The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1825-08-24
DULL TIMES FOR DOCTORS.

This is the general complaint among
physicians.--There is no prevailing ep-
idemic, and, what is better yet, there
is no prospect of any. We have lately
been on tour through the country, and
have taken particular pains to ascertain
whether there is any thing like pros.
pect of any prevailing disease the pres.
ent season; but there is none. Thus
far, in town and country, there never
has been a more. general period OF
health, in the United States, than since
the commencement of 1925. The fac
ulty say it is distressingIy healthy!
We beg, however, not to be under
stood that the work of death has been
suspended. Oh! no. people are dying
daily, as at former periods, BY nearly
every sort OF i'll but venerable old age.
Men will drink more than is necessary,
notwithstanding the destruction it makes
with their constitutions and women
cannot be fashionable without being
skeNered up in whaIebone. This BUSH
ness of quenching thirs, makes shocking
destruction in The world still it is very
ungenteel not TO conform 10 the fash
ion--so some thousands of new drunk
ards are manufactured yearly, who
might otherwise be the first of useful
citizens.--A medical gentleman has been
proPhesying great mortality, not long
hence, which will be exclusively conGn-
ed to young ladies. The first approach
of this alarming malady may be known
by stentorious breathing, after the slight
est exercise; sudden fainting fits at
church; pale face and nothing at all
like an appetite. The sanative meas
ures to be adopted by those who may
now be suffering from the like embar-
rassments, consists altogether in giving
freedom to the respiratory organs, and
this can only be done by wearing loose
flowing dresses, at the same time their
stomachers are used for heating bath,
by FIVE o'clock in the morning.
How the times have changed within
a few years! There is now nothing
more pleasant, nor more in vogue, than
to be in i'll health--because it sounds
well, and makes people talk; so away
they go to the springs, and put their an
cles out of joint in Waiting, when, in
fact, at home, it required servant to
draw their stockings on. Health and
happiness have been at war ever since
the revolution. If oneis sick, why then
there is leisure to enjoy friends, Visit
Saratoga, Niagara, Mount HoIyoke, and
forty other places. Red cheeks, q
sound stomach, and industry, are poor
Recommendation in a wife-,-they are Sc
masculine; and what is more vulgar, in
any thing like man, than to hear him
positively declare, in the very face anc
eyes of well-bred people, that be nev.
er had the dyspepsia, when it is all the
go! In this age Of refinement, il per,
sons desire TO rise, they must lie in bed
turn noon into midnight; sigh without
pain; take advice, and neither follow
nor pay for it; take footman; take Z
cold every time the wind blows east
take a jaunt and jam somewhere W
wear time away; take few compli
ments; take tea--and that is taking
fine by the forelcck, in eighteen hun
dred and twenty-five.
tits all nonsense TO talk about turnin,
such people from their bad habits; the,
will just as soon submit 10 the operation
Of being turned inside out, as 70 live 50
! Der quiet lives. Dissipation keeps on