The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1839-08-03
Fam he Northampton Courier.
NATIONAL pIErErICs.

"Hppocra,es." says Mr.. Warren. considered Diet
to he every thing in the Of all chronic diseases
Aferw ards came CELSIUS and Gaen who both admitted
the Importance Of diet in the OF chTonical disease
lie sihrms that we have The history Of scrofula from
the time Of Moses TO the present day. yet writer in
any age part Of the World has accurately described
its symptoms as the great Jewish la~gyer. I" One
great obstacle to understanding Of the writings OF
Moses" says Mr. W., is the notion generally enter
tanned that with him originated the laws which he en-
forced This is not the but the giving Of The law
at Mount SIAM consisted Of holy sanction a divine
ratification, Of that law in letter which had aforetme
been given in speech only"
81 here is great simplicity aud clearness in the deie-
tic precepts which Moses laid down for the people,
while those given for the guidance Of the priests
somewhat mole complicated bot not contrary TO the
former Those precepIs for the part receivable
into these few PLAIN practical maIims Fnst, TO eat
blood aud very spanngly of TAT Second, TO eat nough
among beasts that dwideth not the hoof aud cheweih
the cud Third, TO avoid flesh Of certain birds Of
which universal assent admits the UNIV hoesomeness
the owl. bat, eagle hawk, &c. Fourth, to eat fish
that hath not fins and scales" The diseases Of Egypt
may easily CLEAN up from Dodorus Siculus, The
historian of Egypt, particularly those which
from foul aud poluting diet Christians from the Jew
sh dietclan Ia eating blood, swnes flesh. fish without
scales and dns, and Ia other minor particulars"
Besides that supply Of crude material which the
blood receives from the digestive organs, there de-
rived, by means Of the absorbcnti, matter from every
internal aud external surface Of the body this is FREE
quen,ly OF highly poisonous and destructive nature.
and becomes the exciting cause of the most alarming
and painful disorders typhns fever small pox mea-
sizes, hydrophobia, &c." Mr.. w. shows that the Mo-
sale prohibition Of swne's flesh is founded in The ma
tire of things. and at ali times and every where vad
and that the flesh Of animal ought be eaten after
the second day from the time the animal is killed,
flesh exceedingly deletcrious after decomposition be-
gins TO take place The scrofula, he says, is de-
rived from term signfying pig. Among the ma
tive Indians of America the connection Of pork eating
and gandnar diseases is, from erperience known
and admitted"
Among the older surgeons and physicians there
prevailed general opinion that the great of dis.
coming under the Of scrofula, consumption.
govt, erysipelas, Inflammation fever. and many other
burnngs, was dependent upon redundant peccant
hunors -" BY close observation, and that done by
mind particularly qualified for il, was found by Aher-
nehy, that the prime original departure from health
appeared in most cases be in the first passages or
stomach and bowels and thus the FIRST raceable
Of local disease determined IN the judgment Of that
gentleman. be in the organs designed for digestion
" The pslpabe fact Witnessed by Dr. Wilson Philip is.
that disorder Of the first passages terminates in local
disease DIR. Marshall Hall confirms this opinion
" There is indeed general agreement at this day
among scientific men in the opinion that the prime
able cause of disease is in the digestive organs"
Moses is Of opinion that the cause TO which have
alluded is to be found IN the improper food or ngcsta
against which he forciby warned his people, and in this
both ancient and modern physicians virtually agree with
him; for the first principle basis of cure in the dis
alluded to is the Of the patients Diet
this all contend be the qua aoa and this opinion
has prevailed unnterrupIedy from the days Of Hippo
crates" ...-.