The home-book of life and health, or, the laws and means of physical culture adapted to practical use. ... / By W. A. Alcott, M. D. With thirty-one illustrations.

  • William Alcott
Date:
1856
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Credit: The home-book of life and health, or, the laws and means of physical culture adapted to practical use. ... / By W. A. Alcott, M. D. With thirty-one illustrations. 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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    II. THE LAWS OF DIGESTION. Law 1. Mastication andinsalivation, 54. A mistake corrected, 5 I. mont's experiments, 54. Necessity of masticating our food, 5-5. Gross neglect, 55. Bolting our food, 55. An anecdote of cider drink- ing, 56. Throwing down our food, 56. The gizzard story, 56. Dif- ference between digestion and solution, 56. Causes of premature decay of the teeth 56. Heated food, 57. Liquid food, 57. Condi- ments or seasonings, 58. Tea and cotfee, 58. What is nature's own and only drink, 58. Buttering our food, 58. How to make un- savory food agreeable, 59. — Law 2. How often we should eat, 59. Tal- leyrand, and Taliaferro, 59. The Fowlers, 59. The Romans, 59. Extremes of eating only once a day, and eating all day long, 69. Eat- ing twice a day, 60. Habits of Dr. Jackson, 60. Three times a day the general practice, 69. Smokers, 60. Meals late at night, 60. Deli- cate females, 61. Three meals a day the maximum, two the minimum, 61. Young children, 61. Error of mothers, 61. What Dr. Coles says, 61. Case of hard laborers considered, 62. Gnawing and faint- ness, 62. Explanation of the motion of the stomach, 63. Jading the stomach, 63. An objection met, 64. Particular violations con- sidered, 64. Eating and drinking between meals, 65. Regularity in regard to evacuation 66. A warning, G6. — Law 3. Quantity of food, 66. Weighing food, its general foil)', 66. Anecdote, 67. Who might weigh their food, and why, 67. Difficulty of having any fixed rules, 67. Mankind almost all eat too much, 68. What Solomon, Franklin, Newton, Dwight, and Comaro said and did, 68. Jefferson and Cald- well's testimony, 68. Habits of the Japanese, Hindoos, Turks, and Ro- mans, 68. A practical error or two corrected, 69. Leaving olf hungry, 69. Examples, Grant Thorburn and the Ohio farmer, 70. The stronger our appetites the better, 70. Few have strong Appetites, 70. Food should refresh us, 71. The supposed fever of digestion, 71. An error depending upon it corrected, 73. Exercise after eating, 73. We are edu- cated to excess in eating,74. Care of the new-born infant, 74. Fat babies, 74. The Surinam mothers, 74. The mothers at home, 75. Example of bad trainings, 75. Pseudo politeness, 76. Physical law is God's law, 77. — Law 4. Quality of food, 77. Simplicity, 77. Mrs. Leslie's mince pie, 77. Complicated food very common, 78. Examples of cooking, to illustrate the subject, 78. The potato, 78. Pies and pastry, 79. What Paris, Percira, Kitchener, and Peter Parley say, 79. Made dishes always objectionable, 79. Special complications, 8 I. Luxuries and necessaries, 80. Food should not be too nutritious, 80. What Dr. Dunglison says, 80. Why unbolted meal is better than bolted, 80. Bolters should not be used, 81. Why milk is better than butter and cheese, 81. Why fat is objectionable, 81. Jewish law against fat and blood, 81. Rice, peas, and beans, 81. Why potatoes and other vegetables are so healthy, 81. Reasons for using a good deal of innutritious substance, 82. Analogy, 82. Care of domestic animals. 82. Care of infants, 83. Facts, 83. A thought about potatoes, 83. Another about fat meat and rice, 83. The human stomach a soap tub, 84. Diseased food, 84. Diseased potatoes, 84. Other diseased vege- tables, 85. Hotbed, culture, 85. Recent manures, 85. A query about large crops, 85. Diseases of domestic animals, particularly the swine, 86. Several reasons why the swine is almost always diseased, 86. Dis- eased cattle, 88. The cow, 88. What Dr. Clarke says, 88. Anecdote of a consumptive cow, 88. Diseased geese, 88. Strasburg how made, 88. All stall-fed animals diseased, 88. What anim healthy, 89. What Noah Webster says, 89. Oysters, SO. The dolphin, 89. The partridge, so. Blood sausages. 80. Poisoning by cheese, 90. Putrid fat, 90. Medicated food, 90. Pre -ei i,;tions of medical men, 90. What is meant by medicated food, 91. Alcoholic liquors and to-
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