The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-07-28
How to Avoid Sickness.

From Food and Health.
The physicians art is divided into five
great fields: The prevention of sickness,
the caring for sick folk and the repair of
broken limbs. The caring for the sick and
surgery are the physicians special work.
The prevention of sickness is in every
mans own hands. Every illness is some
body's fault. Nature did not create sick
ness, and every time it appears some one
is. IN some manner, more or less remote.
to blame. It may be the man or his father.
and had he the wit he could fix the respon-
slbility on just the right party, So it come
that every illness is in some sense good
cause for bushes.
You have pain. Exactly. That Welsh
rareblt, or that breeze by the window, that
imprudent change of clothing or that fear
full days work, with only dreadful pie and
more frightful beer between 9 and 6. If
you can trace this particular pain to that
particular draft, late supper, thin Aannels
or neglected meals. and have the courage
OF your convictions concerning them, then
you are your own physician, and ought
never to be sick. Barring inherited de-
fects and accidents, there is no reason why
you may not live to venerable age.
There is nothing quite so intimately con-
nected with health as food. Yon can stand
your winter hat in July and live, or take
cold and know it, cut if any particular
food causes pain, and you persistently eat
it, you are surely taking the regular road
10 bed Of sickness, or daisies. This in
innate connection between health and food
being so universally recognized, it may be
worth the while to briefly examine the best
methods of keeping the health by control
ling the food. @
All knowledge concerning health is the
result of an experiment. 1t is not possible
TO trust to nature, except in general way
Some things taste good and yet must be
avoided. Experiment has demonstrated
that in some manner we cannot explain
that certain foods produce in particular
persons pain, and pain is natures caution
airy flag displayed before an advancing de-
preston of the physical barometer per.
haps, accompanied by lower temperature
and local areas of rain. The man who
said he wouldn't eat another strawberry if
he knew it would kill lin, ha d reached the
physicians standpoint, though his language
was trife confused. He had demonstrat-
ed that in his own case strawberries meant
pain, and pain sickness, and sickness
death. Therefore, with great moral cour-
age he refused to eat another one
A physician regards each new patient as
presenting new case or new phase of dis
ease that must be studied as if no such ILL
ness had ever been seen before. This
springs from the fact that every man and
woman has constitutional characteristics
that must be learned before any correct
course of procedure can be laid down,
Hence the value of family physician. be-
cause he is, in measure, familiar with the
general makeup of his patients, and knows,
IN assertain way, jhst how they will be af-
fected by any particular sickness. This
being SO, it becomes essential, first of all,
to learn the particular style of constitution
and physical being you have inherited.
This likewise comes Of observation and ex-
pertinent, and when it is well learned, then
may follow the a-tsaal experiments in food.
1t may be said that this experim enting is
unnatural. that it is better to go on and du-
tifully eat that which is set before YOU and
think no more about it-till you
are sick. An Indian was once
greatly SURPRISED to be told he had a
stomach. Henever knew it, and he was
happy. Would it not be just as we'll to let
things alone? No. We don't happen to be
Indians, and it is not wise to ignore yourself.
It is better to know adj about your physical
apparatus and to run it on scientific
basis. ss1 G.
No man can Lay down hard and fast rule
about food for any one-except himself.
Every man is different from every other man.
What to eat and what not to eat, how to
have it cooked, when to eat and how much
can only be decided by actual personal ex-
pertinent. It is not printed in any book,
nor is there any doctor that can tell you.
Try it and find out. Having found out
what is best what manner Of cookino is
best, when to eat and how much, stick to it.
Prove all things and chose the best. Don't
be experimenting, however, all the time.
Find outonce for all, for too much thinking
about it brings on morbid frame of mind
quite as injurious as persistent course of
American pies.