Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-10-17
From the .NeaO- England Farmer.
PUBLIC HEALTH.


Young people, young men and youDg{
women, is much less perfect than former
ly; they are more feeble; there prevails
a general debility; they are more subject
to disease and there are more deaths
among the young than formerly; and es-
pecially the capacity for labor is greatly
reduced The younger part of The COM
munity are not only less disposed, but
much less able for physical exertion than
| formerly We do not state this as de-
termined fact; bat as a strong, and, to
| considerable extent, general impression.
Others can Judge as we'll as ourselves
how far ii is confined by their own obser-
vation For ourselves we believe the fact
and that in muscular energy, activity, and
power the race is degenerating. We are
aware that it is fact of rather difficult
proof; and that the judgment may be fair
I Iy made up it would require such vari-
ETY. Of statistical returns as are not easily i
obtained. But we not only have come to
the melancholy conviction of the fact in !
the case bu; we think we see many rea-
sons, why such a result should be certain
lily expected. What these reasons are we
may do it hereafter if opportunity should
admit and if the discussion be likely to
prove useful. From the number of pa
tent nostrums, the advertisements of which
crowd the columns of our newspapers,
, there would seem to be no necessity that
mankind should ever be sick, much less
; that they should ever die. 1t may be
that this wholesale quackery is one of the
= principal reasons of the evil. which we
] deplore. We have nothing farther how
2 ever to add on this subject than to remark
that there exists an intimate and inviola-
= bic sympathy between the mind and the
body; that any general decline of the lat
ter must be followed by corresponding
imbeclity ofthe former; that considering
the subject in general view, intellectual
: health and energy must essentially de-
pend on physical health and energy; and
that any attempt to purchase the former
at the sacrifice of the latter is commonly
e idle and vain and in cases of the most
G brilliant success is but miserable bar
'r gain. H. G.
AN IMPORTANT The
Teeth.-Our friend WaIdie notices dis
" covery Of no little importance to such as
u are troubled with bad teeth. He says
y "Some time since, DR.. Caldwell, now a
I, practising dentist at No. SO South Sixth
ID street, had favorite horse which had be-
at come incapable of eating his oats, and on
OF investigation a ca,carious tooth indicated
II II the difficulty to result probably from tooth
III ache. Extraction was the remedy o
&C. course the poor horse was tripped W
K by tying his feet together as custom pre-
r. r. scrbes-his gum was lanced as we poo
IL humanists have too often witnessed, and {
Is pair Of pincers were applied, as we have
~ also experienced even mallet and CHS
~ ell failed of their effect The tooth was in
u tractable: no effort could Withdraw it from
10 its socket. The gum tumefed, and, or
:, examining it carefully, the doctor perceiv
H. ed igament at the neck of the tooth, anc
'g without much thinking Of the effect, h
3 : cut it the tooth Immediately fell out, O
y was extracted with slight effort Of tn
H. thumb and finger. This led the operate
~ to reflection, and the hint was obtaines
* which confers upon suffering humanity /;
IL benefit, which may be esteemed by the
OF sufferer second only to the discoveries o
re Jenner, or the circulation OF the blood
o. Subsequent experiments have fully
&c proved that the human teeth are also re
. tanned so powerfully in their sockets bv
- ligament, and it is the breaking of thi
III which requires so much manual force; ]
~ this, when cut, which gives not so mucl
,IiI pain as lancing the gums. loosens tn
"N,e tooth, and it may Immediately be extract
- ed without pain with the fingers. A ply
~ slc:an of our acquaintance, whose nam
nc we are at liberty to mention if requested
~ has had the operation Of extracting Iarg
y molar, treble-fanged tooth in this wa,
'"o without pain, and so gratifed was he b
8; the fact that he investigated the anatom
OF the parts, and extracted all the teeth {
dead subject in the same way, and wit
an 10 more difficulty than above related. H
hat Is witness not to be impeached, whe
va with many others, has already been benz
is flied by this great anatomical discovery.
10 Philadelphia Inquirer.
ich Ten YEARS EXPERIENCE has cor
.ri- WINGED US that the editor who makes tn
elk. least roriatiO" from his own plan in cor
re Quoting his journal, will give the best sa
ne ast@ct'On to the great body of his patron
ms There are many reasons for this.
the /. An editor can execute his own plan
;no better than he can those of other peoole-
t + he can do best what he does spon.aneou.
,ra y and heartily.
ON 2. The men who urge changes in Ii
plan OF paper are generally those who's
tastes differ from those of the people
ne general.
hu' 5. The men recommending chances