The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-02-18
Hafd study versu, hard Eating.
Students and dyspeptics, read this article
rom Halls New. York Journal of Health:

Students and dyspepiics, read this article
from HALLS New York Journal of Health:
Hard study hurts nobody, but hard eating
does. II is very common thing TO attribute
The premature disability or death of students
and eminent men TO too close application 10
their studies. Ii has now come 10 be gen.
orally admitted truth, that hard Study, as ii
is called, endaDgers life. il is a mischievous
error that severe mental application under
mines health. Unthinking people will dis
miss this with the exclamation OF "Tba's
oil stuff" or something equally conclusive
To those who search after truth, in the love
of it, we wish 10 offer some suggestions.
Many German scholars have studied for
Lifeline, for sixteen hours out of the twenty
four, and very large number, from twelve
10 fifteen hours; lived in comparative health
and died beyond the sixties.
One of the most -stefiira zIisinSllHieaxi
Professor sfIIimss, - III
mdwiuter, irssssp - : \, u
the age of ne4lr elfEIF ygzE NJ
%sn'n;,t 6sa,n; as'ITi eli |l||| - ! J.
the like. Anothef strong example of the
truth that health aud bard study are not in.
compatible, is found in the great Missourian,
Thomas II. Benton, now past three score and
ten, and in the enjoymeni.of vigorous health;
a 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 life, he studied fifteen hours
out of The tweniy-fonr, and al one time gave
but. four hours 10 sleep. John Quincy Ad.
ans, "ihe old man eloquent" is another
equally strong example of our position. All
these men, with the venerable DR.. Nou now
more than eighty years old, made The pres
ervatioh of health scientific study, and by
systematic temperance, neither blind ror
spasmodic, secured the prize for which they
labored, and with it, years, usefulness, and
honor. The inculcation of these imponau,
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 country. 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 inexcusable ignorance
OF the laws of life and health, and wicked
neglect of them. We use this strong LAM
guage purposely, for the ignorance Of duly
to their own souls; for upon both classes of
duty the lights brightly shine, full bright
enough for all practical purposes-lghts of
nature, of science, of experience, and of
grace. How much Of the hard intoicran,
theology of the times was concocled and
perpeluated by dysfep.ic siomachs, reflect.
ing men can readily conjecture. We lake il
upon ourselves 10 guard and guide the shep.
hevds. We would like TO say much more
on this subject, but long articles are neither
read nor copied, and by many a long cigar or
a long quid would be preferred. For the
present, therefore, we content ourselves with
the enunciation Of the gist of this srlcle.--
Students and professional men are not so
much injured ty hard study as by hard eat
ing; nor is severe study for a lifetime, of
itself incompatible with mental and bodily
vigor 10 the full age of threescors years and
ten.