Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1914 — LOLLING GIVES LONG LIFE [ARTICLE]

LOLLING GIVES LONG LIFE

Or. G. H. Weils at Homeopathic Meeting, Tells Tow to Escape. Heart Disease. Atlkntic City, N. J. —‘Lolling means longevity and would save the present generation from.heart disease, asserted Dr. G.'Harlan Wells of the Hahnemann Medical college, Philadelphia, in a paper read before the American Institute of Homeopathy. “It means that the heart simply hag to push the blood through the arteries and veins,” he said, "Instead of having to lift 150 tons more than four feet from' the ground dally during the time an ordinary human being is awake. ’ ‘ " '•?; ' “People of the earlier periods and the savages lolled at every opportunity, stretching out flat.while eating, and lying on their backs while resting. , They didn’t have heart disease and*the copying of their methods would save the present generation from that ailment.” Speaking before the bureau of pedology, Dr. Joseph P. Cobb of Chicago said that of two and a half million babies bom in the United States each year half a million die before they are a year old. Of the.deathß, he asserted, 60 per cent are attributable to gastro-intestinal diseases, and at least 20 per cent more have digestive” disturbances as contributory factors. “The agencies already aroused on the subject of infant feeding,” said Dr. Cobb, “only the borders of humanity. The great mass is still dopendent upon the instruction of physicians and nurses and the mothers of the preceding generation. The greatest error of infant feeding today hi lack of attention and study given maternal feeding by the physician directly in change of the baby.”'