CONTENTS. Exercise, Its Importance. Physical Exercise For Brain Workers. Effects of Alcohol on the Brain. Dangers Lurking in Milk. That Third Meal. Correct Sitting Position. Parlor Lecture to the Patients at the Wahroonga Sanitarium. The Highway to Health. Chloroform Anesthesia Dangerous to Meat-eaters. T Are tlie—Americans Dying Out ? Good Health Tit Bits. Home "Department. Seasonable Recipes. R . A ND The Physician in the Home. r D. H. KRESS, M. D., 0 EDITOR.

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Exercise, Its importance. Physical Exercise For Brain Workers. ABUNDANT exercise in the open air DAVID PAULSON, M. D. should be taken every day, regardless of IT is difficult to lay down exact rules, the weather. Just as truly as "he that but it is a pretty safe rule that all, espe- regardeth the clouds shall not sow," shall cially those who do much mental work, he also not be free from colds. If one has shall take sufficient exercise each day to no manual labor that can be performed make them perspire. The original curse out of doors, then walking and cycling are pronounced upon man after his fall was the best things. One should walk rapidly, that he should earn his bread by the sweat until the whole body is in a delightful of his brow. Some sweat by means of glow. Deep, regular breathing should be sweating-baths, etc., without work, but it kept up during the exercise. In many is better to do work enough to make one cases, influenza may be kept off by vigor- sweat. So, practically, a person who is ous exercise just as it is coming on, if one taking four hours' mental taxation should has the will to resist the disinclination to take at least an hour's vigorous exercise move, which is one of the first symptoms. to balance it—for instance, such exercise Sweating from bodily exercise is much as brisk walking, a vigorous ride on the better than sweating artificially produced. bicycle, or work in a gymnasium. But Often a busy person will say, " I have not don't raise a twenty-five pound dumb-bell time to take exercise." Nobody has any a few times until you get red in the face, right to be so busy. To take all the pre- and then lay it down and call that exercise. cautions necessary to keep the body in a Do some vigorous work, and continue it healthful condition is a religious duty. until you feel a glow all over your body. " The efficacy of moderate exercise in A little of this kind of exercise will balance airing the bodily system is realised when a good deal of mental work. we learn that it is computed that when at Now this story is often told me by busi- rest we consume only 50o cubic inches of ness men : " I have to be very bilsy, as air in a minute. If we walk at the rate of there is such strong competition, and I one mile an hour, we use 800 ; at two don't feel like exercising." After a man miles, r,000 ; at three miles, 1,600 ; at has worked hard all day in his office, it four miles, 2,300 cubic inches. If we run somehow requires a good deal of deter- at the rate of six miles an hour, we con- mination for him to take hard physical ex- sume 3,000 cubic inches of air during every ercise by way of walking or work in the minute of the time so spent." garden, but such need to train themselves until it becomes a part of their life, as much SHE will not let him in the house as common honesty ; for if those in seden- Until he wipes his feet ; Then she sails out in her long-trained gown, tary life do not accustom themselves to a And wipes up all the street. certain amount of hard physical work daily, —Exchange. they will lie down in early graves. 76 GOOD HE ALTH. APRIL I, 1903.

Effects of Alcohol on the Brain. centres, thus giving loose reins to the D. H. KRESS, M. D. lower or animal centres. It destroys the THE circulation of the blood is under the judgment and the power to discriminate control of the nervous system. A nerve between good and evil. For this reason accompanies each vessel, no matter how the priests anciently were expressly bidden small the vessel may be. If one of these to abstain from the use of wine and strong nerves should be severed, the vessel that it drink that they might be able to discern accompanies would at once relax or dilate between clean and unclean, between the and become congested with blood. The common and the sacred. The angel's prophecy concerning John the Baptist, the paralysing effect of alcohol on the brain and nervous system is clearly seen in the greatest prophet and the forerunner of unsteady gait of the drunkard. Paralysis Christ, was, " He shall be great in the of the nerves which constrict the blood- sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither vessels regulating the circulation, results in wine nor strong drink : and he shall be dilation and congestion, especially of the filled with the Holy Ghost." The Apostle vessels which have the thinnest walls, such says, " Be not drunk with wine . . . but as the capillaries and the blood vessels of be filled with the Spirit." the brain. EFFECT ON OFFSPRING. The dilation of the capillaries of the skin It is a law of physiology that " like is clearly seen in the flushed face or in the begets like." It is well known that chronic red nose of the habitual drinker. drunken parents always transmit to their If we could take a look at the liver and the offspring some form of mental, moral, or brain, we should find that a similar con- nervous disorder. gested condition existed in these organs. The blood vessels of the brain are more Dangers Lurking in Milk. delicate in structure than any others ; they therefore relax more than any ethers, and IT cannot be too strongly urged that all the injury done to them is correspondingly milk used should be thoroughly sterilised. greater. The walls of these vessels become Consumption and cancer, we know, are in time so thinned by continual congestion both prevalent among dairy herds. that some very slight exertion may result ANTHRAX.—There has been an outbreak in a rupture of one of them. This is the of anthrax, a very deadly disease, recently principal cause of death in habitual users at Footscray, Victoria. Some of the cattle of drinks containing alcohol. died. A dog fed upon the flesh also died APOPLEXY in a short time. The health department is the disease that nearly always carries prohibited the sale of milk from this dairy. away the habitual drinker. The red face This action was regarded as likely to in- is no indication of health, as is usually duce the owners of cows to drive their supposed. It is rather an indication of dairy herds to a distance so that they brain congestion ; a signal that ought to might be able to sell their milk. That warn the transgressor of the structural the action of the health department should changes taking place in the blood vessels not be rendered futile, it was decided also of the brain. to quarantine the area. is more Insanity and softening of the brain are dangerous than milk, since ninety per conditions which are very common among cent. of the germs contained in the milk users of alcohol. But even death and in- rise to the surface in the cream, and are sanity are as nothing when compared to incorporated in the butter. Outbreaks of the serious moral injury resulting from the anthrax among dairy herds have also been use of this drug. The brain is the only reported from New Zealand. It is sup- avenue through which the Creator can posed that the germs were imported in the communicate with man. Any injury done bone dust used for fertilising purposes. to this organ lessens its susceptibility to TYPHOID FEVER.—A severe outbreak divine and ennobling influences, and must of typhoid fever is being experienced result in moral deterioration. The grog at Coonamble, N. S. \V., 162 cases so far shop is the nursery of degenerates. Al- having been reported. Dr. Millard, assis- cohol paralyses the higher or inhibiting tant medical officer of the Government, APRIL I, 1903. .GOOD HEALTH. 77 who was sent to Coonamble to inquire protect themselves against such practices into the cause of this epidemic, reports by having their milk analysed by the local that the disease was traced to the shop of analyst, who will do it for a small fee. a vendor of milk shakes. Milk is one of MANY DEATHS AMONG CHILDREN.— the best germ cultures in warm weather. " The death-roll from enteritis in Sydney Typhoid fever is nearly always traceable last month was phenomenal, according to to the milk or water supply, but other the Government statistician's report on diseases may be communicated besides the vital statistics. The number of deaths the ones to which special attention is was 107, of which no fewer than too were given. of children under five years of age. Mr. PTOMAINE POISONING.—Another severe Coghlan writes, It is apparent that since case of ptomaine poisoning has been re- the total mortality of the month is some- ported from Parramatta, which resulted in what below the average volume, the death the death of a man named Archibald record would have been remarkably favor- Bland, aged fifty, due to the eating of able if this large irruption of enteritis had tinned fish. Cases of ptomaine poisoning not been experienced. A similar very are becoming very common. Only a heavy enteritis mortality was experienced short time ago, over one hundred were in 1898, when ninety-three persons died from this cause. The average for November during the ten years to date is fifty-five, or nearly half of the number for the month under review. From the figures appar- ent in the death summary, it is safely to be assumed that there is necessity for improved knowledge in the community of the dietary requirements of poisoned at Melbourne through eating infant life to ward off the deadly inroads ham sandwiches. of this disease.' "—Evening News, Dec. 10. One of the Canadian medical journals, in speaking of the prevalence of disease That Third Meal among animals, concludes with the follow- Is responsible for more mischief than ing : " With cholera in hogs, rot in sheep, many imagine. Innumerable disagreeable influenza in poultry, and tuberculosis in symptoms, headaches, feeling of dullness milk and beef, is it any wonder that large in the head, bad taste in mouth, coated numbers are becoming vegetarians ? " Is tongue, irritability, impatience, depression, it ? horrid dreams, nightmare, etc., are fre- BORIC ACID IN MILK.—TWO most shock- quently entirely due to eating the third ing cases of chemicalising milk have just meal, and disappear as soon as the evening been reported in England. Similar cases meal is dropped. may be found in Australia. In one case, It must be clear to any unprejudiced Higg's Dairy Farms, Limited, introduced mind that natuce never designed the stom- no less than 18o grains of boric acid per ach to be at work while other members of gallon of milk ; and in another case, Chas. the body are at rest. In fact, the stomach Hope, of Southbridge Road, Croydon, does not work while the brain and other bought milk from the same firm, and sold members of the body are at rest. It also it containing 280 grains of acid to the rests, even if filled with food. Here is the gallon. Five grains of boric acid have cause of the mischief that results. The food been known to have serious results on is not digested, but undergoes decay (which adult life. Incalculable injury, therefore, is shown by the coated tongue), filling the might be wrought, to child or man, by system with poisons, producing headache, such boric acid lotion. Consumers should dreams, etc. 78 GOOD HEALTH. APRIL. I, 1903.

Local pain in the region of the stomach, Correct Sitting Position. or vomiting, may sometimes keep the J. H. KELLOGG, M. D. transgressor awake,—wise Nature, to save her child, compells him to keep awake ; to AN improper .attitude in sitting is one of sit up and digest the meal as he ought, or the causes of the increasing frequency of else expells it. The hours most suitable, allowing a sufficient time between meals, are,— Breakfast, 8 A.M. ; Dinner, 3.3o Y.M. Breakfast, 7 A.M. ; Dinner, 2.3o I3.m. Breakfast, 6.30 A.M. ; Dinner, r or 1.3o P.M. When dinner is taken at or before i P.M., it may be well to take a light, simple meal in the evening composed principally of , but this should be taken at least

FIG. / such physical deformities as round shoul- • ders, flat chests, and spinal curvature, as well as of much of the physical weakness, backache, sideache, and other allied symp- toms of which so many, especially women, complain. A great many young ladies have more or less lateral curvature of the spine as in- dicated by the elevation of one shoulder, or the greater prominence of one shoulder- FIG. 3. blade. The schools are largely respon- three hours before retiring. When the sible far this deformity. Sir John Forbes, dinner is taken after 2 P.M., a glass of cold an English physician, on visiting a board- water will usually pacify the sensation of ing school containing forty girls, found on hunger that may be experienced, or a close inquiry that there was not one who drink of caramel or some other good had been in the school two years without beverage may be taken. becoming more or less crooked. We should be pleased to receive the If the lack of symmetry were the only experiences of those who have made the evil resulting from curvatures and defor- change, and will be glad to answer ques- mities, the writer would not feel such tions to those desiring further information. great need to impress the importance of maintaining the natural form of the body. Both local and constitutional disorders THE heights by great men reached and kept, result from the disturbed relations of the Were not attained by sudden flight ; But while their companions slept internal organs. Were toiling upward in the night. There are few people who sit correctly. —Henry W. Longfellow. The muscles which are intended to sustain APRIL I, 1903. GOOD H EA LTH. 79 the body in an erect posture should always over the lamp, it will give a bluish color. be in an energised position when sitting I cook the potato and bring it on one step upright. It is a sad mistake to fall all in in the process of starch digestion. a heap on to a seat, no matter what kind Did any of you ever eat a green apple ? of chair it may be. What did it taste like ?—It is not sweet, Young ladies not infrequently acquire but very acid. But if that same apple round shoulders, flat chests, and other de- had been allowed to hang on the tree, it formities as the result of spending hours would in time have become quite sweet. at piano practice while sitting in a bad There exists just as much acid in the ripe poise. apple as in the green apple, but in the ripe The incorrect attitude shown in Fig. .3 apple the starch has been converted into is not an uncommon one. In Fig. 4 the sugar; we have acid with sugar added. correct position is represented. We do the same thing in the mouth Young girls should exercise great care by the saliva that the sun does to the un- in assuming the correct poise in sitting, ripened . We take the starches, and standing, and walking, otherwise they are they are converted into sugar by the liable to diseases of the stomach, bowels, action of the saliva. 'When the starch is and pelvic organs, which may end in changed by the saliva to sugar, it is ready chronic and obstinate invalidism. for absorption. It is absorbed by the blood and taken to the liver, to be stored Parlor Lecture to the Patients at the there as starch, as animal or liver starch. Wahroonga Sanitarium. It is now no longer sugar. This is kept for fuel. In the cold weather we need BY LAUKETTA KRESS, M. 1). more fuel. If we eat dextrinised starchy STARCH is changed by the saliva into foods, we have a large supply of fuel for dextrin, then into maltose, and finally winter use. It is dealt out to the system into levulose. Levulose is the kind of as needed for heat and energy. It also sugar we find in fruits. Levulose or fruit passes to the muscles and supplies us with sugar is also called grape sugar. The fat. Many people suppose that fat is first step in the digestion of starch is the made by fat, but fat is not necessary to conversion of the starch into dextrin, and form fat. If we want to fatten stock, do this is done in the baking process. For we feed them on fat ?—No ; we feed stock instance, in a granose biscuit the starch is on oats, maize, etc. It is the starch of changed to dextrin. The very first step the grains that really fattens them. Have in the digestion of starch is done in the you ever watched cows or horses eat boiling process. Here we have a raw ? When they begin to grind the potato. If we take this potato and boil it food, the saliva begins to flow. The box over the stove, we then have the very first that they are eating out of is covered with step in digestion. After we have further saliva. They break up the granules of boiled it, and cooked it down considerably, the grains very fine, and bring the small we might have the second step in the divided particles in contact with the digestion of starch. The third step is ac- saliva. It is then digested and stored up complished by the baking process, by as fat if more is eaten than is needed. baking bread and baking it thoroughly, We have perverted this method of eating, until a slight brownish tint is obtained. and simply float soft foods down. There This is as far as we are able to carry the is another place where the starch can be process of digestion by cookery. In the digested, and that is in the intestines very last step, by the action of saliva and by the action of the pancreatic juice. the pancreatic juice, sugar is formed. When people float the food down with A weak iodine solution when brought drinks, it undergoes fermentation and in contact with starchy substances reveals does very little good, but rather harm. A a very dark bluish color. This is what is person may eat a great amount of rice, known as the starch test. If I should may eat it at every meal, and fail to put iodine on this raw potato, it would digest any of it, and grow thinner and give no test at all. You notice that it thinner and thinner. It is not because only gives the color of the iodine, a brown there is no nourishment in the rice. color. If I take the potato and hold it There is quite an amount of nutriment in 8o GOOD HEALTH. APRIL 1, 1903. rice, but they fail to mingle with it the value ; then we shall be better prepared to needed saliva, and therefore fail to digest judge the merits of each. it. The food is too soft and eaten too The total nutritive value of rapidly to receive any change, and as it Beef ... 28 per cent. enters the stomach, it ferments and be- Pork ... 61 per cent. comes acid and is largely lost. Why not eat Poultry... 26 per cent. dextrinised starches as found in granose, Mutton ... 28 per cent. zwieback, etc. ? These foods must receive An average of 36 per cent. for the four mastication before they leave the mouth, leading kinds of meat. being too dry to swallow. But the good The nutritive value of received from the food we eat depends Wheat ... 86 per cent. largely upon thorough mastication. Oats ... 8o per cent. Corn (maizemeal) 84 per cent. An average of 83 per cent. for the three Facts Regarding Foods. leading grown. THE meat question is invoking consider- Rye, barley, and rice would raise the able discussion in the daily papers of the average a little, but as we do not use them various States at present, and it is rather as stock foods to any great extent, they amusing to notice the different arguments will not be considered. for and against its use. The details will be fully studied in our Some take the position that there is too next. A. W. SEMMENS, much meat eaten in the Australian States, Adelaide. others say it is eaten too sparingly. Ac- cording to the latest statistics of Mr. The Highway to Health. Coghlan, Australians eat twice as much D. H. KRESS, M. 0. meat per inhabitant as that consumed by the average Englishman. PETER'S reply to the poor cripple who sat at the gate of the temple asking alms One physician says, " I am personally was, " Silver and gold have I none, but of opinion that a meat diet develops higher such as I have give I thee." " And he physical and mental qualities than any took him by the right hand and lifted him other diet. I am of opinion that a flesh up." The world needs help, not money. diet confers a greater capacity for resisting If it were money we stood so much in need disease than a diet." Certainly, of, Christ would have brought millions if this reasoning is correct, the Creator with Him to this earth and freely dis- of the universe made a terrible mistake pensed it among the people. But He in giving man his first bill of fare, which came penniless, having no place He could was a " bloodless one." Had man re- call His own. " For our sakes He became mained loyal, his diet would ever have poor." As a poor man He moved among remained bloodless, and consisted of the the poor, ministering unto their needs and simple products of the earth. making many rich. " He went about do- Because of necessity, permission was ing good," the record tells us. granted immediately after the flood to slay What the world needs to-day more than and eat, but with that permission there anything else is' followers of Christ, men was attached a penalty, the shortening of life. and women whose hearts are touched with It is a remarkable fact of history that from compassion, to go about and give to the almost one thousand years, the length of needy and discouraged ones the help they life has since decreased to about thirty- need. A smiling face, a brotherly hand- seven or thereabouts. shake, an encouraging word the world It can be satisfactorily proved that meat needs. What everyone longs for is broth- is one of the many agencies that destroy erly sympathy and service ; you may not the body defences, and pave the way possess a great stock or capital of these for the inroads of disease. Before we essentials to begin this kind of work, but go more fully into the question, it will give such as you have, and it shall be be well for us to study the nature of given you. " As in the water face answers animal and vegetable productions, and be- to face, so the heart of man to man." We come acquainted with their relative food see a reflection of what we are wherever APRIL I, 1903. GOOD HEALTH. 81 we go. It pays to cultivate pleasantness. Are the Americans Dying Out ? Do not hang your head as a bulrush and mourn because of your impoverished con- MR. WESTON, writing in the Nineteenth dition, but trade with the capital you Century on the weak spot in the Ameri- possess. can Republic, calls attention to the fact " Is thy. cruse of comfort failing ? that the native-born citizens of the United Rise and share it with another; States are ceasing to increase, and that the And through all the years of famine result of the diminished birthrate is only It shall serve thee and thy brother. concealed by the influx of foreign immi- Love Divine will fill thy storehouse, And thy handful still renew; grants, who are coming more and more Scanty fare for one will often from Southern and Eastern Europe. Make a royal feast for two." Many of the figures which he gives are The satisfaction and cheerfulness very striking. The first generation of Am- brought into the life by seeing others made ericans after the colonisation of New Eng- happier and better, reacts upon the whole land had families of ten to twelve, the system, and " doeth good like a medicine." second, the third, and the fourth generations The following prediction is made by Isaiah : had families of six and seven, the fifth, fam- " Deal thy bread to the hungry ; . . . ilies of four and five, the sixth, families of bring the poor that are cast out to thy three and less. The result is that 275 house ; when thou seest the naked . . . years after the landing of the pilgrim cover him. . . . Then shall thy light fathers, the stronghold of Puritanism is break forth as the morning, and Mine not upheld by the-ever-declining American, health shall spring forth speedily." Many a but by the Irish, German, and French dyspeptic would find the relief he seeks, Canadians. If the birthrate had kept up by thinking more about the needs of others at its earlier rate, and there had been no and less about his own. foreign immigration at all, there would have been 1oo,000,000 people in the United States to-day; there are only 76,000,000, Chloroform Anesthesia Dangerous even when all the negroes and foreign immi- to neat-Eaters. grants are included. Of these 76,000,000, SOME time ago Dr. Lauder Brunton roi- millions are foreigners, 13-1 millions called attention to the fact that death from are born of foreign parents."—Review of chloroform anesthesia is probably due, not Reviews. to the chloroform itself, but to the fact that chloroform arrests the elimination of tissue poisons, and that death is directly the re- Oysters and Feeble Digestion. sult of the action of these poisons rather than of the chloroform. Dr. Brunton INTERESTING observations have recently cited the fact that death from chloroform been made in bacteriology to ascertain the anesthesia is very rare in India, while it is number of microbes in oyster juice. It was becoming more and more common in Eng- found that r c. c. of oyster juice produced, land, which fact he attributes to the in- in an culture, 1,500,000 colonies. creasing use of meat as an article of diet This observation entirely justifies the posi- in Great Britain. tion of the late Dujardin-Beaumetz, one of Chloroform has long been a popular the most eminent of French physicians, anesthetic in Edinburgh, but recently that oysters should never be eaten by per- deaths from its use in that city have been sons with feeble digestive powers or those very frequent. It is also noticed that gout suffering from dilatation of the stomach. is becoming very common. Both these There is no article of food which decom- circumstances are doubtless due to the poses more readily in the stomach than increased consumption of meat resulting does the oyster, and none more likely to from the large importation of low-priced communicate infection through the setting refrigerator meat. Deaths from chloro- up of decomposition and fermentation in form anesthesia are also alarmingly com- other foods. The oyster is always a car- mon in Australia. The cause pointed out rier of microbes, and recent observations by Dr. Lauder Brunton is no doubt re- show that it often communicates typhoid sponsible for this. fever and other pathological germs. 82 GOOD HEALTH. APRIL I, 1903.

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Bacteriology of Butter. Waiting for the Message. THE farmers of Denmark have taken ad- A SCHOOLMASTER was giving his pupils vantage of the developments of modern instruction in the elements of physiology, bacteriology in the manufacture of butter. and, among other things, told them that The Danish bacteriologists having deter- whenever they moved an arm or a leg it mined the particular microbes by which was in response to a message from the the various flavors are developed in butter, brain. the farmer is now able, by sterilising his " The brain always sends a message milk, and then planting that particular down your arm or leg whenever you wish species of microbe by which the desired to move the particular member," he ex- flavor is produced, to furnish a uniform plained. quality of butter of any desired flavor. At length a mischievous boy roused his The dairymen of Denmark have by this ire by his apparent inattention to the les- means succeeded in obtaining almost com- son. plete control of the English market. " Hold out your hand," lie exclaimed. Now that we have the means of know- The boy did not move. ing the exact varieties of germs which " Why don't you hold out your hand, butter contains, we may be able to study sir ? " cried the irate pedagogue. with some degree of accuracy the influence " Please, sir, I'm waiting for the mes- of this article of food upon digestion. sage from my brain," said the lad coolly ; and he was let off his merited punishment Deadly Coloring flatter. for his sharpness. DR. FRANK CORBETT, bacteriologist of Another Cigarette Victim. the. Minneapolis, U. S. A., board of health, We sometimes read in political papers has been feeding rabbits, guinea pigs, and about the " fool-killer " being around. cats with coloring matter much used in The fact seems to be recognised that this food, almost always with fatal results to cruel executioner is on hand all the time, the subjects. Rabbits appeared unaffected killing poor simpletons by the thousand. by butter color, and he was about to try a The cigarette, the cigar, and the whisky large dose on himself, when he bethought bottle are among the most potent agencies him of a pet cat. The close was given to of death which the fool-killer uses for the pussy, who did not survive. He then fed extermination of his victims. varying doses to cats, and all died. His There must be very few intelligent per- conclusions are that butter color is capable sons nowadays who are not aware of: the of producing severe disturbances of the fact that alcohol and tobacco are deadly nervous system, even ending in death. poisons, and that the habitual use of these While a single dose may not be harmful, drugs must certainly end in miserable and its continued use is likely to produce dis- premature death. Those who try to per- eases of kidneys, bladder, and even lungs. suade themselves or others that tobacco Dairy Commissioner McConnell, of Minne- is harmless, and alcohol a food, talk only sota, believes that these experiments for the sake of argument. In their hearts should prove conclusively that the use of they know better, and are saying to them- butter color should be stopped, and after selves all the time, " I will stop when I futher experiments his department will find it hurts me." After the mischief is begin a crusade to prevent its use in done, after they have smoked as many butter made in the State.—Good House- cigars or swallowed as much whisky as keeping. nature can endure, then they propose to APRIL I, 1903. GOOD HEALTH. 83

stop ; but it is much easier to begin than IT is a mistake to drink large volumes to stop. Almost every newspaper records of ice-water in hot weather, especially if the death of some poor victim of cigarettes ; the drinker be perspiring freely. A cold for instance, a short time ago, there died draught of water is a heart depressant as a boy of fifteen who for four years had well as a disturber of the function of smoked cigarettes in increasing quantities, digestion. The custom of drinking cold until he became absolutely unconscious, drinks through a straw is an excellent one, and died a miserable death. and should be encouraged both in public eating houses and in the home.—J. N. By aid of many hospitals and a wide- Hammond, M. D., Toronto, Canada. spread sanitary organisation, we lower by a small percentage the death rate, and HABIT is a mighty force, and must either we speak as if each scrofulous infant saved tend toward that which is good or that from an early grave, and each feeble old which is evil. It rests with us whether it man enabled to live a few more weary shall he one of our best friends or one of years upon the charity of his fellows were our worst enemies. an addition to potential greatness. Mean- while, Nature steps in and quietly undoes MUSTARD will raise a blister on the in- all our handiwork by lowering the birth- side as well as the outside of the stomach. rate. A nation is great, not by the num- The difference is, that we cannot see the ber of its population, but by its fertility, blister on the inside, and the inside of the its power of filling up vacancies, and stomach cannot complain, not having making good its losses whenever they nerves, as has the outside. If a mustard occur. That is where we are now failing. plaster must be applied, by all means We, the doctors, are elated because here apply it externally. and there we save a life. But of what THE old medical theory was that if a good if lives cease to be produced ? What man felt as if wine was doing him good, some call nature, what others speak of as he should take it. Newer and wiser views cosmic law, is relentless and omnipotent ; tell a man that if he feels as if it were do- we are but flies upon the wheel.—Science ing him good, he should be specially wary Siftings. of it. The old theory was that if a man, on returning in the evening from business, IF you have a friend whose sight is fail- found himself jaded and run down, a glass and ear doc- ing, before he goes to the eye or two of wine with his dinner would pull tor for advice, get him to suspend tobacco him together again and put new life into for sixty days, and he will probably have him for the evening. Recent physiology no need •for a specialist. If you find a utterly•condemns this course. " Wine is tobacco-user black with the " blues," and a mocker ;" " he that is deceived thereby contemplating suicide, assure him that if is not wise." he will abstain for sixty days, the shape and color of things will become better and TOBACCO is such a virulent poison that brighter. If your tobacco-smoking friend doctors are afraid of it, and never prescribe has that scape-goat of all uncertain ail- it. When a person takes an overdose of ments, the " liver complaint," assure him opium, he may be relieved by evacuation that " thirty days " will relieve his biliary of the stomach and by the use of stimulants embarrassment, and sixty days will restore internally and externally. For an overdose his health to par. of arsenic there is the hydrate of iron, but for an overdose of tobacco there is no Two deaths which occurred at Winches- remedy ; it sinks its victim lower and lower ter (Eng.), including that of a doctor, have into death, in spite of all efforts to save been traced to the eating of tainted oysters him. at a Mayoral banquet. Here are some of the diseases attributed Fourteen cases of typhoid fever at Ports- to the use of tobacco : Dyspepsia, water- mouth, thirteen cases at Emsworth, and brash, cancer of the mouth, impotency, other cases at Southampton, have been laryngitis, angina pectoris, palpitation of traced to the oyster bed at Emsworth hav- the heart, amaurosis, color blindness, ing been contaminated with sewage. insanity, horrors, suicidal mania, etc. 84 GOOD HEAL] II. PRO 1, 1q03. The Home Mr-4

Papa's Kiss. fruits require very little time in their preparation. Taking two meals a clay of " WHY don't you tiss like mamma ? " Asked the little maid of three, such foods, in place of four or five of foods As she ran to greet her papa, which require a great length of time in And climbed upon his knee. their preparation, will greatly simplify " Her tisses taste like candy, woman's household duties, and enable her And are dood enough to eat , But your mouf do taste awful, to devote the needed time to study and And ain't a least bit sweet." the mental and moral culture of her family, a duty which cannot be placed - That is so," replied the father— Her eyes he dared not meet- upon another without injury to the family. - There's no reason why, my darling, My kiss should not be sweet." To him the thought was galling, " A MOTHER must realise that child-train- That each evening, with his kiss, ing is a work quite as important as any He had thoughtlessly polluted profession, and one which requires an Those innocent young lips. equal outlay of patience and persistence. Come here, dear wife and mother, Women with but small talent will devote And help me take this vow : years of time and expend money and en- Neither liquor nor tobacco thusiasm upon the study of music or the Shall touch my lips from now. drama in order to enter on these careers. And oh ! dear heavenly Father, Thou who art good and wise, They will relinquish social life, and give up I thank thee for this angel, all pleasure and amusement not connected \Vho has opened my blind eyes." with their chosen profession. It is only —Samuel F. Harker. when mothers are ready to show a like in- terest in the profession of child-training Economy of Time in the Preparation that they can hope for success." of Foods. LAURETTA KRESS, M. D. " EVERY mother feels that she does not DEPRAVED habits of eating and drink- want to be unduly severe or restrictive ing have made woman a slave to minister with her daughter dufing her girlhood to the supposed needs of her family. days. The feeling is only natural that " What shall we eat, and what shall we girlhood's days are fleeting enough. drink ? " are questions which are constantly While she is a girl,' the mother argues, uppermost in her mind. Scarcely has one let her have a good time. Rasponsibili- meal ended before preparations must be ties and cares will come soon enough.' made for the next. Woman's time is so And so she sometimes acts against her fully occupied in the planning and prepara- own judgment in giving permission to her tion of meals, that little if any time is left daughter to do something, which per- for self-culture and the training of her mission instinctively she wishes she were children. How many there are who are strong enough not to grant. cumbered about much serving, to whom " There are hundreds of young girls in the admonition would apply, " Thou art Australian homes to-day whose pitiable careful and troubled about many things ; physical condition is not in any sense due but one thing is needful." to overstudy, or to the unhealthy condition By a return to primitive habits in the of our school buildings, or to any task im- selection and preparation of foods, the more posed upon them by teacher or educational needful duties can receive proper attention. board, but to the unrestricted part which It will be found that cereals, nuts, and they are allowed to take in social pleasures, APRIL I, 1903. GOOD HE ALTH. 85 and consequent late hours, by their parents. Yet of the other ninety-five and one-half These girls go to school each morning ab- per cent. nearly twenty per cent. die un- solutely unfit to study anything. Loss of necessarily. sleep, and the physical drain consequent These facts came out in a paper on upon the previous evening's gaieties, make " Unnatural Death," read at the recent them mentally incompetent. If a fully meeting of the English Sanitary Institute. matured man cannot go to his business The author told his hearers that about one with a clear mind after late hours the million babies were born annually in Eng- night before, how can a parent expect his land. Thirty thousand of the million died undeveloped daughter to study if she has violent deaths from accident, 30,000 died danced away the hours the night before, unnecessarily from tuberculosis, and 12o,- with sometimes an hour or two in the 000 more from absolutely preventable morning included? What teacher can causes, such as small-pox, measles, and teach a girl who is in no fit mental or scarlet fever. Only 45,000 lived their physical condition to be taught ? Yet in natural lives, and nearly one in twenty the cases of hundreds of girls, mothers are died from wearing out. One-fourth of all to-day blaming the teachers of their • the diseases which destroy life are prevent- daughters for what they, as mothers, are able, and fifteen years would at once be alone to blame. It would be a pretty added if the practice of hygiene were good rule for many a mother to look at her- placed on a level with its theory.—Chi- self before she blames anyone else for the cago Clinic. anaemic, nervous, and sometimes shattered physical condition of her daughter."—Re- Smile a Little. view of Reviews. SMILE upon the troubled pilgrims Whom you pass and meet ; Infant Cruelties. Frowns are thorns, and smiles are blossoms Oft for weary feet. MOTHERS think it necessary to compress Do not make the way seem harder the bodies of their infant children to keep By a sullen face ; them in shape, as though fearful that with- Smile a little, smile a little, out tight bandages, they would fall in Brighten up the place. pieces, or become deformed. Do the Smile upon your undone labor ; young of dumb animals become deformed Not for one who grieves O'er his task waits wealth or glory, because nature is left to do her own work ? He who smiles achieves. Do the little lambs become deformed be- Though you meet with loss or sorrow cause they are not girted about with bands In the passing years, to give them shape ? They are delicately Smile a little, smile a little, Even through your tears. and beautifully formed. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Infants need no girts or bands to perfect them. They are supplied with bones and muscles sufficient for their support, and to Seasonable Recipes. guard nature's fine machinery within, be- fore they are committed to our care. The LAURETTA KRESS, M. D. dress of the infant should be so arranged BEAN PATTIES.—Cook best white navy beans that its body will not be the least com- until tender. Rub through a colander to remove pressed after taking a full meal. Dressing the skins ; season with salt and nut meal or nut infants in a fashionable manner, to be intro- creatn. If the pulp is not sufficiently dry to shape, place it on top of the range or in the oven, duced into company for visitors to admire, when the water will evaporate till the pulp is is very injurious to them. Their clothing is quite dry. Then shape with the hands into flat, ingeniously arranged to make the child mis- oblong, or round patties about one inch thick. erably uncomfortable, and it is frequently Place on tins, and brown until dry and mealy throughout, and of a delicate golden brown on made still more uneasy by passing from top. Serve in individual dishes with a garnish of one to the other, being fondled by all. thin slices of lemon, and with or without a dress- ing prepared by beating one spoonful of nut butter to a cream in one cup of water, and adding ONLY four and one-half per cent. of the one-half cup of lemon juice and salt as desired. babies born annually live to the end of LENTIL AND NUT LOAF.—Take one pint of their allotted threescore years and ten. well-cooked lentil pulp, one cup of strained 86 GOOD HEALTH. APRIL 1, 1903.

stewed tomatoes, one and one-half cups walnut If we say that the use of flesh as a food meal, a very little pulverised sage, and enough is necessary to sustain any of man's powers, granola or crushed zwieback to make quite a stiff mixture (probably one cupful). Bake for forty physical or mental, we cast a reflection minutes or longer in a moderate oven. upon God Himself, because it would fol- EGGS IN TOMATO CASES.—Take perfect-shaped low that God either did not know or that rather large-sized, fresh tomatoes. Cut a portion He had left man to feel his way in the off the stem end, and scoop out the seed, leaving dark, and find out for himself as best he the outer portion of the fruit intact. Break an could what was best for him in the way of egg into this prepared case, sprinkle lightly with salt, and bake in the oven until the whites are food. These propositions are too absurd well set, but not hardened. Serve with a border to receive consideration. Hence we be- of nicely browned granose flakes. lieve that God, who knew what was best for man, gave him at the beginning the Vegetarianism. best food for him, and that He gave the lower animals the best food for them: and D. H. KRESS, M. I). so from the Bible standpoint we must con- VEGETARIANISM has a distinctly moral clude that flesh is a non-essential as food. and ethical side as well as a health side. " All we like sheep have gone astray." The instruction given to our first parents Flesh eating, like polygamy, has resulted was, " Behold, I have given you every from man going astray. Of either one it herb bearing seed, which is upon the face may b3 truthfully said, Because of the of all the earth, and every tree in which is hardness of your hearts He suffered such the fruit of a tree yielding seed : to you it things, but " from the beginning it was shall be for meat," literally, " It shall be not so." to you for food." " And to every beast of Man is naturally a vegetarian. Take a the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and little child one year old, and bring before to everything that creepeth upon the earth him for the first time two things that he have I given every green herb for meat." has never seen before,—a piece of beef- " Of every tree thou mayest eat freely." steak and a luscious peach,—and let him To the lower animals were given the take his choice ; that choice will always be coarse products of the vegetable kingdom, the peach. It is necessary to train a child while to man were given fruits and seeds, to eat meat, the appetite for meat does not the highest and most refined products of naturally exist. The mother takes a little the earth. These were the meats which piece of meat and pretends to eat it, or God " created to be received with thanks- chews it, and then gives the child a little giving of them that believe and know the and tells him that it is good. At first the truth, for they are sanctified (cleansed, child makes up a face, and then the experi- purified, separated) by the Word of God ment is repeated. After a while he learns and prayer." Each nut, seed, and fruit to eat it, just as the small boy learns to use contains food, put up by the Creator Him- tobacco. Tobacco is at first repulsive, self, encased in a cellular envelope and but by repeated efforts the repugnance is hermetically sealed to keep the contents overcome. We do not have to teach a from contamination. Each contains its child that a peach is good, or that any of own delicate aroma and flavor, pleasant to the ordinary fruits are good. Its entire the senses. inclinations are in the direction of fruits When God placed the first family in and nuts. This is proof that God has Eden, He gave them instruction as to how planted in our very nature the fact that a they ought to live, that practically they non-flesh dietary is the natural dietary. ought to be vegetarians. I cannot imagine If we should present meat to adults in the that the Creator, after creating man shape in which nature produces it, how " good," and pronouncing him not only many would eat it ? How many could " good " but " very good," being created in tolerate it ? His own image, would give him any in- Let me take you to the slaughter house. struction to do the least thing which would Look at that bleeding creature lying before not be best for him,—that God would give you. Cut out a piece of the quivering him a dietary which was not capable of flesh and place it upon the table. Is there keeping him in a perfect condition, and a single one whose inclinations would not capable of sustaining all his powers. lead him to disregard it ? Every one APRIL I, 1903. • GOOD HEALTH. 87 would find that he had a repugnance for it Goldsmith when he penned the following : that would make it absolutely impossible No flocks that range the valley free, for him to eat it. The slaying of animals To slaughter I condemn ; Taught by a power that pities me, and eating their flesh is unnatural. Flesh I learn .to pity them. should only be used in the absence of The time is hastening on apace when all other food. It should be regarded as those who have gained this knowledge an emergency diet to sustain life until shall possess the new earth wherein shall better foods can be obtained. It was dwell righteousness, when "the wolf also under such conditions, that the eating of shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard flesh was sanctioned and commanded after shall lie down with the kid ; and the calf, the flood. When all vegetation was de- and the young lion, and the fatling to- stroyed by the water, God said to Noah, gether ; and a little child shall lead them." " Every moving thing that liveth shall be Until that time comes, let us pray with for meat for you : even as the green herb the understanding, " Thy kingdom come, have I given you all things." It was only Thy will be done in earth as it is in to be meat for him until the earth could heaven." The angel anthem will yet meet again produce the original and pure food. its fulfillment, " Peace on earth," and There certainly can be no excuse for " There shall be no more death, neither flesh eating in the midst of our Australian shall there be any more pain ; for the garden, in which is to be found such a former things are passed away." variety of trees bearing fruits pleasant to the sight and good for food. The Saviour's mission to this earth is to Deadly Poison in Pies. restore that which was lost by the fall. THE serious outbreak of food poisoning This includes not only Eden restored, but reported as having occurred in the town the restoration of man to his Edenic habits. and neighborhood of Derby has probably It includes a transformation of mind so affected considerably more than 15o that man will hate the evil things that he persons. At least, that is the estimate of once lusted for and loved, and love the the " British Medical Journal." It seems good things he once loathed and hated. to be quite clear that all those who suffered Man will then relish, enjoy, be satisfied had partaken of pork pie or other food ob- with, and pronounce good the meat God tained from a particular pork butcher in pronounced good in Eden. He will again the town, who, it may be incidentally re- be in tune with his Maker. marked, deservedly holds a high reputa- In speaking of the future home of the tion in his business. In no case was any redeemed and its inhabitants, we read, complaint made as to the general condition " They shall not hurt nor destroy in all of the food by those who consumed it. my holy mountain : because the earth shall Simultaneously with the cases in Derby be filled with a knowledge of the Lord." It is and district, other cases, all traceable to evident from this that a knowledge of God the Derby pork, were recorded in St. naturally leads people to cease to hurt and Pancras and in Cheltenham. This, the destroy ; it leads away from the slaughter- most recent outbreak of severe ptomaine house and its horrors and from eating poisoning, presumably due to eating un- things slaughtered to greater refinement sound food, is another instance of the in diet and habits. deadly activity of our unseen foes, and is In beholding, man becomes changed to of special interest as illustrating the fact the object of his worship ; he becomes more that the poison-producing germs or their God-like. But " God is good unto all associates do not necessarily cause any [this includes our dumb friends, the ani- alteration in appearance, or consistence, in mals] , and His tender mercies are over all odor or flavor, and thus the ordinary His works." safeguards are wanting.—Science Siftings. The Creator designed man to be His representative upon earth. He was to re- THE ideal sleeping-room should have veal to the creatures below him the com- windows upon two sides, one facing the passion, pity, and love of the Being above east, that the morning sun with its disin- him. He was to be to them what God is fecting rays may freely enter to dry and to him. It was this thought that inspired purify the bedding as it is spread open for 88 GOOD HEALTH. APRIL I, 5903. its daily airing, and to search out and dis- race as the Swedes or Norwegians." infect any nook or corner where dust and " The difference," says Dr. Lambe, " must germs may have found lodgment. be attributed mainly or entirely to diet." Whatever other luxury there may be We should remember that meat-eaters, lacking in the sleeping-room, it should not whose health has been ruined by meat- lack the luxury of fresh air. The re- eating, but who have prolonged their lives breathing of air already contaminated by in comparative comfort by adopting and waste products from the lungs is undoubt- adhering to a vegetarian diet, are not fair edly the cause of many of the increasing samples of vegetarians. Their cadaverous ills to which flesh is heir, much oftener appearance and cranky looks are the re- than it is so recognised. sult of too much meat, not of cereals and fruits. Sir Edwin Arnold stated that the finest body of men he ever saw together HAVE you ever noticed that nearly all in his life was a regiment of native Sikhs centenarians are comparatively poor peo- in India, who had never tasted meat. It ple ? If you can call to mind any wealthy is also noteworthy that the beef-eating man who has reached his hundredth year, Englishman, when he goes to climb the you will undoubtedly find that he has been the icy Himalaya Mountains, gets a rice- a very hard worker all his life, and that he eating Hindu to carry him on his back. has always scorned the rest his riches could have given him. I think this is worth noting, because I MESSRS. W. J. Davies and Sons, of am frequently asked by men of forty-five, Weston Street, London, S. E., importers or thereabouts, who are thinking of retiring of glue, pumice stone, rotten stone, and on a fortune of a few thousand pounds, fish skins, have forwarded to the Daily how they can invest the money to produce Mail, London, the following interesting the biggest income. letter, having reference to the recent pto- Many men seem to be quite ignorant of maine poisoning epidemic in London, de- the fact that persistent hard work is the tails in connection with which have been best lengthener of life. Mere physical published in Every Saturday:— labor is not sufficient. One likes to look " Referring to the mystery of poison in forward to the time when he will be free pork pies, a letter received by our. firm of all business worries ; but many doctors some few months ago might prove interest- contend that ease of mind is as disastrous ing to those who are fond of consuming to longevity as ease of body. Nothing these delicacies. A customer to whom we kills like idleness, and many a man who, had sent a few hundred weight of ordinary at an early age, has ceased to work has glue as used by joiners, etc., wrote to us been driven back to business solely to re- asking if it contained any .deleterious sub- gain lost health. stance, as it was to be used in making the jelly in pork pies. As one of the largest THOSE who live on a vegetarian diet are, and oldest dealers in glue in this country, as a class, heavier, harder in muscle, cap- we have an extensive experience of the able of greater endurance and of perform- many uses to which it can be put, but con- ing greater feats of strength, than those sidering the unsavory origin we do not who live on a mixed diet, as proved by think its presence desirable in such popu- Professor Forbes, from experiments on lar articles of food as pork pies." (From flesh-eating Englishmen, porridge-eating Every Saturday, Nov. 7.) Scotchmen, and potato and bread-eating Irishmen, the Scotchmen being superior SEND orders for the Good Health Li- in height, weight, and strength to the brary booklets, " Food, Its Relation to Englishmen, and the Irishmen superior to Health," " Dietetic Errors, Their Relation both. (See Chamber's Information for the to Disease," "Tobacco Habit, Its Origin People, sheet on the physical history of and Spread." These booklets should be man.) " The Laplanders, living on flesh, in every home. Let us arise and do our are a diminutive race, while the Finns, best to pass along the information they who inhabit the same climate, and live chiefly contain that is so much needed. Five upon the products of the soil, are as fine a hundred for 20/-, too for 5/-. APRIL I, 1903. GOOD HEALTH. 89

WHEN undergarments worn during the HE who is not liberal with what he has day are to be put on again, they should be does but deceive himself when he thinks turned inside out, and hung loosely about he would be liberal if he had more. the room for airing during the night. The night robes should be aired by day in the sun. The habit of hiding them away MILK is probably a more frequent cause in dark closets, or rolling them up closely of stomach and bowel disturbance than any other food. Of specimens of milk ex- amined, a small tablespoonful of one con- tained more than one and a fourth million germs. Another specimen of milk ex- amined on the same day contained but very few germs. The difference was due simply to the difference in the care taken in obtaining the milk from the cow, and in conveying it to the creamery. The milk in the one case contained a thousand times as many germs as in the other, an indica- tion that one of the milkmen must have been guilty of the grossest carelessness. Some of these germs were those capable of producing poisons of a highly dangerous character. Poisons developed from foods sometimes give rise to symptoms which closely resemble various diseases ; such as, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, pneumonia, cholera, and even metallic poisoning. Too great pains cannot be taken in the care and preparation of food.

WHEN the world accomplishes a great thing, it is always accompanied with a great flourish of trumpets and the boom- ing of cannons. The Lord desires that His work shall be done without the use of armaments and the discharge of cannons with a loud noise. The blades of grass and packing them behind pillows is bad. spring up, they make no noise whatever, Expose the garments to the light, and, and yet they exert a power greater than better still, have them cleansed and fresh- all the combined force of the world. This ened by hanging on a line in the air and is just the way the Lord would have His sun. work done. Do the work unostentatiously, and yet in it so much of the Spirit that the Fresh air and sunshine should be had in influence and effect will be irresistible, every conceivable way. They are Nature's and cannot be withstood. free gifts to all ; so don't shut them out of your lives.

THE last survivor of the genus man Beneath this tombstone lies ; he madly ran CUSTOMER : " This waistcoat is too tight A down-hill race to seek what most he prized,— for me. I'm a snuff-taker." The empty honor to be civilised. • TAILOR : " A snuff-taker ? What has Weazened and dwarfed, deformed and sinking that to do with the excellent fit of this fast, waistcoat ? " He weakened on, and reached the goal at last, CUSTOMER : " How can a man sneeze A feeble weed of self applause ; he sighed, without a little slack in his waistcoat ? " Then turned his face to mother earth, and died. GOOD HEALTH. APRIL. I, 1903.

about ninety-five to ninety-seven degrees for The Physician in the home twenty minutes, before resting, would, we think, be found beneficial. Galvanic electricity properly Exercise.—When is it best to take exercise? applied locally is of great value. Massage is also Ans.—That is a difficult question to answer, for beneficial. it depends largely upon the condition of the indi- vidual, and many other circumstances ; also upon Ralston Health Club.—Hypnotism.—Does the Ralston Health Club teach the same philos- the nature of the exercise. The morning is an ophy as you do ? What is your opinion of excellent time. Then nature is fresh and beautiful hypnotism ? and the air invigorating. It is not a good practice to engage in severe Ans.-1. We are not very familiar with the labor immediately after a meal, for digestion may philosophy of the Ralston Health Club. Our thus be retarded. On the other hand, light exer- principles consist simply of the principles of cise aids digestion. Neither is it proper to exercise wholesome living. when one is faint and weary. 2. It produces a diseased and weakened condi- tion of the mind which increases with repetition, may the old idea Strength in Meat.—How hence is not likely to be of service to mankind. that meat is particularly strengthening be ac- It belongs to the same class of phenomena as counted for ? hysteria and other diseased mental states, and is reason is found in its stimulating Ans.—The capable of being used in such a way as to do great qualities. For the same reason some people harm. The Creator never designed that one think that alcoholic liquors, patent medicines, human mind should be under the control of tobacco, tea, and coffee are strengthening. another. The mind of Christ alone should con- Effect of Getting Wet on the Appetite. trol. Why should a person be hungry after getting wet on a rainy day ? Flair Wash.—What would you recommend Ans.—Because making the body wet stimulates for a hair wash ? the skin, and thereby increases the appetite. This Ans.—When it becomes necessary to wash the is the effect we seek in . The hair, take the yolk of an egg, slightly beaten, rub shower-bath in the morning before breakfast acts well into the roots; when nearly dry, rinse the as a tonic to the skin, and creates a,demand for head in tepid water into which is poured a few food. It also increases the production of gastric drops of ammonia. Then, by the fire, rub the juice, and hence is especially beneficial to persons hair with towels until perfectly dry, brush, and who have slow digestion. part the hair with the finger. The egg renders the hair fine and silken, and the ammonia pro- Germs in the Stomach.—Does the normal motes its growth. Or, instead of the egg, use stomach contain germs ? sage tea. Put two or three spoonfuls of sage into Ans.—Yes, most of the time ; but during a meal a cup, and pour boiling water over it. When it is and the digestion of it these germs are destroyed. cold, rub the scalp with it and rinse as above. The stomach is able to exterminate germs and to The hairbrushes should be of the best kind, with keep itself clean when in health. good bristles which penetrate the scalp. Do not use wire brushes; they break the hair and injure Diet in Diabetes.—What foods would you the roots. Plenty of exercise in the open air and give to a diabetic? sunshine strengthens the hair and makes it grow. Ans.—The following foods will be found most This proves that nature's remedies are always the helpful :— best. Apples. Gluten biscuit. beg to ask your candid opinion Gluten pease biscuit. Peaches Onions.—I in regard to the paragraph in the December num- Spinach. Toasted zwieback. ber of Goon HEALTH, in the Tit Bits column, Toasted granose Lettuce. Tomatoes. headed " Onions." Are not onions as a vegetable biscuit. a good food ? Greens of various Nuts. kinds. Nut roast. Ans.—It is known to all who have ever seen or Celery. Nuttolene. tasted them that they contain an acrid oil, which Vegetable broth. Nut butter. is very irritating in character. When absorbed Nut meal purees. Eggs and lettuce salad and carried to the brain, this same oil produces Protose. with tomato dressing. drowsiness. Being volatile, it is freely eliminated Almond cream. Cottage cheese. from the blood through the lungs. This often Protose bouillon. Buttermilk. unfits the user to mingle freely in society. Good Nut cream custard. Kumyss. food should be pleasant to the sight, smell, and Soft boiled eggs. Kumyss nog. taste. Raw onions, therefore, cannot be classed Poached eggs. Kumyzoon. as a good food. It is true that by thorough boil- ing in two or three waters much of this oil evapo- Goitre.—Do you think there is any cure for rates, but that which is left is practically worth- goitre ? less as far as nutrition is concerned. We may Ans.—Goitre may be cured in the majority of dispense with them without the fear of harm cases. Build up the general health by the use of either to ourselves or friends. Onions concealed nutritious foods, spend as much time out of doors in soups and hashes are often an active cause of as possible, and keep rooms well ventilated. A indigestion. A normal palate does not desire warm bath three times a week at a temperature of onions. APRIL I, 1903. GOOD HEALTH. 91

Hygienic Treatment of Typhoid to the raw surface and covered by com- Fever. presses to exclude the air. DR. ELMER LEE, who did good service during the cholera epidemic in Europe in The white of egg is very good for slight 1892 in treating cases by cleaning the burns, and, in an emergency, damp earth bowels with soap and water and then dis- may be used. infecting them, has been experimenting For small burns cool water is better in with several hundred cases in the treat- every way than these, and, indeed, for any ment of typhoid fever by a similar method. but the most extensive burns it is one of Without waiting for the development of the best remedies. An arm or a leg can all the features of the disease, as is often be immersed in it and left there for a long done, he first makes the bowels clean by while with great advantage. drenching them with a copious douche of Burns with alkalies, like soap lye, should soapy water made to pass into and out of be treated with vinegar followed by appli- the lower bowel until all contents are cations of oil. cleared away and the returning fluid is as clear as it entered. The temperature of Burns with acids should be deluged the water used for the injections should de- with water and then treated like other pend on the temperature of the patient. burns. If he is chilly, water of about loo degrees Should a burn be caused by hot pitch, is preferable. If highly feverish, then as the pitch should not be removed imme- low as 75 degrees may be used. This diately, unless the amount be excessive. cleansing process is very comforting to the Common sunburn and the burns caused patient. During the first week of the dis- by external applications, like mustard, ease the bowels should be washed out may be treated very successfully with morning and evening ; after this once a day Lano-Cream, or Witch-Hazel Creams, is sufficient. It is important that the water which will be found unequalled for troubles go past the rectum and deluge the colon. of this kind. External bathing should be used to keep down the heat and also to cleanse the skin and open its pores. ORDINARY filters, so much used in warm weather, even if satisfactory as strainers, Burns and Scalds. fail to remove germs from drinking water. BURNS and scalds are classed among the In fact, so far from lessening the number common accidents, and are generally in the water, the filtering medium may in- spoken of together, as their treatment is duce a more rapid multiplication of micro- the same. They only differ in cause—burns organisms and parasites. Boiling is the being a result of dry heat or strong acids, safest method of rendering water sterile, while scalds are caused by moist or fluid and is therefore perfectly safe.—Dr. Curvier, heat, and the more adherent the fluid the New York, U. S. A. worse the scald ; thus oils produce a more severe scald than water or steam. There are several classifications of the HEALTH is a priceless treasure. Nearly different degrees of burns, but they can be all our diseases may be avoided. Lack of simplified, here by calling them superficial knowledge is responsible for much of our and deep. In the superficial form there is ill health and unhappiness in our homes. simply a raising of the integument in The AUSTRALASIAN GOOD HEALTH iS the blisters, while in the deep there may be only journal published in Australasia ex- any degree of loss, even to a part of the clusively devoted to the subject of health. body. It is edited by a physician. Most of the Whether, however, the burn or scald articles it contains are by experienced be either superficial or deep, the first aim physicians. Subscribe for it. Get others should be to try to allay the terrible pain to subscribe for it. Two shillings and six- following the accident. pence will pay for it for one year, including The most simple application in time of postage. Canvassers are permitted i/- on need is bicarbonate of soda, either in each yearly subscription obtained. Try powder or made into a paste, and applied taking orders, and report your success. • 92 GOOD H EALTH. APRIL I, 1903.

Extracts from Letters. in the past, and the work and its success " FROM early youth I ate and drank may exceed your fondest expectations. anything that tasted good.' This, together " Believe me, the memory of the many with smoking, which I thought very manly, kindnesses and sympathetic treatment re- and other habits, almost ruined my health ceived at the hands of the numerous and strength, so that at twenty years of friends will linger as life remains. age I was a consumptive, and a strain " I have taken up my duties with great brought on hemorrhage of the lungs. earnestness, and am now working at high " After spending two months at home, pressure,—a pleasant and striking contrast two months at the Brompton Hospital to the sad state of matters some ten or for Consumption, and many months at twelve months since. convalescent homes, and still many months " Believe me to remain with every good more at health resorts, I providentially wish for the new year now opening before met a lady and gentleman who told me a us, Very sincerely yours, little about the health principles. I saw "G. C. 13." that they were worth a trial, and gave up " I like the Goon HEALTH very much, bad habits, stopped taking medicine, and and have found much good from it. My began the two-meal-a-day plan (break- husband has cured himself of biliousness fast about 8 : 30, second meal about 3 : 30). by using the treatment given in its pages." The new diet which I adopted consisted of thoroughly cooked grains and with " My trouble is indigestion. I have plenty of fruits and nuts, together with read your magazine, Goon HEALTH, and some of the prepared grain and nut prod- Good Health Library booklets with much ucts, mainly granose and bromose. pleasure and considerable benefit to my " From that time to this—nearly four health." years—I have had good health with the exception of twice when I strained my- MANY of the questions received by the self by overlifting. Each time a little rest editor will be found answered in the articles restored me. contained in this number, and therefore " I take care to have plenty of fresh air, special attention has not been given to drink water freely before and between them in this department. meals, of which I still take but two daily, and have a cold wash-down every morn- Sanitarium Health Foods, Good Health, and ing with systematic exercise. By contin- Good Health Library Booklets May be uing this mode of living, which has so far Obtained at the Following Local Food restored me to health and strength, I ex- Depots : pect to continue strong and well, a monu- 56 George Street West, Sydney, N. S. W. ment of the adage, What a man sows he reaps ? ' " Oxford Chambers, 473-481 Bourke Street, Glasgow. A. E. E. Melbourne, Victoria. " Beulah Hall," 37 Taranaki Street, Wel- lington, N. Z. THE following letter was received from Mr. G. C. B., a former patient at the The Arcade, Edward Street, Brisbane, Health Retreat :— Queensland. " You will, I think, be pleased to hear 201 Newcastle Street, West Perth, West that I reached home quite safely about the Australia. middle of December, and that my health Hughes Street, North Unley, South Aus- is greatly improved, in fact I may say tralia. that if the same rate of progress is main- 131 St. John's Street, Launceston, Tas- tained, in a few months I shall be fully mania. recovered, which means a better state of Hydropathic Institute, Victoria Square, health than for many years past. Adelaide, S. A. " You have, no doubt, moved into the new building by this time, and I sincerely Rockhampton Bath and Treatment Rooms trust that with enlarged possibilities the re- Rockhampton, Queensland. sults will prove even more satisfactory than Main Office : 283 Pitt Street, Sydney. APRIL. I, 1903. GOOD HEALTH. 93

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