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| To ohtaln pure air by exercise daily, either
active or passive, and breathe pure oxygen
at night, by a pure and free ventilation of
fresh air at all times let Into his
apartment, which should be large and
commodious. Sleeping on feather beds is
discarded as positively pcrnicious. being
debilitating and relaxing in their effect to
the physical vital stamina, and especially
are one of the most prominent causes of the
| complications to consumption, in the nu-
merous weaknesses and local diseases of ro-
males. glaringly fatal in thousands Of in
stances not even suspected By friends. All
unhealthy forms of dress, the loose sleeves
the naked arms, the cold extremities from
improper dress, the fashionable compressed
waist, are all seriously denounced. The
unhealthy indoor cmployments of so many
OF our females, the close confined and poi
sonous air breathed by confinement in
small, ill-ventilated working as we'll as
sleeping apartments, the inhaling of cot
ton-dust, and dust from every unhealthy
occupation, is eloquently pointed out by
DR.. Stone to all patients consulting him.
as knowledge absolutely necessary for the
patient to possess and act upon as far as it
may be infringing the laws of health, be-
fore its legitimate effects in impairing the
health and developing the causes of disease
in the Lungs, or before any cure cln be
obtained ; for in his estimation, so sure are
we governed by fixed laws that effects will
certainly follow the causes or Violations
Natures laws are inexorable notwithstand-
ing all fashions and conservative rules to
the contrary and every person is to under
stand and sacredly revere the laws of ON
impotence regarding their health.
No one has any moral right to recklessly
@,,n a, la,r
sacrifice their lives, by becoming victims to
Consumption or any disease, moret han they
have to deliberately commit suicide. One
is as culpable as the other. A sudden and
premature death from reckless regard of
the laws of health is as much suicide as
though dellberated; and is as morally
wrong and responsible to the Laws of ON
Impotence. But the sufferer unblushingly
answers, how am | to know anything
about the laws of health, ! violated only
because was ignorant The answer is,
both from rcrC1dtion and reason. The
ignorance of the law excuseth no man. -
God governs us and the Uorld, by fixed
Laws and made US subject to them; he
gives us intelligent faculties to compre-
hend them, and reason to guide us i'll ac
cordance thereto; they are spread out be-
fore us, so plainly that every one having
common sense can perceive and understand
them. Our voluntary ignorance will af-
ford no excuse. They were recognized two
thousand years ago, by St. Paul, before the
investigations Of Science had thrown the
knowledge of anatomy and physiology so
directly before us; and our voluntary igno-
rance Of them at this day should put us to
shame and confusion of face. "Know We
not, says the Apostle, "that your body is
the temple of the Holy Guosr which ia in
you which yo have of GoD, and ye are not
your own Hence we are the property of
God, our bodies as well 'as soul are his
Seek not death in the Error of your Life,
and pull not upon yourselves destruction
with the works Of your hands.
Fools die for want OF wisdom
What means this language Ifit means
any thing, it is of awful import 1t means
that we are responsible for our health, for
our own physical well being; that sickness,
pain, and premature decay, that we every
where see around US is the result of our
imprudence-the result of a direct inrrac-
ton of the unaltcrable laws of our being.
1t is time the community awaked to
the awful sense of their responsibility -
God never designed man to pass so prema-
turely to the grave when all his aspirations
point to lie, and the pure enioyments that
| flow from health Man was designed to
develop on Earth, the immortal part of his
nature, to unfold the undying principle, of
| which score of three score and ten years
would be but faint beginning, if he re-
allied that period unsullied by pain and
weakness. The euident and solemn fact
that there IS not one natural death in Hre
hundred, comes home to our calm refec-
ton and speaks to us, in language more
enduring than gold or the imperish-
able adamant, that we are the authors of
our own physical degeneracy and decay. 1t
is the offspring of onr habits and modes Of
life The great tyrant fashion has his ser
pent grasp upon our race, and upon our
rising generation, particularly upon our
females and upon our children. Let
Mothers and parents reflect, that when they
are called to mourn and follow to the grave
a lovely daugeter, the responsibility is with
Mem COP 0iHs At not. Let it be under
stood by every one that is dying with con-
sumption-by every one that is suffering
and pining with disease, that however much
we may preach the durability of Consump-
ton in seasonable stages OF the disease,
timely studying its prevention by all pa
rents, by all daughters, and by the young
Of every grade and sex, would be a wiser
plan, and show disposition on their part
| to know and revere the Sacred Laws OF On
| IMPOTENCE.
1t Is cheering in the nineteenth century
amid allcontroing, overwhelming influence
of popular fashions, the influence of wealth
and pride, to find a physician commanding
the honesty to stand up and say to the COM
munity that remedy must be sought for
the cure of consumption and our physical
infrmities other than in drugs, or the
science OF prescribing by rule, according to
the creeds of the schools and the medical
dogmas, which originated in the darker
ages of the world, when free enquiry. free
discussion and correct reasoning, was sup,
pressed by the power of a parchment ol
sheep skin.
But few years since, medical science
was sealed book to all its professors, by
whom it was as jcalously guarded from the
public eyes, as were the mystic secrets OF
the Egyptian priesthood from the priest
ridden people. In place of these we have
now intelligent and perseyering men, gain
ing medical knowledge, and as eagerly diff
fusing it among those who trust their lives
in their hands claiming only the super
ority which is acquired by exclusive atlen
ton and constant practice. And this en-
lightened policy is being fully repai(
by the increased confidence whicl
the public place upon really talented men
OF this class Is DR.. Stone Would all ou
physicians be equally conscientious, an,
evince the same moral courage and inde
pendence over the trammels of schools an
party bounds, and impress these grea
, truths upon every patient, as he invariabl,
does, we should have less consumption an
= premature decay.
p Fond and doting parents would have les
3 cause of murmurlng and replning a
Q the now seemingly. mysterious ways c
n Providence. But so fashionable is it fo
a physicians to prescribe for symptoms-e
+ lects only, willingly keeping the patier
j. Ignorant OF the true causes, for fear of Gu
= ting off the chance of fees, that we fear
;. will be long time before the great mas
e Of community will be informed respectin
2 the pernicious habits and fashions that no
IS engulf the human mind IN one MaelstroI