The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1877-10-12
INSTINCT OF APPETITE.
THE oUEEREsT OF QUEER CA sEs--LIFE's
GREAT SECRET; KNOW THYSELF."

THE QUEEREST OF QUEER CA SES--LIFE'S
GREAT SECRET: KNOW THYSELF."
Chemical ANALYSIS and physiological
research have established, beyond dis
pute, that every article of food and
drink is composed of elements differing
i'll quantity or quality. 1t is equally
true thatthe various parts of the human
frame are different i'll their composition,
rs the bone, the flesh, the nerve, the
tendon, etc, But there is no element
in the human body which is not found
il some article of food or drink. A
certain moral proportion of these ele-
ments, properly distributed, constitutes
vigorous health and form perfect
body. If one of these elements be in
excess, certain forms of disease mani
fest themselves if there is not enough,
some other malady effects the frame.
When the blood contains less than its
healthful amount of iron, it is poor
watery, and comparatively colOrless
the muscles are habby, the face pale,
the eyes sunken, the whole body weak,
the mind llstless and sad. Ifthc bones
have not enough lime, they have no
strength, are easily bent, and the pa
tient is ricl1cty if there is too much
lime, Lhcn the bones are brittle, and
pre broken by the slightest fall or un-
usual strain.
THE HIGHEST SKILL OF THE PHYSICIAN
in these cases consists in determining
the excess or deficit of any element
and in supplying such food or drug as
will meet the case When the medical
attendant cannot determine what is
wanting nor furnish the supply, nature
is often loud enough i'll her calls,
through the tastes or appetltes, to in
dictate very clearly what item of food
or drink contains the needed element
this is the Instinct OF Appetite"
Chemistry is unable to say of but one
article of human food, that it contains
all the constituents necessary to supply
the human body with every element
requisite for its welfare, and that is
pure milk, as supplied by the mother
of the new being but after the first
years of life, the body demands new
elements in order to enable it to meet
the duties which Increasing age i'm
poses hence, nature dries up this
spring, as being no longer adequate,
and compels the search for other kind
of sustenance, showing that milk is a
proper, sole food for the young ones
and that healthy grown persons who
live upon it mainly will always become
inv Aids. All kinds of life, whether
vegetable or animal, have within them
PRINCIPLE OF PRESERVATION,
as well as of perpetuity; were that not
the case, all that breathes or grows
would ole. This principle or quality
is common to man and beast, and all
that springs from root or seed it is
named Instinct" 1t is instinct which
calls, by thirst, for water, when there
is not fluid enough in the system. 1t
is instinct which calls for food. by
hunger, when man is weak and needs
renovation. 1t is curious and practi-
cally valuable as a means for the re-
mOval of disease, to notice the working
of this instinct, for it seems to be almost
possessed with discriminating intel
lIgence certain it is, the standard
medical publications give we'll authen
ticated facts, showing that following
the craving of the appetite, the animal
instinct has accomplished far more
than the physicians skill was able to
do; has saved life in multitudes of
cases, when science has done its best,
but in vain.
GUILD CURED BY MAPLE BUDS.
A bout three years ago the little
daughter of farmer on the Hudson
river had fall, which induced long,
painful and dangerous illness, ending
i'll blindness; medication availed moth
ing. BY accident a switch containing
maple buds was placed in her hands,
when she began to eat them and called
earnestly for more, and continued to
eat them with avidity, improving
meanwhile in her general health for
some fifteen DAYS or more when this
particular relish left her, and she called
for candy, and, as in the case of the
buds, ate nothing else for two weeks,
when this also was dropped, a more
natural taste returning with returning
evesight and usual health. This was
an instinct calling for those articles Of
food which contained the elements, the
want of which laid between disease
and recovery.
CONSUMPTION CURED BY SALT.
A gentleman aged thirty-six seemed
to he in the last stages of consumptive
disease, when he was seized with an
uncomfortable desire for common table
salt he spread it in thick layers over
his meat and over his bread and butter
he carried it in his vest pocket, which
was daily emptied Ivy eating pinch
at time. lie regained his health, and
remained well for years afterwards.
AN INFANT ToDDY DRINKER.
More recently case occurred in
England of Il child gradually declining
il health, in spite of all that could be
done by remarkably shrewd apd