Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1836-11-08

| to it, that had followed any sedentary EN-,
ployment, | shorld have been very great
sufferer from it. Many Of the remedies
usually recommended in such cases were
tried-as blue pill occasionally in small do.
scs, alkaline medicines. frctlons, laxations,
&C., and great attention was paid to diet:
all, however, to little purpose, and with but
temporary relief for the disease went on
from bad 10 worse, till entered on the prac-
ticc of my profession. Ny habits of life
were now completely changed: instead of
spending most of my time within doors, |
was occupied several hours day on horse
back, and had occasion besides 10 walk
a good deal. The effect upon my health
was ssoon perceptibe. My appetite returned
-acidity and fatulency no longer harassed
me-digestion was pertect-my headaches
vanished-and in short the whole train Of
nervous symptoms disappeared as if by en-
chantment, and my health was perfectly
and permanently restored. And all this
was accomplished without a particle of med
icine, or any very special restriction as to
diet-except that | had made it a rule to
eat sparing, and to abstain from few ar
ticles which knew by experience to be par
ticularly indigestible. can now partake
without suffering ofevery article that is usu-
ally put on our tables.
Glanduar distractions and diseases are
very much benefited by exercise. This
is particularly the case with scfofula, and IN
deed the most important remedy for this
complaint is exercise combined with trlc-
tions. The fact that females are more liable
to scrofula than males, is no doubt attrlbuta-
bic to the more active life led by the latter.
Upon this subject, that distinguished sur
geon, Sir Ashley Cooper, remarks" Boys
will take exercise, and thus are less liable to
this complaint. whilst girls are not allowed,
and, if predisposed to it, are almost always
attacked by it."
These principles can also be applied
with strict accuracy to that distressing and
increasing disease, curved spine. 1t rarely
occurs among boys or young men, but Of
late years, and particularly in Europe, has,
become frightfully common with girls. The
profession are generally Of opinion, that, in
a great ma io-ity of cases, this complaint is
caused by deficiency ofexercise--an indeed
this would seem to be obvious from the fact,
that we seldom meet with it among the chill
dren of the poor, and that among the higher
classes of society it occurs much more fire.
queny in girls than boys. DR.. Shaw, in
his work on ''Spinal Distortions" For fifty
Young ladies who become twisted between
the ages of eight and fourteen, there is not
more then one poor girl similarly affected.
And for one hundred young ladies who are
twisted, there is not one young gentleman.
For those who are predsposed to this
deformity, the proper preventive undoubted-
ly is, plenty of exercise in the open air,
nourishing food, and proper attention to
the state OF the alimentary canal. Feeble
and delicate girls should have particular
care taken of them in relation to this point:
every opportunity and inducementto exercise
should be afforded them-and even COM
pulsion should be used Unnecessary to effect
this desirable object.
These distressing cases would, beyond
all doubt, be much more frequently cured
than they are, if this al-powerfdl remedy
was persercringly employed. a iudicious
English physician remarks-"l believe 1t
to be fully ascertained, that regulated exer
else in the open air is the grand means of
recoyery-and | have no doubt it will per-
fectly cure the most frightlul spinal dstor-
tions, even after severe cough. emaclatlon,
and excessive weakness have been induced
w the continuance of the disease" ;"