The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-08
Medical Notes..

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certain results inevitably follow ~
I breathing of all vita ted air. At first
THESE are slight and transitory. headache
nausea, vertigo and other premonttory
symptoms of asphyxiation. Long con
tlnued deprivation of pure air leads +o
anemla, bodily langor and inability 70
Work, pallor, chronic loss of appetite and
eener symptoms of Impoverished blood
and injured health
Inc heart is affected, paIpitation ensues
the blood PUSHES to the head. and other
symptoms of a disturbance of circip,a tfon
are manifested. Digestion is also in
hdeneed by the lack of fresh air Diseases
Vi the stomach, Of the heart the lungs
ana otner organs ensue and emphasize
the fact that a daily bath of fresh air is
more essential than a bath of fresh water.
naturally one goes to the country for
iresh ar, but as the countryman in tie
CITY Is lnJurlcusly influenced by city air.
so the city man in the country must be-
come accustomed to the country ali. he
mas breathed impure air so long that
pure air Is too rich for his blood He
becomes Intoxicated as it were rDon
H. and IN addition is likely to have colds
IN the head, bronchitis, pleurfsy, rheu-
matism and other like affections. l. Ike the
blind fishes in the Mammoth Cave. he has
become accustomed to his surroundings
N--~ SOSNPICO " ILStIl, poor lnOuEh they
may De, and he does not feel comfortable
or happy in other surroundings. even
though they may be better hygienicaIIy.
thousands of men and women sleep in
0xS hall bedrooms through the night
work in overcroWded work rooms or in
Differentiated Offices through the day.
and take an evening off in the summer
at the sea shore, where they regaIe them
selves on clans, dug from mud flats.
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meated with the odor of sewage, which
Gibbs and flows with the tide They think
they are living, but they are merely ex-
lSting- They do not know what fresh air
smells like, If 1t has any smell, and they
do not know what an invigoratiue tonic
fresh air is. ~
thousands of people arise in the morn
ing unrefreshed by sleep because thew
have slept in foul atmosphere. poisoned
by their own breath; dragging them
selves to work, with tired bodies and
sluggish minds. longing for night to come
longing for some tonic to brace them a.
but not knowing what to take Some re-
sort to alcoholic stimulants only to add
more poison to the system and aggravate
the condition of a carbonc dioxid:zed
brain by uraemic poisoning. Others take
narcotic drugs which plunge the body
and mind into the Lethe of oblivion, and
Life as we'll
Some of these people go to a physician,
set forth their many symptoms, none Of
which are very marked, being covered
broadly by an al-tired-out expression.
and receive consolation and-a prescrip-
ton If they ask for name they may
be told that it is malaria or nervous ex-
haustion. terms that slip glibly off the
tongue and cover multitude of ills and
ignorance
Many physicians realize that the city
public are slowly dying from actual, but
none the less real long-drawn-out air
starvation, that many of the iIl-defined
diseases of city life are due to air poison
ing and insufficient air scavengering, but
they are powerleSs to counteract it.
Some people themselves. have realized
that they are like the mouse in the bell
glass and that like plants in a room de-
prived of air and sunshine, they are
blanching and whiting. Hence those who
are wise have their home in the suburbs
and thanks to the electric roads, which
have covered the country like a gigantic
spiders web, it Is becoming more and
more possible for men of moderate means
to enjoy the country, which is becoming
the citys bed-chamber, giving quiet rest
and refreshing sleep.
STILL to many men, the city is like
that gigantic loadstone in the desert
which drew whole armies within it's at
TRACTION and would not let them escape
until they died in their harness.
Some of these are business men, drawn
by business cares and grasping ambition
They could live in the country. If they
would. but they say they lose q few
minutes in going to and fro and there
fore cannot afford it. Money is so dear
to them that they would put a mortgage
on time and hoard even minutes.
Others are poor working men ana
women to whom time is life. for every
minute lost or wasted means privation
and perhaps starvation. To them, time
lost in going to and fro is a double loss
an expense that they can i'll afford, loss
Of wage-earning moments
Sanitarians have busted themselves
with searching Investigations of sewage;