The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-04-17
HINTS NATURE GIVES
SYMPTOMS THAT SHOULD WARN MEN
OF COMING SICKNESS.
The Significance of sneezing. Yawn-
ing and Recurring Winter Colds.
The Meaning of Blue landscape
piexy's Warning Signals.

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even years before the attack. If people
looked for these signs and took warn
ing from them. they would escape
much serious illness and live many
years longer than they do. 1t is indeed
remarkable how careless we are in this
respect y man who will anxiously
scan the sky for signs of coming rain
Aest. his tcp hat may get spoiled will
never dream of examining his eyes
,.ncse or finger nails for signs of coming
illness.
The sleeZe. for instance, is very sig
nifcant. 1t is always sign that some
thing is injuring the air passages any
where from the nose down to tie
lungs. Should it be only case Of snuff
or pepper. of course the sneeze is of no
consequence. But often it is an indica-
ton IF congestion. There is infamma-
ton somewhere. with too much blood,
| and the object of the sneeze is to give
relief b. getting rid of some of the
fluid. This sneeze is warning that
every prudent person should attend to.
But it may indicate an approaching at
tack Of bronchitis or pneumonia. When
there is much sneezing, accompanied
by something like Il small shower of
rain, the victim will do we'll to take a
warm f0otbath. go to bed and adopt
the ether usual remedies to cure cold.
The winter cold itself is a grave
two
| times every winter. it is sure to be fol-
lowed in the end by chronic bronchitis.
Once this comes on it is practically in
durable.
Men are started on their lives much
as shell from a cannon-with GER
tain fixed quantity of energy. If dis
ease or accident does not carry them
off. they will die some time of what
we call old age-in other words. when
the energy with which they started is
spent. Some have energy enough to
c4lrry them over the full century; 9th
ers have only sufficient to keep them
going for ninety. eighty, seventy. sixty
or fewer years. Now. early badness is
n sure sign. with some exceptions, that
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in the average man. But all kinds Of
badness h;lye not this significance.
Sometimes the loss of hair arises from
scalp disease caused probably by mi
croEcs Tie warning badness is that
kind which commences about the tenn
Piles ana on the crown of the head and
gradually eats it's way over the scalp
until only Il circular fringe of hair is
left
Blue nails. or blue hands. betoken
weak or INSTRUCTED circulation. They
are IL warning against overeXertiOn or
any kind. The obstruction may occur
from disorder of several organs in the
body. But most commonly the blue
ness indicates that the heart is not up
to the mark.
Yawnng is a somewhat similar
warning 1t is q sign that the steam
has run down and that it is time to go
to bed or perhaps to go into the open
air. When you sit in a close room, the
| lungs do not receive sufficient of the
vital gas. oxygen. The yawn is then
desperate effort of the lungs to proper
II aerate the blood, and it warns you
to open the windows or to leave the
room VIXEN you are out of bea too
long or when you have done an unusu-
ul,y hard days work. the waste prod
ucts CT your body are present in excess
siye quantity. Then the yawn is a
warnin. to you to lie down and rest.
Most people have Il great horror or
getting stroke or fit of apoplexy.
1t is not by any means as unpleasant
AZ The toothache. but the suddenness
of it is what appals. There is really
no suddenness about it. however. No
! disease gives such early warning. A
".strolse' is Il very simple occurrence
and not at all horrible. 1t results from
two or three causes. but the most COM
mon one is this: A little artery in the
train wears out and lets some blood
| escape. which clots. presses on the
brain and paralyZes whatever part OF
the body is governed by the piece OF
brain pressed upon. Now this artery
wears out Caly in common with. other
arteries of the body. In some people
they ell become what is called athe-
| romatous. or hard and brittle. AT the
same time they become tortuous or
twisted. We can, see these hard and
| tortuous arteries on the temples. and
| then we know 1t is not safe to do any
thing which will congest the brain.
/ lest the one little artery there. which
/ Is especially liable to give way. shall
| let the blood escape. Likewise warn
ing is often given by the tiny arteries
Of the eye. !. They break and let out
little traces OF blood. which can easily
be seen. hut cold or sleepless night