Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-01-18
Hints for waverers ON Diet.

Under this head, in our last number, we
assumed the liberty of suggesting to the
progressively disposed, that they should I
carry out their progressive ideas so far as
10 insist on taking all their fool, both H. !
qaid and solid, al the temperature TO which
II will fall after il has been taken for some
hours from the fire. 1.-THE giving up of
flesh diet is found diffi,uIt af,lir all at
once, it may surely be- taken cod. So
with tea, coffee, and chocolate. All their
virtues cannot reside in the heat, or, iflhey
do, hot toast will serve for beef, and clean
hot water in place CT that which is dirtied
BY tea dust. From hot to cold, is sep
from vice to purity; the advantages OF
which are great, but cannot be believed ex-
cept upon experiment. Yet, who boiis the
strawberries, or roasts the melons? The
highest, best, purest food, we eat as nature
cooks it for US. Not until man is discon.
tented with the productions in Gods kitch.
en-, does he set up one of his OWL. His
| discomfort is The offspring OF his greedy
mind, not Of his passive frame. The fire
il hot food is so prevalent, that lis natural
! favor is three parts destroyed Salt, sug-
ar, and other condiments are then intro
duced, as an attempt 10 restore the lost quail
tiles. But the essence is dissipated up the
chimney, as the fibre is broken al the fire.
The spirit is gone, and only the refuse
matter remalLs.
True, many things cannot be eaten IN.
cooked; but then it is questionable wheth-
er they should be eaten al all. Some PEG.
pie eat hot bread and butter but oflhe i'm
propriety who can doubt +? It's curious to
observe what pains, trouble, and expense
many worthy persons take in the attempt
to improve nature. Apples, which may
be pleasurably eaten raw, without any ad
. ditIon, must be sugared when eaten roast
/ ed; because the fire has either extracted
, or calculated all the saccharine property
4 Wheat, which may be wholesomely eater
: from the ear, is uamanageable when it !:
) ground, and then must be fermented ant
fred. Curious industry; something akin
5 10 the noble expedieut Of digging holes OF
Tuesday to fill them up on "Wednesday.
2 Hot food. 50 costly to the pockets, is NJ
: less iujcrious TO the whole interior struci
s ure. The mouth, the most lender organ
e except the eye, that We have control over
J. was certainly never designed for the re
e ception Of hot incremen'S. The tongue
e the windpipe, the teeth, all suffer. Ate
J, flesh and fermented liquors, no means ar
II more potent for the destruction Of the teet
than our hot tea and coffee. All our Ell
is lightened dentists adnitthis Even in tn
!, very moment of drinking the hot draugh
k the pains come on afresh, vet the sufiere
isl will not abstain. The stomach. the dlges
81 i've power, The bowels, are all necessaril
lie weakened by warm applications. If W
l. wish 10 dissolve or relax any substance
5. we soak il in warm water; il we wish
q brace. and inVigorate it, we apply colo wa
er. We have as little right to water Il
n garden with warm water, as TO dilute OF
q, sccretions with any hot liquor. 1t is Il
re developing means Of many diseases, esp
at cialIv those peculiar 10 females lfa Joel
IN ev has favourite horse in good heallI
ot be does not feed him with hot water, NJ
with cooked oats.
nd Many thoughts will occur 10 the rea
Ell er which we need not amplify. We ma
or only suggest that those diseases OF Il
sc, lower bowels, which have now become
Ike common that large medical society is e
es. ltabished ia London tor their cure, a
e. probably attributable TO this bid practie
De- The poor, 10 pursuit OF Temperate, ha
vi very much given up beer, &c, and talk
ew TO coffee, and hence the increase ofdlsea
of es OF the fecium, SC. There is no lei
&c, perance in hot Tea and coffee; aud to pa
ed. water, so pappily, SO pienteousIy snpPll
re- by alI-bounteous Providence, we M,
~ ! enuaa nj last HonIfhio3,