New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-04-05
OUR LUNGS.

Ii We bad an extra life to live with liberty to devote
il to such effort We deem most conducive to human
good We should begin by studying carefully and thor
ougbly the chemistry Of Air. the economy Of Heating
Ventilation &c, and thenceforward write and print
tracts essays and give lectures tie general sub
iect of Air 10 IFS manifold and vital relations to the
health and life of Man. Since we cannot do this we
shall improve such opportunities as may offer for diff
fusing jus; ideas this important subject.
The COroDers Report OF last weeks deaths in orr
City shows that serea Of these deaths caused
by Consumption, tbirytwo by determinations OF the
Lungs twelve by Congestion of the Lungs six by
NbOopr Cough, twenty-One by Compromising one
huHdrd and otyro deaths Ou. OIL total of four hun
cred and thirys1 by diseases of the organs of respi
ration. lot to speak Of the deaths by Typhus and Fy
phoid Fever and some Others which VIGOROUSLY have
their in pestlent inbalations. These official
returns fully justify estimate before based on
reliable authority that fully oneird OF all the deaths
III this counuy-which amount in all to nearly One
Million psr annun-are caused by diseases of the
Threat ard Lungs If reflect that no considers
BILE proportion of tie deaths of infants thus
stoned, We shsii real re that almost moiety of the
deaths of adults among caused by disorders of
the CaDs OF res piraiion.
Is this frshriul mortality inevitable To affirm that
II ia were to inpeach the wisdom aud benefcence Of
God. The lungs and their approaches made to
serve life and not destroy IL; the atmosphere 10 be-
nisnly adapted to their suEtebapce and but we,
in ignorance and heedessne,s vtiate the air and
I'll the uIgs with disease. Having done this fly TO
drugs evils 10 which they relatiOn-snd
puEiug drugs into the stomach cure diseases OF the
urps ordinarily just sensible the ancient folly Of
applying eatsplssms 10 sword 10 order 10 heal a
Wound made by it rome individual. probably
niles distant Having run the round of nostruIns,
IRON SsrsaparIla 10 Cod Liver Oil we discover that
tle patient gets better but is hurriDg 70 the grave
Sc We Try Qsaekerys last shift, and pack him of to
Cuta Italy the south of France in all which natives
ere dying of Consumption every day where joIted
by travel injured BY exposure and bad hours and ter
tured by tke absence Of family, friends aud home com
i,r's he speedily dies aordDg or grandames another
eolhrna'en Of their theory that Consumption Is essen
italy and irveteIstsly fatal
We recently looked through the Fourth Annual
Report of tie Superintendent of Public Instruction
10 the Legislature of Wisconsin wherein that off
Ger, Or. Azel p LadJ,) under the head of " School
Houses, tels the collective wisdom that those ed
fees should not be-es they too often are-ocated on
bleak ~irdswept praires exposed TO the scorching
"fuDs Of sumner and the sweeping storms of wiz
ter that their seats other furniture should no,
be repulsye and uncomfortable svarce and per
verse ipeenui'! can make rheu-thst they should be
hestLlly located not on the bank Of some miasinat
swamp oozy creek stagnant pool destructive to
the health and lives OF The puPisthst they ought 20
be deceuty ed 10 winter by some eaiursbIe sort