Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — Mostly Medical. [ARTICLE]

Mostly Medical.

Now begin to save your old newspapers to protect clothing against moths, for the ink on the newspapers is nearly as repulsive to them as is camphor or coal tar. A medical news letter from London, dated Jan. 30, told of 506 deaths in London in a week due to the grip. London has been having a tough winter and a very serious visitation of the epidemic. The Jamesburg (New Jersey) .Reform School has a boy six years old having the manners and maturity of a man of twenty. He is altogether too precocious,, too strong, too self-willed, 'and seemingly too dangerous to be at large. Dr. F. Drewry reports a great increase of insanity among colored people since the abolition of slavery. From 1880 to 1890 the negro population increased only 1.46 per cent., while the number of insane negroes doubled, so that now there is one to every 800—due, It is thought, to the abuse of freedom by a people who have been accustomed to discipline and regulation. In cases of membranous croup the steam from vinegar gives great relief to the patient, but it should be kept up continuously by placing the vinegar in an ordinary bread pan and putting hot flatirons from the stove into it. It is not pleasant for the attendants, and it is some trouble to keep up the steam this w.ay, but a physician who hast tried it thoroughly finds it very effective. Dr. R. H. Harrison, recalling some ways in which people go crazy, cites a few cases seemingly due to isolation or too much centering the thoughts upon self. His conclusion is: “To have a sound mind and keep it, have some interests outside yourself. If you have no family and home, do something for somebody. There are compensations connected with self-denial which the preachers have never told us of." Modern football is rather a warlike sort of pastime, and the London Lancet has been reviewing the accidents of the last season in England. It Has reported twelve cases of death directly attributable to injuries received in football matches, some of the causes of death being acute bronchitis, rupture of the intestines, rupture of the kidney, injury to the brain. If it be said that such ac-_ cidents are the result of unnecessarily’ rough play, the reply is that the game is never played in any other way.—Foote’s Health Monthly.