Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-08-16

ever by no means the case, assuming
that the individual eats the proper
kind of food and the proper quantity.
People often say, I can not understand
how it is that suffer from Indigestion,
or any other trouble, when l live so
plainly For instance, I just have
hot roll and butter, with tea and
little cream and sugar for breakfast;
for lunch have simply cut from the
Joint with some potato and bread. and
plain pudding; for tea l have some
tea with some cake and bread ana
butter; and for dinner have some
fish and roast beef or some other meat,
potato or some otner kind Of vege-
and cheese, and a pint of ale or beer"
Or, if it is among the more luxurious
more recherche manner, with French
anes, thick sauce. plenty of butter,
ream and other items--eXcellent for
inducing ,.1e gourmet to eat to ex-
cess and get his certain and ultimate
reward in gout, obesity, billiousness, s,
indigestion and hundred other trou-
bles.
"Gluttony," says an old writer, kills
| more than the sword" On the other
hand, there is no reason why food
! should not be made as palatable as
possible--ln fact, the more palatable
| it is the better. 1t is not excess in
variety of food that is injurious, but
excess in quantity.
need not say that | have no opin-
| on of vegetarians Or other cranks Of
any sort in food. There are very few,
indeed, who could exist on a vege-
tartan diet, nuts, fruits, etc.. only.
have known many who have tried and
made themselves victims of dyspep>
sia. gastric catarrh, obesity. gout and
other diseases. induced by loading
he stomach with food that does not
digest.
Another fallacy that should like
20 explode is that electricity can sup
ply nervous or muscular power as
| 'ood does. and that all the Wiles of
the quack and the advertisements that
appear in certain papers are simply
fraud upon the credulous. The nerv-
Gus system can not be strengthened
- any electrical appliance, and it is
,nly few years ago that this mat
Jaw and the electrical quack was for
time obliterated. But-alas for the
memory of people!-the electrical
quack is now flourisnlng again more
strongly than ever, and people who
can i'll afford it are throwing away
their money on appliances that are
not worth as many pence as they have
to pay for them in pounds. Exercise
is a far better stimulant to the nerv-
Gus system There are uses for elec-
tricity, but its administration should
be under proper medical advice, and
not under quacks.
Still another fallacy must here be
exploded. and that is the widespread
idea that it is harmful to drink with
meals. AS | have persistently shown
there is no rule without an exception,
but the ordinary individual would en-
JOY better health if he drank freely
at meals of whatever harmless fluid
he preferred or Immediately after
meals In the case Of the gouty it
is very important to drink freely at
meals, as the gastric juice is in this
case over-acid and requires dilution;
but in the case of those Of weak diges
tion, where possibly the gastric juice
IS already too weak or watery, too
much fluid during meals may be harm
ful; so that really no one is wise in
doing the one Or the other without
consulting some one who can advise
him on the matter. But under ordi-
nary normal circumstances it may be
taken for granted that plenty of harm
less fluid is beneficial and even ne
cessary to healthy existence,