The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-17
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is that which regards the appendix as
diverticulum which readily allows of the
accumulation and stagnation of faecal
matter. This, mingling with the secre-
ton from its mucous membrane and I'M
dergoing fermentation and putrefactive
change, sets up a catarrhal Inflammation,
which may be followed by liberation and
perforation or by thickening of it's walls,
the latter condition being the one most
commonly met with in the recurrent form
of the disease The faecal concretions
found in its interior are probably the con-
sequence, not the cause, of the infamma-
ton, being due to inspissation of its con-
tents; 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 after numerous attacks
of appendicitis an abscess formed, and at
its bottom was found pin.
The organ of the German leather trade,
Der Ledermarkt, regrets. that last year
was not duly observed as the Jubilee of
the modern pocket leather purse" says
the London Daily News. The older folk
among us will remember some of the pre-
decessors of the 'portemonnaie." The
most popular of these was a knitted tube
or pipe, closed at each end, with an open
metal slip-rings. The neat and handy por-
temonnaie was the invention of a German
bookbinder's apprentice in America, Karl
Heue by name, and his novel purse first
came into the market in the year 1871 The
inventor neglected to patent his new leath-
or portemonnaie with a steel clasp, and it
was quickly imitatd all over the world,
otherwise Heue would probably have be-
come a very rich man. Since that date
bA n 10 haa
of evolutions in form, material and com
pleteness, but the young Heue, according
to the Ledermarkt, provided the germ out
of which all our modern pocket-purses
have been developed.
Cheese, says the London Family Doc
tor, is very rich and valuable food, like
ly to form very large constituent in the
future, and, especially for the working
man, to be very extensively used.
There is a difference in stomachs
in their ability to digest this article. Tho
writer is able to make an entire meal of
cheese with very little bread, and digest il
more easily than rice or oatmeal; but in
most stomachs it is less digestible, in some
extremely so. Each person must learn for
himself. 1t is a convenient form of animal
food, and, when good, particularly agree
able. There is a great difference in the
fat and heterogeneous matter. In general,
however, it may be remarked that every
variety contains a large amount of nitro
genous matter, and it is for this that it Is
especially useful as a food. Skim milk
cheese is especially rich in this constitu-
ent but less rich in fat. Those who alb
stain from flesh food will find in cheese
abundance of heterogeneous matter to take
the place of that found in flesh.
Some uses of the simple remedy, water,
are thus detailed in the Bulletin of Phar-
macy: A strip of flannel or a soft nap
kin, folded lengthwise and dipped in hot
water and wrung out, and then applied
around the neck of a child that has the
Group, will surely bring relief in few
minutes. A proper towel folded several
times and dipped in hot water, quickly
wrung and applied over the site of tooth
ache or neuralgia, will generally afford
prompt relief. This treatment for collie
has been found to work like magic. Moth
! ing so promptly cuts short a 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 excel
| lent cathartic in the case of constipation,
while it has a soothing effect upon the
stomach and bowels. This treatment, con-
a cup of hot water slowly slipped naf
| an hour before each meal with proper
! attention to diet, will cure most cases Of
| dyspepsia. Ordinary headaches almost al
ways yield to the simultaneous applicH-
ton of hot water to the feet and back Of
! the neck.
The impurities that affect the quality of
water for domestic purposes, writes Lloyd
| nav-ic In tba Irno~ipaayipo NToga1ira ara
inorganic and decomposing vegetable and
animal matter and the miero-organis of
| disease. Some of these exist in harmful
| quantities in the water of many streams
and in other sources that flow through, or
originate in, rich agricultural or swampy
| land and densely- populated districts A
small amount of fine, non-silicious mud or
silt in drinking water is not known to pro-
duce disease, and is Objectionable only
| from an aesthetic standpoint But the
| large amount of angular particles of sand
and decaying vegetation. found in some
streams is frequently productive of intesti-
! nal disturbances, like Inflammation of the
| bowels diarrhoea and dysentery; and any
water that is distinctly turbid should be
regarded as non-potable, until it has been
clarified and freed of its organic matter.
At certain seasons some algae produce
! disagreed BILE taste and odor that make it
/
while nearly all decaying vegetable matter
! favors the production of intermittent and
malarial fevers. Malaria was once thought
! to be only of aerial origin, but the fore
most investigators now attribute it also to
stagnant water containing an abundance
/ of decaying vegetable matter. The cele-
! brated case of the Arso and the inVesti-
! cations made by DR.. Richard H. Lewis of
! North Carolina, and others, show in many
cases the water origin of this disea Sc; and
malaria is liable to exist wherever the tenn
perature is high the vegetable growth
! large, and the country low and fiat.
DR. R. J. Calling, the inventor of the
rapid-fre gun bearing his name is now
making al Cleveland an eight-inch cannon,
which, he declares. viii be both better and
cheaper than either segmental or built
UP weapons, says the New York Times
1t will be cast in a single piece by a new
! process, and the material used is new
| alloy whose constituents and proportions
! are still secret The rif1ing is to be done
in tho navy yard factory at Washington
and, when completed, il will be taken to
! Sandy Hook and mounted on one of the
carriages used for built-up gums. DR.. Cat