Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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bilious, typhoid,intermittent, or yellow fever. Hence, together with bad diet, thefrequency of these forms of disease in the cities mentioned. Some of the residents along the shores of these rivers are aware ofthe injurious properties of their waters, and resort to rain water. 92 CAUSES OF NERVOUS AND BLOOD DERANGEMENTS. Unfortunately, they only jump from the frying-pan into the fire.In the large cities designated, the air above is no cleaner than thestreets beneath. It is the reservoir of the animal effluvia of crowdedpopulations. The breath of thousands of diseased men and animalsmingles with the rains as they descend, infecting them with theirpoisonous gases. I have no doubt that, in seasons of epidemics, theseeds of the prevailing diseases are often drank with water. Conse-quently, those who drink rain-water should first expose it for severaldays to light and air, and then to filtration. By these means it maybe rendered wholesome, and better by far than the heterogeneous Fig. 29.
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natures beverage on a frolic through the hills. compound of decayed vegetation, solution of dead horses and dogs,and the city slops, which flow in the channels of many rivers. The well-water of limestone countries is productive of gravel andkidney difficulties, and causes the hair to become prematurely gray, THE LIQUIDS WE DRINK. 93 while in all new countries it is often rendered unwholesome from thedrainage of decayed vegetation. The former is known by its hard-ness, and the latter by its peculiar odor, and frequent discoloration. In Virginia, not far from Fortress Monroe, are Juniper swamps,11and from these swamps the water is extensively taken for drinkingpurposes. The color is nearly that of pale brandy, and the odofstrong of juniper. If the reader should sail up the James River someday. he may be offered a goblet of it, and if so, do not refuse it, as itis regarded as wholesome not only by those who have been long in thehabit of using it, but by medical men who have given its qua

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