I have a question. I just ordered a two months supply. My husband is afraid to try the product during working hours. Will it cause discomfort during the day? Any cramping, diarrhea, or other extremes?That is definitely a reasonable question for a colon cleanser. Culturally speaking I wonder what people will think about this type of Social Networking in the future. In many ways the Library of Health is a book that published the accumulated medical knowledge of the time to distribute to people around the country. It was a codification of medical practices and possibly word of mouth knowledge and herbal lore even. Not so different than people coming together to work out a best practice solution for the usage of a medical product or treatment today.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- How can the housewife protect her children from drinking germ laden milk?
How can the housewife protect her children from drinking germ-laden milk?-First make sure that the dairy from which the milk is applied is clean and up-to-date and the city dealer delivers the milk at her doorstep in clean bottles. Do not allow it sit in the sun in the early morning in warm weather, or about the kitchen at any time of the year, but place it immediately on ice in a clean refrigerator until ready to use. When taking a certain quantity of milk out of the bottle, if for the baby use a chappen in dipper, and do not allow it to stand uncovered for flies to contaminate. Milk may all so be contaminated by water from any source of pollution if their utensils are carelessly washed with a supply of water from an infected water supply as any dirty well or one contaminated by cesspool, outhouse, the newer pit which is infecting water to the soil or from drainage.
It is absolutely vital to a country to protect its milk supply as two thirds of the dust under two years of age are traceable to either germ laden milk from dairies were not properly handled by dealers, nurses, mothers, etc., who are careless or too ignorant to appreciate the danger of allowing babies milk bottle nipple being dirty, contaminated by flies or who allow a milk bottle to sit in the hot morning sun,-result a sick baby, followed by death.
Again another interesting section especially as it’s trying to convince people to keep no cold and keep refrigerated. Possibly a new concept for this time, being the turn-of-the-century and a long shot away from concepts such as diet drugs like Phentermine.
- Spread of Typhoid
Spread of Typhoid. — Sir William Jenner, than whom no higher medical authority could well be quoted, in commenting upon this point, says: the spread of typhoid fever is, if possible, less disputable than the spread of cholera by the same means; solitary cases, outbreaks confined to single houses, to small villages into parts of large towns, cases are isolated it seems from all sources of policy, and epidemics affecting the inhabitants of large though limited localities, have all united to support, either testimony, the truth of the opinion that the admixture of a trace of excrement, but especially of excrement from a typhoid fever patient, with the water supply for drinking purposes, is the most efficient cause of the spread of the disease, and that the diffusion of them lady in a given locality is limited or otherwise, and limited just in proportion as the dwellers in that locality to write their supply of drinking water from polluted sources.
As we transition away from the topic of cholera and further into typhoid fever, it is apparent that the book draws a number of similarities. Again though we see references to people that are quoted as authorities, however we have no other attribute nation to those people other than their given name. One hundred years ago, there may have been few people with the name of William Jenner, I suspect that is no longer the case.
- Another Case of Infection (Cholera Reference to teawater pump in London 1854)
Another Case of Infection.-Another famous illustration is found in the history of the "tea water pump" of broad Street, Near Golden square, London, which during the cholera visitation of 1854, killed nearly 500 persons in a single week, in one of the fashionable localities of the city. It has long been known that water containing five or six grains of lime and magnesium to the gallon is much to be preferred for making tea to water of any other quality. This is because the line precipitates the astringent matter of the leaf, yet does not interfere with the solution of the desirable constituents; and hence certain wells which have the proper proportion of mineral matter come to be valued very highly by persons of nice taste.
The images represent a tea water pump in New York(left) placed over a natural spring (right) that had existed in Manhattan long before Europeans came to the colonies and helped create situations where cholera could break out.
This reference to the 1854 Cholera outbreak would have been relatively recent in the minds of many. It would have only been about 60 years old at the time of this articles printing, however, when this book was first published, it may have been referenced when the epidemic was only 20 – 30 years old possibly. In terms of recency or relevancy, we today might have a similar perspective on the massacre at Jonestown or the Kennedy killing. It would have made a much bigger impression on people that heard the news than say a case of food poisoning resulting from a problem with popcorn machines or something in a bar or movie theater.
