They call their vital powers into unnecessary action to take care of the food that they place in their stomachs. Those who are excited, anxious, or in a great hurry would do well not to eat until they have found rest or relief, for the vital powers, already severely taxed, cannot supply the necessary gastric juice. She should not call vitality unnecessarily to the surface to supply the want of sufficient clothing. They are generally overworked, and their vital energies exhausted by frequent child-bearing. Children who are robbed of that vitality which they should have inherited from their parents should have the utmost care.
Secret indulgence is, in many cases, the only real cause of the numerous complaints of the young.
This vice is laying waste the vital forces, and debilitating the system. Sick people who take these drug poisons do appear to get well. With some there is sufficient life force for nature to draw upon, so far to expel the poison from the system that the sick, having a period of rest, recover. Some preserve a cold, chilling reserve, an iron dignity, that repels those who are brought within their influence. This spirit is contagious, . . .