The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-03-11
RAMBLING THOUGHTS
ON THE LAWS OF PHYSICAL. MORAL, INTEL.
LEcrUAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE.
Paper read at the late Farmers Institute by Mrs:
A. II. Shipley]

Paper read at the late Farmers Institute by Mrs.
A. X. Shipey.1
The great Master Of the Universe
has ordained that all things shall be
governed by laws which are all wise
and inexorable. If the laws by which
the heavenly bodies are kept in shape
and made to move in their respective
orbits should be nulli6ed, even but for
a moment, destruction would follow
reaching from Alcyone or wherever the
center of our astral universe is, to the
remotest sun, planet or moon IN that
system. If the laws relating to light,
heat and electricity, and other invlsl-
Bile forces, were to become imperative
life would cease. If the laws control
ing the circulation of water which
cause it to flow to the ocean in streams,
which draw. it up into clouds to be
precipitated again to the earth in nlsts
and rain, were to lose their force earth
would be uninhabitable. The laws
relating to animal and vegetable life
are unchangesble. By continued
favorable conditions plants and ami
mails may be improved, but bird is
still bird, a fish remains fish, a
worm continues a worm, fly never
changes into bee or bug, and man IS
always a man. 1t is not to be sup
posed that God, who made laws to
govern the minutrst Of His creatures,
made man, the crowning glory of all,
capable Of reasoning and of acquiring
knowledge and heir to eternal life,
without making laws for his guidance.
He has said, GAS ye SOW SO ye must
reap" and man was made free agent,
with power to choose what and how
he shall SOW. This law governs mans
physical as we'll as his intellectual,
moral and spiritual natures. Physical
law requires that to have good health
a person must have pure air to breathe,
pure and wholesome food to eat and
pure liquids to drink. With our close
houses, unhealthful dress and manner
of living, too highly concentrated food,
tea, coffee and the various kinds of
/ alcoholic drinks, which are narcotic in
their ultimate results, it requires much
study and selt-control to obey the
physical laws even fairly well. An
excess of food is one of the most pro-
life sources of disease. 1t fills the
body with morbid matter in which
those organisms which are present in
malarial diseases, rheumatism, head
ache, dyspepsia, liver complaint, kid
ney trouble, ETC., can find lodgment
and multiply. Want of proper exer
else causes person to rust out ano
too much to wear out. Trouble ane
worry are weakening in their effects
If we find we are getting sick, it i.
best to stop at once and try to find out
what the trouble is, what law we have
transgressed, and then go rasoutely te
work to get back into proper condi
tons. First, stop eating and cleanse
body, both inside and out, with warn
water; it is a great cleansing agent
Keep the feet warm and the head cool
| Cool or cold applications of water
steadily persisted in, will seldom fai
to allay fever, and there is no danger
of taking cold while the fever is on
but the treatment should cease as soor
as the fever subsidies. Then rest, quiet
and good, but not too officious, nursing
will usually be all that is needed. We
should not make the often fatal mis-
take of using so-called stimulants, a.
their use is always followed by conse
quent depression and only weakens the
patient. Bleeding has gone out o
practice years ago, and calomel, thai
terrible poison, IS seldom used now
1t is too dangerous. Alcohol. in all
its forms as medicine, goes next. A
convention of physicians of nationa
reputation, last sumner, after pro
longed discussion and comparing O
notes, pronounced almost unanimous
ly against the use of alcohol in any
form as medicine. 1 wish every ont
could read their long and interesting
report. The officer who, in Washing
ton after the War, compiled the medi.
Cal statistics Of the army of the Po
tomac found, to his astonislment, thai
in those regiments where alcohol wa:
not used the death rate was much
lighter than where it was allowed
The benefit supposed to he derived
from it is not real, and if it was, the
danger of alcohol habit is so great thai
thoughtful people fear to tamper with
it. Shall we take morphine and deaden
the sensibilities so that we cannot fee
pain and let the cause remain2 Viii