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Page 140 - ... society, having food always at command, and finding gratification from its taste, and a temporary hilarity and energy result from the excitement of his stomach, which he can at pleasure produce, eats and drinks an enormous deal more than is necessary for his wants or welfare ; he fills his...
Page 196 - The extremities of these bony pieces, where they move and rub upon one another, must have smooth and slippery surfaces for easy motion : this is most happily provided for by the cartilages and mucus of the joints. The interstices of all these parts must be filled up with some soft and ductile matter, which shall keep them in their places...
Page 139 - We cannot reasonably expect tranquillity of the nervous system whilst there is disorder of the digestive organs. As we can perceive no permanent source of strength but from the digestion of our food, it becomes important on this account that we should attend to its quantity, quality, and the periods of taking it, with a view to ensure its perfect digestion.
Page 143 - A disordered stomach will feel uncomfortable after eating ; fermented liquors will remove for a time the unpleasant sensations. Potion after potion is swallowed on this account ; often without producing permanent tranquillity, and much to the injury of the stomach. Wine drinkers do not drink wine after every meal, which proves that wine is not necessary to their digestion ; and many who...
Page 105 - Though he, that has but impudence, To all things has a fair pretence ; And, put among his wants but shame, To all the world may lay his claim...
Page 196 - Moreover, the mind, in this corporeal system, must be endued with the power of moving from place to place, that she may have intercourse with a variety of objects; that she may fly from such as are disagreeable, dangerous, or hurtful, and pursue such as are pleasant...
Page 141 - ... or its feelings. The rules then for diet may be thus summarily expressed. "We should proportion the quantity of food to the powers of the stomach, adapt its quality to the feelings of the organ, and take it at regular intervals of six or seven hours thrice during the day.
Page 316 - Can it possibly be doubted that industry, discretion, frugality, secrecy, order, perseverance, forethought, judgment, and this whole class of virtues and accomplishments, of which many pages would not contain the catalogue ; can it be doubted, I say, that the tendency of these qualities to promote the interest and happiness of their possessor, is the...
Page 197 - Therefore she is provided with teeth for cutting and bruising the food, and with a stomach for melting it down : in short, with all the organs subservient to digestion. — The finer parts of the aliments only can be useful in the constitution ; these must be taken up and conveyed into the blood, and the dregs must be thrown oft*.
Page 199 - ... which admits of repair. But in the natural machine, the animal body, this is most wonderfully provided for, by internal powers in the machine itself; many of which are not more certain and obvious in their effects, than they are above all human comprehension...