Health through self-control in thinking, breathing, eating / by William Anthony Spinney.

  • Spinney, William Anthony.
Date:
[1907, ©1906]
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Credit: Health through self-control in thinking, breathing, eating / by William Anthony Spinney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University and Columbia University.

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    ing by the student of the laws of the emotional effects on the body and the reaction of body on mind; by the knowledge that two times as much oxygen as digested food in the blood is neces- sary in order to feel well; that so much is in the power of the objectively and subjectively acting mind, — then assuming control of them- selves in the name of universal law, God in us. It has not occurred to the writer to call these miracles,'' but such healths ob- tained by some religious practitioners are named miracles. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. When eating too much nitrogenous food, ir- ritating nitrates are formed as in urea, making the body ill at ease. Drinking two quarts or so of water between meals, a little at a time with frequency, not too near the meals, is rec- ommended by many physicians for flushing the bodily tissues, to remove excessive useless nitrogenous products. When one is an un- cooked-food vegetarian he does not need this flushing. He will like to drink if his body needs the water.