. Boston Thomsonian manual and lady's companion . ho nourished more than acentury ago. In the early part of his life hewas a voluptuary; and, before he attained tomiddle age, he was so corpulent that- it wasnecessary to open the w7hole side of his carriagethat he might enter; and he saw death to be in-evitable, without a change of his course. Heimmediately abandoned all ardent spirit, wine,and fermented liquors, and confined himselfwTholly to vegetables, milk, and water. Thiscourse, with active exercise, reduced him fromthe enormous weight of 448 pounds, to 140;and restored his health and the
. Boston Thomsonian manual and lady's companion . ho nourished more than acentury ago. In the early part of his life hewas a voluptuary; and, before he attained tomiddle age, he was so corpulent that- it wasnecessary to open the w7hole side of his carriagethat he might enter; and he saw death to be in-evitable, without a change of his course. Heimmediately abandoned all ardent spirit, wine,and fermented liquors, and confined himselfwTholly to vegetables, milk, and water. Thiscourse, with active exercise, reduced him fromthe enormous weight of 448 pounds, to 140;and restored his health and the vigor of hismind. After a few years he ventured to changehis abstemious diet, for one more rich and stim-ulating. But the effect was a recurrence of hisformer corpulence and ill health. A return tomilk, water, and vegetables, restored him again;and he continued in uninterrupted health to theage of 72. His numerous works are full ofmost earnest exhortations to temperance in allrespects.—[Hitchcock. No. xvi.] AND LADYS COMPANION. 249 THE Purgatives should not be used in any case whatever. Theyare at variance with every principle of my system, as will beseen by reference to the New Guide. They irritate the bowels,and destroy the equilibrium of the circulation, which we shouldalways endeavor to avoid. The sudden deaths of which we often hear as occurring among the Thomsonians, are no doubtprincipally owing to the administration of cathartics. * * *Since my Agents have discarded the use of butternut and bitter-root, they are in mill more successful in their practice. Samuel Thomson. BOSTON, JULY 1, 1340. BLEEDING AND BLISTERING. The injurious practice of bleeding and blisteringcannot be too forcibly impressed upon the minds ofall who have blood to save, or flesh to preservefrom the torturing effects of the blister plaster.—It is often the case that for a slight cold, or as aremoval of pain in case of a fall, bleeding is re-sorted to; and for trivial complaints the blist
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