St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-01-30
NO COLDS IN THE ARCTIC.
Below Zero Temperature HardenA
the Membranes and Makes
the Hair Grow.

Arctic explorers agree that it is next
to impossible to catch cold within the
arctic circle This seems to prove what
physicians have long argued-that an
ordinary cold in the head is an infec-
tious illness caused by a specific mi
crobe. The cold of the far north either
kills the microbe outright, or so acts
upon the mucous membrane. of the
nose that it renders it proof against
the infection.
Speaking of the arctic regions, says a
metropolitan paper, it is worth mention
ing that a year spent in the extreme
north is worth all the hair tonics in ex-
istence. Arctic whalers and explorers
have, almost without exception testi-
fed to the amazing growth of the hair
on their heads during exposure to below
zero temperatures. 1t is said that it the
roots Of the hair are not absolutely de-
stroyed, even persons completely bald
can regain their hair by spending IL
months among the eternal ice.
No disease has made more terribly
rapid strides within the past few years
than cancer, and none has more greatly
exercised the energies of physicians and
men of science to fight it. DR.. Alfred
Wolff has collected an immense mass of
statistics concerning the disease, which
20 to prove that it is far more frequent
in cider and beer drinking countries
than in those where wine is the usual
beverage. Thus, the south of France
is far freer than the north.
Secondly, he has shown that thickly
wooded districts suffer worse than
those which are naturally bare or from
which the trees have been cut. Sussex
Warwickshire, and Devonshire, Eng
land-all well-wOoded counties-suffer
alarmingly from cancer, and matters are
even worse in the provinces of north
eastern France, Bavaria Tin Germany
and in the Austrian Tyrol. 1t is there
fore advisable for those who fear can
Ger to move into the open country,
where trees are scarce.
In Borneo and New Guinea this terri
BILE disease is quite unknown. DR.. Pagel.
who has been practicing for more than
ten years in the former island, has not
only never seen case of cancer there,
but has never even heard of one, nor
of it's allied disease, lupus. New Guinea,
so far as can be ascertained, seems
equally free.
The latest idea is that countries SUBJ
ject to severe forms of malaria are i'm
mune from cancer. Certainly cancer is
very rare on the west coast of Africa
It is almost unknown in the swampy re-
gions of Central America and the ANA
zon valley. The Sunderbunds also.
those great swamps on the Hooghly, east
Of Calcutta, in whose depths lie many ma
tive villages, are also free from cancer.
Every one knows that high grounds
are the best refuge for patients afflicted
with any form of consumption. The
higher Alps will in almost all cases give
a new lease of life to the consumptive
patient.
But neither the Alps nor any other
mountain resort can compare for mo-
ment with the desert lands of southern
California. Here, if the patient arrives
before the disease has absolutely de-
voured hislungs, he can live in the dry,
clear atmosphere for years. In almost
every case the tubercular symptoms at
last disappear, though, if the patient
leaves the refuge, it is more than prob
able that they will recur, and a relapse
will rapidly put an end to his life.
Japanese Oysters.
Japan has some of the best oysters
in the world. One, growing in the bays,
is rarely larger than finger nail, and
it's flavor is delicious. 1t suggests the
California oyster. The second form
averages the size of blue Point" 1t
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