The new menticulture : or, the A-B-C of true living / by Horace Fletcher.

  • Fletcher, Horace, 1849-1919
Date:
1903
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Credit: The new menticulture : or, the A-B-C of true living / by Horace Fletcher. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    best doctor, but you must needs help it. This is the important question. You must help, but the help consists in let- ting the body alone at first until normal appetite is evident, and then of obeying its simple orders, which are always most agreeably given, afterwards. Your body does not ask you to take medicine, and you need not have your nose held while you are taking the medicine a sick body needs. The best body-medicine is good food, selected by a normal appetite; and eaten only with a “gusto” and a grateful appreciation. But even this good medicine must be taken only at the right time and only in the right manner. All you are asked to do is to stop putting stuff into the stomach until there is a demand of true appetite for something; and you may be assured, if you begin right and follow the right course, the orders from the stomach — we will say “ stomach ” for convenience of localization — will be agreeable orders and not difficult to follow.