Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1841-03-04
aud empow cred to administer oalhs, ~
all cases where by law Justices ot The
Peace are now an honzed 10 administer
oaths. True copv-Witnes'
HENRY BOWEN, Sec'ry.
sr-e The following article is from the

sEs The following article is from the
Boston Medical Journal;
DiErETIcs. There is probably no
country of equal extent IN the worid,
where the average of human lite Is SO
great as in New Eng gland. Probably |
the deaths in our country villages do
not, on an average amount to more than
one in seventy, annually. Foreigners
have been often surprised, on going IN
to our burying grounds, at the largo
proportion of persons who have died al
the age of seventy aud upwards. Prob
ABLY one in six of those born III New
| ENGLAND lives to the age Of seventy and
perhaps one in ten to that leighty years
/ II is true, there may be among us, few
! er instances Of extreme longevity, or OF
! those who survive and pass their hun
! dredth year, than in some other coun-
! tries: but this is not Inconsistent with
! tho facts | have stated. The number
| of ofcentenarians to be found among the
! slave population at the South, is remar-
! kable. Their proportional number is
many times greater than among the
! New Englanders: and yet, the latter
are much longer-lived, on the average,
than the slaves of the South. Besides,
! il ought to be considered that human
| life is ofcomparatively little value after
! the period Of seventy or seventy-hye;
for at that age, at the latest, mans fac
uties begin to undergo a rapid decline
Ibis activity and energy and power OF
endurance are gone, and his usefulness
at an end.
Not only are the New-Englanders
long-lived, but they are as body,
r healthy, hardy, stout, muscular, fully
!, developed in body, and well formed,
!, Il speak more especially, Of the agri-
cultural portion of them-that portion
which constitutes the great mass ofthe
! population.) In these particulars there
is no people that eXcels them.
:, When we recolect the things which
| have been alluded to, and, at the same
time, take into consideration the well
/, known, and for the present purpose, all,
p. important fact, that these same New
Englanders are what may be called The
freest and best livers on the globe, have
an abundance of all the good things o
y the world, and partake Of flesh and isl
and fowl literally, none being so poo
as to be unable TO obtain these nocessa
,.ies of life, as they would be called
=, when, | say, we consider all these things
and the obvious conclusions to be deri
h we'd from them, it seems folly to b'
= wasting the breath, to be preaching
n and prating forever about the perlls o
= good living, and the dangers Of eatins
h. flesh. Surely that kind of diet an'
If those modes of living cannot be th'
IF. worst i'm the world annot be very in
n furious, which are attended by sucl
happy and hcalthlul results. Wer
animal food as poisonous, as noXIou
to health and life, rs the BRAN brea
gentlemen would persuade us to believe
L. why was not the universal yankee-natlo
Of long extinct; How can they have fac
to live year after year in the face OF sue
J., very excellent reasons for dying ever
, day: How does it happen that the yer
people who eat greater proportion
DC flesh than any other, and whose habit
ie arc, consequently worse than any olhe
y have, at the same time, better hcaltl
~ longer life, more robust bodies, and
fs little shrewdcr minds, than any other
40 With nothing but plain fare and sui
Ell stantial dishes, such as are found am on
as our hardy yoomanrv, there is dange
n of healthy men killing themselves wit
IS eating. They arc not the class ofthos
NJ who run after mountebank lectures o
IT, health for advice. They are not to b
e. e. benefited by the discoveries Of ccrtai
i. Uranium cracked dyspcctes, or the
I'd vaunted system of living. They haV
a. within themselves a sure guide to whlc
al they trust themselves at the table, an
W which never misleads them or jeopar'
10 their safety