The Abbeville messenger. (Abbeville, S.C.) 1884-1887, 1886-06-29
Health Hints.

in their own example and person, vio-
late the simple laws Of health, they arc
true to science. nature and common
sense when writing books or delivering
lectures, worthy of their regulations.
at recent sanitary convention, DR..
Frank Woodbury. told some wholesome
truths, which are none tho less timely
and important although they may fall
upon d-af cars. His principal note of
| warning was against the use and abuse
| Of stim ulants, which are so commonly
rcSortcd to in place Of exercise. .clcanli-
ness, diet and pruity. The progression
is from quinine to bromide, to chloral
and the numbcrlcSs SetlativeS that have
morphine as a disguised basis. Instead
Of cleaning their premises and swcctcn-
ing their homes, people complain Of ma
laria and resort to drugs. All the coa-
gcstion arising from nervous dyspepsia
must be cured, they imagine; not by
fasting or deletcrous substances and
fluids, but wholesale Swallowing. of
phosphatcs and other drugs. DR.. Wood
bury says Instead Of feeding and
sleeping properly, the eNcitablc person
takes morphine in surrcptitious ways.
Instead of inhaling the fragrance from
the fields and orchards, the fine ladv
takes Whit Of ether 20 compose her
nerves." Scores Of tons of bromides are
said to be used every year in this coun-
try; a ton Of chloral Il day, says DR..
Woodbury., is consumed in America and
England. For large part Of the abuse
the doctors are held primarily to blame.
They do not appear as a body to have
been on the alert to forbid the filling of
opium, morphine, chloral and bromide
over again by patients who
had ronnd solace in illness and continue
the use Of prescriptions long after the
doctors last visit had been paid.
The learned lecturer fills considerable
space enumcra'ing the patent devices
for patching up the constitutions of men
and women who would consume the
Of whole apothecary shop
rather than forego the dissipations of
fashionable existence and the .luttony
Of the table,
Laying such blame as NAV properlv
belong upon the members OF his own
profession, he acauitS them Of diScrcdit
IN the matter of noStrums that are usu-
ally nothing but commercial specula-
lions. the gittcring bats OF modern
superstition that is, in a
ltterent form, as powerful and ridicu-
Gus as that Of any tribe in the core of
Africa.
Along with the crusade against strong
rink. lei there he IN equally earnest
Effort to cure that other intcmperance
which is doing quite much harm. Let
he wrong habits Of life be corrected.
'eople who do as they please and eat
What they please, having no concern
bout food and how to prepare it for the
digestive process, will inevitably fall into
ervonsneSs, depression. slnsgishncss,
nd many other ills. which cannot be
nrcd by the drug store. Bishop Neu-
nann, who will some day be declared
alnt. used to tell the boys he cared for
nss they ate, in reason, the better they
;ould feel. One Of Mr. Gladstonc's
rccedents for his children in order to
tta'n great age, with vigor Of mind ard
ody, was TO eat slowly and make use .
ne teeth as the best friends of the
tomach. People laugh at these wise
Guns ellings, but they pay for their folly j.,
he hardest thing in Gods world is to +
ct children and grown people to OBJ :
.rve the simplest laws Of their being :,
nat are the conditions precedent of
ealth. Just as the preachers almost
espair of converting mankind to real
ospel holiness, so parents mourn to see +,
leir offspring perversely resist all :,
'achings Of hygienic experience. !,
We are convinced that much Of the
,irst Of alcohol and morphine comes :
om the vitiation Of the stomach. which
rendered more or less insane by con-
ant abuse. The hale, graceful, power =
II old age of Gladstone, Holmes,
ricsson and George Bancroft is more
tribntahle to sense in eating and cxcr- y
sc of the body than antbing else. Men I,
ke Manning go to pieces in what +
iou!d be their prime, because of fatty p