Positive Prevention And Cure Of Tuberculosis By The Nature Cure Process PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...of rlrink. Eschew all fermented and distilled beverages, together with those having any tendency to excite-your nerves; in other words, avoid every beverage, except plain wnrter. Even with this, the system must not be deluged. From 2 to 4 tumblers full may be sipped slowly during the day. You may drink either half an hour before, or 2-hours after meals. Patients in fever may take enough plain water to quench their thirst. ' A ' ' (3.) Bot/a. fimcl and drink should be taken at the temperature of the outside atmosphere. Ice crea.m and iced drinks in summer, are as harmful as hot drinks at all seasons. (4.) Eating aml (lrin.l'in s/wulzl be.5-trictly kept apart. Food should be eaten dry, so as to assure-n thorough insalivation. Thirst should be anticipated, by drinking half an 110111'llBf()1'elll62ll-tllllfi. Soups and other half semi-liquid foods, are nothing but mixtures of solid particles with water; and have the same injurious effect on digestion, as the drinking with meals has. As the quantity of food and drink absorbed, largely depends upon its quality, we can reduce it to the normal in the following manner: ---l (5.) T/re qurml/'ty (f'jl)0l, by avoiding spices, which increase one's appetite artificially, and (6.) the amount of beverages, by rejecting spices as well as heating drinks. As heating we designnte everything liquid (including fruit ices, lemonade, and other summer drinks), except plain water. Distilled water is the purest and most wholesome. If the teeth are defective, they should be put in order, -so as to render a proper mastication and Sllbsequent perfect digestion possible. A good digestion can be secured only by a most thorough process of mastication, in which each morsel is carefully ground down, and...