Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-06-29

ton made to pure water to make it more palata
BILE. Let me not be misunderstood. am far
from insulating that lemonade, and milk and
water are hurtfu drinks. Far from it. But
say, that in using eyen-,hese mild and heathful
! beverages we lose one important advantage we
should derive lromthe use of pure water alone.
lfthey are more palatahle to us than water (and
otherwise we should have no motive to use them,)
we shall be tempted TO take them oflener, and in
greater quantities than is required by nature, and
may thus 1lhconsciously do ourselves an injury
1t is rare for person to drink glass of water
when he is not thirsty, merely for the pleasure
OF drinking; and as thirst is the natural guide if
he drinlss-when not thirsty, he takes more fluid
than nature points out as proper; and so far vio-
lates one of her obvious laws But it NAV be
| asked II any injury can result from drinking
more than nature absolutely requires Not per-
| haps III particular instances, but the habit of
drinking more may undoubtedly be injurious
1t IS sufficient answer to all these questions TO
say that our Creator knows best Under the
guidance OF the instincts he has implanted in us
with regard TO the use of drink we are ordinarily
safe. But as soon as we leave these; and place
ourselves under the direction of our own educa-
ted appettes, we are constantly liable TO be led
into danger. 1t is certainly hurtful to drink ha-
bstually more than was intended by nature, be-
cause imposes upon the constitution the task
OF removing the eEcessj or else il is retained in
the system, and there may lead to dropsy, or
some other of the consequences of plethora, or
! redundance ST fluids in the svstem.'
DIR. Cullen, formerly distinguished professor
OF Medicine at Edinburgh, after speaking of the
general use of water, both by man and the brute
creation, remarks Simple water is, without
any addition, the proper drink of mankind
Dr. Gregory, the successor of Cullen, in his
Conspectus Medcinfe Theoreticg, saws, that
pure spring water, when fresh and cold, is the
most wholesome drink and the most grateful 20
those who are thirstyj whether they be sick or
well; quenches thirst, cools the body, slilutes,
end thereby o.'s"nsls aerimony-often promutes
sweat, eXpes noxious matters resists purefac=
ton, aids digestion, and, IN fine, strengthens the
stomach
| Dr. James Johnson ian eminent physician now
residing III London, remarks upon water as
follows: There can be 10 question that water IS
the best and the only drink which nature has de-
signed for man; and there is as little doubt tut
that every person night, gradually, or even prets
! ty quickly rccustOm himself to this aqueous bev-
erage. The water drinker gides TRANQUILITY
| through life without much CXhilatation. or de-
preston, and escapes many diseases to which he
would otherwise be subject. The wine drinker
experiences short but VIVID periods of rapture,
and long intervals of goomj he is also more sub
| lect 10 disease. Fhe balance of enjoyment then
turns decidedly in luFor of the water drinket,
leaving out his temporal prosperity and future
anticipationsj and the nearer we keep to his rega
men, the happier we shall be-
How cCngen'a IS this fluid to the human ore
ganization, adapted rs it is TO its necessities m<
der every variety of constitution, and vicissitude
of climate, from the equator to the arctic circles.
DIR. MHchel, in reference 20 tsctS already auo=
ted, and others Ike them, respecting ships Win
terng m ICY regions says, that in all the fire.
quent attempts to sustain the intense cold of
winter III the arctic regions, particularly in Huds
sons Bay, Greenland, and Spitzbergen, those
crews or companies which had been well suppl.
ed with provisions and liquors. and enabled tTeft-
by to indulge in incidence and free drinking,
have generally persisted; whilesAtsthe santsstffne
the greatest member of survivors have been UNI
sorn.iy found among those who were accidental
~ thrown upon the inhospftabe shores destitute
of food and spirituous liquors, compelled to
nelntain an incessant struggle against the rig
ors of the climate in procuring food, and Obliged
to use water alone as drink
In hot climates, too, water is the only safe
drink. Or. AIosely, on tropical diseases, uses
the following language; Il aver, from my own
knowledge and custom, as well as from the cusa
tom and observations of others, that those whU
drink nothing but water, or make 1t their princi=
pal drink, are but little affected by the climate,
and can undergo the greatest fatigue without
Inconvenience
The Arabs of she desert ere among the Icost
hardy OF the human race. enduring the greatest
fatigue and Exposure under burning sun, and
their habitusl drink IS water.
% 1856 whaling vessels belonging to New
Bedford, Massachusetts,, los furnish no spirits
for their crews: and the uniform opinion of the
owners and captains o. these rs well rs of ntcra
chant vessels i'll different ports us furnished 10
the executive committee OF the New York State
Temperance Society Is, that the use of intoxica-
ting drinks for seaslaring men in any climate
md under any circumstances, are not necessary
but injurious; and they assert that observation
and experience prove that sailors are moro
healthy, more orderly, and perform their duty al
together better without these liquors. Vide
Testimony of American merchants and sea cap
tains. '--Anterican Quarterly Temperance Mag.
G5ioe for AtEust, 1884,
SO fully impressed IRE commercial men with
the belief that disasters at sea are very often con.
nected with the use of Intoxicating drinks, that
an insurance company in Boston, md more re-
Gently all the marine INSURANCE companies in
New York, have engaged to return five per Ct
on the premium of every vessel navigated with.
out spirit.