Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-04-12
OUR HEALTH COLUMN, OR MEDICAL
AND ANTI-MEDICAL.
Apology for Health RefOrm-(Continued.

and we ride. One. tells us pork is bad,
another objects to fine flour. One talks
of bathing, another of pure air.
We might enquire whether these be not
preferable to the pill hobby, the plaster
hobby, and the bitter hobby. But the
real difficulty is. that because we can ice,
and do this or that, we conclude it is
no matter what we do.
Life is made up of little things. Hap
piness grows from a multitude of little
charities and kindnesses. Because one
illnatured act does not make us forever
miserable, socially, is it no matter wheth-
er we are patient, gentle and considerate
or the reverse? So of Health, there are
many things you had better do or not.do,
but you may refuse to regard one or two,
and yet live to-day and tomorrow. But
if we say it is no matter whether we eat
a pint of salt and a pound of saleratus
yearly whether we eat plain, unstimu-
lating food, or mince pie, sausage, and
toast; Nature may conclude it is no mat
ter if we have dyspepsia. If it lis no mat
ter whether we have the mild, fresh air of
a balmy summer breeze or the pent up
pcstilence of a prison, within our dwell
lings; whether our sleeping rooms are oc-
cupied by one person each, with a door
open and a window up, or receive the
breath Of from two to five, doors and
windows shut and barred, then it may be
no matter if we are tossed, a week or two,
with a fever from the poison we have
brewed in our blood or if lingering dis
ease add it's presence to our crowded num-
Der.
6. We employ physicians expressly to
attend to these things.
You employ them too late then. You
not only wait till you are sick, you try
first, a round Of domestic remedies !. e.,
remedies, most of which were in vogue
one hundred years ago, now rejected from
fashionable practice, because worn out, or
become common; then a course of patent
medicine; .. E., medicine not patent at all,
but kept a profound secret sometimes
harmless as sweetened water, as such rath-
er costly sometimes no worse than alco-
hol and water, very bad in these days of
intemperance many of them, however,
really powerful, and to that extent, hurt
full, for indiscriminate use. If it is for
the preservation of health you want a
physician, you should cultivate his &C.
quaintance while you still have it. You
should employ him by the year, paying a
small sum when well, little or nothing
when sick, provided it does not appear
that you have grossly neglected mis- in
structions. But now you employ him for
no such purpose. You would never think
of paying a cent for hours spent in giving
the best Of advice, so he must give you
something every time, or get nothing for
his trouble, Do you see how you bride
him to dose you? You have no shadow
Of reason to complain. You can expect
no man or set Of men to labor unrewarded,
much less to devote a whole life to your
service, receiving in return, not even the
means of subsistence. You had much bet
ter pay handsomely for advice, and say,
'thank you," when offered a quart of med
icine. And he, instead of advertising,
"No charge for advice, would do better to
"Talk for the dollars, Medicine gratis"
At present, you employ him to feel your
pulse, look at your tongue, and fix you
something to take. And you are rather
pleased if he shake his head doubtfully,
and say, "It's a pretty hard case, but |
guess | can get you out of it this time :"
and afterward, Il never brought anybody
round that was qnite so far gone as you.
If I'd been ten minutes later-.'
THAT black mark means q grave.
z. Homeopathy, or water-cure, are
great in the prevention and cure of dis
ease, and perfectly harmless. My opinion
2 of these may be soon told. The systems
of Hahnemann, and Priessnitz, and Thomp.
son, have wrought a great and good work.
Not that they were true, but because they
were the sharp steel to sever the shackles
of our bondage to the old routine treat.
ment; because they have served to bring
, to light the healing power of Nature. II