How nature cures : comprising a new system of hygiene also the natural food of man a statement of the principal arguments against the use of bread, cereals, pulses, potatoes, and all other starch foods / by Emmet Densmore.

  • Densmore, Emmet, 1837-1911.
Date:
[1892], ©1892
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Credit: How nature cures : comprising a new system of hygiene also the natural food of man a statement of the principal arguments against the use of bread, cereals, pulses, potatoes, and all other starch foods / by Emmet Densmore. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE UNIVERSAL REIGN OF LAW. Grain not the natural food of cattle . . 3fil Cereals natural only to birds 36z Man not an exception to the universal rule 363 CHAPTER XVI. LONGEVITY OF MAN. What diseases are increasing 3^5 Wisdom comes with advanced age 366 That great longevity is natural, proven by science .... 367 Longevity not now increasing 368 Longevity incontestably decreasing 369 Still more unsatisfactory reflections 37° Insanity and suicide increasing 371 Old age free from decrepitude 372 Development late in life 373 Literary power in middle life 374 Wisdom developed late in life 375 Serene old age a Divine triumph 37^ Cato and Cicero 377 Formula of Flourens and Buffon 378 No short cut to longevity 379 Citizens of cities always deteriorate 380 CHAPTER XVII. INTEMPERANCE—ITS RELATION TO STARCH FOOD. Result of overstrain 382 Inadequate nutrition a cause 383 Grows by what it feeds on 384 Benefits from vegetarianism explained 385 Combining advantages of both 386 CHAPTER XVIII. SUMMING UP. Cures from the non-starch diet 388 Confirmed by Professor Goodfellow 389 Testimony of a physician—Rowbotham 300 De Lacy Evans and Professor Gubler . . . . , . .391 Cereals call for salt 392 The tropics teaming with fruit 393 Universal law and progress 394 Cause of intemperance 395