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DISEASES OF THE RICH.

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It is an old axiom that health is the greatest of all riches, and it is a thing that money will not buy. Indeed, the possession of great wealth is a predisposing cause of a number of complaints. This is the opinion of Dr. Monin, who has defended it in a book entitled, "Rich Men's Evils." The list of diseases which afflict the rich man is not a long one, but it is, if one may call it so, a substantial one. sessor of several hundred thousand dollars has the choice between stomach complaints of various sorts, congestions, apoplexies, rheumatisms acute and sub-acute, gout, headaches of every degree, affections of the heart, pleurisy and asthma, liver complaints, jaundice, roseole (from which Queen Victoria suffers), sleepiness, nervous exhaustion, besides a number of distempers which are within the reach of all who can purchase morphine, cocaine and ether.

Whatever your choice may be you may console yourself by the thought that you suffer in good company. Rheumatic people will remember that Mme. de Sévigné, who was a sufferer from it, wore a cheerful countenance and delighted her friends with her sparkling wit. The gouty celebrities form a brilliant host: Horace, Leibnitz, Erasmus, Kant, Franklin, Milton (I give the names as they occur, not in chronological order), Darwin, Sydenham. As you see, doctors are not exempt from it. Literary people are placed by Dr. Monin in company with millionaires, an association no doubt flattering to both, but none the less unlooked for. The weight of their purses, however, has nothing to do with this. But, like plutocrats, they lead a sedentary life, dissipate a quantity of vital energy, and are obliged on that account, to have a substantial diet. Literary men and women are therefore subject to dyspepsia and gout. Gout is a self engendered disease, produced by bad habits of life and food, and can only be cured or checked by the abandonment of such habits. The common habits of life of many people, particularly the well-to-do, engender gout. The quantities of butcher's meat, grease and sugar, salt meat, preserved and canned foods, sweets, and worst of all, beer and

alcoholic liquors consumed, directly produce this disease and others. of the same nature, but bearing different names. The great thing is to take care of the digestive tract. Every thing that weakens or retards digestion tends to encourage the retention in the body of the poisonous matters which cause diseases of this kind. Take care that the liver is not offended in any way by alcoholic drinks, or it will not perform its work. Still more essential is it to keep up perfect activity of the kidneys, which are important purifiers of the body.

GOOD ADVICE TO GIRLS.

Scarcely a day passes without its newspaper story of some young woman who met a man so interesting that she thought she couldn't live without him, so she married him in haste and afterward learned that he was an ex-convict or a brute, or already had a wife or two from whom he had separated without the formality of a legal divorce. In such cases the blame is laid upon the man, who generally deserves more abuse than he gets. But, girls, look at the matter seriously a few minutes and see if the trouble might not have been avoided if you had not been in too much of a hurry.

Marriage means partnership for life; decrees of divorce are merely exceptions that prove the rule. Would any man enter into a business partnership with as little knowledge of the other party as you seem satisfied with? Well, no-not unless he were a sweet souled lunatic. Talk is cheap, girls; it can be made to order as fast as the tongue can run, especially when there is a pretty face to inspire it and two ears willing to receive it.

Don't fear that some other girl will get the fellow unless you secure him at once. A fish that any one can catch isn't worth throwing a line for. Play him to find out whether he amounts to any thing. If he becomes impatient and dashes away, why, follow Dogberry-thank God that you're rid of a knave.-Truth.

WATER AND HEALTH.

Water, says Dr. Lauder Brunton, is the most universal solvent in the world. It is not only useful to wash out our closets and flush our drains, it has a similar effect in our bodies, and tends to wash away the waste products from the cells of which our organs are composed, to

clear out the uric acid, urea, and phosphates through our kidneys, and thus prevent renal or vesical calculi, and also to wash out our liver and prevent gall-stones, while it helps to keep the bowels in action. The liver especially is an organ which suffers from want of water, and I never see a gall-stone without asking the patient, "How much water do you drink?" Almost invariably the answer is, "I hardly ever touch water. I am not a thirsty person ;" and on one occasion a lady called for a particular teacup, which held little more than a thimbleful, in order to show me how much she drank. On reckoning how much water she took in the twenty-four hours, it came as nearly as I could calculate, to sixteen fluid ounces. What wonder, then, that she had a gall-stone! The poor liver had not a chance to make decent fluid bile, and naturally there was a deposit. By making such people drink a big tumbler of water, and especially hot water, every morning, with or without some Carlsbad salts added to it, and, if necessary, repeating the hot water once or twice more in the day, the renewed formation of gall-stones may frequently be averted, and symptoms of biliary colic, to say nothing of so-called "biliousness," may be prevented for many years, or perhaps entirely. The (Carlsbad) process may be carried on at home by means of hot water either alone or with the addition of a small quantity of some saline, such as bicarbonate or nitrate of potash. cases where the patient dislikes hot water alone, a slice of lemon thrown on the top of it gives it a slightly agreeable taste, and may overcome the patient's repugnance.

CHILDREN'S TEETH.

There are very few parents who understand the necessity of keeping a child's first set of teeth in a good, sound condition until the time comes for the appearance of the second teeth. I have seen children with dainty, pretty features, lovely complexions and hair, whose beauty was completely spoiled by a row of black, decayed teeth, sometimes only mere stumps. If a child's teeth be properly cleansed after each meal, or at least twice every day, on rising in the morning and retiring at night, decay may usually be warded off for a long time. The teeth should never be neglected until they are so decayed that extraction is necessary, and the child suffers from that horrible torture, the toothache; besides unnecessary suffering, this neglect often causes serious

injury to the permanent teeth. At the first signs of decay or unsoundness of a child's teeth, take the little one to a good dentist and he will probably fill them, making them last much longer, which will be greatly to the advantage of the second set. One cannot have very strong, white teeth unless plenty of bone-making food be taken up by the system. The best food for the teeth consists of all the cereals, pure, rich milk, brown bread, lean meat, vegetables, and fresh fruit. All such things as candy, preserves, cake, pastry, and all other sweets, are absolutely injurious to the teeth, and also harmful to the whole internal organism. Commence cleaning a baby's teeth when they first appear, using borax water and a soft, linen rag. When the child is a year old, a soft little brush may be carefully used, with pure tepid water, and perhaps prepared chalk of the finest and purest kind. Watch carefully the interstices of the teeth, that no food shall find lodgment there.

STAMMERING.

The causes of this defect, and the appropriate methods of dealing with it, have been so often discussed it is needless to seek for etiological conditions in the organs of speech themselves, or even in the nerves associated with them. The stammerer, if his mind is at ease, does not stammer. It is in the presence of circumstances, varying in different cases, which to him suggest some imaginary difficulty that his impediment becomes apparent. Founded upon some original shyness, it may be, in addressing a teacher there is a not unnatural delay in utterance. Concurrently with this comes a feeling that he must speak. Intelligence and will together urge him to do so; the purpose is met by his conscious unreadiness, and the consequence is the marred result with which he himself and his companions are painfully familiar. His impediment therefore, is imaginary. The remedies appropriate to his condition, if somewhat slow in operation, are not far to seek. They consist essentially in a change, a disentanglement of his perverted mental energies. All mental shock is to be strictly excluded. The habit cannot be cured by order. The pupil must be approached with tact, and habitually addressed in a quiet, slow, and deliberate manner. His imitative instinct will copy the method, and fluency will usually succeed the faculty of correct utterance thus engendered. When we reflect upon the frequently high intelligence of stammering children, the drawback

imposed upon their education by this unfortunate habit, and its equally hurtful influence upon their usefulness as adults, we cannot too strongly impress the necessity of its early and methodical treatment.

RULES FOR DYSPEPTICS.

Dyspeptics will do well to observe the following general rules: Live on two meals a day, if possible. Never eat to excess. Estimate as nearly as you can the actual needs of the system, and limit the quantity of food to them, remembering that one grows weak if he eats too much. Eat slowly and masticate all food even longer and more thoroughly than a healthy person careful of his digestion would do. Quite dry foods, as a rule, are best suited to dyspeptics, who should drink sparingly with their meals. Some can take ice water in very small quantities without being disturbed by it, but generally it retards digestion. And the same is true of all cold drinks. Warm ones suit most dyspeptics best; and a very little weak tea, if properly made, is not at all likely to do any harm. The food should be neither very hot nor very cold. Properly, it should be about "blood warm." Every one knows from experience just what foods distress them and what are well borne; of course, the former should be excluded from the diet. There are but few people who cannot eat good ripe fruits in season, provided they do so in the morning. Fruits, raw or cooked, if eaten with the supper, often cause digestive disturbances.

After dinner rest awhile and the rest should be mental as well as physical. But in the course of an hour or two after eating, most dyspeptics are benefited by a walk of a mile or two, the distance being covered leisurely. This is usually the case if what is known as flatulent dyspepsia is suffered from. During the walk the "fullness" disappears and the victim of it returns feeling buoyant, physically as well as mentally.

Some dyspeptics are very thirsty a little while after eating heartily. Hot water is the best drink for them, and it should be sipped. This is also a remedy for "sour stomach," and many other symptoms which come under the head of "distress after eating." When one is very tired mentally or physically, the digestive organs share in the fatigue, and they ought to have a short rest before being put to work. If a feeling of faintness or "goneness" exists and urges one to eat at once while tired and worried, he should slowly sip a cup of hot water, and

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