Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-02-13

those whose digestive powers will al
low it, but such persons should keep
IN mind that the strongest stomach
may be abused too far, while those
whose stomachs are alreaoy unequal to
a severe strain should be especially
careful as to the quantity of fluid i'm
bibed with the food. The saliva is the
best lubricator for the food while it IS
in the mouth, both because OF its
starch-digestive powers and because
its alkalinity serves to stimulate CO.
pious flow Of the acid secretion of the
stomach. Any habit, therefore, which
permits the entrance OF food into the
stomach before it is thoroughly in
corporated with saliva must be pro-
nOUnced pernicious in the extreme. If
we cannot afford the time necessary
for masticating our food properly and
Incorporating it with saliva, it would
be better to take nothing but bro1hs
and similar foods. The use Of water
and other liquids as lubricators is not
to be tolerated. On the other hand,
if we bear in mind the whole mechan-
ism Of digestion, it will readily be
seen that in case of weakness or want
of tone on the part of the muscles OF
the stomach, when every part of the
food cannot be properly presented to
the action Of the digestive juices, the
Introduction into the stomach of a
moderate amount of water may be Of
no slight benefit. The mass of food
will become more pliable, and so more
easily operated upon by the weakened
muscles.
The following example of water
cure is given: Most authorities agree
that the majority of people drink too
tenn, while some physicians of high
repute insist, also, that it is not the
temperature or the brand but the pure
water alone that is beneficial At any
rate, we have all seen wonderful cures
resulting from the regular and persist
ent use of water. | recall young
girl, slender, pale, delicate, with little
appetite for food and very little inter
est in life whose days were heavy and
spiritless, and whose nights were I'M
restful, who had exhausted the value
of many different patent medicines in
her effort to restore her system to a
normal condition. She was induced
by her physician to try pure water as
a remedial agent do not be dis
couragcd," said he, eff for month
you do not feel the particular benefit
I am sure, if you persist in it accord
ing to my directions, you will find re-
lief. Discard all drugs, and directly
after each meal drink, rather slowly.
two glasses of pure, cold-not ice
water, and before going to bed the
same amount. 1t may be difficult at
first to swallow the whole quantity,
but keep at il and you will finally do
it, Directions were perseveringly
followed, and the result was certainly
wonderful. For some weeks there was
hardly a perceptible Improvement, but
in five or six months a change so
marked had been effected that one
could hardly recognize the frail girl
of the half-year previous, in the rosy,
plump, energetic, perfectly we'll and
happy girl who had so courageously
taken the simple cure.
L
an Illuminating gas and the objection
made to it in some quarters on the
score of hygienic considerations, says
the Scientific American, lend particu-
lar interest to a number of expert
ments recently made on animals, says
the Pharmaceutical Era. Dogs were
kept for some time in an atmosphere
containing 20 per cent. of acetylene
without deleterious effect, and it would
appear that living beings are not in
jured by breathing an atmosphere so
contaminated. A dog kept in an at
mosphere containing 40 per cent OF
acteylene, however, succumbed afer
breathing 10 liters of the mixture.
he Danger from acetylene is smaller
than from ordinary Illuminating gas,
and it's intense odor makes it readily
There is no risk of explosion until the
noticed when escaping into the air.
air contains one-twelfth of it's volume
of acetylene 1t is particularly adapt
ed to illumination, because Of the
slight heating effect as compared with
it's Illuminating power, and the reno
val Of but little oxygen from the at
mosphere.
This method of improving the air in
working rooms is suggested by Ger
man technical journal: For one liter
bottle of we'll water, take spoonful
of oil of turpentine, shake the liquid
diligently until it becomes dim or
white, and distribute in the room by
means of an atomizer. One may also
mix a few drops of acetic ether with
the oil of turpentine. The refreshing
effect of the quickly spreading, pleas
ant odor is astonishing.
It is not popularity known, says
contributor to Good Health, that fruit
acids are germicidal. The juice Of
the lemon is as deadly to cholera
germs as corrosive sublimate, or sui
phur fumes, or formaldehyd, or any
other disinfectant It is so powerful