The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-05
Medical Notes


A sldllful dietetic prescription is often
worth much more than medical pre-.
Ecription. Simple foods, in moderate
quantities, at seasonable hours, will do
much to restore and maintain health.
French cookipg,,> PASTRIES, iced desserts
Irregular meals, midnight suppers and
eluttony are utterly incompatible with
continued health. Dietetic errors are
not committed alone by those who can
indulge themselves. There is much
bad cooking among those in moderate
circumstances; sour. bread, beefsteak
fried to death, absence of fruits and veg
etables from the table, not because they
are unattainable. but from sheer lack
Of enterprise. tPeopfe In humble cir
cumstances can have a varied and at
tractive dietary If they will only manage
well, buying each fruit and vegetable
when it Is cheapest and best, SO that
the bread. meat and coffee dietary to
which a surprising number of people
conilne themselves can be greatly en-
larged without adding to the expense
DR.. Taylor, in the Medical World,
states that the normal adult needs thir-
ty-seven ounces Of water a day, and as
the average lumber holds eight ounces
five glasses make forty ounces, approx
mately the normal quantity The best
times to drink 1t are-one glass upon ris-
ing, one at 10 a. M, one at D. M,
one at > and one or two On retiring. In
stead of the rather indefinite five glasses
day, It is better to fill bottle of a
given size, the contents of which are
to be drunk during each twenty-four
hours. Patients at famous watering
places owe much OF their Improvement
TO the large quantities Of water which
they are obliged to drink, and the same
results mo- doubt can be obtained at home
by drinking large quantities of good
water.
DIR. Taylor says editorialfy: In some
of our colleges we have professorshfps
of internal medicine but Internal medi-
cine Is not the whole thing When we
consider the possibility of external ap-
psications OF heat and cold, electricity,
Foultices. blisters. baths, etc, we find
that there is a large fled for external
medicine. The approach of cold wealth
er brings to our minds the Importance
of our outsides. Many people use only
two weights of under garments, a sum
mer weight and a winter weight. and
they usually drop the one and resume
the other on certain, date--accordfng to
the calendar, rather than according to
the weather. A variety Of weights
should be at hand and they should be
changed according to the weather, and
with but little if any reference to the
almanac, Care in this respect, par
tfcularly in the aged, IN children and in
est, Wia prevent many an illness with
more OF less serious consequences.
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DR.. White. In the Medical Record, dis
cusses the application of liquid air In
medicine and IN surgery. One OF these
sppheat tons IS that of local anaesthetic,
minute ! use Of spray freezing thu
surTace as hard as Ice, but not injurinS
the TISSUE. great advantage is that
pleading does not occur during the oper-
elton. In abSceSSes bolts or carbun-
Giles the early use of liquid air checks
further Developments and it has also
been used with advantage In cases of
scfatica. neuralgia. etc. In case of
Ivy poisoning fiquid air was applied and.
reduced the Inflammation in a resnarka-
bic manner. Dr.. White thinks that
there is reason to hope thpt liquid ali
VIII become a therapeutic { Gent of great
value i'll removing obstinate superficial
LESSONS OF the body and cure others which
have hitherto resisted all treatnIen in
Guiding the knife. He is of the opinion
that in the use of liquid cir In nedi-
cine. that Is to say, pulmonary diseases,
IN the reduction OF fever, large field
is open which presents many obstacles
in the start. but possibly holds out much
hope in the future. He advises thar
the greatest possible care $.iouId be ex-
ercised in using it.
The alarming fatality from lock aw
should impress upon the public the ex-
IRENE need for radical tro atncnr OF these
wounds-eveu the most fnsignitican
Such wounds are either penetrating or
laCeratirg. presenting the most favorable
conditions for Infection, and the hand or
foot of the victim IS usually bcgrimed
with dtrt-especielly firm the ear h
Tetanus is an infeaticuss dis ase due to tn
action of a microbe and al housh che OF
the most fatal diseases IS probably ore CT