The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-02-18
Hard study versus Hard Eating.

Students and dyspeplics, read this article
from Halls New York Journal of Health:
Hard study hurts nobody, but hard eating
does. 1t is very common thirg to attribute
the premature disability or death of students
and eminent men TO too close application to
their studies. 1t has now come TO be n gen.
orally admitted truth, that hard study, as i,
is called, endangers life. 1t is a mischievous
error that severe mental application under
mines health Unthinking people will dis-
miss this with the exclamation OF "Thal's
oil stuff" or something equally conclusive
| To those who search after truth, in the love
OF ii, we wish TO offer some suggestions.
Many German scholars have studied for q
Lifeline, for sixteen hours out of the lwent,
four. aud very large number, from twelve
10 fifteen hours; lived in comparative health
and died beyond the sixties.
One of the most sterling living minds,
Professor Smiman, the elder, ,s now, in
mldwinter, travelling, through the country, a
The age of nearly eighty years and in gooc
health, delivering geological lectures, livin!
mentally on hard rocks, iron, iridium ant
The like. Another strong example of the
truth that health and bard study are moi in
compatible, is found in the great Mssouran
Thomas Ii. Benton, now past three score and
len, and in The enjoymen,of vigorous health
more severe student than he has been and
is now, the American public does not know
DR.. Charles Caldwell, our honored precep.
Tor, lived beyond the eighties, with high
bodily health, remarkable physical vigor,
and mental force scarcely aba:ed YET for a
great part OF his lie, he studied fifteen hours
out of The twenly-four, and at one lime gave
but. four hours 10 sleep. John Quincy Ad.
ans, ''lhe old man eloquent" is another
equally strong example of our position. All
these men, with the venerable DR.. Mott. now
more than eighty years old, made the pres
ervation of health a scientific study, and bv
systematic temperance, neither blind ror
spasmodic, secured The prize for which they
labored, and with il, years, usefulness, and
henor. The inculcalion of these important
truths was precisely the object we had in
view, in the projection of this journal, with
the more immediate practical application to
the clergy of this county, whom we see
daily disabled or dying scores of years be-
fore their time; not as is uniformly benevo.
lently stated, from their "arduous labors, -
but by persistent and nexcusable ignorance
oil the laws of life and health, and wicked
neglect of them. We use this strong Ian.
guage purposely, for the ignorance of duly
to their own souls; for upon both classes OF
duty the lights brightly shire, full bright
enough for all practical purposes-liehts of
nature, of science, of experience, and of
grace. How much of the hard in,olerau,
theology of the times was concoced and
perPeluated by dysfep:ic siomachs, reflect
ing men can readily conjecture. We take it
upon ourselves 10 guard and guide the shep.
hevds. We would like 10 say much more
on this subject, but long articles are neither
read nor copied, and by many long cigar or
long quid would be preferred. For the
present, therefore, We content ourselves with
the enumeration Of the gsl of this erlicle-
Students and professional men are not so
much injured by hard study as by hard eat
ing; nor is severe study for lifetime, OF
itself incompatible with mental and bodily
vigor 10 The full age of threescors years and
ten.