New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-07-27
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passage from he Essay urc1 Anteet ana sl'le.h
a. Learning" which / AIN temper - eAI'"r.,
| Whoever ccpvs-ses much among 90 booze VIII
be something hard 70 please amoLg ne ne a.
fac. s,y William "For tho tcnob'ecs, ae con
,inues care inf.ite sast, Ike mushrooms or 4 es'
are bonn and die in small circes Of tue; where's
books, like proverbs receive Their cn'1i 'a.ue
from TIE stamp and esteem OF ases ,hl1ueh "ni,h
L" ,hev have passed" Again: " Bcoks nay be
" beI.s 70 ;ssrnipg AID snowiedse, and maze i
| " roore comnoa and dlfIHsed, but dcuo: Whether
| " ,Iev s,e necessary ones or no. VIA, he,-
e.v "a repriD. IN tbs sieam-prntng age
| 70, nv own part, an Just nov Wen
enough content with the 'a!iog OF A'Phonso'
| the Wise King Of Aragon: All thiacs are
81 handles. besde old wood to burn, Old VINE
| "to drink, old friends 70 converse "tn' ana
| d" old hooks 70 read" To such pitch OF phc-o-
,bv have two lame feet brough. NE. Tie E-s1y
IN Health and Long LIE e almost as good ss tie
host If Montaigne. when i vas young, says
| Sir William. and in some die company, it was
:, nrona.ed that every one should tel VIVA, Their
/" re wishes should be, if they were sure 70 be
E. Granted. Some were very pleasant, and some
4" very extrayagsnt. Nine We're hea,h ana peace
| d" and fair weather" The last is truly an English
| vish for Temple SAVE: The SUM- in our climate
| AT least, has something 80 reylyng, that tar
dsy 10 kind of sensual pleasure and OF all others
the most innocent So tbev were t0g-rdden IN
Door old England even then Sir Williams
knowledge OF physiology was good enough for t's
day. OF course he talks o. radical neat sna
" radical moisture" medical catch-words OF mat
time The Portuguese ambassador tod him that
Old FILL in
selves away in the Brazil feet" and lived twenty
or thirty wears or more by the force OF that ygor
they received with that remove" Whether,
saws Temple philosOphcally, " the plecing out oil
On old mans life were worth the pans, cannot
tell; perhaps the play is not worth the candle,
Monsieur PompOne. the French ambassador az the
Hague told Sir William that lin his life he had never
heard of any man in France thst arrived al hun
- bred years" which Temple attributes - fast
living (his own phrase). "A short life and a
merry one carries it,, says he, " and IS without
doubt better than long with sorrow and
pain" Sir William sums up sensibly: "A man
must either exercise or fast, or take physlc, or
be sick" Here is really hint at the homeopathic
method: Il have sometimes wondered why regis
try has not been kept in the Colleges OF Phys.
" clans Of all such remedies as have been invented
by any professors Of every age, found out ny
study or chance learned by inquiry, and approved
| by their practice and experience. ms ,oonh
Z" snpply the rant Of skill and study" Temple
humorousy notices the changes in medical practice
| in his time. When he was very young the fashion,
able disease among children was tickets; among
| young people consumption Then, ne says
1.-The spleen came III play" "Then the scprvy.
'Then ferment of the blood, which passed for the
cause of all sorts Of ailments, that ncitter Physi-
clans nor patients kne,o ,ceN uhat to mule Of"
To all these succeeded vapors, which serve the
same turn and furnish occasion OF complaint
LII ,is oil
/" thing they know not what. Yet these employ
our physicians, perhaps more than other diseases,
"who are fain to humor such patients IN their fan
cies of being ILL., and to prescribe some remedies,
(Which neither they their patients find any Ell
If feet Of beside some gains to one, and amusement
''to the other" This makes one think OF the sly
dig at the Doctor put into his own mouth, in Mac
beth. Now for remedies changed in Sir Williams
time and observation. He remembered when to-
bacco and warm beer were universal remedies; then
swallowing pebble-stOnes in imitation OF facOners
curing hawks; then cold spring. water to be swal-
lowe d as much the patient could bear then pow
dered sea bsquet; then tea and coffee; then pow
der of steel: then various compositions OF inno-
~ cent ingredients which feed the hopes of the pa
tients and the apothecsries gains but leave
Mature to her course mho IS hc sooeragn
.phpsicion, and learos ihle for others TO DO,
.'turtler than to ,ratch accidents And Is not
| this worthy to be written in golden letters III
| every PHYSICIANS study and upon his pocket
case and upon his buggy "The first excellence OF
"a PHYSICIANS skill and care il discovered by re-
solving whether ii is best in the case to admins
ter any pbysic or none, TO trust to nature or to
"art" Bravo Sir William. You should have
been plain DIR. Temple. Here is 4 taste of the
Jones pharmacOpeia: For cOnsumptive coughs,
sage tea; for restoring the appetite, rue made up
with sugar into small pills. for revving the heart,
saffron, the nobe.t and most innocent OF herbs; for
stone sore eyes and frenzles, ground vy for cohcs
and govt garlic: for scurvy and drOpsy elder flow.
ers. berries and bark: for rhcums in the eyes aud
head leaf Of tobacco put int the nostrlls for an
hour each morning; for Indigestion, Strawberries,
cherries figs peaches and grapes before eating, or
| apples after eating; for govt again, burning with
moxs So much for DR.. Temple of whom DIR.
| Jonathan Swift so finely said; He had by long
| experience made the estimate of the advantages
"of private life above those of public; and
"was thoroughly convinced that the blessings e
innocence, security, meditation, good air, health
'and sound sleep, were preferable to the splendOr
of courts; considering the slavish attendance the
"inyidious competitions, serye flattery and mortal
disappointment that usually attend them" And
this was written BY man who went mad because
they would not make him bishop Poor human
nature But Sir William could amuse himself with
raising grapes, tulips and cucumbers. and with
translstinc Horace and Tibullus while Swift had nc
other recreation tuau INC oio"hns VI ~Viuou
heart.
Here is another man who put his trust in princes
the Right Honorable Edward, Earl of Clarendon.
These are the tracts published from his Lordship's
original manuscripts, in London, in l727. This one
CONTAINS his " Vndication," dated at Montpelier,
July "a, I66S-a noble composition, lift hadnot end
ed with whine, and prayer for heprosperty of a
goddess and perured King for whom, says Clarendon
my daily prayers shall be poured out, in what con-
dtion soever / am, and IN what corner Of the
world soever shall be confined or condemned TO- A"