Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1887 — A FAMILY MEDICINE [ARTICLE]

A FAMILY MEDICINE

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Th - ? Gar pre of Conshmptldfi, Et-iijiiiftj, : jr. B v.vn-Bequ ird, who has le■>reaciin;* that bad ventilation o? ( tlt-eping morns and poor and mbnotoj nous food are the vest can es of phrittsis,4rtati:ii of that disease at the last meeting of the Academy of Science hi Paris, taking many of Im; examples from England. . Wherever population is dense, and sleeping rooms ill-aired or over croxi’ed, consumption prevails- Dr. Baih-i reported that in Milbank prison there were, out of one hundred deaths, fortythis disease. According to the illustrious French doctor, a room in whiep a consumptive person sleeps is reeking with contagious germs, if the air he exhales is not carried off. But how get rid of it in illbuilt houses, or very cold weather, when it is as dangerous to open windows as to keep them shut? To meet this difficulty Dr. BrownSequard showed the Academy an apparatus of his invention. A reversed* funnel, the shape of a lamp shade, is placed at the end of a tube, so arranged in its curves and angles that when it is placed beside the bed the reversed f utu? nel will be above the sleeper and draw up the air he breathes.. The other ’tinf runs into the chimney of there is none it is • taVep through a heating apparatus W’jm air hole. The heat is to burn the diagasraßhiH. The Shape ot* the Earth. ’Texas Siftings. Teacher —“What shape is the earth, Johpny?” Johnnie —“I dunno.,” - “Yes, but didn’t I tell you it was round?” “Yes, I don’t believe it all the same.