The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition / by Horace Fletcher ; experimentally assisted by Dr. Ernest van Someren & Dr. Hubert Higgins.
- Horace Fletcher
- Date:
- [1904]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The A.B.-Z. of our own nutrition / by Horace Fletcher ; experimentally assisted by Dr. Ernest van Someren & Dr. Hubert Higgins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![THE DIGESTION-ASH, &c. — Continued ~t . r The true test of healthy Z is absence of odour and completeness, ease and cleanliness of delivery. Frequency or other- wise, does not so much matter. Quantity too, is not so important; but with foul odour there is disturbance, strain and danger. The normal man is a cleanly being with all excreta inoffensive; and by these tokens he may be his own private judge. Why is it that barn-yards are tolerable to the human senses while open depots of human excreta are fever-breeding nuisances and intol- erable to beasts and humans alike? This curse of putrid excreta caused more deaths from enteric fever during the Boer War in South Africa than all other causes. It is equally a menace to health and even to life while being formed and carried in the body. 77 W/» Offensive excreta are quite certain evidence of neglect of the self-con- trollable parts of our own nutrition. They are the tell-tale condemnation of ignorance or care- lessness. Each person should learn to read the true bulletins of his health conditions in his waste-products of digestion. Zis the form the body must assume to render emptying of the digestion-ash natural and easy. Man was built to squat on his heels in defecating, and sitting erect on a modern seat is like trying to force a semi-solid through a kinked hose. HEALTHY HUMAN EXCRETA ARE no more Offensive than Moist Clay and have no more odour than a hot blscltt. [»]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21024674_0055.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
