Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-09-20


llon as the air IS deprived of its oxygen i,
becomes unwholesome. Hence we have
discovered an important condition 10 re-
lation to breathing. 1t is, that we have a
regular supply OF pure fresh air, without
which the proper changes cannot be pro-
duced IN the blood as it passes through
the lungs. Again We must have healthy
lungs. Another condition is, the free.
iuil, and easy expansion OF the chest,
which is lndispensa Bile 10 the healthy play
and dllation of the lungs. How univer-
sally is this last condition, totally dis1e-
garded by one sex in the use of STAYS.
corsets. and tight waist bands. q Let them
see to i, or cease to complain of delicate
health. Females do not breathe enough
to be healthy. Mr.. Thackrah says 1--WE
live on AR more than food" He must be
mistaken In relation to females, for thew
DEFoRM and TORTURE themselves not a
little 10 trying to keep 1t out. The con
sequences Of this worse than Chinese
custom are most shocking and if they
were confined to the transgressors them.
selves, we should have less cause to de.
plore the waywardnsss of persecutea hu.
.ts 1.
man nature But the effects of thus
Plnching the "laborers. who turn the
wheels Of life are entailed on all their
offspring. 1 have seen some of the re-
suits of this inhuman practice physically
demonstrated. While at Cincinnati at.
tending medical lectures, | witnessed the
dlssections OF The body of a lady, (not the
most fashionable) in which it was found
odhesions had taken place between the
left kidney and stomach, and between the
right kidney and liver. AL natural en-
ougb; she had kept them SO closely press
ed together, they had grown so. The pro-
lessons expressed no difference of opinion
about it. Ii was her habi. ofdress. And
to them it was no uncommon occurrence.
Her disease was called consumption; and
10 all probability her friends look upon
her early death as .mysterious proui-
dencef tina! she should be cut off In the
mn If
MY!H Let it. with ten thousand others
be written suicide; and that no murderer
shall enter the kingdom ofhe1ven. Take
notice of one thing further. Lean selec,
fIom almost any church in New England,
onethe sabbath from 10 10 so or SO la
dies with more delicate coist, than had
the corpse of the lady spoken of. The
growing body should be as free as air in
all cases: and in my opinion, "the flow.
ing robes of the ancienis, were incompar-
ably more favorable to health aud more
graceful than modern dresses" One or
two stubborn fActs must suffice in relation
TO breathing impure air. First, the noted
Black Hole at Calcutta, a dungeon or
prison Is feet square. At night LAG pris.
oners were put in: and the doors closed
Ii had window on one side. Atthe end
OF E hours e6 were relieved by death
Al the end OF eleven hours when the pris
on was opened 1913 were found dead, and
the remaining % were all sick with put.
rid fever. Again, DR.. Buchan, physician
to founding hospital in England
I" found that one hal the children died an
nually. By reducing the amount OF med
lclne given TO them to less than hun.
dredth part The former quantity. and abov.
Jail, BY having the apartment properly
ventilated several times day, the mortal
Iiy was very soon reduced to about one ia
%" A saving OF "a in every SO as the
result OF DeRtltGtion and no medicine
Proper exercise comes 10 too as one ofthe
lndIspensables of good health. There are
said to be 577 muscles in the human body.
Muscles are the moving powers BY which
every varied motion of the body is pro-
Iduced. They are, handles Of lean flesh.
If il had been the design of the Creator
that we should never use more than 100
OF these useful organs the other AIT would
never have been furnished. II the mus.
cles he unexercised for long time they
become hlccid and soft and the whole
system partakes of the same debility; bu,
If exercised properly they become rigid,
hard, and Of firm texture. capable Of pro.
durin u voru no,varfrl m,