. Annals of hygiene. h peasant works every day anddanceB half the night, yet eats only hisonion, black bread, and Smyrna porter eats only a littlefruit and some olives. He eats no beef,pork, or mutton, yet he walks off withhis 800 pounds. The coolie, fed onrice, is more active and can enduremore than the negro fed on fat heavy work of the world is notdone by the men who eat the greatestquantity. The fastest and longestwinded horse is not the biggest in diet seems to be the pre-requisite for endurance. THE ANNALS OF HYGIENE. 381 IKetes and (Comments. ONE
. Annals of hygiene. h peasant works every day anddanceB half the night, yet eats only hisonion, black bread, and Smyrna porter eats only a littlefruit and some olives. He eats no beef,pork, or mutton, yet he walks off withhis 800 pounds. The coolie, fed onrice, is more active and can enduremore than the negro fed on fat heavy work of the world is notdone by the men who eat the greatestquantity. The fastest and longestwinded horse is not the biggest in diet seems to be the pre-requisite for endurance. THE ANNALS OF HYGIENE. 381 IKetes and (Comments. ONE OF THE DANGERS OFCHILD-BIRTH. The woman in bed in this picture appetite was poor and she looked paleand languid. After this condition ofaffairs had gone on for some time, afriend, with a hygienic turn of mind,suggested that something might bewrong with the drains. An examina-tion revealed what our drawing illus-trates. The plumber had endeavoredto accomplish the impossible feat ofmaking sewage flow against gravity ;. had a rich husband. The first heir wasabout to arrive and a most experiencednurse was engaged. Everything wentwell, so far as the labor was concerned,but the woman failed to recoverpromptly. She was not exactly sick,neither was she well. She would wakein the morning with a headache, her in addition to which there was a breakat the junction of the soil and drainpipes. The ground under the housewas saturated with sewage, and thepoor woman, when in a peculiarlysusceptible condition, was obliged tobreathe this foul atmosphere. Theremedy is obvious. 382 THE ANNALS OF HYGIENE. AN ERROR HALF CORRECTED. The gentleman, when informed of theerror in his drainage (as depicted inour last illustration) at once set aboutto remedy it. He had the point of junc-tion of the soil and drain pipes madesecure and he had the proper fall givento his drain pipe. But, the plumberlaid the pipes with the flanges downhill, when they should have been justthe reverse. Moral—Do not trustblindly
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