The philosophy of health, or, health without medicine : a treatise on the laws of the human system / by L.B. Coles.
- Larkin B Coles
- Date:
- 1850
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The philosophy of health, or, health without medicine : a treatise on the laws of the human system / by L.B. Coles. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![2] guide, in spite of facts and philosophy. There- fore, they eat whenever they take a notion. Their stomachs would perhaps guide them in the right way if a morbid action of those organs had never been induced by previous irregu- larities. Three meals a day are sufficient for all classes of persons, under all circumstances, and of all ages. For persons having weak stomachs, and many persons of sedentary habits, two meals a day, rightly distanced, might be preferable. But no individual, whatever may be his age, his occupation, or his health, should take solid food more than three times in one day. No person can do more than this without trans- gressing nature's laws. The reasons for this rule will soon be given. An argument against taking food at regular intervals is often attempted from the fact that many dumb animals have no regular times of eating; and it is urged that these animals have no other guide than the dictates of nature. In answer to this, it may be said, that the habits of dumb beasts, since the introduction of sin into the world, under the weight of which the whole creation, or rather, as the original signifies, every creature, groaneth, being burdened, are not always in exact accordance with nature's rules. For instance, cattle are put mto a lean pasture; and they are unable to gather a full meal at once; they are obliged perhaps, to graze all day long to obtain suffi' cient subsistence. In such cases, to allow in tervals between meals, would be to undero-« gradual starvation. But put dumb animals inio lull teed, and what do they do ? They deliber-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21686452_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
