From the Boston Medical lntellgencer.
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DUU times for Doctors.--Thisis the gen
cral complaint among physicians. There is
no prevailing epidemic, and, what IS better
yet, there is no prospect of any. we have


lately been on a tour through the country,
and have taken particular pains to ascertain
whether there is any thing like prospect OF
any prevailing disease, the present season;
but there is none. Thus far, in town and
country, there never has been more gener-
al period Of health, in the United States,
than since the commencement Of 1926 The
Faculty say it is distrcssingly healthy.


We beg however not to be understood that
the work of death has been suspended. On
no--pcoplc are dying daily, as at former
periods, by nearly every sort Of i'll but ven
cradle old age. Men will drink more than
is necessary, Notwithstanding the destruc-
tion it makes with their constitutions, and
women cannot be fashionable without being
skewered up i'll whaebone. The business
Of quenchiug thirst makes shocking dcs-
tluction in the world, still it is very nngen-
teel new drunkards are manufactured year
lv who might otherwise be the first rate of
useful cit2ens.-.A medical gentlcmaa has
been prophesvng d great mortality, not long
since, which will be exclusively confined to
young. ladies'. The first approach Of this
/
ous breathing efter the slightest exercise
sudden faintng fits at church; a pale face;
and nothing at all like an appetite. The
sanativc measures to be adopted by those
who may now be suffering from the like en-
barr,ssmcnts, consist altogether in giving
freedom to the respiratory organs; and this
can only be done by wearing loose owing
dresses, at the same time their stomachers
are used for heating bath, by o'clock in
the morning.


/ How the times have changed within 4 few
veers' There is now nothing more pleasant,
f nor more in vogue, than to be nill health
because it sounds well, and makes people
talk $50 away they go to the Springs, and
| pnt their ankles out of joint in walt2ing,
/ when in fact, at home, it. requires servant
to draw their stockings on. Health and
happiness have been at war ever SINCE the
j Revolution; If one is sick, why then there is


leisure TO enjoy friends visit Saratoga, Mag
ara, Mount Holyoke, and forty other places.
Rcd cheeks, a sound stomach, and industry,
are poor recommendations in wife-they
/, are so masculine. and pray what is more


vulgar i'll amy thing like man, than to hear


hlm positively declare, in the very face and


eyes OF well bred people, that he never had
the dyspepsia, when it is all the go! In this


age Of refinement if persons desire to rise,


they must lie in bed, turn noon into mid
4 night; sigh without pain; take advice and


neither follow nor pay for it. take a footman
take a cold every time the wind blows east


take a jauih aud Jam, somewhere, to wear
time away, take few compliments, take
tca--and that is taking time By the foreock
:. in eighteen and twenty-five.