How may adults Remain Healthy?-In this day and generation struggle for existence is becoming more and more complex, the occupations are more enacting and confining, exposure to accidents more frequent, due to modern machinery and it's difficult handling.  Competition in all lines is great and therefore more string is put upon the brain and nerves of man in all walks of life.  This lead-in time to state of "overwork, closed quotes nervous frustration or worry, if the individual has not the physical strength to stand the battle or fails to keep himself in a normal state of body and mind by careful living.  When the latter condition, man is a suitable soil for development of disease which makes short work of the rundown systems, and such a person when exposed to disease or accident is very apt to succumb about some reserve vitality comes to the aid of him or her in the physician or surgeon in attendance and the uneven battle for life.

Man can keep his health and thus prevent disease by insisting on getting the best and purest of foods, working in factories or shops, dairies, bonds, etc., which are well lighted and ventilated, free from dust, smoke, irritating vapors from paints, gases, assets, etc.  By insisting upon regular working hours, eight hours sleep, dry and warm clothing of exposed during outdoor work, but not too warmly dressed for indoor work.  To your coffee and moderation is not harmful light beers, Porter, Stout, ale; wines, as Sherry, port, claret, without strong preservatives or alcohol, except in small proportions, are not harmful and refresh and cheer the tired nerves.  Whiskey, Brandy, cognac, Jin, except as medicine, are absolutely harmful and the whiskey with the government allows sold in this country is a disgrace and a poison.  More and more corporations and his men are insisting on their employees abstaining from its use.  It causes a sense of stimulation or well-being which is temporary and is soon followed by a sense of depression which can only be relayed by a renewal of the does and the stupid man continues to be temporarily stimulated, while the total effect of his imbibing is to lower his vitality, destroy his mind, I was judgment and render ambitious; Rudy's appetite by the action up on his stomach, harden his liver and destroy his kidneys.

That section was a little preachy but it's definitely interesting as it provides some insight into some of the concepts that went into the prohibition movement before laws were enacted to prohibit the sale and consumption of alcohol by the general population in the United States.   I wonder how modern preventative concepts will hold up in 100 years such as The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch.

Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:

• Boiled Water
  
  

  water boiling in a glass bowl, common now, but not then like HDMI splitter’s today.  slightly new and archaic at the same time…

  Boiled Water.-The insipid taste of water which has been boiled is due to the absence of air. Many gases besides air may be artificially or naturally mingled with water, and some, like ammonia or nitric acid, are freely soluble in it. In sea-water, the presence of common salt, with small quantities of sulphate of soda or Glauber’s salt, and, of the compound of magnesia and chlorine, called chloride of magnesium, render it entirely unfit for drinking, as many a hapless shipwrecked sailor has found to his cost.

• A Case of Impure Ice Poison
  
  

  A Case of Impure Ice Poison.  — such was notably the case in an epidemic of intestinal disorder which occurred at the watering place of Rye Beach N. H.  from the account of Dr. Nichols, who attended most of the patients, it seems that, early in the season, a mild form of disturbance of the stomach and bowels made its appearance among the guests of a particular hotel at his favorite summer resort.  The symptoms were in general penis, nausea or vomiting, diarrhea and severe abdominal pain, accompanied by fever, loss of appetite and mental depression.  The well and drainage system of the establishment, which had recently been put in complete water, was found almost faultless, and the milk supply of unquestionable purity; but on the attention of the physician being directed to the stock of ice provided for the guests, conclusive proof of its dangers quality was promptly obtained.

• Typhoid Fever from Polluted Water
  
  

  Typhoid Fever from Polluted Water. — the remarks which have been already made with regard to the influence of impure water on the spread of cholera, apply still with greater force to the causation of typhoid fever. So, does this move propagation that the assertion may be ventured that few readers of these pages have not lost some near relative or beloved friend from the dreaded disease arising in this way, although the true source of the infection was perhaps, at the time it occurred, quite unsuspected.

  Okay so if you have been following this recent series on typhoid fever and cholera, the general theme here is that polluted water and contaminants brought to water sources were extremely dangerous for what we would consider civilization just a hundred years ago.  It might be a little bit more difficult to picture something of an epidemic raging through London or New York City today.  However you might consider just how fragile ecosystems of the city’s are today.  They rely on massive systems to clean the water.  If power to those systems were to fail for an extended period of time, the spread of disease could rapidly start up with population centers at levels that are much higher than they ever were one hundred years ago.

  There is only so much that any government agency or even the military for that matter can do to potentially help in a situation like that.  We have recently seen what happened in New Orleans were a population of just one million people were essentially left behind.  That occurred during a flood after a hurricane, and so there were aspects of that situation that definitely complicated things.

  However, if we consider just how big of a failure a given city might experience when it has a population of several million people in it, things could be much more dangerous.  I’m not just talking about the potential for riots and looting, and the necessary levels of police forces, National Guard, and other members needed to come in and secure the area.  I’m talking about the need of infrastructure and support systems necessary to keep the city functioning.

  A possible better example of a complete breakdown of the system, could probably be evidenced in the failure that took hold in Baghdad following the invasion of US troops.  Not only did the system fail from a water supply and electricity supply perspective, but the residents took to sabotaging and looting some of the equipment that made those systems work.

  We often times here about how the military was unprepared for that particular situation, and we think about soldiers going into battle without the proper Kevlar vests, or armor plating on Humvees or even little things like replacement Kevlar helmets, or 5.11 Tactical Knives, or night vision goggles.  We don’t always think about the fact that they don’t go into a city armed with plumbers and engineers, and plumbers and engineers at levels large enough to actually run the city.

  So as we look back on this historical accounting of the perils of these diseases, we should not make the mistake of thinking, that this could not happen to us.  It is very possible that we are only a few days of electricity away from being reduced to a similar state or level of technology needed to protect us.  In Zimbabwe it actually took a couple years, as the President of that country systematically dismantled his country with one failed policy after the next, but we have also seen a President in the United States, whose bad policies have similarly brought an even larger more successful country down, it might not be impossible for a different President to finish the job.

  

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