Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-02-17
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HEALTH AND DISEASE.

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Mpsyng HEALTH AND DISEASE. sa.
Mr. EDITOR IL notice in recent No.
of your paper some remarks of yours in
regard to the treatment of disease by
Hygienic agencies. In the article al
lude to. you were pleased to make some
allusion to myself Since your object
seems to be to call the attention of your
readers tothe great duty of taking care of
the body, permit me to, through you.
10 one who has spent good portion of
his life aud expects to spend the remain
der of it in the great work Of relieving
human suffering, and in doing what he
can to bring mankind back to something
like their original immunity from disease,
every encouraging word aud helping effort
is especially grateful. r h.l' &ln.t
'h If there ever we're field in which a
philanthropist might work with the ut
most earnestncss aud zeal. in which he
might feel himself both honoring God
and blessing his fellow men, it is the field
in which he may successfully labor to
bring men and women back by means
the most natural and harmless. to a state
Of physical soundness, and if he might
feel at the same time that his labors were
calculated to relieve man from the neces.
sity Of being sick, calculated to relieve
human nature from the vast amount of
pain and suffering Of premature decay
and untimely death, that now 50 bitterly
scourge our race, need he ask for any
more glorious calling to which he might
denote the last energies of his life. .a'
Sir, there be any statements which
scientific research will sustain, which a
careful comparison aud analysis of divine
arrangements as we find them established
and written down in the great book of
nature, will unequivocally demonstrate
it is that nine tenths of all the diseases
aud ills to which the human body is now
subject, arcthe direct products Of human
folly; ills wholly avoidable, and which
mankind may escape if they will.
Further seven eights of all the chron-
ic invalids who have not reached 30 years
of age, who may have been scourged for
ten OF dozen years with the most try
ing sufferines, and whose prospects in
life seem good for an indefinite prolon.
cation of the same trials, may be easily
restored to health in few months, more
or less, and SO instructed and disciplined
that there need be no necessary return
again Of their diseases IN the course of a
long life qls baa asat0'a sii ras
And that Eve sixths of those who
have attained 40 years and upwards,
and have been half their lives invalids,
may be restored to comparative health
and soundnass, and go 4 on their way for
the greater part Of. their lives rejoicing.
Sir, human health and human sick
ness are governed by laws Man may be
anhealthy being If be will Ifhe choos.
es to bring disease and suffering upon
himself be. may. aIfbhc ichoOses to live
lhapAszardly, to follow the dictates oi
fancy, of whims, Of passions, to rush
heedlessly and hcadlopg down the path.
way Of life, never stopping 70 inquire
whether there be any established prlnci'
pies, Of vitality, whether there be any
penalty attached to their violation, wheth
er there be any reward attached to theiI
obser. ance, il he choose to do these things
the,sis but Que thing left for him; be
must endure the, consequences b LAWS,
., PhysieaAlaws are tho most inexorable
of allepaetmepts.o If by accident Or de.
,siap, tbrourh ignorapce or reok leeapeeo