The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-08-10
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FROM the Medical lntelligenccr. !
HEALTH OF JULY

1t IS truly wonderful that the general
health of all classes of people has been
SO good the past month, when we take
into consideration the extreme heat of the
atmosphere but it demonstrates the
tCath Of our representations in the health
report of June, in which it was remark
ed that high temperature is not so I'M
favourable to health, az when the wealth.
er is variable. - Although the sun has
long been shining with intense briIian-
cy, and the fields are becoming parched
for the W ant of dews and showers. gen
tie breezes are now beginning 10 spring
up--the lofty forest trees are bowifg in
the air-the clouds are rolling through
the sky, and those who boast of being
weaiherwlse, are prophesying weather
which will produce something like
sickness in the months of autumn.
During the month of July there has
been TO prevailing type Of fever, no par-
ticular affections of the digestive organs,
eitheramong children or adults, and COM
paratively but very few deaths, even in
coping from accidents, the improyident
use of cold water, and the abuse of ar
dent spirits. Such periods of uninter-
rupted health. however, cannot be ex-
pected 10 continue long in country
like this, where winds blow every way
and every where.-As fruits become
plenty, children become victims of dis
eases of the bowels-but not so FREE
quently in consequence of using it 100
literally, as from being permitted TO
indulge their appetites with it when in a
crude state ripe fruit seldom Injuries
any body it was made for man, and a
kind Providence has bestowed if upon
It's at that peculiar season, when, in fact,
it is not ooly necessary, hut when it is
in its greatest perfection ;--and those
who use it freely--if only ripened well
will generally enjoy the best health.
Eastern nations have no such erroneous
notions abont fruit, as have crept into
The pericraniums of our mothers and
nurses; nor is there any evidence of lis
injurious effects on the health OF individ-
uais Of aoy grade, in the w. Indies,
where the inhabitants could not subsist
without it.
Apples, pears, peaches, melons, &c.
should be served upon the table every
day, while they are good, and wheney
-er, 10 our climate, they are no longer suit
able, aod would prove detrimental to
health, by interrupiing the ordinary func-
tons Of the system, nature invariably adj
monishes.us of the danger, not only by
lessening the abundance, but also by the
diseases which are resulting from con-
tinued use of them at improper times
People are governed, in this enlightened
age, by art and arbitrary customs, rather
than by that sage philosophy which re-
suits from reason and experience. Ii is
ridiculous as well as provoking, in the
estimation of those physicians who have
comprehensive view of the structure,
habits, and constitution Of organized be-
ings, and who have examined the ma
chinery of man with microscopic eye,
and studied the diseases 10 which each
portion of his beautiful and complicated
fabric is liable, to hear those grave OBJ
servations on his ails and food, which
have originated in ignorance, and which
have been propagated from generation
to generation, without truth anu with
out Judgment.
Acid drinks and acid fruits, The present
and the ensuing months, are the real san
atives of health, aud no prejudice should
prevent their use. These should not
be denied 10 children, when their appe-
lite Graves and their nature requires
that, which nature ordained for their
consumption.--Eat or be eaten is one Of
the first laws Of animal life ;--eat those
things which were designed for food
but be temperate ard health will be
promoted, strength will be accumulated
and long and comfortable life may rea-
sopably be anticipated.
Pulmonary consumption, that insidious
disease, which is continually sweeping
from existence the fairest flowers oil
earth, those interesting objects of our
care, those solaces of man in veal OF
woe-women and often in the very
morning Of their days, when youth and