Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1883 — Tight Bands, Etc. [ARTICLE]

Tight Bands, Etc.

In a darker age, when “human butchery” was practiced, when “bleeding” was in vogue, it was usual to bind a band around the arm, that the circulation of the blood might be so impeded be large and full, of blood. might be taken Wameatts of giving relief in certain act lie diseases. This ligature prevented return of the blood to the heart froitt the smaller vessels only for a brief period, however, till the bleeding

was completed. In modern times, for a far different reason, this ligation is practiced, sometimes just below the knee, sometimes abound the head, around the waist, etc. "When an elastic is so narrow or so tight as to prevent the natural flow of the blood in its highly necessary circulation, and kept permanently impeded, as in the more usual means of keeping the hosiery in place, the result must be decidedly injurious. If it is important that the blood should c'rculate, for the nourishing of the whole body, carrying from which the body Jftpt be renov|ted, ais as necesafary tli at the Nitre njities shall have %<s|keefled supf!s\ W ya goaty reasonably attribute much of fhnK'-ruicnu&irtable difficulty called of using such narrow and tight bands, to say nothing of many serious diseases, manifestly resulting from the same cause. If the blood is not permitted to flow from the feet, in consequence of these tight bands, it is an evidence that the warm blood 'from the heart cannot reach them, resulting in cold feet, with hot heads, flushed cheeks, aching heads, dizziness, and with the prevailing errors of diet, palpitations of the heart, and the like. When these bands are allowed to remain on during the night, making the evil permanent, it is yet more unfortunate, such young ladies are storing up for themselves and families untold horrors. Instead of thefts tight and narrow bands, below the Jtnee, it would be fa* better to place them above, where the blood-vessels “dip,” that they may pass the joint, interfering far less with the circulation. -/i# : The hose might be attached to some other garment, sustaned from the shoulders, thus avoiding rtll harm, if our females wish to avoid human suffering.—Dr. J. 11. ~Tlrfauis Pained Thomas Pa!Bi|itbe infidel writer, spent several atJViystic with his friend IS ath an Haley. It was between 1802 and 180Srj#r Wine's death occurred at the fitter date, and he returned to America in 1802, While here he kept much secluded, rarely showing himself, but was reputed to spend much of his time in his room writing. He boarded with Haley, in the old Haley homestead, on Pistol Point. Mr. Paine was a member of the National Convention of France and voted with the Girondists, and made a powerful effort to get the King’s sentence of death commuted to exile in America, in which it is well known he failed and incurred the lasting hatred of Robespierre and his terrorists. Paine was thrown into prison when he wrote “The Age of Reason.” He was discharged and afterward came home. Our local tradition gives the reason why he was not' guillotined by The mithorittes _ marked according to Mr. Paine’s account, the doom opened outwardly, and whoa his

— cell door ¥U marked the door was marked on tho inside, and when the messengers came along the door was closed and he was passed by, and so he escaped. There Is no reason to doubt the story, though it is new. He was over 60 when he resided in Mystic.— better from. Mystic, in Norwich Bulletin.