The self-instructor in phrenology and physiology : with over one hundred new illustrations, including a chart for the use of practical phrenologists / By O. S. and L. N. Fowler. Rev. by Nelson Sizer.
- Orson S. Fowler
- Date:
- 1890 [1889]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The self-instructor in phrenology and physiology : with over one hundred new illustrations, including a chart for the use of practical phrenologists / By O. S. and L. N. Fowler. Rev. by Nelson Sizer. 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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![organic material; too sluggish to expend vitality as fast as it accumulates, and hence should work, work, and with all their might, and as much as possible with their muscles, and out of doors; should eat sparingly, and of simple food; avoid rich gravies, butter, sweets, fat, and pastry, but Kve much on fruits and lean meats if meat is eaten ; sleep less; keep all the excre- tory organs free and open by an aperient diet, and especially ^he skin by frequent ablutions, the hot bath, etc.; breathe abundantly, so as to turn up the surplus carbon; sit little, but walk much; never yield to indolence; work up energy by hands and head, business and pleasure any way, every way, but keep consuming vitality as fast as possible. Some fleshy persons, especially females, give up to indolence and inanity ; get the blues, and lounge on rocking-chair and bed. What is wanted is to do, not to loiter around. Inertia is your bane, ancl action your cure. If flushed, feverish, nervous, etc., be careful not to over-do, and rely on air, warm bath, and gentle but continued exercise, active or passive, but not on medi- cines. THE LUNGS-BREATHING. All that live, down even to vegetables and trees, breathe— must breathe in order to live—live in proportion as breathe— begin life's first function with breathing, and end its last in their last breath. And breathing is the most important func- tion of life from first to last, because the grand stimulater and sustainer of all. Would you get and keep warm when cold, breathe copiously, for this renews that carbonic consumption all through the system which creates all animal warmth. Would you cool-off and keep cool in hot weather, deep, copious breathing will burst open all those myriads of pores, each of which, by converting the water in the system into insensible perspiration, casts out heat, and refreshes mind and body. Would you labor long and hard, with intellect or muscle, with- out exhaustion or injury, breathe abundantly; for breath is the great re-invigorator of life and all its functions. Would you keep well, breath is your great preventive of fevers, of consumption, of all the ills that flesh is heir to. Would you break up fevers, or colds, or unload the system of morbid mat- ter, or save both your constitution and doctor's fee, cover up warm, drink soft water—cold, if you have a robust constitution sufficient to produce a reaction] if not, hot water should be](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2102425x_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
