The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1858-07-24

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81 HsnpArsy Dsvy, vhsn boy, with
- ds4aae eosStaacy q youtA which had
= ~ su1srsd nstking, held the opinios
thse paia ~ no evil. He ~ rsfuted
~ crab which bic his 10 While bath.
tag, and made him rear loud enough 70
- heard hall mile oR. Ifhe had main
eainsd, instead, that pain was good, his
doctrine would have been impeachable.
Usloss the whole consultation Of che
world was altered, our existance depends
npon oar ssnsibility % suffering. An
aascdots, which was quoted By Dr. Car.
peatsF, il his "Princsples Of Human
Physiology" shows the fatal effects Of
tenpofrry suspensioa Of this law Of our
A drovsr went to sleep on 4 winters
evening upon the platform Of lim- kiln,
Nth one IL resting upon the stones
.Rhiah had bo1n pill N 3 burs through
the night. That which W. gentle
warmth when he lay down became q con-
suming Gre before hs rose 10. His foot
vas burned Oh shove the ankle, and when
reused il the morning by the man who
superintended the lime-kiln, he put his
stump, uDconcious OF his misfortune, 70
the ground, the extremity crumbled into
fragments. Whether he had been lulled
into tupor BY the carbouic acid driven
OF from the limestone, or whatever else
may have been the cause Of his insensi-
bility, he felt 90 pain, and, though his
very exemption from this lot Of humani-
y, expired in . fortnight afterwards il
Bristol Hospital.
Without the warning voice Of pain,
life would be series Of similar Disaster.
The crab TO the lasting detriment Of chem
istry, might have eaten of the future Sir
Humphreys foot while he was swimming,
without his entertaining the slightest
suspicion Of the ravages which were 90
ing on. Had he survived tho injuries
Of the crab, be would yet have been cut
of in the morning Of his famous career,
IT, when experimenting upon the gasses,
tho terrible oppression At his chest had
not warned him to cease inhaling the
csrburetted hydrogen, nor, after 4 long
struggle fer life, would he have recovered
70 say 10 his alarmed assistant, IL don't
think ! shall de-
Without physical pain, infancy would
be maimed or perish, before experience
could inform Il Of its dangers. Lord
Kaimes advised parents to cut the en-
gers Of their children "cunningly" with
q knife, that the little innoceuts might
associate suffering with the glittering
blade before they could do themselves
worse injury but if no smart accompa-
MED the wound, they would cut up their
own fingers with tho same glee that they
would cut stick, and burn them in !
candle with the same delight that they
burn . piece Of paper in the FIRE. With
out pain, we could not proportion our ac-
tions to the strength of our frame, or
our opertions to its power Of endurance.
In the impetuosity of youth we should
strike blows that would crush our hands,
and break our arms; We should take
leaps that would dislocate our limbs; and
no longer taught BY fatigue that the mus
cles need repose, we should continue our
sports and our walking tours till We had
worn out the living tissue with the
same unconciousness that we now wear
out our costs and our shoes. The very
nutrimsnt which il the support of life
would frequently prove our death. Mira
beau said, Of man who was as idle - he
was corpulent, that his only use was 10
show how far the skin would stretch
without bursting. Without pain, this
limit would Be constantly exceeded, and
epicures, experiencing no uneasy sensa-
tions, would continue their festivities until
they met the fate Of the frog 10 the fable,
who was ambitious Of emulating the size
Of an or.
Sir Charles Bell mentions the case Of
q patient who had lost the sense Of heat
in his right hand, and who, unconscious
that the cover of the pan which han fall
len into the FIRE was burning hot, took it
out and deliberately returned it 10 its
proper place, to the Obstruction of the
skin Of the palm and fingers. This, Of
itself, would be an incessant occurrance
II the monitor we're waiting which makes
us drop such materials more hastily than
We pick them up. Pain is the grand pre-
server Of existance, the sleeping sentinel
that makes US both start away from the
injury that is present and guard against
it carefully in the time to come.-Lon.
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