The family physician and guide to health : a system of domestic medicine, including a treatise on midwifery and the diseases peculiar to women / by E.B. Hammack.

  • Hammack, E. B. (Elijah B.)
Date:
1869
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Credit: The family physician and guide to health : a system of domestic medicine, including a treatise on midwifery and the diseases peculiar to women / by E.B. Hammack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    generally speaking, it may be a full, healthy meal, more particularly among laboring people. THE DINNER Should be taken about six Jiours after breakfast, though many persons who eat only two meals per day enjoy excellent health by having an interval of eight or ten hours between them. The stomach can easily be made to adapt its wants in this respect to any reasonable length of intervals by attention and cultivation for a few weeks. With hard working men the dinner may be composed of an equal amount of vegetable and animal food, while with the sedentary animal diet should be eaten sparingly, and only once or twice a week. A moderate amount of fish, soft boiled eggs, or oysters, may be substituted for the animal diet with benefit in all cases where they agree with the system. This meal, with a hard working person, should be a full one. SUPPER Is generally an unnecessary meal, and those who can dispense with it will find it an advantage to health and to refreshing sleep. Yet those who dine very early, or who exercise actively, may find it necessary to take a light vegetable meal at the close of the day, in order to allay hunger and dispose to sleep. Supper should be light, and ought always to be taken two or three hours before retiring for the night, otherwise it will be very apt to prevent sleep, or occasion unrefreshing sleep, accom- panied with disagreeable dreams. THE HABIT OP TAKING A LUNCH OR LUNCHEON Between meals is a most pernicious one, particularly to persons not engaged in active exercise. However, the