Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-07-25
Summer Complaints.

S fran, The "Regular Faculty. Hooking
ont over green fields or the par'erFes OF
Gower garden. variagared with thousand
differing blossoms or laug hing under me
fru,,age which bends heavily down from
The oyer-laden boughs, we are all too aP..
n give ourselves wholly up to sense OF
present enioymeni,wiIhou' sufficient guar,
ding against those "serpenis IN the grass
those dangers peculiar to the season.
which are nevertheless, knoDn dangers,
and 10 which so many thousands fall an
nually an unresls'irg prey.
With good reason, indeed, have the UNI
ripe apples, pine apples, turranls and other
fruit, exposed in our city markets and on
the stalls of peripatetic vendors round our
streets, been called "the pills of Death. y
Cholera morbus, dysentery, and diahr-
rhga Turk in every cents worth Of such
banquet; and the mIasma,lc eXhalatlons
arising from decayed vegetable and ami
NAL matter exposed to the fierce radience
of the summer sun, accelerate the pro-
gress OF such disorders and aggrava'e the
ylrulence and danger of their symptoms.
In regard 10 eating pine apples, we
would remark that the fruit, like most
others is of heterogeneous character
part diges,ible and part indigeslble-and,
when eaten, good and bad is devoured TO-
gelher and occasions the irritation of the
stomach, and subsequent cholera, espe
cally if glass of spirit or dose of OPT
ain is taken after it, as The spirit preserves
the fruit from digestion, and consequently
allows the indigestible part Of il TO lay in
the stomach and excite Inflammation.
For these reasons it is as we feel called
on al the present junctuTe TO direct atten-
ton to the one sufficing remedy, which
our own experience (and the experience
of the world) attests to be the only rela-
BILE safeguard against the various species
of disorder-all belonging 10 one genus,
however-known as darrhGa, dysentery
and bloody flux, cholera morbus, Asialic
cholera, &C., &c.
For all these different forms which in
les final irritation may assume, Rad10ayS
Ready ReliJ, rubbed in externally over
the parts affected and administered inter
naly in doses OF from ten TO fifty drops
der hour, to suit the age and strength OF
each patient, will IN egery case al!ay all
pain and uneasiness al once, and no! onl y
give temporary benefit, but also, and more
Importantly, effect a permanent cure from
which there shall be 10 relapse..
1t is weIl-known fact, and one rcplete
with significance, that we differ radically |
n our treatment Of disease from the modes
adopted, in one form or other,
~ all members of what is known as the
regular faculty." With us, the ones
ion of Disease is problem 10 be solved
,y specific process, with the ''reguIars,
Disease is monster that can only be
COPIED against by thousand inconsistent
experiments. In thousand cases OF SIM
lar treatment for ala fixed HYGIENE
the result in every case
will be similar recovery, coming IN a.
day or week, according 10 the strength OF
the patient and the period at which the
disease was first taken; but coming as
soon or late, as The Predeier-
mined and unoHeraJle result ofa gioen
proposition IN geometry, Submitted TO.
the ordinary solution.
Now in diarrLea, disentery and other
diseases of what may be termed the sum
mer Glass, the "regularS" are in the hab-
i, of giving opium, morphine and other
analogous pUisons of a narcotic nature;
or, should they vary this treatment in the
least, it Will merely be 10 substitute chalk
and other mineral obstruents to check and
paralyse disorder which, when rightly
understood, is really strong eDorf
made By Nature TO relieve herself from
the poisonous and Uici0uS h,morS 1chtch
hare accumulated IN The system.
Let US put this matter in the pIanes'
and irueSt form the complex machinery
of the human frame, with It's millions OF
nerves and vlsicles, lis tissues and It's
functions, and requirements of supply and
demand has become disordered IN some
inner portion of liz works by the lodg-
ment therein of poisonous, In legesn0le,
OF other delelerous substances; and the
indication of such disorder is a crude and
profuse discharge of matter from the
stomach; just as a machine for spinning
carpets mi ght get injured internally and
manifest its hurt by mixing the threads
spoHing the pattern, and turning out the
texture imperfectly or roughly woven.
Well; what do the "regulars" prescribe
in this dilemma They simply stop the
machine by paralysin its motive power
with more powerful narcotic poison, or
they fling chalk into ii,so that the delicate
cog-wheels Of the system cannot revolve
again until freed from the physical OBJ
struction.
"Well; and what then ?" we think we
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