Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-07-24
HOME HEALTH CLUB

SEASONABLE HINTS: The good old
Summertime" is always welcome, and
we have it with us now with all its
pleasant gifts. also with all the unpleas-
antness that it brings. While we should
guard against the latter, and we can
very much with a little care and discre-
ton.
The green and fresh fruits and vege-
tables of lle season are continuous
delight and the farmer and market-gard-
ener with the modern helps and ideas,
bring them to our tables in all their per-
lection and at insignificant cost. Less
in fact than we can, generally, afford to
cultivate them. unless in the business
But nevertheless, we appreciate such
things when we raise them ourselves
even at somewhat greater expense.
With these good things, from the
temptation to overlndulge in Them
comes the most direct drawback. With
the added heat and more open air exer-
else, the consequent increase Of appe-
tte and the allurements of fresh mel
ons, fruits and garden produce, con-
slant care is required to prevent diar-
rhoea, dysentery, cholera-morbus, and
other troubles of the bowels, which
bring in their train, susceptibility tC
fevers nervousness and many other ills
Hence the motto should always be
Guard we'll the citadel Of health-the
stomach"
Grown folks should knoW-and gener.
ally do-how to set the guard, but they
have a double duty, when they have any
part Of the control Of children. The lit.
tie ones do not know so we'll about the
virtues Of avoidance, hence they are the
most frequent sufferers from the greer
fruits, etc, and should be particularly
looked after all the time, not only be-
cause they are the most liable to injur
ious influences, but because they are no
80 able to Withstand the attack of col
ic, cramps. dysentery and all that, a.
are more mature and stronger persons.
Causes of Diarrhoea.
The most numerous causes of diar
rhoea, are indigestion, over-eatins
drinking too much ice-water, when no
accustomed to it, eating unripe or un
sound fruits and vegetables that do no
agree with the stomach; often a sudde
chilling of the body, by exposure to raj
or a great or quick change in temper
allure, etc. This drives the secretion
inward. or checks them entirely-as, 70
instance the sudden stoppage of pei
spiration-and thus cause congestio
that nature seeks to relieve by Wha
seems to be dysentery
AS mentioned before, many of thOs
causes may be avoided, not necessaril
by giving up fruits, vegetables and ice
water but by using them properly.
one is not in the habit of using ice-wa
er, he should use it sparingly until h
becomes accustomed to it. Then it ma
be used freely, the year round and doe
good, rather than harm. Moreover til
best ice-water, or the best water, as
that. is water-of-ice, meaning waite
that is made from melting ice, kept in
container. designed for that purpos
though it may be obtained,-but MOI
extensively at the end,-from the il
that melts in an ordinary water coole
big pitcher, or a bucket, or other n
ceptacle Of the kind. 1t is coming
be known, from scientific experiment
that this is the purest. hence the be-
water, that one can obtain. But on tn
subject we have lately sent out an a
ticle that goes into the subject in d
tail.
Dear Doctor: What shall I do for
severe burning and itching between n
fingers and toes, sometimes followed
minute round vesticles in which there
clear fluid. There is no redness. TIL
dry up soon, leaving a scale. My dc
ter does not seem to know quite VIII
it is. j. B.
Am inclined to think the trouble
what is known as Chero-Pomphol!