Randolph County journal. [volume] (Winchester, Randolph County, Ind.) 1855-1862, 1858-10-28
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CousfiDofion.

There is no single word In Web.
ster's Unabridged Dictionary. from
a am to zythum inclusive. which. to
our mind. is SO expressive Of human
misery anil physiological dcpravity as
this. 1t is mainly because our bowels
arc eonstlrated that the people Of these
United States support twenty-five
thousand Drug Stores and forty-fivc
thousand Doctors, at an annual cx-
pensc Of more than one hundred mil
lions Of dollars. And ii is because Of
this that our people pay the Quacks
of the irregular trade several millions
a year.
But the loss OF the money expended
in attempts to make the bowels OF the
community move. and in endeavors to
obviate the consequences of their OBJ
struction. is an insignificant evil COM
pare,l with the loss Of health. and hap.
piness, and life. The mischiefs which
spring from constipation. as the parent
source, are as numerous in the vital
domain as are the sins which, in the
moral world, originate from the evil
on- himself. Ii Satan is the father of
lies, constipation is the mother Of in
lirmities.
Where, in all the broad lanl. is
there a man, woman, or child whose
bowels move naturally, who never re-
quires artificial aids? There are a few
such. And they are those who know
almost nothing Of sickness. They are
strangers to dyspepsia, rheumatism,
toothachc, bronchitis, consumption
They never have the cholera. They
are proof against yellow fever They
are secure from paralysis. They never
die of appoplexy. Organic affections
OF the heart never trouble them
Constipation Of the bowels causes
foul blood and morbid secrctions.-
These occasion corrupt humors, which
induce torpid livers, congeStcd kid
neys, oppressed lungs, and congested
brain. Then follow rheumatic pains,
headache, palpitation Of the heart, YER
tigo. sinking spells. nervous debility.
lumbaGo, sciatica. spinal irritation,
piles. spasms. colics, and, as more re.
mote Consequences st;ll. putrid fevcrs,
peStilcntial epidemics. malignant cry
sipclas. carbuncles. and cancers. Aud
the medicines which arc given to cure
these consequences are worse than the
diseases which they cure.
Learned physicians look for the
causes of these prevalent maladieS in
the vicissitules of the weather; in
therniometrical variations; in baromct-
rical states; in prevailing winds; in
fogs; in storms from the East; in cur
rents from the South; in tornadoes
from the West: in blasts from the
North; in commotions in the Heavens
above; in convultions in the Earth be-
meath; in ozone; in electricity; in ami
nalculeS; IN excess of nitrogen; in de-
licency Of oxygen; in some fault OF
hydrogen; in carbonaceous miasms; in
want OF carbon. in catching cold;"
in g,;tinS hot; in exposure; in conine-
ment; in everything cxccpt--constipa-
ton.
And why is the whole human race.
with few exceptions, sick and dying Of
constipation? The complaint is scarce
" known in the animal kingdom be-
low man. Why should the most in
teiligent creature IN existence lie the
only one who can not have hcalthful
action of the bowels Surely there
must be a cansc. We charge the
whole of it to the prevalent system of
cookery---worse in some families, and
hotels, and nations than in others. but
bad, ruinous, killing, all over the area
of civilization. The remedy Is not in
the direction OF Drug Shops and Doc
tors, but in that Of food and cooks.