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
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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more completely has it effected this. The disinfectantqualities of water by the absorption of deleterious gases, are so wellknown to intelligent people, that many keep vessels of water stand-ing in their sitting or lodging rooms. Water which has remained all night in leaden pipes, becomes affectedwith the properties of the lead, andthat which remains for a long time ina pump, with the impure gases of theatmosphere; and in both cases shouldbe drawn off before any is taken fordrinking purposes. Leaden pipes arechiefly used in cities, for conveyingaqueduct water into the houses, andtoo much care cannot be taken, whenno water has been drawn through thenight, to avoid taking any that mayhave stood in the pipes during theinterval. In summer, ice-water should be usedwith great caution, for if drank exces-sively, it causes irritations, and some-times fatal inflammations of the stom-ach and bowels. I am satisfied thatwould require the use of warm drinks inwinter. It is undoubtedly owing to our
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the old oaken bucket.1 correct habits in drinking,summer, and cold drinks intendency to invert almost every hygienic rule, that it has become thecustom everywhere to resort to cool drinks during hot weather, andto hot drinks in cold weather. The temperature of the water takeninside, as well as that applied outside, should, as a rule having ofcourse its exceptions, be made to correspond with the-temperatureof the atmosphere. Cold water should .nob be taken with the meaiS THE ATMOSPHERE YTE LIYE IN. 95 at all, for it chills the stomach, and retards, and sometimes arrestsdigestion. The colder the water, the more likely it is to do this. Brook streams which have the appearance of purity, are not alwayssafe to drink from, in consequence of the possible presence of danger-ous animalcule ; many instances of frogs, evets, and worms, in thestomach have occurred in consequence of want of care in this partic-ular. Those having their sources or channels near marshes, frog-ponds, hog-pastures, ces

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