Hall's Journal of Health Volume 25 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...lungs than when they are inactive. It is not intended that the use of the Spirometer shall take the place of luch exercise but it will be found to be the best substitute for it. SLEEPLESSNESS The use of the Spirometer just before bed-time induces sleep, by drawing the blood from the brain to the lungs thus arresting nervous excitement, and giving rest to the weary and overworked brain. LUNG MEASUREMENT. Any competent physician can soon learn to estimate quite accurately Ihe natural lung capacity of any person he sees: then by finding the actu-jl lung capacity with the Spirometer, he can readily determine how much jf the lung, if any is inactive, or diseased. The Spirometer then, is the most important of all the means employed by physicians for ascertaining the condition of the lungs. o----Price $7.00. When ordered to be sent by mail 50cents extra must be sent to pay postage. Address, E. H. Gibbs, Editor of "Hall's Journal of Health1' New York. HaWt Journal of Health. 4 CONSTIPATION. Kvery physician has noticed the air of unconcern with which hia patients almost always refer to that condition of the system which is certainly laying the foundation of some of the most painful and fatal of diseases. Constipation becomes alarmingly frequent, as people acquire the means of living luxuriously without severe manual labor. It is still more frequent among persons who become Bo through ignorance of the penalties that surely follow, sooner or later, i, want of attention to the regular demands o nature. When fecal matter is retained in the rectum more than twenty-four hours it commences its destructive work, notably in two ways. First, it is absorbed into the system, and acts as a blood poison. Second, by its accumulation and impacting in the lower portion of...