The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-13

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an Old Practitioner.)


house. but II is not the exercise which
gives you the cold; il is cooling off too
| quickly after 1t. When you start to walk
| TO the train or the steamboat, or TO meet
| an appointment, your mind runs ahead of
you. and in making an effort to keep up
with it you get into a perspiration- You
| take your seat and feel quite comfortable
| as to temperature. You talk to friend or
read a newspaper, and suddenly you feel a
| sensation of chilliness. The perspiration.
| not being able TO escape, has turned to
water, and given you. as 1t were, cold
| bath. If you look around to find where the
| cold comes from you may see that win
| dow is open near you, or a door, or ii may
| be that you are riding with your back to
| the wind Perhaps while on the street you
may have met friend who perhaps asked
you for a loan. and you spent some time
/ trying to let him down without hurting his
feelings. and perhaps when 1t was too late
you noticed raw wind swirling around the
corner, or discovered that you were stand
ing in cold slush That's where you catch
| cold.
| Garrigucs, writing in the Medical News.
| calls attention to the fact that there is an
] alarming absence of proper precautions
| throughout America against burial alive.
| He has collected many interesting and more
| or less authentic cases of burial alive, and
| gives list of the signs of death, among
them the arrest of circulation and respira-
ton. and. above all. putrefaction, really the
only positive sign. Persons buried alive
who have been released say that hearing
4 To
| calls especial attention to the unwise and
indecent haste manifested in preparing peo-
| pie for burial and submitting them to the
/ dangers of the ice box, or, il may be, kill
| ing them by the process of embalming. and
| believes that no person should be consid-
| cred or treated as dead until a legally au-
| thorized official has viewed the remains
| and certified that death has actually &C.
| CURED.
| If the resistance of the Beers continues
with the same obstinacy as at present the
war will be prolonged months and very like
| ly years. Under these conditions the war
in South Africa will assume a medical as
pect difficult of solution by the English.
| At present the warmth of the climate has
prevented any health disaster, but cold
| weather comes on the army living in tents
will be subjected to many dangers and dis
| ease will carry off more than sword or
| bullet The English have about $4,000 men
| in the field, and there are medical men and
| hospitals sufficient only for 1900. leaving
100000 positively without any medical as
| sistance 1t may be possible that to avert
| catastrophe physicians and surgeons who
| are exempt from drafting will be deprived
| of this right and be forced to enter active
service in the field.
Aside from economic aspects the number
| of immigrants annually coming to this
country is of interest in health matters.
Commissioners Powderly. of the Immigra-
ton Bureau estimates that the total num-
Der of immigrants for 1900 will exceed $780,
600. the majority of whom will be undesir-
able and will only add TO the slum popula-
ton. For this reason they will not only in
crease the burden of poverty but the bur-
den of disease, for many of these people
are always afflicted with grave and dis
gushing chronic diseases which are con-
tagious and thus infect those of their class
who come in contact with them. AS the
PHILADELPHIA Medical Journal says this sort
| of immigration means increased pauperism,
| increased degeneracy, increased crime and
disease. No principle of political economy
can Justify this Nation in throwing its
| doors wide open to the influx of slum
population.
The undoubted presence of cases of bu-
| ionic plague in San Francisco calls atten-
| ton to the difficulty of isolating such cases
| owing to the indifference and even oppo-
| sition of those afflicted and those coming
| i'm contact with them to have their condi-
| ton known In every contagious disease
| this difficulty is a prominent one, but the
| secrecy which is the outcome Of personal
| Ignorance prejudice or bigotry. in in
dividual cases menaces the well-being of
| the whole community. In the case of the
plague most severely restrictive measures
are necessary. and 1t is only by hearty CO.
| operation with the public health authori-
| ties, no matter how extreme the measures
may be, that the country at large can be
kept free from this most frightful af-
Fiction. In this, in all contagious dis
eases, there should be no concealment from
health authorities, and the truth should be
told at once.
To a person who is familiar with the
scenes in a recruiting office portion of the
preliminary examination is very suggestive
OF choosing a horse The officer in charge
tells the applicant to open his mouth, and
If he finds his teeth in any way defective
the man is at once rejected In spite of at
tempts to obtain men only with sound teeth
ii is evident that decay must sooner or
later affect the teeth. Up to the present
time no dentists have been connected of
ficially with the army or navy, but a bill
has recently been introduced requiring the
employment of one contract dental surgeon
for every thousand men. This is certainly
move in the right direction and doubtless
when their utility has been proven their
number will be increased.
There is no doubt but that many profess
sional glass eaters and the like are dex-
ferrous deceivers. Bits of transparent gela-
| time are used In place of glass, and candy,
china and rock are also so skillfully made
that they deceive the sharpest observer
Still, there are bona fide glass eaters and
the like but they come to a speedy end
as numerous post-mortems proye The
youngest person of this class is boy elev-
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