The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1883-01-05
Home Doctor.
RULES OF HEALTH THAT HAVE WITH. .
STOOD THE TEST OF TINE.

RULES OF HEALTH THAT HAVE WITH.
STOOD THE TEST OF TINE.
The following rules were originally
in Latin and published in Europe In
164S. It is somewhat remarkable; per-
haps, that in all ages, beginning as
early as Democritus, and extending
down to the present hour, all thought
full physicians aud other acute obser-
vers have enunciated these same laws
of health. One thinks in reading
the writing of Hypocrates, written
more than 1000 years ago, that he is
reading the exbortations of one Of the
modern troublesome health reformers
1. The stomach ought never to be
overloaded with food, otherwise the
body will be rendered unfit for exer-
tion.
2. Moderation in exercise, food,
drink, sleep.
5. No fresh food should be taken,
unless the preceding meal has been
properly digested.
4. The meals should not be uni
form but supper always lighter than
dinner.
5, Excess in former meals must be
corrected by subsequent abstinence.
6. All food should be duly mastica-
ted before it be swallowad.
7. The quantity of drinks should
always be proportioned to that of SOL
id food.
8. No drink should be taken until a
due proportion Of solid food has been
swallowed.
9. A varietyof dishes ought not to
be eaten at the same time.
10. It will be advisable to refrain
from meal (dinner) once week, par
ticularly when the body seems to rc-
quire less food.
II. Bodily exercise should be 20
managed once day as to excite the
natural heat (glowl and before
meal. The advantages resulting from
such practice are thus described by
Fulgentius Exercise" says he
contributes to the preservation of
human life 1t dissipates all super
fuous humors of plethorio habit; it
invigoratss our faculties it is gain
of time the enemy of idleness the
duty of the young and the delight of
the aged. For exercise disengages and
expels through the pores all superAu-
GUS humors while the greatest inju
les result from q contrary conduct.
For Incidence is generally attended
with dissolution"
~. In taking food, liquids and soft
substances ought to precede those of
dry and solid nature.
IS. Between solid meats, both solid
and liquid food should be avoided.
IA The bowels should be regular
every day, either by nature or by arti-
fetal means.
Is. Extremes of heat and cold, with
respect to food, drink and air, are
equally to be guarded against.
16. Sleep ought not to continue less
than six hours, nor exceed eight.
II. Immediately after meal. and
with full stomach. it is hurtful to
engage in reading, writing or deep re-
! fections.
1s. Violent exercise, shortly after a
meal ought always to be avoided.
l6. When the body is in languid
state, all the limbs should be vigor-
ously stretched.
20. Drink should never be taken on
an empty stomach as in that case, it
cannot fail to prove exceedingly hurt
full, by agitating the nerves. Galen
says, in the second aphorism, 81, if a
hungry person drink wine before he eat,
he will speedily be attacked by spasms
and delerious symptoms. Nor should
wine be taken (habitu ally) after meals,
because it unnaturally accellerates the
digestion, propels the foe before it is
properly digested, aud lays the founds.
ton OF distractions and putridity.
2l. Wine should never be taken i'm
moderately and it would be advis.
able, as much as possible, to abstain
from its use, because it affects the
brain hence, no person of weak
organization should venture TO drink it.
unless in small quantities or diluted.
Serspian remarks, swine fills the head
with many vapors."
22. The bread should be of the best
quality, soft (not to stale), and mixed
with small portion of salt.
23. Cheese and all the artificial prep
arations of milk ought to be avoided
though pure milk, when mixed with
sugar, may not be deemed unwholesoms
during the summer. Milk and water
or whey, is salutary beverage at al
seasons.
"a. Fresh fish should be seldom
eaten, and then they ought to bt
tender and well-dressed, with tn,
addition of vinegar, spices and othe
sauces.
25. Oysters and all smell fish shoul'
be avoided, because they afford only |
cold, slow and vicuous nourishment