The Arkansas advocate., 1832-07-25

trifling circumstances which at other tines would require nc attention. The system is in the condition of q delicate balance, theequilibsiHm of which is dis turbed by the weight of feather.
 The Montreal physicians saw tieif importance, and very jodlclously lnsist- ed on their strict regulation. Those here who have escaped the maEady pro- babh owe 1t to the command they exer-I cised over the existing causes. Excess 1 Iofevery description has sbeenfollowed by almoet certain death. The least irregu i Efarity in diet or drink, whether in qHah-i lty or quantity, too severe or Protraeted exercise, bodily or mental, or exposure to hot sun; &c. have been rarely unattended with injurious or fatal con sequences. Those who have presumed on tie vigor of their constitution, or yielded in the slightest to an unhallow- ed appetite, have generally paid the for feit of their lives. 0nthe contrary, those whose constitution had not been previ- ously impaired by intemperance of any specie, whose habits, during the epide- mic, were sober and regular. whose bo- dies were not facilitated by too potraet- ed exertion, whose minds were uHdis- turbed by apprehension, escapedalmost 10 man.
 l Cholera has stood up here, as if has done every where, the advocate of tenn fperanec. IL has pleaded most cIo- quently, and with tremendous etieet.- The disease has reached oat the haunt of the drankard and has seldom left il without bearing away it's victim. Even moderate drinkers have been but q lit- tie better of. Ardent spirits in any shape and in all quantities have been highly detrimental. Some temperate men resorted to it during the prevalence of the malady, as q preventive, or 10 remove the feeling of uheasiress about the stomach, or for the purpose ol drowning their apprchcnsionsy but they did it at theirperii. Itis believed nev- CT 10 have done good, but nearly al- ways injury. ike slight indigestion which was so eohHony was best rehey- ed by regulating the kind and quantity of food, and by great moderation in the use of the ordinary drinks.
 The disastrous eflecisof that tampering with medicine which IS go prevalent during the favaees of an epidemic, was ] here witnessed on an extensive seale.- This evil was of saeh serious taagni- tude, that an injunction was laid on ,vl, h., e,,r;5- ,,,7, = e,I1 Ir.e,. ., the order of physician. It was q com mon thing in the commencement of the sickness. for persons of health to take vomits, purges, &e., as preventiYes.-
 The consequences were always fatal.- It was truly considered that a man who lis we'll cannot be made better by me, dieine, but on the contrary. is sure to receive detriment. In almost every instance where severe medicines were taken for the symptoms of pfedispesi- ton, an attack followed. The system was thus, as if were, thrown of it's balance, and of course put into tbe very situation in which if is most SIS. 1 ceptibhe to an attack. Let the wares of the apothecary be reserved for the hour of decided sickness. Then fl adapted to the case they cannot be too promptly used.
 Those emotions which agitate deep- Y and deubly the mind. have at all times avery prejudicial effect upon the heafth; but when there is a strong pre- disposition 10 disease, and during the raging of a sweeping epidemic, they arc productive of the worst consequent ees. That fearful pes Hence which is now passing over Montreal, has pro- duced degree ofagitation Tn the minds of the people, winch las probably been never before here. The stoutest hearts were unable to resist, but were over whelmed in the torrent. Numerous cases of sickness and naaRy deaths. were the consequence of this high state oi excitement. It is impossible to tell how many instances q predsposition which mightnever have resulted in any l thing serious, has been lsindled into a blaze from causes purely mental; but donbtfess, this has been the fact in a vast number. It has often been said of Cholera that as many die of fear as the disease. Though this may not De lit- orally true, yet if may be truly said that hundreds die of cholera excited by fear. It's operation is sometimes indirect, he'ghtening susceptibility, and laying the grounds of strong predisposition, or direct acting upon previous pre- disposition and proving tile immediate {, cause of an attack of the reigning ma