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.

  • Page, C. E. (Charles Edward), 1840-
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[1883], ©1883
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    erage lessens the waste of tissue and renders less food necessary ? Quite a percentage of even robust people, beginning to feel, or to recognize after having long felt, the twinges of dyspepsia do, either on their own judgment or by the advice of the family physi- cian, give up the habit, and find great benefit from the change; and but for clinging to other unnatural practices, they might often bid adieu to all their phys- ical ills. A few, comparatively, of the most vigorous men and women, it can not be denied, do enjoy good health and live to a good old age, in spite of many injurious practices, including the habitual use of the stimulant coffee. But even these have their intervals of suffering, more or less severe— attacks that bet- ter habits would prevent. Of the latter class, out of scores whom I might mention, the experience of O. B. Frothingham is noteworthy. He says : Although no positive ill effect has been traceable to either of them [tea and coffee] or wine, all of which have been used sparingly, yet, were my life to live over again, I should accustom myself to abstinence from all three. It seems to me now, on looking back, that something of dullness and languor, something of exhaustion and dreaminess, something of lethargy, something too of heat and irritability, may be chargeable to a practice not in any grave degree harmful or blameworthy. The faculties have been less keen and patient than they would have been under a strictly natural regimen. It might, perhaps, in this connection, be profitable to ask,