The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-19
Abbeville Medium.

Eptings request to write an article
as an introductory to the discussion
of the subject of Good Health ana
medical terms that might be con-
fusing to those who are not familiar
with them. 1 do not wish to be mis-
understood as meaning that proper
eating and sleeping, the subject of
this paper, are all the agents neces-
sary to secure them, for I hope and
expect the discussion that is to fol-
low the reading of this paper will
show other valuable means to this
end.
If good health and long life and
increased intellectually are not
achievable. it would be the height of
folly to attempt to attain them. 1
say attain them because they are an
attainment, the result of the compli-
ance with those laws which are
necessary to procure them. We must
admit the certainty of that universal
law that every effect must have an
adequate cause, and that had health
and death are as certainly due to
causes as good health and long life
are.
In the domestic economy of man
kind there is an institution that is
essential to his comfort and health
and is either injurious or beneficial
TO the degree of wisdom with which
It is maintained-it is the household,
and consists of the cooking, eating
and sleeping apartments. This insti
tuition is invaluable in maintaining
the life and good health humankind,
and the housewife who rules over ii
is as surely a queen as any crown
head, and is entitled to all the honor
and distinction which is given to the
wise administration of any kingdom.
Every effect, as has already been
stated, must have an adequate cause,
whether that effect be growth and de-
velopment or decay. The cause or
laws which govern the growth and
development or decay of mankind are
as fixed as the law of gravity; wher-
ever there has been advancement and
development in mankind; either In
good health, long life and increase OF
intellectually. 1t is because these
laws have been unhindered in their
The production of any un-
usually brilliant intellect, whether
man or woman, has not been due 70
chance but to the fulfllment of those
conditions necessary to their produc-
ton, chief among which is proper eat
ing and sleeping. The queen of that
kingdom that does most in securing
and maintaining the conditions be-
comes a coworker with our Creator
in the production Of a normal human
being.
Every manifestation of power by
the human body is the correlate or
equivalent of the forces taken into
1t from without-food, air and water.
Whenever these are impure, or the!r
preparation unsanitary, then must
follow q loss of vitality or condl-
ton of disease. Every generation
should produce such a constructive
growth and development of the hu-
man body that the generation which
follows will be able to make still
greater developments upon the
former one.
From the food OF the cave-dweller
to the diet Of civilized man there has
been a process OF great development;
and there is now a great and essen
tial difference between the feeding of
uncivilized man guided by instinct
and the eating OF civilized beings
ruled by reason.
Man is the only creature who cooks
his food, and two very important
ends are accomplished by cooking it,
viz, making it more palatable and
more easily digested. Most OF the
processes connected with the diges- |
tion of food are for the purpose Of
dissolving il in water, as no form Of
food can enter the body unless it has
oeen perfectly dissolyed.> Our Crea-
tor has made wonderful provision
and protection against the entrance
of the most minute particle of undis-
solved and undesirable food into our
bodies. Not only has this provision
been made in the digestive organs.
but trustworthy guards have been
so placed that they can inspect our
fond before IL enters our body The