Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1847-06-17

NJ Health is blessing without which all other bless
ngs valueless, says writer. How precious in
every ones sight, them ought health 10 be And yet
pie in general wrechcdy careless about the matter
The following picture is far from being oyerdrawn Half
is not shown in it, We can't stop to psrtcusrizebut do
not our men shovel down their food as if they were shovel
ling earth into dchi and go nearly barefooted
the year roundi The Yankee salutaton u.s. quite apty
"ROps your health" It's mercy the Yankees have any
health at all Left with their tobacco and tight acing super
added 10 their fast eating and thin shoes
AMERICAN HEALTH--The increased attention
paid Of late TO health is destined soon to work out
incalculabe good 10 mankind In previous ages
the lower classes have labored necessarily, and the
upper followed the camp, both Of which have Sc
cured abundance Of bodily exercise fresh air, and
plain living. But new order Of things has Of late
supervened, in which eneryating luxury has taken
the place of toll and exposure, and sedenary occu.
pations in heated apartments robbed mankind Of ait
and exercise-those two great conditions Of health.
Even our immediate forefathers abored much,
whereas people nowadays are all crazy TO en-
gage in some light, genteel, professional or mer-
camille busness-in short, TO Z" live by their wits
instead of by work, and sad deterioration of the
public health is the cons. quence. How many inva.
lids, how many premature deaths every where stare
US in the face Diseases never before known are
moving down their millions, and the great majority
OF mankind are becoming slnted in growth and
diseased in body, and consequently feeble in mind
and deprayed in character.
Unless this down-hill tendency is arrested, see
not what is TO become OF civilized nations and es
peciay our own, in which the conditions Of health
are violated more. probably, than in all others pu
together. | would not turn groundless alarmist
but ] see only two sources Of salvation for us-tht
one in the immigration Of strong.constitutonet
foreigners and the other in the diffusion Of physio
logical knowledge.
The deterioration of the health of our women i
especially apparent, and most alarming How sci
dom can healthy woman be found The cause
Of this we will not now specify but the fact is pal
pable and heart-sickening What, at our presen
down-hill speed, must nation soon become il
point of health and physical power, and Of cours
in mental energy aud moral perieclion3
! But those very causes which occasion this ruiz
of health also embody the elements Of its restora
ton. That leisure and development Of the mint
consequent on the sedentary habits above reierre'
TO- invite, and, in conjunction with the diseases the
engender, literally compel men to obey the laws 0
| life and health. Hence the attention now begin
ming TO be paid to the study Of physiology the issu
aud extensive sale Of new and improved works OF
the condition and preservation Of health. Nor
the end yet; only the merest beginnings. The tim
is at hand when the study ofphysiology in connec
ton with anatomy--for, 10 understand the function
and cOnultohs OF neaitny action Oh the various Oh
gans. they must be studied along with their siruc
ture that is, Physiology and Anatomy musi b
studied conjointly--will become the great study
not merely on its own account great is its ia
trinsic value, but mainly as means OF thereby in
proving the mental and moral nature OF man. w
must have strong aud healthy bodies. in order I
have sound minds and yirtuous feelings In th
state Of being, body and mind are inseparably cor
nected with each other. so that the improvement q
deterioration Of either invgorates or impairs III
other. Physical improvement is the grand instr
mentality for regenerating mind and reforming ii
conduct.-F0DLers chronological Journal