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• ' LITERATURE. •
Ed opera prriCust tognovert. Hum.
FACTS ANT) OBSERVATI )NS RESPECTI,W; THE illto
VAPOUR-BATH, &c. Vic.
8, RALPit ihI.DGM,ROUGH, 14. D.
autelitdrd j
The advice Dr. Darwin gave to one of his patient#,
applies best, perhaps, to the rnajr.o•ity of cases.—
' e, Drink no malt liquor," says that able physician,
"on any account. Let yoor beverage at dinner
consist of two glasses of wine diluted with three lia:f
pints of water. On no account drink any more
wine or spirituous liquors in the course of the day ;
but if you want more liquid, take cream and water,
or milk and water, or lemonade, with tea, coffee,
chocolate. Use the warm bath twice a week, for
half an hour before going to bed, at the dere.: of
heat most grateful to your sensations. Eat meat
constantly at dinner, and with it any kind of tender
vegetables you please. Keep the body open by
two evacutions daily, if possible, withoht medicine ;
if not, take the site of a nutmeg of lenitive eleduary
occasionally, or five grains of rlinharb every night.
Use no violent exercise which may subjea -yourself
to sudden changes from heat to cold : but as much
moderate.exercise as may be, without being fatigued
or starved with cold. Take SOllle. sapper 'every
night ;.a.sinall quantity of animal food is preferred ;
but if your palate refuses this, take vegetable food,
as fruit-pie, or milk : something should. ee eaten, as
-it might be injuriousto fast too, long.*
1)r. Cadogan has laid dowo some simple and ju-
dicious rules respeiing regimen and-management,
its a -treatise .on this disease, which might be con-
sulted with ads- intage by those I:shoaling under it.
Spirituous and fermented-liquors, and tati7.,ue Gt.
body or mind, ought equally to be avoided. loaig;
faating,t aighteastr.ching, and above all, the Apr's:s-
ing passions:74re extremely prejudicial. It :s mare
•from attention to those circumstances, and to judi-
cious management with regard to them, than to any
omedicine either regularly prescribed or empyrically
'recommended, that a cure is to he looked for ; and
notwithstandiag the boasted powers of medicine and
nostrums, I am of opinion that little is to be done
for the cure of this disease through the medium of the
stomach, except by ah. uniform and gradual dimi-
nution of the stimuli ;* and finally, a total abstinence
from spirituous and fermented liquors. Neverthe-
less, should the stomach or head be attacked,. or
threatened with an attack, during the progress of
cure, cordials and stimulants'are then not only ad-
missible, but ought to be administered with some
degree of freedom. Madeira wine, with this dou-
ble intention, is doubtless among the best. To ob-
viate costiveness, under these circumstances, no-
thing less warm than the tinctures of rhubarb or
senna ought to be administered. That degree of
excitement which the languid state of the system re-
quires, ought to beduly supplied by every possible
means. 'l he application of heat is certainly among
the most powerful of these, and the best mode of
making it, that already alluded to ; while the remo-
val of the atmospheric pressure from the extremities,
seems to have a considerable effea in determining
the affeaion to them. The causes and cure of this
disease, to a certain extent, are the same, and differ
only in the proportions and manner in which they
are applied. This seeming paradox is well expressed
by a Roman poet

" Balite; Vina, Venn; consumunt corpora nowt,
" Seel Vitaim faziunt Mama, Vioa, Venus.".

MARTIAL.

Thus it seems, that while debauchery and inarai-
vity are the sources from whence the disease springs,
temperance and aaivity never fail to prevent, and
seldom to cure it, even after repeated. attacks. Life
is no longer desirable than while it can be en-
joyed with satisfaaion and comfort. The first
rule towards acquiring this, is to avoid excess in eat-
ing, drinking, and mental exertion ; to cultivate
whatever promotes good humour, a cheerful disposi-
tion, and an equal flow of spirits. Regularity of
hours, early rising, a due proportirn of sUep, pure
air, whOteserne food, warm clothing', and moderue
erercise,ire of essential importance, ut to exped
a radical cure of the gout without regard to these;
or while the same plan, which gave rise to it, is pur-
sued, would be as ridiculous as if it person who had
been cured of a leg broken by jumping down a pm-
eipiceohould expea that his having been cured of it
once, should ensure him against the like accidef:t
in future, though he should continue to tun the
same risk.

*, Darwin's Zoonatnia, Class iv. 1, 2. Vol. ii. p. 457.

t The bad ,aeAs of fasting too rong, a •-uitortt vayl-tzva.
lent among mei, of n,...ne10s in thitginetro. o i 4, ninq ha•? 2
frequer.tly notices 'ay pra titian its. It is out enosaal Fn such
persons to fait from hreukfatt igetteraliy nothil,,„" more thin a.
little tett- and t itlat-er,ornioh is pot off till attar h,ti
of h.isineta. result i 4, that the stomach, hs
inanition, is uttasle praqur;y to digsst a piewif at dian6r, and
the strung I quart g -neraliy r.i•T fad. consequence
s, d.utri.ness, or iU.dimes sii:ep, a poverful nt tit of induzinq
a!I the diatii.o. delteostlesit rorde.l I am an adv.:-
cate for the sab.tautiA Ine.rkf ustr of the Eremrh and 1 is 4 ; being
thoroughly convi.eced of the gfeat importance of keeping ky
an tit:jaunt eguatiale state of ex.:iteavnt, tavva:d. the ettislinnt.
g:nd health.
t " Wine, women, warmth against our lives eontbme
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