What must I do to get well? : and how can I keep so? : an exposition of the Salisbury treatment / by one who has done it.

  • Stuart, Elma (Elma Fraser)
Date:
1889
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    tance. First, I advise any one suffering from sleeplessness, neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, in- digestion of all kinds, including sleep-walking, cramp, nightmare, sensations of falling, and so on, and from delicate health generally—even if such persons persist in rejecting the strict diet— while taking their hot water daily, as often as they can manage it; to make their last meal at flight, a meat meal entirely; preferably of beef broiled, roasted, or minced, according to their illness, and their powers of mastication and di- gestion. And even those in comparatively fair health (especially those of us not growing younger), would be very wise to make lean meat, roast or broiled (which includes fish, poul- try, and game), their chief food of an evening : because the digestive powers in nearly all cases, are weaker at night than at midday ; and the lean meats digest very quickly and readily, and do not produce distention and flatulence, as other foods are apt to do. The evening meal while hearty, should be the lightest of the three. It is, further, very bad for the wind, by which I mean the respiration, to go to bed either on a full stomach, or on one containing an undue