The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-19
Good Health and Long Life and Holo
They Are To Be Had
An Address DeiOered Before the Third District Medical Assocoon h.
C. B. Mayer, NJ d., at Clinton S G ~

'- ~ ''Hs|'Ns OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
do not rule by these laws. riot and
rebellion will prevail in the form of
i'll health with decay of citizenship
and civilization.
Sleep is that state of our bodies
during which nature repairs the
waste that has occurred from use
and also constructs those parts in
which growth is taking place
Centuries ago Alfred the Great
made that wise division of time
which has never been improved upon
eight hours for sleep, eight hours
for work and eight hours for recrea-
ton. We need eight hous in every
twenty-four for natures wonderful
work OF repairing and constructing
the losses in our bodies by work for
their growth and development.
If purity Of food is an absolutely
in dispensable condition for the
proper nourishment of our bodies.
pure air is an equally indispensable
condition for the proper restoration
Of our bodies during sleep. AS sleep
is the time when the growth and re-
pair Of our bodies take place, il the
air we breathe during that time con-
tains abnormal or injurious gases or
vapors, then will our bodies be con-
structed in part out of these mater
ials that are unsuited and injurious.
What are the usual sources in the
kingdom Of the household where
sleep takes place that adulterates or
vitiates the atmosphere which we
breathe? The evaporation from all
painted and vanished SURFACES, the
dyes from all colored materials and
the poison which is eXhaled in our
breath. The sleeping porch, mod
ern invention. provides a perfect pro-
lection from injurious insects, and
also furnishes an abundance of pure
air.
What kind of a brain or body will
we have if there is incorporated into
its construction turpentines from the
varnish and paints and the coloring
matters from curtains and rugs that
are to be found in our sleeping apart
ments? Some may doubt the en-
trance of these vapors into our,
bodies while we sleep, and their hav-
ing any influence if they do enter it.
Let me cite you to chloroform, which
is an invisible vapor and does gain
entrance into our bodies after il is
inhaled, and which produces deep in
sensible sleep and death if prolonged,
and whose effects continue some
times after consciousness returns.
AS absolute cleanliness is the
remedy for the disorders of the din
ing room and kitchen, so is purity OF |
the air in sleeping apartments the
remedy for its ills. Ventilation is an
effectual remedy for bad air, but it /!
must be adequate to remove and dis |
place all bad air by pure fresh air. |
To obtain this we must forever ban
ish that erroneous idea that night
air is injurious, but let it come into
wa "pui tHOuRn TO re-
place all the air vitiated by our own
breath or by our surroundings.
Unless these laws of good health
are put into operation in the king
dom of the household no good can
come from the knowledge of them
and the queen who rules over this
kingdom becomes an agent of injury
to it instead of a benefactor.
The knowledge we use is the only
real knowledge, the only knowledge
that has life and growth about it and
that can convert itself into real pow
er. All the rest hangs like dust
about the brain or dries up like rain
drops off the stones"