Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-31

cause they desire such things, and because
some who can safely rely on their own in
stincts say that instinct must therefore be
the best guide for all.
II you are going to become healthy and
vigorous you will have to get that notion
out OF your head. It is only the pure
blooded and strong blooded that can safely
trust their desires. And imagine what
that means-to be able to trust your de-
sfres, to know that whatever you want to
do 10 the right thing to do. You will have
desires as powerful as those Of the dipso-
maniac-can you imagine any stronger p
and you will enjoy satisfying them; bu.
they will be good desires, and to satisfy
them will be your duty. That is what per-
feet health means. and therefore to gain
health is abundantly worth while, even II
you have to spend a month or six months
or q year in doing 1t. Picture. 1t for a mo-
ment. 1t is ones idea Of heaven. What
ever one wants to do, this one may do, and
one should do. Surely there can be no
other definition of perfect health.
For we do not always want to be pulling
the reins and to be saying to ourselves,
mo, you shan'tI"
C~arefulness the WatchwOrd.
But till our blood is pure and strong we
have to be watching carefully, resisting
temptation. using up our energies In this
negative kind OF work instead of creating
something, instead OF being something
positively.
Now the first thing I want you to UNDER
stand Is that, II you are at all unhealthy
land nearly every one is considerably sol
then your feelings are no safe guide. And
] VIII give you two absolutely convincing
examples.
My old friend Dr. so-and-so has treated
don't know how many cases OF all sorts
OF illness. He has many ways Of restoring
health; one process alone he has applied 20
over 10000 cases with the most wonderful
effects. Water treatments and one or two
meals a day are among his favorites. With
the muck that he has drawn from the sys-
TENS OF his patients he might have started
a larse-and. OF, course, a successful-drue
shop. What drug shop Is not successful?
Now he had one gluttonOus patient. She
had finished her dinner before s o'clock on,
night and before 10 o'clock she demanded
supper. saying that she could not sleep OF
an empty stomach. My friend assured heI
that her stomach was amply stocked will
dinner. She refused TO believe II. He ther
gave her two glasses Of hot water to drink
and by means OF the stomach tube (pleas,
uV not DC hnockeoJ ne was able TO prove Il
her eonelusively that she had stiI her din
ner within her practically undigested. Ate
this she slept soundly. before this nothinI
would have convinced her that she was no
\ empty. She had mistaken the craving 10
food-probably the result Of acid fermenta
tion In the stomaeh-as a genuine hunge
due to emptiness. She was suffering. no
from dipsomania. but from peinomania.
one maj coin a new word. A word is sadl
needed for this distressing form Of mao
ness. One may doubt which of the thre
forms Of madness is the worst, dipsomanis
peinomania or chrysomania, which ia III
desire for sold.
An Historic Instance.
Here Is another Instance. which has no,
become historical. II happened that a Ger
tain soldier. Alixis st. Martin, had his LEI
side so wounded as TO leave an externs
opening at least an inch wide, throug
which the condition and some Of the oper
atoms OF his stomach could be seen. Her
was a chance for those who disapprove
OF any viviseetion except such as had al
ready been produced by war or some othe
means. Dr.. Beaumont made some yer
successful experiments. He found hat n
lining Of the stomach might be so irritate
and innamed as to be covered with ulcer
and eruptions, and actually bleed, withoU
st Martin being aware Of the least suneI