Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1881 — HEALTH INTELLIGENCE. [ARTICLE]

HEALTH INTELLIGENCE.

[From Dr. F e o«e’» Health Monthly.] The population of York City s asylum for male insane is increasing a the rate of one hundred a year. Db. Oswald says children ought not to have hot porridge, and that hot and cold drinks are more injurious to the teeth than-sweetmeats. Db. Squan believes that many weaklooking girls suffer in the morning from a pain in the back, due to a sagging of the bed, and therefore advises placing a pillow under the spine. Prof. Billroth, of Vienna, has at last succeeded in removing a cancer of the stomach sucessfully—that is to say, the patient recovered; but many similar attempts have proved fatal. A hospital in Madris, India, is ventilated by fans operated by steam power. Several New York restaurants are similarly provided during the summer, but our are not yet up with the times in this respect. Dr. Hyrtl, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Vienna, says that in the eyes of an anatomist the most beautiful feet afe large, long, and broad, and that the greatest beauties of Europe—the Italians—have such feet A physician who was preparing himself to avoid sea-sickness by taking “bromides,” took so much that tempporary insanity was induced and he threw himself overboard and was drowned. “Bromides” are neither a safo nor sure preventive of sea-sickness. In a Parisian hospital the itch is treated and quickly cured by a half hours’ rubbing of the body with soft soap, followed by a bath, and that in turn followed by the use of au ointment composed of lard, 100 parts; sulphur, 16; and bicarbonate of potash, 8 parts. If men will use tobacco and thereby make their breath offensive, it would at least be a kindness to their friends if they would adopt the suggestion of a Chicago physician who says that the use of 20 or 30 drops of bromo-chloralum in a tablespoonful of water forms an excellent deodorizing mouth-wash. The trichinae parasites were discovered in man twenty-five years before their importance was understood. They were considered harmlesss curiosities until 1860, when Dr. Zenker, of Dresden, Germany, found them to be the cause of a case of trichinosis, and traced their origin to diseased pork. The Viscountess Harberton Is President of the “Rational Dress Society,” which has been formed in London, “to promote the adoption, according to individual taste and convenience, of a style of dress based upon considerations of health, comfort, and beauty, and to deprecate constaut changes of fashion, which cannot be recommended on any of these grounds.” Charles Darwin, writing for Nature about inheritance, tells this story: A gentleman, who, when a boy, acquired a deformity of the thumbs following the result of exposure to cold, had four children ; and two of them, the first and third, inherited the peculiarity. The first, a girl, when married, had four children, and again the first and third exhibited the peculiarity of the thumbs, but in the third generation it did not appear.