Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1851-05-29
For the Telegraph.
PRACTICAL UTILITY OF PHRENo-
LOGY.
BY 9. H. BARRETT.
NO. II.

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We will now attempt to show the pracli.
cal utility Of this newly discovered science
10 the huma race. Strict obedience to the
dictates of Phrcnology is calculated 10 pre-.
serve health; and lengthen out the brittle
shread of mortal existence. But when we
lake slight glance al the present rnourniul
condition Of man, we see essSsn eersSsn,c " rend
feeling heart with incxprcssible anguish
Instead of seeing the great mass Of man.
ssAind enjoying peace, health, and happiness,
We see them writhing under .he painful in
fuences o! dire disease. They are heavily
oppressed with csrroding care, and rapidly
sinking urmrp tho accsalrlaicd weight of a
thousand inftini,ies All, or nearly all, ure
alike subject 10 the same Ills, same sorrows,
same Affections, same woes. Enter The va
rious ranks Of society. Behold our mer'
chants, our professional men, and our teach
ers, Look a, their emaciaied forms, their
pale conntenanccs, their ghaslly features,
and their dcalh.like shadows. Hear their
doleiul complains, uttered with feeble voices,
quiyering lips, half suppressed sghs, and
depressed spirits. An armed host of terrible
diseases are slowly enumerated, dyspepsia,
indigestion, headache, liver complaint, rheu.
ma,ism, coughs, consumption, languidness'
loss of appetite, prosralion Of the nervous
system, &C., &c.
.Hy Are there not causes, serious causes for all
lhisl Certainly What, then, are those
causesl They are the same causes which
have, In the morning and vigor Of life, pros
tratCd The health and destroyed the lives ol
men no less eminent and distinguished than
Roben Pollock, Henry Kirke White, James
. Brainrrd Taylor, and DR.. John D. Goldman
Though men Of genius and wanscendenIy
grca. abilities, yei talent and genius alone
could not project nor save life. They know
ingly or ignoraniy lransgressed some law
or laws, peculiarly adapted to the real nature
and absouts wants of man. Those laws
were evidently physical laws, implicitly laid
downby the immulable Lawgiyer for our
practical observance and sole benefit. Ev-
cry law has ie penalty attached oit, whether
-moral OF physical. lflbe moral law be Vi
olated, we meet with Gods fearful displea-
suss--ILihs physical law be trunsgressed'
We are equally sure 10 suffer The naIural
consequences And wha, are the common
results Of such violalonl The total loss
of health, and sometimes Of life itself.
So FAR as the physical laws are concerned
Phrenology points them Out in living char
aciers which none can possibly misiake.-
They come under the head or OPpello'ion o
Temperamenis. They are sometimes de-
nominated Sanguine, Bilious, Nervous, and
Lyuphatic. BY other writers they are de-
signuted by other terms, viz; Vital, MOire
and Mental choose to adopt the latter
terms.
Now, il should bo distinctly understood
thar, in order 10 enjoy sound health, a per
son must enjoy constitution nwhich these
different Temperamen,s exis. They must
bsequal in strength or nearly SO. Destroy
the Motive Temperament, and you incapa'
cia.e a man for labor or physical exertion
He viii be reduced, in point Of muscular
strength, TO mere infant Destroy The
'.Bentsl Temperament, and you destroy .th'
niD,sllscIs--.he power Of reasoning. Man
With All bis boasted powers, becomes ar
idioEia Destroy the Vital Temperament, snt
you, shake fheyeIy cilRdel or lifa Th.
-youthful hero sinks limo aprsmaturs grave
iA,Miline 81 wiifal violation Of these law
or TeWpsransn,s, % the chief cause Q
much sickness, NJ health, and BFsma,usl
death Bm n there no hope, no remedy