Lincoln telegraph. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1836-1846, 1841-06-17

living man weighing 100 pounds, probably va,
r'es not far from 20 to 30 pounds. The other flu
ids are too numerous to reckon in this place.
those, therefore, who feel an interest in the sub
ject, can learn the particulars by consulting works
on Human Physiology. These fluids emanate
directly from the blood-the blood from chyle-
the chyle from chyme-the chyme from nutritiye
food, during the digestive and assimilalve process.
SEES in the human stomach and intestine canal, by
n vital process, and vital process alone, which
is ncomprehensible to the mind of man. The
blood is sent every part of the living body by a
vital process-the fluids separated from it by
the same-the solids are deposited by the same
vital action-each has its separate function, I'M
| portance and use in the animal manifestations,
and of life, and without which, the living organi.
zation would be imperfect.
Were it not for this influence of the vital prin
cpe in the living body,-a principle given it by
the Great Giver of every good and perfect gift,
and not nature and natures laws, as some physl-
ologists have ascrbed which is modified by as
many considerations as there individuals of
the human species,-we should have in the orig
inal formation of blood, the same results always
in the same individual, and individuals of the
same speclcs,-the circulating blood, the differ
ent fluids and the solids, and in short the phys
cal development of the same species, would not
| vary from each other, at different periods in
the same individual of the same species. For, we
know,-tlat under the action of the vital princ
pie during Qualification and absorption, the same
elements are always found by chemical analysis
to constitute the chyle, and that these elements
are oxygen, hydrogen, carbon and azote.
Chyle is emptied Immediately into the current
ofvenous blood which is poured into the right
cavities of the heart-from whence it is trans
mitted with the venous blood to the lungs, and
with it undergoes chemical change, by the i'm
bibtion Of oxygen from the atmosphere, and the
transud ation ofcarbonic acid through the paln,o-
nary tissues, in respiration, which is a vital ac-
ton. 1t is this change which forms arterial
blood, and from arterial blood all the other fluids,
the solids, whether of bone flesh. are produced.
What then is it that from nutritive food pro-
| duces in the one instance arteral blood, and from
the latter bone, grste, flesh, skin, hair nails We
| nous blood, and the various fluids, in others 1t
IS the vital princplc, of which, speculate as we
may, we know nothing other than its effects.
But, say the Humoral Psychologists, does the
chyle always present the same proportions of OK
ygen, hydrogen, carbon and azote We answer,
No. Nor does this nullify our position, The
kind of food whether animal or vegetable may
change the result. Animal food contains the
four, and vegetable food three only of these ele-
ments. The quantity Of either may change the
momentum or quality of these elements. The
activity of the living organism during the digest
i've and absorptive processes, may change the re-
| suits. Thousands Of mysterious cause.-the Vi
tally of the blood itself, of any of the fluids, of
the solids, any part of the organism may
change the result, and all under the influence,
and the influence alone, of the inherent funda-
enta principle 6e-of which God is the author,
and man but the passive instrument.
! The " humors of the blood, then, are nothing
short of diseased action of the vital principle
requiring the most cautious and iudicous treat
ment,-an error in which, may augment the
very difficulty the unhappy sufferer is DESTROYS
of obviatng. What mischief may not ensue from
the propensity, now proyerbial, for Spring phys,
is, blood letting, pill-swallowing, emetics, "ex-
citants," cathartics, decoctions, tinctures, mix
lures, powders, ETC., &c.-and all for no other
purpose, than to crafty depraved Imagination
concerning the /" Humors' of the blood to drive
ont this terrible enemy ,cithin-and driven out it
surely is,-for, we truly believe, that the very
corruption" which makes its appearance on the
body, and called humors, have been, in the
generality of cases, produced and effected by the
medicines taken to eradicate much less evil
We believe, too, that where there violent
and troublesome eruptive disease already exist
ing, that it is not the " driving" nor "purify-
ing process which cures the affection In these ca
ses, s'salts in some of it's forms are usually taken,
and, generally, in a fluid state,-which, from its
ready absorption into the circulating system, abb
stracts by its great capacity for caloric, more or
less from the amount of vital heat, and by its first
impression made upon the living surface of the
mouth, stomach and intestines, as well as its pur.
gatixe qualities, new impression is made upon
the vital principle, which is Immediately appreci-
ated by the nerves distributed to the parts in
tact with the article taken wthin-this is recognize
ed by the nervous centre-a change or modification
ofthe reigping diseased action is the result-and
palliation for the time being may be effected
How and in what way this is done, must be hy-
pothetical We merely see the results.