The Empire County argus., 1856-11-08

CAUSES DECAY NATIONAL HEALTH-It is gen.
orally conceded that American so healthy
as Europeans and that the present generation
healthy and vigorous as former ones. This not be
owing to the climate, counrywomen formerly
strong aud healthy as either the English, Scotch
Irish; and must look to some other cause to account
for the change. 1t is but too evident that this growing
aficton is owing to the changes in the domestic habits
and CUSTOMS and the modes of educaon during the pre-
sent century They have indeed universal debility of
fonstullon Co hn and general decay of the national matt health
several OF the principal causes.
Nothing SO certainly deteriorates and undermnes the
body as habtuay breathing impure air. The open fire.
places IN Kitchens parors, bedrooms and workshops
cured to our ancestors pure cool air But pres
ent day, close stoves and close sleepngroos with no
people While children ns
with stoves, and almost never properly ventilated Four
dhs of all the food and drink taken are thrown off thro'
the lungs and skin Every pair of lungs vtaes one pnt
of air every expiration That is equal to one booshead
of air each hour for every pair of lungs No room then
be properly ventilated that does not receive from with
at least one hogshead of air for every pair of lungs
This always secured by open replaees but by stove
almost
second cause of debility is the want of vigorous exer
cse especially the muscles Of the and trunk And
where exercise is demanded, walk of mile two is
deemed sufficient while the exercise of the muscles most
important to health is entirely neglected Thus both
sexes, but especially that which depends the consu-
tion of the children, every year becoming deli
cate and sckly.
The third of national debility is change from
simple to stimulating and luxurious diet Stimulating
food provokes an unnatural appetite. A great VARIETY
tempts Both combine to overload the organs
of nutrition, and the whole organism is strained and
worked to throw off the excess. The more food eat
and the richer is the exercise is needed Meat is
the most stimulating food there is and there is other
nation earth, where all classes devour such quantities
of meat fat butter sugar. moasses, hot cakes and hot
tea and coffee. And no nation earth have such bad
teeth and every other indication of deblitaed consu-
ton.
further of national debility is in stiula.
ting the BRAIN unbalanced by exercise and recreations
There is now nifty times much intellectual stimulus
the brain in childhood known in former gene
rations Then the cares business and excements of all
kinds, for both men and women having increased
equal ratio Every thing is going at high seampres-
sure. Now the more the brain is thus stimulated the
greater the need for pure air exercise and of
taxation But contrary to this, the the brains Of
children and adults st mulaed the less pure air and
exercise secured And the system is ex
hausted and the whole organism becomes delicate or dis
eased.
Another cause of general debility is the fashions of fe
male dress The thin covering for the upper portion of
the spine and the vital organs in cold weather. the
mutation of clothing the lower portion the pressure of
tight dresses around the waist the pressure of whaebones
in the pointed waists and the weight well the heat
of the enormous of clothing resting the hipsa
these combining with delicate constitutions have produced
and increasingly producing terrific results that but
little known or understood.