Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-09-06

groaning under the load of suffering inflicted
by causes which may easily be Removed
But people are Indifferent about becoming
acquainted with the laws of life and health
until too late. When sickness, which is
but the penalty for the violation of some |
fixed law in physiology comes, then they
are all attention and say who can do US
any gooc," and forthwith surrender them
selves as the dupes of learned and unlearned |
quackery. Just as if il were not better by a |
rational exercise of judgment to preserve
health when we have it; than first TO loose |
it, and then pay the penalty in suffering and
danger. The penalty for the breach of or (
ganic law is not always instant in its appli-
cation: consequently, as Solomon said, be-
cause sentance against an evil work is not
speedily executed therefore the hearts of the
sons of man are fully Sc, in them TO do evil.
If the dyspeptic does not suffer Immediate
ly from what he eats, he says il has done me
ohurt; the artlcle is wholesome, whether il be
beef, pork, or sausage. By breathing impure
air in close assemblies, if people are not
made sick before they leave their seats,
they say with all confidence it has done me
no harm. Ii lady can succeed during
several days or weeks in succession in COM
pressing her lungs Nth all her might, and
no, be "taken down sick" during the time !;
she says with repelling ali, ! never hurt
myself with tight dress, I never lace tight,
| cant bear my clothes tight. Perhaps they
!. are honest-but be not deceived: nature IS
not Knocked, nor will God suffer his most
perfect workmanship 10 be marred with i'm
punily. DR.. A. Combe says, bad health
is more frequently the result of gradual
causes, long in unperceived operation,
than of any sudden or accidental exposures
aud mode OF life or degree of labor is not
y to be pronounced harmless merely because
/ its injurious effects are not Immediately
t. seen, and because years may elapse before
n il breaks down the constitution" HOU lii
is tie is this great truth knoOn. Physicians
e as they are, are doing much good in com
o munity, but their business is to cure, no
d prevent disease. The better part of then
ii sometimes help US out of trouble, but rarely
J. tell US while in health how to keep so.-
= " Prevention is better than cure" is a mot
J. TO with which physicians, as such, have lit
I. Tie to do There are nebIe and philanlhrop
e lie men among physicians, men who hav'
D, the good of their fellow beings al heart
!, men 10 whom community is vastly indebt
e ed but the medical profession is excessive
D ly burdened with downright empiricism.-
d In proof of This have some of the best med
IS ical authority together with the conscious
e ness Of every honest physician. DIR. Gum
v is an eminent Physician Of Kentucky.
al q large work of his called Domestic Med
: cine we find some. excellent common sens
. remarks. He says, persons who tax
70 proper exercise, and combine it with tenn
re perdnce, are seldom sick.n* ssThose who
re to medicine for every triiing complaint,
C. nine cases out of ten, might relieve then
~ selves by abstinence for a short time.
- There is no witchcraft about the disease
- to which we are all liable. They are a
matters Of plain reasoning from cause to e
feet, tolhe full understanding of which ever
man is as competent as any other man. A
~ the quack medicines for cleansing the bloc
! &C., which you see noticed in the new
r. papers are impositions on the public. SUE
-
noslrums have their day and then die off
make room for new catalogues without al
benift, except enrehing the impostors WI
invented them. Three fourths Of the 81
ence Of medicine as now practiced and il
imposed On common people amounts 10 not
y r. ing but fudge and nsumnleyy." So much
DR.. Gums opinion, and il is valuable, as
is an eminent medical man, and an exter
i've practitioner. | will commence my ne
, with The structure and use of the skin.
s. A. BABBITT.
icb "A physicians definition OF temperance
MI, this, moderation in things not hurtful, and q
~ slinencefrom those which are. IntempeFan