A health & counsel bureau / by Eustace Miles.

  • Eustace Miles
Date:
[between 1900 and 1920]
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Credit: A health & counsel bureau / by Eustace Miles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and what it does not need ; they are told what to take,, and what not to take; they are told the reasons why. They may need Potash, or they may not; they may need Phosphorus, or they may not; according to the analysis, they might be given, respectively, soup containing the juices of potatoes, or bran and raisin tea ; they may need Iron, or they may not; if they did need it, they might be given spinach. Thus they are relieved of anxiety by the almost mathe-1 matical knowledge of what is required. They are relieved of further anxiety. Suppose that the cure rather depresses them, as it does sometimes, while the old poisons are circulating in the blood on their way out of the body, then they are told what is happening, and they understand that the treatment is the right one ; they are- encouraged to persevere. In fact, instead of having to think about themselves a. great deal, they are relieved of this, for they intelligently realise what is going on within them, and they no longer feel anxious. (106) FOOD FOR CHILDREN AT SCHOOL What would you recommend for my children at school ? They are at an ordinary school, and the master refuses to provide them with what you call Balanced ^10ChUdren*°r Non-Flesh dishes ; if they give up meat, they at School. are the vegetables, which, as you say, are atrociously cooked, and deprived of their best part; and bread-and-butter, the bread being either white or the coarsest kind of brown ; and indigestible puddings. Can you suggest anything ? Must I leave them to have meat, which I know disagrees with them and makes them heavy, or else to starve on the non-nourishing, non-flesh foods ; or can I provide them with something extra, in a form which wilt not make them conspicuous ?—A. P. T. It is a very hard problem. I should advise you, first of all, to write to the master, and give him a little evidence ; you might refer him to me. I could tell him of at least two schools that have tried my diet successfully. In one school about half-a-dozen boys had this diet, and
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