Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1892 — THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH. [ARTICLE]

THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH.

Death in the Spider’s Web. —The time-honored custom of using a spider’s web to stop the bleeding of a wound has resulted in the death of a Liverpool woman from blood-poisoning. The web is especially adapted to catch disease germs aud can never bo regarded as surgically clean. A Hint about Flies. —Tho coming of warm weather brings with it the necessity for refrigerators, wire screens and all tho paraphernalia of the store-closet and tho kitchen, used ns a protection against heat and flies. Before the summer begins every precaution which cleanliness and care can give should be taken to remove all debris of decaying vegetation or animal matter, not only from the precincts of tho cellar and kitchen, but from the yard and the vicinity of the house. If proper precautions are observed, even in the hottest weather there will bo little trouble from flies. The fly is a useful scavenger, who performs with absolute faithfulness his thankless task of trying to save careless and thoughtless people from the legitimate effects of their own negligence. The year when there is a scarcity of flies is marked by fever and pestilence. If you are troubled with a superabundance of flies, yet exercise every care and precaution in your power, you may be sure there is some cause for them which you have not discovered. Poor Teeth. —Poor, decayed, abscessed teeth aro very often the sole cause of internal derangements of the digestive organs, and aro at tho foundation of many nervous diseases. As a bidder of foul smelling breath they are very important and ono cannot afford to let such a tooth remain In tho mouth. Poor people as a rule suffer more in this respect than the rich, for tho latter have their teeth early attended to by a dentist, while the former allow them to remain in the head until they are very far gone. Some teeth cannot ho filled with any success, and the owner hates to have them pulled out. The proper time for the extraction of a tooth is really a difficult matter to determine. If the back teeth are abscessed in any way they should at once receive skillful treatment, and if tho discharge of pus cannot be controlled in time they should bo extracted. Chronic abscesses in tho teeth discharge pus continually, and tho stomach is forced to assimilate this septic poison along with the food. In the course of time it must poison the digestive organs, and eventually impregnate the whole system. Too much attention cannot bo to poor teeth in this way. There is a dry rot in some teeth which does not discharge pus, and a great amount of injury may not be done to the system by letting them remain, but the majority are harmful. The Question of pain should not keep one rom the dentist’s chair, for when gas is administered the work is comparatively painless. In taking gas, however, it should be taken only on an -empty stomach, for if taken immediately after a good meal nausea and vomiting may be cuus ed.