Health, Happiness, and Longevity: Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevityMcCarty, Louis Philippe
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Health, Happiness, and Longevity: Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity
McCarty, Louis Philippe
Hygiene
The great disparity between the actions and teachings of many of our
principal writers must be apparent to every reader of books, pamphlets,
and editorials, upon the subject of health and its allies, happiness and
longevity. Many of the leading exponents of temperance have periodical
spells of drunkenness, and some drink all the time. The prominent
articles written upon the subject of sanitary matters and cleanliness,
are generally by the editor whose office is the scene of disorder, the
floor covered with tobacco quids, old rubbish and dust, and the corners
filled with cobwebs. The writer upon the subject of poverty and the
wrongs of the poor, has his headquarters fitted up in the most
magnificent style;--he never knew what it was to want for a meal, nor
did he ever darken the door of real poverty. The missionary advocate
soliciting funds for the heathen and down-trodden poor of foreign lands,
more than likely never crossed the borders of his own State, certainly
has not taken a stroll through the dark lanes and alleys, or climbed the
dingy stairways of the tenement houses of his own city. If he had done
so, a more effective appeal would have gone up for the suffering poor
and spiritually blind of the principal unsanitary municipalities of his
own country. The physician with a bad cough and broken-down constitution
is still prescribing for consumptives and patients with all manner of
aches and pains, of which his own body is a perfect index.
And the minister who has not yet lost all his hatred for "that other
sect," and occasionally assists in persecuting it, is still teaching the
doctrine of the meek and lowly Nazarene. Having experienced a large
number of diseases and their successful remedies, we have for several
years been collecting the most reliable data and testimony on many--in
short most--of mankind's bodily ills. In this second part we present
them for your benefit.
There are about 11,000 remedies mentioned in the 15th edition of the
"United States Dispensatory," by reference to which it will be seen that
each affliction to which flesh is heir must be more than well drugged.
It is the fault of the community at large that the necessity of such a
work exists. There is no demand for any form of disease even with the
improper state of society as it is to-day. Extreme old age and a limited
number of accidents are all that can be necessary to record. The
following is an admirable article from the St. Louis _Globe Democrat_,
which is quite pertinent.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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