Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-27

laws as the moral, for they are ali laws
of the same God, established for the
same benevolent design. The man OF
dainty living, drinking his wine or
beer, or carrying about with him MS
brandy bottle and tobacco box; the Wo-
man bound up in her corset, or ex-
posing herselfin thin shoes, light dresses
and bare shoulders and neck, to cold VI
inclement weather; people who live an
indolent, inactive life and feed upon
the iuxsries of the whole world; those
who intermarry with near relatives,
ard raise families of weak; blind, de-
formed or demented cbildren-these all
are at variance with the organic law,
and examples of those paying the
penalty of such transgressions are con-
stantly before our eyes. Delirium tire.
mems, with all the horrors OF that fright.
full disease, consumption, Zymotic aud
ow-grade fevsrs, dyspepsia, rheuma-
tism, paralysis, govt, and the like are
of daily occurrence.
A Striking Example
of the benefit derived from strictly OBJ
serving the laws of health, Is TO be
found in an account given 10y Captain
Murray. After his return from two
wears cruise among the icebergs OF
Labrador and New Foundland, he
petitioned to be sent to the West Indies
in preference TO q Northern station,
AID thought that with due precautton
on the part of himself and crew, the
bad effects of the climate of these
islands could be successfully avoided.
He accordingly sailed from Plymouth
on the oath day of December, with crew
and officers to the amount OF $50 men,
and was employed on the cost OF
Curacao, West Indies and the Cali OF
Mexico. In the course Of his service,
he visited most of the islands OF this
part of the Atlantic ocean and of the
caribbean Sea. He arrived in England
on the 18th day of June, without hav-
ing buried a member of his crew, in
deed without a single case of sickness
during the entire cruise.
At another time he was sent in COM
mand of recruit of eighteen guns TO
Vera Cruz, where he Joined three
frigates and two brigs. They all re-
NAMED at anchor eight or ten weeks,
and during that time the frlgates lost
from thirty to fifty men each, and the
briggs from sixteen to eighteen; but the
recruit, although moored in the midst
of the squadron and holding constant
intercourse with the other ships, not
only lost no men but did not have
One Case OF sickness.
Captain Murray ascribed this result
to the four following reasons:
First-keeping the ship perfectly
clean and dry and free from all sources
of bad air.
Second-Habituating the men to
wearing flannel next TO the skin.
Third-Never allowing them to go on
shore in the morning on an empty
stomach, or to work in the sun unless
absolutely necessary.
Fourth-Cheerfulnes of the crew.
This quality, he thought, did more to
keep a ships company healthy than
any other precaution.
By closely observing these conditions
Captain Murray said he should sail for
the West Indies with as little anxiety
a. to any other portions of the globe.
Now, among the brigs and frigates
| there was not sufficient care taken with
| respect to dryness, pure air Gleanll-
ness, dress, diet, exposure, and the like,
while Captain Murray took all this
care, He was on trial to see what
could be done. His prime motive was
| to see how near he could make his
| crew live in accordance with the or
ganic laws or the laws of Hygiene, and
| both reason and tact justified him In
| the conclusion that strict observance OF
the proper conditions of health was a
Complete Guarantee Against Danger
in the warm ATTITUDES.
| You see the result, and a splendid
one it was. Suppose two gentlemen
were to ascend a mountain on hot
summer day. Bathed III perspiration
and exhausted with fatigue, they arrive
at the top. One Of them, conversant
with the laws Of health, and wearied
rs he is, buttons up his coat closer about
his body, wraps handkerchief about
his neck, and continues walking
around the summit in the full blaze of
the sun till cooled to normal tempera-
ture. The other, ignorant of these
laws, runs eagerly to the base Of q pro.
iecting cliff, stretches himself at full
length under its refreshing shade, opens
his vest to the grateful breeze-in short
gives himself up to the luxury of cool
ness and repose. The former by ward
ing off the rapid chill of the cool noun
tain air, descends with health unim-
paired while the latter, rom permit
ting perspiratiop 70 be suddenly check
ed, and Inc surface OF the body to be-
| Gene cooled with injurious rapidlty
| carries with him to certainty tht
seeds of pneumonia, rheumatism, fever
or some other disease.
| Now cases Of this kind frequently oc'
cur. Every physician is familiar with
/ Al. ,,,x-aalf
q useful man laid aside by precisel
similar impIudences. You may cal
them providences of God If you please
but they are such providences as VIII
always occur under like circumstances
} They come according to fixed and In
: variable laws, and 1t will be at our owl
option whether we will have them OF
not.
From recent tables compiled for thu
tisa Of life insurance companies, we
learn that the average of life Is gradu
ally on the increase. That is to say
by
Superior Morality,
cleanliness, knowledge, and geners
conformity to the organic laws, fewe
individuals now perish in infancy
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one hundred years ago.
If this be correct, the average dura
ton Of life may go on increasing, and
generations yet unborn may average
the three score years and ten the Scrip
ture age allotted to man. If that day
eyer comes We will know death OrlY
as Il natural in,titution-as an essen.
tial part Of the very system of ou or
ganiZation.
We will know that birth, growth,
and maturity as completely imply de-
cay and death in old age, as morning
and noon imply evening ard night, a.
spring and summer imply hsrvest, or
as the source of a river implies its ter
mination.
Death in old age is a natural and I'M
avoidable institution oftbe Creator, and
will never be abolished rs long as man
continues an organized being. If man
had been destined for a duration like
that of the mountains, instead of Gre
1 otir0 primitive ,,a;r anH aptnUipU