The relation of alimentation and disease / by J.H. Salisbury.

  • James H. Salisbury
Date:
1892
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Credit: The relation of alimentation and disease / by J.H. Salisbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE RELATION OE ALIMENTATION AND DISEASE. I. USELESS EXPENDITURE OF NERVE FORCE IN INEFFECTUAL MENTAL EFFORTS. The two great factors of healthy organic Hfe may be said to he: — 1st. Alimentation. 2d. Nerve Force, or Vital Energy. Improper alimentation is the predisposing cause of disease. Improper expenditure of nerve force hastens and assists in the maintenance of unhealthy states. Hence the judicious distribution and economical use of nerve force, becomes of the utmost importance in reestablishing normal conditions. Few persons are aware of the great amount of life force that is absolutely thrown away, which force is required to keep up the healthy actions of the organs of human life, — those organs through and by which we live, breathe and continue our exist- ence in the body. This nerve force is unnecessarily expended in an almost constant and ineffectual working, day and night, of the faculties of the cerebrum; a working without definite object or result, which the individual, apparently, has neither power nor knowledge to control. This thinking, feeling and worrying is under the influence and guidance of the emotional or sympathetic nerves, which are then really insane, or working wildly. Will-power, or voluntary mental effort, aft'ords neither a balance-wheel nor a safety-valve to check this waste. The
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