The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-08-13
DISEASES OF THE RICH.
A French Physicians Book--Tho Tyranny
of the Human Stomach.

of the Human Stomach.
It is an old maxim that health is the
greatest of all riches, andit is thing
that money will often not buy, says u
Paris correspondent Of the New York
Tribune. Indeed the possession of great
wealth is predisposing cause OF a num-
Der of complaints. This is the opinion
of DIR. Monin, who has defended it in
book just published, entitled Erich
Mems Evils" The list of diseases which
escort the rich man is not q long one,
but it is, if one may call it SO, a sub
stantial one. The possessor of several
hundred thousand dollars has the choice
between stomach complaints of various
sorts, congcstions, apoplexies, rheuma-
tisims, acute and sub-acute gout, head
aches of every degree, affections of the
heart, pleurisy, and asthma liver COM
plants, jaundice, roseole from which
Queen Victoria suffers), sleeplessness,
nervous exhaustion, besides a number
of artificial distempers which are with
in the reach of all who can purchase
morphine, cocaine and ether.
Whatever your choice may be you may
console yourself by the thought that you
suffer in good company. Rheumatic
people will remember that Nine. de
Sevinge, who was sufferer from it,
wore cheerful conntcnance and de-
lighted her friends with her sparkling
wit. The gouty celebrities form bril-
liant host: Horace, Leibnitz, Erasmus,
Kant, Franklin, Milton u give the
names as they occur, not in chrono-
logical ordcr), Darwin, Sydenham. AS
you see, doctors are not exempt from it.
Literary people are placed by DR.. Monin
in company with millionaires- asso-
citation no doubt hattcring to both, but
none the less unlocked for. The weight
of their purses, however, has nothing to
do with this. But, like plutocrats, they
lead q sedentary life, dissipate a guam
tity of vital energy, and are obliged, on
that account, to have q substantial diet.
Literary men and women are, therefore,
subject to dyspepsia and gout
The manufacturers of refreshing
J beverage whose advertisements are
known wherever the English lanuage is
| spoken says: ''Stomach.s a master all
| should dread" This is DR.. Monin's
| opinion. If indulged it becomes a sulky
and ill-willed companion, and it does So
too, when placed on short commons.
An edifying list is that of the diseases
affecting the wealthy classes at diff.
ferent ages. It will be some consola.
tion to those who have not received the
riches of this world and this will be my
excuse for giving it: First year, letters,
erysipelas; second year, Group, infan
tile cholera; third year, whoopine
cough, measles, gastric fever; fourth
year, scarlatina, meningitis-only hal.
the number of babies born live to thi.
age; seventh year, mumps, angina
laryngitis; tenth year, st. Vitus' dance
typhoid fever; fifteenth year, debility
eighteenth year, headache; twenty
fifth to thirtieth year, marriage; thir
tieth to thirty-ffth year, dyspepsia
nervous disorders; thirty-ffth to forty
fifth year, Inflammation of the lungs
pleurisy; forty-ffth to fifty-ffth year
lumbago, weakness of sight, paralysis
fifty-ffth to sixtieth year, general par
alysis; siXtieth to seventieth year, los
of teeth, hair, memory, apoplexy; sev
entieth year, deafness, rheumatism O
the joints, final breakdown.