The Kneipp water cure monthly. Vol.1, no.6, June, 1900 / Benedict Lust, editor.

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1900
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    practical purposes however, a dinner such as No. 3 would answer every requirement of economy, convenience and nutrition. In the next and concluding' instalment of this paper the subject of food combinations will be considered, with special refrence to the preparation of balanced bills of fare without flesh meat. The Cold—its Prevention and Cure. By F. J. Buettgenbach (Minerva, Ore.) The sudden changing from heat to cold and cold to heat by going from a warm room into the cold air irritates the nerves of the body and this condition is called “cold”. Most colds appear first in the head and spread from there to other parts of the body. The weakest part of the head, i. e., where the nerves are the tenderest and very close to the surface is in the nose, in the skin covering the bone in which is located the sense of smell. As soon as these nerves are affected, as spoken of above, they lead just as a telephone, the irrita¬ tion further in the body. Now if a person strengthens this very weak part, many colds may be prevented. A very simple and easy way to do this is, while washing the face to draw water up the nose as far as possible several times and let it run out again, and to gargle the throat also. The first time a person does this it will hurt a little, because the skin in the nose is so tender, but by the second or third time he becomes accustomed to it and will feel no pain and will find out the benefit very soon. Plalf an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of oure for the danger of “catching a cold” is avoided. Another way to avoid a cold is to keep the body and especially the feet dry. Never sit down or rest with wet feet or while any of the clothing is damp. A person may go with his clothing wet through the tskin for the whole day without taking cold if he keep moving; but if he stops or sits down only for a few minutes, he is apt to have a cold. After catching cold the only way to cure it, i. e. to get rid of it, is to sweat it out. The quickest way to do this is to take a Russian bath following it with a cold ablution or cold water bath. If circumstances will not permit this, a good sweating in the bed in woolen blankets will answer just as well. The patient must lie down for two or three hours covered to the head in woolen blankets and wrapped in a shirt or sheet which has been dipped in cold water and wrung out a little. After lying for half a minute or so in the cold, wet sheet, he will commence to feel warm and soon to perspire. Now he must drink cold water; the more he drinks the more he sweats, and the better it is for him because the sweating purifies the blood and makes him healthy. After the sweating must follow an ablution or 8 bath in cold water. If a cold is not taken out of the system immediately it causes a sediment, the next cold increases the sediment and so on till sickness appears and causes more trouble, lost time and everything else than it would have taken to cure the cold. The only caution to be observed is the patient must be warm not shivering, before the wet sheet is wrapped around him. If he feels cold, make him warm first. Senselessness of Paralyzing the Senses. By David Faulson, M. D. Nature is kind to man, but we must keep within the sphere of its beneficent influence and lay aside everything that tends to drag him down. Altogether too many regard the body as a harp of thousand strings, upon which they may play for their own pleasure, whereas the real object should be to use it to produce sweet melody for others, and the man that is most thoroughly engaged in helping others is touching the right chord. But the man who eats for the purpose of tickling his palate, who wants to hear or read vile things because they tickle his brain, or the man who wants to feast his mind upon the impure things, —in short, every one who plays upon this harp for his own pleasure, will never become perfectly well until he has conquered that wrong principle. If we will constantly eat the things which are good for us, by and by they will taste good, for nature has put an individual flavor into every food. The tastes of some are so destroyed by wrong diet that they can taste only three or four things. Suppose I fold this paper into a triangle, and then put vinegar on one angle, pepper on another, and mustard on the third. Some people put these substances on their food every day, and they continue to do this until they have no more strings upon which to play than the three angles of a triangle, and they can not taste anything else. Soldiers whose hearing has been in¬ jured in the battle, can sometimes distinguish only a few sounds; they can not enjoy the beautiful sounds of nature. So there are many who have smothered the beau¬ tiful flavors in fruits, as well as in whole wheat bread, granose, zwieback, nuts, etc. They have been paralyzing their tastes until they can taste only these few things. When they begin reform everything tastes flat; and they say that they “do not like to eat this sawdust”, because they can discover no taste in it; but if people cultivate the taste for things that are good, they by and by begin to appreciate their flavors, the same as they would appre¬ ciate the superiority of the fragrance of flowers over that of some rank odors. I know that many cooks are virtually in partnership with the undertakers. Many are making drunkards of their children, because they are cooking things which create a thirst which cannot be satisfied at home. Such a boy will find something in the saloon which will satisfy that thirst. Many men who have been fed on this kind of food afterwards become drunkards; and after they have reformed and partially recovered their normal tastes, then frequently the “fatted calf” is killed, and they sprinkle on it mustard and other things that burn after they are down, and in this way the demon of intemperance is again aroused. I knew a man that was a splendid specimen of humanity, who had been to the Sanitarium and had recovered from delirium tremens and had over¬ come his appetite for liquor. He went home, and his friends invited him to partake of a “good dinner”. The poor fellow, after eating, went to a saloon, and at night he was picked up in a drunken condition by a policeman. What right have we to pray ourselves, “Lead us not into temptation”, and then present directly before our brother temptations in the most insidious yet most effective form? —(Pacific Health Journal.)