The natural cure of consumption, constipation, Bright's disease, neuralgia, rheumatism, colds (fevers) etc. : how sickness originates, and how to prevent it a health manual for the people / by C.E. Page.

  • Charles Edward Page
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[1883], ©1883
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    of eating once in twenty-four hours [he has himself lived on this system for eleven years, and continues so to live ; and has, besides, tested its advantages upon patients in certain forms of disease] and have done work enough to put a much younger man to his trumps if he had to do.it. My food is very simple; I do not eat more at one meal than almost any per- son eats who takes three meals a day; I keep my body well built up in flesh and in vigor of muscle, considering that incurable organic difficulties render great muscular activity impracticable. I keep up my own strength, and have held in check my constitu- tional conditions so that I have reached old age [72 years]. I could mention a score or more of similar in- stances ; and, as stated elsewhere, no person ever tried the plan and found occasion for abandoning it, except from considerations utterly remote from health. In fact, under certain circumstances, as in travelling, this system is a most beneficent one; it makes a person independent of railway restaurants and lunch-counters ; for at some time during the day, usually, as at night in a good hotel, one can obtain, if not always a really hygienic meal, still a compara- tively good one. With reference to the amount of food-to be taken at the single meal, I have observed this: those who would be termed hearty eaters, on the three-meal sys- tem, will usually eat no more at their one meal than formerly at dinner alone; some, indeed, find much less than this suffices to sustain them in the best manner. This is largely due, however, to the superior