American Watchman And Delaware Advertiser

From the Boston Medical Intelligencer.

There is no end to the miseries which ensue from intemperance in eating and drinking. Intoxicating liquors, of the two, are the worst, because they disqualify men for performing the social duties of life and lead to the grossest deeds of vice and wickedness; and the effects, therefore, which this one besetting sin has produced in the world, already, are more to be lamented than the devastations of war.

Intemperate eating—down right gluttony—distending the bowels with a mixture of every thing at the same time, has a tendency to inflame the countenance, bloat the body, swell the feet, generate gout, produce fits, and often causes instantaneous death, while there is but little or no evidence of disease.—Those who live frugally, certainly have the fairest prospect of a long life, and a quiet one. The slave who makes a scanty meal upon boiled rice, is healthier than his tyrannical master who feeds upon dainties. Among the varieties of constitution breakers, which are served up upon the tables of the luxurious, a modern turtle soup is the most destructive, because it abounds the most with a farrago of spices which are actually dangerous to the delicate coats of the stomach. Abrasions of the mucous membrane are alarming in every instance, and yet a tea cup full of turtle-soup, if made of the turtle, puts the life in jeopardy of every one who has the imprudence to feast upon it. There is no pleasure like the pleasures of health, and no infirmities that will compare with those which originate in intemperance. To the young, these remarks will be the most serviceable; the old will not subdue propensities, voluntarily, which have been pampered without judgment, and indulged without reason.