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KNEE-DEEP IN JUNE. rood heath An Illustrated Monthly Magazine Devoted to Hygiene and the Principles of Healthful Living. Entered at Stationers' Hall.- Vol. 4. June, 1905. 120.1. Editorial Chat. Educated Mothers.—All this talk Cancer Research in Germany. about College women not marrying is a —A number of distinguished German mistake, says the President of the American physicians have, according to the British 'National Federation of Women's Clubs. Medical journal, formed a committee at: Not only do the,yvomen graduates of college Karlsruhe for the --purpose of discovering: marry, according to this authority, but they means of combating the increase of cancer.. have larger families than their uneducated 4 sisters, and their children have a "higher average of intellectual development." The Need of Improved School . There is 'nothing difficult to believe in these Buildings.—Sir Aston Webb, R.A., statements. Education of the right kind speaking at the Conference on School certainly should not disqualify a woman Hygiene, said that the great desiderata for for marriage and domestic cares any more school buildings were "Sun on all the' than it disqualifies a man for his chosen rooms and free circulation of air round all career. On the contrary, it should make the buildings. Schools should no longer- for greater efficiency. There can be no be built round a cloistered quadrangle, and. doubt that ignorance of the principles the esthetic surroundings, which have so underlying health and the proper care of much to do with health and happiness,. the body, lies at the foundation of a very ought not to be overlooked." large share of 'the high infant mortality de 41 which is such a sad feature of the present time. Let us by all means have educated The City Beautiful.—The New mothers, but let their education be vital York City Improvement Commission,. and 'praCtical ; let it take hold of real life, which was appointed by the Mayor about. and fit for the highest service. a. year ago, has recently reported a scheme- of improvements involving an expenditure. * * of 50,000,000 in the next ten years.. Where the Fewest Infants The changes are in the interests of beauty Die.—The infantile mortality in Norway and health. It is encouraging to note the- 'is lower, than in any other country, the increased efforts that are being put forth average being eighty-six per thousand in ' by the municipal authorities in most of the rural districts, and 130 in the towns, with world's large cities, to improve them from a general average of ninety-five per 1,000. a sanitary standpoint, and also to make Probably the chief cause of Norway's ex- them more beautiful to the eye.' The ceptionally low rate is that there is no rise good that can be accomplished in this way in the mortality rate in summer. is almost immeasurable. 4 GOOD HEALTH. Health a Comparative Thing. the administration of drugs. Furthermore, —Dr. Percy Warner, in a recent address there are two kinds of pain—" the objective entitled " After Twenty Years," delivered and the subjective ; the one, as it were, before his medical colleagues, says some starting from below, the other from above." good things about disease and its treatment. Dr. Warner evidently thinks there is a " Health," he tells us, " is a comparative pretty strong infusion of the subjective thing—there are various degrees of it ; variety in most cases of illness. " I re- a great many people go through life, memember," he says, " that in one of my especially the latter half of it, with some- own illnesses I had what I thought was thing that is not far removed from disease pretty severe pain, and was probably -always with them. Very few of us wear making more fuss about it than was need- .out like the one-horse chaise,' all over ful ; the nurse came along and said, Are alike ; there is a little too much friction you sure that the pain is as bad as you here or there which produces the inevitable seem to think ? ' I thought her rather un- result, and many people either inherit or sympathetic, but the suggestion was cer- acquire something that will always be for tainly good, it made me consider the matter, them a thorn in the flesh '—something and the pain soon became quite bearable that makes their life more or less that of instead of occupying all my attention." an invalid, but does not necessarily tend to * * shorten it." 4 Food for Thought.—There is food A Doctor' s Confessions.—" It for thought in these dispassionate reflec- is wrong," he continues, " to be too me- tions of an experienced practitioner. Why chanical in our methods of treating disease, are physicians generally so prone to pro- for what with one person may be disease ceed blindly to abolish the pain rather than may in another be a state of health. I am investigate the causes of the disease ? Is sure that I have often done the patient it not because the patient is over-anxious more harm than good by the drugs I have to have this matter receive first attention ? given him. [Italics ours.] It is not al- And does he not very often stand in the ways easy to see this, for the effects of the way of his own recovery by concentrating ,drugs are often masked by the symptoms his attention on the drugs to be taken of the disease. I think I used to give too rather than the removal of the causes much alcohol in typhoid ; I am sure I have which have brought on the disease ? The given both too much alcohol and too much doctor's remarks on the subjective character food in pneumonia. I am not sure that I of pain ate likewise very much to the have not hastened the end of some old point. The whole address, in fact, is along people by being too anxious about the these lines, and indicates in a striking way regularity of their hearts. And in the the strong common sense and broad out- treatment of pain how much easier it is look that bid fair to become characteristic sometimes to administer a sedative than to of our leading medical men. abstain from giving relief in that way ! " * * 4 4 THE address is a welcome sign of a more The Mystery of Pain.—Pain the rational system of medical treatment. Too doctor thinks is "more or less of a mystery." often medical men have made the great mis- There is a good side to it, and the medical take of treating one or more symptoms,when practitioner does well to try and see this much more would have been accomplished good side and learn what he can from it if the general health of the patient as a before proceeding blindly to abolish it by whole had received attention. GOOD HEALTH. 5 CHRONIC INTESTINAL CATARRH. BY GEORGE THOMASON, M.D. THIS very common condition, catarrh of of blood in the intestinal area and is a very the intestine, in the majority of cases, is potent factor in producing intestinal the result of some abnormal and frequently catarrh. Constriction of the waist by repeated irritation of the lining membrane tight clothing or by belts, through impeding of the intestine. Without doubt the most the circulation in the bowel, is a very common of all causes of this condition is common cause of this affection. to be found in the free and promiscuous The average amount of blood in the use of stimulants and condiments of various human body is about ten pints. Nature sorts. Pepper and mustard, even when intends that all this blood should applied to the skin, will cause redness and constantly be on the move and equally burning and a blister. The lining mem- distributed throughout the body. The brane of the intestine is much more skin alone is capable of containing from a •sensitive and delicate than the skin, and third to a half of the entire blood of the becomes inflamed with even a very dilute body, and, with an active condition of the solution of these irritating substances. blood vessels of the skin, it is not possible The glands which are always found to have congestion of blood in any other present in the intestine, and which in part of the body. health serve useful purposes, are by these It is evident, therefore, that in the irritants stimulated to pour out an excess treatment of intestinal catarrh an active of mucus simply as a protection to the skin circulation is of primary importance, intestinal membrane. From frequent in fact it is not possible to have any form repetitions of these irritations the glands of catarrh with a healthy, active skin. become accustomed to pouring out an There are no more efficient means of pro- excessive amount of their secretion, so that moting skin activity than sunbaths and the ultimately they habitually secrete an abnor- application of cold water to the body. mal amount of mucus even though no Great emphasis may well be laid upon stimulation be present. Thus a catarrhal these two measures. Being so efficient, condition becomes fully established, and simple and readily obtainable, they afford •shreds and masses of mucus are discharged a sure means of relieving the sufferer from the bowel. from a distressing and often quite exhaust- Anything which leads to a sluggish ing condition. movement of blood in the intestines favours In taking the sunbath, as much as catarrh of the bowel.

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