The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1862-05-08
For THE KESosHA TELEGRAPH.
Hygiene for the PeOpIe.-S0.
BY c. r. BLACKALL, NJ. D.

BY c. r. BLACKALL, NJ. D.
HEALTH is the most precious boon Of the
Creator to poor mortality. When possessed
to its full extent, it is source Of constant
pleasure. When lost, nothing can afford COM
pensation. Beside it, the treasures of the earth
are frivolous in comparison. With it, the pow
err TO accomplish any thing, within the range of
human intellect, is at hand. Without it, the
most giant intellect must fail in the accomplish
ing of its highest aims, and perhaps go down
to gnoble nothngness 1t is mine of wealth
to its possessor, constantly developing new
treasures, and bringing forth from its store
house such gifts as delight the mind, and puri
fly the heart. 1t calls iGto being exquisite
sensations and tine perceptions 1t clothes
earth with more beauty to the eye, and reveals
Heaven more really TO the soul. 1t does not
make christians BUTT improves them. The time
has gone by when, to attain to the higher en-
joyments of christian life, and the perfection
of christian experience, it is supposed to be
necessary for one to have feeble, disease-stric elk
en- body. As the true lessons OF an enlightened
Science are received and appreciated by the PEG.
pie, these relics of the superstitous Of the past
are rapidly fading away, aud more natural
hence more healthful views are accepted.
Notwithstanding all this, there is yet a mos,
deplorable want of knowledge upon the com
monest points connected with the preservation
of health, and persistent ignoring of the prin
ciples underlying the entire subject. Men anG
women calmly read the startling fact that of al
who are born into the world, fully one half dix
before they are a year old, and OF the remainder
out very small proportion attain TO three score
and ten years. They cannot fail to know, tha
scarce one III ten thousand dies a natural death
nearly all being cut off in the midst of thei
years, not naturally, but violently with diseas
es, which, in the majority of cases, we've th(
inevitable result oftheir own phys misdeedS
| These facts are patent to the observation o
all who are willing to see them, yet the grea
mass of mankind steadily pursue course whicl
cannot fail Of producing disease and death, ant
thus become as really suicides as though the,
plunged knife into their heart, or sent a bul
let through their brain The man or woma
who deliberately takes poison to end a wretch
ed life, scarcely commits a more heinous crim
than they who daily, and perhaps hourly, sal
the foundation of life, and shorten its duration
by five, ten or twenty years, through wron!
habits of one kind or another And this com
parison is none too strong,for though it require
but an hour for the first and years, perhaps 70
the second, yet both are acts of self destruc
tion
We know that arsenic will destroy ones life
yet not more certainly than continued indul
eence III nunberess other articles which ar
daily TO be found upon our tables, although th
immediate effects of the latter may be impei
ceptible. Let none then, fatter themselve
shat any wrong can go uSunished. For the Vi
olation of every physical law there is a penait
from which there is no escape, whether sue
violation is the result Of ignorance or otherwise
Hence it is desirable that knowledge shout
be freely disseminated among the people, tina
thier eyes being fully opened, they may escap
the dangers which attend violated Law.
will be the object of these papers to point OF
the errors INDUCED in which shorten life, ant
show how, by avoiding them, mankind ma
attain to a natural period of life, and, at tn
last die natural DEATH like an infant going t
its rest.
Kenosha Water Cure.