The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1913-08-28
DIR. HALL GIVES OLD
SOLDIERS ADVICE

DR.. j. E. Hall, cousin of E. 0. and
Chas. Hall, of this city. and medical
director of the Oregon G. A. R., has
recently issued a bulletin to the old
soldiers of the state. The sound advice
of the pamphlet appears below:
Passing years seem to show increased
appreciation of the services, and re-
spect for the survivors of the Civil
War. This may be shown to some ex-
tent because of the belief, as speakers
tell us, that we will soon all be gone,
illustrating the truth of the adage,
Blessings brighten as they take their
flight. Since the public is disposed
10 say complimentary things to us, and
the scholars of the public schools are
taught to look upon US as somewhat in
teresting relics of a war that they
have been compelled to study about in
their school histories, and the nation
at large continues prosperous as result
of the preservation of the union, and
commercial exchange between the diff
ferent nations, there are inducements
offered US, the survivors of that war,
to remain on earth and enjoy some of
the benefits offered, otwithstandng
the fact that we have pretty generally
reached the three score and ten year
milepost in our life, and orators con-
tinue to tell US we will soon depart and
go the way of all the earth.
In view of these and other induce
ments, and in view of the general de-
sire of the comrades to spend several
more years in noting the progress of
events, the medical department feels
justified in offering some suggestions
intended to promote longevity.
Recent study into causes of death
in old age show that intestinal auto
intOxication figures largely as causa-
tive factor. This has nothing to do
with automobiles. nor the intoxication
is not necessarily alcoholic, but the
term indicates poisoning as a result of
the retention and decomposition of un-
digested matter in the large intestine
of the human body. We are apt to eat
more than we can digest and assimi-
late, and are not careful enough to dis
pose of the surplus by regular and
sufficient movement of the bowels, SO
that from this retained surplus, tox-
ines are formed, and toxines are but
another term for poisons. These tox-
ines are auto toxInes because formed
within the body and not introduced
from without. Fermentation and de-
composition do take place within our
bsdies under certain circumstances, and
the deeomposed products do harm by
interfering with the functions of heart.
liver, kidney and brain.
Another term used to express a
quite frequent cause of death in the
aged is Arterio Sclerosis, a hardening
of the walls of the arteries, weakening
them and predispOsing to apoplexy
which quickly removes its victim from
among the living. This hardening of
the arterial walls bring death in other
ways and is now recognized as a seri-
Gus embarrassment and handicap to
length of days.
Now, is there any satisfaction'in be-
ing told how-we might be- taken off?
An lrishman is reported to have said:
IF | knew the place where was to
die in, faith I'd never go there" and
little caution along certain lines might
help US to avoid or defer these things
mentioned as causes of death.
How shall we avoid making our bod