The Deep Breath Habit.

1895

Cultivate the habit of breathing through the nose and taking deep breaths. If this habit was universal, there is little doubt that pulmonary affections would be decreased one-half. An English physician calls attention to the fact that deep and forced respiration will keep the entire body in a glow in the coldest weather, no matter how thinly one may be clad. He was himself half frozen to death one night and began taking deep breaths and keeping the air in his lungs as long as possible. The result was that he was thoroughly comfortable in a few minutes. The deep respirations, he says, stimulate the blood currents by direct muscular exertion and cause the entire system to become pervaded with the rapidly generated heat. — Philadelphia Times.

Wouldn't Trust the Angel Gabriel

1895

Mrs. Sarah T. Rorer of culinary fame declares that she will touch the meat of no fowl that she has not seen prepared and cleaned herself. "Why, when I had typhoid fever some years ago," she says, "and the doctor ordered me to take chicken broth, I replied, 'Very well, doctor, but I shan't take it if any one other than myself cleans the chicken.' Seeing that I was firm, he at length said that the cleaning might be done right by my bedside. And so it was, and I lived on chicken broth for seven weeks. For 49 mornings was the fowl brought to my bedside and carefully cleaned by my maid under my direct and personal supervision. There's not one person in a thousand who knows how to clean a chicken anyway, and for my part I would not trust the angel Gabriel in such particular work." — Philadelphia Times.


Terribly Afflicted

A woman living in one of the fashionable avenues had a bit of statuary bearing the inscription "Kismet." The housemaid was dusting the room one day when the mistress appeared.
"Shure, ma'am, what's the m'anin of the 'ritin on the bottom of this?" asked the maid, referring to the inscription on the statuary.
"'Kismet' means fate," replied the mistress.
Bridget was limping painfully when she was walking with Pat not long afterward; and he asked:
"Phwat's the matter, Bridget?"
"Faith," was her answer, "I have the most tirrible korns on me kismet!" — New York Herald.

For Health and Beauty

1895

The Doctor Says They Both Depend on Clean Bedchambers.

The room in which one sleeps is the room in which one breathes and absorbs, whether it be pure or impure air. A dust laden atmosphere will clog up the lungs in a very short time, and bad air will lay the seeds of consumption, fevers and all the horrors which flesh is heir to and which come through careless neglect of the simple laws of life as anything else.

The ideal bedchamber is airy. It opens on free air and is bathed in sunshine all day. It has matting on the floor, and if the occupant is an anaconda by nature a rug of fur or wool flung in the center of the room. The windows are securely screened from cracks by well fitting frames and weather strips, and so obviate the necessity for heavy draperies, which accumulate dust and disease germs. The muslin curtains which adorn the windows, hung on slender brass rods, are washed as soon as they are at all dusty. The furniture is to suit the occupant's fancy, but is not too cumbersome to be easily moved aside and frequently dusted. Hygienic wall paper, which can be wiped off with a damp cloth, covers the walls.

The bed is of brass or iron, without draperies, with spring hair mattress and no flat bolster, no pillows. The bedclothes are light and warm, blankets being used instead of heavy quilts.

In this healthful apartment the occupant sleeps from eight to ten hours, going to sleep before 12, and here the gas is turned out, and the window opened for 15 minutes every night before the sleeper goes to sleep.

In the morning an hour's airing, with the windows open, is not too much for the healthful woman's room. The matting should be wiped up with a damp cloth every day or every other day, and dust should be fought as one would death or disease — not only for appearance and happiness' sake, but for health and beauty's sake too. — New York Advertiser.

The Spitting Habit

1895

It Is a Menace to the Health of Man, Woman and Child.

There is hardly anything new that can be said to the spitting part of the community to cure this very bad habit. Signs have been placed in cars positively forbidding the act, yet in these same vehicles a woman has to carefully select her seat in order to save the cleanliness of her skirts. Women's clubs have aired the matter freely. Newspapers have devoted columns to condemnation of the vile habit, yet one has only to walk a square in a popular neighborhood to see how vain has been all this hue and cry and how indifferent the male portion of the town is to a clean and orderly civic housekeeping, for a cleanliness of a city is but the cleanliness of the home extended beyond the front door, and there is no more reason why a man should make a public walk distasteful to hundreds of people than that he should disturb the members of his family by using vilely the hallways and floors of his home.

In the house, for throat and mouth that must be relieved, a proper place or receptacle is provided, and the man who would attempt to neglect their use would surely hear sharply from the head of the house. So in our civic home the proper place for spitting is surely not on the sidewalk, and the man who neglects to step to the curb at such times should hear very sharply from those who represent our civic head. Perhaps the weakness of this reform is that the evil has always been regarded as affecting the happiness of only a part of the community — the women — but if it could be emphasized, what is so clearly a truth, that this spitting habit is a direct and easy medium for the spread of diseases, thus affecting the welfare of the whole community, the offenders may take some thought of the matter. The secretion of thousands of throats, drying where it lays and throwing off the germs of the bronchial and other diseases which cause them, fill the very atmosphere with danger, and every mouth and nostril that passes by runs the gantlet of danger. That fact, though a true one, gives rise to uncomfortable thoughts, but the subject itself is a most uncomfortable one, and the sooner the cause for all this discomfort and uneasiness is removed the better for all, not only for the woman and her skirt braids, but for the health of the man, woman and child. — Philadelphia Press.

Breathing Deeply

1895

An Exercise Easy to Perform and of Undoubted Value.

With the preliminary but important matter of clothing satisfactorily settled we are ready to breathe. If very weak, lie down on an easy couch — lie flat on the back. See that the air is fresh, but avoid a draft. Draw in a long, slow breath, letting the diaphragm and abdomen expand as fully as possible. Then by a contraction of the diaphragm, a quick drawing in of the muscles of the stomach, force the air into the upper part of the lungs and hold it there a moment or two before allowing it to pass up into the throat. This is done by a contraction of the vocal cords and is not usually difficult. But if the cords will not close and the air is not readily controlled close the lips and hold the nose for a moment, which will prevent the air from all leaving the apex of the lungs. With practice the vocal cords will come under perfect control.

Some have difficulty in establishing the abdominal breathing, especially those who have been in the habit of breathing entirely from the throat. But when the clothing no longer forms an obstruction this will gradually right itself. The natural mode of breathing asserts itself most readily when one is lying down; therefore that position is recommended for the daily practice, which should be persistent, but also very gentle. Do not allow yourself to become really fatigued and be careful not to make the lungs ache. If one deep breath brings weariness or dizziness, stop with the one breath, but try again when fully rested. The upper part of the chest will gradually expand and in time will round out beautifully.

The careful practice of deep breathing will bring new vitality to any organ not incurably diseased. It will enrich the blood more than any preparation of iron or cod liver oil. It has greater power than any anodyne to soothe and restore exhausted nerves. It will round the throat, straighten the shoulders, fill the chest, give a sparkle to the eyes, a color to the cheeks. Those who like to sing will rejoice to find their voice gaining marvelously in strength and purity of tone. — Demorest Magazine.

Aged 72, Cycles 30,000 Miles

1920

Has Just Finished Ride From California to Blair, Neb.

BLAIR, Nebraska. — John Warner, 72 years old, of San Diego, Cal., who is visiting friends here, has just completed a bicycle trip from California.

When he found himself near the 70-year-old mark, and in poor health, he took up bicycling as a recreation and as a restorative of health, and has ridden more than 30,000 miles on the bicycle, on which he made the journey to Blair.

He says he feels younger than he did ten years before he began the practice.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 5.

Stops Asthma

1895

Here is a very simple formula for a powder recommended by M. Naguet of Chatellerault to stop attacks of asthma, and which acts in the same way as cologne water:

Powdered snuff, 5 grams; camphor, 5 grams; menthol, .15 centigrams.

When the first symptoms are felt giving warning that an attack is coming on, it is enough if you sniff into each nostril a pinch or two of this powder every quarter or half hour to set up a lively irritation of the mucous membrane with sneezing and copious secretion, while at the same time the attack of asthma stops. — New York Journal.

Comment: Beware of antique medical advice. Don't do it.


Not an Agnostic

Bessie — Don't you believe in anything?
Frank — Oh, yes — in pretty girls, for instance.
Bessie — Then I suppose you often change your place of worship and keep the same creed. — Detroit Free Press.

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1895

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Baby Offered For Sale Given Away

1920

Declares She Needed Money to Restore Her Health, Is Excuse of Mother.

NEW YORK, N. Y. — Baby Margaret McNulty, who was offered at public sale recently for $250, has been withdrawn from the market and went to James F. Sweetman as a gift.

The mother, Mrs. Catherine McNulty, retains an undivided interest in the child's affection and will have permission to see her whenever she wishes.

Mrs. McNulty, whose husband died recently, offered her baby for sale when she found herself unable to earn an adequate living. She hoped the money she asked for the baby would give her an opportunity to regain her health, and at the same time she would know that Margaret was receiving proper care.

She changed her mind about the sale before the first of the scores of would-be purchasers arrived at her home and gave the child to Mr. Sweetman.

Worried for Weeks.

Margaret was in the Sweetman family once before. She came back to her mother when Mrs. Sweetman died. At that time Mrs. McNulty feared that Mr. Sweetman would be so occupied with the care of his own motherless child that he could not give Margaret adequate care.

It was only after the worry of weeks became desperation that Mrs. McNulty finally felt that circumstances had driven her to part with her baby.

She worked beyond her strength to care for the little daughter and her brother two years older. A year ago she was stricken with influenza. It was afterward the doctor first mentioned a fighting chance, which would cost money for transportation to the country, milk, eggs and rest.

Baby's Price List.

Her mind always brought up against the balance between this and the price list following:

Feel of one pair of little, clinging hands, $50; Weight of a tiny body, drowsy in the twilight, $50; 2,555 "good night" kisses, distributed over next seven years, $50; Sound of a baby voice prattling "I love you," $50; Thrill of the word "mother," $50. Total $250.

Her story went on:

"There wasn't any balance. But as I felt less able to be about I came to see that it wasn't what I wanted, but what is best for her.

"Some day she will be old enough to understand what I am doing and why. I shall not be with her then.

"Either way, whether I let her go voluntarily now or not, I should not be with her. But looking backward thru the understanding years she will know that I tried in the only way open to me to raise money to save her mother's life. She will feel that it was for her that I tried.

Has Right to Mother.

"Every baby has a right to a mother.

"And if taking money in exchange for my baby is the only way I can save her mother for her, am I not doing what is right?

"Some day, if I live thru the next few months, I may meet her again as my daughter, if the plan works out. Otherwise the doctor says I shall be here only a little while. This way I can find the right ones to take her; the other way she would be put in an institution."

Altho she made public her offer two days ago, Mrs. McNulty has hidden herself away with her two children, refusing to see any of the dozens who have called for inspection. After having brought herself to agree to the sale, she said she was not yet strong enough to take the next step.

Her only relatives, also in poor circumstances, live in Belfast, Ireland.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 3.

Is a Good Breakfast Necessary? Yes

1901

A good breakfast is the physical basis of a day's work. The American breakfast, regarded with so much horror on the European continent, has contributed largely to make the nation what it is today. It enabled our forefathers to do an amount of work which it appalls foreigners to contemplate.

As a rule there is something wrong with the man or with his habits if he cannot eat a good breakfast. A man who works at high tension all through the morning hours without this substantial foundation is working entirely upon his nerves. That means disordered nutrition and sooner or later bankruptcy and collapse.

If a man gets up in the morning with a bad taste and no inclination for food, it is because his system is full of waste and his circulation of obstructions. Let him make a radical change in his habits and train his digestive organs to accommodate a nourishing morning meal. — Medical Brief.

Bruises

1916

A bruise, or contusion, is caused by a blow or by strong compression of the soft tissues. It is an actual wound of the subcutaneous tissues, and is less serious than an open wound only because the unbroken skin usually prevents it from being infected. That does not mean that pus never forms in a bruise, for the blood can carry infection, and if germs lodge in the lacerated tissues they will cause inflammation.

The first result of a severe bruise is pain; next comes swelling and discoloration. That is owing to the escape of blood from the torn vessels, and it is usually more marked where the tissues are loose; that is why a "black eye" often follows a blow that would leave no mark on the chest or back.

The pain of a bruise is best relieved by sponging with very hot water or hot fomentations; sometimes an electric-light bulb will give enough warmth to relieve moderate pain. The hemorrhage, which is the cause of the swelling and discoloration, can be reduced by applying pressure at once over the injured part. Fold a handkerchief or napkin so as to make a smooth pad and keep it firmly in place by a bandage or by a towel tightly pinned. When you cannot make a pad work well, hot water may arrest the bleeding and prevent discoloration.

Ice-cold applications have the same effect, and they are better than hot ones for a black eye. It is a good plan also to compress a bruise under the eye by a mass of cotton or soft cloths — or by the traditional raw beefsteak.

If the pain of a bruise persists and there are signs of beginning inflammation, apply cooling lotions, such as lead and opium wash, salt and diluted vinegar, equal parts of alcohol and water or extract of witch-hazel. Arnica is often used, but it is better to try something else, for it sometimes causes a rash or even gives rise to symptoms of general poisoning. If the inflammation persists and an abscess forms, the surgeon must be called.

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 26, 1916, p. 4.

Note: Please note, this information is from 1916. When I read about "lead and opium wash," to me that signals crazy danger and something you should not do. Times change, science advances. So if you have a bruise, by all means, take care of it by up-to-date methods and don't rely on what they suggested in 1916. Of course, if "lead and opium wash" is still what they currently prescribe, I'm sorry, I've just never heard of it. But somehow I doubt it!

Limits of Physical Training

1916

The tendency toward physical training, as well as its specialized form, military training, does not aim so much at the increase of the actual physical power as at the increase of the reserve power. The former, no matter how small, is usually sufficient to maintain ordinary bodily needs.

But the ordinary muscular force is wholly inadequate to sustain any unusual demands of the body, whether from disease or otherwise, and against which the body must be prepared. The laity speaks of the increase of reserve force as a "hardening" process. Under this conception it is believed that any hardship or discomfort increases the body reserve, and that the more suffering and hardship the better.

The more comfort and ease under which one lives, the less reserve force there is developed — because not needed — and the "softer" they become. Hardening is exercise of the wholesome kind against resistance. It must, however, be done with an eye on the actual powers of the body, from the standpoint of endurance. The amount of fatigue must never rise beyond a point where the fatigue products can be easily absorbed and the body recuperate.

Otherwise, whatever increase of power there is will be actual and needed to drive a less easily running human engine. There may be increased muscular power, but it will be bound — "muscle bound" — to the actual needs of the body. — Medical Record.

Sick Man Tramps Home To Die

1916

Recovers Good Health and Is Now Hiking Back.

MIDLAND, Texas — Alonzo Meredith, who hails from Savannah, Ga., passed thru Midland en route to California, pulling a small two wheeled cart containing his bedding and cooking utensils and tells the following story:

"Doctors in Frisco told me to go home last April; that I would be dead of the T. B. (tuberculosis) in another sixty days. I had spent all my money and to go home was out of the question. However, I was obsessed of the idea to try and walk the distance. I started and before I had made the first hundred miles I began to gather strength. I had money to eat on, but slept out nights. After making the distance to Indio, California, I was able to work. I gained strength and continued my journey. I walked to New Orleans and was examined there in the charity hospital for 'bugs' and was pronounced cured. I am now on my way back and upon reaching there will double back again, as I want to make sure of the cure."

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 11.

Dies On 70th Day of His Third Fast

1916

FAILS IN FIVE ATTEMPTS TO TAKE FOOD.

Fasting, Weapon With Which Doctor Fought Death, Finally Turns Against Him.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Dr. H. G. Huffman, faster, died at City Hospital on the seventieth day of his fast. He was unconscious before he died. His wife was at his bedside.

Dr. Huffman began his fast June 30. He tried to eat on August 9, but found food would not agree with him.

"Nature has not yet eliminated the poisons from my system," said Huffman. "When that is done, I will be able to eat."

Again on August 20 Huffman tried to break his fast with the same result. But Huffman was not worried. Then on August 22, September 1 and September 2, he tried to eat. Each time he found his stomach refused to take food.

Wife Shares His Confidence.

Dr. Huffman's wife, who was with him thruout his fast, shared her husband's confidence that he would recover. She respected his wishes that no doctor be called to treat him.

When Huffman lapsed into unconsciousness Mrs. Huffman began to fear for his life. She called his brother and they had the doctor removed to Dr. C. A. Davey's nature sanitarium at Youngstown. Davey was the only man Huffman would allow to treat him.

Later Huffman's brother had him removed to City Hospital. Doctors there tried to give him nourishment but failed.

Fasting, which killed Huffman, was the weapon with which he believed he was fighting death. Two years ago doctors told him he had not long to live. He went to a lonely spot on the Grand River, near Geneva, and set up his camp, which he named Camp Phoenix. There for 47 days he went without food.

When Dr. Huffman returned to his practice as an oculist in Youngstown he became apparently strong and well in a few months.

Doctor's Bride Fasts, Too.

The next year Huffman returned to Camp Phoenix and fasted 30 days. Again he came thru feeling "like a new man."

Then a few days after his fast Huffman was married under the spreading trees of Camp Phoenix, where he had won back health.

"I shall fast with my husband next year," the bride said after the wedding. "It has helped my husband and it will help me."

True to her promise, Mrs. Huffman joined her husband on his third fast. She went sixteen days without food. She broke her fast August 9, the day of her husband's first unsuccessful attempt to take food.

Mere Skeleton When He Dies.

Then while Dr. Huffman lay on a cot of pine boughs Mrs. Huffman busied herself about Camp Phoenix canning wild berries.

"My husband is not eating now, but he does in the winter," she merrily told visitors.

The Huffmans left Camp Phoenix as they had lived in it, with the rows of fruit jars arranged on shelves.

Huffman was a mere skeleton when he died. Doctors said that only remarkable strength and faith in his final recovery kept him alive for nearly seventy days.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 11.

Spitting Blood Not Sign of Consumption

1919

Most Tuberculosis Patients Never Have This Symptom.

There is no need to become alarmed if one spits blood. It is not, as so many think, a sure sign of consumption, for the overwhelming majority of tuberculosis patients never have this symptom, and the blood may come from the larynx, pharynx, teeth, stomach or even the small intestines.

Dr. H. Rabinowitsch of New York points out in the Medical Journal that when we consider the great size of the arteries that enter the lung and their minute ramifications on the surface of the delicate air cells we should not wonder if blood is sometimes coughed up from the lungs. Severe coughing or straining may easily break a small branch of one of these arteries.

Dr. Rabinowitsch says the hemorrhage itself is of slight moment. If it comes from aneurism, death is almost instantaneous; if it comes from a congested area and is limited, it is in some ways beneficial by relieving the congested area. It has another good effect — making a recalcitrant patient obey the doctor's orders.



Nail Illustrates Progress.

A common nail is an excellent illustration of the difference between old and new methods. Formerly the metal was cut into strips and then forged into shape with hammers. Today they are made of steel and are lighter and stronger. Strips are cut with steam shears and fed into automatic nail machines.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 9.

Half of Us Carry Influenza Germs

1919

BACILLUS PERSIST IN THROAT FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.

Presence of Microbes Found in Throats of Persons Who Have Never Had Disease.

Almost half of us carry the bacilli of influenza in our noses and throats all the time, according to a large number of investigations made in the last two years.

During the epidemic of influenza last year, Drs. I. W. Pritchett and E. G. Stillman found the bacillus influenzae in the throats and saliva of 42 per cent of 177 healthy persons from whom no history of respiratory infection was obtainable. At the same time Drs. F. T. Lord, A. C. Scott, Jr., and R. N. Nye found them in the pharingeal secretions of 76 per cent of thirty-four healthy men in the Harvard Student Army Training Corps. Dr. E. L. Opie and his collaborators found them in 35.1 per cent of all healthy men examined at Camp Funston.

Many Are Germ Carriers.

Now comes Drs. Agnes I. Windrell and Ernest G. Stillman with a report to the Journal of Experimental Medicine on examinations since the epidemic died out. This indicates that the percentage incidence of those harboring bacillus influenzae in the upper respiratory tract is as great during the post-epidemic period as it was during the influenza epidemic.

During December, 1913, to June, 1919, the percentage of carriers in a group of fifty individuals has averaged 4 per cent per month. In addition, it is of interest that in a boys' orphan asylum in which no cases of influenza had occurred during the epidemic, 30 per cent of throat cultures taken from 99 boys showed the presence of bacillus influenzae.

And this last is the same percentage as was found in fifty-two convalescents from influenza in an institution for girls.

Germ Persists for Months.

"It is evident," writes these investigators, "that bacillus influenzae may persist in the throats of healthy carriers for a considerable period of time." They cite six cases in which it persisted for five months and in thirteen others for four months.

Therefore, as nearly every second person has the germs of this disease in his throat, it behooves us all to be very careful to keep up our strength by cleanliness, fresh air and wholesome food in order that we may not lose our powers of resistance and open the way for these deadly microbes to invade our blood in such force that we cannot repel their attack.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 9.

Children and Sweet Stuffs

1901

It is necessary to make some kind of stand against the physical demoralization of the rising generation by the inordinate consumption of cheap confectionery.

Mrs. Creighton, the wife of the late bishop of London, has urged again and again the necessity for checking the wholesale consumption of sweet stuff by the children of the poorer classes, and it is admitted by the doctors in poor neighborhoods that it is to the continual eating of lollipops that the wretched digestions, frequent gastric troubles and enfeebled stamina of those who are to form the future backbone of the nation are due.

What the public house is to the father, the sweet stuff shop has become to the child.


Dancing as Exercise

Dancing has lost some of its vogue, but physicians have come to its rescue and are proscribing it as a useful exercise. It is said that dyspeptic and anemic patients, both men and women, have been advised to waltz at a moderate tempo at least 30 minutes a day.

The Diseased Rich at Baden-Baden

The Diseased Rich at Baden-Baden

1901

A great deal of grandeur always makes me homesick. It isn't envy. I don't want to be a princess and have the bother of winding a horn for my outriders when I want to run to the drug store for postage stamps, but pomp depresses me.

Everybody was strange, foreign languages were pelting me from the rear, noiseless flunkies were carrying pampered lap dogs with crests on their nasty little embroidered blankets, fat old women with epilepsy and gouty old men with scrofula, representing the aristocracy at its best, were being half carried to and from tables, and the degeneracy of noble Europe was being borne in upon my soul with a sickening force.

The purple twilight was turning black on the distant hills, and the silent stars were slowly coming into view. Clean, health giving Baden-Baden. In the valley of the Oos, with its beauty and its pure air, was holding out her arms to all the disease and filth that degenerate riches produce. — Lillian Bell in Woman's Home Companion.

Says Man, 85, Broke Up Home

1930

Cult Leader is Named in a California Divorce Case.

(By the Associated Press)

CHICAGO, Feb. 25. — An 85-year-old leader of a health and religious cult in Los Angeles was blamed today for breaking up the home of Herman R. Huber, architectural draftsman, who filed suit for divorce from Mrs. Anna C. Huber, 50, a follower of the cult.

The aged man was described as "Ottoman, czar of Adusht, master mind Hanisch of the Mazdazans," whose temple is at 1159 S. Norton avenue, in Los Angeles.

Huber, in his suit, said his wife had become "fanatical, idiotical, and unreasonable by following the repugnant rituals of moaning, raving and silly actions of the cult." He said the power that the "master mind" held over women made them think more of his teachings than they did of their homes and families.

—The Kansas City Star, Feb. 25, 1930, p. 5.

Your Baby's First Vegetables and Fruits - 1938 Booklet

Your Baby's First Vegetables and Fruits - 1938 Booklet

Published by Libby, McNeill & Libby, 1938. 24 pages. Baby's world is a changing world. Doctors now direct baby's upbringing, with earlier feeding of vegetables. Vintage health/nutrition and parenting guide (in advertising form) for families long ago.