The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-12-16
HEALTH MAxIMs.
DR. bio Lewis on what 10 LAT. EAow
60 Eat, and when 30 Est.

TO Eat, and when 80 Est. -tf
! GIuttony counts one hundred victim.
where drunkenness counts one.
To regulate health we must regulate
diet.
Certain kinds Of food feed the fat and
leave the muscles and brain to staryc
Certain other foods feed the muscles eX-
A large part of the food Of Americans il
i composed Of white flour, sugar and but
| ter. People who try to live upon such
stun gradually starVe to death.
There is a gentleman in Boston who
has amassed an immense fortune. His
carriage is the finest IN the neighbor-
hood, and he wastes money lavishlys but
his face is the picture of despair. Life is
q torture to him, because he is nervous
and dyspeptie. Half the rich men and
women belong TO the category Of the
miserable; they cannot digest their din
neps.
The common notion that our health
/ aHd life depend on a mysterious Proyi-
Qence is downright infidelity. A child
! goes out of hot room with naked arms
| and legs in pursuit of its daily supply of
| poisoned candies, and then dies of Group.
| is that mysterious Providence? Ii q
man indulges himself until he gets the
! gout and the disease attacks lIis heart
| and kills. him, is his death 4 mystery
| The reason that the American people arc
| such dySpepties is, shat they Cat and
| drink SO much, and eat and drink 50
| fast.
The teeth will not decay if they are
| kept clean. A toothbrush is good
thing, but one good toothpick is worth
an armful of toOthbrusheS. There is
gentleman now living in New \ Ork city
who has three beautiful front teeth which
he purchased from the mouth ofGtn Irish
man. His own teeta were removed and
Instantly Patrick's were transferred.
The process Of digestion begin in the
mouth and ends in the lungs, The
mouth grinds the food; the lungs supply
the oxygen which converts the products
of the food into pure and useful blood.
DIR. Lewis once attended the lecture Of
q ThomsOnian doctor who explained the
use of mercury as follows:
Sand now do you know how marcury
produces the rheumatic? I'll tell you
exactly how marcury produces the rheu-
matiZ. You see marcury has a great
many sharp pints, and them sharp pints
go straight in the flesh, and when the
muscles rub over them sharp pints it
scratches, and that is the rheumatiz.''
Many people imagine themselves af-
tlieted with serious diseases when they
are only suffering from dyspepsia. \
dyspeptic patient always despairs a con-
sumptive always hopes.
John Abernethy was the greatest man
the medical profession has produced in
modern times. Perhaps no other man
has contributed so much to temperance
iii eating as he.
To make the best bread that can be made
of wheat obtain good wheat and grind it
without boiling; mix it with cold water
until it is as thick as can be beaten with
a spoon; after it is thoroughly beaten
down, put it into large iron pan, COM
posed of many little ones, which must be
made hot; put it then quickly into hot
oven and bake it as rapidly as possible.
Indian corn makes excellent nourish-
ment. 1t contains large amount of oil.
has remarkable tattening qualities, and
is likewise remarkable as Il heat-prOdu-
Ger. Rice keeps its consumers fat, but il
lacks the clements which feed the mus
cteS and brain.
Potatoes, both Irish and sweet, arc very
poor food for brain and muscle,
Ofmeats, the best for heat and tat arc
pork, mutton, lamb, beef aud veal; for
muscle, beef, veal, mutton, lamb and
pork; for brain and nerve, beef, veal,
mutton, lamb and pork.
In cold weather, fat meat, butter and
the like, will keep the body warm; and
i'll warm weather, milk, eggs, bran-bread
and summer vegetables will keep it cool.
There is no difficulty in poor man,
having meat for his family every day.
Take, for example, what is called shank
of beef. The very best can be bought
for a fraction of what the dearest part-
cost. 4 single pound cooked i'll stew
With dry bits of bread, viii make "a thcal
for an entire family.
The Greek and Roman armies ate but
once a day.
The common impression that loma-
toes arc the healthiest of all vegetables
is 4 mistake. Ifeaten at all, il should be
with great moderation, and never raw.
Vation. DI. Lewis knew young woman
who had lost all her teeth from excessive
eating of tomatoes.
Pies and cakes arc poisonous.
10 healthy persons mineral waters arc
not wholesome.
Corsets are most injurious TO digestion.
Their use finally results in an immense
and very ugly Protuberance of the abdo-
men. 4f
.'Whcn shall VIC learn to seek for hap
piness? We run mad for money, be-
lieving it is there. LOok,' says DIR. Lew
Is, eat a. 7. Stewards Wretched face"
Light and sunshine are Indispensable
to health, and great curative agents in
disease.
Those who suffer from heartburn
should avoid soups, drink nothing at
meals, say ''NO, thank you," to pies and
cakes, and go without supper.
If you wish to live to eighty-five in the
lull GIllOy llCilb Ol XII OllI ldCil1blCcs 10 10
bed at s O'Clock, and eat twice day a
moderate quantity of plain food. -.
The native American requires more
sleep than the average European. Nine
or ten hours sleep in 4 single night is
very beneficial. Thin Yankees should
GO to bed at nine and rise between five
and six.
In a girls school, which Dr.. Lewis
conducted with great success at LeXing-
ton Massachusetts, the health rules were
as follows:
go to bed at half-past eight every
evening, to rise early in the morning and
take walk, to walk second time during
the day, to eat only twice Il day plain
uOurishing food, to wear no cOrsets, to
exercise twice a day half an hour in
gymnastics, and TO dance an hour for
about three times week. The gymnaS-
tic exercises proved Invaluable; but the
nine hours in bed were still more So"
The word biliOusnCss is Il sort of re-
spectfui cover for piggishness. People
are not bilious who eat what they
should.
Weakness of the stomach Is prOtcc-
ton against other maladies. So dyspep-
sia is the safety valve, and may be spO-
ken Of rs ono of the sources of iongcE-
ity.
Wonderful Salt Mine.
The great Humboldt salt mine,
near Austin, Nevada, looks like "a