Show n THE EFFECTS OE OF in a former number I 1 alluded to the thit use of sal erato beratis in modern cookery I 1 have not riot hesitated to 9 pronounce roh ron grico amil itan efficient agent in the prodoc flon fion 0 ahat most ost alarming infantile mortality j prevails prevails re vails your rea readers 91 erf erl know perhaps that a we lose about bot 0 inhabitant cittie of the upped stites State seve seye ev ry year un unde a e j ten ien years years of of age anc and an some aole of tie ibe them errear k now know if inthey they them iia ila have e read eid all th that athas been written on the subject within a few vears years hai haj that not a few of these children chil ebil dien dlen miot have ave survived had bad if it not een fon for the effect of some individuals have d doubted ted t the b e truth of my ii ions lons athey have seriously I 1 y questioned quentio ed whether is really poisonous 1 i s onous such individuals n divi duals may be in ot the h e following statement sta et and facts 1 I had been lec lecturing in north adams mass mats on oti diet and regimen at the close of 0 the lec lecture tute the rev robert crawford came to tome me and in I 1 quiren whether I 1 was not fond of collecting facts and 8 nd when I 1 replied in the affirmative he gave me a particular account of an incident in wil particular liams ilams fown own c which is only four miles milea from froal that race pace 1 in the year yean 1833 1835 an indigent demae who was desirous des of 0 trying pg g to ta earn an a ix honest livelihood for herself hersell anh and an ii her family by keeping boarders boar ders derp rented a house in and took about 11 fifteen g boarders they were chiefly it if no not t wholly young men who dera were were vera attending 0 checol the college I 1 1 lege at that place pace the housekeeper Pouge keeper was wag ignorant af the ihei fashion able mades of cookery though she knew that rich food wag waa generally preferred erred she bad heard of and that by b many cook cooki q it was vvhs freely used accordingly she procured a quantity and freely used it the warm biscuits were so frill of it iti as not only to give them a ayel yei yel low or burnt appearance but also to render them bitter or nauseous to the taste many other articles were filled with it in like manner in endeavoring to make light puddings pudding however she used so much of the article it was wag as said as to render them as heavy almost so as lead the students called these hese puddings by the name of specific gravity 1 so that whenever they wish wished ed for a slice they aou would d aked asked to be he helped to some of the specific gra gravly visy vily after the lapse of a few months a disease broke out amone amons these students tso so severe avat that many believed it to bp be contagious of the whole number thirteen were confined cAn fined for a bl long iong on time 7 and the fourteenth ivas was slightly I 1 affected for a fe few w days the house became known hythe bythe name of xit the pila Plea pest house t two of the patients died another other barely rely escaped death and eleven finally recovered the individual who escaped the disease wholly was wai professor now of college the one wha was only slightly affected was the rev mr crawford my rn informant the latter iatter had ho doubt never had any that the disease was caused causo solely by the I 1 saw professor tallock subsequently who con cop firmed the statement of mr crawford it appears that he like mr crawford ademy ate very little of the food which wb ch was so filled with sale ralus and the biscuits they seldom ever evet tasted I 1 also saw and conversed freely with dr sabin one of the two principal physicians who attended atthe at the pest house during the sickness aforesaid and who is ig still a practising practicing physician he told me rne that to the present day neither he nor his associate dr smith bad ever entertained a momentary doubt that the whole trouble was caused by the nature of the disease was somewhat peculiar but in every particular gave indications that the citadel of life had been attacked by no mean or powerless enemy The bowels lost their tone and add there was great muscular prostration blisters applied to ifo any part pan of the system were sure to 10 he be fol tol followed lowid by almost arnost immediate mortification of the he depari pari part parr pari in short the disease was one of the most severe ever known in that region but it if lh the more excessive use of this thi irritant i substance is liable to produce such terrible effects can the less excessive use of it which almost everywhere prevails be entirely innocuous many diany tell us its they do not use ue it to excess though they are well aware that many others do so but so it 43 is with almost every abc abe I 1 have seldom if ever met with a person who voun toun would youw confess to the error of tight lacing though I 1 have met with thousands who knew that such an abuse prevailed allaround them I 1 was recently taken to task by a venerable housekeeper of this commonwealth for saying that the use 0 of f ten or twelve pounds of in a family was by no means binco uncommon burrion ivi tur rion why 1 said she 1 11 I do not use so much as this 1 m inina my great family how large is your family madain madam I 1 inquired it consists ot of t teti en pers persons ans vy and how bow much do you we use y yearly earl A pound poun d will laef me three weeks weil well well weil madam that is 13 between seventeen and I 1 eighteen I 1 pounds a year she was surprised and said that she did not use so much a pound she said would last her nearly four weeks but this to her hed surprise was thirteen pounds a year there can be no doubt that the sub inflaming tion of the alimentary canal which the habit habil habitual ual nal use of this ibis alkali induces both on children and adult adults is one cause of that dread mortality mor which prevails among the former but which in in summer and autumn autu aln aan when other mothr causes cooperate co operate peculiarly alarming for my own awu part I 1 i can hardly resist the full conviction that of the abovementioned above mentioned who die dle di prematurely j at least might night survive but for the effects of f WM WAT A ALCOTT MD nii dil auburndale auburn dale mas Bla sst dec 29 1854 r 1 1 NY N Y tribune |