The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1856-11-19

: LOUISIANA, during lecture, one or two years
ago, said Gas civilization extends doctors null
tiplv.'' None can doubt the truth OF his obser-
Z walton. Our modern civilization begets an ar.
tfcial fe and like all artificial things requires
e art and artists fol- its preservation. The ply,
sieians not responsible for the multiplication
: of their numbers. They increase simply under
: the universal mercantile law of demand and
/ supply. If the demand decreased the number
/ OF "medicine men" would decrease, and vice
S versa, while the demand increases the supply
: will increase. Every family these latter days
t must have their ''family physician" It's fash
2 ionable and sounds SO well to say "our family
physician. and if people will be in the fashion
: they must pay for it in money or i'll health, or
!; to speak properly, in both. It is astonishing
, what pains people are at to avoid the natural
and rational modes or habits of life which would
ensure general good health. They will not OBJ
; serve common sense in their use of food. in
their dress, in theIr outdoor pleasures, or their
. indoor life. They Cypress their digestive or
, gans by their epicurean tastes and neglect OF
simple, health giving fare. They destroy their
| nervous system by indulgence in beverages, OF
the use of narcotics The physical energies
! are weakened by being stimulated, instead OF
being nourisbed, and the mental faculties suffer
with the wear of the physical. All civised
communities are fast becoming communities OF
linvallds under constant medical care. It is the
fashion to make the doctors subjects for sar-
casm and caricature, but people cannot live
without a doctor and those who die because the
doctor cannot save them from the consequences
OF their own folly, but seldom come under the
Esatirst's lash. The trade in pills and nledicals
Of innumerable names and varieties, grows at
an enormous rate. Our cities are like vast hos
pitfalls divided into numerous wards, with az
expensive staff of physicians, surgeons and apo
thecarles The adults die by scores-espec-
ally when the yellow fever or cholera comes
round-their weakly offspring by hundreds
Golgothas rise on every side, and the cities of
the dead compete in population and attraction
with the cities of the living. We seem to have
lost all right conception of the value of life, of
the sacredness Of the duty of preserving health.
We fee from our cities and towns on merely
hearing an epidemic prognosticated, and talk
about health being the greatest blessing man
can enjoy, and, perhaps while the words are on
our lips We are INDUCING some pernicious habit
which is gradually, but surely, working the de-
structlon OF that we profess 10 prize SO highly. .
The truth is, but few Of us know or study the .
art of living well With all our advances in
knowledge we have not made any progress in
the art of preserving health. Enough is writ
ten about the laws Of health, but the more laws
and the more that is written about them, the
greater the number of their Violations In health
matters, as in other matters, few simple rules p
strictly observed and perserered in. are better
han multitude Of laws wholly disregarded ,
tpeoPle would observe temperance in all things, t
olIow the suggestions Of reason rather than the 7
ccentricities and soibles of fashion, cultivate
Industrious and regular habits, take innocent ,
ecreatlon, and exercise in the pure air, they {
would enjoy better health, live happier, more
Useful lives, and need far less medicine and few
7 physicians. .
Corrosive extract from the Crescent the III
blowing circular, dated Liverpool, Oct 18Th r
For the past week there has been some fuss y
nd excitement regarding the monetary diff -
alty between the bank of England and the ~
ank Of France. English government sccuri-
eS have popped up and down as much as one :
er cent. IN few hours. The matter has set S
ed down to a regular warfare between the ri
anks OF England and France. The bank of !,
ngiand trying to force the bank of France to
l>pend specie payments. The ministry of i"
rance are desrous that the bank OF France la
louId suspend, but Louis Napoleon says no. p
'elI, we shall See. | think the bank of Eng r.,
nd Will prevail Rothschild and Barngs have J,
come known as the parties acting for France, ~
I'd the bank of England has refused to loan NJ
en- money even on British government stocks; II
deed 10 loan any one on government or other W
an mercantile securities, the object being to
op the drain of bullion. 1t is very pretty
yht as 1t stands, but in the meantime ali trade er
fiers severely Should the bank Of France i,
spend specie payment, money will fall TO y,
r cent. in England, and cotton will 90 up q
my per pound. Ell
1t is singular, but fact that cotton is now Ell
|. equal to &c. Per pound lower than it can II
laid down from the United States at the last CT
'otations-say l2c:.for middling. You vould =,
amused to hear how these cotton buyers and ''i
miners talk. prices must keep down-the III
arkets of the United States shall decline 10
ey won't pay more than they are paying in wi
Terpool now-and what is to be become of Il,
e cotton if they don't buy ii? They won't -
nd orders to the United States for the pur- no
asses at the Rates current there; but the Amer III
ms will be compelled to ship their cotton yc
re and take such prices as they think proper ell
pay, as the cotton must (under present rate u
interest, per cent be sold TO meet the :.
Is Poor infatuated creatures, with all ~
7lr boosted wealth, they don't seem 10 under
md that while money is worth per cent -,
re, it is only worth'5 per cent. in New Or ~.
ms, and that cotton can be held in New Or %
ms as we'll as in Liverpool, for never before sa
We planters and factors had such entire CON Gu
i over cotton aS tber baya tbic Saocop frba