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'"-TALKS ON HEALTH.

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TALKS ON HEALTH. 1. •" Bt A FAMILY DOCTOR. AN OVER-TIRED HEART. Some of you people do not respect youi hearts as you ought. Faintness is the result 'Of fatigue of the heart as well as of th< Muscles of the arms and legs. When you -have done a hard day's shopping, and fainl when you get home, it is your pocr old heart that finds itself too weary to pump the blood up into the brain; and as the brain cannot work unless it has a plentiful supply of good fresh blood it fails to do its duty, and loss 'Of consciousness follows. Perhaps you forget that your heart is really a muscle like the biceps. It works all day and all llIght, and even attends to business on Bank Holidays and Sundays. It beats long before you are born, and goes on beating for a short time after you are dead. It nevei strikes for higher pay it only demands care and good food. o: COUNTING THE BEATS. Men who train for rowing or boxing often train their biceps and calf-muscles, but Qeglect their hearts, and fall out before the race is finished because the heart has not been trained to stand the strain. Try the experiment of counting your pulse for one minute while you are lying down; then sit up and count again. You will find that the heart is beating faster. Then stand up, and again you will find an increase in the number of beats; and if, finally, you run Upstairs and count, you will find the num- ber of beats in a minute may be raised by twenty-fhe per cent. Every exertion you 'Undertake throws more work on tb4? heart. If you try the experiment of walking round the garden briskly, you will, as I have just described, notice a faster' action of the heart when you count the beats with a "Watch in your hand; but try going the same Journey round the garden carrying a heavy bag, and the rate of beating will be much higher than it was when you walked with- out the bag. GIVE IT A CHANCE. I If instead of the heavy bag you were to put on flesh to the tune of a couple of stone, your heart would be the first orgip- in the body to feel the difference. flence when you put on fat, you give your heart more work in two ways; t, you make it work harder because of the heavier weight, and -also you must remember that when you put on fat some of it is deposited on the heart itself, and that, if in large amount, will impede the heart's action. In every heart f h a butcher's shop. you will see some fat, Cnd it dees no harm so long as it is not in Excess. The moral of all this is that you must not allow your weight to increas.e to such enormous proportions as one sees occa- sionally in elderly men and women. It is disrespectful to your hearts. And secondly, when you begin to feel a little faint, it is the voice of your heart asking for a little I rest, and you must sit down or lie down to give it a chance. Cigarettes act as a heart- poison, especially the very cheap kinds. You must not smoke cigarettes until you are twenty-one, and then you must exercise your own discretion. Silly boys who smoke cigarettes in large numbers because they think it looks grand ought to be locked up; their hearts are certain to suffer. o: SPINE INSPECTION. I It would be a good thing if every mother would regularly look at her children's spines to see if they are straight. No child was ever born with a curved spine. All the cripples that you see walking about the streets once had perfectly straight backs, when thev lay on their mother's laps in babyhood. And one day a very small curve appeared, and a month after it was worse, and six months after the curve became quite pronounced, but the mother did not know of it; she was too busy spring cleaning and seeing that the household linen was in good order to bother about spines. Our Crip- ples' Homes are quite full, thanks to the neglect of the mothers. An immense num- ber of hunchbacks might have been rescued from their threatened condition if their cases had been tackled early. o: THE INSPECTION. I Now, then, attend to my instructions. Strip your boy or girl and make him stand before you at the position of attention, heels together, shoulders back, head up, and hands to the side. This position is impor- tant. We can all stand with a curve in our spines, if we go down on one leg, or bend a knee. See that the child is st.anding straight. Then look at the shoulder-blades. Are they at the same height? Does one stick out more than the other? Does" one shoulder seem higher than the other? Look care- fully, and even if you have not the practised eye of a surgeon yon will be able to detect a commencing deformity. When the spine is curved out of its proper shape it slews round the ribs which arc attached to the spine. The spine cannot be twisted without the jribs becoming twisted too. This twisting of the ribs is made manifest by the prominence <of one breast; hence the examination of the spine should also include a careful survey of ihe child from the front. -:0:- MOTHER'S JOB. I An unnatural curvature may occur in a perfectly healthy spine, in 'consequence of -some irregularity in the lower limits. If, for some reason, one leg is shorter than the other, the effect is to ,throw the spine side- ways. Therefore a curved spine is not always a diseased spine, but a spine which has been forced to accommodate itself to an irregu- larity of the lower limbs. If the shortness of the leg be compensated by suitable treat- ment, or by wearing a thick sole, the curve in the spine is rectified. If you are not quite satisfied by your own examination, or if you feel sure you have detected a deformity, take the child at once to a doctor. I am not going to have any more spinal curvatures, and I ,make this appeal especially to the mothers. Poor old Dad has enough to do with other matters. It is mother's job to take care of the children, and it would in- deed be a dreadful thing if one day mother had to confers that she had allowed little Elsie to grow up with a spinal curvature and she never knew it. :o: YOUR TEMPERATURE. t It is astonishing that so long as we are in health our temperature is always the same-- viz., between 08 and 99 degrees Fahrenheit. That is why the. doctor takes your tempera- ture with a clinical thermometer. Unless rou are ill, -the thermometer ought to re- gister 98 degrees. It does not matter whether it is midsummer or midwinter, it matt-ers not whether you are in the cricket ield making a "century" with the perspira- tion streaming down your face, or whether srou are shivering in an east wind watching 3, football match, your temperature is always the same. The nigger sweltering on the Line and the Eskimo sitting on the North Pole are both of exactly the same temperatuto as registered by the thermometer. One's own feelings are deceptive.' It is well known that in a paroxysm of malaria, when the temperature is mounting up and the patient is quite hot, he will shiver till his teeth chatter so-ain, and he will draw the bed- clothes around him closer and closer to try I And keep warm j

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