New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-09-14
Temperance Meeting at PATERsoS, n J. today
Ditto al PLRAsAsIyuLE, Westchoster Co to morrow

HYouSIcs or TENPERlScE-Undor this head DR. Cart
wright OF New Orleans communicates valuable Stats
e al information to The Boston Miioa JourHa Taking
the position that nothing tends moro to pr,errc or dsrb
the harmony Of mans body than raier and oohoi DR. C.
rmaTks
"1ie writer - one Of three physicians who located in
NaChez thirty years ago The new found only
praotu0reg ~ the city belonging 10 the Temperance
ichool With themelyes Tic country and yilag within
fifteen miles around aft 5Ided only THREE All the rest
believed IN the hyqicnic virtues Of alcoholic drinks aud
auht that doctrine BY IrcceIi and example Besides tho
Irscug Ihyscnns, there were ten others IN the city and
accent country who had retired from the profession They
were oil tenn CIae. Thus including the c0inef the
total number otemrerancc ply cians in and hatcher,
hiriy yean ago consisted 81 seventeen. OF these, i've
have died Ir Henry I0Cley aged about - years. DIR.
Ardstw N CIcary, aged 20, DR.. J. Kerr, CO DR. VIM.
Dunbar, co. DR. james a. McPbeoter o. In 1874. tho
average ages # tho seventeen about % years
ord,rg 10 tho Carlisle tables Of mortality and those Of
he Equitable InsnTence Company u London seven in
sead Of Eve would have been the ratio Of mortality la
England Those at prefcnt living DR.. ID. Ialnore,
" Wrer. Sferhcn Duncan, james Hotcalg w
Mercer G.. " Grant, ). SaHderson, Benjamin Young,
4 G.. Elliott --- PhGnlT, Professor A. L. Merrill, and
the writer.
aOn tic other hand every physician Of Naichez and If
vicinity thirty year, ago, whether prnecing retired who
wa he habit Of lRpag e tie practice Of drinking al
c0hoc beverages called has long since been numbered
with he dead Only two Ofthem who comparatively
temperate, lived TO be gray Their average term o. lie
did rot exceed % year. and the>avegagc term u life 81
ilcse BLo in the habit d taking alcoholic drinks
frequently between meals aud IN empty stomach did
not reach thirty years ~ iess than ten year after they
commenced pfcic The most Of Them died ard he whole
Of them have subsequently fallen leog1g nos be-
bird ia the ety. country, village, within twenty niles
aroULd.
ITO tie places 81 Hose who died " retired from the
profession, fziy Two medical men settled ia Nachez and
its vicinity teween the years l,i ard 1855 embracing
TfICl 81 tn ysags not counting lo5e o. 1879 already
o. lntcItd. OF tie siz.yiwO new comer thirty s1yal
were nrcale ara twenty Eve used alcoholic beverages
between NEAR hou - not often 20 the euenl ofproacag
ilt,1.Csiicl. Of tie ti-ty who trusted 10 the
800 .afr-n rains b. A.
twenty Eve who trusted 10 tae supposed bygicnic virtues
ofaICfgt sVgts, oil dead txok three aLA hey haye
removed g. c..tau parts 81 The country. Peace b. 10 ther
ccIrl fylen singing &c praises Of C.cohoc drinks To
I've TO at and 30 II CIT 81 n iho og.sc OF usefu nan
Lcod isto BE h4ed lhey have not lived u vain - BY
lf sacrifice scttffe lad gained aiioll AMI lporsnt
proof ri lie i.0ecg 81 dc throy w.eh aifbuie leshh
p-elsrying grfsriss ID q sogir C7al'e % sie1i9le
beverages l. OIL. sasgt o. l9on.