Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1865-01-13
Importance Of Rest.

hhis cASohehs IeTaiu ot aeatn,
DIR. Trail thus sagely advises rest
How much has been written about
water, air, food, exercise, dress, and other
hygienic materials and influences, and how
little about rest! As remedial measure,
rest is Of vastly more importance than has
been generally supposed. As therapsu-
tic means its place is at the very head of
the hygienic materia medica. Very little
skill, comparatively, is required for prac-
titioner of the Hygeio- Therapeutic school,
to know when to do something and what TO
do. But vastly greater fund of profess
sional knowledge is required to know when
and how to let The patient alone. One-half
the world is drugged to death when sick,
and one-half of the remainder is fretied to
death. We have frequently saved life by
standing between the patients and their
friends. The world has got bad fashion
of making a terrible ado, keeping up
constant CONSERVATION, nursing and fussing
continually, while anxious relatives. SYM
pathizing friends. mysferiousiy gibberins
doctors, meddiesone nurses, and whisper
ing watchers, add their mite Of mighty in-
iuence to the wrong side, and all because
somebody is sick and needs rest. And
the whole mischief is traceable to false
dogma in medical science in relation to
the nature of disease. The authors teach
that disease is an entity, a thing which
travels about, perrades the air, penetrates
our dwellings, and finally attacks us; and
this absurd phantasy is easily transmogrt-
fed by the ignorant and unthinking null
titude, (unthinking on the subject, we
mean), into something analogous to witch,
a ghost, goblin, spook, fend, or demon,
which nothing but the doctors poisons,
, dealt oct by the doctors own hand or pen,
can assuage, pacify, eradicate, exercise,
kill or cure. The charms, incantations,
and amulets of the ancients, were not
= more silly, and the necromancy and pow
vows of the Indian tribes of the present
day are not more ridiculous (and they are
predicted on precisely the same false no.
itouo VI luC VI uloCdstJ fBdu are LIb
dosing, and drugging, and stopping, and
/ stuffing, and watching and frelting of the
> regular physician of to-day, and the pat
rons and nurses OF their school. Nine out
u often of all the maladies of the people of
the world would get well in few hours,
D. or days, if left to themselves. with no other
: appliances than such as instinct would sug-
~ gest and common sense employ. Yet, in
nine cases out of the ten the doctor is
!, ~ called, and if he be drugopathic doctor,
= one-half his patients are in danger of a
protracted illness, and one half of these are
- sure of ruined constitution, not because
= of the disease, but be-conseqatence Of the
drugs. When we visit patient 10 the
country. our greatest difficulty is 70 keef
:; the friends quiet, when nothing but let
aione-ativeness is needed. All are willin!
=. to do something; every one is anxious f
:, lend helping hand and people general,
- - estimate physicians knowledge and skill
by the extent or variety Of his prescrip
tions. Few can understand the quietly
:. working. yet efficient remedial resource
of nature when undsturbed."
MoUsTAcHE SPooN.-Under a YER
elaborate engraving of a newly-invente
patent of this article, the Scientific Journ
'o' al gives us the following description So
s." naonstache is an ornament to the hama
:, ~ face divine. under ordinary circumstance
mo but when it is drenched in cup of smok
"" ing coffee, or emerges dripping from tn
cream, as Venus rose from the sea, tn
'"' wearer Of it is placed in an embarrassin
ave position. Moustache coffee-cups have bee
IN sold in stores for many years. These cur
"' have portion of the top covered with
On bridge in which there is an opening whenc
VI the beverage finds its way down the thro;
OK of the drinker without soiling his hirsut
anu appendage. This MISUNDERSTANDING spoo
effects the same object. When soup
one taken, unless the eater thereof is dexterol
n'o and understands his business" he is a.
10 TO present an uninviting spectacle, and b
~. comes very undesirable addition to
n' small, but select. dinner party. Hen,
20 this spoon. The bridge over the cent
prevents the disagreeable results auud,
was to, and supports the n,oustache in its pa
sage over the savory food. The bridi
u''' may be made permanent or removab
ans and can be attached in few minutes, al
'oe' by any common mechanical device"
pon ---
one 8 MAxMs.-Neyer speak badly of othe
i up even with a cause; remember We all ha
east our faults, and if we expect charity fre
the the world, we must be charitable ourselv
that Think that word once spoken C
no never be recalled; therefore il is prude