Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-10-24
ire PHYSICAL CONSCIENCE.
Abstract of Lecture by J. H. Kellogg,
 M. D.. of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.

THE PHYSICAL CONSCIENCE. Abstract of Lecture by J. H. Kellogg,
 M. D., of the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
 Many man is kept awake by the re- breaches of his physical conscience. The workings of the physical and the moral conscience are somewhat anal ogous. Shining against either, oft repeated and long continued in, has paralyzing effect. And further, when either has been again awakened, aroused to something of its former vigilance by reformed life, it is much more troublesome after any lapse into wrong doing than when it was dor mant. The thief or the liar after he has been converted who falls under temp tation, suffers from remorse, and says to himself: 'I am not near so happy as used to be; I used to think when I had a chance to steal something or lie out of bad scrape that I was in luck, but now it makes me miserable" Yet the fact that he can not be happy any more in wrong-doing shows that he is better man. It is just so with mans physical conscience. The stomach which has grown dormant under abuse, grad ually recovers it's normal sensibilities under proper hygiene, and then when the individual pours down a lot of pep per sauce or indulges in mince pie, pickles, rich cake and ''high'' meat, at seasonable and unreasonable hours, his stomach upbraids him for the abuse, with pain and distress, and very often with sleeplessness, but he must not think of returning to his old ways in the hope of finding comfort. It would be more sensible and right to attempt to quiet his physical conscience by re. turn to gormandizing than it would for the converted thief and liar to quiet his moral conscience by lapsing into his old sins.
 The majority of those who are suf- fering from sleeplessness have dilated stomachs which affect the sympathetic nervous system. This controls the blood vessels of the body, and when weakened by indigestion or disease,
 the blood vessels of the brain and other parts become relaxed, and the brain continues active when it should be
 resting. Further, a relaxed and dilated
 stomach can not empty itself properly nor absorb readily, and so the food
 taken in is attacked by millions of microbes, generating poisons which ir-
 ritate the brain. These poisons are closely allied to the theine of tea, and it is well known that this drug, espe- cially when used strong, poisons the
 brain so as to produce sleeplessness.
 The remedy then lies in the proper treatment of the stomach in the mat ter of diet. Flesh foods should be avoided because they call for prolonged stomach action of which a relaxed stomach is incapable. Fruits, grains, and farinacious foods generally are best on this account, and also because flesh foods, if not properly cared for, are liable to generate some of the most deadly poisons. The butcher some
 times gets blood poisoning from acci- dentallv cutting himself while serving
 meat to a customer. The dyspeptic should go to bed with an empty stom- ach-entirely superless or else merely eating a little fruit. This will insure the brain from being kept awake by poisons due to the decomposition of un- | digested food in the stomach, and also
 save it from the constant state of ex, citement of the sympathetic nervous | system while the work of digestion is being carried on. Another excellent precaution is to drink a large quantity
 of water just before retiring, whicf will assist in washing the poisons out | of the system and in their eliminat tion from the body.-Reported by Helen L. Manning.