Strength and diet : a practical treatise with special regard to the life of nations / by the Hon. R. Russell.

  • Russell, Francis Albert Rollo, 1849-1914.
Date:
1905
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    “ Error seems old, but truth seems a new thing.”—Clement of Alexandria, 180 A.D. “ There is not a spot on the globe where a man may not be kept in health and vigour by hygiene.”—De Chaumont, F.R.S., 1885. “ The preservation of a large peasant population is one of the most indis- pensable necessities for all the great continental Powers. . . . They are the physical basis of national prosperity.”—Success Among Nations. Emil Reich, 1904. “The Belgians aim, not as we do, at producing £5 worth of hay, but £100 worth of vegetables, to the acre.”—Prince Kropotkin. “Between 1881 and 1891 farm labourers decreased in England 173 in 10,000. In the same period insanity increased from 2 to 3 in every 1000.”— Encyclopaedia Britannica. “In England the decline of the birth-rate since 1876 has been 20 per cent. The birth-rate of the Anglo-Saxon race in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand is low and steadily falling.”—Havelock Ellis. “ This variety of diet is the one [principal] cause of disease.”—Antiphanes the Physician. “Degeneration, physical and moral, must be the inevitable result of failure to obey the laws of sound and simple nourishment.”—Mrs. Hodgkinson. “ Take care of your digestion, which means brain.”—Thomas Huxley, F.R.S. “This question of food is one of primary importance, far more than education.”—Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D., F.R.S. “The study of dietetics should be looked upon as very nearly, if not quite, as important as the study of therapeutics.”—British Medical Journal, May 21, 1904. “To lengthen life, shorten meals. Dyspepsia is due, in nine cases out of ten, to too much food, too little exercise.”—Pleasures of Life. Sir John Lubbock, F.R.S. “The eating of much flesh fills with a multitude of evil diseases.”— PORPHYRISES, 233 A.D. “ The misery of the women of the poorer classes is more than doubled by the use of tea.”—Sir Benjamin W. Richardson, F.R.S. “Food is the point about which turns the whole problem of degeneracy.” —Alfred Eichholz, M.D., B.C., H.M. Inspector of Schools. “It is one of the axioms of physiology that the majority of the diseases of mankind are due to, or connected with, perversions of nutrition.”—Prof. Chittenden, Ph.D., LL.D., Sc.D.