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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-10-7, Page 7A Fractured Hip. One of the most serious accidents that can befall the aged is a broken hip, by which we mean a fracture of the uppermost portion, or lieclt, of the thigh bene, It is'aleo anaccidentto , which the aged are very liable, owing to certain changes in the shape and consistency of thebone that are incl. - dental to old age, The bones of the aged are more brittle than Those of young persons, berrause the progor- tion of mineral matter in the bone in, creases with age, and the unfriable organic framework of the bones is correspondingly diminished. The bone, therefore, breaks rapidly—just as a pipesttm can be broken with a tap that would have no effect on a green twig of the same sign. All the bones of the old suffer in this way; but the upper extremity of the thigh bone is especially liable to fracture because of its shape. In youth, the neck of the thigh bone leads off fromthe shaft at an obtuse angle, so that the weight of the body is transmitted in an almost direct line to the legs. In the aged, however, it projects more at "a right angle, so that the weight of the body must be supported by only one side of the neck of the bone. That, of course, makes the bone break more easily when it bearsthe shock of a fall.__ Finally, a hip fracture in the aged does not heal well. There is very lit tle vitality in the bone, and it is ex-, ti'emely difficult, and sometimes im- possible, to set such a fracture, for the small, broken -off end down in the cavity of the hip joint eludes every effort to control its movements. For- merly an• old person with a fractured hip was put to bed with splints, and l a weight attached to his leg, and as, the fracture seldom or never healed,' that meant that he was bedridden for the rest of his life. In many cases,1 now, the physician does not try to unite the fragments of bone; . but after the shock and soreness of the. accident have subsided, the patient is! put into a wheel chair, and eventually encouraged to walk about with crutches, the hip being supported with a plaster-of-Paris splint if necessary. In this way the general health is fair- ly well maintained, and although the sufferer remains a cripple, at least he is not bed-ridden.—Youth's Com- panion. Health Notes. A cupful of mint tea taken morning and evening aids digestion and was claimed by our grandmothers to be an infallible rule for giving a fresh and healthy appearance. A strong soap solution will wash ivy poison from the skin; so will alcohol. The sooner the washing is done after exposure, the better. The common plan for treating the eruption is to keep it covered with cloths moisten- ed with a solution of sugar of lead. e• HANDLING OS EXPLOSIVES. Never, From First to Last, Let Light Come Near Powder. So general is the interest at the present time in the question of ex- plosives that some of the precautions necessary to be taken in handling them may be noted. Only implements of wood, brass, or copper shall be used in opening cases containing explosives; never thaw powder near a fire of any kind, or in hot water or steam, always thaw through some medium of radiation, never by direct heat or contact; never use frozen or chilled powder; never put caps and fuse in a powder bag; never put unused or scraps of powder in boot -legs or on shelves of rock; never keep explosives in a damp place before loading; never force powder into a tight or caving hole; never lace a fuse through a stick of powder, this may crack the fuse and make a mis- fire or a burnt hole; all primers must be punched with a wooden pin and the cap inserted only in the end, and made fast by tying with string; never place a primer anywhere but, on top of the last stick in the hole; never blast un- til sure that every entrance to the face being blasted is guarded; never light a fuse until the charge has been thor- oughly tamped; tamping may prevent a premature explosion; never, from first to last, let light come near pow- der; be sure a light is not hanging directly over powder or caps; never get careless with powder; it manu- factured to explode under certain con- - tlitions, and if it gets- any chance at all it will do exactly what it was made for; keep it away from shook, sudden changes of temperature, fire, etc. qe In the time of the Napoleonic Wars,. Heligoland was used es a dein-ground for British soldiers. The Romans coated their oysters with honey, and kept them until they were slightly putrid. To ask the wife of an. Indian prince to a dance would be the most outrage - 01.12 insult conceivable. The forge over which Alfred I{rupp fitet obtained control at Essen, in 1848, was manned by but three smiths. No doubt life would' be one grand, sweet, song ifwe could only endure dn+J own trouiil8s as easily as we cava endure the troubles of others. AN OPEN LETTER From a Well Known Metitodiet Clergylman of Interest to All. Who Are Sick. Ono of the best known ministers in the Hamilton Conference ie the Bev, Chas. E. Stafford, of Elora, Ont„ who freely admits that he owes his present good health to Dr, Williams' Pink Pills. Mr. Stafford writes as follows: "Some years ago I was severely af- flicted for a period of nearly four Months. The leading physician in the town in which I was then stationed diagnosed my case as one of complete nervous prostration, brought on • by over -work and which superinduced intercostal neuralgia, and muscular rheumatism, from which I suffered the most excruciating pain night and day for weeks. So weak and helpless did I become that myattendants had to handle me like an infant, raising me up and laying me down with the greatest care, so intense were my suf- ferings. Acting on theadvice of my doctor, and taking his medicine, I did not seem to improve. One afternoon, whilesuffering great pain, the editor of the paper published in the town, and who was a member of the church of which I was then pastor, urged me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I was sceptical as to the medicinal qualities ,of all proprietary medicines, but on the strongrecommendation of the editor, who had great faith in the medicine, I decided to try them. To my great surprise and supreme de- light, I soon found that the Pills were giving me relief, and after I had taken seven boxes I was fully re- stored to health. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, under God, having made me a new man. 'Ever since I have been better and stronger physically than I had been for a number of years. Three years ago, after an active ministry of forty-six years, I asked the Hamilton Conference 'of the Methodist Church to grant me super- annuation relation, which' it did, but for more than two years I have been supplying a charge which neces- sitates a drive of twenty miles every Sabbath. To -day I am strong and hearty, without an ache or pain, and for my present physical condition I am indebted to Dr,. Williams' Pink Pills, and can most heartily recom- mend them to the afflicted." Rotund. An elderly woman who was ex- tremely stout was endeavoring to en- ter a street car when the conductor, noticing her difficulty, said to her: "Try sideways, madame; try side- ways." The woman looked up breathlessly and said: "Why bless ye, I ain't go no side- ways." At each respiration an adult inhales one pint of air. PRECEDENTS FOR WARFARE BY GAS GERMAN PROFESSOR DIGS EACH INTO TAB PAST, Idea of Using Chemicals to Destroy Enemy Is Almost as Old. as War. In the following article, translated from a German' paper, a German pro- fessor, Dr, Albert Neuburger, traces the history of past attempts to use poison -gas in war. Quietly ignoring the moral aepect of the questionands the fact that modern nations,includ= I ing Germany, had pledged themselves to refrain from such methods, he treats them, under color of a learned disquisition, as though on a par with recognized military uses of chemistry, thus tacitly attempting to justify the revival of former barbarities. That he is conscious of the moral guilt of this revival is shown by his efforts to shift the responsibility on the French. Dr. Neuburger writes as follows: "The idea of destroying the enemy by chemical substances is almost as ancient as warfare itself. At first, of course, its mode of application was of a concomitant feature of the chemi- cal process which we call "oxidation: It indicates to us that a substance is combining with the oxygen of the at- mosphere. Hence the use of any in- cendiary medium is a kind of 'chemi- cal attack.' In the earliest ages, peo- ple meditated how to destroy the ene- ray's dwelling -places or fortifications by fire caused from a distance. It is true that Homer was not acquainted with this mode of chemical attack from a distance, but it made its ap- pearance as early as in the Fifth Cen- tury before Christ. Back in 360 B.C. "About 860 B.C., Aneas described fire -compositions formed of various chemical substances to make them easily ignitable and hard to extin- guish. They consisted of pitch, sul- phur, tow, incense, and resinous wood -chips. The compound was put into pots, which were thrown, burn- ing, from besieged towns upon the 'tortoise' or shelter under which the besiegers tried to approach the walls. Later on, incendiary arrows came in- to use, being shot from a distance against the wooden structures of the opponent in order to set them on fire. The incendiary arrows were subse- quently enlarged, so that they were even shot from catapults. These in- cendiary arrows were called, in the Roman Army, 'falaricae.' They were provided, in water, generated heat sufficient to ignite the petroleum, which, on its part, developed sub- stance. But the light hydrocarburets disengaged from the evaporating pe- troleum, more especially benzine, FOR This handsome Fur Style Book icon- taining 34 pages of illustrations) of beautiful FURS and FUR GARMENTS for men. women and children—will be gladly nailed free for the asking -- affording you an opportunity to take advantage ofourpolicy of selling furs From Trapper to Wearer. 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Large syringes were, after the style of fire -engines, the mouths having the shape of dragons and other monsters with wide-open jaws. 'From these orifices the reek fire or other burning liquids, especially petroleum, was sGquirted towards the enemy, who fled, terrified and stupefied by the poisonous gases, Greek fire was still in use at the time of the Crusades, in the thirteenth century after Christ,I when it Gas employed by the Sara- cens against the Christians with the i aid of the devices just described, sub sequently, its secret was lost, but the idea still survives. A New Basis. "It appears that it was not until , the present war that German chemi- cal science succeeded in creating a� new and better basis for chemical at- tacks. Again and again the reports 1 of the French General Staff have) stated that the Germans poured burn- ing liquid over the trenches. But the French themselves also make chemi- cal attacks. The report of the Great. Headquarters of Tune 7, 1915, states that they poured a readily inflamma- ble liquid upon the German trenches, but nevertheless failed to penetrate into our positions. 'The enemy fled back to their own trenches with heavy losses!' But a chemical attack may not only be carried out by means of burning substances, but also by asphyxiating gases. We know, in fact, from the reports as to Greek fire—as given, for instance, by Vegetius„ and as handed down to use from the reports on the Crusades -that the sulphur mixed with it filled the atmosphere with a gas having a:highly asphyxiat- ing effect and irritating in nature, in- ducing coughing. But they were not always in a position to employ sul- phur, and therefore tried to act by other means on the respiratory organs and olfactory nerves. Some of these substances, especially sal s buret of carbon, were employed in the Ameri- can Civil War, but they did not prove very effective. When chemists learn- ed, subsequently, how to liquefy gas- es, new possibilities of chemical at- tack were presented. Liquid sulphur- ous acid and liquefied chlorine, on be- ing allowed to volatize, disengage enormous volumes of vapor. The French complain of the chlorine va- pors which have been used by the Ger- mans. But it established by the re- ports of the German headquarters that they (the French) themselves had previously employed asphyxiating gases. The English now assert that they have invented masks which are a, protection against these vapors, and, as reported in the London Daily Mail, such protective masks are sold in the streets of London in large quantities. These are to be carried by the Lon- doners in their pockets, to be put on immediately a German Zeppelin ap- proaches, in order to render ineffec- tive the 'chemical attack' likely to be made by the latter, as ^lleged, by gas bombs. Thus, in this instance, also `chemical attack,' in its latest form, has led to measures of defenee, and time only can tell whether these are really effective," e' If Your Food Ferments or Disagrees Just Read This would form the habit of laying aside something, however small, every week, and lending it to their country when their country, needs it. It would be a great thing for the State; it would also be a great and enduring advantage to the individuals who ac- quire that habit, But I am not going Thousands of broken-down, des- to dwell upon the advantages of thrift Pendent dyspeptics have recently to the working classes. I believe in been given back their health. A month thrift, but i do not much value pre. ago these despairing folks would have cept, There is no task which would scorned the suggestion that anything be more uncongenial to me or ' one I could bele them. Their terrible eon-, 'u clition was chronic, and appeared be should be less willing tothan fora man who is eomparativel yond the reach of medicine. 'Thesey happy people don't proclaim it was a well off to preach the virtues of cepa miracle that endowed them with ,a omy to the poor. If that lesson is to new lease of life, it was simply their be driven home it must not be by any common sense in selecting a tried j precept but by example, and there is and proven medicine, one specially room for it. At a time like this, adopted to their particular ailment. when our minds are at all time filled All these splendid cures were 'effect- by the thought of what is being suf- ed'by Dr. Hamilton's Pills which be. feted and endured by those who aro Vend all question has a strange fig , hting for usluxury of all kinds is power to restore a weak or ailing, „ stomach. 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Does music weaken metallic or other bridges ? This question recent- ly asked of a well-known bridge builder brought this reply: "Measured vibrations are more try- ing to any. kind of bridges, and par- se g uniforms are made is dyed with Ger- man dye, says London Answers. English cloth -makers are trying to would not strain a bridge enough to injure it inaterially, but a regiment of troops keeping step to music when crossing a suspension bridge would subject it to a very severe strain. Consequently, it is customary to stop the music before troops reach the bridges, and let the men break step, and march more or less irregularly. "The reason for all this is obvious. The structure naturally will suffer least strain when at rest. When in remedy this state of affairs, but the uniform motion the bridge acquires a sus - secrets of dye -making are not to be momentum equal to its entire in a moment. The basisbpended weight multiplied by the velo- discoveredof the true blue dye—indigo—is at city of the motion. It is manifest of that, in the case of a heavy structure, hand for all to use, but apparently a uniform downward vibration, be it. something more than indigo is need- ever so small,would developa mo - ed in order that the cloth treated shall be dyed evenly and permanently. mentum kf g sty aiton. in the direction - of a breaking strain. The same dis- turbing forces acting irregularly, so as to counteract one another, would be far less trying to the structure. d' Absolutely Painless No cutting, no pias. tem or pads to press the sore spot. Putnam's Extractor makes the corn go without pain, Takes out the sting over -night. Never fails —leaves no scar. Get a 25e. bottle ot, Putnam's Corn Extractor to -day. 3 It used to be compulsory in Eng- land that the dead should be buried in woollen shrouds. This law was introduced in order to encourage the manufacture of woollen cloth within the kingdom. • Minard's Liniment Ceres Burns, Eto With an inferior dye you merely pro- duce a "spotty" cloth, of no commer- cial value. So great is the scarcity of the right dye, that it is said there will be prac- tically no blue serge by the autumn, except in the warehouses of tailors who have had the foresight to buy in advance of their needs. Already the price is up about fifty per cent. When indigo was first introduced into Europe no one would have it. The Germans themselves said that it was the "devil's dye," and called it "per- nicious, corrupt, and corrosive." Both the English and French authorities forbade people to use it. In England the prejudice against the new dye was so keen that commissioners were appointed to go round to all places where it was likely to be found and destroy it. A SCOTSMAN'S AWFUL FATE. An Instance of the Refinement of Ger- man Barbarism. On the great silent service of the British Army Medical and Red Cross work among the wounded heroes there is a fine article by the special corre- spondent of the London Morning Post. The following is an excerpt from it: "Then there was the little Scotsman. I saw him on his stretcher. This was back in the days of the Aisne. He and some dozen comrades had got cut off. They barricaded themselves in an old farm and doggedly held out to the last. When their last cartridge was spent the Germans broke into the place, and despite a homeric hand-to- hand fight in the interior of the farm, crushed out the little band by weight ' of numbers. "The boy was bayonetted all over and as a refinement of barbarism the Germans had his eyes put out. Yet, he still lived, how or why, or by what law of nature, the doctors confessed they did not know. When I saw him he had been made as comfortable as ' possible, but there was no hope. He was still able to tell his story, and asked in broad Doric: `Gie's a cigar- ette.' But almost with the first savor of the smoke his heart ceased to beat." His Wedding Suit. One of the largest ready-made clothing houses in London received not long ago from the country a let- ter, the substance of which was, "What is the proper dress for a groom in the afternoon?" The clerk who opened the letter naturally re- feired the inquiry to the livery de- partment: The head of that branch, in turn, dictated a brief reply, some- thing like this: "Bottle -green oat, fawn -colored trousers, with top boots; silk hat, with cockade, Our prices are as fol- lows, etc," A week elapsed, and the big store received a plaintiff little note: "I always knew it was expensive to get married, but can't you suggest something a little less elaborate?" 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