The Arkansas advocate., 1830-05-19
And must this body die!
 This mortal frame deeaYi--
From the Journal of Health

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 From the Journal of Health
 The vefnai equinox is past; spring will, ere long, make its approach. and nature hold her festival. Poets delight to celebrate the advent of gentle spring, the wind-winged emblem of hope, and love, and youth, and gladness. We would not mar such fair picture by ill- timed shading. Let it remain to be en- joyed by all vflio have q taste for natu- ral beauties, and are blest at the same time with the baoyancy of health and constitutional vigor. We would, how ever that it should be temperately en- joyed byeven this descriptionof persons. Our province leads us not to turn away ungraciousiy or ungrateffuily from tbe rich stores of the seasons, which a boun- ttiiflisll ttiiflisl Providence spreads before us, but rather to Prolong the pleasure by tenn perate and discriminating use.
 The sluggish movements and pale shrunk skin, induced by wintry cold, are now succeeded by the light bounding step, carnation tint, and sparkling eye. The tendencies of all animated nature, even to the vegetable creation, are ex- l pansive-parts of the body. before, in . measure, torpid, are now exeited-the senses are more acute, the feelings and intellect more susceptible of varied and energetic display. All the sylnpatInes between organs are now douhly active. The greatchangesoft Temperature, and in the direction and force of the winds at this season, in which one day differs from another as greatly as summer is at variance with winter, are attended by corresponding mutations in the activity of the functions of the living body. The skin, warmed ard excited to perspira- ton in the noon-tide sun, will without due precaution be chilled, and have its pores suddenly closed by the keen, cold air of the evening and night. The hurried breathing and circulation, by the active exercises of a vernal day, are often causesof painful palpitations, pains ln the side and headaches, especially when they coincide with a.sudden ob- struction to precipitation. The sensibi- lities of the digestive organs being in. creased, the full diet of winter, will il persisted in, give rise to fever, and aid ln evolving inflammation of the lungs oI of the liver, or rouse into action latent irritations of the skin. In fine, there is ageneraltendency to perturbationin the vital movements of the animal economy. Every part Is prone to be excited, and to transmit is disturbances to other parts. Is the skin obstructed in it's of ice, it makes the throat, lungs, and musclessuffer--asw we see in sore throats l coughs, pleurises, spitting of blood, anG rheumatism. Let the stomach be over asked, and the complaints of the dys peptic are reaonhled-aushea check
 and sick-headache become his constan
 companions. The person who has sui l tered from intermittent fever during tllt l preceding autumn, is now in danger 0
 q return of the disease. Gout and ap Il poplexy, excessive mental excitemen. 1 and madness itself, not unfrequentl
 mark the vernal equinox. Scrofula little troublesome during the winter
 now breaks out with renewed yiolenc -the glands, or small round bodie
 along the neck, on each side, becom 1 enlarged and painful, and if negIecte they ulcerate. Diseases of the skir whether letter or others, are also trou blesorne at this time, and give their pos sessor most unpleasant notice of tht ! reusing of sensihilities, which bad been
 in a measure, dormant tIlroughthe win : ter.
 This may strike the reader as darl , catalogue-and a most startling aG' ; painful contrast with the highly coloret
 and enchanting accounts of the poets r We hope 1t may are | his attention
 and guide him to profitable musings o ]. the risks to which he is exposed. N
 one can boast his entire immunity fror T danger, and consequent freedom fTor :, the necessity of precautions. These W r shall give with plainness and brevity.-
 They consist nainlyin attention to cloth iing, exercise, aid diet. Nc sudden, CT , for length of time yet to coaae, any