The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-02

recovery takes place rapidly. In some
cases there is a history OF recent overstrain
with loss of weight. dyspepsia, headache
and other pains aud aches, indicating
failure Of nutrition. In these cases the rest
cure must precede treatment for the res
toration Of the nutritive powers and the
restoration OF nerve vitality. When the
overstrain, however, is slight. the element
of overstimulation may be disregarded and
treatment be instituted for the restoration
of nerve force. such as sea voyage or a
period spent among the mountains.
In an article upon the "Office OF Mother
hood by DR.. Mark, of Louisville. he says:
Much stress is laid upon the duty the
child owes the parent, and very little upon
that the parent owes the child. Children
are not brought into the world of their own
volition. 1t is safe to say that could each
person control their entrance into the
world. the globe would be populated by
race Of fools and martyrs. The duty of the
parent to the child is more sacred than that
owed by the child to the parent. The par
ents who bring into being life for whom
they cannot provide, and to whom they
cannot give the training and attention
necessary for its advancement, commit a
crime more to be condemned than the act
of a husband and wife who. recognizing
their inability to give a child what it has a
right to demand of them. refuse to bring
child into the world He believes that
motherhood should be placed upon the
highest plane. and in article published
in the American Practitioner and News
civ ioh ha
proftably read and practiced by every
parent.
DR.. Carhart, speaking of school hygiene,
believes that backward and dull children
need special care. An inattentive child is
usually defective in some special sense; he
may, for example, be slightly deaf or have
some eye disease. The human eye is going
through a period of adaptation to its pro-
crossing environment, and poor sight is
one of the evils of advanced civilization
Weak eyes are permanently damaged and
slight arrangements are developed into
permanent shortsightedness and astigma-
tism. DR.. Taylor believes that much of
the faulty mental characteristics of the
school child are due to mismating of the
parents, and are therefore faults of inheri-
might correct many CT these faults by in
telligent observation and direction of the
child, and that this skilled direction will
soon be a part of the duty of the school
physician.
In speaking of certain sociological prob
lens, Dr. Mark believes that legislation
tending to prevent the contamination of a
fofp faI
with tuberculosis, assisted as this legisla-
ton would be. by social ostracism. is not
only possible but practicable. Let the
county clerk of each county be supplied by
the physicians of that county with the
name of each person suffering from syphilis
or consumption. When a marriage license
is applied for, if on investigation of the
medical records. the clerk finds the word of
a physician entered against an applicant
the license is not issued. The chief objec-
ton heretofore Offered against this is that
there would be an increase Of illegitimate
relation, but this increase would be slight
in proportion to the resultant good.
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For the cure of the opium habit the
bromides have been recommended and used.
but where there is kidney disease present
the method is dangerous, and in all cases
is attended with certain amount Of risk.
~ patient. for example, took 2.s60 grains
during five days. and was eventually cured
of his desire for. morphine, cocaine and
whisky. The .arsensdoses Of bromide Of
sodium given. however, actually poisoned
the patient, and he suffered from this drug
disease for some time before full recov-
cry. Clinical experience, therefore, is
against this remedy as a safe one.
Sir James Sawyer, speaking Of cancer.
says that steam appears to have brought
US cheap food and cheap food has multi
piled our cases of cancer by two. That is to
say, meat-eating is believed to cause cam
Ger; and more meat is eaten than former
| ly because transportation is more rapid and
cheaper than in years gone by. He does
not, however, positively state that vegeta-
rians-if there be any who are strictly such
escape cancer.