The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-04-06
Sprina Diseases.

Reader havoyOu mite. one solitary
atom, of common sense2 If you have,
be persuaded to make healthful use of
it and commence cn the instant. As
soon as spring begins 70 set in, almost
everybody has more or less a feeling of
lassitude there is less buoyancy, less
of an appetite, less disposition to exer.
else; some are so indisposed that they
have to keep III the house, and numbers
take to their beds. ALI this is your
own fault it's because you have got no
sense, not q particle; or, If you have,
you do not make use of it. You can
readily understand that now, as the
weather is warmer, you do not require
rs much fire in the house; and may be
you are wondering why the servants
will persist in making the house hotter
now than in the depth of winter; they
are only burning as much fusi now as
in mid winter, and they have not the
sense to know this, or at least they do
not care to think. The human body is
house to be kept warm and, to be in
health, it's heat must be maintained at
the same temperature the year round
that is, about ninety six degrees. The
stomach ia, in a sense, the furnace; the
food put into it the fuel; the lungs set
it on fire. Why, then, do YOU eat in
warm weather as much as in cold wealth
err? On spring day, when scarcely
any fire is needed in the house, you
cram as much fuel into your stomach as
in the depth OF winter You see now
that you have not as much sense as Bid
dy; she is only trying to burn up your
house, you are trying to burn yourself
A lxoI. !, he
old has too much sense TO poke its little
finger into tie candle twice, yet you are
poking your whole eluttonous hulk,
head foremost. every day into the furn-
ace, and vet actually don't know what
Lu.ts you You don't think; or, if you
do they are snch diluted, milk and-wa-
ter thinks, that dime load would be
bad bargain to the purchaser.
In adult life all the food we eat serves
two purposes it sustains and keeps
warm. Fer The latter object meats,
oils, buffers, gravies, and sweets are
used hence, in warm weather, com
paratively small amount Of these things
should be eaten but in their place take
breads, fruits, vegetables, melons, and
berries Natures instincts call loudly
for the acids Of berries and fruits, and
for the earliest tender vegetables, the
greens and the salads OF our gardeners.
tits because they have no heating quail
tiles; they are rather cooling in their
nature. They who spend much OF their
time indoors, would enjoy an exemption
from great many bodily discom forts if
upon the first day of spring, they would
begin to have meat for only one meal in
the day, and in lessening quantities as
the summer comes on.
THE above from our excellent cotem
porary, Halls Journal Of Health, we in
dorse as, in tile main, timely advice.
But would it not be better, Doctor, to
qualify the advice, and recemmend II re
duction Of animal food in accordance
with the consumers occupation A man
at the anvil certainly requires more
hearty food than the merchant or pro
fess onal man. And in ending
fruits and berries. we know many per
sons on whom the acid of these articles
acts injurionsly. Admitting this, would
it net be well to recommend persons TO
watch the effect of fruits and berries up
on their systems, and if aatsllency exists
after partaking, had they not better sub
stitute oat meal or other light food
which the stomach does not repel ?-Ed-
itors Scientific American.