The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-01-09

~Ss>~s>>r~>-~~~~~~
Hopping Cough.
A great many popular errors have
gathered round this little disorder. To
begin, the name may be written
"whooping' or ''hooping" at choice It
Is based on the peculiar noise made by
the sufferer when drawing in his breath
after each paroxysm Of coughing. The
"hooping" is not always present. In
fants under II months seldom make
this noise. The essentials are violent
tits of coughing, carried out until the
sufferer appears almost choking, and al
ternating with periods of complete free
dom. In an ordinary cold in the throat,
In bronchitis, and in consumption the
cough is sometimes quite short, but in
hopping cough it is never short.
Hopping cough is always infectious,
and, while it is perfectly true that the
germs become less virulent in the open
air, they never cease to be infectious
even when a patient is treated alto
gether by the open-air cure. Undoubted-
AANoAA I'LL uOOo tAC SuACACl SOOO, OuS
keen winds and damp do harm. Hence
one should send a child out only on
clear, calm and otherwise pleasant
days. 1t is better for a child to be up
than in bed. Hopping cough may at
tack persons Of any age, although most
frequent in childhood
There is a belief that hopping cough
can occur only once in life. This is an
error. Not any infectious disease con-
fers absolute immunity from further
attacks. Some persons make light of
this disorder, thinking that it never
turns out fatally, but it does. 1t may
start bronchitis or rupture blood YES
sci. A child suffering from this disor-
der should be put into sunny room,
as high in the house and as isolated
from the rooms of the other children
as may be possible. The best tempera-
ture is 60 degrees Fahrenheit, day and
night Milk diet is best.
Causes of Badness.
In some cases it is because mental
SlIdlu IOUS IuC SCdlD VI IuC 1OA NouS IL
fuence necessary for nutrition; in 9th
ers, because the scalp is poisoned by
the things rubbed in, by decomposing
secretions on its surface, and by keep
ing in the perspiration that should be
allowed to evaporate. This last takes
place when hats, false hair-however
called-and other things prevent free
ventilation. The electric light is in
furious to some scalps, causing rapid
fall of hair. The poisOns in the system
that bring about govt and rleumatism
will cause loss Of hair. All these cases
are marked at the first by slight thin
ming over the entire scalp, most mark
ed as q rule on the temples and the
crown.
Apart from internal tonics and other
medicines intended to benefit the gen.
eral health, all such cases can be cured
when taken early, by the cuse of COM
mon cleanliness, free ventilation, halr
foods and stimulants.
But there is quite another class In
which the falling is not general. 1t 1s
limited to one or more spots. These
become quite bald, and they enlarge.
Sometimes they increase in number and
merge into one another. In bad cases
every hair ON the body may fall out.
This is patchy badness. and Will not
Weld to the measures outlined 1t de
mands the persevering use OF some
powerful "germicide," like carbolic acid
in solution The stronger the solution
IL, short of causing sore spot, the bet
ter will be the result.
Hot Foods Hurt Our Teeth.
There is no doubt that most people
ruin their teeth and digestive system
by taking food at too high tempera-
ture. One can not get into hot bath
If It is over 112 degrees; 1O5 degrees is
dangerous, and even 100 degrees Is
warm. But from experiments made
# appears that we eat meat at 115 de-
grees temperature. beans at 1872 de
erees. potatoes at 80 degrees. The av-
erage temperature of tea is 125 de-
grees, and it may be slipped, but can
not be swallowed in large quantities. II
It exceeds 142 degrees.
1