Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1849-03-29
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK AND
AVOID;
A Guide TO Health and Long Life
BY R. ]. cuLvERwELL, NJ. D.


We have sweet home made and foreign wines,
eferyescing, light and dry, and dry and strong
vines thus those principally 10 be had in the
shops, and usually TO be found in private houses,
are currant and gooseberry, ginger and Malaga,
with many others next champagne, sparkling
hook, Mosele, etc. The light and dry wines are
Mosele, claret, hermitage, and those of Rhenish
produce. The dry wines are port, sherry, Marsa-
Ia and Madeira To pick from the proceeding
| lisi those which are most ordinarily drunk, and
especially which are in requisition by invalids the
number may be reduced to sherry, port cfaret and
champagne. The excitement of glass or two Of
port or sherry, or their brsker brother champagne,
| is most exhierating to man in health, but to a
delicate person. OF one just Receiving from illness,
highly dangerous. The pulse will be raised from
twenty to fifty beats by an injudicious glass of
wine and there are many people who had for
merly been wine drinkers, one-botile men, say,
from thirty, to fifty years of age and upwards, who
dare not now touch glass from its exciting ten
dency; therefore, in all those cases where wine
is recommended to invalids, or where invalids
venture to take it, it should be diluted and taken
very sparingly. There are variety of consttu-
lions, and consequently variety ofeffects Wine,
al best is but stimuatve, not nutritive. 1t is apt,
besides to induce acidiiy ofthe stomach, to create
fever, TO disturb the urinary secretion. and to an
nov the skin. Its effects, when INDUCED in to ex-
cess, are notorious drunkenness, nervous ness and
death. The positive mischief of wine to persons
ia health is TO be found only in its abuse.
a." We curse not wine; the vile excess we blame"
do not object TO glass of generous wine, or
abOlte, if it suits man but who is better after
bottle, Will not half pint, or say pint, pro-
auce more lasting and comfortable feelings than
saartl and, if so, why should man make him.
sEil! A man need not court misnathropism--
ht may now and then be gay, and little moder-
aie excess is justifable occasionally.
am so partial to WINE, that would take my
gaantum every day Of my life if it agreed with
me- but it suits me better to do without it, |
asold 1t not from niggardness, but because feel
clearer, lighter; mouth and throat feel pleasauier;
because experience less fulness, less want of
contpGed aid to keep up the pleasurable feelings
which one or two glasses produce for in drink
Ing bout, the difficulty is 10 leave ofthe succeed
ing glass is necessary to keep up the excitement
o. The last, to avert the dulness that invariably /
iolOws the decline of the hilarity. Wine also
'Onstpates-it interrupts digestion if taken at
neal lime, or else hurries it, when the food is
lrTen through the body but half dissolved. 1t
better suited for the active than sedentary, and
ne ouslling than indoent man. To the DELICIOUS
less of the draught-the smack of the tongue
ne exquisiteness of the swallow, or favor, if it
'ease better, for inelegant as these expressions
iay be, their truth cannot be denied bow at
'mlVeiy but sill do not take wine, or very
''e'y, and then only with great care and watch
u'aess-do not need it, nor do feel the want of
: and would advise my patients 10 be as eau
'Ous as have become. l consider, although
''ei LOOK wine To excess. nor have ever been
" temperate man, that have added ten years
comfort and longevity to my existence, merely !,
soahdoning it as general practice and if, in :
e course of conversation with any of my future :
'uenls or correspondents, may be drawn into \
'"'esson OF many other things seemingly HARM n
'S' because every body adopts them. that have 8
'ea up, which formerly took, and the relinquish
e'" of the many customs / formerly practiced. II
W ooeo' shall make many proselytes, from a