The Natural Cure of Consumption, Constipation, Bright's Disease, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, "Colds" (Fevers), Etc. / How Sickness Originates, and How to Prevent It. A Health Manual for the People.

3 [NOTE TO PAGE 169.]

Water As Medicine and Food.—There is no royal road to health once deeply diseased. In certain cases, and for a limited period even in these, hot water is invaluable. But if long continued—used as a constant beverage instead of a temporary expedient to aid in removing the slime and “gurry” from stomachs deeply coated[94]—the effect will be to keep this organ weak, as a number of Turkish baths every day would enfeeble, in time, the strongest man. One valid objection to tea, chocolate, and coffee is, that they are usually taken hot (see “Coffee, etc.”).

Warm water is about the most effectual remedy known to me for acute dyspepsia. It should be drunk profusely, even to stomach distension, with finger exploration, if necessary, to produce vomiting; then a few cupfuls to retain, to wash away any residue of undigested food, dilute the blood, etc. But cool, fresh water is the beverage par excellence for all the year round (see pp. 76-90-100).

4 [NOTE ON “NATURAL DIET.”]

With regard to the suggestion, on page 211, of using milk to wet farinaceous foods, in place of depending solely upon the natural mouth-juices, I wish to say that it was felt by me, at the time, to be entirely unphysiological, and by no means the best way to manage. I now wish to urge that in so far as any one chooses to test the advantages of this regimen he will not depart from a truly natural way, so far as the natural way is possible; but rather use the whole grain, or the whole meal dry, and take the milk (if indulged in at all) by itself, and fruit likewise—after the grain. Several remarkable cases have occurred since this book was first issued, in which the curative powers of this diet have been displayed in a most marked manner. I take occasion to mention one. Mrs. L., of Lee, N. H., had been suffering for eight years, during which she had been able to walk but little. She was growing worse, and finally was pronounced by her physician incurably diseased with “ovarian tumor.” After six months’ use of uncooked food—a breakfast of fruit only, with dinner at night composed of unsifted wheat meal (from one-third to one-half cupful, at first, the amount increased later with increased exercise); dry, followed with a little fruit—she is up and about the house, aiding in the housework, and the past week did the entire family ironing. She has been for eight years a great sufferer, but all her pains have been banished, and her strength and general health are steadily improving under a continuance of the diet as above described, together with light, loose clothing, much fresh air, air-baths, self hand-rubbing, and gradually increasing exercise from very small beginnings.

5 [NOTE TO PAGE 232.]

The Long-sought Principle.-It is confessedly a standing disgrace to our profession that, after all the boasted “progress in medicine” during these hundreds of years of research and experimentation, not one great principle has been established by means of which the people can be, even if disposed (and it can hardly be said that they are, generally), guided toward perfect health. It is charged that vegetarianism, even, has failed to speedily make sound, bright-eyed, clear-skinned, healthy and therefore handsome men and women, out of life-long “sinners” against the laws of life; and it must be admitted that not all its promises are verified in practice, although it seldom fails to greatly improve all who adopt the regimen (imperfect as it is—and it is very imperfect) as practiced at the various hygienic Cures at home and abroad. The trouble is that food-reformers have only undertaken to modify, with half-way measures—to change a very bad diet for one far from good, one form of “mush” for another less harmful, but by no means physiological. I would assert here as the one all-sufficient principle, so far as physical health is concerned, looking to the rearing of children, that if we were to take a thousand new-born infants—good, bad, and indifferent, as to inheritance—and give them pure cow’s milk, avoiding the cramming that is universally practiced; say, give them two full meals, or three moderate ones a day (the quantity altogether gauged by the individual’s digestive capacity); and, as they should arrive at suitable age (i. e., as teeth began to develop), feed them on strictly natural food—the natural diet—fruits, and grains (in winter, soaked twelve hours in little water[95]), the fruit in large proportion; give them a chance to develop normally, such as other young animals have—i.e., give them freedom from holding, tending, baby-carting, and the like, except in the smallest measure; dress them lightly, keep them free from foul air, by sufficient ventilation of all living rooms; give them the utmost freedom of the lawns or the ground—outdoor exercise—give them this sort of treatment, and not five per cent. would die under five years of age, nor, with fair regard for the known laws of life, would many fail to reach old age in health. The at present supposably-inevitable “diseases of infancy and childhood” could not exist. The influence of the constant tending and holding to which all infants are subjected is disastrous in a twofold degree: (1) for many months they are prevented from taking much voluntary exercise, and (2) this makes the involuntary cramming relatively more excessive; hence they grow fat and disordered in every way, and predisposed to all manner of sicknesses. Children scarcely ever have occasion to use their teeth. The food in use requires no chewing. Little demand is made upon the salivary glands (for food is hot, moist, and “goes down itself”); hence these glands, which consequently fail to develop normally, become at some time acutely diseased, or finally almost if not entirely useless. Hollow, sunken cheeks result from this cause. It was never designed to remedy this defect with fat. The parotid glands and the cheek muscles should be developed and maintained by physiological eating. The teeth for want of use fail, as the muscular system declines through indolence. Unnatural food, fast eating, overeating, poor teeth, dentists, “mumps,” plethora, and febrile diseases, or chronic dyspepsia, and all manner of ailments—this is the present order of things (see advertisement of “How to Feed the Baby”).

6. TIRED FROM INACTION: TOO MUCH “REST.”

The person who works to-day and gets tired, perhaps almost exhausted, feels sure from former experiences that he will rise next morning well able to work again; and providing he does not overdraw the account continually, the more he does the more he can do. It is upon this principle that our athletes acquire and maintain condition.

But the consumptive, the delicate person, who, as is the case generally, has grown weaker and weaker from doing less and less (and this is in accordance with natural law), becomes at last “tired” in such a manner, that without an entire change—a right about face—there is no such thing as getting rested this side the grave. This exhaustion from indolence must be changed for the tiredness resulting from physical exertion, or there is no hope of “cure.” Friends must learn the error of their ways; they must cease the eternal discouragement of the loved one; there must be no more of the incessant, “Now, Jenny, sit right down—you will get too tired”; “There, now, let me do that—you know how little it takes to tire you”; “You are crazy to think of going outdoors such a day as this,” etc., etc. (see page 85). However kindly meant all this is, it is, in practice, “hitting a man when he is down”; while the usual encouragement to eat (digestion or no digestion)—to eat (appetite or no appetite—the inaction often forbidding all desire for food) is, to use a sporting phrase, a companion “slugger” that finally knocks the weakling off the stage. This is what produces the phlegm as fast as the poor victim can cough it up. Because he has nothing to do—because he does nothing—but ponder over his condition, eat, manufacture phlegm and “raise” it, he lowers himself more and more, until he gets to the bottom. He has “raised” about everything; only the frame, the skeleton, is left to bury (see pp. 72, 78, 92, 97, 104).

A FEW OF THE MANY NOTES FROM READERS OF THE FIRST
EDITION OF “NATURAL CURE.”

J. Russ, Jr., Haverhill, Mass., says: “Dr. Page’s explanation of the ‘colds’ question is alone worth the price of a hundred copies of the book—it is, in fact, invaluable, going to the very root of the cause of sickness.”

Mrs. W. O. Thompson, 71 Irving Place, Brooklyn, N. Y., says: “I wish every friend I have could read it, and, only that hygienists never harbor ill-feeling, that my enemies might not chance to find it. I owe much to the truths made clear in ‘Natural Cure’; more, indeed, than to all the health literature I have ever read (and I had read much, because I had much need); and it is certain that my sister-in-law owes her life and present robust health to the professional attendance of its author.”

Mrs. S. S. Gage, teacher in the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, N. Y., says: “My friend, Mrs. Thompson, recommended this book (‘Natural Cure’) to me. Thanks to her and ‘the book,’ my old headaches trouble me no more; I am cured of catarrh and partial deafness, and, in fact, am better in every way. I never could accomplish so much and with so little fatigue; and I am sure that all my intellectual work is of better quality than it ever was before.”

D. Thompson, Lee, N. H., says: “Through following the advice in ‘Natural Cure’ my headaches, which have tortured me at frequent intervals for forty years, return no more. Formerly I could not work for three days at a time, now I work right along. For this, as well as for the restoration of my wife to health, after we had given her up as fatally sick, I have to thank Dr. Page and ‘The Natural Cure.’”

Mrs. S. E. D. Thompson, Lee, N. H., says: “I can not well express my gratitude for the benefit I have received from this book and the author’s personal counsel. Condemned to die, I am now well. It is truly wonderful how the power of resting is increased under the influence of the regimen prescribed. I have distributed many copies of this book, and have known of a life-long asthmatic cured, biliousness removed, perennial hay fever banished for good, and other wonderful changes produced, by means of the regimen formulated in ‘Natural Cure.’ A friend remarked: ‘It is full of encouragement for those who wish to live in clean bodies.’ Another said: ‘It has proved to me that I have been committing slow suicide.’ Our minister says: ‘I have modified my diet and feel like a new man.’”

To this Mrs. Thompson adds, for the author’s first book, “How to Feed the Baby”: “I have known of a number of babes changed from colicky, fretful children to happy well ones, making them a delight to their parents, by following its advice.”

William C. Langley, Newport, R. I., says: “While all would be benefited from reading it, I would especially commend it to those who, from inherited feebleness, or who, like myself, had declined deeply, feel the need of making the most of their limited powers. I may add, that this work bears evidence that the author has had wide range and extensive reading, together with a natural fitness for physiological and hygienic research, keen perception of natural law and tact in its application.”

Solomon Alexander, No. 252 East Fifty-second Street, New York, says: “I have been greatly benefited by Dr. Page’s treatment for inflammatory rheumatism and Bright’s disease, and am now steadily improving under his direction.” July 27, 1883. (Now well, November, 1883.)

Mrs. Dr. Densmore, 130 West 44th Street, New York, says: “You can judge of my opinion of ‘Natural Cure’ when I tell you that I am buying it of the publishers by the dozen to distribute among my patients.”

The Popular Science Monthly for September, 1883, says: “The author gives several remarkable examples of wonderful cures which he knows of having been effected by following the principles he lays down—principles which may be followed with profit, and the following of which may relieve many cases regarded as desperate; and he has given the public a most valuable manual of hygiene.”

The Atlantic Monthly for August, 1883, says: “An effort at impressing common-sense views of preserving and restoring health.”

Several hundreds of most flattering notices from secular and religious journals, on file at the publishers’ office, indicate how this work is being received by the public.

SPECIAL NOTE.

It is evident from the nature of the press notices of “The Natural Cure,” that the prefatorial request has been very generally complied with, and that not only have critics managed to obtain an understanding of the author’s position as regards the only certain means for physical improvement from low conditions, but they are disposed to sustain him in that position. Here and there one, however, as was to be expected, from ignorance of natural law, from personal preferences or notions, from faith in the old way (which has so long been on trial and so signally failed), has failed to comprehend the matter. Diving into the middle of the book, selecting some chapter or paragraph which forbids a consumptive or any frail patient, while doing nothing, to eat like a woodchopper or a railroad hand, and especially warns such from eating worse kinds of food than the man of mighty strength who might, through the influence of active outdoor pursuits, get rid of considerable coffee, pie, cakes, pickles, etc., and (providing his diet included plenty of coarse food) even thrive in spite of a good deal of such material (for we know that many indoor loafers, even, are too tough to be speedily killed by such a diet)—carping critics, we mean to say, selecting some special paragraph have held the advice up as “too radical in theory.” But no person of sound mind can read this book through with even a fair degree of care, and not learn that its chief aim is to teach people who are now starving, or who are at best poorly nutrified, and, next to these, the well ones who mean to keep on the safe side, the way to live in order to be well nourished and free from the pains, aches, and sicknesses which cover the land with wrecks of human beings—dying—who might better live in clean, sound, and easy bodies.

INDEX.

Advantages of Deep Breathing, 84, 111

Albuminuria (Bright’s Disease), 116

Animal Food, Injurious Effects of, 51, 60, 61

Animal Food Unnecessary, 50, 158

Stimulating, 160

Acute Stage in the Cure of Chronic Disease, 222

Appetite, Tempting the, Mischievous, 66, 157, 262, 267

Appetite and Insanity, 141, 144

Apoplexy, 149

Air-Baths, 166, 171, 172

and Dyspepsia, 168

Apples and Summer-Complaint, 193

 

Bad Blood, 180

Bacillus Theory, The, of Consumption, 80

Blood, Bad, 180

Bathing, 90, 98, 166, 171, 172

Bed, A word About the, 102

Bowels, Consumption of the, 81

Forced Movement of the, Unhygienic, 110

Baths, Sun, 175

Air, 166, 171, 172

Injurious Forms of, 172

Biliousness, 152

and “Rich” Food, 153

Bright’s Disease (Albuminuria), 116

Symptoms of, 125, 127, 130

Breathing, Deep, 84, 111, 137

Careless, 137

Open-mouth, 101

Difficult, how Relieved, 101

Beef-tea Fallacy, The, 60, 61, 254

Brain, Pumping away the Effete Matters from the, 137

Bran (Wheat Hulls) Under the Microscope, 187

Brain Workers and Stimulation, 252

Bears, Honey-loving, 263

 

Continence, Influence of Diet in the Matter of, 265

Continence for Consumption, Essentiality of, 105

Credulity and Ignorance, 22

Cold Air not necessarily Pure, 240

Colds, 35, 36, 37, 41, 45, 171, 218

Influence of Diet on, 40, 218

Natural Cure of, 41

the Name a Misnomer, 45

Franklin’s Idea of, 171

Absurdity of, 40, 41, 42

Clothing, Day, 120

Night, 103

Constipation, 65, 107, 248

at Child-birth, 107

Consumption, 28

Curability of, 29

Congestion of the Lungs, How Produced, 99

Congestion of the Lungs from Indigestion, 99

Cheerfulness, Importance of, 77, 98

Carpets and Health, 97

Consumption, Out-door Life Essential to the Cure of, 30, 48

Consumption, Dyspepsia the Parent of, 54

Consumption from Fatty Degeneration, 79

Constipation, when “Closed Bowels” are not, strictly speaking, 65, 107

Constipation from Deficient Diet, 112

Chilliness, How to Remove, 109

Controlling the Symptoms, Folly of the Theory of, 112

Cures, Some Natural, 75, 85, 114, 168, 175

Climate, A Cold, Influence on the Kidneys, 116, 117

Croup as a Symptom in Albuminuria, 128

Catarrh, 153

Specific Treatment for, Danger of, 130

Catarrh, Suppressed and Diabetes, 130

Caffeine allied to Quinine, 244

Coffee, 243

and Indigestion, 251

and Insomnia, 139

and Health, 255

a Diuretic, 251

Cleanliness and Insomnia, 138

Cooking Vegetables, some Hints about, 177

Cooking, Injurious Effects of, 207, 210

Cost of Living, 206

Cure, The Raw-Food, 217

Chronic Diseases usually the Result of Chronic Provocation, 147

Child-birth, Constipation at, Normal, 107

Cistern Water, Stagnant, How to Renovate, 212

Christmas Dinner, A “Natural”, 227

Change of Air at Home, 237

Cream, Unwholesomeness of, 231

Caffeine, Artificial, How Manufactured, 248

Coffee and Courage, 258

and Tea more Injurious than Beer, 261

Coffee and Alcohol, Physiological Effects of, Similar, 259

Conclusion, 270

Cramming the Sick, Mania for, 59, 66, 76, 146

 

Diet, The Natural, 207

Various Hints about, 88, 153

Abstemious, for Consumptives, 89, 90, 92

Diet, Prevailing, Unwholesome, 227

Excessive, Promotes Consumption, How, 81, 82, 83

Diet, Influence of, on Health, 48, 59, 66, 81, 88, 99, 112, 113, 122, 126

Diet, A Physiological, 197

and Virtue, 265

Diabetes from Suppressed Nasal Catarrh, 130

Diabetes, Treatment for, 130

Death, Sudden, Accounted for, 31, 32, 149

Death Penalty, The, Nature’s Commutation of, 147, 148

Disease, The Temper, 39

Hunger a, 39

Providence and, 8, 9, 17

Prevalence of, 9, 14

Exciting Causes of, 11, 12

Predisposing Causes of, 11, 12, 35, 40

Diseases Arising from Renal Disorder, 130

Dyspepsia, 168

Doctors, A Prescription for, 95

Dry Diet, Advantages of, 93

Degeneration, Fatty, 78, 79, 80, 148, 150

Digestive and Muscular Capacity Compared, 68, 230

Dysentery, A Hint Concerning, 113

Diathesis, The “Disease”, 132

Unimportance of the Question of, 132

Dyspepsia and Dreams, 133

Diphtheria a Phase of Albuminuria, 128

The Class of Persons most Subject to, 128

Diuretics, The Best of All, 124

Diuretic, Coffee a, 251

Diseases, The True Interpretation of, 133

Dyspeptics are Recruited, How, 157

Diarrhœa, Chronic, Cured with Watermelons, 192

Driven Cow’s Milk Unnatural, 212

Digestion, Primary, in the Mouth, 93

 

Eating Alone Sometimes Useful, 176

Eating at Bed-time for Sleeplessness, 144

Error, A Common, 113

Exercise, Passive, 113

Exercise, The True Problem About, 70

Exercise for Consumptives, 69

Exercise, 68, 89, 90, 109, 119

Expectorants, Natural, 89, 91, 105

Exercise, Lack of, How to Counteract, 195

Exercise After Eating, 201, 202

 

Fruit vs. Fish, Flesh, Fowl & Co. in Hot Weather, 191

Fruit in Winter, 211

Food Poisonous Unless Digested, 246

Food and Virtue, 53, 265

Fæces, Source of the, 111

Foul Air, Poor Economy to Save, 87

Food, The Natural, of Man, 48, 72, 207

Food, “Rich,” Injurious, 88, 153

Hot or Cold?, 99

Fasts, Professional, Value of, 74

Fasting, Notable Instances of, 72, 73, 140, 168

Fasting, Constipation Normal during, 107, 112

Fasting Cure, The, 42, 43, 145, 153, 168

Food as a Purgative, 113, 114, 194

Fatty Degeneration, 79, 80, 148, 150

Obesity not a Requisite of, 79

Fever, 153

Food, Raw, and Health, 17, 223, 224

Flies and Health, 97

Fruit, 94, 191, 194

Food, The Quantity of, Relation of Climate to, 117

Fruit vs. Physic, 194

Fossil Bodies, 24, 183, 246

Livers, 179

Fasting and Insanity, 140

Flesh-food Fallacy, The, 158

and Bread Compared, 159

Often Diseased, 160

Question, Moral Aspect of the, 163

Flesh-food and Heredity, 164

Unfairness of the Advocates of, 160

Franklin’s Idea of “Colds”, 171

 

Gastric Juice, Proportion of, Secreted, 93

Gout, 131, 209

Gouty Habit, The, a Symptom of Bright’s Disease, 131

Guiteau’s Appetite, 144

Grape-Cure, The, 214

Guano and Coffee, 248

Gnawing Stomach a Disease, 39

 

Hogs, Experiments on, 82

Hay-fever, 153, 209

Health Easily Secured, 18

Robust, how Promoted, 85, 96

A Duty, 19, 27, 35

Relation of, to Morals, 7, 54, 265, 270

Health the Safeguard against Contagion, 10, 11, 12

Heart Disease, 149

How to Keep Well, 96

Hints and Aphorisms, 154

House-cleaning in the “Living Temple”, 155

Hulls, Wheat, Under the Microscope, 187

Hunger Disease, The, 201

Hot Air may still be Pure, 240

Heart, Palpitation of the, from Coffee-drinking, 244

Hot Water as a Medicine, 98, 100

Herb Drinks and Female Weakness, 251

 

Insomnia and Air-bath, 138

a Symptom only, 134

Ignorance and Credulity, 22, 23

Insomnia and Coffee, 137

Insomnia, 133

Indigestion a Phase of Rheumatism, 145

Indigestion a Cause of Congestion of the Lungs, 99

Indigestion from Excess in Diet, 93

Intemperance, How Propagated, 55, 56, 261

Insanity and Fasting, 140

Insane? Who Are and Who are Not, 134

Insane, The, Usually Ravenous Eaters, 141

Infants are “Loved” to Death, How, 16

 

Japanese, Muscular, how fed, 161

 

Kidney Disease Unknown at the Arctics, 116, 117

Koch’s Theory of Consumption, 80

Kitchen-Curse, The, 233

 

Laziness a Disease, 34, 58

Liver Complaint, 168

Livers, “Fossil”, 179

Liver, Mercury “to Clear Out” the, 180

Lungs, Congestion of, from Indigestion, 99

Long Faces to the Rear, in Sickness, 103

Long Life, How Promoted, 85

 

Milk not a Natural Food for Adults, 153

Morality and Digestion, 157

Malaria, 236, 241, 247

Model Meal, A, 226

Meals, Number of, for Health, 48, 62, 72, 197

Mercury, to “Clear Out” the Liver, 180

Milk Fever from Excessive Diet, 150

Muscular Japanese, How the, are fed, 161

Milk and Biliousness, 152

Milk, 65, 152, 212

Mastication, Importance of Thorough, 92, 93

Moral Torpor a Disease, 34

Medicine, Hot Water as a, 98, 100

Why the Nostrum-makers Thrive, 25, 26

 

Natural Diet, The, 207

Nature Defeated by “Treatment”, 258

Nightmare from Using Tobacco, 251

Neuralgia, A Hint Concerning, 153

Nervous Prostration, A Hint Concerning, 253

Normal Constipation, 107

Night-air Superstition, The, 48

Nutrition the Grand Factor in Prevention or Cure, 58

Nausea and Hot Water, 100

 

Open Windows for Consumptives, 89

for Sewer Gas, 236

Obesity, Natural Cure of, 148

One-meal System, The, 62, 197

Organs, How all the Vital, become Degenerated, 181

 

Passions, Influence of Diet upon the, 265

Passive Exercise for Consumptives, 99

Constipation, 109, 113

Piles, How, are Produced, 111

Premature Deaths, 16, 230

Pneumonia, 102

Poison, “One’s Meat Another’s”, 43

How Food becomes, 61, 246

Providence and Disease, 8, 9, 17

Practice, the Reform, Obstacles to, 66, 95

Physiology a Part of Theology, 34

Physic, Good Health the Best, 108

Bad Effects of, 107

Fruit the Best, 194

Pain, the Office of, Friendly, 134

Pure Air, Popular Ignorance Concerning, 237

Pure Air, How to Ensure it, 239

Physical Independence, 255

Prejudice, Popular, against Reform, 234

Purgative, Tobacco as a, 250

Purgative, Food as a, 113, 114, 194

 

Quinine and Caffeine Closely Allied, 244

 

Roman Fever, The Cause of, 236

Race Horses are Injured, How, 198

Reform, A Rational, 234

Reformed Practice, Obstacles to the, 22, 66, 95

Rest after Meals, 200, 202

Regimen, The Traditional, 121

Rheumatism, 145

A Phase of Indigestion, 145

Chronic, Treatment for, 147

Rich Food a Cause of Biliousness, 153

 

Supportive Treatment, The, 258

Salisbury Theory, The, of Consumption, 81

Saline Starvation, 177

Scorbutic (Scurvy) Condition Predisposes to Zymotic Diseases, 10

Sedentary Life, Effects of a, 78, 84

Scrofula, Something About, 175, 194, 229, 231

Sickness, The Absurdity of, 9

Scrofulous Humors, How Manufactured, 231

Self-cure, Mrs. E.’s Story of her own, 85

Sewer-gas, 236

Straining at Stool Injurious, 110

Stimulation of the Kidneys Unnatural, 126

Skin, The Adaptability of the Skin to Sudden Changes of Temperature, 35

Sympathetic Nervous System, The, 31, 46

Starvation, Eating Sometimes Hastens, 72

Starvation, Saline, 177

Starvation Dyspeptic, 58, 66

Stomach, The, the most abused of all the Organs, 46

Sugar, Artificial, Injurious, 78

Stomach Baths, 100

Signs of Disordered, 57

Stomachs, Sensitive, and Wheat Hulls, 189

Sleeping Alone, 106

Sleep, Efforts to Induce, Self-defeating, 135, 136

Sun-Baths, 171

Sunday Headaches, Cause of the, 200

Symptoms, Controlling The (!), 112

Stimulation from Diphtheritic Poison, 258

Stimulation, The true Theory about, 257

Sleeplessness Cured by Late Eating, 144

an Analogue of Pain, 135

Sunstrokes, Cause of, 196

Sleep, Regular Hours for, Necessary, 135

Summer Tortures, How avoided, 195

 

Traditional Regimen, The, 121

Treatment, The “Supportive”, 258

Tobacco and Insomnia, 137

as a Purgative, 250

Treating in Eating, 156

Teeth, One Cause of Poor, 207, 249

Typhoid Subject, A, 15

Telegraph System, Wonders of the Human, 31, 46

Table, A Well-furnished, 79

Toothache, 153

Thirst, How to Prevent, 98, 100

Tongue, The Story Told by the, 63

 

Unnaturalness of the Prevailing Diet, 227, 265, 266

 

Variety in Food not desirable, 92, 213

Virtue, Influence of Diet on, 53, 265

Valance, Poor Thomas, 125

Vegetarian Diet and Quantity, 161

Vegetarians, Some Noted, 51, 161

Vegetarianism and Endurance, 162

Vegetable Food, 48, 51, 52, 72, 158, 161

Vegetables Spoiled by Cooking, How, 177

Vinegar Yeast in the Blood, a Cause of Consumption, 81, 82

Ventilation, 47, 48, 97, 236, 238, 239

Vickers, The Case of Mr., 75

 

Watermelons, A Stale Joke about, 191

for Bowel Troubles, 192

Water as a Medicine, 98, 100, 113, 190

Weakness from Hot Drinks, 251

White Flour, Concerning, 49

Worrying, Effects of, 85

Waves of Disease!, 9

Wheat-meal vs. “Entire Flour”, 184