Clerical Bronchitis

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 27, 1856

Clerical Bronchitis.

A physician writes a communication to one of the religious journals in which he attributes this disease to a non-use of the vocal organs on week days and their double use on Sundays, to mental anxiety as to support, and to the use of tobacco. He recommends to the preacher to read aloud at least half an hour each day, to quit smoking and chewing; and on the membership he enjoins a more

liberal support of the ministry, as the only sensible way of curing the disease.