REMARKS ON CONSUMPTION. — 
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“i remarks on ae causes at Coeur, e fet 20% 
strneted as to keep the i utd pie rere : = 
the lungs full scope and quantity of air, that the | Spann 
properly changed from veinous to arterial blood. ‘Thick 
feather-beds, bolsters and pollows are very injurious to health ; 
hard level beds of clean splints, husks or straw are the most — 
healthy. Dust in cars, stages, and work-shops of all kinds, 
is very injurious to the lungs and health. Second-hand 
clothing and boots sold i in our ——< cities. eat iepnomt 
% polbon, Act rvicnds and death ante the country. ‘Small 
_ pox and venereal diseases of all kinids cannot be well eradi- 
cated from them. The seeds of those diseases many times 
adhere even to paper money handled by diseased persons, so 
that it has been caught by the handling of it; and even sleep- 
ing in beds, or sitting on the seats of the privy, has many times 
caused such powerful vaccination as to lead to consumption. 
Cold taken with measles ought to be guarded against; and 
poisonous gases ought to be avoided. Frowy butter and lard 
