Fruit and bread : a scientific diet / by Gustav Schlickeysen ; translated from the German, by M.L. Holbrook, with an appendix.

  • Schlickeysen, Gustav.
Date:
[1877]
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Credit: Fruit and bread : a scientific diet / by Gustav Schlickeysen ; translated from the German, by M.L. Holbrook, with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    To this cause also is attributable the almost universal prevalence of colds, which are the direct result of unnatural temperature con- ditions of the body. The blood artificially heated causes an excessive perspiration, since it produces an increased, but injurious, activity of the skin; and upon the least change of temperature, the perspiration is condensed upon the body, and causes colds and stiffness, and this all the more certainly when the blood is impure and the tissues overloaded. From the same prolific cause results also the un- easiness and languor experienced after eating hot food. But the evil effect cannot be over- come by the usual after - dinner nap. This cannot replace the elements lost from our food, nor give the enlivening impulse expe- rienced after partaking of ripe fruits in their natural state. It is indeed argued that our northern climate requires that food should be eaten hot as one means of maintaining the bodily temperature; but if this be true of man, it must apply with equal force to all animals; and since man alone seems to require hot food, the argument loses its force. In the polar regions, the conditions