Volume 1

The family oracle of health, economy, medicine, and good living adapted to all ranks of society, from the palace to the cottage / By F. Crell ... and W. M. Wallace, Esq., assisted by a Committee of scientific gentlemen.

  • Crell, A. F.
Date:
1824-1827
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    and by the drier food which necessity obliges us to take at those seasons, so that the cooling fruits of summer are wholesome from their opening the bowels, and removing the oppression so commonly generated by the injurious habits of civilized life. But it is not wonderful that a continuance of a watery and in- nutritious food, like fruit, should, towards the autumn, in those of weakened digestion, produce bowel and liver complaints, from their constitutions being partly predisposed to it by the continued and relaxing heats of the summer months. One great means, therefore, of escaping September diseases, is to be cautious in the use of fruit. We again revert to the chills of the morning and evening, as perhaps the most prevalent cause of September diseases; and we found upon it a strong caution to our readers to beware of ex- posing themselves too suddenly, and without sufficient clothing to the heavy dews which are always the unfailing accompani- ment, as Dr. Wells proved, of a clear and unclouded sky. It is proper therefore to remark, that though, in the evenings of July and August, it is not dangerous to sit in the open air with the head uncovered, and in a mere drawing-room dress, we can seldom with impunity do the same in September. This caution is the more necessary, from the days being still mild and plea- sant enough to entice us rather to linger in the open air, than confine ourselves to a close room, though we may afterwards be seized with dangerous colds, coughs, or agues, as the penalty of our careless exposures. The Article which we had prepared, as intended to follow here, On the Prevention of Declines at the fall oj the Leaf, will come in, we think, with more propriety, in our paper on the diseases of October. The Art of Gymnastic Training improved, and applied to Strengthen those who are Weak and Nervous from Disease or from Constitution. No. 1. To those who have formed a bad opinion of “ Sporting, we would say, as the Latin proverb lias it, that, “ it is good to take useful hints, even from an enemy * and that they may le n wisdom from the Devil himself, rf they search carefu ly for single grain of wheat in his bushel of villainous chaff. By * Fas est all hostf* (inceri.