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HEALTH AND SCIENTIFIC
SANITATION
ROYAL ROADS TO HEALTH
DR. CHARLES H. HARPER
There are two occupations that ap
peal to me as being In themselves ex
tremely healthful. The singer and the
teacher of athletics have means of live
lihood which are In themselves an In
surance of health. Tou will say, per
haps, that It Is only healthy people who
can follow these pursuits. If you will
look a little beyond the surface, how
ever, you will find that most of them
have built themselves upon their occu
pations.
We cannot all be singers or teachers
of athletics. But while I am diess ng
In the morning I can avail myself of all
those things which produce health and
vigor In the singer, and when I walk
down Broadway to my office I can call
into play all the resources of the ath
lete. I should not do these things if it
were not for the same education that
makes them a matter of course and
daily habit with the singer and the
athlete. Education is the royal road to
health.
The occupation of the farmer will oc
cur to many as a healthful one. Out
door life makes it so to a certain ex
tent, but if you go among the farmers
you will find crooked spines, rheumatic
joints and dyspeptic dispositions as
common as they are In the city. Physi
cal exertion is not a royal road to
health.
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show the effects of education In this
article. They are the ailments of the
alimentary canal, the faults of diges
tion, nutrition, secretion and excretion.
I do not wish to fall into the ludicrous
position- of the young physician who
said, when they asked him what he was
specializing on, "diseases of the alimen
tary canal." Still in the matter of
health education there are three classi
fications which I find useful —respira-
tion and circulation, nervous system
and spinal tract, and alimentary canal
with organs tributary. If you will
classify diseases into these groups they
will overlap and become reciprocal in
their causes and effects, but if you at
tack any given case from the must
marked and acute of these angles you
will find the shortest road to a remedy.
I want to make emphat c at t..is
point one of the vital principles of a
body-building system as it applies to
the special diseases of the allmentaiy
canal, indigestion, gastritis, constipa
tion, appendicitis, liver and kidney
complaints and all the multitude of ac
companying ills. Here is a secret that
once you grasp it and hold it It will
give you more power over disease than
an exhaustive study of materia medu a.
The alimentary canal and Us aux
iliary organs will only work right whe.i
they afe set up right. They must be
hung correctly on the human frame
work. Think of the havoc that .may be
traceable to a single mlsadjustment of
this complicated system. How long will
so simple and tough a thing as a gar
den hose last if it is full of kinks?
What will happen to a steam engine if
you loosen up the framework so that
its water pipes and steam pipes and
safety valves get into a Jumble? Of
course it will blow up or tear itself to
pieces.
The alimentary canal is thirty feet In
length and It is crowded into a spa o
less than three feet long. It should be
suspended there delicately and perfect
ly if it is to work at all. If you get tt
into correct position It has a natural
tendency to work. It is of no use to
run about with digestive tabules, liver
pills and laxatives trying to fix up this
pait and that. It Is more delicate than
the works of a watch. The works of a
watch must be hung right before oiling
the bearings will do any good. So with
the alimentary system, it must be set
up and adjusted before pouring in oil
will do any good. Then the oiling goes
on automatically.
Body building is not only the first
essential In treatment of these diseases;
It is often the only essential. If you
will take up a system of body building
far enough to learn how you were put
together in the first place, how you
should be put together and how to put
yourself together, I do not much care
what you eat if it Is clean food, and I
do not care whether you are pitching
hay in the field or adding up figures ia
a book. You can trust the human sys
tem to adjust itself to all sorts of con
ditions if it is given a chance. It must
have the chance of being In working
order. We call It the human, system,
and that Is what it must be—sy. tem
atic. Every canal, channel and duct
must be a passageway and not an ob
struction.
The system of body building go:s
further than this, but I am almost re
luctant to go into the specializations
because It may detract from the stress
which I wish to lay upon the vital p in
clple. Possibly from floating around
within the torso the stomach has be
come soft and flabby. After you hive
hung it up where It belongs It can be
strengthened and invigorated by the
proper kind of exercise. If your liver
remains somewhat sluggish after you
have taken off the load by h mglg It
on the abdominal walls you can reach
It too with a specific method of invig
oratlon.
I return to the Illustration of the
singer with which I started. When you
sing you assume a new poise, you bring
the entire body to Its finest point of
balance, the muscles of the chest, the
diaphram and the abdomen begin to
work, throwing the organs within into
place, lifting the weight with which
they often overcome each other, and
you get a vibration which brings the
system back into tune. If you will edu
cate yourself In the principle of body
building you will get the same results
as easily and as naturally.
These are a few of my diagnoses. In
digestion Is simply an acute touch of
Ignorance. Constipation is a symptom
of Indifference. Appendicitis is a spe
cific lack of intelligence. If there Is
anything wrong get at yourself. Set
your body up right and Its every activ
ity and function will be a manifesta
tion of health. When you consider the
knife, the poisons and the punishments
that are used it seems to me that this
is the royal road to health.
GARBAGE AGAIN
Will someone tell us If we have been
buncoed by the health authorities for
years?
Why have they been telling us to
clean up our back yards; that our old
tin cans and other outdoor rubbish was
dangerous to health; that our garbage
cans must be cleaned and disinfected to
save us from the plague?
A few years ago, two, I believe, to be
exact, officers were sent to inspect the
back yards all over the city, and all
rubbish,. even the most apparently
harmless kind, was ordered cleaned up
at once, as It was dangerous.
Now we are told that while the gar
bage station on Aliso may be malouor
ous it does not Jeopardize the public
health. Why this change of policy?
If our old tin cans endanger the pub
lic, why may not tons and tons of
garbage standing festering in the sun
lor hours? Kven if the nearby houses
are absolutely screened from flies,
which is practically Impossible if there
are children to leave doors open, even
so may not the gases from this rotting
refuse pass through the meshes of the
screens ?
If this Is not so and the sickness in
the vicinity of the garbage station id
merely a coincidence where are all of
our carefully cherished theories?
Why should the people who own then
homes in that vicinity and are so un
aule to move be subjected to such a
stench, even if it is not dangerous?
Is there no place farther from the
center of population where the garbage
can be leit if it must be lett standing
for hours?
What a pleasant sight and smell for
our tourist guests wno are going tv
Pasadena and other outlying districts.
Surely there must be some way by
which our lovely city can get rid 01
this blot.
CARE OF THE EYEB
Blindness or permanent injury to the
eyes often results from improper care
of them. At birth they should be thor
oughly cleaned of all foreign matter by
the phyßician. Thousands of cases of
lifelong blindness are caused by neg
lecting this simple precaution.
Children should not be placed In a
position where the sun shines directly
into the eyes, as in a baby carriage,
etc. Remember they are helpless and
must suffer the consequences.
School children who are backward in
their studies, or who complain of head
ache or tired feeling in the eyes should
be examined by a reliable oculist or
optician, as often the cause is in the
eyes.
In over one-half the children born
the eyeball is more or less abnormal
in shape—l. c., too long or too short or
the curvature of the front portion is
not the same in all meridians. In
either case the rays of light do not
focus easily on the retina, which in
time results In strain or imperfect
vision. Most of these conditions can
be remedied by properly fitting glasses.
Reading by a poor light or on the
cars or whilo lying on the back are all
injurious to the eyes. The continued
use of alcoholic drinks or tobacco
often so injure the vision that the vic
tim cannot read ordinary print with
or without glasses.
Dust, etc., in the eyes can often be
removed by opening and shutting them
in a tub of water. Should an object
adhere tightly to or enter the eyeball
the assistance of a specialist should
be obtained at once. Lime in the eye
can be neutralized by vinegar (not too
strong). Burning of the eyes by any
substance can be soothed with oil
(castor oil preferred) until a specialist
can be consulted.
All corrupt matter should be care
fully excluded from the ayes, as some
MAY 22, 1910.
kinds of this will destroy the eye In
three days.
Very dark glasses (especially the
cheap Imperfect onts) should not be
worn except the eyes aro temporarily
inflamed or subjected to an intense
glare, as they tend to weaken the eyes.
Any inflammation of the eyes or eye
lids that does not yield speedily to
warm water bathing or the use of a
simple eye lotion may be of a serious
nature and special advice should be
sought early.
Whenever either distant or close
work causes blurring or any distress
of the eyes or head they should be ex
amined at once, as the difficulty may
be easily overcome.
W. T. NICHOLS, M. D.
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