Death defeated, or, the psychic secret of how to keep young / by J.M. Peebles.

  • Peebles, J. M. (James Martin), 1822-1922.
Date:
1900
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Credit: Death defeated, or, the psychic secret of how to keep young / by J.M. Peebles. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “Teachers should consider themselves responsible for the health, growth, and care of the body of the pupils placed in their charge, as well as for their minds and morals. It is better not to eat fruit and vegetables at the same meal —and fasting from one to three days will sometimes prevent a long fit of sickness. Alcoholic liquors, tobacco, coffee, tea, chloral, morphine— all artificial stimulants and narcotics are to be shunned; if not at first injurious, seemingly, they will prove so in the end. Avoid sausage, mince pie, head cheese, spicy gravies and pork, salt or fresh, fat or lean. Lard nor anything else that comes from swine is fit to eat. The distinguished actor, Kean, “ is said to have suited the kind of meat which he ate to the part which he was going to play, and selected mutton for lovers, beef for murderers and pork for malicious tyrants!” Look at the hog, asleep in the filth of his own making! Scent the odor of the sty; observe the tetter and scurf and mange of his skin; listen to his coarse, swinish grunt; see him fill him- self upon some filthy, dead carcass; straighten out his fore leg and examine the open sore or issue a few inches above the foot. This is the outlet of a sewer, a scrofulous sewer, discharging daily a putrid, poisonous mucus. Study the glands, soft, fatty and cheesy, verging upon tuberculous degeneration, and then, through a microscope, look at the tapeworm sacs and the terri- ble trichinae often found in swine’s flesh, and if from no higher motive than common decency quit eating hogs! God be thanked for Moses’ testimony against feeding upon the unclean brute. The distinguished Methodist commentator, Dr. Adam Clarke, when asked to give thanks at a dinner where pork was conspicuous, used these words: “Lord, bless this bread, these vegetables and this fruit; and if Thou canst bless under the gospel what Thou didst curse under the law, bless this swine’s flesh.” Do not say, “The hog will be clean if he has an out door chance.” It is false. Who has not seen hogs wallowing in the foulest mire in a fresh fragrant clover pasture? They will leave beds of clean straw to revel in dirty, stagnant mud holes; and if