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 sneexing. Yawn-
ing and Recurring Winter Colds.
The Meaning of Hue Hands-Apo-
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,
nose or Gager nails for signs of coming
illness
! The saeeZe. 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 a case of snuff
or pepper. of course the sneeze is of no
consequence. But often it is an indica
ton Cf congestion. There is inliamma-
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 q warning that
every prudent person should attend to.
1t is at least the forerunDer of cold.
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 well to take a
warm f0othath. 20 TO bed and adopt
the ether usual remedies to cure a cold.
The winter cold itself is a grave
warming When it recurs two or three
times every winter. ii 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 Il 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
carry 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
a sure sign. with some exceptions, that
the energy is likely to fail sooner than
in the average man. But all kinds of
badness have not this significance.
Sometimes the loss of hair arises from
scalp disease caused probably by mi
crokcs. Tie warming badness is that
kind which commences about the tenn
pies ard Oh the crown of the head and
| gradually eats it's way over the scalp
/ fx;,, Nf b.,t, is,
left
Blue nails. or blue hands, betoken
weak or INSTRUCTED circulation. They
are il warning against overexertion OF
| 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.
Yawning is a somewhat similar
warming 1t is q sign that the steam
has run down and that it is time to go
TO bed CT 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 a
desperate effort of the lungs to proper
~ aerate the blood and it warns you
10 open the windows or to leave the
room Wien you are out of bed too
long or when you have done an unusu-
ally hard days work, the waste prod
ucts CT your body are present in excess
sive quantity. Then the yaWn is
warning to YOU to lie down and rest.
Most people have great horror Of
! nf
Ii is not by amy means as unpleasant
as the toothache but the suddenness
Of it is Whit appalls. 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 olt and lets some blood
escape, which clots, presses on the
brain and paralyZes whatever part or
the body is governed by the piece OF
brain pressed upon. Now this artery
wears our Caly in common with other
arteries of the body. In some people
they ell become what is called athe-
romatous. OF 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 it 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. but cold or sleepless night