Good health by careful living, or, How to cure and how to prevent our every-day ailments : dyspepsia-diarrhea-biliousness-weakness-headache-neualgia-constipation-nervousness-&c., &c / by W.W. Hall.
- Date:
- 1893
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Good health by careful living, or, How to cure and how to prevent our every-day ailments : dyspepsia-diarrhea-biliousness-weakness-headache-neualgia-constipation-nervousness-&c., &c / by W.W. Hall. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![nor by any inflexible rule ; those who do so will die early. There is not a straight line in all nature. A loving Providence has created us with wonderful adaptabilities ; has allowed us a wonderful margin of action, that by the aid of reason we may accommodate ourselves to the various exigencies of human life. He has not placed us in this beautiful world to be put in a strait-jacket. He has not made it death to us if we eat a minute before we are hungry, or drink a drop beyond the wants of the system, but has given our constitutions a certain pliability by which they are able to adapt themselves to the emergencies incident to our earthly condition. We must not only eat to keep warm, we must EAT TO GROW. The blade of grass of to-day is taller than it ^^as yesterday; the sapling, larger than a year ago ; and the huge oak stretches its giant arms higher in the air and wider, than a century since. All these grow in part by feeding on the air, by draAAdng its com- ponent elements to themselves, then condensing them into more solid substances, which are incorporated with themselves, and thus become part and parcel of the Hving body; but, at the same time, the little roots below stretch out their tiny tendrils deep and broad, and by a mysterious agency dissolve the solid earth and its more solid metals into fluids and thinner glass, and then drasvmg them up into the growing body, they become soHdified, and make a ]Dart of the Hving whole. In ways like these, atom](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21904510_0018.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
