Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-02-05

tail, about the beginning of the French
Revolution, several of the finest provinces
OF Turkey, and found both the men and
women much better formed than we are,
and more beautiful. This he attributes 10
the looseness of their costume, not SUBJ
Jectlng the body 10 any constraini, and 10
the nature of their pursuits. living as they
do very much in the open air.
Shaw, IN his Treatise on Spinal Dis
torIon, says" Deformity is peculiar to
the civilized part of mankind, and is
almost always the work of our own hands
The superior strength. just proportion
and agility of savages, are entirely the
effects OF their hardy education, of their
living mostly in the open air, and Of
their limbs never having suffered any
confinement"
Now distorted spine is serious evil
IN many points of view. FIRST. 1t by
no means adds to beauty. Secondly. 1t
embarrasses motion; for the nerves which
60 out from 1t in pairs, on each side, can
hardly fulfil their office, and keep ND so
well a proper communication with "head
quarters the spinal marrow and the
braIn-when compressed as when free
Thirdly. The displacement of the spine
causes corresponding displacement Of
the stomach, liver, heart and lungs, es-
peclaliy the latter. They must all newt
ably be pushed more or less out of their
natural healthy position. Fourthly. The
compression on the lungs, and heart, and
stomach, produces what is called conges-
ton of the blood, in those organs, and
consequent inflammation in a greater or
less degree.
La fact, the disturbance 10 the system
! Is increased as soon as ever the shoulders
begin to be rounded; for their bending
forward and little downward pushes the
fore part of the ribs and breas,-bone a
little downward, inward and backward
SO that they can press at once the lungs
heart, liver and stomach, not only hindei
the vitalization of the blood, but interfere
greatly with those important processes by
which our systems are kept in their
wonted -epair-the formation of chvme,
chyle and blood. But when the sideways
curve Is effected, the inflammation of the
lungs proceeds to such a degree, as to
induce all The symptoms of an incipient
lconsumption-in which, indeed, unless
The disturbing causes are removed il
sometimes ends. There is greater or
less difficulty of breathing from the slight
est exertion, n short. dry cough, and
sometimes degree Of thirst, attended by
other symptoms of hectic fever
Compression of the chest, then, as we
have seen, will induce a more hurried
respiration, which is soon followed by a
degree of inflammation 10 the lungs
Motive repeat il-that this infammato-
ry action always becomes so violent at
once as to alarm US; though it sometimes
does-as when We find consumption max
ing It's appearance. But whether there
are any marks Of serious disease or not,
there is increased action. The individual
who breathed, say but eighteen times in a
minute, will now breathe twenty, or per-
haps TWENTY-FIVE The heart also and its
arteries, will ACT more rapidly in the same
proportion. and be apt to become inhamed
IN the same degree; and as the arteries,
large and small. communicate, of course,
with the whole system, the naamed ac-
ton becomes propagated TO every part
Let body which has fallen into this
state be examined, and there will be few
of It's parts which, instead of retaining
their natural healthy state, will not pos.
sess more or less of what is usually
called an angry appearance.
Now how can person who is thus
circumstanced expect long 10 maintlin
health, or even escape violent diseased
Or if we can suppose this angry or sub.
inhamed state to remain just the same
from year to year, and the person &c
, retain the appearance Of what is usually
; called tolerable health, yet this is not the
end of the matter. Whenever disease
} breaks out in the system-and break on
2 it will sooner or later in one form oil
another, if it is nothing more than colo
such disease, aggravated and rendered
far more unmanageable by the generally
infamed state of the system, will b,
I much more apt to prove dangerous ant
2 even fatal than in other circumstances
e Not even the yellow fever, the plague
: the cholera, or the consumption itself, th'
!, worst and most fatal plague of all, coulC
prove very mischievous in the world, bu
!, for that series of preparations, so lon:
t making in the system, for receiving an
: Teasing it whenever it arrives;-hoV
# much more then is this the case wit
e other diseases!
5 Because pain is not always felt in tn
Y stomach, lungs and other internal organ
e Immediately after the sources of irritatio
, operate, there are thousands who believ
that DO injury is Inflicted, Nothing ca
e be more untrue than such belief. Notl
r ing can be better demonstrated by medic,
J. men, than that nearly every internal o
=, gan of the human system may be mo-