New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-17

infinitely less than the generous Diet" which has
been prescribed and used to prevent the CHOLERA
and dysentery
/ Not only the brandy and wine, the beef and nut.
ton OF the prescription, are powerfully conducive to
such a dathess, but even tue rice and bread too
nearly approaching purely concentrated forms Of
nutrient matter, contribute largely 10 the same
effect AVID there are profound physiological rea-
sons Tor believing that the too exclusively subsist-
ing upon rice has been an important, cumulative
procuring cause OF the existence Of endemic and
endemic Cholera in India. However this may be,
il is nevertheless certain that in dia-rhea and dys
interic affections, rice though almost universally
prescribed. is a morbiic rather than a therapeutic
Kind of food Not because It IS poisonous but sole
~ because t is too highly nutrient too destitute OF
succulent and innutritiOus matter. The same IS
true of bread especially that made OF superne
-four: and even that made Of the whole substance
Of ground wheat though incomparably more
wholesome than the former, is still, as general
rue. when taken as a sole article OF food, not so
conducive to the highest and most permanent state
Of health, vgor and activity in all the faculties OF
the human system, as diet consisting largely OF
fiuts and succulent vegetables which contain
much smaller proportion of nutrient matter
Incredible as it may seem TO an error'stricken
world yet it is entirely certain that an individual
laboring under chronic diarrhGa, whether recent
or inyeterate will more surely and speedily recover
raw cabbage than of boiled rice or fine bread.
IL is not here asserted nor implied that no dis0r-
der can be produced by the dietetic OF fruits
and succulent vegetables: but it Is boldly and con
iidently affirmed that they who abstain from all
kinds of animal food, from all intoxicating sub
stances, and from all pure stimulants. may "feed
themselves without tear," on fruits and succulent
vegetables, with the fullest assurance that, what
ever temporary disturbances may be produced in
the aimentary cavity by an excessive or irregular
use Of those kinds Of food, yet, unless they are
themselves diseased and thus rendered noxious by
an ungenial soil or season, they will never gener
ate either cholera or dysenteric diathess. On
the contrary, free of them is one otthe surest
ways of preserving the body from the accession OF
those forms of disease; and even an excessive use
of them, producing frequent turmos in the alimcn-
tary cavity and largely aperent effects in the bow
els, is far more safe during the prevalence of an
epidemic cause of cholera or dysentery, than an
entire abstinence from them and a restriction TO a
diet of beef mutton, bread and rice.
These things are not rashly thrown out as the
offspring of fancy and conjecture; but they de-
liberately and solemnly presented TO the serious
consideration OF intelligent, moral beings as the
mature results of long and digent and careful and
conscientious investigation and research. They
are founded on weLascertained principles Of ply
siology and pathology and confirmed by large and
accurate experience, and may be relied with all
the confidence that is demanded and justified by
scientific demonstration.
1t is most certain that every thing in human ex-
perence, throughout all the generations OF man.
kind, relating TO human life and health and dis
ease, when rightly understood, testiies in favor of
the Divinely appointed regimen Of Eden and adj
monishes man 10 return toit
God made man to replenlsh the earth and subdue
il but man hath ravoged and devastated 1t.
God made Man to till the ground and to cultivate
" every herb bearing seed, and every tree in the
which is the fruit OF a tree yielding seed" for his
food; but Man hath made the earth great field of
and covered it with the machinery and i'm
PIGMENTS and munitions, and trophies, and calam
ties of war, and boodshed and violence, and hide
Gus atrocity.
God made Man to cultivate the whole earth into
a garden; but Man hath converted it into G0lgo-
tina God made earth for an Eden but Man hath
made it an Aceldama. And, beyond all question,
the primal and perpetual source of these enorntes
and caamities has been the breaking away OF Man
from the primitive detetc regimen oonstitutonally
in the nature OF things and divinely pre-
scrlbed for all the human kind and the depraving,
and brutalizng OF himself by devour. |
ny Intoxicating substances and the flesh OF animals
Pure Reason acknowledges these truths Science |
demonstrates them, True Religion teaches them |
God epions them, and the inhexibo laws of Nature |
nexO-ably enforce them. And what do we as in |
elligent moral, responsible beings, come together
IN this occasion for, but to grow in the knowledge
If the truth, that We may better understand and /
)bey the acquisitions Of Heaven upon u.s. as Heay-
IN appointed ters OF the ground, in order to fulfill
he glorious purpose OF Divine benevolence in the
chest good Of Man
lie! US, then, in obedience to the concordant
eachiDg Of the Word OF Inspiration, of Divine prov
dence, OF Human experience, and of Natural Sci
nee, forever abandon the carnage of the battlefield
nd the shambles OF the slaughter house, and beat
ur swords into powshares and our spears and our
utChpr- knlvps lntO prunpo boolrs nd iii, 4
elves, IN peace and purity and perpetual devoted
ess to the primitive and most natural vocation of
Ian, dressing the garden and keeping it !" max \
~ Earth an Eden OF fruits and flowers; cultiva.
ing "every tree that is pleasant 70 the sight and
God for iood, and every herb bearing seed
very form o. vegetable substance comprehended
q The true import OF the cts la hGyyim of the He
rev text-the Ee and health sustaining products
I the vegetable kingdom.
1t is cheering to the heart of the enlightened
hIlanthrOpst TO observe how rapidly correct views
nd sentiments IN relation 70 the agricultural calling
man, are advancing in the civilized world. Never
eore, since expelled himself from Eden, |
as there been so general, so earnest and so ef.
'ctve attention given to the cultivation of Fruits
nd yetwe have but just entered upon the ex-
enment OF developing the capacities and resour-
IS OF the Vegetable Kingdom. We know what
as beeR accomplished; but God only knows how
uch yet remains unimproyed and unexplored
that field of human effort and achievement
Inch He originally defined when He said TO Man.
heplenish tie earth and subdue it,
It's beautiful truth that God has capacitated
Sd for the performance Of no labor which, in
self, affords him 80 much enjoyment as the cult
ition Of Fruits. Every tree he plants, every
on he ingraits, every bud he inserts, becomes a
lrsling and londllng OF his he art and he watches
putting forth, its growth and development, and
holds its first blossoms and its first fruits with a
easure like that which fond mother feels in
steering beloved child But, as the mother who
erely gives birth TO Der children and leaves them
be tostered by hireling nurse ex periences little
the heart-thriling pleasure OF maternal fondness,
the tusbandman who hires or suffers others TO
snt his trees and graft and inoculate and dress
I'd foster them. knows little OF the cordial plea }
res, the peculiar and even exquisite delights :
nich he enjoys who does these things with his