Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1869-06-10
Essence Of disease.

/ 1IG lOllOWlnR Is IIOHl Tie pen u DIs
Hall, in the February number Of Halls
Journal Of Health.
The science Of medication, as far as
it has become a science is beautifully
simple and carries with il, to the
thoughtful and logical mind, high
degree Of interest, which the reader
may presently ysee.
All disease may be founded in an
unequal distribution of the blood,
while ia equilibrium is essential to
high health and manly vigor.
While it is true that too much blood
at particular part of the body, causes
a diseased condition of that part such
as headache if in the head, the same
amount of blood may give two differ
ent diseases, or two very different
! symptoms or manifestations, accord
ing to the set of vessels which contain
that excess of blood, whether artery
or vein.
Many know the difference betwee n
q dull, heavy, Oppressive headache
which invites repose, and the sharp
piercing pain which makes sleep an
impOssibility between the burning
feet in some forms of dyspepsia, which
makes standing on the snow perfect
luxury, and the cold, clammy sweat
Of cholera consumption.
The blood is distributed through the
body through the veins and arteries,
and where there is an artery there
must be a vein. The blood flows
through the veins like slow steady
river but through the arteries like
the dashing waters.
When there is too much blood in
the veins, it is called congestion, y
because it packs. it gorges, it dams up !;
when there is too much in the arteries
it is called inflammation" because
it fires up the parts, makes them hot,
red, fame-like.
When the veins ofa part are too full,
there is dull pain, and the color is
inclined to be black red +; when the
arteries are too full, there is a fierce
quick darting pain, and a fiery ap-
pearance.
Disease being the breaking upOf the
equilibrium of the blood, whatever
has a tendency to restore that equili-
brium, to withdraw the blood from
the OverstOcked part, promotes health
to that extent.
Although the very last part to die,
death In q sense, begins at the heart,
by its not being able to relieve itself
at a given beat, of all the blood that's
in it; the next beat and there is q
greater surplus, and with that, less
power to distribute the vital fluid to
the extremities Ofthe fingers, feet, and
skin; then they begin to grow clam
my, and cold, and death-like. But if,
almost in the article of death, any
great physical or mentaEshock, can be
impaired, by which the heart shall
bound with a superhuman thrOb, and
clear itself of its entire contents life
is saved.
The devoted and indefatigable mis-
siOnary Durfee was dying OflOw fever,
the cold extremities, the fixed eye, the
labored breathing, all showed that the
powers of life were rapidly wasting
away although a loud voice would
arouse him to conciousness. This
suggested to the physician that if the
heart could be relieved of its load of
blood, if the equilibrium of the circu-
/ latiOn could be for a moment restored,
he might be saved. He was placed
on the floor, and buckets of water
poured upon the bodyfrom the hight
I of man. He seemed to wake from a
! heavy sleep or dream the circulation
was re-established, natural warmth
restored, the voice became Gsclear and
/ the mind as active as in health he
| fondled his youngest child, and. for q
while all seemed hopeful, but nature
had lost her recuperative power, had
not strength enough to sustain herself
and he gradually pined away.
A poor old woman who had been
ridden for years with the rheumatism,
when being left alone one day, she
walked up to find the house on fire,
with one bound she leaped from her
couch, ran as fast as any body, and
thereafter could walk as well as others
of her age.
j It is related of celebrated physician
that was journeying one day, he heard
that lady was dying of low fever
and greatly desired to see him, as they
had not met since childhood, when
they were very dear friends. On the
instant of entering the chamber he
clapped his hands joyously and eXcla-
lined, The Eagles Nest-and she liV-
ed. They spent many happy hours
4 of school time around the eagles nest,
and all the associations coming back
upon her in an instant, caused ashOclI
which other means were powerless to
produce.
Within a short time, a young man
named Joseph Wheeler, of New Or
leans, who had been deaf and dumb
for four years, in consequence ofsome
sickness, sauntered up to q cannOn's
mouth, without any one noticing 1t,
the match was applied, when it was
too late to snatch him away. He fell
down as if dead, but presently came
to himself speaking as fiuently as he
ever did, and answering all questions
put to him, to the great wOnderment
Ofthe bystanders.