Anatomy human

Pink eye (Conjunctivitis), is inflammation of the membrane covering the eye (the conjunctiva). Acute Pink eye frequently occurs with viral respiratory illnesses, such as the common cold or influenza, and may be highly contagious.
More severe attacks are usually caused by bacterial infections.

What causes pink eye?

Pink eye that is not associated with respiratory disorders may be caused by irritants, such as dust, cosmetics, or smoke, or by an allergic reaction to a specific substance, such as pollen or penicillin.
Pink eye may also result from the eye disorder trachoma and from a number of other rare afflictions or conditions.
Suspected pink eye should always be evaluated promptly by a health professional.

Pink eye symptoms

The eye tends to water profusely and the white of the eye is bloodshot or pink. The eye is painful when moved and may be oversensitive to bright light.
Sometimes, there is a discharge of pus from the eyelids.

How to treat pink eye?

A physician usually prescribes an antibiotic drug and other treatments, such as eyedrops.
Prolonged use of drops, however, may aggravate the inflammation.
Pink eye known to be caused by an allergy may be treated with corticosteroid drugs. Dark glasses give protection against bright light, but a patch over the eye may increase the inflammation.
If the eye is painful, a mild painkiller such as acetaminophen gives relief.
It is important not to rub the eye, because this may transmit the conjunctivitis to the other eye. For the same reason, patients with Pink eye must wash their hands often and use separate towels in order to prevent transmission of the disease.

Insulin is a hormone which is produced in the pancreas, by the cells called the islets of Langerhans.

What does insulin do?

Insulin controls the use of glucose, fats, and lipids by the body.
An excess of insulin, sometimes caused by a pancreatic tumor, causes a low level of sugar in the blood (hypoglycemia); and a lack of insulin produces an abnormally high level of sugar in the blood (hyperglycemia), which is a symptom of diabetes mellitus.
Since severe deficiency of insulin can be life-threatening, the natural insulin level in diabetic patients is augmented by insulin injections.

Insulin Production

Insulin is obtained from the pancreases of cattle or it is produced synthetically, using recombinant DNA which does not stimulate the formation of antibodies against insulin, or sensitization, as the animal insulin may do.
Insulin is prepared in various ways to make it act quickly (soluble insulin), or slowly, in combination with zinc and other substances, so that only one or two injections a day are necessary.
The strength of insulin is expressed in units of activity; the dosage is measured in syringes marked off in units.

"Politeness and good breeding are absolutely necessary to adorn any or all other good qualities or talents."--Chesterfield.

Though what we call society is largely vested in women, and womens customs regulate etiquette, men are by no means exempt from the necessity of knowing and practising what we call good manners. A man can have no greater charm than that easy, unstudied, unconscious compliance with social forms which marks what we call "a man of the world"--the man who knows what a good manner requires of him in any situation, and does it quietly and with the grace of habit.
There has been no time in the history of the world when good manners counted for more than at the present. This is true of both men and women. It is so true that in certain fields it is practically impossible to succeed without their aid. The value of a pleasing manner can hardly be overestimated. Such a manner is as far from the self-assurance and presumptuous familiarity which some men assume under the idea that these are impressive, as night is from day.

Value of Courtesy
Courtesy has a commercial value, and exerts no little influence upon a mans success in business. Polite attention and readiness to oblige bring customers again and again, where their lack would send people to rival houses.
We can forgive, in the intellectually great, or in the man of affairs who has done things worth doing, a lack of social training that would not be endured in a man with no such claim. Yet this is not saying that the great man would not command more unqualified admiration were he to practice the social graces instead of ignoring them. The truth is, the fact that we have to overlook the absence of these graces induces a more critical attitude toward his achievements. Great though he be in spite of his lack of courtesy, we feel he would have been greater had he known and practiced the art of gentle manners.

The Manners of the Gentleman
These "gentle-manners," that make the "gentle man" are an indispensable requisite to success in society. They testify to a mans good breeding, to his social affiliations; they "place him." They often bring a man many things that wealth could not.
The rich boor is despised in spite of his money. The poor man may be popular because of his pleasing personality and his fine manner.
Men sometimes profess to despise those refinements that are associated with good manners, saying they detest affectations. But these things are not to be affectations. They should be the outward expression of inward kindness and good-will and unselfishness. The cultivation of good manners is a duty; somebody has said that "the true spirit of good manners is so nearly allied to that of good morals that they seem almost inseparable." John G. Holland says somewhere: "Young men would be thoroughly astonished if they could comprehend at a glance how greatly their personal happiness, popularity, prosperity, and usefulness depend on their manners." Emerson remarked that,--"Manners should bespeak the man, independent of fine clothes. The general does not need a fine coat."

A Matter of Training
It may be that politeness is instinctive with some, but with most men (women also), it is a matter of training and habit, and careful discipline. In process of time courtesy becomes perfectly natural, so gracefully spontaneous it seems to be.
Here is where the mothers work in the early training of her sons comes in. Taught from childhood, by example and precept, the observances that make for good manners, the young man wears them as easily and as unconsciously as he does his clothes.

Politeness an Armor
There is no better armor against rudeness and discourtesy than politeness. The individual is impervious to slights and snubs who can meet them with the courtesy which at once puts the common person in his proper place as the inferior.
A woman is shocked and repelled by disagreeable manners in a man, manifested in discourtesy toward her, by an awkward manner, coarse speech, incivility, neglect of the little attentions she expects of a man and which men of breeding render as a matter of course. A woman is more likely to fall in love with a homely man of pleasing address than with an Adonis so clad in self-complacency that he thinks politeness unnecessary, or one who does not know its forms.


MANNERS AND SOCIAL CUSTOMS FOR OUR GREAT MIDDLE CLASS
AS WELL AS OUR BEST SOCIETY
Correspondence, Cards and Introductions, Dress for Different Occasions, Weddings, Christenings, Funerals, Etc.,
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MOTHERS  REMEDIES
Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada.
By DR. T. J. RITTER
PUBLISHED BY G.H. FOOTE  PUB. CO. DETROIT MICH 1921