The Natural Cure of Consumption, Constipation, Bright's Disease, Neuralgia, Rheumatism, "Colds" (Fevers), Etc. How Sickness Originates, and How to Prevent It. A Health Manual for the People.

ALBERTONI, PROF. 60 ARGYLE, DUKE OF 267 BEALE, SIR LIONEL, M.D., ETC. 152 BOSTWICK, DR. 21 BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL 244, 247 BRUNTON, T. LAUDER, M.D., F.R.S. 59, 138 BRYANT, WILL...

Although it is evident to my mind that the world is growing more healthy and more moral with every generation——speaking of civilized nations——it is still, as all agree, in a mos...

Among the causes of consumption it is usually held that inherited tendency is one of the most efficient. Considering, however, the fact that this is a matter beyond our control;...

The country boor says he must have meat to make muscle; and all the while his vegetarian team is twitching him and his plow along the furrow. Where does he suppose they get thei...

Temporary non-action of the bowels as excretory organs, is entirely normal under certain conditions, as (1) following diarrhœa or looseness, whether caused by indigestion or phy...

In its later stages, this is one of the worst forms of disease. It is often said to be caused by “cold.” There can be no doubt but what a person whose kidneys are already badly...

Sleeplessness is often referred to as a cause of insanity, but it would be much nearer the truth to say that insanity causes sleeplessness. Dr. Rush says: “A dream is a transien...

Casey A. Wood. M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the Medical Department of Bishop’s College, Montreal, in an article entitled “Starvation in the Treatment of Acute Articular Rheum...

Regarding this ridiculous (because unnecessary) disorder, Sir Lionel Beale, a recognized authority, says: “The bilious ‘habit’ seems to be due to an unusually sensitive, irritab...

demands more than the passing notice accorded to it in the chapters on Consumption: The facts of chemistry are eternal and indisputable, as are all the truths of science; but, a...

With a view to the exaltation of the condition of the entire organism, as well as simply that of the digestive and assimilative system——and in addition to the reform already sug...

The danger to which I am about to allude——a real danger, as I believe——does not refer to abstinence from artificial salt, but rather to the loss of certain essential elements co...

Without doubt, certain brands of “whole-wheat flour,” so called, are a great improvement over the article in universal demand among poor and rich alike, the white flour of comme...

It is with difficulty that one who comprehends the question can restrain his impatience when people talk about the danger of indulging in fruit in summer or at any other season....

In this note I propose to do little more than record a few instances, out of many, of persons who have lived for longer or shorter periods, and continue to live, on one meal a d...

As the result of personal experience, my mind having been called to the subject by the successful experiment——if, indeed, it can be regarded as an experiment,——of a very intelli...

These are very vicious companions, and cause a deal of mischief. The scientists have much to say of the prevalence, and of the deleterious effects of sewer gas, from faulty plum...

“The chief constituent of the coffee berry, the alkaloid _caffeine_——in chemical analysis recognized as identical with that of the tea plant, _theine_——when separated from the o...

Appetite, in a general sense, means a natural degree of hunger (not craving), sufficient to give relish for any kind of wholesome food. “We often hear people say they have no ta...

While the more important material agencies and conditions, closely related to the processes of life, are air, food, clothing, etc.; and while the reader’s attention has been, th...