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July 15, 1854.1 T H E L E A D E R. 669
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The Second Grand Concert Yesterday Turne...
ness , and unalterable calmness , to make apologies ; but it was not till he appealed a second time to the most sensitive part of the British co nstitution —the pocket—that he succeeded in making his meaning clear . There was one bright exception to this hubbub and uproar : it was the presence of Mademoiselle Clauss , like an angel of peace , at the grand pianoforte . She never played more beautifully , and was rapturously recalled . M . Vivier's fantastic extravaganza on the French horn did not succeed , however , in preserving the better feelings of the audience . We came out of the theatre in a crush of showily-dressed " ladies and gentlemen , " evidently habitues of Exeter-hall rather than of the Opera , interspersed with indignant clergymen who were taking their money back . They had raved at Mario as they would weep at a Stowell or a Macneil . It was not , on the whole , a
gratifying sight to a patriotic Englishman , this indecent outburst of coarse ingratitude to a great singer , who for twenty years never , except in very rare cases of positive illness , deserted an engagement or failed in service to the public . But vre beg the intelligent foreigner to remember that it is the " religious public" who compose the audience on these occasions : the Bashibajouks of Exeter-hall , who have a proper horror of the stage—except en deshabille . ISo doubt there were some country cousins , who seize the opportunity of a monster concert , not so much for what they may hear there as for the sake of astonishing their provincial Browns by having heard Grisi and Ikfario ; and their disappointment was natural enough . But the " religious public" it is who carry the behaviour of Exeter-hall into the more harmonious arena of the Royal Italian Opera . E . P .
July 15, 1854.1 T H E L E A D E R. 669
July 15 , 1854 . 1 T H E L E A D E R . 669
<Xrisi Has Appeared In La Favorita—The F...
< xrisi has appeared in La Favorita—the first of the three operas in which it was announced that she would sing * during the supplementary eight nights of her renewed engagement . Her farewell benefit is fixed for the 7 th of August . .
Eelation Of Indigestion To Consumption A...
Eelation of Indigestion to Consumption and Scrofula . —Many scrofulous and phthisical subjects are not dyspeptic , or only become so in the advanced stages of tbe malady : on the other hand , many dyspeptic subjects never become scrofulous or phthisical . In order that dyspepsia , coincide with tubercular disease , the Functions or the Lungs asd Skix must be simultaneously and PKOTKACTEDLr inactive . Now a majority of dyspeptics are careful of their diet , eschew excesses , breathe a pure air , take much exercise , and keep
their skins in high condition , giving them every advantage of clothing , and bathing , and suitable temperature in-doors . Besides , they are generally keen men of business , or ardent students , and , with occasional anxieties , have on the whole much pleasurable mental excitement . Allihese are conditions totally opposed to the inroads of consumption ; But let the circumstances of the case be reversed—let the individual be ill-fed , ill-warmed , ill-housed , illventilated , ill-habited , the inmate perhaps of a celler-residenee , or a prison-cell , with depressed spirits , & c , —and it will be a miracle if he do not soon exlii tit some form of scrofula , most probably an incipient turbcrcular deposit in his lungs . But these morbid consequences take place less because of the implication of the digestive organs than because his lungs and skin have been condemned to comparative , if not absolute , inactivity . Soldiers on a retreat ; and starving , droop of fevers by the wayside , but never become tuberculous . —The Water-Cure in Consumption and Scrofula , by Dr . Balbimie .
Man not a Sedentary Animal .. —The structure and functions of man show that he was not intended to be by any means a sedentary animal f Those who live the longest , and eiijoy the best health , are invariably persons " of active habits . From the moment man becomes a civilised being , the depuratory process of his blood becomes less perfect—in other words , the grand excretory functions of his skin and lungs aro less completely exercised . From that moment begins Scrofula to show its ravages on his frame ! Why ? Because his habits become then less conformable to the instinctive requirements of his constitution . His exercise is less frequent or less natural—either unremitting or not at all : his lungs are compelled to long periods of comparative inactivity ; and his skin is equally diminished in function by loads of superfluous clothing , as well as made susceptible to every atmospheric
variation of all sorts oi " coddling" in warm rooms . By all those anti-hygienic agencies , the blood of tho civilised man is infinitely less oxygenated than before . Ho voluntarily debars himself of tho means of carrying oft' tho offote matters of hid boJy . Whon the lungs are imperfectly exercised , it is impossible for the skin to be healthily active in its duties , for the two go together . Baths and cleanliness are indeed a great compensation . But nothing porfectly .. compensates tho want of active exertion in a pure air , fur nothing elae can perfectly keep open the body ' s safety-valves , or secure tho perfect elimination of the corporeal waste . And when the products of decomposition arc notall thrown out , a virtual and valitl ? nateries mo ? 'bi remains to vitiate the process of recomposition . Hence the commencing loss of high condition whenever man comes materially to infringe the hygienic laws—when superfluous food or pernicious drinks combino vrith tho want of due activity of lungs and skin to dcrango
tlie balance between waste and supply . Even the diet may be proper as to quantity and quality , and the alimentary canal may be kept clean , but all will not avail to produce Healthy blood and firm textures , so long as the pulmonary and cutaneous safety-valves are marred in their play . It is a grand truth , of which we challenge refutation , viz ., that ko one WITH 1-ERFECTLY-ACTING LUNGS A > ' » SKIN EVER BECOMES SCBOFULOU 3 , OR , BEING scrofulous , long remains scrofulous . People only become consumptive , whentogether with causes impairing the general health—the active play of the lungs is impeded from any circumstance whatever , bad posture , confinement , absorbing passions , or inflammations which consolidate portions of the pulmonary tissue . —The Water- Cure in Consumption and Scrofula , by Dr . Balbimie . Influence of Age upon the Predisposition to Consumption and Scrofula . — The susceptibility of the constitution to tubercular manifestation is greatest at the commencement of life , and decreases progressively with its advance . The solids and fluids undergo physiological changes as yeara creep on . In infancy , for example , the blood is less abundant in solid constituents and in red corpuscles , than from maturity to middle life . Besides , the frame naturally sets , and hardens with its growth—acquires increased stamina
and durability with time , and is better able to resist deteriorating influences . There is every reason to suppose , therefore , that these functional and organic modifications—the result of the natural phases of corporeal development—are efficient counteractives , within certain limits , of the tubercular taint or tendency . Particular ages predispose to particular varieties of tubercular disease . Inflammation of the train is characteristic ot infancy ; Scrofula is most frequent in childhood and jrouth ; and Consumption in early maturity . Till puberty scrofulous manifestation is on the increase : it then rapidly and progressively declines till between forty and fifty years ofage , when the liability becomes almost extinct . The liability , however , to death from Scrofula , does not begin to decline till between twenty and twenty-five years of age . From twenty to twenty-five , on to thirty-five and forty years of age , Consumption reaches its maximum of frequency , and then progressively decreases . It is a popular idea , but an incorrect one , that if persons have passed the middle term of life , or its grand climacteric , they may calculate on an exemption from Consumption . The disease , however , is far from unfrequent up to the age of sixty ; and even at seventy , eighty , ninety , and one hundred , its ravages are * not -unknown . —The Water-Cure in Consumption and Scrofula , by Dr . Balbimie .
Influence of Temperature as a cause of Consumption and Scrofula . — Modifications of temperature per . se are totally inadequate as a determinating cause of the tubercular constitution . The population of cold climates evince no peculiar liability to Consumption or Scrofula , nor do those of hot climates evince any peculiar exemption British soldiers stationed in cold climates ( e . g , Canada ) are even less invalided for Consumption and Scrofula than those stationed m warm ( e . < j . West Indies ") , or even in temperate climates ( Great Britain ) . Consumption is rare in Greenland , Iceland , Lapland , and Russia —countries that ought to be very rife with the disease , if simple inclemency of climate has aught to do with its causation . According to the statistical reports of the United States ' army , 10 3-10 per 1 Q 0 O is the average deaths from Conspmption in the Southern states ; while in the most inclement parts of the Northern only o ' . lAO per l ' OOO are attacked . The records of the British Army show the same extra frequency of Consumption in Southern regions as compared with Northern . The proportions of attacks at various stations was as follows : —Jamaica , 13 per 1000 ; West Indies , 12 ; Bermuda , 9 ; Canada . 6 ^; - United
Kingdom , 6 J .- —The Water-Cure in Coiisumjrtion and Scrofula by Dr . Balbimie . Salutary Influence of Cold in Consumption . —It may be safely laid down , that coldness of temperature , per se , is rather a preservative against , than a promoter of , Consumption , Phthisis is unknown in the Arctic regions . A cold bracing air offers infinitely greater chances of cure than a warm relaxing climate , even of ttic temperate zone . Accordingly we find some of the best cures of those not advanced in the disease effected in Malvern in the winter season ; but for severer cases , its bracing summer and autumn are the best seasons . In cold weather the digestive organs are sooner regulated , and more easily kept in condition : " hunger , and the appetite for O 3 * ydisable materials ^ is greater , and—provided the right kind of food be supplied , with sufficient exercise and proper clothing , as well as obedience to the hygienic laws in other respects—an entire resistance to the morbid effects of cold is secured . In fact , it is the heat-elaborating functions of the body , duly regulated that constitutes one of the most beneficial elements of the water-cure . —The Water-Cure in Consumption and Scrofula , by Dr . Balbirnie .
The Influence of Clothing on Consumption . —Insufficient protection of the chest by dress is popularly , and even professionally , considered an active agent in . producing Consumption . But there does not seem much' show of reason for this opinion . The most exposed out-door labourers — hawkers and other people very inefficiently clad , aud certainly not over-scrupulous in hygienic observances—are least liable to Consumption . In fact we have no masons , bricklayers , plasterers , stuccoers , and hodmen in the list of applicants at the Brompton Hospital—the class precisely that should present in greatest numbers — if exposure to all weathers , and scanty clothing , were vcrv operative in the causation of the malady under discussion . Probably it will be found that the most frequent sufferers from phthisis are the persons who have prided themselves most on their
punctilious avoidance of exposure , and their care in protecting themselves by clothing . The greater liability" of males—in tlio metropolis at least—than females , to whom fashion assigns mnoli less covering to tliu chest—proves tho alleged influence of deHeient clotlung to be ill-founded . At Grtofeuberg , where to go without great-coats , or oven neckerchiefs , wSs tho mode , coughs an < l colds wore very rare—and this in a winter season quite Siberia ! It is matter of familiar observation that those who innflie up most about tuc throat arc tile most liable to throat affections ; -whilst to abjure muffling is tho certain cure , or " hardener . By parity of reasoning—and of experience too—I liavo no doubt it will bo found that tho most free of chest complaints aro those who aro most free of " bosom-friends , " hair skins , * ' comforters , " and all sorts of swaddling-bands about tho throat and chost . — The Water Cura in Consumption and Scrofula , hy Dr . Balbimie .
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BHITHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . LINCOLN . —July 8 , at 53 , Quoon Anno-stroot , tho wifo of tho Bishop of Lincoln ; a daughter . MORI —July () , at 27 , Milton-stroot , Porsot-squaro , Mrs . Frank Mori : a daughter . 1 > HTO . —July 11 , zvt 12 , KomluKton 1 ' alaco-mirdo . iis , Hydepsirli , tho wifo of J . Morton Poto , Esq ., M . I * .: a son . STEWART . —In Dclgravo-squaro , Lady OctftMa Shaw Stewart : a son . WALPQLE . —At lUinthorpo Hall , Norfolk , tho Hon . Mrs . Frederick Walnole ; a son . MARUIAGUS . BOMVILE—MUADB .-July 12 , by tho Hov . tho Lord Sayo and Hole , William Ooiuntou , msuotid son ol' Sir Comnton Domvllo , of San try House , county Dublin , Hurt ., to Caroline , alxth dautclitor of tho Into ( Jonoral Ilui Hon . Rolwrt Moado , and granddaughter ol' John , llrst Karl ol' Clunwlulain . IIALlBUltTON-IIALimntTON .-Juno 27 , at Windsor , Nova Scotia , Ajoxaudor Kowdou Hnllburton , Uwi ., to Augusta Loulnn . Ntivlllo , daughter ol' tho lion . Air . Juatieo UiUlburton , of Glil'ton , noar Windsor . H ^ J !? Mf JON H 7 BJfQL / VNI ) --Jl «' y ' - nfc Mwlnston . Lnnojwuiio Hlv Qoovko WiuhiIh Haiupsoii , Burl .. Captain , K iT l < i . Ann , only child of Thomas Hutching * liUKlmid , 10 » q ., HulttoWlohf , Warwickshire . r ) .,. nitL , I Sr n 5 , ? 1 urn | . V . Hurl ., of Oohlortyn , am I ^ ll if '' «'"*«» . to tho Lady AdoliiMoAueuNta JLUVlllIll lIlwtlilKH , youilKOHt daughter «) f I'VlK'lw tlrst Mnniub of Husftugs , ttnd l % m , OountobB of liiuftu
K . ArNIX ) JL . > U- « OSCAWEN .- July 13 , at St . Jaraos ' s Ohurh , Piccadilly , tho Bov . Lovoson O . Randolph , boit of tlio llov . Thoinmt Randolph , to tho Hon . Anno JUoacawcn , llfth daughtor of the late Hon . and Rov . J . Evelyn JBosoawon . AVOODS-HINDl / BY .-July 12 , at St . Margarot ' s Westminster , Honry " Woods , Esq ., of AVigan , to Hannah , only child of Charles Itindloy , Esq ., M . IV ¦\ V H 1 TTINGHAM ~ 11 HID .--July 18 . at St . Jamos ' H Church , Paddingtcm , Litmt .-Qolonol Ferdinand Whittiughiun , O . B ., Twenty-sixth Oiuuoroniann . second son of tho late Liout .-Gonoral Sir Stamford Whittlngham , K . O . B ., K . O . H ., to I Charlotte Anno , third dauehtcr of tho lato Novilo Reid . ' Ksq ., of Rnniivincdo , Old Windsor , and Kranddnushtor of ' Francis , sovontli Lord Naniov , DEATHSALEXANDER . - July 10 . at 10 . Fitzwilliam-aqiuvro East , Dublin , tho Liuljr EllKRbotli Alexander , sister of tho lato Karl of Calodou . BEUKKIjEY . —Jiuio B , nt Mexico , whoro ho was . Fimt AttiH ) h
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MONEY MARKET AND CITy INTELLIGENCE . Tridny Evening , July 14 , 13 ft * . Consoi . 8 havo boon ftonatdernbly depressed during tho wcofc . Tho wiithor has iulluoiicod tho market ; a good many of tho old " Bear" party having changed tholr tactics and tecomo " JJulls , " got fi'lghtonoil and closed thoir accounts , some real aona Jldo salon ami a oouplo of disastrously wot days did tho rost , and at ono tiixio on "NVcdnosdny Consols vtiro 00 } S i yusterday they roso to 1 ) 2 , and to-day havo fluctuated botwoen in and 02 . Railway shares aro flat , savo Leeds rind Paris ami Lyons . Crystal l ' n \ aci > shiireH aro alreatlj nt n discount , although a trillv betU . T this morning . In mluos but llttlo doing , Aqua I ' rliw n , shndo bettor . IVnln . suliis havo hnd tholr lnoot . uiK , and a satisfactory fitateinent from Captain John lllUihlus lutw boon prosouldd , but hoiiio lulk of nnotlitrr call han deprutisod th « nliurosi tlioy nro only i proininui at iiroseiit , with it 2 s . ( Id , dividend per bJhipo to eonteolT . Tho linnk roturn to-inorrow will bo very fair , and miay di'lvu nil Consols to Oil iign-lu . Consult closed at 4 o ' clock 111 0 IH .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 15, 1854, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15071854/page/21/
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