The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-07-05
NO.. 20
EAT VEGETABLES AND
FRUIT TO KEEP COOL IN
HOT WEATHER.

What to eat, drink and wear in Or
der to preserve ones health and COM
fort in weather like this are problems
that appeal to humanity at large.
DR.. Henry Lee Smith, 294l St. Paul
street, Baltimore, gives his views re-
garding the precautions to be taken
against illness during the hot months.
DR.. Smith has devoted much time to
the study of medicine and spent sever
al years in Europe, after graduating,
in scientific research. He has for the
past five years been the resident ply
sican at the Blue Mountain House,
and will return to that resort this sea-
son. In reply to questions propound-
ed to him, DR., Smith said:
"Physicians are often asked why
they appear healthy. The reason is
that they avoid extremes.
"The average person eats too much
and does not drink enough water. 1t
is generally recognized by the medi-
cal profession that so far as health is
concerned there is more intemperance
at the table than in the wine shops.
GAS to meat in summer, one should
not eat it more than once day. Fowl
and fish, from the sanitary point of
view, are to be recommended rather
than the red meats; and in regard to
cooking, boiled is preferable to fried.
The closer one follows nature the more
satisfactory the results obtained. For
instance, less meat and greater quanti-
ties of fruit and vegetable are eaten in
proportion to the proximity to the
equator. This proves conclusively
that meat is not good diet in hot
climate. In summer the major part
of ones diet should be vegetables and
fruit.
"Water should be drunk cool, but
not not ice cold say at temperature
of SIS degrees Fahrenheit. City water
when possible should be boiled as a
preventative against disease. The
drinking of ice cold beverages, assisted
by the hot bread of the South and the
pastry of the North, is the most fire.
quent cause of indigestion in America.
The Germans are remarkably free
from indigestion, and the principal
reason for this is that they never in
dulge in ice cold drinks.
"Water should be drunk frequently
and copiously in summer, as it helps
to open the pores of the skin and is an
excellent means of flushing the body.
Women are notoriously small water
drinkers, and suffer from different
forms of neuralgia in consequence.
"To remain healthy and make the
skin additionally healthy a person
should take one or two good sponge
baths daily. 1t has been demonstrat-
ed by delicate scales that after cool
bath one weighs more than before, due
partly to the increase in the white
cells of the blood which give The power
of resistance.
"The explanation of the improve
ment in people returning from water
ing places is that they get more water
in their system, and the same applies
to the seashorc, which goes to show
that water is the best drug Of all.
Strong wines and spirits should be
avoided in summer on account of their
stimulating effect. In other words,
one should remain quiet and passive.
"Persons should be as lightly clad as
possible, and clothing should be adapt
ed to the extreme changes in temper
ature. The same rules apply to child
rem, especially those in their second
summer, who are artifcially fed. Not
a drop of water or milk should enter
child's mouth without being sterilized.
Unsterilized milk in summer is poison
ed with bacteria, which are killed by