As to the effects of alcohol as a shorten er of life quite a different method was followed by the already cited Medico-Actuarial Mortality Investigation by the forty-three leading life insurance companies than in the investigation already alluded to. The object was to determine the type of lives that are good and those that are […]
Effects Of Tobacco On Longevity
Tobacco affects different persons variously. Whether it causes arterio-sclerosis (the increase of connective tissue in the walls of arteries) or not we do see every day that persistent smokers lose too soon their youthful looks and complexion, a change especially conspicuous in women who have fallen into the cigarette habit.’ There are good observers, among […]
New Light On Longevity
Of the 8797 descendants of William Hyde, of Norwich, Conn., who died in 1681, a written record exists of the birth, marriage and death of 2958. So far as the Hyde strain is concerned these descendants rapidly lost, of course, everything but a mere trace of that blood. The first generation owed a half to […]
Interesting Facts About Food
There are many unhackneyed facts on the subject of diet, some of which are assembled in this chapter. If a weak, half per cent solution of boiled starch is taken into the mouth and kept there for but 20 seconds and then expelled into a test tube, it will be found that the starch has […]
Is Sugar of Milk The Long Sought Remedy?
What bids to be a true and long sought corrective for both uncomplicated, acute and chronic constipation is a result of very recent studies on the reactions of lactose (sugar of milk) and dextrine to conditions in the intestinal tract. The subject is important enough to require a historical review. After much wandering in the […]
The Lazy Colon
In a late book that has attracted much attention a famous surgeon lays great stress on the fact that failure of the nearly twenty-eight feet of small and large human intestine to function properly is the primary cause not only of much ill health but of a very considerable number of organic diseases (dealt with […]
Coated Tongue – Its Cause And Meaning
The coated tongue is due to the blood being charged with toxins. The tongue’s resistance and that of other fluids is thus lowered, the saliva loses its power to stop the growth of micro-organisms and the mouth becomes an incubating chamber in which molds and bacteria of various sorts grow luxuriantly. In this condition the […]
Abdominal Excercises A Requirement
Weak abdominal muscles are practically always associated with intestinal stasis. The reason is plain, as has been elsewhere several times pointed out. Many people do not realize that they have them, and as to developing a good hard set of them, not one person in a thousand ever gives the matter any attention. In combating […]
Intelligent Use Of The Enema
There is no dictum in medical literature more common than the advice that the enema is a device that should be resorted to as a temporary expedient only, and that the same rule applies to the use of any laxative medicine. This is believed by some excellent authorities to be ill-considered advice as to enemas, […]
The Greatest Menace Of All
Field says he is continually surprised at the mistake people make as to the completeness of defecation. This error is frequently practiced regularly by persons who are very particular as to personal cleanliness in all other matters. It is almost a regular experience to find in cases of stasis located in the lower end of […]