Rutland herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1823-1847, 1842-04-12
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morbid habit from the exciting causes exst;no- :,
this New England climate Yet bv nroner
prophylactic measuresthe attacks NAV in ore.t
| proportion be avoided; and even an attack NAV
be removed by early treatment Thus many HIGH.
~ predisposed, steer clear Of the disease in an a0.
| gravated form
Perhaps there is no age, or constitution but that
IS llaoie 70 be attacked by this disease and many
| have the disease as sequl of some other disease
improperly treated, as fever, measles; &c There Is
fair chance Of succeeding in the treatment in a
large proportion of those cases. and oftentmes at
even late periods But these cases will never nd.
mt OF relief until the general morbid habit is re-
moved The lungs will then oltentimes be restor-
ed to soundness after suffering considerable ulcer.
atoms
If we were to have fair opportunities of early
treatment IN attacks of consamptols and we're 40
adhere ngldly to correct physiological principles
IN such treatment, it is probable the number of
deaths by this disease would be diminished to one
nall OF what they have been in New England for
nifty years past And if people generally would
inform themselves better in the art of nreservins
health, and attend to this as carefully as thew usu
ally DO 70 other concerns, the number of attacks
would be greatly diminished The science of
health ought to be made part of CLASSICAL sudies.
Ii is truly disheartening to see many quite we'll
versed In the common elementary physical studies,
IN foreign languages in history, novel reading.
political economy, &c, and vet they manifest tbs
most profound ignorance of the economy of their
own bodies, and the art of preserving them in
health.
There never will be any more favorable results
in regard to avoiding consumption AMI early re-
moving the attacks of the disease until the most
solemn appeals are made to the public, and until
the community shall have become better informed
in relation to the causes the character of the dis
ease; and its rational treatment 1t is of but little
avail for the faculty to have the best information
published in books or in medical journals, so long
as people generally refrain from seeking early as
slsance, and so long they have little or no con4
hdence IN any treatment. There is a reluctance
In the mind of well bred physician in searching
INTO the health ofpeople, and passing his opin-
ion upon them unaslled for 1t appears as though
he was counting business for his own profit, even
ifhe should be actuated by the best of motives
Such advice is not usually esteemed nor is it apt
to be attended to-
1t seems then. that popular attention ought to be
excited on this allabsorbng subject; that correct
views ought to be inquired into, to be studied, and
to be talked of freely by all classes and ages of so.
ciety. When this course shall have become APP
proved and fashionable, we may expect the most
happy results to follow the disease under consid-
Grafton would be disarmed of half its terror, or
even more 50, and the soil of suspicion doubt, and
Sombre shades that n9% darlscA It's atmospherc; !.
ia. c.
Woodstock, Feb 5th, 1912