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 CON TEN TS .

PR E F A CE
1 . F A S T IN G .

CH A PT ER 1 .

Physi ol ogi ca l D a ta .

CH A PT ER II .

T he On e-Mea l Pl an .

CH A PT ER III .

D i et eti c R estri cti on s .

CH A PTE R IV .

Protracted F asts .

CH A PT E R V
Au thors
.

A n E xperi en ce of On e of the in
D ay Pa st .

II . H YD R O PA T H Y .

CH A PTER V I .

Phys i ol ogi ca l D a ta .

CH A PT E R V I I .

T h e C o l d -W a ter Cu re .

CH PT E R V III .

i r Ba ths .

CH A PT E R IX .

Cl i ma t i c S an i ta ri a .

CH A PT ER X .

V en t il ati on .

I II . E X E R CIS E .

CH A PT E R X I .

Phys i o l ogi ca l D a ta .

CH A P T E R X II .

Ou tdoor Ex erci se .

CHA PTE R x m .

In d oor E x erc i se .

CH A PTE R X IV .

Gym n as ti cs .

CH A PT E R XV .

F ree Movem en t Cu res or Sa n i ta ri u m E x erci ses .

 PR E F A CE .

T he great t ru th s of N ature are here ready for

y ou, r ead er.

A re you ready for th em ?

A re you free from pr ej udi ce and willi n g to
,

read an d reaso n without consid ering the opin ion s

o f so call ed authoriti es ?
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T o a free and i n t elligen t
huma n bei n g th ere is n o authority for hi m higher
than his own reasoni n g pow er .

If you are free from the slav ery o f prej udice

this book will giv e you food for thought . It w i ll
—
teach you that w eakn ess is a crime that i t is the
—
result o f plain easily avoided caus es that if you r
,

body is w eak or diseased there is n ot the slight

, ,

est excuse for r em ai n i n g so—that h ealth an d

stren gth of a high d egree is the natural h eritage

o f m an an d woma n an d if this sup erb condition
,
 PR EF ACE .

is n ot possessed this book will cl ea rly an d con

,

ci sel y furnish the k n owl edge n ec essary to ac q uir e

it
.

Refuse to be an invalid reader ! ,

Refuse to be a physical n on en i ty !
A re you d epending upo n drugs — t hat gorgon
horror that is torturing more huma n lives i n to
mis ery w eakn ess an d death than all the c ombi n ed
,

c ru elties and barbarism of pas t ages .

D rugs ! D ru gs ! l Great heav ens will this ,

crime o f the century nev er en d ?

D rugs n ever did and never will c ure disease .

T he body c ures its elf if it ca n s ecure an Oppor

tu n i ty but with the poiso nous drugs always at
, _

han d an d with th eir authoriti es standing at your

,
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side I know it is di fii cu l t to refuse But frien ds

, .
, ,

s tren gth en your minds and strik e for freedom .

You must be free from the d rug d elusion m en

tall y before you can ev er be free physically .

Yea rs ago when my own soul was rent by the

torturous beli ef that the health o f a fully dev el
oped m an was never to be mine I tri ed drugs , .

Nauseating and disgusting pills powd ers and ,

liquids w ere swallowed T he pain of my di sap

.

pointm ent as remedy after rem edy was tri ed

,

without benefit can n ever be des c ribed I f I live

, .
 b a n n er .
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to be a thousand years of age there c ould be n o ,

experi ence i n my life that would be stam ped

upo n my brain quite so vi vi di l y as this .

—
A nd when freedom came at last when the
truths o f Nature were reveal ed to m e on e by o n e ,

a great j oy overca me m e .

F or I was free !
F ree fri en ds ! F ree from pain free from
, ,

misery ; free from w eakn ess .

Think of it ! A freedom as glorious as the

most happy moment o f life !
A n d with this freedom c am e an intens e d esire
for others to share my freed om ; and drugs ,

the hu mbug the delusion that saps your

,

strength whil e they pretend to cure will fi nd in ,

m e a life long en emy

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A s long as I hav e the
.

pow er to think a s long as I have the pow er to

,

utter a sou n d my voice my pen my utmost ener

, , ,

gies will be expen ded in fighting an d exposing

the horribl e c rim es to mod ern humanity com

m i tted by dru gs .

Read this book !

Act upon its suggestions S ecure health with .

al l i ts
j oy
.

B e a man compl et e superb

, , .

Or a wom a n beau tiful and stron g

, .
re PR EF ACE
.

A nd help m e i n this glorious work of stam m ng

ou t the c urs e of w eakn es s an d dis ea se an d the

,

drugs that often cause this unn a tural con dition .

 C
PH YSIOLOGI A L D A T A .

”
W hat shall we do to be sav ed ? is a qu estion
which from a physical poin t of vi ew can be
, ,

an sw ered in l ess than ten words : L earn to i n

”
terpret the language of your sa n itary ins ti n cts .

T o him who has mast er ed that task the sci en c e ,

o f h ealth is n ot a s eal ed book .

“
A n d l et m e assure you i n m easured wo rds
,

alive with con viction that long seri es of cases

,

run n in g through sev en teen years o f att en dance

has b een a lin e of eviden c e li n e upon lin e of the
, ,

s el f su ffi ci en cy o f Nature to right h ers elf i n at

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tacks o f d i s eas e n o matt er what the disease or

, ,

”—
how s ev ere its character . E H D ewey M D
. .
, . .

Every living organism is a s el f regulat ing ap

-

paratus O ur n ervous system per forms its func

.

tions by a combination o f alarm sign als that ap

pris e u s of an i n finit e variety of extern al dan gers
re m sr mc , a m n om m v, EXER CI SE
.

an d i n t ernal n eeds in a language that has a dis

,

ti n ct expression for every want of ou r alimentary

an d r espiratory organs for ev ery d i stress of ou r
,

tissu es si n ews and muscl es for every n eed ed re

, ,

action agai n st the in flu en ce o f abnormal cir c um

stances O ur ski n protests against inj urious de
.

grees o f h eat or cold ; ou r lungs against atmos

p h e ri c impuriti e s ; o u r ey es agai n st the intrusion
o f the small est ins ect T he huma n body is a hous e
.

that cl ea n s es i ts own chamb ers an d h eats i ts own

stoves o pen s an d shuts its wi n dows at proper
,

int ervals expels mischi evous intrud ers an d

,

promptly i n forms i t s tena n t of every extern al

peril and i n t ernal disord er .

I f it w ere not for the perverting influ enc e of

ban eful sanitary superstition s we should ru n n o
risk o f mist aking poison for food n or of su bsti
‘

tuting u n natural fo r natural stimulants W e .

should n ever hav e con ceived the idea that the sick
m ust be forc ed to swallow vi rul en t drugs ; all
ou r ailm ents an d pai n s i n form vari ety and de
, ,

”
gree beyon d d escription co uld be cured by the
,

three remedi es of Na ture : Ex ercise fasting and ,

refrigeration .

T he application o f thos e rem edi es is n ot fol

low ed by distressin g after effect s I t does n ot .
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dev elop a morbid hankeri n g for a repetition o f

the pres criptio n in co n stantly i n cr easi n g dos es .

Compare the efi ects o f outdoor ex ercis e with

’
those o f D r Q u ack s D igestion Bitters as char
.
,

acteri sti c i n sta n ces of normal and abn ormal

tonics B oth prescriptions t end to stimulate the
.

ap p eti te B u t. h ow ? and at what exp en s e ? T o

the pala te o f a h ealthy child alcohol is almost as

repulsive as corrosive sublima te : Nature s prot est ’

agai n st the i nci pi en c e of a health dest royi n g -

h abi t N or does in s ti n ct yield to the first di sre

.

g ard o f i t s a pp eal s : N au sea grip es n e rvous , ,

headach es an d gastri c s pasms warn the novic e

agai n and again But we repeat the dose and
.
,

Natu re t ru e to her hi ghest l awof preservin g ex

,

i sten ce at an y p ric e an d realiz i n the hopel ess

g ,

n ess o f th e lif en dan geri n g struggl e finally

e-
,

chooses the alt ern a tiv e of pal l iat i n g an evil for

which she has no remedy an d adapts herself to ,

the ab n orm al co n di tio n T he body of the d ram

”
dri n ker says a m edi cal reformer b ecom es a
, ,

poi son en gi n e an alcohol mach i ne; per formi n g

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,
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its vital functio n s on ly u n der the spu r o f a spe

ci fic stimulus A n d only th en the u nn a tu ra l hab i t
.

b egets that cravi n g which the toper c o mes to mis

take for the p rompti n g of a healthyappetite a —
r4 F AST IN G
. H YD R O PAT H Y , EX ER CISE .

cravi n g which ev ery gratification makes more ex

orbitan t F or by an d by the j ad ed sy stem fails
.

to respon d to the spur ; the poiso n slave has to -

resort to stron ger stimulan ts .

A n d moreov er every excitatio n o f the flaggi n g

, , ,

vital en ergi es is follow ed by a d ebilitating reac

tion T he bow els fail to act ; disin clination to phys
.

ical an d m en tal efforts mak es work a p enalty T he .

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pl easan t an d exhilarati n g tonic has evolv ed the
soul dark en i n g mists o f Katz en jammer A s a n et
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.

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result o f his experim en t D r Q uack s custom er .

fin ds him s el f worse than before by j ust as mu ch

as the u n n at u ral stimula n t has still furth er ex

hau st ed his small r es erv e fu n d of vital vigor .

T he b en efits o f the mov em en t cure on the oth er ,

hand are n ot h erald ed by the k ettl edrum m eth

,

o ds o f Q uack stetter Cc ; bu t th ey can dispen se .

with such en dors ements O utdoor sports com.

m end th emselves to the i n s ti n cts of a h ealthy child

as u n m is takably as whol esom e food an d pure air .

Exercise c rea tes an exp en diture o f en ergy that

has to be replaced by s timul atin g the function s of
every orga n ; effet e tissu es are eliminat ed ; the

h eart b ea ts stron ger an d faster the lu n gs liv er , ,

an d kid n eys r espo n d to the spur ; the whol e sys

tem work s as a m achi n e u n d er an i n crease of

 Pa vsm t oox
cu . D AT A . 1 5

st eam p ressu re T he sam e h ealthy prom pt an d

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.
,

ha rm l ess ton ic reac ts upo n the bow els ; the prob

l em of digestiv e sti m u lation has b een solv ed with
ou t the risk of distressi n g aft er effects N o ban e -
.

ful habi t has fast en ed upon the pa ti ent ; no drastic

supp res si o n of symptoms has mad e the rem ed y

wors e than the evil T he disord er has b een cured

.

by the rem oval of 1 ts caus e A n d all th es e ad .

van tages ca n be claimed for the Fasting C ure .

’
Tak e away food from a sick man s stomach
an d you hav e b egu n n ot to starv e the sick m an
, ,

bu t the dis eas e

”
— E H D ewey M D
. . .
, . .

T he p ri n cipl e on which the fasti n g cure acts -

is on e on which all physiologi sts agr ee an d on e ,

which i s readily explai n ed and und erstood W e .

k n ow that i n a n imal life the law of n ature is for

the efi ete worn ou t an d l eas t vi taliz ed matter to
, ,

be first cast off W e see this upon the cu ticl e

.
,

n ails hair and i n the s n ak e the casti n g off o f his

, ,

ol d ski n .N ow i n wasti n g or famishing from the

wan t o f food this proc ess of elimi n ation goes on
,

in a much more rapid mann er than ordi n arily ,

an d the vital forc e whi c h would oth erwis e be

,

exp en d ed in digesting the food tak en acts n ow in ,

exp elling from the vital domain what ev er mor ,

bi d matters it may contain This then is a .

, ,
1 6 F AST I N G , HY R D O PAT H Y , EXER CISE .

b eau tiful idea i n regard to the fasting cu re—that -

when ev er a m eal of food is om i tt ed the body pu ,

ri fi es i ts elf thus much from i ts diseas e an d this ,

b ecomes apparen t i n the subs eq u en t a mendmen t ,

both as regards bodily feeli n g an d stren gth It is .

proved also i n the fac t that duri n g the preva

, ,

l ence of epid em ics those who have been obliged

,

to live almost i n a sta te of starvatio n hav e go n e ,

free from an attack whil e the w ell fed have been

,
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”
cut off in n umb ers by the m ercil ess disease .

f oel S haw M D , . .
r8 F AST I N G , H YDR O PAT H Y , E X ER CI SE .

tio n monogamy was not half as fi rmly establish ed

a s the rul e th at a h ealth loving man should con
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t ent hims el f with on e m eal a day and n ever eat ,

’
till he had l eisur e to digest i e not till the day s
, . .
,

work was wholly don e .

For more than a thousand y ears the on e m eal

pla n was the establish ed rul e among the civiliz ed
n atio n s i n habiting the c oast lands o f the Medi -

—
t erra n ean T he ev en ing repast c all it supp er or
.

din n er—was a kind of dom estic f estival the re ,

’
ward o f the day s toil an enj oyment which rich
,

and poor r efrain ed from marring by premature

g r at i fi cat i o n s o f th eir app etit e C ar es w er e laid
.

asid e b efor e the fami l y and th eir gu ests ass embl ed

in the supper hall P eopl e o f w ealth provid ed re
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.

cl i n i n g couch es and th eir d ess erts includ ed a good

,

many thi n gs b esid es A ttic figs Th ey treated .

th eir gu ests to perfum es to music an d dan c es

, .

Ath en aeus d escrib es a symposium enliven ed by

musical cont ests and j uggl er shows All but the .

po orest had at l east a min strel who bat tered comic

ditti es for a b ask etful o f cold lunch Amus em ents .

o f that s ort w er e suppos ed to aid digestion an d

k eep the r ev el ers awak e during the two hours i n ’

terval b etw een the t erminatio n o f the r epast an d

the s etting o f the sun though app eti te alo n e gen

,
 m ON E M E AL P LAN . 1 9

eral l y guara t d n ee the

assi mi lation of a good siz ed -

m eal D in n er i n the form o f a noon tim e lu n ch

.
,
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was unkn own an d for breakfast a biscuit or a

,

pi ece o f crust to cou n tera c t the acidity o f the

,

stomach w ere co n sid ered suffi ci ent

, .

Th ere w ere exc eptio n s but th ey w ere tol erated

,

merely as we should tol erat e a sportsman u n abl e

to wait for l egal holidays and enjoying l eisure ,

periods in the middl e o f the w eek or vacation s

b efore the b eginning of summ er T o d es ecrate .

’ ”
on e s app etit e the Romans call ed the habit of
,

eati n g b etw een m eals and S u etoniu s m entions

,

among the d em erits o f the Emperor Vit ellius a

pen c hant for gorging hims el f in the early morn
ing hours — the tim e of the day that ought to
,

hav e remained cons ecrated to labor or study A s .

a rul e probably nin e out of ten w ell edu cated

,
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Greeks and six out of ten Romans did not think

tw enty two hours too lon g an i n t erval b etw een
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m eals which with chat and oth er pauses last ed

‘

, ,

more than an hour and a half .

Th ey w ere probably athl et es remark ed a ,

criti c o f a l ecture on Roman c ustoms ; but what

about wom en an d p ersons o f d elicat e con sti tu
ti on s ? W o uld th ey not risk to fain t wi th hu n ger
so F A ST I N G ,
D O PAT H Y
HY R ,
EXER CI SE
.

in tryin g total abstinenc e i n that extrem e s ens e

,

”
o f t he word all the day lon g ?
,

I n reply to su c h qu estions the l ecturer ought to

hav e add ed a few words on the subj ect o f D i et
and the I n fl uenc e of Habit A littl e chil d accord
.
,

’
ing to D r Page s experimen ts can be taught to
.
,

g uzzl e day and night o r to co n t en t hims elf with

,

b eing still ed about o n ce in three hours Littl e .

habitu é s of a hu n dred daily gu zzl es will howl

horribly at the first attempt to restrict them to
seventy five but aft er a mon th or two will get so
-
,

used to ten n ursings that it requires coaxi n g to

mak e th em acc ept a doz en .

And in the course o f a few y ears the taperin g

off process can b e easily brought to an av erage of

on e m eal a day Bak er Pasha ( S ir S amu el B a

.

k er) asc ertain ed that fa c t in studyi n g the habits

o f the A byssi n ian hunt ers You n gst ers of twelv e
.

years j oin the hunting expeditions of th eir tribe

and thi n k th ems elv es lucky if the k ettl e can be
set a boiling to t he ext en t o f furn ish i n g a good
-

ev en i n g m eal I n the repose of the kraal th ey

.

might yi eld to the t emptation of a n oon time -

lunch ; but wh en gam e is s c arc e thin k n othin g of ,

rolli n g th emsel v es up in a blan k et at n i ght and

trying a n ap to forget the d i sappoi n tmen t of the
 T i t E ON E M EA L ms .

day, trusting to the c han c e o f better pot lu ck for -

”
i say h F r n c h
’

the morrow .
Q m d ort d n e ,
t e e

he who sl eeps feasts

’
A go od night s rest in
.

the bracing night air o f t he Abyssinian tabl e

lan ds will su stain strength ev en on t he basis of

alternate day m eals A daily feast is so abundant
.

l y su ffi ci en t that a c tiv e youngst ers would fear to

handicap th emselv es by re loading th eir stoma c hs
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before the en d o f the n ext day With the prosp ec t.

o f an u p and down hill ra c e against tim e and the

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competition o f athl etic c ompanions the o ffer even ,

of a mod erat e mo rn ing lunch would probably j ar

upon their sanitary cons c i en c e .

T he subj ec ts o f the two Kais ers on the oth er ,

hand would consid er it a gri evan c e to be limit ed

,

to thr ee daily m eals A ll ov er Germany and

.

north ern A ustria a paus e o f four hours is thought

a distressi n gly long tim e b etw een m eals though ,

some bran ds of wu rs t a re apt to resist the assimi

lative apparatus o f unfeath ered bipeds at l east
half a day .

Mast er Karl S chulz e has no springboks to

hunt ; the stifli n g atmosph ere of his grammar
scho ol room do es n ot promot e digestion ; yet K arl
i n sists on a F rii hs tii ck ( br eakfast ) si x A M . .

zwei tes f h k s cond br akfast

’

rii s ti i c e e at
as F AST I N G
, H YD R O PAT H Y ,
E XER CISE.

i
n ne ; mittagsm ahl at noo n ; v esperbrot ( v esper
lu n ch ) at half past three ; an d ab end ess en at 6
P M
. Just b efore retiring from the sc en e o f
.

their gastron omic exploits Vi en na burgh ers often

add a night cap of b eer pretz els and more wurst
-
, ,

” ’
for the stom ach s sak e In spit e o f the stom
.

’
ach migh t s eem mo re correct but it is n t On e , .

’
mon th s practic e would be en ough to suppl em en t
the ho rrid load o f ingesta with a midnight m eal .

’
I t might shorten the glutton s life on e half ; but
as sure as the n oon and n ight com es arou n d his
stom ach o r the ulcerated receptacl e retaini n g that
,

name would i n t errupt the n ightmare circus to

,

clamor for its p erquisit es ; and disappointm ent

would result i n fits o f i n som n ia an d y earn ings for
the picnic grou n ds o f a b ett er h ereaft er .

’
It is the sam e with fluid surfeits Ho ff s Malt .

Ex tract was adv ertis ed as a cure all till ev en as -

ceti cs bought a bottl e at c ertai n tim es o f the y ear

—say a quart per quarter an d on thos e t erms ,

con triv ed to compromis e with the stimulan t habit .

A ft er the en d of the s econ d mon th th ey might

n ow an d th en exp eri enc e a va gu e y earn ing for

the offi c e of the Ho ff Agen cy but o n the whol e

~

g e t alo n g co n t en t edly without half way drinks .

In M un ich almost id en tical b everages hav e

 A
T H E ON E ME L PL A N . r3

o ari es tha t get n ervous i f busi n ess em ergen cies

v t

oblige th em to pos tpo n e th eir trip to the B i er

K ell er for a few m inut es Th ey call thric e a day
.
,

and aft er supper hurry to a c lub that furn ish es

th em a pret ext for guzzling till mid n ight S ay .
,

”
I feel a vacuum on e of th es e far go n es us ed to
,
-

rem ark wh en the S unday excursion steam er did

,

n ot r each its pi er strictly on tim e Nay a Wis

.
,

con si n physician vouch es for the fact that som e of

the M ilwauk ee brew ers allow th eir employ ees

tw en ty five quarts of lager free ev ery working

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,

day in the y ear and that ma n y of the vet erans

,

b egin to fret if th ey can n ot visit the fr ee dis

p en sa ry a t l east onc e i n thirty minut es Habi t .
,

”
in fact b ecom es a s econ d nature an d the limits
, ,

of its i n flu enc e for b ett er or wors e hav e n ev er

, ,

been ascertained I t is quite possibl e that glutton s

.

m ight l earn to hank er for a m eal an hour and ,

that S t J erom e in his S yrian h ermitage really got

.

alo n g comfortably with three m eals a w eek ; but

it must be admitt ed that the ol d Roman plan com
bi n es advantages n ot easy to rival .

L ik e a festival at the en d o f the w eek it sus ,

tai n s the en ergy o f the laborer with the prosp ect

o f an ad eq uat e r eward . T he gratification o f a
w ell earn ed appetit e is som ethi n g v ery di fferen t
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24 F AST I N G
,
D O A
HY R P TH Y ,
XER CIS E
E .

from the listl ess complian c e with a c onv en t i o n al

custom o r the att endan c e at a regulation m eal
which a sanitary intuition denoun c es as an ag
gravation of an already grievous surfeit A .

tw enty two hours fast will mak e a m eal of bread

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’

a n d bak ed appl es mor e palatabl e than all the arts

of the F reres Proven ceau x c ould mak e three,

daily ba n qu ets to a dyspeptic .

On e great adva n tage of frequent m eals

is fou n d ed on the fa ct that repl etion does n ot
at on c e a n n oun c e i tsel f to the instinct o f a go r
.

mand and that the int erval preceding a d ecided

,

cons c iousn ess of sati ety may have been abus ed

for a c ongestion of the alim entary sy st em Upon .

the on e m eal plan that risk is obviat ed or at l east

-
,

gr eatly l ess en ed A ft er a fast o f tw en ty two

.
-

hours it is almost impossibl e to eat with relish

more than the syst em can utiliz e in the c ourse
o f a night and a day .

T he Roma n custom also obviat ed an a fli i cti on

that has turn ed thousands of plow boys i n to -

tramps and driven more than on e dyspeptic to

suicid e vi a : the mis ery of hard work directly
,

’
aft er a full m eal I didn t mi n d being wak ed
.

”
b efore daybreak to feed the cows says a rural ,

“
corres pon dent of the Chau tau q u an I coul d .
2 6 rA sr m c , m R OPA T E v, Ex ER C1 SE.

with digestion as n ois e an d motio n i n terfere wi th

sl eep H en c e the sallow compl exion the hollow
.
, ,

ey es ,and the w ea ry ga i t o f thousan ds of city

cl erks scholars lawyers n ewspap er hacks an d
, , , ,

ev en physicia n s H en ce the gastric tormen ts of

.
,

poor overwo rk ed t each ers who ( unlik e happi er

, ,

s erva n ts of the public ) ca n n o t shirk their work ,

an d hav e to s n atch th eir di n n er du ri n g a b ri ef

in terval of the hard es t ki n d of m en tal drudgery .

T he even ing di n n er pla n would obviat e all that

-

mis ery T he n oon rec ess could be d evot ed to a

.
-

’
bath a half hour s chat i n the shade an d the
, ,

toil er woul d return to his work refresh ed That .

con trast on ce k n ow n from practica l experi en c e

, ,

would preclud e the t emptation of a return to the

u n sa n i tary plan B oys i n th eir early t een s can
.

be taught to consid er eati n g b etw een ev en ing

m eals a tran sgression agai n st the health laws of -

Nature D r J H Lincoln of Hamilton Cou n ty

. . . .
,

T en n ess ee had trai n ed his you n gst ers i n ration al

,

di et etics till he could trust th em n ot to break

th eir n oonday fast for the sak e o f any tidbits .

F or sham e ! he us ed to say the id ea o f wa n t ,

i n g to eat b efore your day s work is don e ! It s

’ ’

j ust as if a m echan ic should claim hi s wa ges be

”
fore he had earn ed th em .
 T H E ON E MEA L PLAN . 27

Even i n g di n ers also escap e the risk Of su n

strok es . S urfeit strok es would be a far m ore
appropria te n am e for an a ffection almost u n
k n ow n i n S pan ish A m erica wh ere rich and poor
,

susp en d labor during the h ea t of the aftern oon .

T he s el f regulating t end en cy Of ou r orga n ism can

-

h old its own against a t emperature of 1 0 5 d egrees

Fahrenh eit i n the shad e ; it might resist the add ed
gri evance of superfluous clothing but suc c umbs ,

to a co m bi n atio n o f su n h eat sw elt eri n g d ry

-
,

goods and superh eat ed greasy made dish es A

, ,
-
.

sun s trok e fit is in fact caus ed by what phys1c1an s

, ,

call a zymotic proc ess of blood changes — ia -

plai n er words the humors Of the livi n g body be

,

g i n to f erm en t T he syst.em has ways o f its ow n

to coun t eract that risk but may try in vai n to

,

apply th em wh en its en ergi es are divert ed by the

task Of com promisi n g a reckl ess surfeit Who .

has n ot n otic ed the bodily an d m ental vigor that

facilitat es all sorts Of work i n the early morn i n g
hours ? I t is only partly du e to a di ffer en c e of
t emp era ture for i n door work ers too exp eri en c e
,
-
, ,

its ben efits an d it would be a mistak e to suppos e

,

’ ’
that the invigorating efl ects Of a good n ight s rest
a re limit ed to the early for en oon A t l east half .

the morn i n g en ergy is du e to the fact tha t ex

28 AST I N G
F , H YD R OPAT H Y , ExER ci sE
.

e mption from the task of digestion mak es the

res erv e stor es Of vital vigor availabl e for oth er
work T he first m eal forfeits that advantage an d
.
,

by the simpl e plan Of postponing break fast the

buoyan c y o f the early morni n g hours c an be en
j oy ed aH day .

My body is all foreh ead said the nak ed In ,

dian wh en his Caucasian hunting c ompanion

,

wond er ed that he did n ot shiv er in a snow storm -

’
and the fast er s day is all morning .

I f you c annot a dopt the on e m eal plan at on ce -

at l east avoid breakfast H ere is ho w D r. .

D ew ey d es c rib es his fir st forenoon without

breakfast :
I had a forenoon Of such lofty m en tal c h eer ,

such en ergy o f soul and body such a s ens e of ,

physi c al case as I had n ot known sinc e a young

man in my l at er t eens Wh en the din n er hour
.
-

c am e th ere was a n add ed r elish that was a n ew

exp eri enc e and I l eft the tabl e with a stomach
,

so suppli ed that th ere was n o n eed o f apprehen

sion as to an attac k Of faintn ess during the
aft ern oon Th ere is no natural hunger in the
.

morni n g aft er a n ight of restful sl eep b ecaus e ,

th er e has b een n o such d egree of c ell destru c tion

as to creat e a d emand for food at the ordinary
 T H E ON E MEA L PL AN . 39

hour O f the A m eri can br eakfast S l eep is n ot a

.

hunger causing proc ess To r einforc e this state

-
.

m en t and the r easons b ehind it is the exp eri enc e

,

of thousan ds who hav e abando n ed the morning

m eal and in a short tim e lost all hint of a n eed
,

Of it . This could n ot have b een had th ere b een

a n eed for Nature is imperious exa c ting ; and it
, ,

is not in the lin e of possibility that she will p er

mit any getting us ed to l ess food than she t e

quires to pres erv e her physiological balanc e She .

easil y p ermits you to skip that m eal you do n ot

n eed so s oon aft er the r efr eshing sl eep and which

y ou always ea t from habit ; but lat e r sh e will call
you to acount if you give l ess than her d ema n ds .

“
N ow you a re to abolish your breakfast and ,

n ot to pr esum e to eat agai n without k een hun

e
g ; r this hung e r you may hav e i f yo u wait f or

it ev en whil e sitting in an arm c hair or lyi n g

, ,

in bed an d it will be for food as n ourishing as the

,

axma n req uires What shall be eat en at each

.

meal will be a law for s elf to d et ermin e N O food .

is good or h ealthful and th er efore typical with

, ,

out a special d emand for it K een hu n ger the

.
,

most relishi n g of foods thoroughly ma sticated

, ,

a r ecr eativ e st ate of mind during digestion t hes e ,

3c PA ST t , H YD R OPA I H Y, E
‘ ‘

X ER CI SE .

are the asily ac quired c on ditions b ehind sus

e

tai n ed h ealth .

But how sudd en the revel ation to m e ! GO

without y our br eakfa st an d you will be hungry fo r
y our dinn er ! And so hungry that you will forget
to tak e your co d liv er dos e ! -
A nd the d i nn er is
so wel l r elish ed and you f eel so much bett er a f
,

ter it that you co n clud e to omi t the dosing

altogeth er ! H ow simpl e ! O nly to fast n o mat ,

ter if it costs a w hol e day a wh ol e w eek o r a , ,

whol e month and wi th ab solut e s a fety ; why do

, ,

r c all w n rg ti ly h d i
'

y o u n ot e ho e e e ca l t e ges t ve o r

gan s will work ov er the k eenly relish ed food after

the long fast du e to f ev ers ? H ow mu c h more ,

th en may be ex p ec t ed from fasts that are to be

,

n o tax on v i tal pow er ? S afe Y es b eyond any

?
,

q u estio n A s so on as the stomach an d app en d

.

ages have dispos ed of the d ecompo sing unbidd en ,

m eals that are s till a tax on vital pow er th ere ,

wi l l be a positive in c r eas e Of m en tal and physical

pow er so that wh en Nature s own s i gn al for
,
’

food is gi v en th er e is non e o f the exhau st ed feel

,

i n g that is more or l ess realiz ed b efore the

n eedl ess morn ing m eal .

“
App etit e will always com e wh ere d eath is n ot
i n evitabl e , no l ess i n the ordi n ary co n di tion s of
 TH E ON E M E AL A
PL N .
3 t

low h ealth tha n i n cas es o f acu te sickn ess an d

,

fasti n g is the swift est the most effectual an d the

,

most unfaili n g Of all d evices ever conc eived for

i n viti n g n atural hunger Keen hu n ger hu n ger
.
,

only makes k n ow n the in dividual n eed

, .
 C H A PTER III .

DI ET ET IC R EST R I CT IO N S .

A fast i n the lan guage o f the medieval

,

c hurc hm en gen erally impli ed the i n terdi t i on of

,

sp ec ial kinds of food and in that s ense Of the

, ,

word almost ev ery creed Of anci ent and mod ern

,

tim es prescrib es periods o f total absti n enc e T he .

Rhamada n or Lent en s eason of the Mohamm e

, ,

dans has to be Obs erv ed for a coupl e Of m on ths

, ,

though the casuists of the Koran allow travel ers

and busy laborers to short en the t erm by l en gth
en i n g the list Of forbidd en via n ds T he succ es
.

sors O f ! oe S mith prohibit alcoholi c stimulan ts

to all but i n valids and ! oroaster interdicts wi n e
,

and soma j uic e

- — probably some opiat e to —
those who can proc ure more whol esom e tonics .

T he Pythagoreans w ent furth er and taboo ed

win e altogeth er S tri c t follow ers o f the s ect
.

( whos e philosophy was to all pu rpos es a r e

l i gi on ) abstain ed also from fl esh food a n d for ,

som e n ever wholly explai n ed reason from b ean s , .

P et er B ayl e surmis ed som e figurativ e sign ificanc e

o f th at ten et — b ea n s o f variou s colors b ei n g us ed
34 F AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y , X
E ER CIS E .

m ight be recomm en d ed from a purely physical

p oi n t o f vi ew A lcohol
. is a liv er poiso n an d ag -

g ra v a tes th e virul en c e o f many dis eas es so u n m i s

tak abl y that its victims hav e hardly a righ t to

complai n of c hronic disord ers : Theirs are ail

ments perp etuat ed by a chro n ic provocation o f the
cause and not apt to app eal to the sympathy o f
,

total abstain ers any more tha n the afll i cti on s of

‘

trichi n osis could evok e the fears o f a pork ab -

horing ! ew .

D runkards it is tru e pl ead th eir

, , willi n gn ess
to reform if the fl esh w ere not stronger than the
”
spirit . T emp eran c e prea c h ers d escant on the
dangers of worldly t emptations and selfish i a
du l gen ces or t he lusts of u n regen erate h earts
,

as if ou r natural app etit es w ere t empti n g us to

ou r ruin . Nay the stimulant vice has fo u n d
,

l earn ed d efenders ; the follow ers Of Paracelsus

hav e worshiped the man d evouri n g fi re as a sa
-

cred flame ; for thousands o f ho n est t ruth s eek ers -

the disagreem ent o f doctors mak es it doubtful

if alcohol is a fri end or a foe a h ealth givi n g ,

-

to n ic or a d eath d ealing poiso n I s that u n cer

-
.

tain ty n ot a proof that i n on e most impo rtant

respec t Natur e has fail ed to i n sure the w el far e

Of her creatur s e ?
 DI ET ET IC R EST R C TI ION S . 35

Wha t i t really proves is this : That habitual

s i n has blu n t ed our phys ical co n sci en c e till we

have n ot on ly c eas ed to h eed but c eas ed to u n d er

,

stan d the prot ests Of ou r i n n er m on itor It

, .

proves that the victi m s Of vic e have so utt erly for

gott en the language Of th eir ins ti n c ts that th ey
are n o lon ger abl e to distinguish a n a tural app c

tite from a morbid appeten cy .

F or i t m ight be q u estion ed i f the i n stinc tive

’
ho rror Of carrion is stro n ger than a n ormal man s
aversion to the firs t taste of alcohol To the .

palate of an un seduced you n gster bra n dy is i a

tensely repulsive lager b eer as nauseous as s ew er
,

swill ; wi n e is simply spoil ed musk as u n attractive ,

’
as acidulated sugar water I s it Nature s fault
-
.

that th es e h ealth protecting insti n cts can be per

-

vert ed by a delib erat e an d ev er repeated di sre -

gard Of th eir warnin g ? O r can fl esh glutton s -

corps e eaters the editor of the Vegetari an

-

calls them ) pl ead the w eakn ess o f Nature the ,

”
lures Of the fl esh an d the devil ?
Without spic es and kit c h en tricks animal food
would n ot t empt the progeny Of A dam to any
’
damagin g exten t I f I didn t want p eopl e to
.

’
eat my appl es I wouldn t loc k th em up in my
”
orchard says an ir rev erent critic o f Gen esis ;
,
3 6 F AS T I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y , Ex ER CI S E .

but I do beli ev e that an u n pervert ed child could

be lock ed up with a coupl e of h elpl ess lambs an d ,

’
that like S ir William s Hindus it would l i e
, ,

down and di e soo n er than save its life by sacri

,

fici n g that o f its dumb fellow creatures F or -

.
,

q uite asid e from m oral scrupl es the protests Of ,

—
instin c t would prev ent S ta rvation hunger i n .

ten si fied to t e d egree of fearful torture

h — would
fail to overc om e the natural av ersion to the taste
Of raw undisguis ed ) fl esh food .

A nd c ooking cannot de stroy all the disease

germs whi c h the c orpse eat er transfers to his -

own body T he task o f assimilating wolf food

.
-

is an a ffront to ou r digestiv e organs O ur stom .

achs bow els and t eeth a re thos e o f a fruit eating

, ,
-

creature .

’
D on t yo u think th ere is som ething Obj ection
abl e about a draughty b edroom window i n this
”
c hangeabl e climat e O f ours ? a C onn ecti c ut
foggy ask ed D i o Lewis .

’
That s j ust my Opinion sai d the fa c etious ,

doctor ; in nin ety n i n e ou t o f a hund red c ases

‘

’ ”
the draught isn t n ear strong enough .

And the main Obj ec tion to ecc l esiasti c fasts is

the c ircum stanc e that th ey w er e rarely persist ent
”
enou gh . Fasting i e abstaini n g from m eat
“

, . .
,
 DI ET ET IC RE TRS ICT I ON S .
37
“

on F riday and for a few w eeks in early spri n g

can hardly be ex p ect ed to undo the mischi ef of
two hu n dred an d s ev en ty fi ve carn ivorous days
-
.

O ur instinct guid ed D arwinian kinsm en a re

-

frugal i n the origi n al s ense Of the word ; i e . .

,

subsist chiefly on tree fruit but have n o Obj ection

-
,

to eggs and vegetaria n s o f the Alcott school

,

may have prej udiced their cause by prohibiting

eggs milk and all kinds of fat as w ell m eat
, , as , ‘
.

B u t i n midsumm er it w ou ld c ertainly oft en be

a good plan to stick to an Alcott m en u for a few
w eeks F ai re m ai gre ( lit erally
. make l ean ,

the Frenc h cal l fasti n g but adopt th eir Lent en

,

fare at the wron g tim e Of the year T he idea o f .

insistin g on three daily meals of greasy apOpl ep ,

tic heat aggravati n g vian ds is prepost erous at a

,
-

seaso n that mak es the struggle for exist ence a

fight agai n st a fever h eat atmosph ere nor is th ere
-

an y real n eed for som ething warm three tim es

a day W e might as w ell aggravat e the grievan ce
.

Of a blizzard with a rtifi c ial refrigerants or ,

s wallow Opiat es whil e i i n pl ori n g h eaven for

strength to watch an d pr ay Perp etual Len ts
.
,

modified by an occasio n al om el et te are not i a ,

compatibl e wi th perfec t comfo rt an d total ah ,

38 T AST I N G , H YDR OPA T H Y , X ER CIS E
E .

stai n er from sti m ulan ts should sign a pl edge

again st tea and co ffee whil e th ey are about it
, .

O n ly unnatu ral appet en ci es hav e n o natural

limits and a combination o f di etetic restriction s
,

with the on e m eal plan would enabl e us to dis

-

pen s e with the sick ening cant Of the sai n ts who

ask us to m ak e our din n ers as many ord eals for
“
the ex ercis e O f s elf d enial I t would j ustify
-
.

”
suicid e says an edu cat i on al r eform er
, if this ,

w orld o f ours w ere really arranged on the dia

bol i c pla n Of making ev ery gratification Of o u r
n atural in stincts i n j u r1 ou s .

S top eating wh en ev er the taste Of a special

dish t empts you to unusual indulgenc e .

In sayi n g grace add in sil en c e a pl edge to prov e

,

your s el f control ;
-
t est the su periority of moral
”
principl es to physical appetites an d similar ,

apoth egm s r ecall the tim e wh en mora lists tried

to earn heav en by trampling the strawberry
patch es Of earth an d obtain forgiven ess for eat
ing at all by mixi n g th eir food with a d ecoctio n
Of wormwood S top eati n g wh en you relish
.

”
your food mo re than usually ? N ego ai per ~

n ego ! W e might as w ell t ell a h ealth seek er to -

re frai n from sl eep wh en he feels specially drowsy .

R egul ate the qu ality of you r meal s an d l et

 D I ET ET IC R E T R CT S I ION S .
39

the q uan tity tak e care of its elf is a far more ,

s en sibl e rul e W hol esom e food rarely t em pts

.

u s to i n dulge to exc ess W e do n ot Often h ear

.

Of milk top ers or bak ed appl e gluttons -

.

D O n ot eat till you hav e l eisure to digest ,

bu t a fter a fas t day an d with all night for di

-
,

gestion an d assimilation , do n ot insult Nature

'

by bei n g afraid to eat you r fill o f whol esom e

food I f a combi n ation Of exceptional c ircum
.

sta n ces Should n ev erth el ess resul t i n a surfeit

, , ,

do n ot rush to the shop Of the bl u epi ll v en der ,

'

but try the effec t Of a lo n ger fast .

Every di sease that afll i cts mank i n d is a con

sti tu ti on al possibility d ev elop e d into disease by
more or l ess habitual eatin g i a exc ess o f the
supply Of gastric j uices !
T he s ens e o f tast e th en you see as you have , ,

n ot q u i te reali zed b efore exist s for a t o fol d

' '

, w -

p ( ) To i ndicat th r cis fo od
'

p u r os e . I . e e p e e

n eeded to restor e the w ast es Of muscl e en ergy ,

an d that there shall be n o mistak es mad e ,

the n eeded food is to be the most k eenly relish ed .

N OW i vi tl l th i s to guid eyou h erea ft er yOu will n ot

n eed to S
'
"
t u dy the scien ce of food an al ysi s if you ,

so al l o w your appetit e to d ev elo p that N at ure

'

can ord er the bill of fa re ou t loud wi th the cl ear

D ewey.
”
t at enunci ati on. - E H . . MD . .
 CH A PTER IV .

PR OT R A CT ED F A ST S .

T he strongest temperanc e argum en t I ever

h eard was the incid en tal remark Of a l ecturin g
“
n aturalist, that it would be easy to n am e a
thousa n d di fferent an imals that subsist on a thou
sand di fferen t ki n ds Of food but that th ey all
,

”
drink water .

T he q u estion as to the most effectiv e and most

n atural rem edy might be settl ed with similar con
cl u si ven ess. C rapul en t dogs can n ow an d then
be seen eating grass an d aft er a surfeit Of gr een
,

fodd er rumi n ants evi n ce a han k eri n g after salt ,

bu t s erious sickn ess prompts all animals to fa st .

Wou n d ed deer will retire to som e s eclud ed gl en

and starv e fo r w eeks togeth er In the south ern .

A ll eghan i es wh ere mi n eral efll orescen ces mi n g

, ,

ling with stagn a n t wat er caus e a di so rder k fiovvn

’ ‘

”
as milk sick n ess the animals th i s a ffécted
'

, .

“ ‘
g e t O f
f th eir f eed and by, r est an d tbtal ah

sti n en ce gen erally contriv e to recover wi thofi

"
t
m edical assi stan ce i n the cours e of a w eek or
two .
4 a T AST I N G ,
H YD R O PAT H Y , X
E ER CIS E .

li n g from hi s mouth and nostrils when they

pi ck ed him up and the troopers advis ed m e to
,

”
put him ou t o f mis ery but he was my littl e ,

’
broth er s pet and aft er some h esitation I de
, , ,

c id ed to tak e him hom e in a bask et and giv e the

probl em Of his cure the b en efit Of a fra ctio n al
chanc e I nv estigation prov ed that he had brok en
w
.

two l egs and three ribs and j udging by the ay ,

he rais ed his h ead and gasp ed for air every n ow ,

and th en it s eem ed probabl e that his l u n gs had

,

b een inj ured .

T he lo c atio n O f his grav e had alrea dy b ee n

s ettl ed ; but the n ext morning he was still alive an d

lapp ed up a pint o f wat er For tw en ty days an d .

tw en ty nights the littl e t erri er stuck to life an d hi s

cotton l i n ed bask et without touching a crumb Of
-
,

solid food but ever ready to lick up a few drops

,

Of cold wat er in pr efer enc e ev en to milk or soup

, .

A t the en d o f the third w eek he mad e an effo rt

.

to l eave his couch an d a few days a , ft ercon

tri ved to stagger al o n gthe floor to get the b en e

fit o f a h earth fi re H e had brok en his fast with

.

a sauc erful o f sw eet milk but O nly on the even

'

w
,

i ng O f the t enty Sixt h day b egan to betray a

-

personal i nterest i n the con t en ts of a plateful Oi

~
 PR OT R ACT ED mm . 43

m eat -
scraps tha t had b een place d near his bask et
ev ery morning .

B efore the en d Of the wi n t er be accompa n i ed

his fri ends to that sam e riding school and was -

i n troduc ed to the v et erinary surgeo n Of the regi

m en t Mi sk n i t bon es had mad e his crook ed l egs
.

a tri fl e crook eder but he could run again and

.

a t tes t the vigor Of his lu n gs by a lusty bark A .

—
c l ear cas e of r ecovery i n spit e Of we did n ot
s o —
ven tur e to say becau e f total abstin enc e from

drugs .

“ ”
What did you feed him on ? in qui red the
surgeon taki n g it for grant ed that Nature must
,

have b een assist ed som ehow o r oth er .

Nothing for the first three w eeks

, .

”
What ?
N othing sir O r to be q uit e ex act n othi n g
, .
, ,

”
exc ept som e air and W at er .

S tout chaps
“

T he surgeo n sh ook his h ead .

,

”
th es e dax es he mutt ered c aressing the pa rado x
, ,

with the tip of his boot T he vital i ty o f thos e

.

brutes ! he probabl y th ought to hims elf ; the

id ea of that thi n g recoveri ng In Spite of such
n egl ect .

S urgeon K had a hors eload o f instrum en ts

.

an d m i gh t h av e succ eed ed i n dosi n g the pa ti en t

44 T AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y ,
E ERX CI SE .

with a prescription Of beef wi n e and iron by

'

, ,

m eans of a stomach funn el I f the littl e dachs -

.

hu n d could have survived the addition al afll i c

tion is anoth er qu estion
,
.

T he fasting c ure insti n ct is n ot limit ed to ou r

-

dumb fellow creatures I t is a commo n ex peri

-
.

en c e that pai n fevers gastri c con ge stions an d

, , ,

ev en m en tal a ffl ictions take away the appetite ,

an d only u n wis e n urs es will try to thwart the

purpose Of Nature in that respect T he manager .

of a large Michigan sa n itarium mak es it a rul e

to l et his att endants indulge his pati ents with all

the cold wat er th ey want to drink or ev en c oax ,

them to try a n oth er glass but n ev er urge th em ,

to eat against th eir i n clination .

“
Abstin en c e is by far too m uch feared in the
treatmen t of acute dis eas es gen erally W e have .

good reason for b eli evi n g that many a life has

been d estroyed by the i ndis c riminate feeding
which is so Oft en practised among the si ck T he .

safety o f abstinen ce will be apparent wh en we re

m ember how Oft en persons hav e lain in fev ers .

dys en tery an d oth er prostrating diseas es four

, ,

teen tw en ty on e and even more days withou t

,
-
,

n utrim en t an d i n, the en d doi n g w ell

”
— I acl .

Show M D . . .
 PR O T R ACT ED EA ST s . 45

”
T he Health school O f T a l ern o in its Vade
-
,

”
m ec um o f S anitary Maxims has an apoth egm ,

to the effec t that T he more you feed a sick

”
body the sicker you mak e it and D r I saa c ! en , .

”
n i n gs
, the author Of M ed i c al Reform ex ,

presses the sam e truth in an emphati c mann er

’
o f his own .D on t aggravat e the t roubl es of a
” “
si c k fellow man he says
-
, by forc ing him to
,

swallow food against the prot est of his stoma c h .

N O on e ever thi n ks Of eati n g if the appetite

is abolish ed by a trivial ailm ent and plainly for
the r eason that it would be an unpl easant ex pe

ri en ce att end ed by d epressing results ; but if the

ailm ent is thought da n gerous why th en the , ,

physi c s and chem estry of digestion are utt erly

ign ored and food must be enforced
,
.

Th ere is a v ery general con c urren c e Of opin

ion that the aversion to food that c haract erizes
all cases o f a c ut e diseas e whi c h is fully in pro
,

portion to the sev erity O f the symptoms is on e ,

’
Of Nature s blunders that requires the i n terven
tion Of art and h en c e en forc ed feeding regardl ess
,

Of aversion .

I can have no doubt that feeding duri n g i l l

ne ss wh en n o hu n ger exists is a diseas e prolo n g -
:

i n agen c
g y .
46 T AST I N G ,
H YDR O PA T H Y , EX ER CIS E .

T he m ore I study the qu estion of n utrition

in diseas e at the b edsid e of a c ut e illn ess the more
am I u n abl e to c ompr eh end the logic o f givi n g
the si c k and esp ec ially the v ery s i ck a form o f
, ,

food that even in the most vigorous h ealth cannot

be born e even fo r a singl e day without a low er
, ,

ing o f vital pow er ; nay that wh ere ev en on e ,

m eal of it c a n not be put into the stomach of hun

g er without a cl early p erc eptibl e loss O f p ow er .

N O physician will admit that normal h ealth

can be maintain ed for a singl e day for the abov e ,

reason s on mil k and whisky ; th en wh ere is the

,

logi c O f f eedi n g it to the s i c k ? How ex pec t by ,

its u se to rais e abnorm al h ealth to the normal

, ,

wh en it in evitably low ers the normal to the ah

normal ?
Most o f the n eed o f drugs to allay restl ess
n ess o r pain and to enfor c e sl eep in c as es Of the
,

s ev erely si c k ari ses from the ex haustive taxing

,

Of the vit al pow er from the enfor c ed feeding and

stimulation — E H D ewey M D
. . .
,
. .

Th ere is no danger in t emporary abstin enc e .

Nature knows b est A ccustom yours elf

.

in all your littl e ailm en ts and also in your grave ,

and more distressing a ffections to rega rd the ,

m ov em en t conc ern ed in th em in a fri en dly aspect

 PR OT R A CT EI) EA S T s . 43

—desig ne d fort ending to the removal of a

an d

di fl i cu l ty of whos e exist enc e you w er e unawar e

‘
,

an d which if su ffered to r emain and a cc umulat e

, ,

might prov e the d estruction of the hous e you

live i n A n d that i n st ead of its symptoms n eed
.
,

i ng to be suppress ed th ey a re th ems elv es c urativ e

,

Operations and that what should be c all ed the

,

disease li es back o f th em as the real disorder or

, ,

”
di fli cu l ty which th ey a re int end ed to remov e
‘
.

T he physiological rati on al e o f the fasti n g i a

st i n ct is this : T he task o f digestion monopoliz es

the vital en ergi es o f the organism to a d egree that

interferes with em ergen cy work Whil e the .

kitch en is u n d ergoing r epairs to u n do the mis

chi ef Of a storm ora con fl agrati on the cook would ,

ask to be excus ed from routin e drudgery N o .

care could obviat e the risk of her fritt ers getting

spri n kl ed with plast er dust or show ers o f soot
-
,

an d p en di n g r enovatio n she would exp ect her

fo lks to shift with cold lunch pres erv es an d , ,

oth er wint er stores of the pantry Ev en thus

-
.

Natu re tri es to remov e the obstacl es Of a rem edial

probl em Wh en must ering her en ergi es for a
.

struggl e with a critical disord er she prefers to be

ex empt ed from oth er work and as it w er e get, , ,

her hands free for the effectiv e and rapid ac

48 T AST IN G , H YD R O I A T H Y, E
‘
X ER CISE .

co m pl i shm en t O fa task that may admit of n o d o

lay T he functions of the alim entary organs are
.

thus t emporarily suspend ed Lack of appetit e or .

,

even a viol ent av ersio n to food a re physiological ,

intimations o f the fact that the kitch en depart -

m ent o f the orga nism has b een clos ed fo r repairs .

But that arrangement implies no risk Of sta rva

tions .

Wh en death occurs before the sk el eton con

d Iti on is rea c h ed it is always du e to Ol d age or
som e form of disease or inj ury and not to star ,

vation ”
— E H D ewey M D
. . .
,
. .

There are a l i m en ta rv reserve stores ; accu m u

l ati on s o f adipos e tissu e gath ered to gu a rd
against this They will supply all essential
.

n eeds for the time b eing and can be replaced at ,

l eisure aft er the work O f reconstruction has been

,

finish ed I n som e c ases th ey may have been put

.

away fo r the n eeds O f Old age but are n ow drawn ,

upon fo r a transi ent em ergen c y T he body so to .

,

say has for a tim e to mak e shift with its wint er

,

stores .

Th es e nutritive res erv es are rea dy for u se at

short noti c e and th eir appli c ation to the m o
m en tary n eeds o f the system does n ot int erfere
wi th other work D igestive probl ems i n o ther .
,
so F AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y , X ER CIS E
E .

trembli n g with excit em ent sat dow n to nurs e her ,

baby A few minut es after the child b ega n to

.
,

twist as in a fever fit and di ed in convulsions , ,

though m edi cal assistan c e had b een i n stantly sum

m o u ed .

I t has also b een notic ed that the bit e o f tortured

animals Oft en becom es pois on ous In a last re .

sort of s elf d efen c e the organism has evolved an

-

aven ging vi rus but observ es the precaution to

,

c ut Off the appetite fo r food in ord er to l essen the ,

risk of the en v enom ed saliva ent eri n g the circula

tion an d its blood poison r eachin g the wrong ad
-

dress .

More or l ess every disord er of the orga n ic

fu n ction involv es a risk Of food turning into
poison and thus suggests a s econ dary si gn i fi
,

cance of the fasting instinct .

I n oth er words food eaten i n the crisis Of a

, ,

s erious diseas e would not on ly hamp er the work

,

of cure but might expose the syst em to an add ed

,

p eril .

O v er eati n g has b ecom e a vic e o f enormous

-

p reval en ce and for millions a protra c t ed fast

,

would prov e a sp ecific for the cure Of ailm en ts

that d efy m edication D i arrhcea for insta n ce ad
.
, ,

mi ts o f n o readier or more harml ess rem edy . It

 PR OT R ACT ED P AST S .
5 t

’
is a resul t Of di etetic abuses an d N ature s usual
—
way to eva c uat e irritan t substan c es o ft en accu
m u l ati on s of i n digestibl e food th reat en ing to be
come virul en t u n d er the i n flu en ce of a high tem
pera tu re .

T wo
’
A day s fast would miti gat e the troubl e .

days of total absti n en c e would gen erally cure it

an d l eav e the co n ditio n o f the alim en tary organs

i m proved i n ev ery way But the pati en t ca n not

.

wait I nstead o f earn i n g the right to h ealth he

.

wan ts to buy it ready made over the coun ter and

-
,

appli es to a drug m on ger Loose bow els i n dicate

-
.

a d efici ency o f vital strength yet n early every de ,

bil i tati n g poison Of the v egetabl e and min

eral kingdom has b een employ ed to para
lyz e the activity and as it w ere sil ence
, , ,

the prot est Of the reb ellious organs Bis

‘

muth , ars en ic calom el

, opium , m ercu ry , ,

n ux vomica , zi n c salts aceta te o f l ead

,

an d nitrat e of silv er are amon g the gentl e aids

to Nature that have b een prescrib ed to co n trol
the r evolt o f the mutinous bow els A n att empt to .

con trol a fit o f vomiting by choking the n eck o f

the pati ent would be an analogous mistak e T he .

pres c ription opera tes as long as the vitality o f the

b ow el s is absolut ely paralyz ed by the vi rul en ce
52 T AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y , EXER CIS E .

of the drug ; but the first return o f functio n al

en ergy will be us ed to ej ect the poison .

That n ew prot est is sil enced by the sam e argu

m ent ; fo r awhil e the exhaustion O f the whol e sys
tem is mistak en for a Sign O f submission till a ,

fresh revolt c alls fo r a r e p etition o f the c o erc iv e

m easur es I n the meantim e the organism su ffers
.

und er a c ompound syst em O f starvation ; the hu

mors a re surc harged with virul ent matt er the ,

whol e digestiv e apparatus withdraws its aid from

the n eeds O f the vital ec onomy and the flam e Of ,

life feeds on the store o f tissu e ; the pati ent wast es

far more rapidly than an unpoison ed person
woul d on an air and wat er di et
- -
.

I t is n ot too mu c h to say that the tim ely a ppl i

cation o f the fasting c ure woul d have sav ed such
pati ents nin e t enths o f th eir tim e and troubl e
-
.

D enutrition o r the t empo rary deprivation o f

,

food ex er c is es an astringent influ en c e as part O f

,

its gen eral c ons ervativ e effec t T he organism .

,

stint ed in its supply o f vital resourc es soon begins ,

to c urtail its c urren t ex penditure T he mov e .

m ents o f the r espiratory pro c ess d ec reas e ; the

t emp erature Of the bo dy sinks ; the s ec retion O f
bil e and uri c ac id is diminish ed and b efore long ,

the retren chm en t of the assi m il ativ e fun ction s re

 PR OT RACT ED TA sT s .
53

acts on the int estinal organs ; the c olon contracts

and the small er int estin es retain all but the most
irritating ingesta .

A persist ent hunger c ure will eliminat e ev en

-

an activ e virus by a gradual mol ec ular c atalysis

and removal of the inorgani c el em ents No d eep .

est s eat ed mi c rob es hav e a living c han c e against

-

that m ethod O f expurgation With no digestive .

drudgery on han d Natur e employs the long de

,
-

sired l eisur e for gen eral hous e c l eaning purpos es -

.

T he a ccumulations Of superfluous tissu e a re over

haul ed and analyz ed ; the availabl e compon ent
parts to be turn ed ov er to the d epartment O f nu
tri ti on the r efus e to be thoroughly and p erma
,

u en tly remov ed .Germ diseas es are sw ept out to

geth er with oth er rubbish I nflu enza ( La Grippe )
.

can be nipped in the bud by a few days Of total

abstin enc e I ts m i c rob es are preparing to feed
.

on pulmon ary tissu es but are bundl ed ou t befor e

,

th ey hav e time to entr ench th eir position Catarrh .

colds and i n cipi en t con sumption can be

cured in the sam e man n er and a U S army sur , . .

geo n reports the case Of a pati en t wreck ed on the

coast Of south ern T exas and reaching civilization
on ly a fter a month o f dr eadful hardships that ,
.

redu ced hi m to a l i vi n g s k el eto n , bu t perm an en tl y

$4 T AST I N G ,
u vn R OPA T II v, E ER X CIS E .

cured his lung disorder T he myst ery of the

.

’
King s Evil cures probably a dmits Of a simi
lar solution A t a tim e wh en s c rofula was ten
.

tim es more preval en t tha n nowadays thou ,

sa n ds O f h ealth s eek ers c rowd ed the ant e c ham

- -

bers Of royal palaces to be touch ed by the hand

,

’
o f an anoint ed king T he Lord s anoint ed was in
.

man y cas es a worn out rak e with his own hid e

-

full of germ dis eases but his touch rarely miss ed

-
,

its effect on pati en ts who had com e from a con

’
s i derabl e di s ta n ce wh enc e D r Burn ett s remark
,
.

that the n atives Of farth est S cotland and I reland

trusted the miraculous pow er Of th eir sov ereign
more than his n ext n eighbors S crofulous c ock .

n eys who could reach the royal presence by cross

,

i n g the street cross ed in vain ; but pilgrims who

,

had com e from the oth er side o f the Tw eed and

s ta rved like T exas t emperance editors return ed ,

rej oici n g ,an d would hav e b een cured j ust as

effec tually i f a D evo n shire dairyman had touch ed

th em up with his pitchfork T he tru e b eli ev ers .

w er e mostly children o f poverty who had com e

the lo n g road afoot ; an d microb es that c ould hav e

d efi ed the should er hits o f all the l egitimat e des

o ts Of Ch ris ten do m had succumb ed to a hu n ger
p
 PR OT R AC T ED S S
PA T .
55

cu re i n ten s i fied by liberal doses Of active ex er

,

cise.

Am on g the germ diseases that have b een re

-

l i eved by fasti n g the author of

, T he Tru e S ci
en c e o f Livi n g also mentions mala ria ecz ema , ,

gastri c ca n c er pn eumonia and typhoid fev er

, .

I t is also a sign ifica n t fact that the abst emious

n ativ es o f the tropics a re far l ess subj ect to the

risk o f blood poison from severe wou n ds than the

-

overfed c hildren Of civilization .

A germ diseas e as virul ent as syphilis and

-
, ,

long c on sidered too p ersist ent fo r an y but palli

ative m ethods Of treatm ent (by m ercu ry etc ) , .

was radically cured by the fasti n g cures pr e ,

scrib ed i n the A rabia n hospitals o f Egypt at t he ,

tim e Of the Fren ch occupation Avic ena already .

allud es to the effi cacy o f that spec ific which he ,

s eems to have employed with similar succ ess

against smallpox an d D r Rob ert B artholow a
, .
,

“
stickl er for the faith in drugs admits that it is ,

c ertainly an emi n en tly rational exp edi en t to t e

li eve the organism of a virus by a co n tinuous an d
gradual proc ess Of mol ecular d es truction an d a
r en ewal of the a n atomical elements S uch is the .

hu n ger cu re Of s yphilis an O ri ental m ethod Of

-
,

trea ti n g tha t dis ea s e V ery satisfacto ry resul ts

.
56 T AS T I N G , H YD R O PA T H Y , X
E ER CIS E
.

have b een attain ed by this m eans — ( M a teri a .

M edi ca an d T herapeu ti cs pp 3 1 ,
.

T he most myst erious Of all disor de rs O f the

human organism asthma or respiratory paral y , ,

sis has b een ascrib ed to Novemb er mists as often

,

as to the d ebilitati n g influ en c e Of midsumm er

h eat ; but its proximate cause appears to have
som ething t o do with the a cc umulation Of phl egm

in the bron c hial tub es an d its c ure by abstin en c e , ,

though slow is far more p erma n ent than the re

,

li ef n ow an d th en Obtain ed by the u se o f drugs .

T he villainous fum es of burning stramonium

l eav es for instan c e caus e a c onvulsion o f the
, ,

respiratory apparatus whi c h does break the

asthma spell for the tim e b eing but within half ,

an hour aft er the pati ent has stopped panting and

spitting the ominous torpor is apt to creep on
again and it has b een noti c ed that with every
,

rep etition the dos es o f the distressing rem edy has

to be i n creas ed .

D enutrition or total abstin en c e from solid food

,

an d all liquids but wat er has no appreciabl e effect ,

on respiratory paralysis for the first day o r two ,

but b efore the en d of the third day breathing be

com es easi er the respirations though w eak are
, , ,

freer an d b efo re lon g b ecom e d eeper an d

,
58 A I G
T ST N , H YD R OPAT H Y , EX ER CISE .

he sitat e to swallow sixt een di fferent kin ds Of

fashionabl e poisons .

In reply Thomas C ampan ella stat es that frail

,

nuns Oft en sought reli ef from atta c ks of hyst eria

”
by fasting seven times seventy hours or ,

tw enty days and a half Total abstin enc e for three .

w eek s or more was n ot an un c ommo n prescri p

ti on Of Avic en a who was so av ers e to drastic
,

rem edi es that he would sooner watch all night at

the fever bed o f a pati ent than risk complicat ion s
'

by the u se o f opiat es T he great A rab was n ot an

.

ascetic eith er H e d et est ed unn ecessary self de

.
-

nial so much so i n d eed that he adv

, , ised his ,

fri ends to miss no c hanc e for fun on this sid e o f

the grav e a n d set th em convivial exampl es at the

risk o f i n curring the wrath Of Mosl em z ealots .

’
D r Tann er I b eli ev e brok e his thirty n in e days
.
, ,
-

fast by a midway glass of sw eet l emo n ad e but ,

Buddha Sak yam m i lik e his Galil ea n successor, ,

fast ed forty days even j ust for the sak e Of cl ea r ,

i n g his brai n .

T he pena n c e worn sai n ts o f the early Christia n

-

Church thought nothi n g of retiring to the deseft '

for a month or two to fight dow n t emptation s an d

,

di n e on the water Of som e dilapidat ed ol d cist ern .

T o tou ch ev en m ill et seed on such occa sion s was

-
 PR OT R ACT ED T A ST S .
59

c on sid ered a breach Of contract forfeiting the ,

m erit of the ent erpris e but at the en d o f the sec

,

o n d month the gaunt world renounc er had g en er

-

ally strength enough l eft to rea c h his con v ent

unassist ed and smash the solar pl exus of a c ell
broth er who v entured to qu estion the reali ty of
his visions Rob ert de Mol em e the found er o f
.
,

the C ist ercian broth erhood was ov ercom e with

,

gri ef on l earning the d eath o f a femal e fri en d an d ,

lik e G en eral Boulanger resolved to follow her

,

to the Land of S had es B eing avers e to dir ect sui

.

cid e he retir ed to the mountain lodge Of a rela

,
-

tive and abstain ed from food in the h ope that

,

o n e of his freq u ent fainting fits would fad e into

the sl eep that knows n o morning But findi n g .

hims el f aliv e at the en d o f the s ezen ti eth day he '

,

recon sidered his resolution and b egan to susp ect a

miraculous int erposition o f Provid en c e By re .

su m i n g his m eals in half ounc e in sta l m ents he

,
-
,

contriv ed to rec ov er from a c o n dition of frightful

emaciati on an d in the sup ervi s ion o f an ev er
,

in c reasi n g n umb er o f s c att er ed mona st eri es l ed ,

an a c tiv e life for the n ex t fourt een y ears .

Tran c e fasters l i k e A u gu sta K ern er o f I n

-
,

go l stadt , surviv ed i n a s emi c on scious condition

-

for n ea rl y a quarter of a y ear but i t would be,

60 T AST IN G , n vn R o pA T R v, E ER X CISE
.

a mistake to suppos e that staying pow ers Of that

kind a re a prerogativ e O f the Sick Min ers in col .

l i eri es a ffording a su ffi ci ent supply of wat er hav e

, ,

b een found alive aft er w eeks o f enforc ed absti

n en ce from any mor e nutritious food than scraps

Of l eath er soak ed in pit wat er an d masti c at ed with

-

desperat e p ers everance S ailors d epriv ed O f food

.
,

and drink hav e endured exposure to the glare Of

,

a tropical sun for a w eek or more But the mar .

v els Of long c ontinu ed abstin en c e without loss of

-

strength rea c h th eir maximu m in the wint er

Sl eep o f sev eral spec i es o f warm blood ed animals -
.

Reptil es with th eir small expenditure O f vital

,

en ergy c an easily surviv e di et eti c d eprivations

, ,

but b ears and badgers with an organiza tion es

,

sen ti al l y analogous to that o f the human speci es ,

an d with a c ir c ulation o f the blood a c tiv e enough

to maintain the t emp eratur e of th eir bodi es more

than a hundred de grees abov e that O f the wint er
storms disp ens e with food for periods varying
,

from three to fi ve months and at the t ermination,

of th eir ordeal em erge from th eir d ens in t he full

poss ession O f th eir physical and m en tal en ergi es !
.

T he bla c k b ear Of north ern Russia rolls

g
Karl V o t i n hi s C
u ri osi t i es o f I
n st i n ct , m en t i on s t he case
o f a span i el that had acci den tal l y been l oc ed u p by k v
i si tors to
v
the atti c o f an ol d castl e-ru i n . an d con tri ed to procure a few
 PR O T R ACT ED T A ST S . 61

itself up in s c rap h eaps o f l eav es and moss -

,

about the en d o f Nov ember trusting to good ,

lu c k to be l eft to the enj oym ent o f pea c eful

slumber till middl e of Mar c h but i f disturb ed be ,

fore the en d O f F ebruary is wid e awak e in a

minute and atta c k s the intrud ers with a fury ex
pressed i n a S lavoni c phrase : equival ent to sav
age as a wak ed wi n t er bear Badgers l eav e .

their burrows a littl e soon er b eing Oft en awak ,

en ed by a spell o f warm w eath er a month b efor e ,

the v ernal equinox a n d aft er an absolut e fast Of ,

ten w eeks will trot for mil es in s ear c h O f roots

and a c orns t hat hav e p erhaps to be s c rap ed ou t

O f the half froz en ground -
.

T he littl e d ormous e in its wint er sl eep o f fi ve ,

-

months su ffers a loss o f w eight som etim es ex

,

d rops of water by gn a wi n g t he ed g es of a cl e ft in t he sl at e
co v ered roo f . H is lif e had t hu s been
by t he acci den t o f sa v ed

v
a fe w hea y rai n -s howers, bu t t here wa s n o chan ce fo r a c ru m b

f
o f ood , n o g
rai n , l eat her, rat s o r m i ce , n o es t i ge o f l i i n g t hi n gs v v
wi t h the ex cepti on o f a few spi d ers u n de r t he ra fte rs o f t he roo f .

T he whol e su m m er pa ssed an d a pa rt o f au t u m n ; b u t d u ri n g t he
, .

fir st week o f O ct ober t here wa s a pi cn i c on t he castl e m o u n tai n ,

an d a wan d eri n g part y o f s i ght sec t s rescu ed t he l i tt l e pri son er

-

t hat ha d been l ocked u p a bou t t he m i d dl e o f ! u n e I t s ri b s co u l d .

be cou n ted a s eas i l y as i n a skel eton b u t i t was st i l l abl e to d ra g

,

i t sel f acro ss t he fl oor a n d l i c k t he ha n d s o f i t s d el i v erers .

Cho s sa t i n hi s R echerches s u r l I n a m ti on states that t he l an d

’ ’

v
t o rt o i se o f so u t hern F ra n ce can sta r e fo r a yea r wi t hou t bet ra y
v g
i n g a redu ct i on O f i tal e n er y, an d t he P roteu s a n gm n u s. or ser
'

pe n t sa l a m an der, e en for v a year an d a hal f

pro i de d that t he
, v
tem peratu re of i ts cage be kept abo e v t he freezi n g poi n t .
 T AST I N G , H YDR O PAT H Y , XER CIS E
E .

ceed i n g forty per c ent and exhibitio n fast ers

.
,

have survived a redu c tion O f thir ty per c ent .

,

without anythi n g lik e a total collaps e Of vital

vigo r.

T he first few m eals after such a fast hav e to be

s erv ed i n doll house sauc ers R eckl ess gorging
-
.

might forfeit all the advantages of a sanitary fast ,

an d ratio n s hav e to be rais ed from ou n c es to half

,
e —
pounds with four hour int rvals a precaution
-

which Nature tri es to enforce i n a p eculiar way

Of her own : A ft er a fast o f four days o r more
the t egum ents Of the palat e b ecom e so s ensitiv e
'

that mastication has to proc eed with pauses .

T he abov e quoted instanc es preclud e the id ea

’
of a w eek s fast involving any life endangering -

cons equ ences I t would Oft en reli eve disord ers

.

which drugs c an only complicat e an d give the

patien t a n ew l eas e o f life hope an d vigor , .

’
But for ordinary purposes even a two days i a -

term i ssi on o f surfeits would result i n sanitary

b en efits apt to reform all bu t the most i n v et erat e

gluttons N O n eed of aggravati n g the sickn ess
.

Of dyspeptics by mentioning the duty of s el f

d en ial an d evok e visions of spiri tual advis ers
,

h elpi n g th ems elves to the ass ets of world re -

n oun ci n g idio ts ; the m ere cha n ge from ph si cal

y
 PR OT R ACT ED PASTS .
63

mis ery an d oppression to buoyan cy an d freedom

would be su fli ci en t to attain the approval of be
l i evers i n happin ess on this sid e O f the grav e .

’
D uring the last summ er o f Kitch en er s c am

p g a i n i n the S oudan the M ahdists c apt ur ed a

British q uartermaster baggage and all and , , ,

after harn essing him lik e a donk ey put him in a ,

chai n gang of burd en carri ers and load ed him up

- -

with a cargo of camping outfit and nigger babies .

Pinching fett ers p erspiration an d v ermin com

, ,

p l e ted t h e horrors of his pr edicam ent and he was

,

on the v erge o f suicid e wh en Captain Ma

,

’
g ru d er s dragoons ov ertook his c aptors and c el e

brated his d eliv eran c e with a picnic at a spring .

Wash ed refresh ed and dress ed in cl ean est lin en

, ,

the freed man c ontinu ed his j ourn ey rej o i cing ,

but the c ontrast o f mis ery and c omfort can hardly

hav e surpass ed that Of a dysp eptic b efore and
after a fasting cu re T he reli ef o f his overbu r
-
.

den ed stoma c h has giv en Natur e a chan c e to ex

purgat e all sorts o f encumbran c es : a c cumulat ed
ingesta vitiat ed humors and sixteen di fferent
,

kinds O f pin c hing gnawing and ex cavating mi

,

crobes . H e feels as if a burd en of rags and

parasit es had b een remov ed from his Should ers ;
he can continu e the ilgrima e Of lif e wi tho ut a
p g
64 T AST I N G ,
H YD R O PA T H Y , X ER CIS E
E .

handicap his soul has b een dressed i n c l ean

raim ent .

And ev en from an epi cu ri c point of vi ew the

revival o f appetit e would more than c omp ensat e
a few days abstin enc e
’
F ood is relish ed to a de
.

gree that impli es a pl edge o f its thorough assim

i l at i o n . Hous e c l eaning has prepared the sto re
-

roo ms for the rec eption Of fresh suppli es T he .

’
night s rest following the first appetit e sanction ed -

meal will n ot be disturbed by nightmar es F ast .

ing lik e ex ercis e and refrigeration mak es repose

, ,

sw eet . T he dull unh eed ed but ev er gnawing re

, ,
-

p ro a c hes o f the physi c al c onsci en c e hav e b ee n

sil en c ed .

O n e gr eat aid to the su cc essfu l a cc omplishm ent

o f a fasting cure is the rul e to k eep t he mind as
-

mu c h as possibl e o cc upi ed so as to prev ent its

'

broo d ing ov er the topi c o f ali mentary d epriva

tions ; c reat e som e diversion by ex c iting pas
tim es Or i n t erest absorbing work -
F red eri c .

Gerstaeck er in his C hronicl e o f the

F o t ty n i n ers
-
remarks that every nugget
,

bonanza l ess en ed the t emptations o f i a

temperanc e T he min ers w ere too busy to
.

wast e the gold en chan c e o n rum ; th ey

n egl ected the bar ro om b ecause th ey could find
-
66 T AST I N G ,
H YD R OPAT H Y , X ER CIS E
E .

e asy — as easy almost as the di et eti c restri c tions

which ou r gormandizin g an c est o r s us ed to dig
n i fy by the nam e Of fa sting Lent en fare in the .
,

S outh G erman sens e o f the word c am e at last

-
,

to imply only the Sh elving o f fl esh pots without -

,

ex c luding egg s butt er ,c h eese oyst ers and fish , , ,

in any d esired quantiti es T he grea sy mad e .

dish es an d eel pi es o f the Bavarian refec tori es

-

w ere perf ect burl esqu es on the bon a fi de fasts O f -

the poor and th er e i s an an ec dot e about an A us

,

trian granger who had att end ed a revival and ,

upon his r eturn was seiz ed with qualms O f con

sci en c e at the sight o f preparation for a feast o f
gravy dumpling s S ay Jan e this is Good F ri
.
, ,

”
dav ,
he mutt er ed a d oz en o f th ose things is
,

really too mu c h fo r c reatures who hav e souls to

sav e . M ak only te this tim e ; but
e n — aft er
,

som e refl ec tion yo u can mak e th em a littl e

”
larger than la st w eek .

Y et with all th eir ca rt bl a n che Of butt er pan -

dish es som e Slav es o f habit c ontriv ed to get spir

i tu al li c en se fo r m eat rations on trav eling days
- -
,

on account o f the ex tra fatigu e and exposure

”
to wind and w eath er .

But in the highlands o f Algeria in a climat e ,

a lm ost as ri orous as that of the A lps the soldi e r s

g ,
 PR O T R ACT ED EAST S . 67

Of G en eral C lausel w ere unabl e to procure m eat ,

and aft er a few w eeks practic e found possibl y

’
,

to th eir own surpris e that th ey c ould get along

‘

very comfortably on dates bread and c h eese , .

Eating only on e m eal a day b ec om es so mu c h

o f a s ec ond natur e in a month or two that
, ,

habitu é s almost pity the Slav es o f custom who

have to handi cap th eir en ergi es by forenoon sur
”
fei ts .Breakfast ,
i f its etymology c an be
trusted is a misnom er wh ere th ere has b een no
, ,

fast to speak o f and the id ea Of repl etion before

,

’
the day s work is don e c om es to app ear as foolish

as an invitation to a S aturday picn ic at the be

'

” ’
ginning O f the w eek D on t spoil your supper
.
,

whispers an inn er monitor wh en the noonday

paus e awak ens Old tim e asso c iations but aft er a
-
,

littl e experi ence the c ontrast of present all day -

buoyan c y and former aft ernoon life w earin ess is -

q uit e enough to nip temptations in the bud .

Abstin en c e from two m eals has become natural

enough to r equire n o s elf d enial what ev er an d
-
,

i n the c ours e o f tim e a fasting cure exp ert c an -

tackl e the task Of a two days t erm o f total absti

-
’

n ea c e almost without a pres entim ent of di scom

fort . A fi shi n g trip to morrow ev ening will
- -

”
hel p m e ov er the hill he refl ects
, and the n ext ,
68 T AST I N G , H YDR O PAT H Y ,
E X ER CIS E .

day I c an eat with the assuran c e of digestin g m y

”
supper to the last fra c tion of an ounce .

Ev en aft er a shor t fast the first full meal had

better be prec ed ed by a light lunch an d a few
’
hours paus e to initiat e the a c tivity Of the di
,

g est i ve organs but the s el ection

, O f a simpl e and
perfec tly digestibl e break fast may modi fy the
ne c essity of that precaution .

’
About the third w eek O f D r Tann er s ordea l a .

Georgia sympathizer sent hi m an enormous

wat erm elon that was wrapped up in n ewspapers
and hidd en in a c orn er O f the room to mitiga te the
tantalizing effec t o f its pres en c e Visitors had .

almo st forgott en i ts ex istence but the m om ent ,

his quarantin e had b een a c complish ed the sur ,

vi vo r got hol d o f that m elon and pro c eed ed to

h elp hims elf with the en ergy o f an A fro A m eri -

c an pi c ni ck er .

’ ’
D on t S i r don t s c reech ed a Philad elphia
, , ,

’
dude you ll kill yours el f in five minutes if you
,

k eep on lik e that .

Hold On th ere young man said the Old doc , ,

’
tor grabbing the m eddl er s ar m I may be mis
, ,

’
tak en but I beli ev e I m running this c ircus m y
,

”
s elf .

B u t th ere was probably n o m is tak e about it ; a

 PR OT R ACT ED FAST S .
69

ripe waterm elon is mad e up of about 97 per c ent .

Of fluids to thr ee Of harml es s solids and the ,

plucky fast er s breakfast wa s almost as u n obj ec

’

ti on abl e as a quart Of sugar wat er T he s am e

-
.

q uantum O f hash might have kill ed him and ev en ,

t he att empt to masticat e a big pi ece o f br ead

would have been baffl ed by the protest o f the

s en sitive palat e .

T he qu estion as to the r equisit e l ength o f a

remedial fast d epend s upon the pr evious habits
of the experim ent er A glutton who has c ompli
.

cated the cons eq u en c es o f three daily surf eits by

drasti c drugs c annot hop e to be r estored to any

thing lik e a normal c ondition in l ess than a quar
ter Of a y ear devot ed to thr ee fasts Of a w eek
,

’
each and with thr ee w eeks
, int ervals o f mod er
-

ate eating and abundant outdoo r ex er c i se .

F o r an ordinary indigestion three days of total

abstin en c e will gen erally su ffi c e and votari es Of
,

the on e m eal plan c an k eep d is eas e at bay with a

-

’
two days fast at the en d o f every month Pro
-
.

vi ded that th ey abstain from greasy mad e dish es -

and all abn ormal stimulants that prec aution will

ev en sav e th em the n ec essity o f r egulating the

quantity of th eir m eals aft er the plan of Lo uis

Corn aro who w eigh ed ou t his da ily ratio n s with
,
7c T AST I N G
, H DRY O PAT H Y
,
EXER CIS E
.

half oun ce s c al es
-
Abstin ence is easi er t han
.

”
t emperance and a c ombination of the on e m eal
,
-

pla n with an occasional fast is far more s en sibl e ,

b ecaus e more practi c abl e than ev erlasting self

,

den ial .
 A SE VEN D A Y F A ST
-
.

C H A PTER V

A N I
EX PER E N CE OF ON E OF T H E A UT H OR S .

T he description o f my fast o f sev en days whi c h ,

“ ”
appeared in P H Y S I CA L C U L T U R E so m e tim e ago ,

will probably be o f in ter est to m y r ea der s .

D uring the la st fif teen y ea rs I h a v e fr equ ently

fasted as a c ur e for threa ten ed illn esses that at

t ack ev en the mo st ca reful in th i s age o f c iviliz ed
o r ra th er u n c iviliz ed di eta ry .

I h av e b ee n ser i o u sl y t hrea ten ed with pneumo

n i a a n d num er o u s o th er i ll s o f l es s impo rta n c e

whi c h h av e qui ckly su cc umb ed to this effec tiv e

m ean s o f r i dd i ng the system o f impuriti es .

Thou gh th ere a re n o w som e v alu abl e w o rk s on

this subj ec t wh en I fir st adopt ed th es e th eori es
, ,

they w ere b as ed entir ely on m y o wn con c lu si on

and in stin c t an d the w ell known fa c t th at al l an i
-

mals fa st ed wh en ill .

Until this la st ex perim ent I n ev er fasted ov er

 AN EX PER I EN CE o T ON E O F TH E A u T H oR S .
75

di atel y on rising and usually felt w eak at the start .

This was how ev er entirely morbid for aft er trav

w
,

eling on e o r t o mil es it wou l d entirely disappear

,

and I c ould walk with a strong st eady tread and ,

at the conclusion always felt equal to ten o r

tw en ty mil es mo re .

F requ ently wh en rising from a seat aft er a

short r est I woul d feel quit e dizz y for a few m o
m ents but this woul d qui ckly pass away
, .

T he first fo ur da vs w ere the most u n com fo rta

bl e I di d n o t seem espec ially hungry but I was
.
,

l a nguid ex c ept fo r a whil e after ex er c is e at whi c h

,

ti m e s I always felt strong an d en ergeti c .

I a tten ded to my daily duti es during the entire

o

fast with the same regul arity as u sual My brain .

s eem ed espec i ally c l ear and m enta l work a c tually

,

req uired l ess effort than wh en ea ting regularl y .

A t tim es diffi c ulty wa s ex peri en c ed in indu c i ng

sl eep T he gnawing s ensatio n in my s toma ch
.

wo uld n ot c eas e though a pl entiful supply o f c ool

,

p u re water seem ed o f great advantage and was ,

o f va l u abl e a si stan ce in wooing Slumb er

f
.

T he sixth and s ev enth days o f the fast w ere

really by far the most comfortabl e I felt tha t .

i t woul d require but littl e eff ort to c ontinu e on fo r

three o r four w eek s but the obj ec t o f the fas t
,
Pu tti n g u p I co-i h d u m b-b ell hi gh o
. v h
er ead wi th on e arm ft
a er se v en
day fa t
s .
 AN XPER I EN CE
E OF ON E OF TH E AUT H O R S .
77

was accomplish ed and I was n ot at all anx ious to

continu e it furth er .

T he most important f eature in l ess ening the

effects o f fasting is to k eep the mind empl oy ed

SO on e will n ot be continually r eferring to t he

desire fo r food .

T he only tim e th ere was the slight est danger

Of my giving way to m y appetite was on the
fourth day A t this parti c ular time I m enti on
.
,

th ere was nothing o f importan c e for m e to do

and aft er conversing a Short tim e with som e
fri ends I w ent o u t with the distin c t int ention
,

o f patronizing the n earest r estauran t .

A ft er walking a Short distan c e and giving the

matt er s erious c o n sideration I d etermin ed not ,

to break the fast an d inst ea d o f the restaurant I ,

visit ed a gymnasium and spent thirty minut es in

vigorous ex er c i se and in cons equ en c e felt much
,

bett er and all thoughts o f giving up the fast

,

w ere abandon ed .

T he comparison photographs Show how the

body wasted away during the fast T he fa c e .

thi n n ed especially and the ey es sunk c onsid era

bl y
.

B ut the astou n di n g fact in conn ection with

the fast was the stren gth pos ses sed on the sev
R ai si n g zoo l b
- . m an wi th stren gth o f arm s on l y . a ft er
se v en -day fast .
 AN X
E PER EN I CE OF O N E OF TH E AUT H O R S .
79

en th day T he av erage person imagines that

.

he b ec om es w eak ev en aft er missing a m eal and ,

a fast o f o n e day is suppo sed to tak e away all

,

strength There was n ev er great er error

. .

O n the fourth day o f the fast aft er t esti n g

my strength I c on c lud ed to u se a fifty pound
,

dumb b ell in illustrating my strength on the

s ev enth day o f the fast .

Well the s ev enth day c ame at last though I

, ,

mu st confes s the w eek s eem ed rath er long I .

visited the gymnasium aft er my walk with the

int ention o f l eaving in stru c tions that the fi fty
’
p ound dumb b ell be s ent to the photograph er s
gall ery O n arriving th er e I felt so stro ng that
.
,

I c on c lud ed to t est my strength I thought that .

may be I might be abl e to rais e without di fli cu l ty

a heavi er b ell than fifty pounds .

I rais ed the fi fty pound b ell over my h ead

-

a number o f tim es without the slight est difl i cu l

‘

ty. I t did n ot s eem h eavi er than wh en at my

usual w ei ght I tri ed the s i x ty pound b ell th en
.
-
,

the s ev enty and eighty fi ve with Similar results

-
,

a n d imm ediat ely l eft instru c tions to s end the

On e hundr ed pound b ell ov er to the gall ery as

- -

I f elt that my strength wa s equal to raising it .

I kn ow full w ell that m y read ers will be

N orm al C
on di ti on .
83 T AST I N G ,
H YD R O PA T H Y ,
E X ER CI S E
.

ov er h ea d with on e arm but at this tim e I oc ,

ca s i on a l l y h an dl ed th ese h eavy w eights A s I

h av e ta k en n o h eavy ex erc is e fo r a numb er Of
y ear s m o r e th an a sligh t effort w oul d be required
,

to ra i se thi s h eavy dumb b ell even wh en m y ,

w eight wa s a t its u sual standard .

A l es son i s ta u ght with unqu estionabl e c l ear

n ess by this ex p erim ent T he Am eri c an peopl e
.

a re a c tu a l l y ea ting th ems elv es into th eir grav es .

Nin ety ni n e o u t o f ev ery hundred tak e from five

-

to fifty y ea r s from t he l en gth o f th eir liv es by

stu fli n g th ei r stom a c h s Th ey eat n ot to nourish

.
,

the bo d y but m er ely fo r the pl easur e o f gour

,

m a n di zi n g . T he r esult is that from two to fi ve

tim es as mu c h food p a s s es through the al i m en

tary c an al th an is nec essary to maintain w eight

and stren gth and mind and body a re a c tually
,

w eak en ed by the strenuous efforts made by the

sy st em in end eav o ring to rid its elf o f this ex
ces si ve amount o f food .

A n y on e c an be b en efit ed by a fas t such as I

d es c rib e h ere O f c ours e I would not advise
.

o n e who ha s b een eating thr ee m eals ea c h day

all during life to imm ediat ely att empt total ah

st i n en ce fr o m food for s ev en days though such ,

a fast u n d er su c h c onditions would be produc

 AN E X PER I EN C E OT ON E OT T H E AUT H O R S . 83

tiv e only of b en efit provid ed it c ould be born e

without too much of a m ental strain and pro
vi ded gr eat c ar e is us ed n ot to ov er eat wh en -

normal dietary habits a re resumed I n fact the .

great est di fli cu l ty in c onn ec tion with a fast o f an y

duratio n is the t end en c y to over eat aft er the -

fast This error will oft en be prod u c tive o f so

.

mu c h inj ury that all the b en eficial results o f a

fast are pra c ti c ally nil .

A ft er the fast I hav e d es c rib ed h ere I mad e

the mistak e mys elf o f eating too h eartily on two

o r three occ asions and I am satisfi ed that m uch

harm result ed th ereby O n the sec ond day aft er
.

the fa st I ate thr ee h earty m eals wh en on e h earty

,

m eal would hav e b een su ffi c i ent This was as .

,

before m ention ed the fir st fa st o f this duration

,

that I had ever go n e through and I was n o t ,

prepared to m eet c on d itions with whi c h I was not

familiar .

Unqu estionably it would be b ett er i n ex peri

m en ti n g with fa s ting to start by fasting on e m eal
o r say on e day a t a tim e T he result o f this will
.

give you c onfid en c e in its b en efits th en you can ,

graduall y advan c e into a full fl edged c onv ert T he

-
.

prin c ipal result o f valu e in su c h a c onv ersion will

be from th at day for ward ab solu te in depen d en ce
84 T AST I N G ,
H YD R O PAT H Y ,
XER CIS E
E .

Of all advis ers m edi cal or oth erwis e upon

, ,

ailm ent o f any kind th at atta c ks you F asting .

will be at on c e the prin c ip al pa rt o f your s elf

tr eatm ent and forev er th ereaft er your stoma c h
,

will be free from the drug habit and if you ,

exp ec t to r etain the slight est r esp ec t fo r yours elf

yo u must first l ea rn to r espec t your stoma c h .

 I.I —H Y D R O THE R APY .

C H A PTER V I .

PH Y S IO L OG ICA L DAT A .

’
Refrigeration is Nature s sp ec ific fo r the c ure
o f germ dis eas es
-
and the tardy recogn ition Of
,

that truth is c ertainly n ot j ustified by the lack

o f suggestiv e fa c ts .

T he first Nov emb er frosts ab a t e Climati c fev ers

throughout the lowlands o f the t emp erat e zon e .

I n the marsh es o f the Missi ssippi Vall ey agu es

that d efy the rem edi es o f the drug store yi eld -

to the ex purgativ e influ en c e o f a blizza r d .

North winds redu c ing the t emp erature Of the

,

dog days som e forty d egrees in as many minut es

-
,

bring a n ew l eas e o f li fe to thousands o f slum

t enants to vi c tims o f c hroni c heada c h es to i a
, ,

fa u ts ex haust ed by c onfin em ent in the sw elt ering

atmosph ere o f c ity t en em ents Refugees from.

chol era epid emi c s venture to return with the

snowbirds .

A n d it is no accid ent that nin e out Of ten i n

tern ati on al wars en d ed with the victory of North
86 T AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y ,
E X ER CI S E .

land trib es ov er th eir So uth ern n eighbors Egpyt .

and P ersia vanquish ed by Gr eeks Greec e by ,

Roma ns Rom e by the barbarians o f the T eutoni c

,

forests S outh German A ustria by North German

,
- -

Prussian s S outh ern Russia by the d es c endant s o f

,

Rurik S outh ern I taly by S avoy S outh S panish

, ,
-

Moors by North S panish Goths D i x i e by Yan

-
,

k eel an d S outh Mongol C hina by North Mo n go l

,
-

Japan Highland ers the world ov er boast th eir

.
, ,

superior vigor and longe vity .

Physiology ex plains tho se fa c ts and confirms

the c laim o f the hydropathist Sc hrodt that t e

fri gerati on is o n e o f the few natural toni c s sti m u ,

lating the a c tivit y o f the organi c functions with

out the ri sk o f d el et erious aft er effec ts A c old -
.

bath and a c urrent o f co ld air ac c el erate the

pulse and the proc ess o f respiration T he gasps .

resulting from a c old plunge bath indi c ate the -

effort o f Nat u re to r estor e the prop er d egree Of

animal warmth by s etting the c alorifi c apparatus

to work und er high pr essur e .

A do se o f dra sti c drugs e g al c ohol in its , . .

,

co nc entrat ed form s a cc om pl i sh a Si mil a r r esult

,

with almost equ al prom pt n ess the o rgan i sm l a ,

bors with fev eri sh a c tivity to ri d it self o f a life

endangering poison and t emp orari l y the whol e
,
 PH YSIO L OG ICA L DAT A . 87

syst em parti c ipat es in the influ enc e o f the sti m u

lant But as soon as the probl em o f ex purga
.

tion has been solved a debilit ating rea c ti on s et s

,

in ; the organism sinks und er the exhau s ting aft er

effec ts o f the unnatural irritant the mind is ,

cloud ed by lingering poi so n fum es the depres

-
,

sion o f vital en ergy av en ges it self by protra c ted

languor and the mis ery o f m ental gl oom
, .

T he b ene fit s o f the ref ri gera ti o n t o n i c o n the ,

oth er h and a re n ot modifi ed by the risk o f su c h

,

penalti es .T he stimul a tin g effec t ab i des A nd .

the first flu sh o f th at effec t m o r e th an equ al s

the bra c in g influe n c e o f the b est d rug t on i c A -

.

c old bath ren ew s the t en si on o f n erv e vigo r a l -

most lik e refr eshing sl eep ; i ts m en t al effec t i n

du c es all the pl ea sant a n d n on e o f the ob j ection
abl e sym ptom s o i into x i c ation .

Like fa sting an d ex erc i se hy dro th erapy i s a

,

true remedy reli eving the a il m en t s o f the human

,

organism without ex a c ti n g a p ri c e th a t mak es

the c ur e a gr eat er c ur se tha n t he evil .
 C H A PT ER V II .

TH E CO LD -
W AT ER C U R E .

Hydroth erapy is eld est

on e o f the f s —
o f prm g y

-—
p erhaps the fi rst born O f natural hygi en e T he .

d esire to reli ev e the d ebilitating eff ec ts o f sum

m er h eat by imm ersion and draughts o f c ol d wat er
is almo st as in stin c tiv e as the c raving fo r food .

And it ca nnot have been l ong b efore the s ettl ers

o f the high er latitud es noti c ed the fa c t that the

h ealth impairing effec ts o f ind oor li fe c ould be

-

c ount era c t ed by the sam e sp ec ifi c .

A c old bath restored the vigor o f the C elti c

hunt er em erging daz ed from the turf fum es of
,
-

his c av e dw elling an d an Ol d A ustri an arm y

-
,

Ofli cer o f m y a c quaintan c e wa s probably n ot the

first to per who c ontriv ed to sob er up at Short

no ti c e by putting his h ead und er the spout o f a
hors e pump
-
.In mid summ er r ep eat ed plunge
baths h elp ed to obviat e the ri sk o f di et eti c di s
orde rs and as early as A D 550 free bathin g
, .

fa c iliti es had c om e to be in c luded among the

principal d esid erata o f a c iviliz ed c ity A th ens .
,
90 T AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y , E XER CIS E .

tions o f th eir form er faith On e ex Moris c o a .

-
,

Citizen o f C adiz had a quarrel with a s ervant

,

girl and soon after was arrest ed an d j ail ed on a

,

charge o f apostasy A ft er b eing four tim es ar.

ra i n ed and as o ft en s c ourged within an in c h

g
o f his life he was at last c onfront ed with his
,

‘
a cc u se r I n her thirst fo r r ev enge the sland er
.
,

m on gi n g slut had d enoun c ed him as a ba c ksl i d er

and support ed her insinu ations with the ass er
tion that her form er employer was i n the habit
o f lo c king hims elf up an d taking a bath thri c e a

week By sa c rifi c ing half his fortun e an d sum

.

moning a doz en m ed i c al witn es ses the defen dant ,

escap ed the stak e on a pl ea o f physi c a l n ec essity ;

his duti es as man ager o f a wool en mill he ,

proved obliged him to avoi d c utan eou s tr oubl es

,

by ex tra sanitary prec autio n s whi c h he oth er ,

wis e a bhorred as pra c ti c es o f b eni ght ed mishe

l i evers .

A ll ov er the M edit erran ean c oastlan ds free pub

li c baths w ere i n ruins ; but the b eli ef in the con
c omitan c e o f godlin es s a n d d irt do es n ot s eem to
hav e b een limit ed to S outh ern Europ e .

Bathing b eing pl ea s ant a s w ell a s whol e

,

’
som e says H enry Bu c kl e in his d esc ription o f
,

S cot c h kirk d espoti sm was c onsid ered a par

-
,
 THE CO LD wA T ER CUR E
- .
ox

ti cu l arl y gri evou s o ffens e ; and n o man could be

allow ed to swim on S unday I t was in fac t .
, .

doubtful wh eth er swimming was lawful for a

C hristian at any tim e even on w eek d a ys and it
, ,

was c ertain that God had on on e o cc asion shown

his disproval by taking away the life o f a boy
whil e he was indulging in that c arnal pra c tice .

History o f C ivilization V ol II p , . .
, .

A s bathing was a h eath enish c ustom all pu b ,

li c baths w ere to be d estroy ed (by ord er o f the

I nquisition ) an d ev en all larger baths in private
”
hous es .
( I bi d V o
.l I
,
I p . .
, .

That mill ennium o f insanity l eft its tra c es in

t he still far spread mistrust o f o u r natur al i n
-

st i n ct s
, and n o t before the middl e o f the eigh
teen th c entury a r evival o f c ommon s ens e l ed to

the re establi shm ent o f free publi c baths in sev

-

eral c iti es o f Holl a n d and S outhern Europe .

Watering pla c es b ec am e fashionabl e but the

-
,

c hoi c e o f the publi c favored warm springs till ,

S quire Pri essnitz a s el f edu c at ed farm er o f

,
-

Gra efen berg S il esi a call ed att ention to the re

, ,

medial efli cacy o f c old wat er pres c riptions I n -

.

—
his privat e sanitarium a m ere ann ex at first o f , ,

—
a hom ely farmh ous e he us ed Show er baths -
,

sponge baths sitz baths

-
,
-
,
and internal dos es of
92 T AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y , X
E ER CIS E .

pure water from a cold mountai n spring and ,

prov ed that for the treatm ent of d ebilitating dis

ord ers his pres c riptio ns mad e drugs sup erfluou s .

T he th eori es o f the wat er doctor as his n eigh ,

bors c all ed him w ere founde d on p erso n al ex pe

,

ri cu c e S oo n after t aking c harge of a small farm

.

he had b een all but kill ed in a runaway ac c id ent .

His survival s eem ed doubtful and wh en he l eft ,

“
the hospital o f a n eighboring c ity he was a
”
m er e bundl e o f d isabiliti es sti ff j o int ed hal f ,
-
,

lame and troubl ed with all sorts o f pains and

,

disorders A swoll en foot having b een greatly

.

b en efit ed by imm ersi on in c old wat er the c ou va ,

l escen t tri ed the effe c t o f an occasional Sitz bath -

,

th en o f daily all ov er sponge baths and b efor e

- -
,

the en d o f the s ec ond y ear had got rid o f all his

ailm ents A s far as he c ould r em emb er he ha d

.
, ,

indeed n ev er felt b ett er in his life exc ept in early

, ,

boyhood wh en a relative n ow and th en took him

ou t to a b erry pi c king c amp in the highlands
-
,

“
and the littl e lad wond ered i f the dw ell ers in
”
paradise could h av e b een much h appi er .

I n his subs equ ent s c hool y ears he us ed to tak e

-

long rambl es all by hims elf feeling more at hom e ,

in the mountain c li ffs than in the t obacco cloud ed -

—
village tav ern evid ently a c hild Of Nature with ,
 THE CO L D -W
AT ER CU R E .
93

the v ery instin c ts th a t woul d l ea d him to abandon

drug traditions for a n ew gosp el o f hygi en e
-
.

H e was n o l earn ed man in t he c oll ege s ens e

,

o f the word , but had read a good deal an d

thought mor e and hi s a rgum ent s had the for c e
,

bo rn O f int ens e c onvi c tion B esid es his own ex

.
,

p er i en c e was a n a r
g u m en tm n a d h o m i n em and ,

on e by o n e his a ffl i c t ed n eighb o rs tri ed the i n

exp ensiv e pr esc ripti o n s o f the wat er do c tor -

Re .

form ed top ers felt th ei r Shatt ered n erv es bra c ed

as n o drugs n o O intm ents and str ength ening d i et
,

had bra c ed th em b efo re Ri c k ety y oungst ers i m

.

prov ed till th ey c oul d j oin in the sports o f th eir

cont emporari es and o ft en b eat th em at their
own game . I nvalid s with on e foot in the grav e
regain ed th eir vantage ground on the upp er tabl e
lands o f h ealth and on e o l d soldi er b ec ame so
,

enthusiasti c a c hampion o f the n e w sanitary cr eed

that his s avage d enun c iations o f drug mongers -

more than on c e got him into seri ou s troubl e .

Squire Pri essnitz hims elf n ev er indulged in i n

vect i ves , an d k ept hi s t emp er ev en wh en the
n eighboring physi c ians got him indi c t ed fo r k u r
pf u s c h er i e— th e un a uthoriz ed pra c ti se o f m ed
“
i c me ; m al pra c ti c e b ein g a t erm th ey co uld
-

n ot a pply to his c as e as th ere ,

w
ere n o plainti ffs
94 T AST IN G , H vD R O PA T H v, E X E R CIS E .

and it could n ot be proved that anybody had ever

b een the wors e for a c old wat er c ure T he sym
-
.

pathy of the publi c was emphatically on the sid e

o f the d efendant who reli ed on his nativ e el o
,

q u en c e and ask e d t h e c ourt if it was fair t o for c e

an indi ctm ent for the practise o f medicin e agai n st

a man who had n ev er en couraged the beli ef in
the effi ca c y of m edi c inal pr es c riptions o r disp ens ed
”
a grain of drugs in hi s life Bath i ng he ar ,

g u ed , is a m er e sanitary habit and y o u ,might as

w ell arrest m e for a dvising my n eighbors to tak e
”
more outdoor ex erc ise or try a c hange o f di et .

Thos e n eighbors bec am e a trifl e too d emon

strat i ve in th eir applaus e an d the c ourt warn ed
,

”
al l con ce rn ed to be more c areful h ereaft er but , ,

on the whol e thought it b est to dis c harge the

,

prison er .

’
T he kr eis physi cu s ( chi ef h ealth ofl Icer O f the
d istri c t ) threat en ed to appeal the Cas e but at the ,

urgent a dvi c e o f a l egal fri end c on c lud ed to de

,

sist .

A S a n et result o f the pros ec ution S quire ,

Pri essnitz gain ed so many n ew patrons that he

had to enlarge his sanitarium and the n ext year ,

could add a n ew bran c h for femal e pati ents A S .

u sual i n such c as es the charm

, of n ov elty a t
 THE CO L D-W A T ER CUR E .
95

tract ed additional custom ers from ever i n creas -

ing distan c es and two y ears b efore his d eath the

,

n o w old wat er doctor c ould boast of havi n g

7

eight pati ents from F ran c e and two from the

N eth erlands Wom en strange to say c am e to

.
, ,
‘

outnumb er the mal e visitor s though probably o n ly

,

after Pri essnitz had mo d ified his rath er h eroic

routine o f pres c riptions in favo r of hyst eri cal pa
t i en ts .

W should add a few wo rd s about the fierc e

e

c ontroversy which a few y ears aft er Pri essn i tz s ’

death was ex c it ed by the att empt to suppress the

wat er c ures which in the m eantim e had spru n g
-

up all O ver W est ern Europ e T he indignation o f .

the hydrop a th s n ow a n d th en ros e to a pitch O f

fury but th eir gri evan c e was really wors e tha n

,

the prov erbial provo c ation o f saints I n Las .

’
Casas History of the West I ndian C olon i es
an eyewitn ess d es crib es the num erou s victims of
S panish despotism as worn Out fugitives who
,
-

c ould be s een perishing in way sid e ditch es an d -

,

fa i ntly c rying Hunger hunger ! ,

Even thu s the lov ers o f truth had been p erse

cu ted and starv ed fo r a long s eri es o f c enturi es .

O ppon ents o f the auto c rat swindl e w ere Slain

as rebel s D i ss ent ers from the i n saniti es o f the
.
96 T AST I N G ,
H YD R O PAT H Y , X ER CIS E
E .

gho st s wi n dl e w er e bu rn ed a s h er et i c s Pr ot ests
-
.

again st the d el u s i on s o f the drug sw i 1 d l e w ere -

.

Sil en c ed by the bulli es o f the gov ernm ent qua c k

rin g F o r the c o a liti o n o f S h am s had d ev elop ed
.

a u n i o n o f sta t e an d d rug stores a s oppressiv e and

-

j eal ou s a s the u n i o n o f S tat e and C hur c h though ,

the pra c tis e o f m edi c in e at la st almost des erv ed

the stigma o f li c en sed murd e r .

“
D ie o ft m i t i hren ho el l i schen L atwergen
In d i esen T hael ern , di es en B ergen ,
W ei t schl i m m er a l s di e Pest gehau st,

says Goeth e in the Prologu e o f F aust with

th eir h elli sh n o stru m s th ey raged w o rs e than the
very p estil en c e .

’ ’
A ft er a thousan d yea rs rei gn o f Bruno s
”
B estia tri onfant e the blat a nt b ea s t o f Im
,

—
p ostur e tru th for the fir st tim e had got in a
, ,

wor d edgew ay s ; on e sm all sta n da rd o f fa c t and

naturalism had been ra i sed a n d su cc es s fully de
fend ed again st the sw ashbu c kl ers o f Sh ams C an .

we w ond er t hat all fri en d s o f r efo rm ru sh ed to its

support and r ep ell ed aggr ession a s the r efugees o f

an islan d ri sin g above the w av es o f a univ ersal

,

d elu ge woul d repul se an atta c k o f sea monsters

,
? -

Truth for on c e preva il ed Hydroth erapy con

, , .

tri ved to hold its o wn against all com ers an d ,

 8 ras rm o , n vo a om r n v, s x aa cxsz
'

9 .

prepost erous absurdity o f the id ea is rebuk ed by

the exampl e of our insti n c t guid ed fellow crea - -

tures who in warm w eath er an d after hours of ,

stren uous ex ercis e drink th eir fill of cold spri n g

,

water without the slight est hesitatio n an d with

,

ou t an y appreciabl e inj urious c o n s eq u en c es C hil .

dren admonished n o t to touch cold wat er till

,

th ey are cool ed ofi might as w ell be warn ed

'

aga inst falli n g asl eep wh en th ey are tired .

And it is the same with cold baths P rofessor .

Tyndal e i n his Hours o f Recreation in the

,

”
Alps notic es the astonishm en t o f his S wiss
,

gu ides who saw him plu n ge i n to the d eep pool

of a m ountain torrent aft er climbi n g uphill all
,

aft ernoon in the glare o f an A ugust su n Th eir .

”
obj ec tions he obs erv es s eem ed to be fou n d ed
, ,

on the di fferenc e in the t emp erature o f the su n

heat ed atmosph ere and that of the shad ed brook ,

but that v ery c ontrast guaran t eed the sa fety of

the v enture I n c old w eath er when the orga n
.
,

ism is already su fi eri n g from the di ffi culty of

maintai n i n g its inn er warmth at the prop er m edi
um a cold bath might hav e ov ertaxed the vital
,

stayi n g pow ers ; in midsummer th ere is no su c h

”
risk .

A n d trai n i n g will e e v n reduce the peril of win

 m s
. CO LD -
W AT ER CUR E .
'

99

ter b a ths to a safe minimum Nay the sti m u .

,

lating effec t of the reflux of animal warmth

( as s ist e d by frictio n and brisk e x ercis e ) is pe r

haps most noticeable i n mod erately c old w eather ;

an d th er e a re sco res of habitu é s who tak e plunge
'

baths i n i ce covered riv ers to en j oy the su bse

é

qu ent glow o f h ealth and mai n tain that the prae

,

tise is the most r eliabl e of all safeguards agai n s t

‘

the risk of ta ki n g cold C old baths in ciden

.

tally also s erve the purpose o f a cosm etic I .

would u n d ertak e to id entify hydropathists of the

”
heroic school by their c ompl exio n s says Pro ,

“
fessor C arl Vo gt ; and I have k n ow n octo
g e n a r i a n s who h a d pr es erv ed th e bloom o f youth
by the persistent u se of i ce wat er -
.

Bathing follow ed by the u se of a c oars e tow el

, ,

stimulat es the a ction o f the skin to a d egree that

enabl es it to facilitat e the work o f the res piratory

organs O ur pores hav e ap tly been c all ed sup

.

p l em e n ta r y
‘
u n
g s a n d, all sorts of impuriti e s a re

s ec ret ed by c utan eous exhalations as w ell as by ,

t he br eathing proc ess .

Water of almost any t emp erature c ompatibl e

with comfort would subs erv e that sp ecial en d but ,

only cold wat er t en ds to expurgat e microb es .

Cold spon ge b ath s h av e oft en su ffi c ed to nip an

-
too ra srrn c , a voa om m v ex t racts;

att ac k o f cli m atic fevers in the bud ; an d D r .

S y denham mention s the ca se o f three smal l

p o x pa t i ents who w er e c apsi zed o n the w a y t o a n

i sland pesthous e an d i n spite o f ( almost certai n ly

,

beca u s e o f) th eir invol u nta ry i ce w ater bath re

-
,

cover ed with a facility u n preced en ted i n the rec

ord s o f the lazaretto .

T wo baths a day on e early i n the m o rni n g the

, ,

other j ust b efore s upper is the u sual routine o f

,

ou r hy dro pa thi c h ealth resort s whi ch bes i des pre

-
, , ,

scri be liberal inte rn al dose s o f co l d sp ri n g wat er -

.

C om mon s en se is bid d ing fair to prevail aga inst

prej ud i ce in regard to t he u se o f cooling bever
ages i n febril e d i seases the world over an d on e
, ,

o f o u r largest A m eri can san it ariums ( ma na ged

m a i n ly o n an ec l ectic plan o f refo rm ) n ow of

fers its n urses premiums for persu adi n g su fferers
fro m vario us diso rders to dri n k a max i m um
q uantity o f pu re cold wat er .

T he stronghold of the dru g delu si o n i nd eed i s

-
, ,

getting breached from all sides but the lead ers ,

o f the most n u m erous sto rmi n g pa rty m u st pl ead

guilty to the cha rge of havi n g rec ruited their

ranks by manifold con ces sio n s to popu lar errors .

Hyd roth erapy has thus far not attai n ed the

 CH A PT ER V II I .

A IR B AT H S .

In the c ure o f diseas es by refrigeration cold ,

air is the r eadi est substitut e for cold wa ter I n .

the hi gh er latitu des Natur e suppli es the r em edy

fr ee o f cost for six months o f ea c h y ear and i n ,

t erm i tten tl y hundr eds o f tim es ev en in m i ds u m

m er and at the threshold o f the tropi c s fo r the ,

reduction o f t emp erature in the early m orning

hours gen erally su ffi c es to restore the functio n al
vigor o f the j ad ed organism .

T he rem edial eff ec t o f c old air equals that o f

c ol d wat er air c ur es ind eed o ffer the advantage
-
, ,

o f sup erior fa c ility o f appli c ation for the c ure

o f r espiratory disord ers Expurgativ e c urrents

.

o f c o l d air c an be mad e to r ea c h the tissu e o f the

lungs and the signifi c ance o f that circ umstanc e

,

is c omm ensurat e with the preval ence o f a d elu

sion more mischi evous than the drug su persti -

tion vi z; the curr ent th eori es conc erning the

,

caus e of catarrh and c onsumption .

”
C onsumption says an advo c at e o f m edical
,

re form is a hous e diseas e an d the pla n of con

,
-
,
 '

A rk su n s . 1 63

fining its victim i n ov erh eat ed ill v en tilat ed snck

,
-

rooms favors the d evel opm ent of its germs to a

degree which the rem edial pow ers o f Nature
striv e i n vain to cou n teract . Not drugs
’
o r warmth but cold
, pure air is Nature s spe
,

’
ci fic fo r the cure of co n sumptio n an d colds .

”
That colds or catarrhal a ffections are so
, ,

—
very common so much ind eed as to be con, ,

si derabl y mor e frequ ent than all oth er dis eas es

—
ta k en togeth er is main l y du e to the fact that
the caus e o f n o oth er disord er o f the huma n

orga n ism is so gen erally misu n d erstood F ew .

person s hav e recogn iz ed the origin o f yellow

f ev er ; about the primary cause of asthma we are
“ ”
y e t all i n th e dark ; but in r egard to colds
alo n e the prevailing miscon c eption o f the truth
has reach ed the d egr ee o f mistakin g the cause
for a cure and the most effectiv e cure for the
,

cause of the dis ease I f we in q uire aft er that

.

cause n in ety nin e pati ents ou t of a hundred an d

,
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,

at l east nin e o u t of ten physi c ians would answ er :

,

” ” “
Cold w eath er ,raw Marc h winds o r cold ,

draughts — i n oth er words outdoor air of a low

,

temperature I f we in q uire aft er the b es t cure

.
,

the a n sw er would be Warm th and prot ection

,
1 94 F AST I N G ,
H YD R OB ‘T E W, E XER CIS E .

aga n st col d
i dr au g h ts —i
w . a
.
,
w arm stagnan t
, , in
doo r ai r .

A n d yet i t can be proved with as abso lu te cer

tai n ty as an y physiol ogi c al fa c t adm its o f b ei ng
.

proved t hat warm vit ia ted i n doo r ai r is the cause

, , ,

and col d out door ai r the b est cure o f lu n g di s -

ord ers Man y people catch cold every mon th

.

i n the yea r an d of ten two or th r ee tim es a m on th

,
’

V ery few get off with l es s than three c olds a

year so tha t an an n ual av erage of fi ve c atarrhs
woul d p robably be an u n d er estim at e F o r the -
.

Un ited S tat es alon e that would give us a yearly

aggregat e o f thr ee h u ndred and fi fty fi ve million -

”
colds .

That such fa c iliti es for investigation h av e

fail ed to co rrec t the errors o f our ex egetical the
or is s u r ely a striki n g proof how ex c lusiv ely
y
ou r d ealin gs with d i seas e hav e b een limit ed to the

end eavo r of suppr essing the sy m ptoms inst ead ,

o f as certaini n g an d r em oving the c au se F o r as . ,

a te st o f ou r unb i as ed fac u l ty o f obs ervati on ,

the d egree of that fail u re would l ead to rathe r

un pr on ou nc eabl e con c lus i o n s What should we .

think of the sc ien ti fic acu m en of a trav el er who ,

after a carefu l ex am i n ation o f the avail abl e evi

dence should p ersi st in maintaini n g that m o s
,
1 06 F AST IN G , a ro a o m r n v, aa ctsE.

i n fectan t t hat i n very cold nights the lung poison -

ing atmosph ere o f few hous es c an resist its puri

fyi n g in fl u ence in spit e o f padd ed doors in spit e ,

of w eath er strips and doubl e win dows it t e

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,

duc es the indoor t emperature enough to paralyze

the fl oati n g dis eas e germs -
.

T he p enetrativ e for c e o f a polar n ight frost ex -

erci ses that functio n with such resistl ess vigor

that it d efi es the preventiv e m easures of human
skill ; and all A rc tic trav el ers agree that among
the nativ es of Ic eland Greenland and Labra , ,

dor pulmonary dis eas es are actually unknown .

Protract ed c old w eath er thus prevents epid emic

catarrh ; but during the first thaw Nature su c cumbs
to art ; smould ering stov e fires add th eir fum es
to the effl uvia of the dormitory ; tight fi tti n g doors -

and wind ows exclud e the m eans o f salvation ;

sup erstition tri u mphs the lung poison operat es
,
-
,

an d the n ext morning a su ffering c oughing and , ,

red nos ed family discuss the c aus e o f th eir af

-
fl i c
ti on . Tak en c old — that much th ey pr emis e ,

without a d ebat e But wh ere and wh en

.
? Last
ev ening , probably wh en the warm south wind
,

t empt ed th em to open the wi n dow for a mom ent .

Or , wh en thos e visitors k ept chatting on the

po rch and a drop of wat er from the thawi n g roof
 A IR nu n s . m7

fell onmy n eck O r els e the boys caught it by

.
,

playin g in the gard en and not chang i ng i hei r

stock ings wh en t h ey ca m e hom e Resolved that .
,

a p ers on c a n not be too careful as lon g as th ere

is any snow on the ground But even that ex .

planation fails in spring an d when the in eu ,

batory influ ence o f the first moist h eat is brought

to b ear on the catarrh germs of a large city a
-
,

whol e distri c t s c hool is often turn ed into a sn u f

-

fi ing c ongress T he latt er part of Marc h is the

.

season o f epid emi c c atarrhs an d the evil is as ,

”
cri bed to dampn ess wh en the cold th eory be
,
-

c omes at last too evid ently prepost erous .

To an unprej udi ced obs erv er that th eory ,

though is equally unt enabl e in the c old est

,

months o f the y ear N o man can fr eez e hims el f

.

into a c atarrh O u t o f doors we c annot catch

.
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c old
‘

I hav e upon the approa c h o f c ol d w eather

, ,

”
remov ed my und ergarm ents says D r C harl es , .

Page , and hav e th en atten d ed to my outdoor

a ffairs minus the overc oat habitually worn ; I
,

have sl ept in winter in a current bl owing directly

about my h ead an d shoulders ; upon going to bed ,

I hav e sat in a strong c urrent entirely nud e fo r , ,

a quart er of an hour on a v ery damp cold night

, , ,
ro s m srmc, a voaom ru v, EXER C ISE .

i n the fa ll ofyear T h ese an d si mi l ar ex peri

the .

m en ts I h av e ma de repeat edly an d h av e n ev er ,

been ab l e to ca tch cold I beca me cold some

.
,

times q uite col d an d becam e warm agai n that is

, ,

”
all. N at u ral Cu re p , .

Th ere are many ways l es s oft en s ought than ,

“ ”
foun d for b ecomi n g qu i te cold an d warm agai n
, ,

but an exper i m en ter tryin g to con tract a ca

,

tarrh in that ma n n er would soon giv e it up a s

,

a futil e en t erprise ; after two o r three attempts

he wo u ld fin d the at tai n m ent o f his p urpose m ore
hop el ess than b efore ; he wou l d fin d that instead
o f impa i ri n g he had i m prov ed the function al
,

vi gor of his breathi ng appa ratus C old is a toni c

-
.

that i n vigo rat es the respiratory orga n s wh en all

other stim u l an ts fail .

A s soon as oppres sion o f the c h est obstru c tion ,

o f the nasal du c ts and u n usual lassitud e indicat e

,

th at a c old ha s been tak en —i n oth er words ,

that an ai r p oi son has fastened upo n the bron c hi

-

—i ts influ en c e shoul d at on c e be c o u nt era c t ed

by the pures t and cold est air availabl e and the ,

pati ent should n ot stop to w eigh the c osts o f a

’
d ay s furlou gh against the dange r o f a c hronic
ca tarrh I n cas e imperati ve duti es should in t er
.

fere the en em y must be m et a fter dark by devot

, ,
I IO F AST I N G ,
H YD R OPAT H Y ,
E XER CIS E .

the n ext ren ter should not move in till the whole
building has b een subj ec t ed to an air bath an d -
,

till wid e op en window s and a through draught of

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sev eral days has remov ed every tra ce o f a mus

ty sm ell .

About the comparativ e advantages of dry an d

moist marin e c limates opinions a re divid ed ,

with a prepond eran c e o f a rgum ent in favor of

the form er but so mu c h is c ertain that for the
,

c ure o f lung complaints a l ow t emp eratur e with

-
,

o r without an exc ess o f atmosph e ri c moisture ,

is preferabl e to the p erennial h eat o f the t ropics .

”
I shall not att empt to explain says B enj amin ,

F ranklin ,
why damp cloth es o cc asion c olds ,

rath er than wet on es b ec ause I doubt the fact ;,

I b eli eve that n eith er the on e n or the oth er con

tributes to this effec t an d that the caus es of ca
,

tarrhs are totally ind ep en d ent o f wet and ev en of ,

” ”
cold . Miscellan eous Wo rks p , .

’
N or c an drugs comp ensat e the la c k o f Nature s
'

sp ecifi c I n the language oi ou r instincts every

.

feeling o f discom fort suggests its own rem edy .

I f the proximity o f a glowi n g stove begins to

roast you r shins the alarm ed n erv es c ry ou t
; ,

—n ot for pat ent O intm ents not for anti caustic ,

-

”
lin i men ts an d pain kill ers but for a low er tem
-
,
 A IR B THA S .

peratu re Nothi n g els e will p ermanently appease

them Millions of prisoners s c hool c hildren an d
.
,
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fa c tory slaves pine for lung food as a starving

-
,
-

man yearns for bread and that hunger can not be,

still ed with c ough pills but only with fr esh air

-
, .

Pure c old air is also a sov ereign rem edy for

digestiv e diso rd ers T he assimilativ e capacity of
.

the human organism in c r eas es with the distanc e

from the equator A n Esquimaux can digest a

.

quantum of food that would crapulate three Hot

ten to ts and six Hindus C amping i n the op en
.

air wh ets the appetit e even withou t the aid of

a c tiv e ex ercis e A bracing t emperature exacts
.

a sort o f automat i c ex erc is e : I t acc el erat es the

c irculation it promot es the oxidation o f the blood

, ,

and stimulat es the whol e respiratory pro c ess .

T he gen eration of a n imal c aloric has to be i n

creas ed to balanc e the d epression o f the ext ernal
t emperature Hen c e the invigorating effect of
.

mountain air and o f sea voyages T he fir st dos e -

.

of the tonic c an b e appli ed i n d oo rs by gym n a s -

ti c s i n the anci ent s ens e of the word that impli es

”
ex ercis e in a stat e o f nudity gy m n o s in ,

Greek m eaning simply nak ed

,
— a few min
’
utes paus e b etw een undress and b edtim e .

P eopl e who have got rid of the n igh t ai r su -

rrz F A ST I N G ,
‘
n vo aopx rn v, s x aa crss .

persti ti on c an alm ost d efy dysp epsia by sl eeping

i n a c ross draught o r in cold w eath er at l ea st
-
,

n ear a half op en wi n do w C old fresh air is an

-
.
,

invaluabl e aid to the a ssimilation o f n on nitrogen -

ou s arti c l es o f food ( fat m eat butt er S ti , ,

fling b edroom s n eutraliz e the effec ts o f outdoor

ex er c is e
. Wint er is th erefore on t he whol e the
, ,

most propitious tim e for b eginning a dys pepsia

c ur e I n summ er a highland sanitarium is the
.

b est pla c e to star t wi th ; o r for coast dw ellers a ,

-
,

breez y sea sh ore-

.

T he effi c a c y o f an air bath as a c ure o f i n

-

so m n i a is suggested by the hypnotic influ en c e of

r efrigeration A t l east a dozen di fferent spec ie s

.

o f o u r North A m erican mamm als get drowsy

en o ugh in c old w eath er to go to sl eep abou t t he

en d o f Nov emb er and postpon e th eir awak ening

till spring W e sl eep so und er in w i nt er than at

.

any o th er tim e o f the y ear and D r F ranklin , .

,

who lik e B aco n and Goeth e had the gi ft o f

, ,

anti c ipative i n tuitions recomm ends air sitz baths

,
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as an ex c ellent substitut es for opiat es I n sum .

m er nights wh en I c ourt sl eep in vain

-
,
he says , ,

“
I often get u p and sit at the op en windo w or
at the foot o f my bed stark nak ed for a qua rt er
,
-

of an h our That simpl e ex pedi en t rem oves the

 C H A PTER IX .

CL I M AT I C S A N I T A RI A .

W et feet espec ially feet w ett ed by a walk i n the

,

c hill dew o f a m eado w ra n k ed with the chief

,

sanitary bugb ears o f our forefath ers and that a ,

bugbear of that sort should n ow be ridd en as a

fashionabl e hobby i s c ertai n ly an encouragi n g
sign o f the tim es I t prov es at all eve nts that hy
.

gi eni c prej udic es a re not uncon q uerabl e but the ,

mass pilgrimages to the m eadows of W oeri sho fen

-

i n S outh er n Germany make it evid ent tha t w ell— ,

that n ot all of ou r fellow C aucasia n s hav e a right

-

’
to po k e fu n at C harl ey La mbs hous e burn i n g -

Chi n amen A ci tizen o f Q wa n g Soo accordi n g

.
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,

to the most imm ortal essay o f the gentl e Eliah .

on ce found the r emai n s of a crem ated pig i n the

ruins of a bur n t dw elli n g an d ecstasi ed by a , ,

tast e o f the crust hasten ed to spread the tidi n gs

,

o f great j oy P ork thus far had always b een

.
, ,

ea t en raw an d op i n ion s di ffered as to the pro

,

p ri ety of improvi n g its flavo r by a d eviatio n fro m

a tim e ho n ored custom T he cremation pa rty at
-
.

last prevail ed an d ev en s ecu red the san ction of

,
 C LI MAT IC SA N T I AR IA .

l egislators but ev ery tim e they felt a han keri ng

,

after roast spare ribs they thought it n ec essary to

-

set a hous e a fi re .

Y et the pric e of an ol d C hin es e farmstea d cabin

can hardly hav e ex c eed ed that of an A m erica n

tick et to W oeri shofen wh ere the presidi n g pri est

, ,

of the n ew templ e o f h ealth compels his con verts

to p erform bar efoot gallopad es in a wet clov er

fi eld No doubt a good many o f th em do get thei r

.
,

’
mon ey s worth in improv ed h ealth but the phys i ,

’
ologi c al valu e of F ather Kn ei pp s prescription
is simply that o f a refrigeration cure and every ,

o n e o f his forty o dd thous a nds of y early visitors

-

— some o f th em from distant C anada— would hav e

d erived exa c tly the sam e amount o f b en efit from a
sponge bath in the woodshed of his native ran ch
-
.

T he hindfoot plan o f the W oeri sho fen proph et is ,

in fa c t nothing but loc aliz ed hydrotherapy ou t

, ,

and out l ess effi ca c ious that the syst em of S quire

Pri essnitz and effi c a c ious at all o n ly by virtu e of
,

long c ontinu ed rep etitions

-
S p ecial virtu es of
.

dew moisture
- ? O f S outh German vari eti es of
-

clover ? B eli ev e it if you can but stop smiling

, ,

—
at Q wan g Soo pork proc edures .

All th ere is o f s ens e in the s emi mystic c i ren -

l ars of the clover patch E scul api u s is fou n ded on

-
x r6 m sr m c , n m n om rn v, ax s a crsa .

the fact that the early mo rn i n g m ay be a spe

ci al l y propitious tim e for hydropathic tran sac

’
tions ; the pati en ts lungs get the b en efit o f the
cool mo rn i n g air whil e his body is revelling in the
pond of S iloam or his feet in the parso n a ge
,

pasture .

A nd s i n c e cool mornings a re ra re i n the su m

m er sea son of our lowlands the mou n tain cur e ,

has a l egi timat e c laim t o the att ention of h eal th

seekers especi ally wh ere highlands have pre
,

served th eir w ealth o i air fi l teri n for sts C ar

g e -
.

bon i c a c i d the lung pois oni n g resi di u m of res

,
-

p i ra t i on an d c ombustion is h eavi er th
, an the

atm ospheric air and accumulates i n low places

,

in wells i n c ellars in deep narrow valleys etc

, , , , .

an d often mi n gle s with the m alarious exhala tion s

of l ow swampy plains
, O n v ery high mou n ta i n s
.
,

on the oth er hand the air b ecomes too rarefied

,

to be breath ed with impu n ity It causes a spas .

modic ac cel eratio n o f the respi ratory proces s an d ,

i s therefo re especially d istressi n g to di sea sed

, ,

( w a s te d ) lu n gs whos
, e functio n s a re alr ead y a b
n o rm ally q uic k en ed an d ca n n ot be fu rth er sti m u
,

lated without overstrain in g th eir m echan i sm .

In the t em p erat e zon e the pures t an d at the

same ti me most respi rabl e ai r is foun d at an el e

 8 rn sr m o , n vo a om ra v, ax en crsa
‘

r1 .

as rigo rous as that of W est ern C ana da Th ey .

liv ed in tents most o f th em an d pass ed the days

, ,

hunting and snow shov eling and the nights com -

,

fortabl y enough und er tw enty wool en blank et s ,

if a doz en w ere n ot su fli cen t and all faithfully

follo w
,

ing D r.D i o Lewis plan o f giving the ’

i ce cold an d i ce pure highland air a c han c e to ex

- -

purgat e th eir mi c rob e ridd en lungs I nvalids-

.

who would hav e cough ed away th eir liv es in a

tropi cal swamp resort rec overed in th es e c loud
-

land camps— n ot m en only but women and feebl e

children I t has ind eed oft en b een obs erv ed that
.
, ,

the moral effec t o f protra c t ed c onfin em ent in a

hospital is n ot favorabl e to the c han c es o f t e -s

covery and moreover a privat e establishm ent

, , ,

less ens the danger o f c ontagion A nd in the .

highlands of North C arolina Tenn ess ee and , ,

N orth ern Georgia land and labor a re so ch eap

that ev en peopl e o f moderate m ean s can build a
sanitarium o f th eir own . .

A log hous e can be made as ai ry as any ten t ,

an d is ou t and ou t more comfortabl e A rough .

h ew ed porch roof proj ecting lik e the veranda o f

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,

a S wiss chal et will k eep the cabin both dry and

,

airy s q uare hol es in the c ent er o f each wall can

,

serve as wi n dows i n fi n e w eath er an d duri n g a ,

 m su mm ers
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u n xc r1 9

st rm
o can be k ept shu t wi th a slidi n g board .

B etw een May an d Novemb er the winds of the

S outh ern A ll eghan i es com e from the south or
southw est and in ord er to get the full b en efit
,

of the pure air the hous e should fac e the plain

,

from on e of the thousand promontori es that ris e

above the terrace land o f the Pi edmont coun
-

”
try. Hav e the door on the south side and k eep
it wid e op en all n ight as w ell as the windows or
,

louvres i n the opposite wall I f the windows do

.

n ot reach to the ground spread your b ed c loth es

,

upon a hurdl e b edst ead rath er than on the floor

, ,

i n ord er to en j oy t he full c urr en t o f the night

breez e .

Night and day on e c an thus breathe mo untain

airs that have n ot b een tai n ted by the touch o f
earthly things sin c e th ey l eft the pin e for ests o f

the M exican S i erras .Every inspiration i s a

draught from the fountain h ead of the atm o s
-

p h eri c stream
.

There is no n eed of living on o il ed sardin es

where the brooks are full o f sp ec kl ed trout .

Those who must break the comman dm ent of

Brahma ( and the highland air c on fers certain
immuniti es ) may d evour th eir humbl e relativ es
’
i n the fo rm o f wild turk ey s q uails an d po s
, ,
n o FAS T I N G , H YD EOPA T E Y, EXER CIS E .

sum s but the produ cts of the vegetabl e ki n gdom

,

are ch eap an d diversifi ed enough to mak e up a

tol erabl e m en u S w eet potatoes at 1 2 cen ts a

.

p ee k
, string b eans I 5 gr e en p eas 2 ,5 strawb e rri es ,

I O c ents a quart .

Whortl eb erri es huckleb erri es are sold at

1 0 c ents a gallon but the pl easure o f picki n g

,

th em is worth a great deal more T he lamest .

and w eak est c an j o i n in that sport for the sh rub ,

atta ins a h eight o f three feet and thus saves on e ,

the troubl e o f stooping to c onqu er h ealth by tha t ,

utilitarian m ethod .

Wh en ever the weather b ec om es too warm to

g uarant ee t he b en e fit o f the ent erpris e on the

mai n point air baths should be s uppl em en t ed by

,

plunge baths in on e o f the pools of the never fail -

ing mou n tain brooks I n the great forest p re .

-

s erv es o i ou r East Am erican highlands every

gl en ha s a rivul et o f i ts own born in the Land o f ,

the S k y and pres erving the t emp erature o f its

,

h ea dwat ers in the shad e of spruc e pin es lau rel -

,

thi c k ets and ov erhanging rock s Tell i co River

, .
,

with its fountain in the summit regions of the

Un ak as at the bord er of T enn essee and North
,

C arolina is still as cold as spring wat er wh ere i t

,
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is n es from the foothill s fifteen mil es furth er w est, ,

1 22 FAS T I N G, H YD R OPAT H Y, ExER CISE .

an d t u mbling rocks from the taps of pro j ecti ng

cli ffs is the spic e of life in the engi n eeri n g enter
pris es which a camp full of mal e N o rth A m eri
—
cans a e sure to set afoot such as enlargi n g the
r

en tra n c e o f a cav e constructing a grad ed trail

,

to the n ext spri n g to the n ext wagon roa d o r to

,
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,

a favorite lookout point .

E n t erpris es of that sort in volve a good d eal o f

grubbing and chopping but a suit of Turn er ,

Khaki mak es work pl easan t T he d es potism of .

fashio n is not recogn iz ed i n mountain camps A .

pair of lin en trousers a hu n ting shirt an d loos e

, ,

n eckti e suffi c e for a hygi en ic summ er dress In -

.

the aft ernoon remov e the n eck ti e and roll up the

sl eev es I t can do no ha rm to imbibe fr esh air

.

by all available m eans and l et the cutan eous lungs

share in the luxu ry Nor is th ere any excuse for
.

the wid espr ead fallacy that it is da n gerous ev en ,

i n the most sultry nights to remov e the bed ,

blank ets Kick th em into the farth est corn e r if

.

they b ecom e too warm and sleep in your shirt

,

an d draw ers or u n d er a lin en bed sh eet

, Half -
.

n ak ed lazzaroni sl eep the year rou n d on the

s to n e terrac e of the Mus eo B orbonico an d ou t ,

live the asthmatic bu rgh ers i n th eir sw eat box -

dorm i to ries .
 CLI MAT IC SAN I T A R IA . t a3

T he body effects pa rt of i ts breathin g through

the por es Painting a man all ov er with y ell ow
.

ochre an d copal varnish would kill him as surely

as hangi n g him by the n ec k T he c onfin ed air .

’
b etw een the sl eeper s body and a stratum o f h eavy
blank ets gets gradu al l v sur c harged with c arboni c
—
acid i h warm w eath er ev en to the v erge o f the
saturation point T he perspi i a ti on is thus forc ed
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.
'

ba c k upon the body ; and the lungs— perhaps al

—
ready w eak en ed by dis eas e hav e to do doubl e
work .

H i er bi n i ch Men sch hi er darf i ch s

,
’
sei n .

’ ”
says Goeth e s F aust in his mountain retreat , ,

and a prej udi c e d efying fri end o f min e mak es

-

no scrupl e o f arising from the pall et o f his sum

m er c amps and roaming the moonlit woo ds in the
-

c ostum e o f A dam drinking in o x ygen through

,

ev ery por e and wond ering if the l ongevity o f the

,

anci ents had n ot something to do with the fact

that th ey c ould enj oy air baths o f that sort all -

sum m er an d n ot in moonlight only

, .
 CH AP T E R X .

I O
V EN T L A T I N .

A traveling revivali st display s cha rts of the

East ern contin ents to illustrate the vast area of
territori es still in n eed of missionary l abors T he .

ex t en t of the fi eld fo r sanitary r eform might be

rea liz ed by an y obs erv er strolling the s treets of

a large c ity in the twilight of a summ er mornin g .

—
I n the tropi c s ev en o n the c ool tabl elands of
°

Northern M exi c o he would see thou sand s o f

,

sl eepers encam ped upon the tex adas or flat r oo fs ,

of their dw elling— hous es ; but in the Un ited

S tates in Great Britain F ran c e Ge rm any and
, , ,

A ustria he would see 999 o f a 1 0 0 0 windo ws

tightly clos ed ev en in a t emp eratur e mak i ng i n
,

door con fi n em ent pos i tive torture .

Night air ? What are yo u afraid of ? ask ed

Miss F lorenc e Nighti n gal e in her reports from
’
the C rim ean hospitals ; do you suppos e God s
free air is mad e d eadly by the t em porary ah
s en c e of light ? You surely c annot exp ect to
breath e day air aft er suns et ; your only c hoic e is
-

b etw een the life giving h ealth restoring night air

-
,
- -
r26 rn sr m o , H YD R O PAT H Y , E X ER CISE .

air only i n creas es its valu e for expurgativ e pur

pos es T he appalling drug d efying mortality o f
.
,
-

a large city sw eltering und er the glare o f the '

dog day sun is abat ed by the first spell o f cool er

-
,

w eath er T he veering o f a midsumm er breez e

.

from south to northw est reduces the d eath rat e -

o f infants two thirds C anadian trappers who

-
.

l eave th eir supply c amp with a bad cough get

-
,

”
rid o f it on the fifth o r s ixth day ou t Th ey .

may get footsore and if gam e is scarce hipped

, ,

an d hom esi c k but the feeling o f hal en ess about

,

the ch est co n tinu es Night frosts do n ot a ffec t

.
-

it F atigu es rath er improv e it Th ey may wak e

. .

up with a feeling o f frost c ramp from th eir chill -

bl ai n ed to es to th eir shiv eri n g k n ees but the ,

lungs are at ca se ; no c ough n o asthmati c dis ,

tress n o stit c h lik e pains no night fev er

,
-
,
-
.

A n ol d campaig ner would laugh at the id ea of

colds b eing tak en in the op en air H e kn ows .

that th ey germi n at e in close b edrooms and flourish

i n musty b eer shops but van ish i n the prairi e
-
,

wind .

Houses cannot be k ept too airy n o room or ,

c hamb er sh oul d ev er be k ept perma n ently c los ed

for days togeth er N ev er mi n d about the im
.

prov em en t of ven ti latory con trivanc es : paten t

 VEN T I LAT I ON .

ven tilators are mostly calculated to humor the

prej udic e aga i nst p erceptibl e air curren ts They -
.

are i n t en d ed to smuggl e in a mod i cum o f fr esh

air u n n otic ed n ear the edge of the ceili n g i n a

, ,

rou n dabout way through ha lls and antechamb ers .

On e open window is worth a doz en o f such com

promis e tricks .

O pen the dini n g roo m win dows in the fore

-

noo n and the kitchen windows in the after

noon ; n o revolvi n g fan can compete with the ef
-

feet of a direc t i n fl ux of atm osph eric air I f .

y o u t each a c lass o r work i n a war ehous e o r

cou n ti n g house p revail upo n the ma n agers to

-
,

v entilat e the place during the di n n er rec ess ; or -

els e try to do your work in the airi est corn er ,

n ear a window o r n ear the door of an ai rv hall .

I n ill ventilat ed rooms the azote miasma has i ts

-

centers of d estiny that can be avoid ed with a li ttl e

ma n agem ent .

But at all events get rid of the n i ght ai r su per -

s ti ti on, an d en joy the bl essings of an airy bed

—
room the luxury I may add A n atural i n sti n ct
, .

may be suppress ed but n eeds but littl e encourage

,

m ent to resume its n ormal fu n ctions lik e a river ,

return ing to its ancien t chann el Thus the fresh .

,

air insti n c t I n famili es curs ed with the n ight

.
1 38 F AST I N G ,
H YD R O PAT H Y ,
E X ER CIS E .

air d elusion children are often fuddl ed with mi

as ma ti ll they prefer it to fresh air and dislik e
to sl eep n ear an op en wi n dow But in a si n gle .

mo nth that av ersion can be changed into a de

cided predi lection t i ll the cool breath of the
'

ni ght wi n d b ecom es a chie f con dition of a good

-

night s rest an d the c losi n g of the bedroom wi n

’
,

dows cr eates a feeling of un easiness n ot unlike ,

the di scomfort indu c ed by an attempt to sl eep

with your h ea d und er the blank et s I n the sleep .

ing d ens of the F rench village tav ern s where ,

after S eptember the window sash es a re actually -

n ail ed down the c hildr en of a hygi enic ho m e

,

would pin e fo r a draught of oxygen as a sw elter

i n g t ravel er thirsts after fresh wat er .

B esid es open windo ws D i o Lewis recomm end s

,

an op en fireplace and a good wood fi re all night ;

but that is a matt er of tast e an extra blank et will
s erv e the same purpos e and the danger o f damp
,

bed c lothes in mid wint er has been as strangely

- -

overrated as the perils o f cold drinking wat er i n -

m idsummer .

I n stormy nights a half clo sed rain shutt er - -

( a window bli n d
- with broad bars ) will k eep the

room p erfectly dry without excluding the air .

If the m ercur y si nk s b elow zero clos e ev ery wi n ,

1 3 0 F AST I N G , H YD R OPAT H Y , EX ER CIS E .

m ona ry fever Gen erations Of outdoo r li fe had

.

fail ed to prot ect thes e children of Nature against

the effects of a bri e f ex po sure to a conc entrated

lung poison ; n ay its effect upo n their u n pre

-
,

pared orga n ism was more viol en t than that ex pt s

ri en ced by p ersons in wh o m habit ha d establish ed

a sort of physiological toleran c e — akin to the

strange adaption th at enabl es habitu é s to swallow
en ormous dos es o f ars enic and Opium .

F or Professor Bat es in his Naturalist on the

,

”
Riv er Am azon states that the n atives o f West
,

ern B razil have l earn ed by sad exp eri enc e to avoid

’
a visit to the int erior o f a whit e ma n s dw elling ,

as trav el ers in Java would shu n the vall ey o f the

Upas Tree Catarrh germs i n th eir organism
.
, ,

tak e the form Of c onsu m ption microbes and th ere -

,

appears to be n o c ure for that dis ease in the

sw elteri n g river sw amps o f the tropics T he .

strick en nativ e coughs night and day and the dis ,

eas e i n that virul ent modificatio n of its d evelop

m ent t erminat es life in l ess tha n two years T he

, .

Q u a hiba I n dians adds th e sa m,e trav e l e r would ,

sooner load the hors e o f a C aucasian visitor with

pres en ts tha n c arry th eir hospitality to the fatal
d egr ee of allowing him to pass a n ight in thei r
cabi ns .D O you brin g i n fl u en za S ei i o r ? th ey ,
 V EN T I LAT IO N . r3 I

ask with a look o f alarm wh en a stran ger ap

,

p r o a c h es th e ir wi g w ams .

T he G erman A ustrian and Russian sh eph erds

, ,

stay the whol e summ er with their flocks but as ,

a class are n everth el ess remarkably subj ec t to

,

pulmonary diseas es and for the following reason :

,

They pass the night in a S chaefer hu ette a sort -

,

o f ambulan c e box eight feet by fou r and six feet

-
, ,

hi gh without windo ws but with a tight fitti n g

, ,
-

sliding door . This door the ill advis ed propri etor

-

shuts aft er dark and br eath es all night the azo

,

ti zed air o f his Black Hol e of Calcutta on wh eels .

I n the morning he awak ens with a back i n g cough ,

sup eradd ed to profus e perspiration and a feeling ,

o f naus ea . T he air o f the mountains gradually

reli ev es the oth er symptoms but n ot the cough , ,

whi c h fi nally bec om es c hroni c A nd with ex .

,

q u i s i te fa c iliti es fo r th e att a inm ent o f a patri

archal longevity the slav e o f the night air super
,
-

sti ti on thus di es in the foren oon of his lif e .

Cold baths — i h —
air or wat er and thorough
v entilation b ecom e mor e n ec essary with every de
gree furth er south and a S panish army surgeon
,
-

o f S antiago de C uba a few y ears ago surpris ed

the m edical faculty with the su c c ess o f his ex

p er i m en ts in t h e artifici al r efrig eratio n o f a mili

1 3 3 F AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y , EXER CIS E .

tary hospital By m eans of i ce vaults an d forc e

.
-

v en tilators be cool ed som e of the wards to a tem

p e ra t u re of fifty d egr ees Fahr enh eit b el o w that
o f the outdo or atmosph ere and cur ed not only ,

sl eepl essn ess and nervous prostration but clim a t ic ,

fev ers of all sorts and even chol era I n the treat
, .

ment Of yell ow fever his treatm ent reduced the

usual d eath rat e four fifths and that in spit e o f
- -
,

the fact that his wards w ere ov ercrowd ed and

ha n dicapp ed by the lack o f train ed nurses .

Practi c al argum ents of that sort will ultim at ely

prevail against pr ej udic e and it may be sa fel v
,

predict ed that hydropathic prescriptions are des

tin ed to supers ed e drug mongery in the treatm ent
-

Of all germ dis eas es and that b efor e the en d o f the

-
,

pres ent c entury our dw elling hous es will be arti -

fi ci al l y cool ed in summ er as succ essfu lly as we

now warm th em in wint er .
1 34 rA sri N O , H YD R O PA T H Y ,
Ea cxss .

steam an d sails but still more clos ely r esembl es

,

the i n gen ious motor boat o f a B elgia n engi n eer

-

who utiliz ed air chrren ts to recharge the bat

-

te ri es Of an el ec tri c propell er In a calm the .

ship could for a whil e c onti n u e its cours e with

the assista n c e of the stor ed u p pow er but und er -
,

the impuls e o f a good breez e the en gin es work ed

und er high pressur e b esid es b eing aid ed by a ,

n umbe r o f sails Ev en thus the activity of the

.

int ernal orga n ism c an for a time dispens e with

the stimulus o f w ell direc ted ex ercis e but mani
-
,

fests the pot en cy o f its assista n ce with a prompt

n ess that preclud es all reason abl e doubt about
the co n n ectio n of caus e and effect Exposure to .

a blood chilli n g atmosph ere mak es the gen era

-

tion of a n imal warm th a q u estion of vital i m

porta n ce an d ten minut es of vigorous ex er c is e
,

will rais e that warmth from tw en ty to thirty de

grees Pick et posts on the Man itoba fronti er
.
-

oft en k eep th ems elv es aliv e by ru n n i n g i n st ead ,

o f walking up and dow n for hal f hours or

, ,
-

“ ’
lo n ger P r emi er Gladston e s p rescrip tion o f a
.

c ord of b eechwood a w eek ax e an d w edges i n , ,

”
six ins talm en ts b efore breakfas t will stimulat e
, ,

the app eti te i n a man n er which n o drugs ca n

begi n to app roach .

 PH YSI OLOGICA L DAT A . 1 35

Walking up a hill o f two hundred feet suffi c es

to incr eas e the puls e an d r eli ev e Oppr ession o f

the chest an d oth er pr emonitory sym ptoms o f

h eart dis eas e S l eepl essn ess can be cured or

-
.
,

,
—
rath er palliat ed by narcotics for a whil e T he .

ev en tual ef fect Of the drug i s to aggravat e the

evil and induc e thos e fi fty hour vigils that drov e
-

D e Q uinc ey to the v erge o f i n sanity O utdoor .

ex ercis e will r em edy the troubl e not o n ly more ,

Ch eaply an d reliably but als o withou t the risk

,

Of distressing aft er effects -

.

—
S kilful sailors can utiliz e any n ot too viol ent
breez e to k eep th eir course in the d esired
,

direction an d th er e is hardl y a form o f activ e

,

ex ercise that ca n n ot be modifi ed in a mann er

’
to obviat e the n ec essity of the drug monger s -

assis ta n c e but b esid es th ere are movem en t c ure

, , ,
-

prescription s o f a more limit ed but also more ,

i n fallibl e effi cacy that may ultimately supers ed e

,

the use of m edici n al specifics .

 C H A PTER X II .

O UT DOO R EX ER CI S E .

T he prin c ipl es o f regen eration by natural hy

’

g i en e may b e summ ed up in D r H u fel a n

. d s a d
“
vic e to re establish as far as pra c ticabl e the
,
-
, ,

conditions to which our organism b ecam e

adapt ed during the infinit e s eri es of ages pr ec ed
”
ing the era of indoor life and mad e dish es T he
- -
.

—
human constitution physi c al and moral was —
n ever int end ed fo r the sloth of the dom estic hab
its enforced by our sabbathari an civilizatio n .

Man s pred ec essors in the scal e o f organi c evol u

'

tion w ere the mo st r estl essly activ e o f all v ert e

brat e anima l s O ur D arwinian c ousins pass th eir
.

—
life in the gymnasia of nature the tree tops of -

the t rO i cal vi rgi n woods ; t h eir m eals c our tships

p
-
, ,

and forays alt ernat e with acrobati c exploits ; th ey

build n o n est s exc ept an oc c asional rain sh elt er
,
-
,

and carry th eir young in th eir migrations from

forest to forest .

Almost equally a c tiv e and ev en mor e athl etic

, ,

m an lik e creatures inhabit ed this plan et for a pe

-

ri od variou sl y es tima ted from to h al f a

1 3 8 rA ST IN C , n vD R OPA T n v, EX ER CISE .

st i tu ti on in any essential respect Riv ers ru n .

most easily in their a n ci ent chan n els Rem edy .

mongers have tri ed the effec t of c on c en trat ed

—
food pure fat sugar album en and so forth
, , , ,

but it was found that the human stomach pre

ferr ed more c oncret e substanc es Whol e wh eat .
-

”
br ead with all its innutritive admixtures is
, ,

more di gestibl e than pure starch .

Ch emically the reason why is n ot quite cl ear ,

but we may suspect that it ha s a good deal to

do with habits form ed during the long ages pre
’
c edi n g the advent o f L i ebi g s food extracts .

And Nature declin es to ratify the co n tract of

kid glov ed brain work ers with the inv entors of
- -

labor saving m achin ery

-
I nt ell ectual d evelop .

m ent to be sure is the q uint esc en c e o f all that

, ,

disti n gu ish es man from his brut e fellow cr eat -

ures ; but b eings o f our speci es ca n not thriv e on

m etaphysics alon e any more than on D r B ern
, .

’
ard s Elixir Of Life T o avoid dyspepsia i n .
,

som n i a h emorrhoids an d sick h eadach es the

, ,

Trism egistus of S ci enc e has n ow and th en to

d esc end from his study and ex ercise his motive
muscl es i n the playgrou n ds of the hirsu te an
thropoi ds .

we ough t
’
D r Boerhave s
. remark tha t to sub
 OUT DOO R E ERX CI SE
.

sti tu tem echan ical for ch emical rem edi es has been
a
paraphras ed in the apoth egm that pati en ts
”
m ight walk away from a good m an y dis ea s es .

Ped est rianism i s ind eed the r eadi est Of all fo rms
, ,

o f activ e ex ercis e— doubly effectiv e to burd en

carri ers though a h ealth s eeker n eed not tak e
,
-

up his whol e bed to walk A stout overcoat in .

wint er and a mark et bask et in summ er a re eno ugh

-

to outw ei gh the influ en c e of habit which in the

course of y ear s might oth erwis e modify the effi
ci en cv o f the prescription A n old physician o f
.

my a c quaintanc e oft en repeats his ass ert ion that

the b est ad vic e a doctor could giv e to a fri en d

( as distinct from a f ee paying pati-

ent ) would
be to c hoos e hi s dw elli n g on so m e out o f the wa y - - -

hill t op 0 ; sim i lar location at a safe distanc e

-
. ,

from the t emptation of the street car lin es and -

,

to readopt the good old democratic habit of doing

his own shopping .

Wh ere s treet c ars reach he says

-
th ere , ,

w i ll be always a pret ext for using th em in spit e ,

of solemn pl edges to the con trary I t will be .

storms i n wi n t er and hea t in summ er or special ,

hurry wh ere m et eorological excus es fail B u t

, .

’
i n the form of Hob son s choic e an exc ell ent m ov e
m en t cure r emedy will get a cha n ce to prove i ts
-
1 40 F AST IN G
, H YD R O PAT H Y , X
E ER CIS E .

ef
fi cacy T he walking habit may rui n a dozen
.
-

extra pair of sho es per year and the ran dom

,

shopper is apt to fare wors e than the patro n o f

a groc ery wagon but he is sure to bring hom e
-

a cargo of h ealth .

A k een appetit e for supper for i n stan c e an d

, ,

’
a fair chanc e for a good night s rest T he effect .

of pedestria n ism as a spec ifi c for the cure of

i n somnia can be t ested by the simpl e pla n o f an
oc c asional int ermis sion A stay at home day
.
- -

b eing pretty sur e to be follow ed by twic e the

usual number o f s l eepl ess hours .

T he organs Of the human body are w eak en ed

by disus e and invigorat ed by activ e servic e ; n u
ex er c is ed muscl es b ecom e flabby t eeth d ecay ,

upon a di et of pap ; ou r v ery hair di es and drops

lik e d ead l eav es if the constant w earing of hats
and n ight caps mak es it superfluous A nd to a
-
.

q uit e unsuspec t ed degree the sam e holds good o f

our respiratory organs Ex ercis e that mak es the
.

lungs work to the limit of th eir capacity t en ds to

g radually enlarg e that limit C o n sumptiv
. es n ot

too far advanc ed toward the stage Of total col

‘
laps e may purchas e a n ew l eas e o f life by exercise
stimulating the action Of the torpid lu n gs A .

few years ago an emaci ated Can adian m i n er came

1 4 2 F AS T I N G , H YDR OPAT H Y , EXE R CIS E .

b edridd en king ; and the only way in which a

rich man c an avoid the forfeiture of his birth
right to happin ess is to live as frugally and la
”
bori ou sl y as i f he w ere poor .

S till str enuous ex erc is e may to a c ons i d erabl e

,

d egree aton e for di et eti c indulgenc es and few ,

Observers of m en and habits c an fail to hav e

n otic ed Epi c ureans whom a sort Of instinct
'

prompts to giv e th emselves the b en efit Of a

e —
mov m ent c ure stout florid gormands who de
-
,

clin e to b ecom e torpid and walk habitually at ,

a doubl e qui c k or go out of th eir way to j oin in

-

athl etic sports T he n et result in happin ess m ay

.

n ot get th em abo ve the av erage by that m ethod ;

but th ey k eep dis eas e at bay

“
L a ss n achR i esen - Kra ft i hn streben ,
W er i m Ueberm as s gen i es st ;
D em A thl eten wi rd vergeben ,

W a s der S chwachl i n g treu er bu sst .

H would enj oy hims elf to an exc essiv e d egree

e

should lik ewis e try to exc eed in vigor ; an ath

l et e may tak e risks that might prov e fatal to a
w eakling .

A c onsid erabl e h elp to su ch end eavors in mus

cu l a r Christia n ity is the poss ession of a littl e real

estat e an o rc h ard o r patch o f truck farm that

-
, ,
 OUT D OO R EM 1 43

can be marke d for a p ractical purpos e an d with

vi sibl e results . Uncl e Toby i n diggi n g up his
,

’
broth er s kitch en gard en to illustrat e the Vauban
-

syst em of rampart s incid entally also erected forti

,

fi cati on s a gai n st the inroads o f d ecrepitud e and ,

it has b een repeat edly obs erv ed that i n dividual s

who attai n ed to an extrem e Ol d age w ere gen
eral l y ( lik e J en ki n s, D a r a k
p y
s a n
, d Thomas
Pa rr ) poor rustics whos e avocation s req uired
da i l v labor i n the fields and woods T he Ger
.

man fores ters or ward ens of gov ern men t wood

,
'

lands are likewis e lon glived with the n oteworthy

, ,

exc eptio n o f aris tocrats who ent er a Forst schul e -

( C ol l eg e o f F or estry ) i n r elianc e o n family i n

fl u en ce and rapid promotion an d r eally most o f

,

th em con trive to get hold o f a si n ecure en abli n g ,

th em to earn a high salary by a few hours Of

offi ce work or retire on a liberal pen sion But
-
, .

th eir l eas e of life is equally limited whil e the ,

poor Revi er Fo erst er who has to pla n t some three

score sapli n gs every w eek day has a fi rst class
-
,
-

chan ce to con tinu e his ministration s for as man y

y ears .

F or the sam e reason school t rus tees should -

strain the limits of th eir tol era n c e rath er than ,

discou rage the passion for ou t door spor ts that -

1 44 rA ST IN O , n vD R OPA Tn v, Ex ER CIS E .

distinguish es the you n gsters Of the progressiv e

nations from the wh elps of d ecad enc e Football .
,

bas eball a q uatic sports and the

, Hare an d
,

Hound races of the B ritish coll eges s erv e a ,

p u rpos e of moral as w ell as physical san itatio n ,

for som e Of the b es etting vi c es of youth are sym p

—
toms O i abnorm al physical ina c tivity e ffects i n ,

fact a s oft en as c aus es Of dis eas e

, .

N O clamor for outing sports int erfer e with the

-

c urriculum of S outh European coll eges and that

-
,

fact is far more om inous than the all eged ten

d en ey to rowdyism that alarms old wom en of
both s ex es in our Northern univ ersity towns .

T he civilizatio n of Greec e and Moorish S pain

sprang from barbarism lik e wa ter from the rock
in the d esert o f S inai whil e physical i n dol enc e is
,

the torpor th at pr ec ed es the collaps e of moribu n d

nations an d h eralds a moral n ight tha t k n ows

,

n o morn i n g .
 AS T I N G
E ,
IIYD R OPA T n v, Ex ER CISE .

lon g in c lose proximity to a blazing fi re whil e a ,

wid e op en door admits the blizzards of the mid

-

wint er s easo n ; yes th eir heal th an d longevity is

far abov e the av erage and might ra n k with that
Of gard en ers if th ey w ere n ot obliged to i n hal e
,

coal fumes as w ell as i ce win ds Th eir special

-
,
-
.

work it is tru e t ends to cou n t eract the effects

, ,

of the on e si ded sys tem of ex erci s e that explain s

-

the shortc omings o f nin e out Of ten h ealth s eek -

ers. O ur pati ents get an i m m ens e d eal O f en

cou ragem en t to d ev elop the muscl es of thei r
”
motiv e orga n s writes the visi tor o f a c limatic
,

“
sanitarium ; th ere a re mou n tai n ex cu rsi on s an d - '

for est excursion s fi ve tim es a w eek and every

-
, ,

ev ening troops O f volunt eers cla m b er up a pros

p ec t rock t o see the suns et a n d get an app etit e fo r

.
—
supper B esid es th ere is a Kn ei pp cure d epart
,

m ent and the trots through the wet m eado w

,

Often tak e the form o f a foot race B u t what -

.

are ou r a rms doin g all that whil e ? Li fti n g a

half oun c e spoo n from plat e to mouth or reachi n g
-

”
up to tak e a hat from the rack .

I t would be no exaggera tion to say that the

l egs o f the av erage city dw ell er get a thousa n d
tim es as much ex erci se a s his arm s
‘

A mateu r bl ack smithin g on the E l ih u B urritt

-
,
 m o oon X
E ER CIS E . x4 1

pla n rem edi es that disproportion an d the

, ,

Learned Blacksmith w ent so far as to recom

m en d i t as a m en tal and moral rem edy H e .

l earn ed to speak four di fferent lan guages an d

had a book acquaintance with hal f a doz en more ,

in c ludi n g H ebrew and Greek M emorizing a

.

hundr ed words an hour was about the a verage

of his ling uistic tasks up to his fifti eth y ear
, ,

an d he was firmly persuad ed that sl edge h amm er -

matin é e h elp ed to c ount erbala n c e the dead

w eight of such burd ens A nd moreov er he con
.
, ,

s i dered a visit to hi s smithy a r eady expedi en t in

ethical em ergenci es I f anything happen ed to

.

rous e his indign ation he would skip dow n sta i r

and hamm er away lik e Thor an d Vulcan for a
mi n ut e or two th en draw a d eep breath an d
,

feel that the rising c hol er had been su c c essfully

”
work ed off . What else would you pro
”
pose ? he in quires ; sit still an d swallow your
wra th to imitat e the saints ? Well try it and
, , ,

’
see if the suppr ess ed gall do esn t surge back a

dozen tim es b efore night maki n g you as cross as

,

an old spinst er with n o moral outl et but her scan

”
dal o u s to n gu e .

S l edge hamm eri n g also h elps to invigorate the

-

l u n gs an d shak e the dia phra gm i n a man n er prett y

i 4s F AST I N G , H YD R OPA TH U, B x en crse .

sure to dislodge the l u rki n g i m ps of dyspepsi a .

Violen t mo vem en t cures m ay n ot be advi sabl e in

-

the far go n e sta ges o f d eb i li ta ti n g di sorders bu t

-
, ,

on the whol e will do for a crapul en t o rgan i sm

,

w hat a brisk gal e do es for t he forests o f a t ropi cal

coast swamp th at m ay v egetat e i n a cal m
-
but ,

c an n ot get rid of th ei r d ead l eav es an d 11 1 0 11 e .

i n g branch es Mi c rob es hav e a pred i l ect i on for

.

a qui et bo arding ho use and do n ot oft en fre q u en t

-

’
a bl ack sm i th s body
'

W oo dchoppi n g answ ers the sam e p u rpose an d ,

i n a cl i mat e li k e that of our lak e shore States i t -

would be worth whil e to w eath er tighten an d -

wa rm a s hed in o rd er to try Mr Gl ads to n e s i a

’
, .

vori te pr escription with o ut t he risk o f fro zen toes .

T he Sa ge of Haward en W ork ed in the open

ai r but the wint er c lima te o f S outh ern Brita i n
,
-
,

un de r the parall el of Montr eal is in reali ty ,

mild er than that of Maryla n d Wood c hoppers .

-

i n dulging the lu x ury of a w eather proo f b u ild in g -

—h eated perhaps with a c hip fire fl ick erin g i n

, ,
-

an op en fireplac e can n o w an d th en give thei r

,

lu n gs the ben efit o f a drau ght of p urer ox ygen by

st epping ou t in the storm and fetching ad di ti on al
logs from the wood pil e -
.

A sthma pati ents with a littl e ex perien ce in the

-
,
1 5° u sn u o , n vn a o m r n v, ex en crss .

it s effec ts than c h emi c al speci fic s ( stramonium

the

smok e etc ) that reli ev e the spasm fo r a few

, .

'

minut es without prev enting the ri sk o f a speedy

relaps e A n d i t is a c urious and almost una c
.

countabl e fa c t that smok e dust and oth er impur , ,

iti es of the indoor atmosphere rath er enha nc e ,

the e ffectiv en ess o f the pr es c riptio n for that

special purpos e T he mos t plausi bl e gu ess at the
.

ra ti on a l e o f that exp eri enc e is the c onj ectu re that

the afor esaid admi x tur es o f the indoor air obl ige

the lungs to eff ec t the w ork o f expulsion by

opening som e gat e whi c h i n c id entally reli ev es the

spasm o f the asthma fi t A lways provid ed that
-
.

the r em edy is appli ed only at l o n g int ervals and in

m oderate doses A n ex c ess o f dust breath ed day

'

.
,

a ft er day c logs the tissu e o f the lu n gs to an ir

,

rem ediabl e d egree an d mill ers are n otoriously

,

subj ec t to c hronic asthma in its most incurabl e ,

i f n ot most distressi n g forms ,

.

T he po et philo soph er Go eth e r em arks that

-

everv brain work er should c on sult his sanitary

-

int erests by followi n g som e m echanical trade a s a -

'

by occu pation and the su ccesso i of F redei i c the

’f -
-
,

G reat mad e that advi c e a pret ex t for establish

i n g the ru l e that e v ery prin ce of th e H o us e o f

Pru ss a mus
i t serv e an a ppr en t ic es h i p at so m e
 n moo a Ex s a crse . x5 x

handicraft S ome of the uniform ed youngst ers

.

accordingly l earn printing oth ers bookbinding , ,

but about four out of five prefer a curriculum i n

’
a ca rp ent er s shop A hundred y ears ago the .

B erlin wits us ed to hint that the by law in q u es -

t io n might prov e us eful und er circ umstan c es that

obliged a good many refugees from n eighboring

Fran ce to try th eir hands at the una cc ustom ed oc
cu pati on o f us eful work but the rul e is still in ,

forc e and n on e of the royal blu e coats hav e b een

,
-

’
t he wors e for the inv estiture o f a c arpen t er s
’
a pron Jo i n er s work : sawing j ack planing and
'
-
.
, ,

hamm ering exer c is es n earl v ev ery muscl e o f the

human body and has the in c id ental advantage
,

of a pastim e that grows on the habit and ca n

bec om e a passion lik e gard ening a n d watchm ak ,

ing .

A nd n ot all ex ercis e with a us eful by pur -

pose can be recomm end ed from that poi n t o f

‘

vi ew Th ere are som e cx trem el v utilitarian oc

.

cu pati on s that lack the spi c e of vari ety an d a per

‘

so n al inte rest I n som e citi es of B ritish I ndia

. ,

wh ere labor is c h eap an d coal v ery d ear hun ,

.

dr eds of vagabon ds are oft en roped in to Oper

ate t he ma chin ery o i a large workshop on the

tread m ill pl an ; bu t i n spi te of san i tary precau

 m s rm o ,
'
n vn n orx rn v, m n cxss .

ti o n s 8 wh eel -t r
eader e e w an d then steps
v ry ne

do W n an d ou t with the un fei gn ed sym ptoms of

“
co m pl et e ex I tried it for the fun
hau s tion .
,

o f it
”
says Si r Samu el Bak er bu t was u nabl e
, ,

to persi st for m o re th an ten min utes th ou gh I ,

am pretty su re that i n my C eyl on es e m ou nt a in

.

camp the ex ci temen t o f a boa r c hase o ften en -

abl ed m e to e xert the t en fold am ou n t o f m u scu

”
lar effort wi thou t a ny c onsci o u s tra ce of fatigu e .

E v ery well arran ged ho u seh old i n fa ct shou ld

-
, ,

have an indoor sanitarium in the form of a gen

eral repair sh op or Jack of a l l trades reso rt
-
,
- - ~
.

F rom an arti sti c po int of vie w the pro ducts o f

the establi shm en t may prove s h am eful failures ,

’
but they will s ave d octor s bill s an d perhaps po
li ce c ou rt fin es
-
.

I n freeing th emselves from the bonds of an

”
un wo rthy at ta c hm en t sa ys Mada m e de S evi gn e
, ,

m en ha ve on e great a dvan t age : the y can pl u n ge

i n to bus i n es s an d forget
, a n d a rush i n to a —
con v eni ent works hop will oft en solve the problem
of fightin g down min or t empta tion s that can no t
be ex erci sed by study .

C omb i n ed with whol es om e food an d stea d y

habits i n doo r work has more than on ce en abl ed
,

city dwel l ers to em u late the physi cal prow

-
ess of
 CH A PTER XIV .

GY M N A ST I CS .

P r i mitiv e ations can dispen s e with physi cal

n

training schools as the creatures o f the wil de r

-

'

n ess dispense with hous es and c loth es bu t ci ty ,

dw ell er s n eed a substitu te for the los t opportun i

ti es o f outdoor ex ercise M ental culture and .

gymnastics sh ould be as inseparabl e as b ody and

‘

“
soul. I t is impossibl e to repr ess luxury by
’
l egis lation, says S olon in Lucian s D ialogu es
”
o f A n acha rsi s but its in fl u en c e m ay be cou n
,

teracted by athl eti c gam es whi c h invigorate the ,

body and giv e a martial charact er to the amus e

”
m ents of ou r voung m en .

And that rem edial u se o f gymnastics r equires

the supervisio n o f an exp ert t each er I t is n ot .

enough to provid e an assortm e nt of traini n g

school apparatus a n d trust visitors to u se it to
good advantage W e might as w ell es tablish a
.

[ fr ee publi c drug s tor e an d invit e pati ents to com e

-

in an d h elp t hems elv es I hav e s een athl etics

.

on the L et Alo n e pla n tri ed i n a city park an d

-
,

remember the resu l ts i n the case of novi ces who

 G MN Y AST I CS . i 55

go t discouraged the firs t day by disfi guring acci

d ents and o f oth ers who contrac t ed dyspepsia
,

by exer c isi n g directly aft er dinn er .

A w ell d ev elop ed syst em o f physical cul ture

o ffers r em edi es for almo st ev ery disord er of the
human orga n ism an d for all but the most hope
,

l ess malformati ons .

A s a prelimin ary gymna sium pupils sho uld be

,

a dvis ed to postpon e the prin c i pal m eal of the

day ( c all it supper or dinn er ) to the lat e aft er .

noon an d at l east half an hour aft er the con

'

elusion o f th eir ex erc i s es Viol ent muscular ef .

fo rts can exhaust the v i t al vigor o f the organism

to a d egr ee w hich — i—
fo r a sh o rt tim e may tak e
’

a way the appetit e and mak e it advisabl e to de

,

fer r epl etio n for a littl e whil e ; but ev en a direct

ru sh from the gym n asium to the dining room -

would be hygi enically preferabl e to the Opposit e

mistak e A fter din n er rest is recomm en d ed by
.
-

the plai n est moni tions o f instin c t by drowsin ess , ,

apathy and aversion to str enuous efforts of any

,

kind A ft er b eing n ur sed a fr etful child w

’

. ill ,

fall asl eep ; gorged ani m als b ecom e torpid and

‘

retire to a r es t i n g pla c e— som e of th em for days

-

and w eeks T he physiologi cal reason can be

.

foun d i n the fact th at ex erci se i n terferes wi th di

'
r56 rx sr m o , n vn ao ps rn v, sx s a crss .

gest i
on , an d obl i ges the stom ach to
retain an ac
cum u la tio n o f i n ges ta till t her e is a ri sk o f th ei r

und ergoing a pro ces s of fermentation a n d becom

i n g a po siti v e d an ger to the syst em they wer e
i n te n d ed to n ouris h .

Begi n n e rs should also be warn ed aga i n s t the

mistak eo f c ontinuing any special ex erci se to the
len gth of exc essive fatigu e and to avoid d ehili,

ta ti ng p erspiration by c hoosing the light est dress

com mti bl e with de c en c y a n d c omfort Gym .

n os , in the language of the ancien t cha m pion

gym nast s mea n t n ak ed
, A hampering l oa d of
.

drygoo d s i s ind eed oft en the first impedim ent

, ,

to the free u s e o f ou r moti ve organs and the pro ,

fessi on al En glis h trai n er Steph en s of sprintin g ,

:

fam e recorded his experi enc e that ba refoot boys

,

were hi s m ost promising pupils b ecause perfectly ,

strai ght toes a re of primary importan ce as qu ali

fi cati on s for a vi c tory on the footrac e co u rse .

T he k i ttel s o f S outh G erm an schoo lboy s

-

j ac k ets with sl eev e s t ermin a tin g at t he elb ow

are hard to bea t for gy m n as tic purpo ses ; an d

on gen eral san i tary principl es 3 c ours e of phys .

ica l c u l ture shoul d begi n with arm exercises D r -

. .

Schrodt ca ll ed atten ti on to the fact that i n n ew

born chil d ren the l ow er ex trem i t ies are on ly
1 58 F AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y , E X ER CI S E .

Consumption mi c rob es had no cha n ce to efi ect a

lodging in a body getting the b en efit o f t hat ex
.

ercis e A nd as a prescription for the lu n g su f

.
-

feri n g results o f indoor life n o rem edy o f the

drug stor e can compet e with a cours e o f Ger
-

werfen as the G erman turn ers call th eir attempt

,

to reviv e t hat form of athl eti c s which a mod ern ,

educator d escrib es as follows

T he mi ssil e is a lan c e o f so m e tough wood

( a sh a n d hi c kory pr eferr ed ) about ten feet long

and on e an d a hal f in ch es in diam eter termi n at- ,

r

ing in a blunt iron knob to st eady the throw a n d

k eep the wood from splint ering A heavy pos t .

with a movab l e top pi ec e ( the Ger block ) forms

- -

the target the h ead shap ed top b eing s ecured by

,
-

means o f a stout cramp hinge that permits it to -

turn ov er but not to fall down D istance all the

, .

way from ten to forty pa c es Grasp the spea r .

n ear the middl e rais e it to the h eight o f you r ear

, ,

plant the l eft foot fi rmly on the ground the r i ght ,

kn ee slightly b ent fix your eye on the target l ean

, ,
'

ba c k and l et driv e I f you hit the l og squarely i n

.

the c ent er o r a trifl e high er up it will toppl e

, ,

ov er but still hanging by the clasp hinge can be

, ,
-
,

qui ckly adj ust ed for the n ext throw er A feebl e .

hi t will n o t sti r th e pond ero us Ger b l o ck ; the -

 Y
G MN AS T ICS . x59

spea r has to i m pin ge wi th the fo rce of a six ty

pou n d bl o w so tha t a successful throw is also an
,

ath l etic triumph T he Germa n spear throw ers

.

are gen erally lads af ter the h ear t of C ha rl es

—
Read e ambidextrous boys whos e either han ded ,

stren gth and skill illustrates the fact that the an

”
ti q u i ty o f a prej ud i c e p rov es n othi n g i n i ts favor .

F or i n doo r ex erc i s e a n eq u i val en t can be con

struc ted with a s to ut rope an d a coupl e of l eath er
—
cov ered iron rings say six in ches i n diam et er ,

D a n gling from a high c eiling or the b ea m o f a

barn a grappl e swi n g can be used for a great
,
-

variety of acroba tic evolutions : D a n gli n g swin g ,

i n g to an d fro slowly at fi rst th en fast er an d

g
, ,

“
fast er ( with the aid of the plu n ging feet ) tu rn
”
ing ov er and whirling h eel s over head till the
, ,

protest of the wris t j oin ts en forces a pause

-
.

Breathing pauses will be often n eeded the firs t

-

w eek but aft erwards a t ev en lon ger i n tervals

,

i n dicating the l u n g stren gth en ing effects o f the

s
-

ex erci se .

’
Lifti n g w ei ghts an d holding them o u t at a rm s
l en gth is a favorite am usemen t of the T y rol ese
'

pea sa n ts whos e k n ee j oints mou n tain climbing

,
-

has mad e almost fatigu e proof an d who i n tui -

,
t

ti vel s em to reco n iz e the ex edien ce o f i v -

y g
'

e g p v
1 60 m s rm o ,
'
n vn n ora m
'
X
v, E ER CIS E.

i ng the i r a rm s ben efit of a m ovemen t cure A

the .

by purpose o f theirs i s the wish to s tren gthen

-

thei r w ri s ts for the ordea l o f a wrestl i n g m atch ,

an d wrestl ers with the i ncubus o f a h ered itary

dis order w oul d o ft en do we l l to imitate thei r ex

amp le .

Wei ght li ft i n g i n that man n er is the germ of

the dum b bell cu re an d i n m ore th a n on e sen se
-

the ha rdi es t o f a ll hea lt h ex erc i s es A home .

made san d bag or a pail full o f water will do for

a begi n n i ng In rai n w eath er wh en the pro
.
-
,

gra m me fo r ped estri an exercise has to be

cancelle d dum b bel ls or th eir subs ti tu te s a re sti l l
,
-

avai l able even i n a t en em en t at ti c an d the ir per

, ,

si st en t u se can be gu ara n teed to redeem the

vict i ms o f gen era l deb i lity .

T he ben efi ci al efi ects o f the ex erc i se are i ndeed

a l m ost sure to ma ni fest themsel ves in tim e to
obviate the m os t o f a l l pa tholo gi cal risks : T he

m oral col la pse of a pati en t who r es gns hi m self i

“
to his fate an d plunges into dissipatio n s to mak e
”
an en d of i t an d harde n the con s um mation of
what he has com e to co n sider an i n evita bl e doom .

A T exa s cotto n pla n t er of my acq uai n tan ce

wo rk ed lik e a b eav er to save hi s crop from a
rotracted drou ht but after w tc h i the s i n s
p g , a n
g g
 62 ra s rm o , n vn a om rn v, sx an cxse.
' '
1

deed a change from bad to wors e for the sw eat

, ,

box mis ery of a prayer conclave may prov e as

baneful as a course of blu e pills P eering des -
.

p e ra tel y fo r a sign o f dawn the pati ent at last ,

bec om es impati ent and procures an a n odyne o r

, ,

tak es oth er m easures to trav el the dark road as

swiftly as possibl e .

Mov em ent cures o n the oth er hand rev eal

-
, ,

their ben efit aft er the en d o f a w eek or so at —

first by improvements in the fa c ility of the ex
erci se its elf but s oo n also by indisputabl e physi
,

ological c hanges for the b ett er T he appetit e .

revives sl eep becom es qui et er and more pro

,

tracted till the d epressing feeling o f helpl essn ess

,

gives way to the buoyan c y o f s elf con fi den ce -

.

I n that way D r Winship o f Bo ston recov ered

.

his lost s elf respect T he crim e of w eakn ess

-
.

had obliged him to submit to the insults o f a

bully and he resolv ed to bec om e a man in the
,

an c i ent h eroi c sense of the word o r renoun ce an

exist en c e whos e bl essings had c eas ed to outw eigh

its evils Lifting w eights and swinging a pair of

.

ri n g w eighted I ndian clubs soon began to i m

-

prov e his appearan c e and inspire him with hopes

he would not hav e bart er ed the w ealth of a sick
bood l e magn a te , bu t he con t i nued his ex erci ses ,
 G YMN AS T ICS . 63

adding heavi er and h eavi er rings he con ti n u ed ,

to throw w eights an d lift w eights till he becam e

the physi cal sup erior of his insul ter and at last

a modern S amson abl e to handl e burd ens in a

,

way that transcends beli ef—and incid entally

equally ex p ert in the task o f grappling with the

burdens o f existen ce Bag punching may be

.
-

mad e a div erting interm ezzo of more strenuous

ex er c is es and it is altogeth er a good plan to vary
,

the programm e o f gymnasti c pr es c riptions n ow ,

and then There as els ewh ere a c hange o f em

.
, ,

ploym ent will mak e frequ ent fast days l ess n eces
sary C anadian lumberm en in the bl est abs en c e
.
,

o f Blu e law spi es oft en d ev ot e th eir S undays to

-
,

hunting trips and s c rambl e up and down deep

mo untain ridges with all the energy of sports
,

m en who have pas sed the w eek in a c ity o ffi c e and

n eed th eir holidays fo r outdoor ex er c is e Those .

anti S abbatha ri an wood c utters may actually get

-

a doubl e dos e of hard work on their l eisure day ,

but c h eerfully go to c hopping again on Monday

morning whil e a month o f uniform drudgery
,

would probably put hal f o f them on the si c k list -

.

That there are tru e specifi c s on the rem edy

list o f the gymnasium as w ell as of the drug
,

store. is p roved by the efficacy Of he m ve ent

t o m :
 F AS T I N G , H YDR O PAT H Y , EX ER CIS E .

c ure for asthma A straight stick about five feet

.
,

long is mark ed from en d to en d with deep n otch

,

es — som e tw enty o f them a ltogeth er A ten .

p o u i
r d w eight with a hook c ompl et e the i n ex pen

siv e apparatus T he ex ercis e consists in grasping

.

t he sti c k at the thick er en d raising it to the l ev el ,

o f the c hin and thrusting it out lik e a fencing

foil draw it ba c k Slowly an d push it ou t again

, ,

k eeping it as n early as possibl e horizontal Th en .

hook the w eight to o n e o f the n ear by notch es and -

try to rep eat the hom e thrust manoeuvre Ev ery -

.

not c h furth er ou t will in c reas e the w eight and

the strain o n the arm mus c l es till at last a slip ,

from the l ev el indi cates the limit o f the ex peri

m ent With the w eight on the farthest pra c ti c a
'

bl e not c h ev en an at h l et e will noti c e that the

ex er c is e r ea c ts o n the m echanism o f the lungs .

T he br eath com eS and go es in gasps

'

— invol ving ,

c oughs perhaps if the bron c hial tubes are

, ,

c logged with phl egm but at the sam e tim e the ,

f eeling o f pulmonary impedim ents is gradually re

l i eve d T he ex perim ent er finds that he c an
.

breath e freer an d d eeper than b efore That i m .

prov em ent may n ot be a perman ent on e but the ,

b en efi c ial af ter effec ts o f the ex er c ise j ust suf

-

fi ce to break the Spell of an asthma fit A daily .

I 66 rA ST Is G, H YDR O PAT H Y , EXER CIS E

is lik ewise so unmis ta kably d et rim en tal to the

comfort o f w eak lungs that asthma pati ents i n
,

sti n cti vel y avoid farm work though th ey may be

,

fo nd of Country life and outdoor exerc ise .

About tw enty years ago a North Yank ee i n

“ ”
v en ted a rowing ma c hin e which he intended ,
'

to facil i tat e the preparatory ex er c is es o f oarsm en ,

— without perhaps suspecting that he had pro

vi ded a n almost infallibl e m echa n i cal con s ti pa ti on

cu re . T he apparatus c an be work ed i n doors and ,

adapted to various d egrees o f strength and the ,

ex ercis e ( a clos e imitation o f the m ov em ents i n

ci den t to the task o f rowing a cockl e boat against -

the stream ) r ea c ts o n the fu n ctions of the diges

tiv e organs in a manner that must be experi enced

to be cr edit ed C lose tools that hav e resisted
'

oth er san i ta ry pres c riptions an d yi elded o n ly tem

porarily to drastic dru gs a re reli eved permanen t
,

l y before the en d of half a w eek A n hour o f .

work i n the morning and about hal f an hour i n the

ev eni n g ( b efore supper ) is en o ugh to insure th at

result and i n c ombination with cold sponge baths

,
-

will mak e dru g m edi cati on wholly superfluous i n

~

all bu t the most inv et erate cases o f dyspepsia .

Far gon e dyspeptics hav e to i n vok e the third rem

-

edy of n atu re : A fasti n g cu re In cool w eather

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.
 G YMN AST ICS . 1 67

the tripl e pres c ription will do its work in a coupl e

o f w eeks and so effec tiv ely that subs eq u ent re

lapses can be avoid ed by the most ordinary

di eteti c prec autions .

In a form er c hapt er I have m ention ed a mov e

ment c ure spec ifi c for diarrh oea viz pedestrian
-
, .
,

ex er c is e espec ially in warm w eath er

, O n stormy .

wint er days c arrying w eights ( say bu ck ets full ,

of coal ) up stairs fo r an hour or two will prov e

, ,

a remedial equival en t With the co o peration o f

.
-

a spare di et its effica cy will manifest its el f before

the en d of the s ec ond day unl ess the dige
, stive o r
gans should hav e been outrageously d eranged by
the abus e o f virul ent drugs .

S l eepl essn ess will eventually yi eld to almost

any kind o f physical ex erc is e ( qui c k er than to
brain wo rk ) but among its mec hani c al spec ifics
,

a German physi c ian m entions mountain c limbing .

I n explanation o f his personal experi en ce he has

a th eory that v ertigo ( dizzin ess ) and the excite
ment of a perilous path at the brink o f steep c li ff s
a ffec t the brain in a mann er that c rav es the reli ef
o f Sl eep. H e also recomm ends s ev eral gymnastic
substitut es ( Ersatz Mitt el ) e g ladd er c limb
, . .
,

i n g on the hand ov er hand pla n

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Place a long .

stou t ladd er a gai n st a wall at an an gl e o f 4 5 de

I 68 F AST I N G ,
H YD R O PAT H Y ,
I
EX ER C SE .

grees and att end to the precautions against the

,

risk o f Slipping Th en step und ern eath grasp the

.
,

high est round you c an reach with outstret c h ed

arms draw yours el f up to the n ext higher on e
,

feet n o w dangli ng c l ear o ff the ground ; up to the

n ext high er again and so on till dizzin ess or ex
, , ,

hau sti o n suggest the des c ent of man R est for a .

few minut es o r engage in light er exe rcis e th en

, ,

at it again an d aft er hal f an hour o f ups and

,

downs c on c lu de the soiree and wat c h its effec ts ,

’
on the c han c e fo r a goo d night s rest I t is a .

c ommon experi en c e o f mountain tourists that ,

upon retiring for the night th ey a re for a whil e ,

haunt ed by visions o f yawning c hasms till yawns ,

of a d i fferent sort o ffer a c hange o f programm e ,

and the Bro ck en spec tre ridd en brain seeks ref

-

u ge in Slumb er T he bl est c ontrast of the hori

.

zon tal c ou c h may h elp to enhan c e the attra c tiv e

n ess o f that c hange and sl eep superv en es without

,

the aid o f opiat es .

T he ex c it em ent of c ompetitiv e gymnasti c s is

equally effec tiv e in reli eving the torpor o f the

rea c tion following the abus e o f strong liquors .

With all the firm resolv es inspired by the appeals

of a t empera n c e orator the n ew co n v ert cannot
,

hel p feeli n g a mo re an d mo re u rgen t c ravi n g for

 CH APT ER XV .

F R EE M OVEM EN T C U R ES OR S A N I T A R IU M EXER

C I S ES .

There a re h ealth seek ers so exhausted by was t

i n g dis eases o r the abu Se o f drugs that th ey a re
un abl e to participat e i n the exercis es of a public
gym n asium O ld s c hool physi c ians would hav e
.

con sign ed th em to the inactivity of a sw eltering

sick room F aith cu ri s ts with th eir antics woul d
-
.
, ,

to som e d egree miti ga t e the t edium o f that ordeal ;

but the pati ent would still be doomed to that most
gri evous trial of pati en c e : the n ec essity to su ffer
without a chan ce to promote the progress o f i m
provem ent by individual efforts .

T he mov em en t c ure pla n o ffers that chanc e

ev en to the most far gon e victims of d ebilitating
-

disord ers A s long as the apathy o f exhaustion

.

has n ot yet m erged i n the tran ce o f the endless

night the possibility o f ex er c ise always impli es
,

the possibility o f rec ov ery .

“
T he manager o f a Life und er glass hospital
- -

invited patronage by an artisti c Signboard inform ,

“
i n g the public that Warmth is Lif e Cold i s ,
 F R EE M OV EMEN T C UR ES . I 7 l

D eath . Yes,
d eath to microb es at all events , ,

commented an apostl e o f the refrigeratio n cure ,

after m entio n i n g a vari ety o f cas es wh ere di sease

germs c ould be dislodged o r kill ed by a d egree of
c old which th eir living boarding house could
surviv e without di ffi c ulty and ev en without dis
comfort .

“
Motio n is life apathy is d eath would be a
, ,

l ess misl eading motto .

B edridd en pati ents Should not be urged to k eep

qui et when th ey begin to fret for a chance to
ex er c i se th eir motiv e organs in som e way or oth er .

F au te d m i eu x th ey may be en c ouraged to S i t
.
,

up in bed and r eclin e by turns or roll from Side

, , ,

to Sid e I t will help to k eep the blood i n circula

.

tion an d prev ent bed sores and hypon chon dri a -

.

A n y modification o f physi c al ex ercis e i n fact will , ,

ext end its b en efi c ial i n flu en c e to the mi n d of the

pati ent and the protra c ted Slumb er following

,

fatigu e will assist the rem edial efforts o f n ature ,

and mitigat e distress by the b alm o f oblivion .

T he ex ercis es whi c h foll ow illustrat ed by a ,

numb er o f ex c ell ent pho to graphs c an be adapt ed ,

to ev ery d egr ee o f C onval esc en c e .

Thos e mov em ents illu strat ed with dumb b ells -

can be tak en with fr ee hand or with anythi n g that

1 73
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X
rA s rIN c , n vn R opA ru v, E ER CI SE
.
x 74 F AST I N G , H YDR O PAT H Y ,
E X ER CIS E
.
 F R EE MOV EMEN T CUR ES . 1 75

can be grasped conv eni ently in the hands .

There should n ot be a w eight o f over two o r

three pounds in each hand unl ess inclin ed to lze
strong .

B e v ery car eful n ot to overdo the ex erci s es the

first few att empts .

E x ercise No I will reli ev e the respiratory

.

torpor o f d ebilitating d is o r ders and the aft er

effec ts o f pn eumonia O f b en efit also i n s ev eral
.

phases o f heart disease .

Ex ercis e No 2 will a i d the functions of the

.

digestiv e organ s and a c t as a specific in pro

m oti n g recov ery from a cc i dents involving i n j uri es
to the spin e Prev ented paralysis and grea tly re
.

l i eved the m ental distr ess o f the patien t i n the

case o f a carpent er who had fall en from a high
sca ffold and was brought in pal e with terror and , ,

as he supposed permanently c rippl ed in his low er

extremiti es . H e had lost the u se of his voluntary
“
musc l es from the hips down and felt n u m ,

experi enc ed but littl e b en efit from s ev eral applica

tions o f el ectricity but on the fifth day n o tic ed

,

that he could slightly raise on e o f his feet S tead .

ily exercisin g the sin ew so f that foo t he co n trived ,

h
t e e n xt day to rais e it about hal f a yard abov e

the ma ttress of hi s bed a d n hi s ec

r , ov er
y fr o m
I 76 F AS T I N G
, H YD R O PAT H Y , EXER CI SE .

h
E x er i se N o 4 S tan di n g erect . reach an d tou ch the fl oor, n ear toe .
. .

f f v
wi th l e t han d. whi l e the ri ght i s l i ted hi gh o er head S am e .

v
ex erci se wi th posi ti on of han ds re ersed .
1 78 F AST I N G , n vo R o pA T n v, EXER CIS E .

E x erci s e N o . 6 S am e pos i ti on
. as f
ore goi n g. an d b en di n g far back .

ward an d forward , al t ern at el y.

F R EE M O VEM EN T CUR ES . l 79
1 80 F AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y ,
E X ER CIS E .

that tim e was continuous and rapid aided as i t , ,

was by the in fl u en c e o f hOpe

, .

Ex erCIse N o 4 will b en efit su fferers from

.

kidn ey c omplaints and digestiv e obstructions .

Also an effec tive rem edy for obstru c tions of the

respiratory organs I ts incid ental t end en cy to
.

strength en the spin e Should rec omm end its addi

tion to the list o f c allisth enics and h ealth move
m ents to be rep eat ed b efor e br eakfast every
morning in the y ear .

Ex erc is e N o 5 i s a constipation cure more

.
,

p erman ently effec tiv e than any drug and not fol ,

low ed by troubl esom e reac tions Co mbin ed with .

c ol d sponge bath s it will rel i ev e the t o rpor o f the

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bow els b efor e the ev ening o f the s ec ond day .

Continu e for a quarter o f an hour the first and ,

s ec ond morning ; for about five minut es every fol

lowing day Len gth en o r short en that tim e ac
.

c ording to the varying evid en c es o f effi c acy .

Ex erc is e N o 6 is a c ure ( as w ell as prev entive )

.

for disord ers o f the kidn eys .

Ex erc is e N o 7 is o f advantage in stimulati n g

.

the actions of the lu n gs in c as es wh er e pati en ts

a re unabl e to l eave th eir bed .

Ex erc ise N o 8 is a constipation cure for i n

.

va ds, as w el l as thos e d esiring to cou n terac t the

l i
1 8a "s t u ns
,
M a m ,

Exer
ci se N o 9 B ri n gi n g arm s u p ward an d ou t ward rom
. . f S i de

to posi ti on i ll m trat ed a n d i n hal i n g deep b reath an d

.

g
retai n i n som e du ri n g v
the mo em en t .
F R EE MOVEMEN T cum 1 83
1 84 F AST I N G ,
H YD R O PAT H Y , E ERX CIS E .

effe c ts of sedentary o c cupations I ts adoption i n .

hospitals and sanitariums would obviat e the n eces

s i ty o f a r esort to laxativ e drugs .

E x ercis e N o 9 is an asthma spec ific Con

. .

tin n ed fo r thirty minut es every ev ening it will

sav e the pati ent hours of struggl es with agony
o f s u ffoc ation . Lik e the balan c e sti c k ex erc is e ,

d es c rib ed in the pro c eedin g c hapt er it t ends to ,

break the sp ell o f the pulm ona ry spa sm a n d ,

the danger o f a r elaps e ( th ough extant as ,

in all phas es o f the most in cal c ulabl e of all

orga ni c disor ders ) i s n ot half a s immin ent
as in c a s es wh ere reli e f has b een obtai n ed by
the u se o f palliating drugs T he fum es o f .

stra m on i a ( Jimson w eed o r thorn

, appl e )
du c e a d eadly naus ea whi c h as it w ere by the , ,

m ena c e o f a more s erio us peril ov er c om es the ,

air famin e an d s ets the lungs a ga sping whi l e tfie

’ '

- f
,

su fferer S fa c e is moist en ed by a c old per

’

I nhaling Char c oal fum es would provok e S i

symptoms T he grip o f the c h ok
.

relax wh l e the naus ea lasts but as

i ,

Si c k ening effec ts o f the poison fum es -

pati ent feels the premo nitions of p

troubl e an d hardly v entures to s tir for fe ar of !

v k i other stran gl i n g fit T he efi ect of

p r o o n g an .
1 86 F AST I N G ,
X ER CIS E
H YD R OPA T IIY , E .

E x erci s e N o 1 3
. . S t an di n g, han d s on hi ps . c i rcu l atory
bod y ex erci se swayi n g bo d y i n ci rcu l ar m an n er
.

f k f
ri ght. l e t. bac an d orward .
 F R EE O
M V EM EN T CUR ES
. 1 87

the mov ement c ur e spec ifi c is a reli e f O f a v ery

di fferent kind T he s ense O f a Slight i n su ffi ci en
.

cy in t he allowan c e o f life air still r emains but

-
,

t he lungs move at eas e the O bstru c tiv e d i ffi c ulty

,

appears to hav e b een rem edi ed by a direc t remova l

o f the caus e .

Ex erc is e N O 1 0 will reli ev e the feeli n g o f op

.

pression in abdominal c ongestions and vari ou s

ga stric troubl es May be pres c ribed to advantage
.

during the spasms following the paroxysm o f a

“ ”
c ongestiv e c hill A rtifi c i al respiration a s physi
.
,

cia o s call it may be effec t ed by moving the arms

,

i n a Similar mann er as fo r the r evival O f hal f

,

drown ed p erson s .

E x erc is e N o I I i s a m odi fi c ation O f N o 2 i n

. .

cases wh ere pati ent is unabl e to turn ov er on his

Sid e Will rea c t on the mus c l es of the hips and
.

spin e and ben efi t invalids in c apabl e o f any oth er

ex er c is e .

Exerc is e N O 1 2 is a movem ent t ending to

.

stimulat e the a c tion o f the int estin es and h elp ,

i ng to prevent d erangem ents o f the digestiv e

process Has b een test ed in s easi ckn ess with re
.

su l ts that hav e b een explain ed by the conj ectur e

that it cou ntera c ts the an ti peri stal ti i movemen ts

-

of the bow el s — i n plai n er wo rd s the ten d en cy of

1 88 F AST IN G , H YDR OPAT H Y, EX ER CI SE .

. . g
Ex erci s e N o 1 3 R ecl i ni n g. han ds ras pi n g som ethi n g b ack of

head. rai si n g both feet to vert i cal posi ti on

'

.
1 90 F AST I N G ,
H YD R O PAT H Y
, EX ER C ISE
.
1 2
9 F AS T I N G ‘ H YD R OPAT H Y , X ER CIS E
E .

E x erci se N o. 1 8. k
R ecl i n i n g on b a c an d rai si n g bod y to si tt i n g posi
ti on. as per i l l u strati on
.
I 94 F AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y , EX ER CISE .

Benj amin Rush s con stant advice

’
to su fferers
from inj uri es that b egan to threaten t etan ic com
plications .

Exercises N os 1 6 and 1 7 are modification s of

.

“ ”
the for egoing and the b est , v i vacious exercis e
for i n valids temporar i ly d epriv ed of the u se o f
th eir low er extremiti es S oldi ers with th eir shoul .

der j oints cramp ed by the straps of a h eavy knap

-

sack and with th eir arms hanging idl e can be k ept ,

i n a fair stat e o f h ealth by ped estrian ex er c is e

alon e and vi ce versa the total inactivity o f the
, , ,

low er motiv e organs may be c omp ensated bv a

persistent u se o f dumb b ells in the man n er de -

s c rib ed i n the two last paragraphs .

Exercise N o 1 8 is a mov em ent cure for i n

.

val i d s but al so a fi rst class aid to digestion und e r

,
-

c ircumstanc es making oth er forms o f ex erci se

u n availabl e I t is a last resort kind o f m o
.

tion cure and a ffords a fair cha n ce to t est

the di fferen c e betw een the simpl est sor t of ex er

cis e and n o exercise at all .

T h e choi c e of any sp ecial form of mov em en t

cure should be decided by the exigen cies of th eir
purpose to co mpensate the d efi c ient opportuni
ti es o f daily life P erso n s engaged i n s ed entary
.

occupatio n s al ternati n g with dom esti c chan ces

,
 F R EE MOVEMEN T CUR ES . I 95

for x cis e ( wood cutti n g amateu r carpen

arm e er -
,

terin g , should devote th eir l eisure to

pedestrianism or some class o f gym n astics t en d
i n g to d ev elop the muscl es o f the low er motive
organ s T he great plurality of city dw ell ers who
.

find daily occasio n for walking match es agai n st

time should giv e th eir arms the ben efit o f daily
,

dumb bell exercise and patro n ize the flying

-
,

trapez e on every visit to a publi c gymnasium .

’
A y ear s pra c tic e is almost s u re to d ev elo p a
prediction for som e form of at hl etic exer c is e
but the experi en c e of every gymnasium t each er
proves that on the oth er hand th ere are also i n
, ,

di vi du al s with a pra c tically un c onqu erabl e av er

sion to special bran c h es of his curriculum Th es e .

antipathi es may often be found ed on anomali es

of physical structure and are thus akin to the
,

instin c tiv e repugn ance to c ertain k inds of food .

D r W C arpenter m entions the c ase of a bov

. .

who had a horror n atu ral i s of mu tton and who ,

at ev ery attempt to ov ercom e that dislik e was

seized with viol ent vom iti n g fits His guardian .

was in c lin ed to ascribe that ca price to the effects

of imagi n ation and by way of experim en t treat
, , ,

ed his ward to a meat pi e co n tai n i n g m u tton

-

disgu ised by spic es bu t the result remai n ed the

,
 F AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y ,
E X ER CISE .

sam e and the patient who would hav e made a

, ,

popular n eighbor of certain A ustralian sto c k

fa rm ers was publi c ly rec ogniz ed as a boy with a
,

stomach that could n o t digest mutton .

A nd pra c ti ce is almost equally unavaili n g to

ov ercome the disinclination o f some gymnasium
pupils to spec ial kinds of exercis e— h eel ov er h ea d
ev olutions on a trapez e or horizontal bar for i n ,

stance I hav e k n own gym n asts who co mplain ed

.

of sick h eadach es wh en ev er the routin e o f the

edu c atio n al programm e obliged th em to c onqu er

that aversion and a good rul e in su c h cases is to

,

acc ept the v erdi c t o f nature as final if the repu g ,

n anc e should c ontinu e to ass ert its elf after the

tyro has mastered the technical diffi culti es of the

ex er c is e .

But it is also certain that habit d ev elops an

asso c iatio n o f id eas b etw een sp ecial ailm en ts an d

th eir appropriat e gymnastic remedies I have .

m ention ed the expedi ent of sailors who work

”
o ff qualms o f seasick n ess by volunteer exercise
in the rigging and an ol d teach er of my acq u ai n t
a n c e oc ca sionally l eav es the class room to nip an
-

incipi ent attack of asthma with a pa i r of dumb

bells .

H ay e e
f v r I t i
hn
- k co ul d o ft
,
en be k n ock ed ou t
,
r98 rx s rm c , n von orx rn v, EXER CISE
'
.

Yet n ot o n e o f al l that di d try

Cou l d l l i k El fy, the Gypsy boy
-
p ya e .

Physical exer ci s e is destin ed to effect the re

gen eration of the C aucasian ra ce ; but we should
remember that it ca n not at once counteract the
mischi ef o f al l our manifold sins against the
h ealth laws of natu re I t may prolong the liv es
.

of grog drinking sailors but ca n not bl each thei r

-
,

bottl e nos es I t enabl es the hunt ers o f the Pam

-
.

pas to digest a di et of bull b eef but c annot save -

,

them from lung diseas es if they pass the n ights i n

sm oky dug outs -
.

Lik e the three Grac es the three rem edi es o f ,

N ature should go hand in hand .

Und er the reign of old tim e medical delusion s -

,

’ “
a si ck ma n s first impuls e was to tak e som e
’
thing i e to swallow a do s e of poison drugs
, . . .

’
A sanitarian s firs t thought und er the sam e cir ,

cu m sta n ces should be to stop swallowing i

,
e , . .

to fast for a day o r two Thos e who insist on .

“ ”
taking som ething should be advis ed to tak e a
’
c old bath o r an hour s exercise in the gymnasium
, .

S hall we dispense with chemical m edicam en t s

altogeth er ?

T he c urrent o f sanitary r eform is c ertai n ly set

ting stron gly in that v ery direc tion In spite of .
 F R EE M OV EMEN T CUR Es
. 1 99

q uack revivals the t i m e is coming and it n ot far

-
, ,

when int elligent physi c ians will prescr ib e drugs

o n ly fo r external application as i n cuta n eous ,

di rorders wh ere th eir effec t amounts to a direct

,
"

removal o f the caus e and internally only in

,

a n alogous c as es as for the expulsion Of int esti n al

,

parasit es .

Wi th th es e few ex c eptions the disorders O f the

,

huma n organism will be trusted to the s el f regu -

lating t end en c y Of nature aid ed by the influ en c e

,

o f the thr ee natural stimulants : F a sting R efrig ,

cration and Ex er c is e
, T he dis c ipl es O f Natural
.

Hygi en e will try to d eserve the bl essings whi c h

the dupes O f the drug monger att empt to buy
-

a c ross the c ount er ; inst ead O f c hanging their hos

pital or th eir cbu rse Of m edication th ey will
c hange th eir habits and th eir loss Of faith i n a
,

few popular superstitions will be com pen sated by

an abundant gain in h ealth .
IV . D ET A ILED A D V I C E F O R TRE A T
MENT .

C H A PTER XVI
.

W et sh eet pack will be referred to in treat

ments advis ed an d sam e can be tak en as follows
W et two h eavy sh eets i n cold wat er : wring th em
out an d lay them on a bed or sofa : l et the pa
t i en t l i e on th es e th en tak e the top sh eet an d
,

wrap tightly around the pati ent und er the arms ;

the n tak e the unde r sh eet an d wrap tightly
around the pati ent over the arms O f cours e . .

this can be don e with on e sh eet but it is not

,

quit e so advantageous as the wet clo th do es

,

n o t c om e i n contact with ev ery part Of the bo dy .

T he pati ent should be allow ed to r emain th ere

until the c loth i s dry or until he awak es as it
,
.

is quite usual for the pati ent to go to sl eep und er

th es e c ircumstan ces .

A s thm a :
R emai n in the op en air as mu c h a s poss i bl e .

B e v ery careful to see that wh en ev er i n doors that

 F AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y , EX ER CI SE .

wi th wet sh eet pack u n til symp tom s begin to dis

appear T he colon flushi n g treat m en t will som e
.

tim es h a s ten recov ery i n this complaint A s the .

symptoms b egin to l ess en in s ev eri ty som e Of the ,

m ild er mov em ents sh ow n i n prec edi n g chap ter

c an be tak en with b en efit .

B i l i ou s n ess :
Con fi n e the di et to on e m eal a day only Eat .

v ery slowly En courage the appeti te for fruits

. .

Tak e long walks i n the open air with many

breathing ex erc is es Tak e the entire system Of
.

ex ercis e as illustrat ed daily until slightly tired .

B l ack heads
Tak e up som e thorough systematic exercis es ,

fo r strength ening the entire organism su c h as i 1 ,

lustrat ed h ere Tak e long walks in the

.

op en air with many breathing ex ercises

, .

Con fin e di et to two m eals per day an d be

verv c areful to masti c at e the food thoroughly .

Tak e two o r three ho t baths with pl enty O f soap ,

and wat er per w eek A pply hot and cold water

,
.

a l ternat ely to the parts a ffect ed at l east twice a ,

day A t nigh t wh en retiring pla ce a wet cloth

.

o n the a ffect ed parts so it will remain th ere until

dry U se a fri ction bru sh Of som e kind wh ere

.

the blackh eads app ear once each day : this should
,
 DET AI LED ADVICE F OR A
T R E T MEN T . 20 3

a lways prec ed e the hot and cold applications .

B l add er D i seas e
Con fi n e
di et to on e full m eal o r two light m eals
pe r day Tak
. e long walks i n th e Op en air with ,

pl enty o f breathing ex er c ises Use only v ery .

pure water an d encourage your app etit e in ev ery

,

way for this I f the dis eas e is at all serious all

.
,

m eats and stimulants o f ev ery chara c t er must be

avoided O f the ex ercis es h ere ill u stra
. ted num
b ers 2 3 4 8 I I 1 3 I 4 and 1 8 will be found
, , , , , ,

esp ec ially b en eficial though the entire syst em

,

should be us ed to a c ertai n extent .

B l ood D i s eas es :
Avoid all u se Of stimulants Con fin e the d i et .

to on e m eal per day for at l east a w eek though a ,

longer continua n ce Of sam e would be preferabl e .

Tak e two or three hot bath s per w eek using ,

pl enty Of soap Tak e long walks in the op en air

.
,

with d eep breathing I f the skin is a ffect ed to .

any great ext ent wet sh eet pack wil l be found

,

O f advantage Tak e the en tire syst em O f ex er

.

c is e as illustrated daily until slightly tired .

I f this troubl e is chronic on e bo i l app earin g ,

aft er anoth er a gen eral svstem Of ex er c is es and

,

an abst emious di et fo r building up the gen eral

ao4 F AS T I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y, EX ER CIS E .

h ealth is advised W et sh eet pack will be found

.

Of advantage to op en the pores of the skin and

thus throw O ff impuriti es Two or three ho t .

baths per w eek with pl enty Of soap should al

, ,

w ays be tak en and great care should be us ed at

,

m eal tim es to thoroughly masticat e ev ery particl e

O f food eat en D eep breathing and long wal ks
.
,

will be found to advanta ge Th ere are two .

”
processes O f tr eating boil s : On e is to feed up
and thus more hurri edly bring the b o il to a h ead ,

and another is in c a se i t is n ot too far advanced

, ,

t o adopt a v ery ab st emious di et and thus cau s e

it to be absorb ed into the c irc ulation I f too far .

advanced the form er m ethod is of cours e pref

, , ,

crabl e .

’
B ri ght s D i s eas e
S am e treatm ent as in Bladder D is ease though ,

the n ec es sity fo r t he ex tr em e abst emious d i et i s

mu c h stronger in this dis eas e than in t he oth er ;

i n fa c t about the qui c k est way to c ure a diseas e
O f this chara c t er i s an ab solut e and protract ed

fast By living v ery ab st emiou sly and avoiding

.
,

all stimulant s and m eat s the in c ipi ent phas es O f

’
Bright s D i seas e c an always be brought to a
satisfactory cure .
20 6 F AST I N G , H YD R O PA T H Y , E ERX CIS E .

N food until symptoms b egin to di sappear and

O ,

strong app etit e is not ed .

’
Chi l dren s D i s eas es :
’
I n all children s dis eas es the first and abou t ,

the most eff ectiv e r em edy is to thoroughly flush ,

the c olon A llow n o food until th ere is a strong

.

and unmistakabl e d esir e for sam e W et sh eet .

pa c k can be advi sed once or twice a day in all

fevers Wh ere th ere is s evere pai n s in the
.

bow els apply v ery hot cloths chan ging fro

, ,

qu ently .

Col ds
S t a v in t he op en air as much as possibl e ; lon g
walks and d eep breathing will be found Of ad
,

v antage A fa st O f a day or two will be found

.

O f grea t aid and usually wh en the first m eal is

,

eat en af ter this fa st but li ttl e will r emain Of t he

c old Rubbing the skin until the c irculation is

.

thoroughly accel erat ed will be found of advan

tage Treatm ent Of hot steam ba ths can also be
.

rec omm end ed in s evere cases .

Con s ti pa ti on
Ex er c i se N O 8 will be found o f special ad
.

vantage i n this p ar ti c ular c omplaint an d should ,

be tak en at l east twic e a day un til thoroughly

tired W al k in g in the open air an d d eep breath
.
 D ET AI LED ADV IC E F OR A
T R E T M EN T . zo 7

ing will also be found b en efi c ial I n ev ery case .

avoid white bread eating whol e wh eat bread i n

,

stead and confin e di et to two m eal s per day A n

, .

all round system o f ex er c ises fo r building up the

-

gen eral syst em will also assist recoverv .

Con su m pti on
Remain in the open air as much as possibl e .

Have the windows in vour sl eeping room so ar -

ranged that the air i n the in sid e contains the

same amount Of o x ygen as that ou tsid e Giv e .

esp ec ial att ention to ex ercis es numb ers 1 4 5 , , ,

6 7 8 9 1 0 1 2 1 5 1 6 1 7 and 1 8 Th es e ex
, , , , , , , , .

erci ses should be t ak en a t l east twi c e daily and ,

in the O pen a i rif possibl e making a habit during

thes e ex er c is es to dra w in a l l the breath you c an
inhal e A lo n g walk wi th d eep breathing ea c h
.

day T he di et should be confin ed to on e or two

.

m eals per day and great care should be tak en

,

to th o roughly masti c at e each mors el I f sym p .

toms a re at all s ev ere the pati ent should retire ,

at ni ght in a wet sheet pa c k T he c ure Of this .

complaint will d epend a great d eal upon your

ability to breath e pure air night and day and ,

upon your ability to s ec ure a large am ou n t Of ex

erci se .
zo 8 F AS T I N G , H YD R OPA I H Y,
' ‘

X ER CIS E
E .

Cou ghs
Long walks in the op en air and d eep breath ,

ing will be found b en efi c i al a l so ex er c i ses n u m ,

b ers I 7 1 5 1 6 an d 1 7 Grea t c a re should be

, , , .

t ak en n ot to everea t an d to thoroughly masti c at e

,

ev ery mor sel Co n fi n e di et to two m eals per

.

d ay . S ec ur e som e pure stra in ed hon ey an d u s e

,

sam e fr equ en tl y wh en ev er c ough bec om es irri

ta ted .A t n i gh t upon retiring wet c loth and

, ,

wrap sam e a rou nd n eck and c h est and allow it

to r em ain th er e until dry o r until m o rning ,
.

Gro u p
Wrap the throa t an d c h est in c loths as hot as
ca n p ossib l y be born e ; c h ange sam e frequ ently

until symptoms di sapp ear .

D i a betes :
S am e treatm ent as fo r Blad der D is eas es an d
’
Bri ght s D is ea se .

D i arrhea
A fa st o f a day o r two would be the b est man
n or o f b egin n in g t rea tm en t for th i s t roubl e th en ,

c onfi n e di et to on e m ea l a day ; eat verv s lowly ;

m a st i c a te thoroughly ; a void m eat s an d s ti m u
lan ts Of all ki n ds E at Graham br ead an d veget
.

abl es al so frui ts i f d es ired Rem ai n in the op en

, ,
.

ai r a s m u c h as po ssi bl e .
z ro F AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y , X ER CIS E
E .

thoro ughly en joy ed T he entire system Of ex .

erci ses i l lustrat ed i n this book should be tak en

.

until s l ightly fatigu ed T ak e long walks in the

. .

op en air an d see that you breathe pure air at all

, .

times O pen the windows of your sl eeping room

.
-
,

both t op and bo ttom from six to tw elve inches , .

Eczem a :
One meal per day A void all m eat an d white .

bread Tak e long walks in the open air with

.
,

pl en ty Of d eep breathing exer c is es T he entire .

system of ex ercis es illustrat ed h erewith onc e

d aily taking each movem ent until sligh tly fa
,

t i gu ed On e c old sitz bath daily which should

.
,

be follow ed by wet sh eet pa ck .

Epi l epsy :
On e
-
m eal per day for the first week S tay i n .

the open air all yo u possibly c an Tak e a l l the .

ex er c is es h ere illustrat ed using ea c h on e until ,

slightly fatigu ed I f symptoms are especially .

s ev ere wet sheet pa ck should be tak en on ce daily

, .

E rys i pel as :
W etsh eet pa c k upon the first app earanc e Of
the troubl e F ast until strong d esire for food
.

appears th en c onfin e di et to on e m eal per day

,

for a few days Use exercis es numb ers 1 7 8

.
, , ,

9, I O 1 1 a
,n d 1 5 af ter symptoms be gin to d i s
 D ET AI LED ADV IC E F OR A
T R E T M EN T . 2! I

appear T wo or three tim es a day apply ho t and

.

cold cloths to the a ffected parts altern ating from ,

on e to the oth er .

F el ons
S ame trea tment as for Boils though wh en th ey ,

appear n ear the fin ger nail as is usual if finger

-
, ,

l s dipp ed mom entarily in water as hot as can be

born e s ev eral times th ey will sometim es be

,

driven away and be absorbed by the c irculatio n .

Gas tri c F ever

W et sh eet pack immediately upon appearan c e
Of the symptoms which should be followed o r
,

preced ed by the colon flushing treatm ent N O .

food Of an y c hara c ter until strong d esire ap

pears Encourage the desi rhfor c old wat er
. .

Gen era l D ebi l i ty:

Each on e Of the exercises illustrated h ere
should be tak en until slightly fati gu ed on ce
, ,

daily T he di et should be confin ed to On e or two

.

m eals per day Great care should be tak en to

.

see that ev ery mors el of food is thoroughly mas

ti cated Live in the open air as much as possibl e

.
,

and a walk with d eep breathi n g each day until ,

fatigu ed will be fou n d ben eficial

, .

Gou t :
A void al l m ea ts an d all stimula n ts . Con fin c
3I2 F A S T IN C H YDR OPAT H Y ,
‘
EX ER C IS E .

di et to on e day I f pain is s ev ere noth

m eal per .

ing should be eaten u n til it begins to subside .

Bathe the a ffect ed parts once o r twic e daily i n

hot and cold wat er alt ern at ely c hanging from ,

on e to the oth er .

Gri ppe
I f symptoms are s ev ere wet sh eet pack and ,

fl ushing colon treatm ent should be imm ediat ely

tak en A bsolutely n o food until v ery strong de
.

sire for sam e app ears B e c areful that v ery pure

.

air be s ecured at all tim es A s the more s ev ere .

symptoms disapp ear the syst em O f exerc ises ,

h erewith illustrat ed can be t ak en with advantage .

H ea dache

En c ourage de sire for ho t water all you c an .

I f conv eni ent tak e st eam vapor bath Eat n o

, .

foods ex c ept som e l i ght fruit until symptom s dis

appear T he flushing O f t he c olon treatm ent in
.

v ery many cas es a ffords almos t imm ediate re

li ef Great c are sho uld be tak en that fresh pure
.
,

ai r is sec ured at all tim es in fa c t severe h ead ,

a ch e is v ery O ft en caus ed by simply breathing bad

ai r .

H eart D i s eas e
T ak e ex er c is es numbers I 4 5 6 7 8 9 I O , , , , , , , ,

an d I 3 o n ce d ai l y conti n ui n g sa me u n ti l
'

12 ,
21 4 F AST I N G , H YD R O PAT H Y , Ex ER CISE .

to n ot more than two m eals a day and great care ,

should be taken n ot to overea t A t the last .

m eal it would be advisabl e to eat freely o f l et

tu ce dr ess ed with Oil an d l em on j uice wi th salt
,
-
,

to tast e .

! a u n di ce

S am e treatm en t as fo r B iliousn ess .

K i d n ey D i s eas e :
S am e treatm ent as in Bladder D is eas es .

L i ver D i s eas e :
S am e treatm ent as fo r Biliousn ess .

L u m bago
Tak e exer c ises numbers I 2 4 5 6 1 2 I 4 , , , , , , ,

1 6 and I 7 A pply ho t and cold cloths alt ern ately

.

to the a ffect ed parts twice per day until the se ,

v ere svm ptom s begin to disappear B e care fu l .

not to overeat and c onfin e di et to on e o r two

,

meals per day masticating very thoroughly

, .

M al ari a
Treatm ent fo r this troubl e simply requires a
cours e fo r b u ilding up the gen eral heal ths T he r

entire system Of ex er c is es h ere i l l u st rated shou l d

i
'

be tak en da ily each mo v em ent being c n ti n u ed

,
p
until sligh tly fatigu ed Lon g walks i n the open
.

ai r are advisabl e u n l ess too w eak

, though pur e ,

ai r shoul d be procured at al l ti mes . A si tz bath.

 DET AI L ED A D VIQ E F OR A
T R E T MEN T . 21 5

follow ed by a wet sheet pack tak en d aily will , ,

be found O f advantage .

M eas l es :
I mm ediat ely upon app ea ra n ce o f fi rst sym p .

tom s giv e a wet sheet pack follow ed o r preced ed

,

by the c olon flushing treat m ent W et s h eet pa c k .

to be c on tinu ed two or three tim es a day until

symptoms disapp ear N O food o f any k i nd
.

should be giv en until a strong d esire for s ame

appear s and the d esire fo r water should be en
,

cou raged in ev ery way .

N ervou s D ebi l i ty :
S am e tr eatm ent as for G en eral D ebility .

N eu ra l gi a

A pply hot and cold c loths to the a ffec t ed parts ,

alternat i ng from o n e to the oth er : Encourage

drinking Of hot and cold wat er all you can VVet .
-

sh eet pa c k will be found Of advantage if con

ven i en t N O food should be eat en until strong
.

d esire for s ame app ears .

Pal pi tati on :
S am e treatm ent as for H eart D iseas e .

Pn eu m on i a
W etsh eet pa c k follow ed or pr ec ed ed by colon
,

fl ushi n g trea tm en t W et sh eet pack should be

.

i ven tw or three ti mes per day N O food of

“

o
g .
 F AST I N G , H YD R OPAT H Y , E X ER CIS E .

any chara c t er should be a ll ow ed until s erious

symptoms abat e E n courage the d esire to drink
.

large quantiti es O f wat er A s soon as the mo r e .

serious symptoms abat e the ex erc i ses num b ers ,

1 , 7 9 5
, 1 1 6 and
, 1 7 c,an be u s ed to a dvantag e .

Great c a re should be tak en to s ec ure perfec tly

pure air at all tim es in thi s troubl e a s p atients ,

su ffering from this disease Often di e from this

on e n egl ect .

R heu m a ti s m
W sh eet pa c k twi c e a day On e meal a day
et .

for the first w eek M eats O f all kind s should be

.

avoid ed : food should be v ery thoroughly m a sti

cated Massage will be foun d b en efi c ial O n e
. .

o r two day fast will hast en rec ov ery

-
.

S al t R heu m
S ame treatm ent as fo r Eczema .

S ci a ti ca
E x erc ises numb ers 2 3 8 9 1 0 1 1 1 4 a n d 1 8 , , , , , ,

should be tak en twi c e daily until s lightly fa r

t i gu e d E x er c i se N O 2 should be giv en es pec i al

. .

att en tion C on hu e di et to two m eal s per day and

. ,

eat v ery slowly A t night upon retiring apply

.
, ,

a wet c loth to the a ffected parts .

S crofu l a :
Same treatmen t as for Blood D is eases .
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