Golden rules of health, and hints to dyspeptics : with special reference to diet, exercise, air, temperature, ventilation, hygrometry, influence of domestic habits : together with remarks on allopathy, hydropathy, aeropathy, thermopathy, psychropathy, homoeopathy, thumpingpathy, healingpathy, killingpathy &c., &c., &c. / by Joel H. Ross.

  • Ross, Joel H.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Golden rules of health, and hints to dyspeptics : with special reference to diet, exercise, air, temperature, ventilation, hygrometry, influence of domestic habits : together with remarks on allopathy, hydropathy, aeropathy, thermopathy, psychropathy, homoeopathy, thumpingpathy, healingpathy, killingpathy &c., &c., &c. / by Joel H. Ross. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Food should be suitably nutritious, easily digested, and not too stimulating. The following hints may be consider- ed worthy of a place in our memory. 1. A good rule to be observed in this country, where good things are plenty, is, not to eat too much. There is more to be feared from a surfeit, than from a famine, in a land that flows with milk and honey. 2. Not to eat too often.—The stomach needs time for rest, as much as the hands or the head. 3. Not to fast too long.—Six hours being a sufficient interval, in health, during the active part of the day. 4. Not to eat too fast.—Some people seem to take their food as though they were eating for a whole nation in a state of starvation, and thrust down every mouthful, as though they expected each would save a famishing soul from death ! 5. Not to eat in a pet, or with the mind depressed. The less you cry, and the more you laugh, (if you do not choke) the better. 5. Not to eat Incompatibles.—If a man has a good piece of beef or mutton, either roasted or boiled, for his dinner, he had better rest until the next day before making further experiments in analyzing the animal kingdom, un- less perchance a little milk or butter should be needful to complete the first experiment. Some people seem to ran- sack the heavens, the earth, and the seas to prove that they live to eat Hence, go they will for incompatibles, if they are compelled in the end to dispose of them as the sickened whale did of the Prophet Jonah. But such peo-