Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOORNAI..
tubercular processes in tlie firmer tissues, eliminate the morally weak. This is a doc-
Properly selected febrile cases respond to trine hard to believe in view of the fact that
treatment. Other lines of treatment should so many pure and innocent women and
not be neglected when one is administering children are involved. .Morality has been
tuberculin. Tuberculosis in many instances evolved largely through intelligence and
is arrested, and not cured. It will remain these diseases are incurred in ignorance,
arrested if the one suffering from the disease
conducts himself properly. The patient
should not be dismissed too early. In
the administration of these agents other
means of restoring health should not be
overlooked, and eternal vigilance is its
both of their existence and their results. *
Morality will be greatly increased and
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strengthened by enlightenment, for moralj
ity is to a large extent enlightened self
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interest. Just as th'e most powerful agent in I
the reduction of alcoholism, which through '<
price.
all the preceding centuries has been so uni- ;>]
Notes on Trealment oi Typhoid Fever, versal and terrible an evil, has been the \
-Dr. J. B. Raird savs that if either diar- diffusion of exact information among the ,
rhoea or pain of any kind should prove
People regarding the alcoholic diseases, and
^he invariable impairment of every
troublesome, opium in some form should be
kind of
u.sed. We need not hesitate for fear of ^"'"^" capacity, physical, mental andj
«ioral,
"masking svmptoms" or of "obscuring
by is daily use in anything buti
developments.'
' Physiological amounts; similarly, the
The remedy is given
aulhorl
to prebelieves
the
vent untoward symptoms and
most potent means of dimmish-^
to forestall
disastrous developments.
'"? the venereal diseases will be the spread
of
Water mav be drank freely. The
exact information as to their
food
disastrous*
should be liquid for at least ten days after J-^^^lts, immediate and remote, upon the
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the subsidence of fever, and of digestible '^""^" system.
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and nutritious quality. The quantity should _ .,, „ „ ,, ,, ,. . r ^ *'
be ample for nutritive necessities, but lim- ^^'^^"''^ ^ Sc^ui/wrn Medicine^ June. 1909. y
ited, of course, by the digestive capacity— Summer Diseases ot Children.— Dr. W. 1|
milk, butter milk, broth, light soups, meat E. Fitch points out the necessity for scrupu- <
extracts, gruels, tea, coffee, cocoa, etc., are Ions cleanliness in regard to nursing bottles )j
sufiicient. Some practitioners of repute are and nipples should be impressed upon ''^ the
more liberal in the dietary and allow bread, mother or nurse. The careful selection of'
toast, eggs and similar soft articles. Milk
an artificial food, judicious bathing, with,
when It does not disagree—and it is a fact . ,, , , , , .
that it agrees with the vast majority of per- P'^"! o'' alkalmized water, and the immedisons—is
an ideal food. An unfounded and ate removal of soiled napkins to avoid exa
most unfortunate prejudice has recently coriation are imperative. An abundance ^
been manifested against sweet milk as a
diet in this and other diseases. This erron-
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eous estimate of an admirable article apof
pure, cool spring water, even though it]
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be vomited (especially m cholera infantum,
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pears to be restricted to narrow territorial ^ven when retched and vomited) should be
limits, and it is devoutly hoped that the given; while water is essential, it should al-<
little endemic of lactophobia will soon ways be given frequently and in small.
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amounts. If vomiting does occur, its ejec-
tion from the stomach aids in washing out
Virginia Medical Semi- Mo7ithly, June 25th, ^^^^ Q^gan, and sometimes by overcoming
The Extent and Importance ol the
Venereal Diseases in the Social Body,
gastric irritability, subdues vomiting, Ice
is frequently enjoyed and should be crushed
—Dr. F. T. Simpsons says that when we and tied in a gauze cloth to prevent the
review the vast extent of the venereal dis- swallowing of large pieces. It is absolutely
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eases, their damaging effects upon Individ- imperative that a reliable toilet powder, ,
nals of both sexes of all ages and their corespecially
the borated products, should be :l
ruptmg iiitluence upon the seed of human- . ,' , .
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ity, it is difficult to conceive of any subject copiously and liberally used, since they j
more important to society than the preven- allay the distress caused from the acrid dis- j
tion of the spread of these secret poisons charges. Excoriation from acrid stools may <
which have doubtless in the course of the be prevented by annointiiig the neighbor- ;
ages wiped out maiiv slocks of people. It 1 j c .tu -^i i- -i u .