wise and dipped in hot water and
wrung out, and then applied around
the neck of child that has the Group,
will surely bring relief in few MIN
utes. A proper towel folded several
times and dipped in hot water, quick
Is wrung and applied over the site
I of toothache or neuralgia, will gem
orally afford prompt relief. This
treatment for collie has been found to
work like magic, Nothing so prompt
ly cuts short congestion of the
lungs, sore throat or rheumatism as
hot water when applied early in the
case and thoroughly. Hot water taken
freely half an hour before bedtime
is an excellent cathartic in the case
of constipation, while it has a sooth-
ing effect upon the stomach and
bowels. This treatment, continued a
few months, with the addition of a
cup of hot water slowly slipped half