Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-01-31

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much repetition from its pages. At the
same time, some warning remark may be
required to prevent any risk of msconcep-
ton, as it might otherwise be plausibly ar
gued, for example, that there can he no
such relation as alleged between waste
and appetite, because a European, perspir-
ing under tropical sun, incurs great
waste, and yet loses both appetite and d.
gestive power. To render this valid
exception, it must he shown that the Euro
pean is intended by nature TO live in q trop-
ical climate; because, if he is not, his
condition under such an influence must
necessarily be more or less closely allied to
the state of disease, and therefore beyond
the sphere to which alone my remarks are
meant to apply. But even in that instance
there is less contradiction than might be
supposed, for the waste of the system
being chiefly fluid, excites-not appetite,
but its kindred sensation-thirst, to repair
the loss by an unusual demand for refresh.
ing liquids.
So true is it that the Creator has estab.
lished a relation between action and nu-
triton, that when we attempt for any length
Of time 10 combine full and nutritious diet
with systematic inactivity, the arrangement
of health which generally ensues gives
ample proof Of the futility of struggling
against his laws. individuals, indeed, may
be met with, who, from some popularity
Of constitution, suffer less than the gener.
atty of mankind from making the expert.
ment; But even those among them who
escape best, generally owe their safety to
the constant use of medicine, or to natur-
al excess in some ofthc excretory functions,
such as perspiration or the urinary or avine
discharges, by means Of which the system
is relieved much in the same way as by
active exercise. In others, again, the day
Of reckoning IS merely delayed, and there
is habitualy present state Of repletion,
which clogs the bodily functions, and may
lead to sudden dea,h by some acute diease,
when the individual is apparently in the
highest health. am acquainted with sew.
eral individuals Of this description, who,
in the absence Of all bodily exercise, are
accustomed to live very funy,-to cat in
the morning hearty breakfast, with eggs,
fish, or flesh,-a good solid luncheon, with
wine or malt liquor, in the forenoon,-a
most substantial dinner, with dessert and
several glasses of wine, and afterward tea
and wine and water, in the cvening,-and
who nevertheless enjoy tolerably good di.
gestion. But this advantage is gained at
the expense of a very full habit Of body,
and liability to frequent and profuse per.
spirations; and 10 severe attacks of bowel
complaint, endangering life; so that even
they cannot by any means be regarded as
real exceptions 10 the general rule.
1t is, then, no idle whim of the physician
to insist on active exercise rs The best pro.
moter Of appetite and digestion. Exercise
is, in fact, the condition without which exha-
lation and excretion cannot 60 on sufficiently
fast to clear the system of materials pre-
viously taken in; and where no waste is
incurred, no need Of a fresh supply, and
consequently in a healthy state ofthe system
no natural appetite, can exist. 1t is there
fore not less unreasonable than vain for any
one to insist on possessing, ut the same
time, the incompatible enjoyments of lux
urious Incidence and a vigorous appetite,
sound digestion of hearty meal, and gen.
eral health of body; andno one who is aware
Of the relation subsisting between waste
and appetite can fail TO perceive the fact,
and TO wonder at the contrary notion having
ever been entertained.
Among the operative part of the com.
munity we meet with innumerable examples
Of an opposite condition of the system,
where, from excess of labor, greater ex.
penditurc of energy and substance takes
place than what their deficient diet is able
to repair. 1t is true that the disposition is
generally not sufficient to cause that immc.
dia;c wasting which accompanies actual
starvation, but its effects are nevertheless
very palpably manifest in the depressed
buoyancy, early old age, and shorter lives
Of the laboring classes. Few. indeed, OF
those who are habitually subjected to con-
siderable and continued eXertlon survive
their lortv-ti(th or fifticth year. Exhausted
at length by the constant recurrence ofthclr
daily task and imperfect nourlshment, they
die of premature decay long before at
tanning the natural limit of human existence.
In those states of the system, again such,
rs fever, during the continuance of which
most of the secretions are vitiated, and the
stomach itself is weakened, and where food
would consequently be hurtful rather than
advantageous, appetite isscarccly felt, and
loathing often occupies its place. But the
moment that, by the diminu,oa Of the dis.
ease, the secretions and exhalatIons begin
to return to their healthy state and nutrition
is resumed, appetite begins to be again felt,
and by.and-by becomes abundantly vigor.
Gus, in order to restore the system to its
former state. The utmost caution, how