Vol. 1.— No. 39. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



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their covering to the table and commence 

 tiieir onward march, the skin separating 

 from about the neck, affording them egress 

 without difficulty. 



Each time they appear in a new dress 

 their Appetites are sensibly increased, until 

 iliey attain unto a perfect worm, which will 

 take place at the end of live or six weeks, 

 when they become almost transparent — ot a 

 light cream color, handsomely variegated 

 with dark spots. Nearly the whole length 

 upon the back, may be seen at this period; 

 what is thought by some to he a large blood 

 vessel, expanding and contracting at inter- 

 vals. When the time for winding arrives, 

 they raise their heads and look around Cora 

 sui able place to suspend their cocoons, 

 (which, however, is generally made for them 

 by placing near them oak branches or a suit- 

 able frame) upon which lliey commence their 

 task, by fastening on all sides within their 

 reach, a coarse web of silk, to contain the 

 cocoon, which in size and proportion resem- 

 bles a pigeon's egg, in which they inclose 

 themselves, leaving sufficient space for the 

 free motion of the body in arranging the silk 

 in regular layers of an uniform thickness, 

 which can be seen by cutting the cocoons 

 in pieces The leng h of lime occupied in its 

 formation is four or rive days of unceasing 

 toil; and from the beginning of its labors 

 until the close of life, a period of four or 

 live weeks it abstains wholly from food of any 

 kind. At the expiration of tiiteen or twenty 

 days, the worm has been converted into a 

 erysalis, and from the latter to a beautiful 

 white miller. In that stale it is very active, 

 although unable to mount into ihe air. It 

 moves about upon its feet in small circles, 

 its wings in rapid motion, and ■fter a few 

 more days of enjoyment in its new state of 

 existence, it deposits its eggs, to the number 

 of four or five hunderd, ami clo>es its event- 

 ful life. — Vermont Chronicle. 



The Journal of Health. — No. I. vol. III. 

 has been received. This medical paper is issued 

 on the 2d and 4th Wednesdays of each month, 

 and each no. contains 18 octavo pag is, at die price 

 of $1.25 per year, payable in advance; by P. H. 

 Porter, no. 121, Chesnut street, Philadelphia. — 

 The Journal of Health is evidently a cheap work; 

 it is printed in good plain style, its chief merit con- 

 sisting in the intelligence and cand ir with which 

 its articles are written. It is conducted by an as- 

 iociation of Physicians. 



Wt do not know that we can notice tins work 

 better, than by copying the editor's remarks, on 

 the commencement of 3d volume. They repre- 

 sent several wholesome truths to our readers, 

 which we sincerely hope may be of some profit to 

 them : — 

 In beginning with our readers and friends 

 a new year of our editorial career, we have 

 indulged in the course of retrospection 

 here spoken of. We have communed with 

 ourselves, and with each other, on the 

 bearing of the opinions advanced, and facts 

 stated in the volume now closed- We 

 have, in default of manly and judicious crit 

 irism from others, taken the task on our- 

 selves, and have arrived at conclusions 

 which, though they do not wound our self 

 Jove, are certainly not a mere echo of this 

 feeling. Having thus prepared ourselves, 

 may we not be allowed, in a frank and 

 friendly spirit, to ask our reader to lend us 



their ear, while we invite their attention to 

 a brief review of topics, which we have hud 

 occasion to present to them concerning 

 their health, and as a necessary connexion, 

 in. Kiel, almost integral part, the evenness 

 of their moral feelings and the vigour of 

 their intellectual faculties. We would 

 pray them to engage for a brief space in 

 the task of retrospection, and while doing 

 so, to separate into two classes, the acts 

 andVagents by which their health has been 

 affected during the past year. The first 

 will include all by which they are conscious 

 they have been injured. The second all 

 that have manifestly contributed to then- 

 bodily well being. 



Among the causes operating injurious- 

 ly they will be able, by a careful retrospec- 

 tion, to separate those which have injured 

 by their excess, from those which are posi- 

 tively and inherently detrimental. Under 

 the first head they will probably class: 1. 

 Eating too p, omiscuously of numerous arti- 

 cles of food, each single due of which, gen- 

 eral experience shows may be made sub- 

 servient to healthy nutrition. 2. Eating 

 too much of one or two articles of food, 

 which in moderate quantity are universally 

 recognized as wholesome and nourishing. 

 3. Excess in eating, relatively to deficien- 

 cy of exercise. 4. Excess in the same 

 way, relatively to period, as heavy suppers 

 just before going to bed. 4. Labour of 

 body, or bodily exercise, in excess, rela- 

 tively to existing strength or priorhabtt. 5. 

 Labor of mind or mental exertion, too 

 great in reference to its duration at any 

 one time, or to the particular period, as af- 

 ter a full meal or at midnight. 6. Sleep 

 and repose in bed, excessive in the entire 

 interval, in regard to the united exercise of 

 mind or bodij during the day, and to the 

 general usage and experience of persons 

 similarly constituted and circumstanced ; 

 or sleep and repose misplaced in regard to 

 the period in the twenty-four hours when 

 they are indulged in — as from midnight to 

 eight or ten in the morning, or in the day in 

 place of the night. 7. Amusements and 

 recreations taken at improper periods pla- 

 ces, as when gymnastic exercises, inclu- 

 ding dancing, are attempted after a full 

 meal ; or visits to the theatre or ball-room 

 prolonged late into the night; or any a- 

 musement attempted to be enjoyed in a 

 close atmosphere, as in a crowded room, 

 theatre, &c. 8. Exposure to a cool air, 

 or to wind, pure in itself and of refreshing 

 temperature, but misapplied relatively to 

 exhaustion from great bodily exercise, 

 much perspiration, & cool skin. 9 The 

 use of drink, of a wrong temperature in 

 regard to the existing state of the body, as 

 when very cold water is drunk by a person 

 who has been exhausted by exposure to 

 intense solar heat and great labour; or 

 who is at the time suffering from cramps 

 or flying pains in the stomach : the whole 

 mischief here has been from the coldness, 

 not the fluid itself, than which there is no 

 other so salutary, safe and proper, if it be 

 of a sutiable temperature. 



The agents inherently detrimental to 

 | health will be found, by the persons who in- 

 dulge in retrospection of their own feelings, 

 to be those which are neither adapted tc- 

 nourish the body, nor to give appropriate 

 stimulus and exercise to any one sense ; 

 but the effect of which is uniformly, with 

 more or less rapidity, to weaken, by first 

 excited — and to destroy the balance of the 

 functions of the body, and render unequal 

 the operation of the mental faculties. 

 First in degree, of the directly injurious 

 causes, arc fluid stimuli with an alcoholic 

 basis, such as distilled and vinous liquors, 

 solid substances of a narcotic character, 

 and chiefly tobacco in its various forms, and 

 opium : next in the scale are other matters 

 called medicinal, such as salts, acids, bit- 

 ter mixtures and infusions, astringents and 

 chalybeates — when habitually or oft ta- 

 ken. 



Next in importance to the communion 

 with one's self about matters of direct per- 

 sonal interest and gratification, comes that 

 which fixes our attention and feelings on 

 whatever concerns those we love. Let us 

 then invoke mothers, while reviewing the 

 past year, to scrutinize with care the ef- 

 fects of the course they have pursued, on 

 the healthoftheir children. Have they follow- 

 ed out the advice & directions which, when 

 first given, they received with readiness, 

 and promised to act on 1 Has the puny 

 and pallid infant become, during the year, 

 a chubby faced child ? or has the fulness 

 and colour of health been exchanged in the 

 little being for an emaciated and sickly 

 frame I Has the occasional indulgence of 

 its appetite for cakes, sugar plums, &c. 

 been allowed to become a fixed indul- 

 gence ? and have its colics been conver- 

 ted into habitual indigestion, with its ac- 

 companiments fretfulness, much crying, 

 and irascibility ■? Is its sleep sound and re- 

 freshing, or broken by starts and screams ? 

 On the solution of these questions depends 

 the course of conduct which the mother 

 ought to pursue for the future, so as no 

 longer to sacrifice the health of herchild to 

 her own indolence, waywardness, or forget- 

 fulness. Let her inquire what in its cloth- 

 ing its food, and its exercise in the open 

 air is faulty, according to the opinion of 

 those on whom she reposes confidence, and 

 to general experience. 



Does a father now make the unwelcome 

 discovery that his son, just entering his 

 teens, smokes a segar occasionly, and can 

 toss off a glass of grog? — he ought to ask 

 himself, on retrospection, what there has 

 been in his own practice, in these particu- 

 lars, to set so bad, so cruel an exam- 

 ple. 



§5= The rumor of yellow Fever, at New-Or 

 leans, is contradicted. 



FRUIT TREES. 



ORDERS will he received untr) the 8th instant, 

 for Trees, from the East ; after which time, 



it will be too late for persons to send this Fall. 



Those wishing Cherry Trees, will do well to send 

 now, in preference to sending in the spring, 

 act 3 ROSSITEtf&KNOX. 



