Archive for the 'Health' Category

Genetic Criminal Traits 1925

A MACHINE TO DESCRIBE OUR FUTURE CHILDREN
Machines have been designed to determine mechanically for parents what the inherited traits of their children will be. This latest innovation in the field of genetics is announced in the annual report of the Chicago municipal court’s psychopathic division, we are told by Owen D. Scott of the Consolidated [...]

The Secret of Makeup 1927

The Secret of Make-up
MY DISTASTE for dyed hair, however, is only aesthetic. Since my marriage I have completely changed my point of view about dressing up for effect. Before I married I hardly ever used make-up, except when playing. I didn’t care what I looked like. I was the worst-dressed actress in New York [...]

Prediction that Cars will cause Obesity 1923

DO MOTOR CARS MAKE US LAZY?
THERE CAN BE NO QUESTION about the usefulness of automobiles, says a writer in The Medical Review of Reviews (New York), nor about the desire for leisure
which makes up the large number of people who drive, not because they are in a hurry or have to cover long distances, but [...]

Correct use of Condiments 1930

Condiments, Their Use and Abuse
FRANCE IS THE LAND OF THE FLAVOR and the sauce. Few articles of food are there regarded as sufficient unto themselves.
Writers in other lands, jealous, doubtless, of the well-deserved reputation of the French for toothsome cookery, have slyly suggested that this is because the foodstuffs of that land, flavorless in themselves, [...]

Pros and Cons of Getting a Tan 1930

The Good and Evil of Getting Tanned
BRILLIANT sunlight may do harm as well as good, says Dr. W. A. Evans in the Chicago Tribune. It is like any other powerful agent, and the idea that exposure to it is healthful, always and to any extent, is erroneous. He writes:
“I have been giving this matter some [...]

Hot-weather Food 1930

Hot-Weather Food
ADVICE about eating in hot weather is given as below in the London Daily Mail (Continental edition) by Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, English surgeon and president of the New Health Society. He writes:
“If you want to derive the maximum health benefit from the summer weather you must pay particular attention to your diet. With [...]

Magnesium Salt 1930

The Salt of Old Age
A NECESSITY of life is the salt of sodium formed by its combination with chlorin. So well known is this, that when we talk of “salt,” we mean chlorid of sodium, altho there are dozens of other saltsâ€”some medicinal, some actively poisonous.
Now comes a French physician. Prof. Pierre Delbet of the [...]

Antiseptic Advice 1921

HOW GERMS GET USED TO ANTISEPTICS
VARY YOUR ANTISEPTICS; otherwise the disease germs will get used to them. The distinguished French physician and bacteriologist, Charles Richet, has recently laid before the French Academy of Sciences a note on researches made by him, together with Henry Cardot, on acquired characteristics and heredity in microbes. He experimented, among [...]