BLOODLESSNESS IN GIRLS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3160, 24 September 1892, Page 5 (Supplement)

BLOODLESSNESS IN GIRLS.

Tup. British Medical Journal quotes some important remarks by a well known Germany physician on the subject of bloodlessness of girls at school. Dr. T. A. Reamy affirms that neglected capes of this class go from bad to worse, and finally die of tubercular consumption. This is an obervation which every experienced physician can confirm from his personal knowledge. Tho whole question of the school life of girls is one eminently demanding- investigation and the application of tho modern principles of hygiene. Reamy considers that the root of the difficulty lies in tho fact that girls at school do not inhale sufficient oxygen ; in other words that they suffer, become delicate, and die from want of frpsh air. By way of remodying this condition of things, he propones that there should be systematic deep inhalation for twenty minutes twice a day in a perfectly pure outside atmosphere. Tho deep inspiration should be carried out with the mouth closed, and under intelligent supervision. It is stated that no other known method of treatment more rapidly improves the hlood. Reamy, however, does not stop here : he insists that the patient shall leave school, give up all study, and spend several hours a day in the open air. He goes further, and orders abundance of beef and milk.