Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: November 19, 2019 06:01PM
GNPE Wrote:
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> EB: just exactly how does what happened in
> Kirtland decades ago impact us today?
"The implication of both these orthodox perspectives went beyond treatment, for it was reasonably enough assumed that the ill-advised consumption of stimulants by even those in good health could lead t o disease . A full appreciation of this point is essential to any modern understanding of how the LDS health code would initially have been understood—by physicians or by Mormons . Immoderate use of even mildly stimulating foods and drinks was likely to result in symptoms ranging from dyspepsia to nervous debility, and this was especially so in the many individuals of "delicate," "nervous" or "sanguine" temperament. Young children , pregnant women and those already ill with fevers or other inflammations were particularly at risk , as were those whose jobs were largely sedentary, such as students.
The more powerful stimulants , unless prescribed for purely medicinal purposes, posed substantial risks to everyone who consumed them. On these general points, nearly all orthodox physicians were in agreement. They differed only on the degree of stimulation associated with such items as ardent spirits, wine, beer, etc., coffee , tea , meat, mustard, pepper and other spices. Although this debate had been going on for many decades, both popular and medical discussion on this subject crested in the second quarter o f the nineteenth century, spurred in part by such crises as the world cholera pandemic which swept America in 1832-33 , and the not unrelated health reform movements of the day.10"
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