Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH. [ARTICLE]

THE BODY AND ITS HEALTH.

Dangerous Dust.— When a carpet m taken up to be cleaned the floor beneath it is generally very much covered with dust. This dust is very fine and dry and poisonous to the lung;;. Before removing it sprinkle the floor with very dilate carbolic acid to kill any poisonous gtnas that may lie present, and to thoroughly disinfect the floor and render it sweet. Tiie Mousing Bath.—An admirabla way to take the morning bath by those who dread a daily plunge into cold water, is recommended by an authority as follows: Stand in hot water deep enough to cover the ankles, fill a bsdn with cool water, and sponge the body off quickly. Dry and rub vigorously, and get into flannels before drying the feet. This is better for any one than daily immersion. It is the rubbing more thaw the water that is needed; sponging off gives the excuse for the after rubbing, and the good result is gained. Typhoid Fever Miasmatic.— A recent utterance by Sir Charles Cameron will probably meet with no denial. According to this ;high medical authority, whew all the organic debris produced in towns is quickly removed, and when the dangerous subterranean atmosphere is prevented from entering dwellings, or even when sewage flows steadily day and uight through well constructed maiw sowers, and when soils are thoroughly drained and kept free from filth, thenthere may be expected a substantial reduction in the mortality caused fay typhoid fever, and, indeed, by other diseases. Constiration and Headaches.— The source of mauy disorders, which might, in most instances be prevented if proper attention were paid to ordinary measures of precaution, is constipation, saysamedical authority. Irregularity in eating and exercising is the most common cause of this trouble. If persons occasionally troubled with headache, indigestion and other minor complaints would remove the cause the effect would soon pass away. When n headache results from constipation a glass of cold water token just after rising will do more towards removing the trouble than the local application of preparations to the head. Oplniou is divided as to the merits at the uso of hot or cold water for this purpose, but cold water (uot icc water) in here recommended, because it is uot an apt to produce nausea.

Data Concerning Thmpkiiatukk and Ventilation. —Data concerning temperature and ventilation have of late years largely accumulated and are certainly of great practical iinportanco *» their relation to health and comfort, eopecially in buildings where considerable numbers of people arc h»t>itual occupants. In an offico builning, for instance, assuming that each person or occupant requires 3,000 cubic fort, cashout 147 pounds, of fresh air an hour, and that this air is at a temperature of 80 degrocs, the number of units of bent that must bo abstracted iu order to reduce the temperature to 70 degrees i» stated to bo 1150 an hour. Now, it is ascertained by careful scientific methods that a pound of coal used in making steam for a falrly-efficlent refrigerating machine will produce an actual cooling effect equal to that of sixteen to forty six pounds of ice, Tuking tho lower of those limits, sixteen pounds ol ice, which will abstract some 2,375 heat units while molting, it is seen that one pound of coal will, accordingly, reduce the temperature of the supply of air for one person for (14 hours under the above assumptions; and estimating the price of coal ut $H per ton, and that the air is tobe cooled for teu hours a day, theopparent cost is but 1G cents for one thousand people an hour. I’KKCAUTIONB IN REGARD TO Canned Goods. —It is rather the fashion to decry tinned vegetables us being unwholesome, and there are people who rarely allow them to appeur upon their tables, yet if properly treated they are ]>erfectly harmless and wholesome. There arc two essential rules, however, which' nhould be invnrlaWy remembered. The first Is that when a can is opened, the edible, whatever it is, should be turned out at once into another dish, and. should never be kept standing in the tin. Cureless cooks are apt to leave tomntoen or mushrooms or other tinned things used for seasoning in the cans, sometimes for several days, in which awn they asc sure to be injurious. The other rule is that a vegetable should never, under any circumstances, whether at a picnic or to save the cook trouble, be warmed in its own tin. There is another danger connected with those preserved goods, and that is that the insane mania for cheapness at all risks, which some women have, has induced dishonest people to pat inferior goods upon the market; but if a housekeeper is careful to buy none but |hs best, and see that they are properly prepared by her cook she need have no fens but that her tinnod vegetables are aw harmless as the same subtances in their raw and natural state; and sbe will havw the advantage of procuring an infinite variety for her table at a very small outlay both of time and moner.