Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-04-19
OUR HEALTH COLUMN, OR MEDICAL
AND ANTI-MEDICAL.
SPRING suGGEsTIoNs.

who should keep up as hot fires in his
house as the spring advances as he did IN
mid-winter. Food is the fuel which keeps
the human house-the body-warm ;
hence, if as much is eaten in spring as in
winter, we are kept too warm we burn
up with fever; we are oppressed we sui
fer from lassitude. All nature takes a
new lease of life with spring but man.
1t is because he alone is unwise. The
brute beasts, the cow, the horse, the OK
these turn to a new diet and 60 out to
grass, to crop every green thing; they
would never come to the stable or barn
yard of choice to eat the ''heating," 'bind-
ing oats and corn on which they luxuri-
ated during the winter they cat watery
food which is light and purifying. Not
so with man he continues his meats and
fats, his greases and his g~ravies, as at
Christmas. Watchful nature takes away
his appetite for these, and because he does
not relish" them as he did a few weeks
before, he begins to conclude that some
thing is the matter, and measuring the
amount of his health by the amount he
can send down his throat, he begins to
stimulate the appetite, thinks he must use
some tonic, readily assents to any suggcs-
ton which includes bitters and whisky,
especially the latter; in addition, he puts
more mustard, and pepper, and catsup on
his meats, seasons everything more heav-
lily, until nature has been goaded so that
she will bear no more, and yields to the
fatal d~ysentery or bilious collie, or hap
PLY relieves herself by a copious diarrhea.
Does not every reader know that fever, and
fux, and diarrhea are common ailments
of spring? But you did not know one of
the chief causes, mans gluttony, as above
described Tens Of thousands Of lives
would be saved every spring, and an meal
culable amount of human discomfort would
be prevented, if early in March, or at
most by the first of April, meat and grease
and fried food of every description were
banished from the table wholly, at least
for breakfast and supper. If meat will
be eaten for dinner, let it be lean use
hominy and "samp" largely, have no
fries, cat but little butter; use eggs; keep
the body clean, spend every hour possible
in the open air, shutting in the spring;
but by every consideration of wisdom and
of health, have a good fire to come to and
sit by with all your garments on, for eight
or ten minutes after all forms Of exercise.
Any "relish,' as it is called, wheth-
er in the shape of a bit Of dried beef, or
cold ham, or sauce, or preserves, or cake,
is nothing less than an absolute curse.
This is strong language; but such things
do give millions of persons restless nights,
uncomfortable awakenings, and succeeding
days of unwellness in every degree, from
simple idgets to ennui, Miniature, fretful-
ness, and the whole catalogue of mean,
low traits of character. such as snappish-
ness, ~fault-6nding, querulousness, glooms,
and the like this is because nature does
not need food for supper, does not call for
it; and a plain tea-table, with nothing
but bread and butter on it, repels us the
moment we enter the room. The next
thing is to have something which has
more taste in it, which "relisbes )" in 9TH
er words, which tempts nature to take
what she would not otherwise have done;
and when once inveigled into the stomach,
it must be got rid of; but no preparation
has been made for it; it is as unwelcome
as the appearance of a friend at dinner on
a washing day. The result is, that what
has been eaten is imperfectly digested, a
bad blood is made Of it, and this being
mixed with the good blood of the system,
renders the whole mass of blood in the
body imperfect and impure; and as the
blood goes to every part Of the system,
there is not a square inch of it that is not
ready for disease of some sort, those parts
being most liable to attack which had suf-
fered previous injury of any kind; those
who have weak brains, for example, be-
come SOFTER still, under the charitable
name of nervousness. "-HaWs Journal
Of Health.
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