PERILS OF OVER-FEEDING. It Often Produces Symptoms Akin To Typhoid Fever.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 396, 24 August 1889, Page 3

PERILS OF OVER-FEEDING. It Often Produces Symptoms Akin To Typhoid Fever.

Excessive eating is nob the most" striking or the most widely prevalent' fault of the present generation. On the contrary, moderation and even sometimes -undue limitation in diet is the "prevailing fashion. There are still, however, a considerable number of persons who habitually over-eat at meals, and to such a few physiological hints may nob be without their value. Dr. Reudon has been at bhe pains to make some careful investigations on the subject, and his results have recently been published. According to this observer, a nob' uncommon consequence of over-feeding is the development of aseriesof symptoms in many respects similar to those of typhoid fever. The temperatui*e rises, there is a feeling of serious illness, the sleep "is 'disturbed, the brain is incapacitated, and in severe cases the disability is oomplete. The cause of these symptoms' is insufficient elimination and an alteration in the blood brought about by the impregnation of the organism with accumulated waste products. In addition to these typhoid symptoms, thromboses occur in the vessels, and what is known as spontaneous gangrene, or mortification of parts without any obvious or sufficient cause. Now, these are conditions of very marked danger, particularly the thrombosis and the spontaneous gangrene. There is no danger to life here. The obvious remedy for such a series of evils is, of course, rest for the overworked digesting and eliminating organs. Both bhe quantity and quality of the food must bo so changed as to admit of the performance of easy digestion, perfect assimilabion and adequate elimination of waste. Lemonades and lemon juice are said to be of greab service in diminishing^ the' extreme craving for food, and this,,f rom a limited experience, we. can to some extent confirm. -Milk, also, , in, moderate quantitiesvis useful, and in certain,'cases ski'm' milk would probably be best. It d's not always found that the resting of vtbe organs is sufficient. The fever may persist" for a long time, and with- it the, feeling of rery decided illness. Drugs of , different kinds are then urgently demanded, and a competent physician should be consulted without delay. — From 'Hospital.-'

Mr Parnell was ' the recipient of ad- J dresses from the municipal bodies of Tre-" land, on June 1, congratulating him on the collapse of' the, Piggott conspiracy. In answer to the addresses, Mr Parnell said he never doubted he should be able to disprove those forgeries, and added : "I should have preferred to have gone to nay grave with the stigma of these letters upon me — cowardly, mean, andc antemptible as these letters were — rather than submit my country and my countrymen .to the humiliating ordeal that was forced, upon us as the accompaniment of the inquiry into the authenticity of these letters." Mr Parnell also stated that when he demanded an inquiry in 1887, immediately after the letters were published,it was refused ; and it was only by forcing ah inquiry into everything^, into every imaginable speech that was ever made, into every newspaper article that was ever written, not only in Ireland, not only in England, but in every part of the world by any Irishman whatever, that the present I tribunal was constituted.