New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-04-26
DR.. Hall and His System of
Hygiene.

| principles we don't remember u nave
had but single ache in thirty years,
nor to have lost meal for want of an
appetite, nor to have closed our office
for single hour on account OF sick
ness. We know that such result has
come from the goodness of the Infinite
One, arising however from the carry
| ing out Of Cromwell's principles,
Pray to the Lord, and keep your
powder dry if you want to gain the
battle on rainy day, and he did.
Here we are in our Office from morning
until night, and from night until morn
ing, from one years end to another,
engaged in reading, writing, and
arithmetic, prescribing, and listening
to the long stories of the unfortunate
sick; scarcely going butside of the
city limits once year; visiting no.
body; not having a moment to spare
from daylight until nine o'clock, when
we jump into bed. Catch us trotting
to a fve-mile post and then back
again before breakfast; or cutting
monkey capers in a gymnasium two
hours day; or playing 6sticuffs at
imaginary windmills; or splashing
around in cold water; we wouldn't
wash our face and hands in cold water,
even of a midsummer's morning for
premium; We should feel dirty all day
afterward; cold water don't make the
hands clean; the only legitimate use of
cold water which we think of at
present is to drink when one is thirsty;
turn mill-wheels and float ships; and
then, this way of scrubbing the skin by
the hour with erash-tOwels, coarse
brushes, and all that nonsense, as fit
were desirable to make man hide as
tough and horny as that of rhinoceros;
what's the use of it? It's against
nature and all common sense. Reader,
what's the use of eating like a pig, and
then have to work like a nigger-that
is---a freedman to get rid Of the sur
plus; wouldn't it be better to eat less,
and have no surplus to work off! eat
only as much as nature requires, then
take your ease, that's Just like what
a pig does; you don't find him trotting
round his pen by the hour to work off a
surfeit; pig don't surfeit himself; he
has too much sense for that; he simply
eats whathe wants, then stops and lies
down and takes it easy but what does
man do, with his magnificent mind, so
towering above the humble instincts
of the poor brute ! He eats more
than he wants, as you, reader, have
done many a time ; you have many a
time eaten when you did not want any
thing many time have you coaxed |
your appetite with brandy and whisky
and red pepper, as hot as fire, and !
pickles, and filthy "bitters," and |
made oonfOunded ass of yourself |
just for the good of thing while it |
was passing down your gluttonous
throat. Pshaw! you ought to be sick
no wonder you go around among your
friends whining and moving like a
sick kitten, enUmerating your aches
and pains, and ailments, and wasting
other peoples time in listening to
your pitiful lucubrations; to take you
at your word, one would suppose you
were at deaths door, and couldn't
possibly live a week and yet you
have been at the same old thing for
years get out
It's all Tom-f oolery about people
killing themselves with hard study, by
professional labor; if a man gets as
much sleep as nature needs in every
hours, he will be as lively
IS cricket at four score, ifhe will only
at and eat wisely. The papers haveit
low that Spdrgeon is about being laid {
N the shelf from excess of labor; don't
believe word Of it, that's only a kink
hat the supple London Doctors have
'ut into his head; if he had consulted
IS as he ought to have done, we would
imply have said "Go it, Spurgy,'' {
york while the day lasts and the fields
re white, and while your hand is in;
you go to sleep, and rest on your
ars, as young preachers do, when
hey marry rich wives, you will, when !
on wake up, find that il was a Deli
abs Establishment ssd that the locks
+ your strength are gone, Only think I
+ Paul being advised to rest; to do
othing; he would have Numbered out {
As much as in me lies, I will
reach the Gospel, if hang i
Of it." Do you think the i'm
ulsive Peter would have been 1
ersuaded to take a sea voyage for the I
axe Of his health, when souls were
Would the tender and q
owing John have been willing to have
aid aside his work to take
course Of shower baths, or move
lent cures Of base ball or nine pins 2
T that grand old worker John w esley; t
Thy if you had said he must rest a I
lille, he would have told you, " Go i
D grass; I'd rather wear out than rust t
Ut" No, no; the way for a minister /
. recuperate is to work ON; stop him /
and like the putting l0como- Q
I've he wall DO exploded into atoms.
I is not the variety Of occupations
lhich has impaired his health; the !
lore different things a man attends to
be less likely he Is to receive injury;
nd to stop any machine ii its busy
'hirl instantly Is to destroy Il. Mr..
purgson has become ill by d faulty
Iethod Of eating, sleeping, and exer- :
ise.