Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Mass.) 1828-1830, 1828-09-30
THE HYPOCONDRIA.

The dispeptic ought to run away from,
or determine to combat, the first menace
OF discontinued feeling. Low spirits may
often be successfully resisted, if the at
tempt be commenced sufficiently early.
L will be good says the child, who sees
the rod ready to direct the will into the
way of goodness, and | will be cheerful
ought the dull and dispeptic to say, who
observes above him cloud of hypocon-
driac fancies ready to burst upon his de-
voted head, if he chooses the path which
leads to affective feeling. 1t is easier, l
shall be told, to preach than to practice;
to prescribe than to pursue but of this l
am certain, that before the habit becomes
confirmed of yielding to their influence, a
determined, and would say, conscientious
resolution Of dispensing the coming mist
of vapourish depression, may prove, to
considerable extent, successful and effect
i've: Possunt guia posse videntur. We
would not be paradoxical or extravagant
enough to assert, that for person to be
in health, it is sufficient that he wills it.
But without transgressing the moderation
OF truth, we may venture to give it as our
opinion, that man often indolently bends
under the burden of indisposition, which
spirited effort would, in the first instance
hove shaken from his shoulders. If, up
on the approach of the malady, he had set
his face against it, he would probably have
arrested it in its threatened attack. The
doctrine of irresistibility, in all its extent,
is neither true nor Wholesome doctrine,
and the bypocondriac should reflect, that
in saying to gloom, Henceforth be thou
my god = he not only directs his own des-
tiny, but duplicates others in his fatal
choice.
"Call it madness, call it folly,
Call it whatsoever you may,
There g charm in melancholy.
WOULD NOT, i'll could, be gay.
Melancholy has something in it of
poetical and sentimental, which consti-
tutes great portion of its charms but
stripped of its ornamental accomplish
ments, and laid bare to dissecting view,
it will be found to consist in great mea-
sure of pride, selfishness, and incidence.
l cannot conceive more delightful spec
tacle, than that of an individual whose
constitutional cast is melancholy, warning
against his temperament, and determin-
ing to enter with hilarity into the scenes
and circumstances of social life. In
this case we have all the interest of mel
ancholy, without its objectional parts
DR.. Erwin on Indigestion.
The order of things in the western coun-
try, naturally fosters propensity for
floating life on the water. The inhabi-
tants will ultimately become as famous as
the Chinese for having their habitancy in
boats. In time of high waters at the
mouth of the Ohio, we were on board an
immensely large fiat boat, on which was
" kept town." which had figured in the
papers, as place, that babe fair to rival
the ancient metropolis of the Delta of the
Nile. The tavern, the retail and dram
shops, together with the inhabitants, and
no small number of the very merry custo-
mers, foated on the same bottom. We
have seen large timers establishment
floating down the Mississippi. 1t was a
respectable mandatory; and the articles
were sold wholesale and retail. There
were three apartments and number of
hands. When they had mended all the
tin, and vended all that they could sell at
one place, they foated on to another.
We have heard of large floating black
smiths establishment and of another. in
which it was contemplated to work q trip
hammer. Beside the numerous periogues,
or singular looking Spanish and French