Impure Ice As a Cause of Diarrhea. -- the fact that ice is now used by almost all classes to an extent which entitles it to rank rather as a necessity than, as formally, as a luxury of life, renders it important that its purity should be is jealously guarded as the water supply. It is popularly believed that water freeze itself from dangerous organic matter, as it does to a great degree from certain saline contaminations during the process of freezing, and also that the vegetable or animal germs of typhoid and other fevers are killed, or at least rendered sterile, by congelation of the water in which they exist. Both these ideas are, however, unquestionably running us, as has been repeatedly proved by the various experiments which ignorant hotel keepers try without the least intending it, upon their guests, on a scale which would have the oldest vivisector stand aghast before the suffering inflicted, even if it were only upon the brutes which form the subjects of his researches.
Additional Articles from the Book of Medicine:
- THE FOOT | IT’S MECHANISM AND IT’S WONDERFUL ENDOWMENTS- Arrangement and Uses of the Foot
THE FOOT; IT’S MECHANISM AND IT’S WONDERFUL ENDOWMENTS.
Arrangement and Uses of the Foot. — in this exquisite colored engraving is represented the human foot, the organ by which we stand, walk or run. Look at it carefully, aye, critically, and see if you can duplicate it in the whole range of man’s achievements! The general arrangement of the bony framework of the foot, as seen in the illustration, is strikingly like that of the hand. The graceful arch of the foot, composed by the tarsal and metatarsal bones, is firmly joined together by a thick layer of cartilaginous structure, not only preventing a liability to displacement, but giving it in elasticity, sprightliness and strengthen which could never be attained by single flat bone. In the next colored illustration we have a section of the foot, showing its architectural dignity and perfection. But it’s under or plantar surface are seen stretching from the heel forward towards the toes a number of ligaments, the principal one of which is the plantar ligament, and possesses great strength and elasticity.
Its odd but for centuries the foot has received less attention that other parts of the body, even though good health and well being are directly related to the foot. People are more likely to under go a colon cleanse procedure than take simple steps to care for their feet and keep them health.
- Positive Thinking, Positive Environmental Factors and Your Health
So I am on a road trip this weekend, and I’m heading to St. Louis from the Atlanta area. I’m using voice recognition software to write this article, and I don’t really have access to the book of medicine while driving.
Voice recognition allows me to write articles with a hands-free headset and so basically I can have a conversation with myself and it appears as an article to you!
I’ve seen a few dozen or a least a half dozen, I may be exaggerating, fender bender’s on the interstate today including one vehicle fire which was pretty massive. It did appear that everyone was okay. There are a lot of carpet, textile, and home lighting stores and warehouses on this section of I75 leaving Atlanta.
Regardless the damage to vehicles was definitely done and there are going to be a lot of people heading up to body supply shops for new auto parts.
So I’m getting ready to head up the mountains or head up into the mountains as I leave Chattanooga behind and head towards Nashville on Interstate 24. It is a stretch of 24 where you wind your way up and around a great big mountain, your ears start popping, and the temperature drops a couple degrees, if you’re lucky (in the summer).
Then you go rapidly downhill on the other side ears popping again all the way. It’s a beautiful part of the country and I mention that here in this blog because I do believe it’s important for your health to live in beautiful areas. Beauty will not keep you from getting sick and beauty won’t necessarily make you better, but I do feel that it can lift your spirits up. When you are thinking positively and feeling positively you have a better chance of recuperating and healing. I haven’t seen anything like that in the book of medicine yet, but I suspect that they’ll cover this as the book is not always scientific and often takes moral tones.
Regardless I hope you are having a good weekend or had a good weekend and I’ll have more articles straight from the book of medicine soon.
- Organic Impurities in Water
Organic Impurities in Water. — a small quantity of organic matter of vegetable origin, that is to say, an amount not exceeding three grains to the gallon, is not generally found to be injurious, but even very minute quantities of organic material of animal origin, especially if this material is composed of the waste matters, such as urine or excrement, for man or animals, is the great cause of unwholesome nests of water. Probably one fourth of the sickness and death in civilized communities arises directly or indirectly from this one cause, and, unfortunately, even when we are fully forewarned of this imminent danger to health, it is exceedingly difficult and most thickly populated places to secure a source of water supply with which sewage has not been mingled.
It is little wonder, that 100 years ago and even further back, people developed a taste for wine and other forms of alcohol, which essentially had to be distilled. This was one way to actually purify water or something drinkable, and help people avoid some of the issues that were probably readily found in the water supply of many urban areas. If you were to travel back in time, and you were looking for a small business opportunity to earn a good living in the past, setting up some sort of water purification system, could definitely help a person earn a good living and possibly change the course of history not to mention decreasing the deaths of many children in newborns. In fact the war old would probably be more populous today, if it had not been for this issue.
