Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-07-12


ity. win insIinctively 60 in pursuit Of salt =
NOT as an article Of diet--not as a seasoning
60 their food, but purely as medicine TO de-
strov the animals in their stomachsj and
,hey never inslinclively use II at any c'Ner
time nor for any other purposes. II is =
also, that domesticaied animals are subjee.
20 diseases, for which salt is perhaps, the
best and most natural medicine in the world;
bu, il is not true that they require il for any
other purpose nor is il true that they will
be less healthy It they are not regularly fed
with salt. In regard to the Scripture au-
rhori,y, il amounts to this, and nothing more;
salt, when good, is an an,iseptic, and pre-
serves those substances on which it acts,
from pu1efaction and good men have a
similar effect upon the moral world but
when salt has lost its aniiseptic property, it
is good for nothing, aud when men who pro-
fess 10 be good, exert no dntiseptic influence
on the moral world around them, they ale
like saltihat has lost its SAVIOR.
II is little remarkable, that some have
contended for the necessity for salt, as an
article 10 the diet Of man, TO counteract the
putrescent tendency Of animal food, or flesh
meat, when there is not a carnivorous ami
NAL in nature that ever uses particle Of il,
and few, If any Of the purely Aesh-eating
portions of the human family ever use il in
any measure or manner: and some portions
ofthe human family who subsist mostly on
vegetable food, wholly abstain from it. In
man, as in some Of the lower animals, salt
is undoubtedly an excellent medicine for
worms in the alimentary cavity yet, so Car
is the dieteiic or habitual use OF salt from
preventing the generation Of worms in the
alimeniary organs, that, on the contrary, il
tends directly, by It's irritating and debilitat-
ing effects, to produce that state Of the bow
els most. favorable to the generation Of
worms for, while the alinentary organs
Of man are healthy and vigorous, and per-
form their functions well, they are never in.
tested with worms.-It Is only when they
are debilitated and relaxed and sluggish that
they are thus annoyed and the habitual
and free use of salt tends directly to produce
this state OF things.
On the whole then, il is most evident that
the best and most permanent health Of the
human body, does not require the dietetic
use of salt-but on the contrary, tie free use
Off, Is decidedly-detrimenial to the human
systemic is well known that sailors and
others, when confined for a considerable
time, to sailed food, become afflicted. with
scurvy, which is always very distressing,
and ofiea very fatal disease. And from
my own extended and careful observations
during the last eight years, I have been
strongly pressed to the conclusion that the
dte'etie use Of salt is largely concerned in
the production Of cancers, and other glandu-
lar diseases Of tie human system and am
entirely certain that ii exceedingly aggrs-
yates many chronic diseases: and have LILLE
doubt that il increases the liability Of the
body to diseases Of every kind;--that it is
directly conducive To scrofulous, pulmonary
and cuianeous affections, and disorders of
tbe mucous membrane lin short, there is
every reason 10 believe that il not only
sserves'to predispOse the human body 10 ev-
cry form OF disease, but also, serves TO ag-
gravate and perpetuate every species Of dis
ease when actually induced, and that il
serves 10 hasten o. premature old age IS
rendering the solids G.y and rigid and me-
iasiie. am therefore, prepared to aihrm
with great confidence that, the well-belng Of
she human body, does not require The dietet-
ic use of salt:-that the ftse use Of Il, j. de-
cidedly aud often seriously injurious and
therefore, il il is used at all, 1t should be
very spariugly, and always the less, the bet
ter.