The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-12-09
HEALTH MAxIMs.


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DR.. bio Lewis ON What to Eat, How
TO Eat, and when 20 Eat.
Gluttony counts one hundred victim
where drunkenness counts one.
To regulate health we must regulate
diet.
Certain kinds of food feed the fat ant
leave the muscles and brain to starve
Certain other foods feed the muscles ex
clusively, and certain others the brain
A large part of the food of American
is composed of white -four, sugar anC
butter. People who try to live upor
such stuff gradually starve to death.
There is gentleman in Boston wht
has amassed an immense fourtune. Hi
carriage is the finest in the neighbor
hood, and he wastes money lavishly
but his face is the picture of despair
Life is a torture to.him, because he il
nervous and dyspeptic. Half the rich
men and women belong to the category
of the miserable; they cannot diges,
their dinners.
The common notion that our health
and life depend on mysterious Provi
dence is downright infidelity. A child
goes out Of a hot room with naked arms
and legs in pursuit of its daily supply
of poisoned candies, and then dies o.
Group. Is that a mysterious Provi
dence? If a man INDUCES himself
until he gets the govt, and the disease
attacks his heart and kills him, il his
death a mystery? The reason that tbs
American people are such dyspeptics is
that they eat and drink so much, and
eat and drink so fast.
The teeth will not decay if they are
kept clean. A toothbrush is a good
thing, but one good toothpick is worth
an armful of toothbrushes. There is q
gentleman now living in New York
city who has three beautiful front teeth
which he purchased from the mouth Of
an Irishm&n. His own teeth were re-
moved and instantly Patrick's were
transferred.
The process of digestion begins in the
mouth and ends in the lungs. The
mouth grinds the food; the lungs sup.
ply the oxygen which converts the pro.
ducts of the food into pure and useful
blood
DR.. Lewis once attended the lecture
of a Thomsonian doctor who explain
ed the use of mercury as follows:
"And now do you know how marcury
produces the rheumatic? I'll tell you
exactly how marcury produces the
rheumatic. You see marcury has a
great many sharp pints, and them sharp
pints 60 straight in the flesh, and when
the muscles rub over them sharp pints
it scratches and that's the rheumatic.
Many people imagine themselves
afflicted with serious diseases when they
are only suffering from dyspepsia. A
dyspeptic patient always despairs; a
consumptive always hopes.
John Abernethy was the greatest
man the medical profession has pro-
duced in modern times. Perhaps no
other man has contributed so much to
temperance in 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 a
large iron pan, composed of many
little ones, which must first be made
hot; put it then quickly into hot
oven and bake it as rapidly as posi-
bic.
= Indian corn makes excellent. nourish-
ment. 1t contains large amount Of
oil, has remarkable fattening qualities,
and is likewise remarkable as heat
producer. Rice keeps its consumers
fat, but it lacks the elements which
feed the muscles and brain.
Potatoes, both Irish and sweet,
are very poor food for brain and mus
Gle.
Of meats, the best for heat and fat
are pork, mutton, lamb, beef and
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
in warm weather, milk, eggs, bran-bread
and summer vegetables will keep 1t
cool.
There is no difficulty in poor mans
having meat for his family every day.
Take, for example, what is called a
shank of beef The very best can be
bought for a fraction of what the
dearest parts cost. A single pound
cooked in stew with dry bits of bread,
will make a meal for an entire family.
The Greek and Roman armies ate
but once day. --L}t.'.
The common impression that toma-
toes are the healthiest of all vegetables
is a mistake. If eaten at all, it should
be with great moderation, and never
raw. Tomatoes have sometimes pro-
duced salvation. DR.. Lewis knew q
Young woman who had lost all her
teeth from excessive eating of toma-
toes.
Pies and cakes are poisonous.
To healthy persons mineral waters
are not wholesome.
Corsetsare most injurious to digestion
Their use finally results in an immense
and very ugly protuberance Of the alb
domeh. 20
"When shall We learn to seek fol
happiness We run mad for money
believing it is there. Look" say:
N. Jo,vis hat.A IT Stewards wretcheC
face ;,
Light and sunshine are indispensable
to health, and great curative agents o
disease, ale
Those who suffer from heartburn
should avoid soups, drink nothing a
meals, say "No, thank YOU, to pie'
and cakes, and 60 without supper.
| II you wish to live to eighty-fve II
the enjoyment of all your faculties
go to bed at 9 o'clock and eat twice
a day moderate quantity of plair