The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

182 THE HEALTH BULLETIN.STOMACH TROUBLE.How often we hear this term"stomach trouble." Did you everhave it? If you have, you knowwhat a humbler it is, how effectuallyit humbles one's pride, howthoroughly it dissipates one's egotism.Yet stomach trouble is nota wholesome discipline, for thelonger it continues the grouchierand more impossible we become.The stomach these days is a sort ofgarbage can. It is suspended bystraps immediately south of the thoraciccavity, and being connectedwith that funnel called the mouthby a good strong tube, it readilycatches chunks of dead animals,lumps of poorly baked bread, bolusesof vegetables, ices, pickles, soggypies, weinerwurst, booze, and muddycoffee. The tobacco eaters add thatportion of tobacco juice which theydon't use for flooding sidewalks.There is no more patient andlong-suffering organ in the humanbody than the stomach. It is amazinghow long it will stand abuse,but once it kicks back, then lookout, for something is coming to yousure. You may hit it with an unkilledrailroad sandwich, scorch andburn it with pepper and mustard,irritate it with salt and vinegar,.»hill it with ice cream, ice waterand mint juleps, pour stinking mineralwater into it, shrink it withrotgut whiskey, assault it in anyold way, and it will work uncomplaininglyfor a long time ; untilalas ! and alack ! some day it willgo on a strike, and then the doctorfor you, or you run to the drug storeand proceed t© souse the poor thingwith patent medicines. Of coursetbey do harm, although temporaryrelief may be secured. So the worldbecomes dark and lifp is a failureto you, but you quit bolting andgorging, that's sure; for that muchsense will come finally to any kindof a fool. Oh, that we could havethe good sense to know, when young,that the stomach should not be usedfor a garbage can. Then we wouldnot load our tables with foods, somegood, some bad, and then chase themhalf chewed down our gullets witbblack coffee or ice water."Full many a man has lost his headThrough eating soggy, half-cookedbread,And he who would his kidneys saveHad best avoid the whisky wave.Your heart and nervous system, too,Are surely worth a heap to you.Why prod them, then, with nicotine.And make believe all is serene?In tobacco heart there is no wealth,And what is more, there's weakenedhealth.Oh! foolish man, when thus youchooseYour soul and body to abuse;You'll realize, some pleasant morn.That you have raised an awfulstorm." — Indiana Bulletin.GIVE YOUR BABY A GOOD STARTIN LIFE.i"The latest reports of the Bureau ofCensus on mortality statistics showthat slightly more than 42 per cent ofthe infants dying under one year ofage in the registration area in 1911did not live to complete the first monthof life, and that of this 42 per cent, almostseven-tenths died as a result of 1conditions existing before they were iborn or of injury and accident atbirth."In many instances the expectantmother does not consult her physicianuntil the child is about to beborn, if, indeed, she consults himat all, presuming the condition toibe a perfectly normal one that needs>no assistance. This mistake is made,frequently. In order that themother can intelligently prepare mid