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THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



She must carry out implicitly the doctor's 

 directions, particularly those regarding medi- 

 cine and diet. Strict obedience to his orders, 

 a faithful, diligent, painstaking following of 

 his instructions, will insure to the sufferer the 

 best results from his skill, and bring order, 

 method, and regularity into domestic nursing. 



Temperature. Excessive heat, long con- 

 tinued, is detrimental to health. It causes in 

 man, enlargement of the liver, jaundice, indi- 

 gestion, diarrhoea, dysentery, dropsy, etc., 

 and hastens the fatal termination of a majority 

 of human maladies. In geese it causes the 

 enlarged liver, employed in making the cele- 

 brated pate de foie gras. 



Excessive cold, long continued, is less prej- 

 udicial than excessive heat, except to the old 

 and feeble. 



Exposure of a limited portion of the body to 

 cold disturbs the equilibrium of both the nerv- 

 ous and vascular systems, causing local con- 

 gestions, or "colds." 



" If the wind strikes you through a hole, 

 Go count your beads and mind your soul." 



Old Proverb. 



Do not stand long upon the cold ground on 

 a warm spring day. It is equally dangerous 

 to sit upon anything cold on a warm day. 



Keep the head cool and the feefc warm. 



Sudden changes of extreme temperature are 

 not necessarily injurious. If the heat or the 

 cold is applied only for a few minutes, as in 

 certain baths, etc., it often proves invigorating. 



The most perfect examples of physical and 

 mental development are not usually found in 

 regions having the most uniform temperature, 

 but in those which have a considerable range 

 of temperature. 



Exercise in the cold air contracts and 

 strengthens the muscles and toughens the 

 sinews. 



In general, the best temperalur* for health 

 is that in which one cannot be comfortable for 

 any length of time without exercise. With 

 most persons this is a temperature of from 58 

 to 63 Fahrenheit. 



Radiated heat is better than heated columns 

 of air. The sun, and an open fireplace or 

 grate furnish radiated heat. 



Hot air furnaces, with registers opening 

 directly into the rooms, supply only heated 

 columns of air ; which are generally dry and 

 impure. Rooms thus warmed are first and 

 most heated near the ceiling. 



Air heated by red hot, or very hot iron, is 

 rendered in a .great measure unfit for respira- 

 tion. 



Light. Light is essential to the perfect 

 life of most vegetables and of most animals. 



To render a plant brittle and watery, the 

 gardener excludes from it completely the rays 

 of the sun. Etiolation has the same effect 

 upon man and other animals. 



Without light, man becomes scrofulous, 

 rickety, goitrous, consumptive, and dies in a 

 state of premature decrepitude. 



Children reared without light and air are 

 in the animal kingdom what good celery is in 

 the vegetable kingdom, white and succulent ; 

 but they wilt under the slightest touch of frost, 

 and are broken under the slightest pressure. 



Children should not be sent into parks with 

 their faces veiled. Patients on the sunny side 

 of a hospital ward recover the soonest. 



Light gives a bronzed, or "tan " color to 

 the skin ; but where it uproots the lily, it 

 plants the rose. 



Light is one of the most valuable disin- 

 fectants. 



Air and light, are among the best medi- 

 cines known to man. 



