Medical Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 314, 7 November 1888, Page 5

Medical Notes.

Sigss ok a Disordered Lives. — Aching pains in the limbs, and lassitude coming on about an hour after a full meal, sometimes tinsociated with an irrisistible tendency to drowsiness, are symptoms often resulting ( from the liver being out of order. Hometimes complaint is made of a dull, heavy aching in the right or, more rarely, the 3cit shoulder, or under the shoulder-blade. .Burning or scalding of the palms of the hands and soles of the feet — a complaint \ery common with those who indulge lurgoly in alcohol — is often an accompaniment of liver disorder. This curious sensation may be persistent, but far moie frequently it is transient, coming and going by tits and starts. Cramps in the cal\ es oi the legs, the abdomen, and other part* ;trj not uncommon, and are often very dhlrtssing. They usually come on during tlio night, occurring mosfc commonly hi \.{>ld or clamp weather. /- Doctor's Adviojb to Smokisks.—A i-'icnch physician has been giving feomc or nn-el to smokers. He has found that the di«ou -o most irequenbly induced by tmoUinc; L tai t,y degeneration of the heart, but he iv s niokor himself, and does not advise in.-> pati'.'iitb to forswear long habit. Thai, he tir ik«. would cause their last state, to he v»n.u than their first. Instead ot doing lli:-. ho lays clown a code of rules for tlio •x "dance ot smokers, to which it 1- fevued U.< v will nob pay so much attention aHOi miiihb. Never smoke fasting, t-u\ <- the doctor. It ha'; hiHiori-o been supposed i .i r t- molting was an exaellent antidotn tn ' ii.i' ci, and many a traveller lias cotamh (i i. n it lo be A pipe, a tighlenh".! ot l> It. and . i. nip of brandy is Mi Aichi .!d Foi bus's iccipc tor ft craving «ton'«ifl>. i v imi Izocp a cigor 100 long it. tSu lnomh, , <{ no not habitually smoke stron" IVrl'i <j_\-, .'no ( \tellont counsels, which a -ie n • iini'ii-i ot people already follow, foi u » 'iu!j cl icaton&. >, • i' \xd White Hands. — A wc^ai. •,i 1m so pictfcy hands are beinj; i tuned )>\ i'i>i.'g nas'>ed in hard water u-k» lv' t , oi'(.'i|\. Water can be easily f-otti nod b; i cm drop^ of ammonia, or, what i-> net le' , ,i )>i"po oi lump borax. YVaim \v.it<n ii-lo ilii'^h cnouiih boiax ha& been di'r'-oKcd tt i iakp the water ioel a little slippci \ heu ,).t'— ctl between the thumb and tin^r; j.s»iv «oorl Jol- uablung the haivh if.n ds 'v.;,', duty ai'C never smooth and uiuu \!'M»lutf f'ofinliness is noce^ai>. Thu ] aiif's .siioiild always bo washed in v •tun ■j.iap^uds befoio the owner yot> to )icd. Aitci' t!ie hands are bhoroaghly dued \ -u a fL\v (hops of mixed glycerine and camphor, which the druoo-i&t can pi-epiue for \ou. Dioj/ into the palm of rhe h.inu and lub on thoinmdb. This will bo all thar. v. i'lhc n-jces.saiy to show decided 3uipro\enu.nf. A DlI-TAVfi I>Ll T NI>JJJt — AJo'il. |'fl h!1ms< r iit naluutlly be await- thai 11.0 p.nn^y object ot drink is to .satisfy tliirtl, which means a ciaviny for the supply of wutu to the tissue- — the only fluid thoy demand and utilise when the sensation in que->lion i-^ felt. Water is a &ol\ent of and is moro pow erful to this end when employed free fiom admixture with any other solid material It may be flavoured, as in tea or otheiwibO, without impairing its .-ohent power, but when mixed uibh any conciete matter, as in chocolate, thick cocoa, or c\.en with milk, its capacity for dissolving — the very quality for which it was demanded- is in great part lost. So plentiful io nutriment in solid food thao the very last place where we should seek that quality i& the drink which accompanies the ordinary meal. Hero, at least, we might hope to be fico from an exhorta'ion to nouiish ouifcohcs, when desirous only to allay thirst or mou 1 e-n our solid morsels with a draught of fluid. Not so ; there are e\cn some poison^ ho must wash down their ample ?licet oi roast beef with draughts of now milk -an mi wisely devised combination even for those of active habit ; bub for men and women whose lives are little occupied by exerci-o it is one of the greatest dietary blunders which can be perpetrated. One would think it was generally known that milk is a peculiarly nutritive fluid adapted for the fast-growing and fattening young mammal — admirable for such, for ouv &mall children, also serviceable to those whose muscu'ai exertion is great, and when it agrees witn the stomach to those who cannot take meat. For us who have long ago achieved our full growth, find can thrive on solid fare, it. is altogether superfluous and mostly mischievous as a drink. — Sir Henry Thomjjboiu