Health resorts of Britain : and how to profit by them / by Spencer Thomson.

  • Thomson, Spencer, 1848-1883.
Date:
1860
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Credit: Health resorts of Britain : and how to profit by them / by Spencer Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Our short sketch will be sufficient, mayhap, to give our readers some idea of the actual rational benefit to be expected from change of scene, change of air, and exercise. Have we nothing to say of DIET to the health-resorter ? We have very little ; our chief hint is—do not make idleness, and the non-necessity for exertion of mind or body, an excuse for or incentive to gormandizing; do not let the mind get vacant and ennuied so that it looks forward to meal-times as means of killing time. At the Health Resort the body should take the mind to dinner, not the reverse; nevertheless, that is no reason why you should not and ought not thoroughly to enjoy meals—as most do under the influ- ence of new air and scene, only let not the table become an object, or then adieu to health, for excess is almost sure to follow, and, with excess, indisposition to exertion. But we are not writing you a book on dietetics. Take ^ with you, to the country, the usual moderate habits every man ought to have when engaged in his ordinary occu- pation, allowing always for increased appetite. If you are of the number who suffer from weak- digestion—^if you cannot at home-indulge in such things as cucumber, 1 raw vegetables, shell-fish, &c., with impunity, try them ' not now, they will do you no good, perhaps harm. If beer or wine are habitual to you, take them moderately as usual; in fact, keep to what you know is plain^ wholesome diet, and you cannot go wrong. (