Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1836-03-31

recommended. Although the quantity was
increased from time to time. they did not pro-
duce the effect desired. ] became alarmed
at the consequences, not knowing where it
would end. These not producing sleep.
was then advised to have recourse TO lauda-
mum. ! began with ten drops, yet found
was obliged TO increase my dose three drops
every third night, until it got TO one hundred
and eighty drops; left off at that quantity.
In addition to my nervous attacks q appre-
hend in consequence Of my generous and
high manner ofliying) became bilious, rhcu-
matte, and gouty; | frequently had very bad
colds and sore throat: and can only describe
the situation was brought into, by saying
went about day by day frightened for fear of
being frightened dreadful situation indeed
to be living in. made visi, to n medical
friend of mine in Hampshire, where ! spent
some time. This afforded him an opportuni-
ty of observing the state of my health, and
the effect which my manner Of living had on
my constitution; and before quilted his house
he advised inc to make a general change in
my manner of living, to abandon my beef
steak, to abandon the use Of oil formented
liquors, and use animal food but very sparing-
lly. At first it appeared to me rs if human
nature could hardly be willing to submit to
my friends prescription, for my physician in
OF ale in the morning, saying my hypochon-
driacal habit required it, At last [ called
upon him for his advice, in as debilitated state
Of body, | think, as well could be to walk
about. HIS advice to Inc was, to procure
some of the oldest Madeira wine that could
be got, and to take bottle in as short time
as possible. friend Of mine provided me
some, which he told me was twenty years
old believe il is best thus to go into the
details of what | suffered. | took the bottle
OF wine between the hours OF eight and ten
at night, and it produced very little more eff
fect, such was my state of debility, than il
had taken so much water: but feeling salts
fed Of the sincerity of my friend, who had
enforced to INC the necessity Of general
change, made up my mind to be willing to
seek for help from Almighty God, that l
might give 1t fair trial, satisfied rs was,
that nothing short of his help could enable
Inc to endure the conflict must undergo
When returned to my own home, favoured
as believe | was, with that help that would
bear me up in making the attempt, I pro-
ceeded all at once, for found tamperng with
these things would not do; and gave up my
laudanum, fermented liquors of every kind
whatsoever, and my meat breakfast. My
health began gradually to improve, although
] felt some of the effects of the old complaint
in my stomach after had taken my dinner
meal, ! therefore confined myself wholly to
vegetable diet and my health has gradually |
improved from that time to the present.; so
that am able to say, to the praise of Him
who enabled me to make the sacrifice of these
things, that am stronger now, in my eighth
eth year, than was fifty years ago, when in
the habit Of taking animal food, wine, strong
malt liquor, and spirits and water; and nay
bilious, my rheumatic, and my gouty com
plants, ] think may say, are no more: (.4p-
plause;) nor have |, since this change, ever
had an attack ofthat most dreadful Of all NAL h
aides, hypochondria. l call it most dreadful,
from what have felt of it. 1t exceeds de-
rangencnt, because when arrangement takes
place, the mind Is gone. find, from contin-
ued experience lit being thirty years since |
ate fish, flesh, or fowl, or took fermcnted liq-
uor of any kind whatsoevcr,) find abstinence
to be the best medicine; | don't meddle with
fcrmonted liquors Of any kind, even Us medi-
cine. find am capable of doing better
without them than when was in the daily
use of them.
1t is an opinion that it il necessary to take
ardent spirits when people are travelling, to
defend them from cold. Now, will mention
two striking instances OF my experience to
the contrary. Having to travel from Copen-
hagen, in Denmark, to Christiana, in Norway,
eleven days journey before me, in carts that
would have no covering over them, in the
twelfth month, (tlat is December,) when the
frost was very severe, my friends told me /
must have spirits. We sometimes started at
four in the morning, and travelled till ten at
night, at that season of the year, fearing the
falls ofsnow might have a tcnde ncy to impede
our Journey, and l never took any thing
stronger than coffee, while the man whom
hired to take charge of me was taking his
spirits, and seemed as if he could hot do with
out them have reason, however, to believe
suffered less from cold than he did spent
the greater part of the winter in Petersburgh,
and travelled OH sedges, wi:hou. having re-
course to any thing stronger than coffee. III
do not say my mode OF living would do for
all constitutions; but | am sure that if persons
suit great many, and be the means of pro-
curing and preserving their health better that
living in more generous way. H
When tn nix of my friend who but me on Il
this mode OF living, am satisfied Of this, that
he did more towards my comfort here, and
towards my eideavouring to seek after bet
ter inheritance in the world to come. than it'll
he had given me ten thousand sovereigns 1t
Is probable that such present would have n
promoted an increase Of indulgence in which
J was living, and would have been almost
sure to increase that state of disease which \
had from time to time been labouring under.
And another way in which wus favoured to
experience help, in my willingness to abandon
all these things, arose from the effect nv ab.
stincnce has had on my natural temper. NV
natural disposition is very irritable, and was
not helped IN my nervous complaint, irrita-
bllity being very much attached to such COM
plants. ] am persuaded that ardent spirits,