AUGUST, 1895 • \ • .e-• . „ "111111wmpowilig Sti.bwp ion lie$ 175 NaLESK11" MAW %- (Including Compcmion Volume/) GOOD HEALTH, t BATTLE CREEK, MICH., VOL. 30, NO. S. CONTENTS. jl August, 1895. GENERAL HYGIENE . 227-235 Biographical Health Studies : 19. The Duke of Hamilton, by F. L. OSWALD, M. D.—The Microscopic Man — A Bar-tender's '' College "— The Chicago Vegetarian Club — Alco- holic Heredity —Death from Tea Drinking— A Hospital at Home — Sexual Hygiene, by J. H. KELLOGG, M. D.— What One Glass of Wine Did. HOME GYMNASIUM . 236-239 Abdominal Respiration — Health and Physical Beauty — Bicycling and Food — Physical Development of Pupils in Moscow—The Physical Exercise Most Desirable. HOME CULTURE . 24o-245 Notes on Practical Education, by J. H. KELLOGG, M. D. (concluded)— Little Bo-Peep, by MARTHA WATROUS STEARNS (Illustrated)—The Battle Creek Sanitarium Dress System, VII (Illustrated)— A Thought for Washing Day — Seasonable Breakfast Dishes—First Use of Potatoes in Ireland — A New Device for Darning Stockings. HOME TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES . 246-249 Beds and Bedding — Bed Rests — The Importance of Giving the Digestive Organs Rest at the Beginning of Acute Disorders — Mental Strain. EDITORIAL . 250, 251 The Pepsin Era —The Saloon a Source of Crime — Prevention of Consumption — The Relation of Condiments to Impurity. A DOCTOR'S CHATS WITH HIS PATIENTS 252-257 Typhoid Fever and Shell-fish — The Use of Stimulants in Cases of Hemorrhage—Milk in Brights' Disease — A Remedy for Insect Bites and Stings — Microbes in Ice. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS : A Pre-natal Growth —White vs. Whole-wheat Flour— Numbness of the Hands ; Garget— Bitter Taste in Mouth, Sleeplessness, etc.— Diet, Exercise, Baths, etc.—A Skin Affection — Buckwheat Flour ; Rheumatism — Rye Meal — Diet for Indi- gestion ; Nuts and Fruits, etc.—" Goose Skin ; " Hot or Cold Baths, etc.— Tobacco Smoke ; Fault Finding ; Nervous Prostration — Pain in Region of Shoulder Blade— Crackers, Cream, Milk, etc.— Jaundice ; Cold Feet ; Constipation — A Bronchial Cough — Ginger Root; Alum — Nightmare. RELIEF DEPARTMENT. LITERARY NOTICES . 258 ZChe Illmcbtag Clas and Dumb=bells By the use of these the muscles can be exercised ONE of the most useful inventions of Dr. Priessnetz, the and developed, giving vigor, appetite, and cheerfulness to the user. father of modern hydropathy, was the umschlag, or heating compress, as it is sometimes called by the Germans. There SIZES : 1.2, 3-4,1,11-2, 2, 21.2, 3, and 4 lbs. is no better remedy for indigestion, inactive bowels, or sleep- The lb. is adapted to the use of children from 2 lessness, than this simple measure, when properly applied. 104 years of age ; the y, from 4 to 8 years of age. The umschlag consists of a properly-adjusted bandage, We furnish outfits for home gymnasiums at various moistened and worn about the body at night, to he replaced prices from $10.00 upwards. One of these outfits ought by a dry, bandage during the day. to be in every home. Send for Catalogue. Bead for Catalogue. SANITARY AND ELECTRICAL SUPPLY CO., SANITARY AND ELECTRICAL RIPPLY CO., BArWliC.REEK. BATTLE CREEK, MICH. A NUMBER 8. BATI'LE eRtK- (Hi N AUGUST, 1895. BIOGRAPHICAL HEALTH STUDIES. BY F. L. OS\VALD, M. D., Author of •‘ Physical Education," The Bible of Nature," etc. 19. gip /hike of -,antillott. ON the banks of the Clyde, in Southwestern Scot- to dispense with the necessity of using any other land, an airy plateau, with wooded terrace-lands, is kind of fuel, even the furnace of the conservatory crowned by a castle, known as Hamilton Palace, being heated with windfalls from the great beech the grandest and most picturesque country-seat in forests north of Cadzow. Noisy workshops, too, North Britain. The main building has a magnificent are banished from the neighborhood of the palace, Grecian front, 26o feet in length, and contains forty which Professor Andrew Wilson might have used as a rooms and eight halls, including a large library, model for the description of his " Castle of Silence : " picture galleries, and a private museum of classic — " No sound after dark but the whispering of antiquities. The park is a marvel of landscape the night wind and the drowsy chorus of the reed- gardening, applied to an upland region of much frogs in the distant lake ; in cool nights often a natural beauty. On a high rock, overlooking the surcease of all animal voices till the general stillness river valley for miles east and west, stands the old is broken by the reveille of the wood birds." fortified castle of Cadzow, surrounded by a forest In this Eden of the Northwest, William Alexander of the largest oaks in Scotland, and a game preserve Douglas Hamilton was born in 1845, under as happy stocked with fallow deer and a herd of the original auspices as any nobleman's son of Western Europe. wild breed of British cattle. The conservatory The family is one of great antiquity, allied to the covers five acres of ground ; and a " chase," or hill- royal house of Scotland, and boasts a galaxy of side lawn, extending along the river shore, affords patriots, warriors, and statesmen : the Earl of Lanark, a playground for thousands of children, who are per- who tried to save his king by encountering the vic- mitted to visit the park on certain days of the year. torious army of Cromwell at Preston Springs ; Duke Hamilton Palace is about eighty miles southwest James, the Scotch Chesterfield, who defeated a score of Edinburgh ; and the climate, tempered by the of rivals in the suit for the hand of the famous breezes of the Atlantic Ocean, is almost as mild as beauty, Elizabeth Gunning ; and the Duke of Angus, that of Northern France, and much sunnier than the the Mecmnas of the eighteenth century. William's neighborhood of the Scotch metropolis. The pict- father, too, was a patron of learning, and had a uresque little hamlet of Kirkmuirhill, some twenty special agent to attend the auction sales of the miles farther inland, was recommended as a sani- London bibliopoles, who must have found him their tarium for invalids from British India, but must best customer, if it is true that he once paid fifteen yield to Hamilton Palace in the extent of its wood- hundred dollars (Z 320) for a copy of a sixteenth- lands and distance from the smoky atmosphere of century Bible. manufacturing towns. The duke's forests are in All the gods of fortune seem to have favored the charge of a warden, who delivers cordwood enough cradle of the youngster who had treasure-halls for 228 GENERAL HYGIENE. his toy-rooms and a mountain park for his play- Sunday. It was, in fact, doubtful whether swim- ground, and it is certainly a portentous fact that the ming was lawful for a Christian at any time, even on promises of all those auspices should have been so week-days, and it was certain that God had on one shamefully belied by the event. occasion shown his displeasure by taking away the That event was something much worse than a life of a boy while he was indulging in that carnal negative disappointment. Ducal crowns do not practice. It was, moreover, wrong to take pleas- guarantee their wearers either moral or mental ure in beautiful scenery ; for a pious man had no preeminence ; and the history of illustrious families concern with such matters. On Sunday it was sinful abounds with exceptions from the rules formulated to walk in the field or in the meadows, or to enjoy by the author of " Hereditary Genius." Napoleon's fine weather by sitting at the door of your own son was as devoid of talents as the humblest sub- home. Even on week-days those who were imbued altern of the Austrian army. Charlemagne's suc- with these principles hardly ever smiled, but sighed, cessors were unfit to rule the smallest province of groaned, and wept. Even among children, from his great empire. Goethe's firstborn was so dull eight years old upward toys and games were bad, that his scandalized relatives suspected him of being and it was a good sign when they were discarded. a changeling. It mattered not what a man liked ; the mere Imbecility, in ruler or aristocrat, invested with fact of his liking it made it sinful. Whatever was feudal privileges, may sometimes be an alternative natural was wrong." (Barkle's " History of Civil- of uglier kings, and King Log is the ideal of a con- ization," Vol. II., pp. 312-314.) stitutional monarchy of the modern British type, The universal acceptance of those tenets would but the character and career of the late Duke of people a country with mental and physical wrecks, Hamilton furnished the English Liberals some of and it is certain that in Scotland they were taught their strongest arguments for the total abolition of for generations in the humblest cabins as well as in the peerage. As a boy of ten years he was consid- the homes of wealth ; but while the children of the ered a more than usually bright lad, and one of his poor enjoyed abundant opportunities for escaping private tutors predicted that he would distinguish the effect of preposterous theories in practice, young himself under all circumstances, even if the disci- aristocrats under the constant surveillance of vigi- ples of Charles Fourier should turn Great Britain lant tutors, were often subjected to the influence of into a communistic republic; and that he should antinatural doctrines till either their minds became have turned out, on the whole, the most ignoble hopelessly warped, or till, by a natural reaction, aristocrat of his native land can only be explained they came to despise and abhor restraint, and tried by the influence of systematic miseducation.